Leading to achieve social change: An interview with Ruth Hunt, former Chief Executive Officer of Stonewall (2020)
Journal Article

In this interview Ruth Hunt, former CEO of the lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality charity Stonewall and now crossbench peer at the House of Lords, discusses her approach to leadership for social change. She considers the changing context of LGBT rig... Read More about Leading to achieve social change: An interview with Ruth Hunt, former Chief Executive Officer of Stonewall.

Developing apprentice leaders through critical reflection (2019)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore opportunities for delivering sustainable leadership education through critical reflection embedded in the framework of higher and degree apprenticeships. Design/methodology/approach: This paper contrib... Read More about Developing apprentice leaders through critical reflection.

Leading Through Art: An Interview With Vicki Heywood CBE, Chair, Royal Society of Arts (2019)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. A recent interview with Vicki Heywood, Chair of the Royal Society of the Arts (RSA), highlights the role that arts can play in dealing with complex problems in society today and particularly from an international perspective. Th... Read More about Leading Through Art: An Interview With Vicki Heywood CBE, Chair, Royal Society of Arts.

Bringing the ugly back: A dialogic exploration of ethics in leadership through an ethno-narrative re-reading of the Enron case (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. In this article, we adopt a dialogic approach to examining narratives on ethics in leadership. We do this through an ethno-narrative re-reading of writing on the Enron case informed by Bakhtin’s ideas on dialogue. Employing conc... Read More about Bringing the ugly back: A dialogic exploration of ethics in leadership through an ethno-narrative re-reading of the Enron case.

The value of non-executive directors to small and medium size enterprises, including a gender perspective (2018)
Report

The role and value of NEDs is well defined within listed companies but little is known about NEDs in the SME market. Given the importance of SMEs to the economy and the need to support their growth and development, TLT, ACCA, Transpire and Practice c... Read More about The value of non-executive directors to small and medium size enterprises, including a gender perspective.

Studying Leadership: Traditional and Critical Approaches (2017)
Book

This book is a dynamic guide to key leadership theories, topics and trends.

Conducting international consumer research with children: Challenges and potential solutions (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses challenges faced when doing cross-cultural research with children, along with suggested solutions to these challenges. The inspiration for this chapter stems from an ongoing international public policy research project underway... Read More about Conducting international consumer research with children: Challenges and potential solutions.

Editorial: Beyond behaviour change (2017)
Journal Article

Editorial to the special Social Business issue.

Impression Management Activity in Vision, Mission, and Values Statements: A Comparison of Commercial and Charitable Organizations (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Abstract: This article investigates the extent to which vision, mission, and values (VM&V) statements play a role in corporate identity management by commercial and charitable organizations. Impressi... Read More about Impression Management Activity in Vision, Mission, and Values Statements: A Comparison of Commercial and Charitable Organizations.

Changing littering practices at Glastonbury Festival (2017)
Journal Article

Abstract Findings: This conceptual paper introduces practice theory as a potential alternative to the traditional ways that littering is conceptualised and tackled, and considers the strengths and pitfalls of the theoretical approach for the expe... Read More about Changing littering practices at Glastonbury Festival.

Practice-theoretical possibilities for social marketing: Two fields learning from each other (2017)
Journal Article

This paper introduces key concepts from practice theory to the social change agenda, and draws on the unique contributions of the social marketing field. Practice theory has underpinned a growing stream of research in pro-environmental studies seekin... Read More about Practice-theoretical possibilities for social marketing: Two fields learning from each other.

Ways of leading in non-Anglophone contexts: Representing, expressing and enacting authority beyond the English-speaking world (2017)
Journal Article

Special Issue Editorial

The development of a framework for effective interdisciplinary behaviour change project management (2017)
Journal Article

Purpose: Interdisciplinary interventions for behaviour change are increasingly being considered a standard to aim for to maximise the potential for effective change of behaviours which have complex, multi-layered and interrelated causes. Despite cons... Read More about The development of a framework for effective interdisciplinary behaviour change project management.

The absent follower: Identity construction within organisationally assigned leader–follower relations (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2017. This article seeks to add to our understanding of processes of identity construction within organisationally assigned leader–follower relations through an exploration of the role of the absent, feminised follower. We situate our... Read More about The absent follower: Identity construction within organisationally assigned leader–follower relations.

Leadership and Creativity in Public Services: An Interview With Lord Michael Bichard, Chair of the National Audit Office (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2017. This interview with Lord Michael Bichard, one of the most distinguished public sector leaders in the United Kingdom, explores his ideas around the relationship between leadership, creativity, and innovation. A champion of place-... Read More about Leadership and Creativity in Public Services: An Interview With Lord Michael Bichard, Chair of the National Audit Office.

Using Greek mythology in leadership development: The role of archetypes for self-reflection (2017)
Book Chapter

Deep, critical self-reflection is not easy (Reynolds, 1999). It requires time, space, courage and careful support and is often very difficult to achieve in the context of busy, demanding organisational lives where we are expected to be confident, str... Read More about Using Greek mythology in leadership development: The role of archetypes for self-reflection.

Leadership, Management and the Welsh Language (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 European Academy of Management Adopting a multilingual perspective, this empirical paper explores the varied use and meanings of referents of leadership and management among 24 Welsh senior managers. We argue the importance of recognizing the... Read More about Leadership, Management and the Welsh Language.

Digital Disruption and the Future of Leadership: An Interview With Rick Haythornthwaite, Chairman of Centrica and MasterCard (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Unprecedented changes in the nature and prevalence of digital technology have significant implications for leadership theory, practice, and development that, as yet, remain largely unexplored in mainstream academic liter... Read More about Digital Disruption and the Future of Leadership: An Interview With Rick Haythornthwaite, Chairman of Centrica and MasterCard.

Leveraging knowledge as a competitive asset? The intensity, performance and structure of universities’ entrepreneurial knowledge exchange activities at a regional level (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, The Author(s). Universities are no longer considered to be isolated islands of knowledge, but as institutions increasingly engaged with a range of external partners through entrepreneurial activities. This paper examines the associations betw... Read More about Leveraging knowledge as a competitive asset? The intensity, performance and structure of universities’ entrepreneurial knowledge exchange activities at a regional level.

Characterizing the Linguistic Chameleon: Personal and Social Correlates of Linguistic Style Accommodation (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 International Communication Association Linguistic style accommodation between conversationalists is associated with positive social outcomes. We examine social power and personality as factors driving the occurrence of linguistic style accomm... Read More about Characterizing the Linguistic Chameleon: Personal and Social Correlates of Linguistic Style Accommodation.