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Item Open Access SUSTAINABLE ENHANCEMENT OF HEALTHCARE DELIVERY: A COMPREHENSIVE PARADIGM FOR OPTIMIZING ELECTIVE SURGERY RESOURCES(2023) Koushan M; Wood LC; Greatbanks R; Doung LNKThis study introduces a novel, comprehensive surgery scheduling model for elective surgeries, aiming to enhance coordination among preoperative, operating room, and postoperative units. The model encompasses three objectives to achieve a trade-off among stakeholders' priorities: firstly, minimizing idle time and overtime in Operating Rooms (ORs); secondly, maximizing the interval between two consecutive patients in the operating room to facilitate stakeholder satisfaction; and thirdly, maximizing the number of scheduled patients from the waiting list throughout the scheduling horizon. Given the problem's NP-hard nature, a new meta-heuristic approach (NSGA-SA), the hybrid of Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) with Simulated Annealing (SA), is employed for problem solving. Following parameter setting of the solution approaches, multiple numerical experiments are conducted. The exact results obtained through the General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) are compared with the outcomes of the outlined meta-heuristic approach, demonstrating the effective performance of the proposed method.Item Open Access Item Open Access Patient-centric Self-Management: A Systems View of Lifestyle Factors and their Impact on Chronic Diseases(2023) Chung C; Sundaram DItem Open Access Digitization of the Individual – Personal Decision Analytics(2024) Chung C; Yvonne H; Sundaram DItem Open Access Gay male leaders in the corporate sector of China: A phenomenological study.(2024) Chen Z; Wordsworth R; Wright SItem Open Access Trapped with nowhere to go: Understanding the lived experience of reluctant stayers.(2024) Wordsworth R; Kirsten M; Du Plessis MItem Open Access The usefulness of digital badges to showcase employability skills: Accounting students’ perceptions(2022) Steenkamp N; Fisher R; Nesbit TItem Open Access The Usefulness of Digital Badges to Showcase Employability Skills: Accounting Student Perceptions(2022) Steenkamp N; Fisher R; Nesbit TItem Open Access Integrated reporting business models and the role of presentation format: Insight from an eye tracking study(2023) Steenkamp N; Fisher RItem Open Access Item Open Access Being-in-the-world-with-others...and technology: Giving greater voice to the material from 'within' the sociomaterial(2023) Bate GW; Stiles D; Knott PItem Open Access The Chinese Diaspora as Imagined Community(2019) van Bommel R; Stiles DItem Open Access Personal Decision Analytics for Transformation(2023) Chung C; Sundaram DItem Open Access Strangers in their own lands: A people entangled in a minerals’ curse(2023) Dixon K; Blesia J; Lord BItem Open Access Loneliness in young adult workers(MDPI AG, 2022) Wright S; Silard ALoneliness is commonly associated with older people with the majority of research and interventions focusing on loneliness in aged and aging populations. However, loneliness seems to be on the rise for young adults more so than the elderly. Our research focusses on the experiences of young workers who report feeling lonely at work. We explore individual and organisational factors that may be contributing to loneliness, and comment on the consequences of feeling lonely at work. Qualitative data from 37 young adults from Western Europe suggest that these workers feel invisible at work, have a thwarted sense of belonging to their employing organisation, and often experience relational deficiencies due to automation and individualisation of work practices.Item Open Access Sustainable transformation mini-track(Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2020) Peko G; Sundaram D; Sadovykh V; Chung CItem Open Access Enhancing well-being in New Zealand and Wales through broadening the scope of consultation in tax policy design(2022) Sawyer A; Closs-Davies SItem Open Access Item Open Access Influences of e-retailer sponsored virtual community on consumer loyalty: an exploration of underlying mechanisms(2013) Bi Q; Vogel DAn e-retailer sponsored virtual community (ESVC), as the backyard of an e-commerce website, provides consumers with an online platform to play with each other. Different from transactional e-commerce platform, ESVC assembles consumers together to fulfil their social needs. In recent years, with the popular of Web 2.0 information and communication technologies (ICTs), e-retailers also start to integrate social media within ESVC. This greatly increases consumers' online community participation, as social media facilitate information sharing and interactions among community members with a social flavour. Moreover, social media provide a variety of IT artefacts to visualize the interactions between consumers and e-retailer, which reshapes the relationship between e-retailer and customer as a triad model. However, in this new context, the influences of ESVC characteristics and IT artefacts on e-retailer- customer relationship were not well investigated. Some researchers have made effort to open the "black box" between ESVC with social media investment and customer loyalty, but still lack theoretical foundations. This research explores the underlying mechanisms from a new perspective, and proposes a theoretical framework based on reciprocal theory.Item Open Access Fame and fortune: Influencer entrepreneurship in a digital age(2022) Bi Q; Liu L