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The stoic practice of sustainability leadership in complex social-ecological systems (2024)
Journal Article

The United Nations has sought a new standard of leadership aligned with a sustainability agenda consistent with recent scholarship calls for greater reflection and independence of thought, pro-social outcomes and understanding of the place of leaders... Read More about The stoic practice of sustainability leadership in complex social-ecological systems.

Communication in organizations: An overview and provocations (2024)
Journal Article

The role that communication plays in social organization and processes of organizing has received considerable scholarly attention from multiple disciplines over several decades. This paper provides a review of the diverse literature that has sought... Read More about Communication in organizations: An overview and provocations.

Leadership-As-Practice: Appreciation, critique and future directions (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter addresses Leadership-As-Practice (L-A-P) : a perspective on leadership which, rather than focusing on individual leaders and followers, draws attention to the importance of collective practices and sociomateriality in leadership processe... Read More about Leadership-As-Practice: Appreciation, critique and future directions.

Translating organizing and organizational metaphors: From the universal to the particular (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter deploys the concept of translation as a “metaphor of metaphor” from which to learn. Thus, the authors explore the relationship between universals and particulars with respect to organizational metaphors and address the contradiction of t... Read More about Translating organizing and organizational metaphors: From the universal to the particular.

Guest editorial: Living in a “bubble”: Global working communities and insulation in mobile contexts (2023)
Journal Article

Globally mobile workers are often depicted as isolated individuals and families, who navigate crises and hazards more or less on their own (Dabic, González-Loureiro and Harvey, 2015; Bader, Stoermer, Bader and Schuster, 2018; McNulty, Lauring, Jonass... Read More about Guest editorial: Living in a “bubble”: Global working communities and insulation in mobile contexts.

Leadership and culture (2023)
Book Chapter

Interest in the relationship between leadership and culture first garnered attention during the ‘cultural turn’ in management and organization studies in the 1980s (Peters & Waterman, 1982; Smircich and Morgan, 1982; Morgan, 1986) and has grown consi... Read More about Leadership and culture.

Journal of Tropical Futures inaugural editorial (2022)
Journal Article

With almost 3.8 billion people living between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the tropics are one of the fastest-growing regions in the world (Callender and Topp, 2020). Almost 99% of the people in the Tropics are considered to be living in ‘dev... Read More about Journal of Tropical Futures inaugural editorial.

Leadership learning and development for global health: A case study of capacity building in southern Africa (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

For the past eight years, Bristol Leadership & Change Centre (BLCC), UWE, has been collaborating closely with the Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI) to improve the management and leadership of healthcare programmes in Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Eswatini an... Read More about Leadership learning and development for global health: A case study of capacity building in southern Africa.

The micro-ethics of discomfort: Addressing the perfect/imperfect ethical dichotomies of International Development (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper, we develop an understanding of what we refer to as the ‘micro-ethics of discomfort’ and, on its basis, propose an approach to addressing ethical challenges in the research field, especially in relation to International Development (ID)... Read More about The micro-ethics of discomfort: Addressing the perfect/imperfect ethical dichotomies of International Development.

Becoming phu nam and other stories: Researching leadership practices in Laos and the ethics of cross-cultural engagement (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This keynote lecture offers a co-constructed auto-ethnographic account of the researcher’s journey toward ‘passing’ as a leader (phu nam) within a state-run service in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. The researcher was a foreigner in Laos emplo... Read More about Becoming phu nam and other stories: Researching leadership practices in Laos and the ethics of cross-cultural engagement.

Strengthening management, community engagement, and sustainability of the subnational response to accelerate malaria elimination in Namibia (2022)
Journal Article

Leadership and management skills are critical for health programs to deliver high-quality interventions in complex systems. In malaria-eliminating countries, national and subnational health teams are reorienting strategies to address focal transmissi... Read More about Strengthening management, community engagement, and sustainability of the subnational response to accelerate malaria elimination in Namibia.

Response to Raelin (2022)
Journal Article

We have been invited by Bastiaan Van Der Linden and Joe Raelin to write a response to Joe’s critique of our paper “Leadership Learning, Power and Practice in Laos: A Leadership-as-Practice Perspective,” published in Management Learning. The paper exp... Read More about Response to Raelin.

Concluding remarks (2022)
Journal Article

The authors of the exchange now reunite to offer some concluding remarks. Although there are many facets of ethical theory and practice that emanate from our commentaries, clearly a principal contribution is how a Western-originated concept, namely l... Read More about Concluding remarks.

Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: An auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions (2022)
Journal Article

This article explores a conceptually modified notion of liminality in order to make better sense of contemporary ‘flexible’ working life. Previous conceptualizations of liminality rely on the assumed existence of socially sustained boundaries and the... Read More about Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: An auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions.

Effective management of district-level malaria control and elimination: Implementing quality and participative process improvements (2022)
Journal Article

Although it is widely recognized that strong program management is essential to achieving better health outcomes, this priority is not recognized in malaria programmatic practices. Increased management precision offers the opportunity to improve the... Read More about Effective management of district-level malaria control and elimination: Implementing quality and participative process improvements.

Monologue and organization studies (2021)
Journal Article

In this essay, we propose that recent work in management and organization studies is typically inclined to understand organization and organizing as dialogic in form. Dialogicity is characterized by dynamic interlocution on the part of active human s... Read More about Monologue and organization studies.

Peter Case seminar abstract (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Concerned about the ethnocentric assumptions of much Western dominated and corporatist-oriented theories of leadership, there is a growing body of literature that calls for anthropologically-informed empirical research on leadership phenomena in non-... Read More about Peter Case seminar abstract.

What approaches to organizational change can be used to improve public service delivery in resource-poor contexts? Experiences of malaria control and HIV prevention interventions in Southern Africa (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

For the past seven years Peter Case, Professor of Organization Studies at UWE, has been acting as a program management researcher and consultant for the Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI) – a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded research centre a... Read More about What approaches to organizational change can be used to improve public service delivery in resource-poor contexts? Experiences of malaria control and HIV prevention interventions in Southern Africa.

Leadership learning for Malaria elimination: Does the Janitor hold the key? (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Every year some half a million people die from malaria, with the largest disease burden carried by sub-Saharan Africa. Focus for improved malaria healthcare performance is often placed on the technical challenges, while operational issues are neglect... Read More about Leadership learning for Malaria elimination: Does the Janitor hold the key?.

A game-based approach to exploring gender differences in smallholder decisions to change farming practices: White rice production in Laos (2020)
Journal Article

What influences farmers' decisions to adopt agricultural technologies is an important question for international agricultural research projects. There are often interpersonal differences between women and men that influence the adoption of decisions... Read More about A game-based approach to exploring gender differences in smallholder decisions to change farming practices: White rice production in Laos.