Selen Kars' Outputs (35)

What happens when you give an entrepreneur a camera? Illuminating spatial, embodied and affective aspects of entrepreneurship (2025)
Journal Article

The use of video to unlock the minutiae of everyday entrepreneurship is growing in response to calls for more creative research methods in studying entrepreneurship. In this paper, we explore the value and relevance of participant-generated video dia... Read More about What happens when you give an entrepreneur a camera? Illuminating spatial, embodied and affective aspects of entrepreneurship.

The gendered nature of vulnerability in higher education: The case of Türkiye (2025)
Book Chapter

Vulnerability and exclusion have been explored from a career lens, with concepts such as the glass ceiling (Cotter et al., 2001), glass chains (Arifeen and Gatrell, 2020), glass cliffs (Ryan and Haslam, 2007), sticky floors (Booth et al., 2003), and... Read More about The gendered nature of vulnerability in higher education: The case of Türkiye.

Mind the gap: Investigating the transfer of digital capabilities from the classroom to the business in SMEs (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Objectives: Digital transformation is critical for business productivity, innovation, and growth (BEIS, 2019; OECD, 2021). However, SMEs often lag behind larger firms in digital adoption (OECD, 2021). Learning factories, designed to improve digital c... Read More about Mind the gap: Investigating the transfer of digital capabilities from the classroom to the business in SMEs.

Digital transformation in SMEs: Why relationships matter as much as technology (2024)
Report

Digital transformation is increasingly recognised as the basis for driving business productivity, innovation, and growth. In the UK, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)—the backbone of the economy—often face significant challenges in adopting d... Read More about Digital transformation in SMEs: Why relationships matter as much as technology.

Blank stares and fidgety fingers: Emplacement and embodiment in online teaching (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines how management educators experienced a radical change in the milieu they were performing, and its impact on their ecological knowing. Drawing on empirical data derived from qualitative research with 13 management educators, we dis... Read More about Blank stares and fidgety fingers: Emplacement and embodiment in online teaching.

From magical thinking to being ‘pragmagic’: Narratives of wellbeing in health and care in England (2024)
Book Chapter

Accounts of wellbeing are traditionally understood as ‘rooted in social, caring relationships and traditional virtues of compassion, altruism and duty’ (Cieslik, Not smiling but frowning’: Sociology and the ‘problem of happiness’. Sociology, 49(3), 4... Read More about From magical thinking to being ‘pragmagic’: Narratives of wellbeing in health and care in England.

Unleadership: The Remarkable Power of Unremarkable Acts (2024)
Book

Leaderly acts and practices from unexpected places are often overlooked and yet have remarkable power. These spontaneous acts are in sharp contrast to those of formal leaders in governments and leading corporations. Global events like the Covid-19 pa... Read More about Unleadership: The Remarkable Power of Unremarkable Acts.

RBWM World Cafe Final Evaluation Report (2023)
Report

The enterprising academic: Embodying enterprise value among UWE staff across disciplines (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

There are many new demands on academics. One of these is to embed enterprise and entrepreneurship education within a range of different academic disciplines. Intergovernmental, governmental and professional organisations, as well as management expert... Read More about The enterprising academic: Embodying enterprise value among UWE staff across disciplines.

Paradoxes of multi-level leadership: Insights from an integrated care system (2023)
Journal Article

In this paper, we draw on systems leadership, complexity and paradox theory to elucidate the tensions that organisational actors experience when practising multi-level leadership. We explore these issues through a study of the perceptions and experie... Read More about Paradoxes of multi-level leadership: Insights from an integrated care system.

Migrants as ‘dissonant harmony-seekers’ and migrant life in ‘foam’ (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: Migration of the Turkish new middle-class – high-skilled, well-educated, young professionals – has been growing in recent years. This paper explores their migration experience and discusses the role of physical and virtual bubbles in the for... Read More about Migrants as ‘dissonant harmony-seekers’ and migrant life in ‘foam’.

Learning through uncertainty: Team learning and the development of entrepreneurial mindset (2022)
Book Chapter

This Handbook brings together the latest research on graduate employability into one authoritative volume. Dedicated parts guide readers through topics, key issues and debates relating to delivering, facilitating, achieving and evaluating graduate em... Read More about Learning through uncertainty: Team learning and the development of entrepreneurial mindset.

Narratives of wellbeing (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As the Philosopher John Austin (1962) pointed out, saying and doing are indissociable, although not always expressed in the same way with the same understanding and intention. For Cieslik (2016), accounts of wellbeing are “rooted in social, caring re... Read More about Narratives of wellbeing.

Climate for innovation: A critical lever in the leadership of innovation (2022)
Book Chapter

Innovation involves an uncertain journey and, although leadership cannot ensure innovation success, it can certainly influence its odds. In this chapter we will explore the concept of organisational climate, an arena where leadership can have a signi... Read More about Climate for innovation: A critical lever in the leadership of innovation.

‘Humanity will not be saved by promises’: Using an unleadership lens to restory the ‘blah blah bah’ of leadership at COP26 (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper identifies ways in which leaders, affected nations and activists construct their leadership practices in different ways to address the climate crisis. Whether they advocate for leadership or against it, there remains an opportunity to lear... Read More about ‘Humanity will not be saved by promises’: Using an unleadership lens to restory the ‘blah blah bah’ of leadership at COP26.

Pandemi Sonrası Liderlik ve İnsan Kaynakları Yönetimi Stratejileri (2022)
Book Chapter

“That was a pretty serious jump”: Feelings of ambivalence and complexity of arts-based educators in online environments (2022)
Other

Arts-based methods which traditionally rely on engagement with material artefacts (e.g. LEGO® bricks, finger puppets, craft materials) have been on the rise in management learning and teaching. However, COVID-19 has challenged educators to adapt thes... Read More about “That was a pretty serious jump”: Feelings of ambivalence and complexity of arts-based educators in online environments.

Narrative practicing of the meaning of work: The gender we think and talk (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter shows how gender asymmetry is produced through narrative practices. By analyzing the work-life narratives of 14 men and 14 women working in a variety of occupations ranging from personal care to finance, from crafts to health, from creat... Read More about Narrative practicing of the meaning of work: The gender we think and talk.

Unleading during a pandemic: Scrutinising leadership and its impact in a state of exception (2022)
Journal Article

Characterising COVID-19 pandemic as a ‘state of exception’, we might expect great hero models of leadership to come to the fore. Instead, drawing on a thematic analysis of 246 news articles, this paper illustrates something different: communities, co... Read More about Unleading during a pandemic: Scrutinising leadership and its impact in a state of exception.

Is it all in the mindset? Team coaching, psychological capital and the collaborative development of an entrepreneurial mindset (2021)
Book Chapter

The changing nature of work attaches greater significance, by organisations, entrepreneurs and students alike, to the development of entrepreneurial capacities, with growing interest in entrepreneurial mindset and psychological capital (self-efficacy... Read More about Is it all in the mindset? Team coaching, psychological capital and the collaborative development of an entrepreneurial mindset.