Birmingham City Business School is a school within Birmingham City University based on the university's City North campus in Perry Barr, Birmingham. It is part of the Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences.The Business School offers courses in Accountancy, Advertising, Business, Business Law, Business Information Technology, Business Psychology, Economics, Finance, Human Resource Management, Information Communication Technology, Management, Marketing, Multimedia Development, Public Relations and Software Engineering. It formerly offered courses in Computing, although these are now part of the university's Faculty of Technology, Engineering and the Environment.The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has awarded Birmingham City University Business School Platinum Level Status for its training until 2010. This means that their ACCA courses are delivered to the highest possible level according to industry standards.The Business School was the first place to publicise contract cheating, where students put work out to tender and suppliers bid to produce work for those students.
The transition to a circular economy (CE) in the textile and clothing (TC) industry is frequently attributed to sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI), yet empirical understanding of the systemic conditions under which SOI enables CE remains underdeveloped. This study addresses the gap by offering a novel, context-specific analysis of how consumer behaviour and institutional quality shape the effectiveness of SOI in a high-consumption, developed economy context. Drawing on survey data from 280 UK-based textile and clothing firms and employing rigorous partial least squares-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM), this study provides robust evidence that SOI has a significant positive influence on circular economy transitions (CET). However, this effect is contingent: it is strengthened by consumer willingness to buy and weakened by institutional voids. Notably, regulatory compliance, often assumed to drive sustainability, does not significantly moderate the relationship between the SOI and CET. These findings challenge linear models of innovation diffusion and reinforce a more relational, system-aware understanding of circular transitions. The study makes an original theoretical contribution by modelling SOI as a second-order construct and CET as a multidimensional outcome. It offers actionable insights for firms and policymakers by exposing the limitations of compliance-led strategies and calling for more integrated, behaviourally informed approaches to managing innovation for sustainability.
Where is space tourism heading for? This elusively simple question is what drives this article. The answer is less straightforward. While the interest in space tourism in all its forms has been steadily growing since 2000s, and the research outputs in the discipline multiplying, there is to date no clear unidirectional way forward, one that has the potential to be sustainable even less. Fault lines have emerged, making an overall evaluation of the sector a complicated feat.Building on a comprehensive review of more than two decades of academic research, this study identifies critical gaps and conceptual roadblocks, proposing a conceptual framework with four key dimensions of future investigation. It highlights the need for a new theoretical paradigm defining the sector, together with environmental sustainability measures, risk mitigation strategies, and affordable improvements within the industry. By addressing critical challenges, this research aims at steering the space tourism industry towards mainstream accessibility, an ethical and responsible approach, long-term environmental and social viability.
The accountancy profession is in a period of dynamic innovation driven change as new information technologies reconfigure the way business is conducted and the services that accountancy firms offer to their clients. As with all innovation, there is also the potential for disruptive change with risky outcomes. However, not all businesses are willing to take on these risks. In this paper, we explore two research questions: Who is willing to take risks with their business? Also, are risk-loving accountants more likely to be innovative? Using new survey data from United Kingdom (UK) accountancy practices, we find that accountants that have an appetite for risk are significantly more likely to be innovative in both their internal processes and practices as well as externally through the development of new products, services, and markets. Further, we find that the perception of increased market competition/turbulence negatively affects product and service innovations, but not process, managerial, and marketing innovations of accountancy firms.
