Responsible Business Academic Symposium - Research Exhibition

Please explore the 2nd Responsible Business Academic Symposium's research exhibition below. 

Responsible Business Student Challenge 2021

In partnership with Deloitte, we asked students to act as a consultant to a chosen business or organisation and make recommendations on how they can be responsible in a post-pandemic world.

Addressing the climate challenge

Read the newly published report - the work of nearly 100 contributors spread across five continents, all led by academics from the University of Birmingham.

Research Papers Organised by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals 

1. No Poverty

New CHASM Research Project: The Impact of Housing Quality on Wellbeing, by Dr Halima Sacranie, Dr James Gregory and Professor Andy Lymer https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/chasm/news/2019/housing-quality-wellbeing.aspx 

2. Zero Hunger

Moraes, C., McEachern, M.G., Gibbons, A. and Scullion, L., 2021. Understanding lived experiences of food insecurity through a paraliminality lens. Sociology, p.00380385211003450. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00380385211003450

De Propris, L, Veldhuis, A, Glover, J, Bradley, D, Behzadian, K, Cottee, J, Downing, C, Ingram, J, Leach, M, Farmani, R, Butler, D, Pike, A, Purvis, L, Robinson, PK, and Yang, A, 2019, ‘Re-distributed manufacturing and the food-water-energy nexus: Opportunities and challenges’, Production Planning & Control, vol. 30, no. 7, pp. 593–609. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09537287.2018.1540055

Laycock Pedersen, R, Robinson, Z, and Surman, E, 2019, ‘Understanding Transience and Participation in University Student-Led Food Gardens’, Sustainability, 11(10), 2788; https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/10/2788

Surman, E, and Hamilton, L, 2019, ‘Growing consumers through production and play: a phenomenological exploration of food growing in the school foodscape’, Sociology, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 468–485. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038038518789542

3. Good Health and Well-Being

Carmichael, F, Darko, C, and Vasilakos, N, 2019, ‘Health and wellbeing of young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: life course impacts’, Journal of Development Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220388.2019.1626835

Chandan, J, Thomas, T, Gokhale, K, Bandyopadhyay, S, Taylor, J, and Nirantharakumar, K, 2019, ‘The burden of mental ill health associated with childhood maltreatment in the UK, using The Health Improvement Network database: a population-based retrospective cohort study’, The Lancet Psychiatry. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2215036619303694?via%3Dihub

Wheatley, D, and Bickerton, C, 2019, ‘Measuring changes in subjective well-being from engagement in the arts, culture and sport’, Journal of Cultural Economics. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10824-019-09342-7

4. Quality Education

Darko, C, and Carmichael, F, 2020, ‘Education of biological and fostered children in Ghana’, Journal of International Development. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jid.3465

Granter, E, and Hyde, P, 2020, ‘Upon the gears and upon the wheels’: terror convergence and total administration in the neoliberal university’, Management Learning. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350507620924162

Fearon, C, Furlotti, M, van-Vurren, W, and McLaughlin, H, 2019, ‘Developing new opportunities, entrepreneurial skills and product/service creativity: a ‘Young Enterprise’ (YE) perspective’, Studies in Higher Education, pp. 1–18. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03075079.2019.1672643

5. Gender Equality

Bell, E, Meriläinen, S, Taylor, S, and Tienari, J, 2019, ‘Time’s up! Feminist theory and activism meets organization studies’, Human Relations, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 4–22. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0018726718790067

McCarthy, L, Soundararajan, V, and Taylor, S, 2020, ‘The hegemony of men in global value chains: Why it matters for labour governance’. Human Relations. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0018726720950816

Birkett, H, and Forbes, S, 2019, ‘Where’s dad? Exploring the low take-up of inclusive parenting policies in the UK’, Policy Studies, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 205–224. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01442872.2019.1581160

6. Clean Water and Sanitation

Blog post: World Water Day 2019: Leaving No One Behind, by Dr Nana O Bonsu. https://blog.bham.ac.uk/business-school/2019/03/21/world-water-day-2019-leaving-no-one-behind/

7. Affordable and Clean Energy

Bebbington, J, Schneider, T, Stevenson, L, and Fox, A, 2020, ‘Fossil fuel reserves and resource reporting and unburnable carbon: investigating conflicting accounts’, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 66. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1045235418300467?via%3Dihub

Mandal, A, Moreira Barreto de Oliveira, A, and J, Power, G, 2019, ‘A primer on the pricing of electric energy options in Brazil via mean-reverting stochastic processes’, Energy Reports, vol. 5, 206, pp. 594–601. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484719300125?via%3Dihub

Sun, P, Zhu, T, and Elliott, R, 2019, ‘Electricity prices and industry switching: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms’, Energy Economics, vol. 78, pp. 567–588. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988318304754?via%3Dihub

8. Decent Work and Economic Growth

Gasparin, M, Green, W, Lilley, S, Quinn, M, Saren, M and Schinckus, C, 2021, ‘Business as unusual: a business model for social innovation’, Journal of Business Research, vol 125, pp. 698 – 709. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0148296320300461?via%3Dihub

Ben Khaled, W, and Gond, J-P, 2019, ‘How do external regulations shape the design of ethical tools in organisations? An open polity and sociology of compliance perspective’, Human Relations. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0018726719828437

Hye Lee, S, Mellahi, K, Mol, M, and Pereira, V, 2020, ‘No-Size-Fits-All: Collaborative Governance as an Alternative for Addressing Labour Issues in Global Supply Chains’, Journal of Business Ethics, 162: 291–305. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10551-019-04198-5

Wood, A, Graham, M, Lehdonvirta, V, and Hjorth, I, 2019, ‘Networked but commodifed: the (dis)embeddedness of digital labour in the gig economy’, Sociology, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 931–950. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038038519828906

9. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Bebbington J, and Unerman, J, 2020, ‘Advancing research into accounting and the UN sustainable development goals’, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 33(7), pp. 1,657–1,670. 

Channuntapipat C, Samsonova-Taddei A, and Turley, S, 2020, ‘Variation in sustainability assurance practice: An analysis of accounting versus non-accounting providers’, The British Accounting Review, Vol. 52 No. 2, pp. 556–580. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089083891930068X

Liu, T, Zhang, Y, and Liang, D, 2019, ‘Can ownership structure affect environmental performance in Chinese manufacturing firms? The moderating effect of financial performance’, Journal of Cleaner Production. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619309771?via%3Dihub

Esfahbodi, A, Zhang, Y and Watson, G, 2016, ‘Sustainable supply chain management in emerging economies: Trade-offs between environmental and cost performance’, Int. J. Production Economics, vol. 181, pp. 350 – 366 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925527316000578?via%3Dihub  

Esfahbodi, A, Zhang, Y, Watson, G and Zhang, T, 2017, ‘Governance pressures and performance outcomes of sustainable supply chain management – An empirical analysis of UK manufacturing industry’, Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 155, pp. 66 – 78. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652616309945?via%3Dihub

10. Reduced Inequalities

Backhouse, R, and Cherrier, B, 2019, ‘Paul Samuelson, gender bias and discrimination’, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09672567.2019.1632366

Channuntapipat, C, Samsonova-Taddei, A, and Turley, SW, 2019, ‘Exploring diversity in sustainability assurance practice: evidence from assurance providers in the UK’, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 556–580. 

Marshall, J, Fearon, C, Highwood, M, and Warden, K, 2020, ‘What should I say to my employer... if anything?’– My disability disclosure dilemma’, International Journal of Educational Management. 

11. Sustainable Cities and Communities

Andres, L, Bryson, J, Bakare, H, Melgaco Silva Marques, L, Khaemba, W, and Mwaniki, G, 2019, ‘Planning, Temporary Urbanism and Citizen-led Alternative-Substitute Place-Making in the Global South’, Regional Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2019.1665645

Andres, LSP, Denoon-Stevens, J, Bryson, H, Bakare, K, du Toit, L, Melgaço, 2020, ‘Calling for Responsible Inclusive Planning and Healthy Cities in Africa’, Town Planning Review. https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/article/60553

12. Responsible Consumption and Production

Cole, M, and Zhang, L, 2019, ‘The clean-up of Chinese manufacturing: examining the role played by changing techniques of production’, Economics Letters. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176519301090?via%3Dihub

Bajde, D. and Rojas-Gaviria, P., 2021. Creating Responsible Subjects: The Role of Mediated Affective Encounters. Journal of Consumer Research. Link: https://academic.oup.com/jcr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jcr/ucab019/6339586?login=true

Liu, Y, Zhang, Y, Batista, L, and Rong, K, 2019, ‘Green operations: what’s the role of supply chain flexibility?’, International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 214, pp. 30–43. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925527319301227?via%3Dihub 

Magrizos, S, Apospori, E, Carrigan, M, and Jones, R, 2020, ‘Is CSR the panacea for SMEs? A study of Socially Responsible SMEs during economic crisis’, European Management Journal. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237320300815?via%3Dihub

New book chapter, by Moraes, C and TyreeHageman, J, Consumer Behaviour, 2021. https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/sustainability-and-the-consumer(59118e4b-9304-4fc0-9a4f-94aaafa51fd3).html

Liu, T, Liang, D, Xing, X, Kuang, P and Zhang, Y, 2019, ‘Does energy consumption endanger public longevity? An analysis of 34 major energy-consuming countries’, International Journal of Smart Grid and Clean Energy, vol 8, pp. 565 – 567. http://www.ijsgce.com/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=83&id=490

Liu, T, Liu, H, Zhang, Y, Song, Y, Su, Y and Zhu, Y, 2020, ‘Linking governance structure and sustainable operations of Chinese manufacturing firms: The moderating effect of internationalization’, Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 253 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S095965261934819X?via%3Dihub

13. Climate Action

Beltran, A, Maddison, D, and Elliott, R, 2019, ‘The Impact of Flooding on Property Prices in England: A Repeat Sales Approach’, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 95: 62–86. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095069617303066?via%3Dihub

Charnock, R, and Hoskin, K, 2020, ‘SDG 13 and the Entwining of Climate and Sustainability Metagovernance: An Archaeological– Genealogical Analysis of Goals-Based Climate Governance’, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. 

Morrish, SC, and Jones, R, 2019, ‘Post-disaster business recovery: an entrepreneurial marketing perspective’, Journal of Business Research. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296319302243?via%3Dihub

14. Life Below Water

Bebbington, J, Österblom, H, Crona, B, Jouffray, J-B, Larrinaga, C, Russell, S, and Scholtens, B, 2019, ‘Accounting and accountability in the Anthropocene’, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. 

Brei, M, Perez-Barahona, A, and Strobl, E, 2019, ‘Protecting species through legislation: the case of sea turtles’, American Journal of Agricultural Economics. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1093/ajae/aaz025

Österblom, H, Cvitanovic, C, van Putten, L, Addison, P, Bebbington, J, Hall, J, Ison, S, Jouffray, J-B, LeBris, A, Mynott, S, Reid, D, and Sugimoto, A, 2020, ‘Science-Industry Collaboration – Sideways or Highways to Ocean Sustainability?’, One Earth, 3(1), pp. 79–88. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590332220303006?via%3Dihub

15. Life on Land

Bonsu, N, McMahon, B, Meijer, S, Young, J, Keane, A, and Dhubháin, Á, 2019, ‘Conservation conflict: Managing forestry versus hen harrier species under Europe’s Birds Directive’, Journal of Environmental Management’, 252, p.109676. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479719313945?via%3Dihub

Sobkowiak, M, Cuckston, T, and Thomson, I, 2020, ‘Framing sustainable development challenges: accounting for SDG-15 in the UK’. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 33(7), 1671–1703. 

16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Chandan, J, Thomas, T, BradburyJones, C, Russell, R, Bandyopadhyay, S, Nirantharakumar, K, and Taylor, J, 2019, ‘Female survivors of intimate partner violence and risk of depression, anxiety and serious mental illness’, British Journal of Psychiatry, pp. 1–6. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/female-survivors-of-intimate-partner-violence-and-risk-of-depression-anxiety-and-serious-mental-illness/B33176643C1858B2D502E584D160F794

Kharlamov, A, and Pogrebna, G, 2019, ‘Using human values-based approach to understand cross-cultural commitment toward regulation and governance of cybersecurity’, Regulation & Governance. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rego.12281

Oats, L, and Tuck, P, 2019, ‘Corporate tax avoidance: is tax transparency the solution?’, Accounting and Business Research, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 565–583. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00014788.2019.1611726

17. Partnerships for the Goals

McEachern, M, Warnaby, G and Moraes, C, 2021, 'The Role of Community-Led Food Retailers in Enabling Urban Resilience' Sustainability 2021, 13(14), 7563; https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/14/7563/htm