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Championing Co-Production::Developing Effective Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategies in Secondary Schools
No full textGlobal social restrictions driven by COVID-19 exposed the vast potential of digital technologies for remote mental health and wellbeing provision. To combat the youth mental health crisis, practitioners, researchers, and policy makers must seek innovative solutions. The digital adaptation of evidence-based, in-person programmes offers one such promising approach. Co-authored by a young person, this chapter discusses democratising the research agenda and presents an exploratory study with co-production at its heart. The aim of the project was to inform the development of digitalised resources based on the robustly evidenced Super Skills for Life psychosocial intervention for adolescents. ‘Key ingredients’ for effective online content are presented by the young person developer, alongside their personal reflections on co-production research. This case study illustrates how collaboration with intervention recipients can augment programme development and expand access to evidence-based support. Not only extending reach but offering a choice of support pathways to a digital generation
‘An Extravagant Touch’: Emscote Primary School’s Charity Cookbook. The Recipes Project: Cooking Up Community.
No full textValue Creation and CSR: A Systematic Literature Review
No full textCorporate social responsibility (CSR) is a burgeoning field of study, aswell as the accepted business practice for well over half a century. Mandated bythe United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the companies acrossnations have aligned their strategies and operations, tapping into new markets,investors, stakeholders, and partnering with other actors to amplify their impactand scale in meeting these goals. However, accounting for non-financial perfor-mance, let alone steering a company towards achieving these wider-ranging goals,has provided unresolved challenges for practitioners and academics alike. The SDGsare necessarily vague when it comes to metrics that might apply across the range ofbusiness sectors and activities towards long-term value creation, leaving organisa-tions and scholars to find and test out a variety of measures and approaches. Corporatesocial responsibility (CSR) is a growing field of study and accepted business prac-tice for more than 30 years. The SDGs are related to companies since they can helpcountries achieve the goals by aligning their strategies and operations, tapping intonew markets, investors, stakeholders, and opportunities can bring several benefits,and companies can collaborate with the SDGs. This chapter examines how long-termvalue creation is measured in order to determine criteria for Environment, Social andGovernance (ESG) performance through a systematic literature review, with the aimto identify the definitions and metrics of value creation adopted in prior research, andto understand how various theories and methodologies have been used in relation tothis field of interest. It uses bibliometric analysis to form the basis for recommenda-tions for further research that moves us towards a more holistic view of (long-term) value creation. The findings document a variety of themes on CSR and value creation,and shift in research focus with significant growth in research on CSR and sharedvalues. However, even though there is extensive research on CSR practices and ESGparameters and value creation, and this field of research is growing, there are stillopposing results. It is possible to notice a lot of studies with positive, negative, orneutral results. These inconsistent findings are mainly due to the different econo-metric methods used, sample composition (e.g. lack of focus on industry sector), andgeographical area. Our findings offer a way forward for research on value creationand some of the trickier drivers of performance such as organisational culture
How and when temporal leadership facilitates the success of sustainable construction projects
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Insecure attachment and support-seeking during COVID-19: a sequential mixed methods investigation
No full textResearching unpaid labour within paid employment: a mixed method exploratory sequential approach
No full textScholars have pointed to the rise of work arrangements that blur the dichotomy of paid and unpaid labour, namely, unpaid labour within paid employment. However, literature has been limited to theoretical understandings of such and there has been an absence of measurement tools with which to empirically examine its form and extent. Addressing this gap, this chapter uses a mixed-method exploratory sequential approach, combining qualitative and quantitative methodology to empirically examine this phenomenon. We first employ Grounded Theory Methodology (GTM) to generate data on the forms and extent of unpaid labour. In the second stage, based on the newly-grounded theory, we develop a standardised multi-indicator survey instrument for measuring unpaid labour in paid employment. Subsequently, we validate the instrument using Latent Class Analysis (LCA) through which we analyse different types of unpaid labour in paid employment in the United Kingdom
Accounting Comparability and Customer Concentration
No full textThis study examines the relationship between accounting comparability and customer concentration. Higher accounting comparability enhances customers’ ability to evaluate suppliers’ performance against their industry peers. This allows suppliers to attract more customers, hence reducing their customer concentration. We find a negative association between accounting comparability and customer concentration. This relation is stronger for firms with better profitability, higher information asymmetry, and more innovations. By establishing a link between accounting comparability and customer concentration, our study provides additional evidence about the consequences of accounting comparability and is helpful to both academics and practitioners