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It is easy to get lost in the maze of streets, courtyards and buildings that make up Norton Folgate. Unlike most new office developments, it isn't a single block, but [...]

Sheffield-based construction giant Henry Boot's housing business Stonebridge focuses almost exclusively on building premium family homes in Yorkshire and its immediate surrounds. As good a bellwether as any for the [...]

September already, and time to take stock of the year-to-date as we drive inevitably towards peak trading, Super Thursday and ever-busier shops. We have a bumper crop of publishing for [...]

'T is the season to strive for perfection. Yes, it is December and we are getting ready for Veganuary, updating our personal philosophies and gathering the tools we need to [...]

Hannah Grace's Daydream retained the number one for the second week in a row, leading a quartet of Simon & Schuster titles heading up the UK Official Top 50--the first [...]

Last year was undoubtedly an annus horribilis for the modern methods of construction [MMC] sector. Two of its leading lights--iIke Homes and Legal & General Modular--fell by the wayside. And [...]

In the 19th century, London's Shoreditch was home to the furniture and textile trade, an industry that built the historic brick warehouses the area is known for. Today, a collection [...]

Just a five-minute stroll from Derby Station is one of the city's largest developments: Wavensmere Homes' [pounds sterling]175m Nightingale Quarter. The phased scheme will ultimately provide 925 homes to buy [...]

There's little doubt that generative AI (GenAI) remains a hot topic for trend-setting products, even though it's been 2 years since OpenAI sprung ChatGPT on an unsuspecting public. Companies initially [...]

Mobile devices are ubiquitous in today's workplaces. As smartphones and tablets come to dominate information-seeking behaviors of employees, it's crucial for knowledge managers to optimize KM for mobile. There's no [...]

Earlier this month, pension manager Railpen and renewable energy business GreenPower announced their plan to develop a 66-megawatt (MW) onshore wind project in north Argyll, Scotland. The partners already coown [...]

Ari Reid wades through the Sky Pool at Nine Elms in a designer swimming costume. She looks straight at the camera and, in her upper-class British accent, delivers her trademark [...]

When they started working on the Canada Water masterplan a decade ago, bosses at British Land wanted to ensure their proposals for the 53-acre mixeduse site were not set in [...]

From the outside of the railway arches on Tiverton Street in Southward east London, The Shard is clearly visible in the distance. Walk five minutes in the opposite direction and [...]

We have a disparate and eclectic offering in this month's preview. Translated fiction abounds, including Grandma Non-Oui, a biographical novel by Macedonian author Lidija Dimkovska, How to Leave the World, [...]

As the end of another publishing year approaches, and I mark 24 years of writing these previews, I've been reflecting on the perennial pleasure and privilege of an almost daily [...]

Literary Jonathan Coe The Proof of My Innocence Viking, 7th, 20 [pounds sterling], hb, 9780241678411 The new novel from the author of Bournville and the Costa-winning Middle England is a [...]

With sales surging thanks to the film adaptation of It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover chalked up the gold, silver and bronze positions in the charts, the first time an [...]

Marina Village Greystones in the seaside county town of Wicklow in the Republic of Ireland is not an obvious choice for a private-rented sector housing scheme. Located 32km from central [...]

Berkeley Group chief executive Rob Perrins is in an optimistic mood for our meeting in the sales suite of Oval Village, a mixeduse scheme his firm is building next to [...]

It is tempting, when describing a brand emerging from a period of adversity with renewed vigour, to fall back on that old chestnut 'rising like a phoenix from the ashes'. [...]

Pop-ups have become common practice to experiment with brick-and-mortar retail environments, engage with existing communities and attract new consumers. As such, they have become a key place for innovation within [...]

There's no doubt that sustainability has an increasingly vocal presence in the broader beauty industry. A 2023 study by Mintel found that 67% of global consumers now look for sustainable [...]

Recent advances in technology (e.g., the Internet of Things, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Cloud Services, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain), the shift towards digital products, and the increased use of digitalisation by firms have enhanced consumers' experience and transformed how companies operate, create products/services, and offer value to multiple stakeholders on a global scale. These technological innovations have led to the phenomenon known as the Metaverse. The Metaverse does not refer to any one type of technology but is a broad (and often speculative) shift in how we interact with different technologies in the same space. In the context of International Business (IB), the recent emergence of Metaverse appears to make geographical, sectoral, and operational barriers less relevant, raising complex questions about how current IB theories can explain the world-spanning, sectorally fluid, and centrifugal behaviour of firms in the era of digital globalisation. In this paper, we obtain a critical understanding of the important opportunities and challenges that the Metaverse and the fluidity of digital technologies bring to the IB field. Specifically, we discuss how traditional theories can be effectively utilised to explain firms' internationalisation, and adapted to reflect the new technological era. We propose a framework for new approaches to IB research to help advance research on Metaverse and IB, which can provide important opportunities for future work in this field. Keywords Metaverse * Digitalisation * Emerging technologies * Digital globalisation * IB theory * Internationalisation, 1 Introduction The traditional business environment has undergone significant changes at national and global levels over the past two decades. The accelerated development of the internet infrastructure and the World [...]

Despite the increasing importance of social innovation, research seeking to illuminate how firms engage in social innovation in emerging markets is limited. Utilizing survey data from 143 Pakistani micro-multinational firms operating in other emerging markets, this study examined how these firms undertook social innovation practices in host emerging markets. The findings indicate that the social innovation practices of these firms in host emerging markets are influenced by dynamic marketing capabilities. Furthermore, this influence is mediated by social embeddedness in the host market. Moreover, this mediated influence is positively moderated by a socially supportive culture of the host market. The impact of marketing capabilities on value creation in host emerging markets involves the serial mediation of social embeddedness and social innovation practices. The study demonstrates how resource-constrained emerging-market micro-multinational firms can generate value in host emerging markets, thereby validating the efficacy of dynamic marketing capabilities in the context of social innovation in emerging markets. The study also discusses practical and policy implications. Keywords Emerging market * Marketing capabilities * Micro-multinationals * Social embeddedness * Social innovation * Socially supportive culture * Value creation, 1 Introduction Social innovation refers to organizational activities or initiatives developed to address the social needs of societies (Crupi et al., 2022; Mulgan, 2006; Nguyen et al., 2023; Phillips et [...]

Our paper revisits one of the fundamental questions of International Business (IB) scholarship, investigating the ways through which multinational enterprises (MNEs) establish legitimacy when entering a foreign market. We address this question in a novel context of Central and Eastern European (CEE) firms venturing into Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), employing a multiple case study approach. We investigate the process of legitimacy formation by Polish firms entering SSA for market-seeking reasons. We find that the firms studied use their initial liabilities of foreignness, outsidership, and origin as starting points for pragmatic, moral, and cognitive legitimacy-building by developing narratives that neutralize the distance between themselves and important local stakeholders. Our findings contribute to an understanding of the contingent nature of 'liabilities' in IB literature and shed light on the role of narratives in the internationalization process. Keywords Central and Eastern Europe * Legitimacy * Multinationals * Sub-Saharan Africa, 1 Introduction Our paper revisits one of the important questions of IB scholarship, investigating the ways through which multinational enterprises (MNEs) establish legitimacy when entering a foreign market. We study [...]

The volume of Chinese lending to Africa has slowed dramatically in recent years--especially during the Covid-19 pandemic--but Beijing continues to play an important role in providing the continent with finance. [...]

The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation has been the central mechanism for improving ties between China and the continent and could unveil new areas of collaboration when it reconvenes in September; [...]

'My message is simple,' Dean Macpherson, South M Africa's newly appointed minister of public works and infrastructure, tweeted shortly after HI his appointment to the cabinet. 'I want to turn [...]

Introduction The dust may have barely settled after the general election, but that's not stopping the new government from immediately shaking up a whole host of policies, This new political [...]

If the new Labour government is to stand any chance of hitting its 300,000-homes-a-year target, it will require the private sector to work hand in glove with the public sector. [...]

Adam Branson reports London's luxury residential market has not exactly been going gangbusters of late--and it would appear that the general election earlier this month didn't help matters. That shouldn't [...]

The hotel rooftop terrace in the huge York Central redevelopment will offer stunning views of the city's historic cathedral and new city squares, as well as cups of tea heated [...]

If you're going to St Ives this summer, forget about the man with seven wives and look out for a retail park with eight household food outlets and six electric [...]

This October, the Christmas book-buying season will begin in earnest and there will be plenty of festive titles for buyers to choose from. Funny Christmas books are coming from several [...]

A striking thing about the interviews we conducted with the last few Rising Stars tranches, and particularly with the Class of 2024--the 14th edition of our annual list which recognises [...]

Claire Douglas' 10th novel, The WrongSister, rose from third place to pole position week-on-week handing Douglas her first-ever Official UK Top 50 number one and her fourth Mass-Market Fiction number [...]

Is build to rent (BTR) dead in Scotland? It isn't as facetious a question as it might at first appear. A little over a year ago, the Scottish Property Federation [...]

Another dazzling Property Awards saw the best of the UK market gather last week to celebrate a sector that has pushed through and thrived in a challenging economic year. Property [...]

It's difficult enough for me, trying to make space for all the books I admire this month. So spare a thought for valiant book publicists at this already loaded time [...]

The second half of 2024 is off to a good start. Volume and value through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market were up by more than 10% on the previous week [...]

At first glance, it is hard to believe that with its modern finishes and luxury aesthetic, a [pounds sterling]1.1m apartment for sale in south-west London sits within a former First [...]

It is a hot day at Brent Cross Town in north-west London and some locals are struggling in the heat. John Collyns, however, seems unfazed by the rising mercury. Perhaps [...]

Just as the sun has finally deigned to show its face, I've had mine buried deep in the gothic chills and snowy thrills of October fiction, with its usual hefty [...]

Kate and Kay Allinson retained pole position last week, pinching their 36th Official UK Top 50 number one. Pinch of Nom Air Fryer sold another 25,648 copies through Nielsen BookScan's [...]

Tired of heading to the same old places year after year? Want to avoid the crowds in the more common summer hotspots? With airlines serving the region offering routes to [...]

As interest and investment in health-focused holidays continues to develop across the globe, we explore the evolving face of well-being travel and its business potential In 2024, the global wellness [...]

What if you could make every day feel like a holiday? At Amali Island--a holistic hideaway that is on a mission to create ultra-luxury homes that feel like the ultimate [...]

Beauty moves fast, and propelling the category forward is the ever-shifting behaviour of consumers. Beauty consumers are increasingly informed, empowered and demanding, and their preferences change so rapidly that staying [...]

LONDON ITALIAN BOCCONCINO Discover Bocconcino Mayfair, the epitome of Italian dining in London. Nestled in the heart of Mayfair, Bocconcino offers an unparalleled culinary journey with premium ingredients like fresh [...]