All Outputs (139)

From the Black Square to the Red Square: Rebel leadership constructed as process through a narrative on art (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. The contribution this paper makes to leadership studies is to advance leadership theory towards a process based perspective based on an appreciation of art. The article does this by using a narrative on art in Russia. Th... Read More about From the Black Square to the Red Square: Rebel leadership constructed as process through a narrative on art.

Role of experience and luck in management success: An interview with R.V. Kanoria, Managing Director of Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Ltd. (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This br... Read More about Role of experience and luck in management success: An interview with R.V. Kanoria, Managing Director of Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Ltd..

Gender equality in the UK: Is reflexive and responsive legislation the way forward? (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines an experiment with different approaches to the law usually referred to as responsive and reflexive legislation. It outlines the theoretical underpinning of responsive legislation (Nonet and Selznik, 1979/2001) and its later dev... Read More about Gender equality in the UK: Is reflexive and responsive legislation the way forward?.

Evaluation criteria for construction waste management tools: Towards a holistic BIM framework (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This study identifies evaluation criteria with the goal of appraising the performance of existing construction waste management tools and employing the results in the development of a ho... Read More about Evaluation criteria for construction waste management tools: Towards a holistic BIM framework.

How do we educate future innovation managers? Insights on innovation education in MBA syllabi (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Innovation education is regarded as a critical area in most business schools. This growing importance is partly a strategic response to managing in a knowledge-driven competitive environ... Read More about How do we educate future innovation managers? Insights on innovation education in MBA syllabi.

The impact of foresight on entrepreneurship: The Wales 2010 case study (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Inc. This paper addresses the link between foresight and entrepreneurship over the long term. As such, it addresses two distinct gaps in foresight knowledge and literature namely the link between foresight and entrepreneurship; and lo... Read More about The impact of foresight on entrepreneurship: The Wales 2010 case study.

Storytelling in organisations: supporting or subverting corporate strategy? (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: Storytelling is claimed to be an effective way of communicating corporate strategy within organisations. However, previous studies have tended to focus holistically on storytelling in organisations... Read More about Storytelling in organisations: supporting or subverting corporate strategy?.

Reflections upon neoclassical labour economics (2016)
Book Chapter

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(Mis)understanding labour markets (2016)
Book Chapter

Critics of orthodox economics, and in particular orthodox labour economics, often argue that orthodox models of labour markets are unrealistic and false. Most orthodox economists accept this criticism and proceed immediately to three defences: (1) al... Read More about (Mis)understanding labour markets.

Of tropes, totems and taboos: Reflections on using Morgan’s images from a cross-cultural perspective (2016)
Book Chapter

The chapter begins by setting up a reflexive social anthropological stance from which to explore the mimetic qualities and possibilities of Morgan’s images. It then proceeds to consider the pedagogical implications of this theoretical reinterpretatio... Read More about Of tropes, totems and taboos: Reflections on using Morgan’s images from a cross-cultural perspective.

A multiple case study analysis of Six Sigma practices in Indian manufacturing companies (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the fundamental barriers/challenges, benefits, commonly used tools and techniques, organisational infrastructure and impact on organisational performance in... Read More about A multiple case study analysis of Six Sigma practices in Indian manufacturing companies.

Knowledge Acquisition in Information System Development: A Case Study of System Developers in an International Bank (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. System developers quickly acquire knowledge of the benefits and limitations of system development approaches and this knowledge enables them to adopt or adapt methodologies according to the scope and scale of projects... Read More about Knowledge Acquisition in Information System Development: A Case Study of System Developers in an International Bank.

Climate change, the Great Barrier Reef and the response of Australians (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. All rights reserved. Inspiration, aspirations, attitudes, and perception of threats play a pivotal role in the way that individuals associate themselves with natural environments. These sentiments affect how people con... Read More about Climate change, the Great Barrier Reef and the response of Australians.

The question-behaviour effect: Causes and moderators (2016)
Thesis

The question-behaviour effect, how asking attitude, intention and prediction questions influences behaviour, has been widely examined since its discovery by Sherman (1980). This PhD thesis on the question-behaviour effect consists of three parts: 1)... Read More about The question-behaviour effect: Causes and moderators.

‘Dress and the female professional: A case study of working woman’ (2016)
Book Chapter

A visual semiotic approach to the analysis of Working Woman magazine, a mid-1980s UK publication aimed at professional women. We argue that many of today's women leaders and managers were socialised into their understandings of what it means to be a... Read More about ‘Dress and the female professional: A case study of working woman’.

A family business perspective on emergence and potential of mass retail industry in India (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This brie... Read More about A family business perspective on emergence and potential of mass retail industry in India.

Opportunity creation as a mixed embedding process: A study of immigrant entrepreneurs in Sweden (2016)
Thesis

Entrepreneurial opportunities are frequently noted and addressed in the literature of immigrant entrepreneurship; however, little is known about how these entrepreneurial opportunities come into existence and how immigrant entrepreneurs create such o... Read More about Opportunity creation as a mixed embedding process: A study of immigrant entrepreneurs in Sweden.

Public sector supply chain management: A Triple Helix approach to aligning innovative environmental initiatives (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 National Research University Higher School of Economics. This paper argues that in order to deliver greater levels of sustainable performance, environmental strategy should be addressed at the supply chain level and not just at the level of th... Read More about Public sector supply chain management: A Triple Helix approach to aligning innovative environmental initiatives.

A review of available information on the use of impact assessment in public policy formulation and in contributing to the fulfilment of statutory duties (2016)
Report

This report provides a review of a range of information on the use of impact assessment in public policy formation and particularly in relation to statutory duties placed on public authorities. The first section charts the antecedents of equality imp... Read More about A review of available information on the use of impact assessment in public policy formulation and in contributing to the fulfilment of statutory duties.