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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.

Gendered roles in agrarian transition: A study of lowland rice farming in Lao PDR (2020)
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Traditional lifestyles of lowland rice farmers of the southern provinces of Lao People’s Democratic Republic are rapidly changing, due to two important trends. Firstly, there is a push towards modernization and commercialization of farming. Secondly,... Read More about Gendered roles in agrarian transition: A study of lowland rice farming in Lao PDR.

Scaling up malaria elimination management and leadership: a pilot in three provinces in Zimbabwe, 2016-2018 (2020)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: Focus for improved malaria programme performance is often placed on the technical challenges, while operational issues are neglected. Many of the operational challenges that inhibit malaria programme effectiveness can be addressed by impr... Read More about Scaling up malaria elimination management and leadership: a pilot in three provinces in Zimbabwe, 2016-2018.

Leadership learning, power and practice in Laos: A leadership-as-practice perspective (2020)
Journal Article

This article contributes to the growing body of literature developed within the leadership-as-practice perspective, focusing on issues of learning and power. It draws on a co-constructed (auto)ethnographic account of an individual’s longitudinal expe... Read More about Leadership learning, power and practice in Laos: A leadership-as-practice perspective.

Transdisciplinary agricultural research in Lao PDR (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Transdisciplinary research focussing on improving smallholder farmers' uptake of technological innovations enables the integration of knowledge systems and the co-design and delivery of creative solutions. In this paper, we illust... Read More about Transdisciplinary agricultural research in Lao PDR.

What is technology adoption? Exploring the agricultural research value chain for smallholder farmers in Lao PDR (2019)
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© 2019, Springer Nature B.V. A common and driving assumption in agricultural research is that the introduction of research trials, new practices and innovative technologies will result in technology adoption, and will subsequently generate benefits f... Read More about What is technology adoption? Exploring the agricultural research value chain for smallholder farmers in Lao PDR.

Managing international development: (Re)positioning critique in the post-2008 conjuncture (2018)
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Despite earlier neglect, International Development (ID) has begun to receive some attention from the Critical Management Studies (CMS) community over the last two decades. This paper reviews existing CMS work that engages with ID and outlines directi... Read More about Managing international development: (Re)positioning critique in the post-2008 conjuncture.

On the relationship between attitudes and environmental behaviors of key Great Barrier Reef user groups (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 by the author(s). Urgent action is required to address threats to ecosystems around the world. Coral reef ecosystems, like the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), are particularly vulnerable to human impacts such as coastal development, resource extract... Read More about On the relationship between attitudes and environmental behaviors of key Great Barrier Reef user groups.

A Bayesian network model to explore practice change by smallholder rice farmers in Lao PDR (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 A Bayesian Network model has been developed that synthesizes findings from concurrent multi-disciplinary research activities. The model describes the many factors that impact on the chances of a smallholder farmer adopting a proposed change to... Read More about A Bayesian network model to explore practice change by smallholder rice farmers in Lao PDR.

Rice farming systems in Southern Lao PDR: Interpreting farmers’ agricultural production decisions using Q methodology (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The agricultural sector in Lao PDR is forecast to move from subsistence rice production to a more modernized and market-oriented sector with greater focus on commercialization of agricultural production. Intensification of agricultural product... Read More about Rice farming systems in Southern Lao PDR: Interpreting farmers’ agricultural production decisions using Q methodology.

Commercialising smallholder agricultural production in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (2017)
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Many smallholder farmers in Lao People’s Democratic Republic are transitioning from subsistence to commercial production. This article employs the Agriculture Innovation System (AIS) fra... Read More about Commercialising smallholder agricultural production in Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

Enhancing district delivery and management of agriculture extension in Lao PDR (2017)
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Background and methodology Lao PDR has a well-established network of central, provincial and district agricultural extension units. The extension system has benefited from several decades of Official Development Assistance (ODA) projects which have... Read More about Enhancing district delivery and management of agriculture extension in Lao PDR.

Critical factors for self-sustaining farmer organizations in Northern Laos (2017)
Report

The SRA reported on here involved three groups of stakeholders—local farmers represented by their community-elected organizational leaders, government service providers represented by district and provincial extension agents and leaders, and a team o... Read More about Critical factors for self-sustaining farmer organizations in Northern Laos.

The role of Great Barrier Reef tourism operators in addressing climate change through strategic communication and direct action (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The projected decline in reef health worldwide will have huge repercussions on millions of stakeholders depending upon coral reefs. Urgent action is needed to sustain coral reefs into th... Read More about The role of Great Barrier Reef tourism operators in addressing climate change through strategic communication and direct action.

The Landscape of Leadership in Environmental Governance: a Case Study from Solomon Islands (2017)
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© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Sustainability science suggests a core set of factors that foster significant change in governance, with leaders and entrepreneurs often identified as the main instigators. Discussions of leadership i... Read More about The Landscape of Leadership in Environmental Governance: a Case Study from Solomon Islands.

The language of leadership in Laos (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This paper responds to recent calls in the leadership studies literature for anthropologically informed empirical research on leadership phenomena in non-Western and non-Anglophone settings. The authors have worked exten... Read More about The language of leadership in Laos.

Italo Calvino and the organizational imagination: Reading social organization through urban metaphors (2016)
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© 2014 Taylor & Francis. This article explores the way in which uses or abuses of urban metaphors can inform differing polities and ethics of human organization. From its earliest inception, the city has taken on a metaphorical significance for hum... Read More about Italo Calvino and the organizational imagination: Reading social organization through urban metaphors.

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.

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.

Effective program management: A cornerstone of malaria elimination (2015)
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Copyright © 2015 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Effective program management is essential for successful elimination of malaria. In this perspective article, evidence surrounding malaria program management is reviewed by ma... Read More about Effective program management: A cornerstone of malaria elimination.

A simple decision market model (2015)
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Economic modeling of decision markets has mainly considered the market scoring rule setup. Literature has made reference to the alternative, joint elicitation type decision market, but no in depth analysis of it appears to have been published. This p... Read More about A simple decision market model.

Understanding leadership in the environmental sciences (2015)
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© 2015 by the author(s). Leadership is often assumed, intuitively, to be an important driver of sustainable development. To understand how leadership is conceptualized and analyzed in the environmental sciences and to discover what this research says... Read More about Understanding leadership in the environmental sciences.

Attitudes of undergraduate business students toward sustainability issues (2015)
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© 2015 Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – This paper aims to report on findings from the first phase of a longitudinal study of undergraduate business students’ attitudes, beliefs and perceptions concerning sustainability issues. Design/meth... Read More about Attitudes of undergraduate business students toward sustainability issues.

Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation (2015)
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© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Leadership is heralded as being critical to addressing the “crisis of governance” facing the Earth's natural systems. While political, economic, and corporate discourses of leadership have been widely and critically inte... Read More about Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation.

‘The smell of the place’: Managerialist culture in contemporary UK business schools (2014)
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© 2014 Taylor & Francis. By introducing an intentionally provocative critique of managerialist regimes which typify contemporary UK business school culture, we argue that current business school management practices generate a climate of mistrust a... Read More about ‘The smell of the place’: Managerialist culture in contemporary UK business schools.

Organizing through displacement, travel and movement (2014)
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Give me the answer: The paradox of dependency in management learning (2013)
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The paradox of dependency arises when learners must become dependent in order to enhance independence. This double bind often excites demands for ‘quick fixes’ to reassure both students and staff that the dependent relationship can be fruitful. But t... Read More about Give me the answer: The paradox of dependency in management learning.

Social dreaming and ecocentric ethics: Sources of non-rational insight in the face of climate change catastrophe (2013)
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The article considers the role of dreams as social, rather than individual, phenomena and suggests that as such they may serve as resources for 'future imaginings' with respect to potentially devastating consequences of climate change (and other tran... Read More about Social dreaming and ecocentric ethics: Sources of non-rational insight in the face of climate change catastrophe.

Cultivation of wisdom in the Theravada Buddhist tradition: Implications for contemporary leadership and organization (2013)
Book Chapter

What can be learned about wisdom from non-western and spiritual traditions, philosophies and related practices and what, furthermore, might be the implications for modes of organizing, leadership and organizational engagement? If one accepts a degree... Read More about Cultivation of wisdom in the Theravada Buddhist tradition: Implications for contemporary leadership and organization.

Challenges facing behaviour change interventions: A social marketing perspective on communicating sustainability and climate change science (2013)
Book Chapter

Sustainability and climate change constitute major challenges to current lifestyles (Peattie & Peattie, 2009). It is suggested that “the world has three choices in dealing with climate change: mitigation, adaptation and suffering” (Moser, 2012: 165)... Read More about Challenges facing behaviour change interventions: A social marketing perspective on communicating sustainability and climate change science.

Leadership and expectation: Thomas Pynchon (2012)
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Belief and Organization (2012)
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Buddhist belief and living ethics: Challenging business ethics (2012)
Book Chapter

From theoria to theory: Leadership without contemplation (2012)
Journal Article

This article explores the transition of the theological and philosophical concept of theoria-contemplation-to the modern notion of theory. Theory derives linguistically from theoria and retains a connection with knowledge. However, it has lost and, m... Read More about From theoria to theory: Leadership without contemplation.

Worldly leadership: Alternative wisdoms for a complex world (2011)
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Philosophy of leadership (2011)
Book Chapter

We do not intend this chapter to be simply a dry chronicle or catalogue of leadership philosophies. For one thing, even were such an audacious project pursued, it would doubtless prove to be more than anyone could possibly accomplish in a lifetime an... Read More about Philosophy of leadership.

Response to the government’s healthy lives, healthy people: Our strategy for public health in England white paper (2011)
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The spiritual organization: Critical reflections on the instrumentality of workplace spirituality (2010)
Journal Article

This article offers a theoretical contribution to the current debate on workplace spirituality by: (a) providing a selective critical review of scholarship, research and corporate practices which treat workplace spirituality in performative terms, th... Read More about The spiritual organization: Critical reflections on the instrumentality of workplace spirituality.

Developing leaders in cyber-space: The paradoxical possibilities of on-line learning (2009)
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Whereas 'distance learning' has often been seen as the poor relation of face-to- face educational encounters, this article suggests that paradoxically, this mode of delivery can offer significant advantages to those aiming to develop highly situated... Read More about Developing leaders in cyber-space: The paradoxical possibilities of on-line learning.

Betrayal and friendship (2009)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between friendship and betrayal. Both are perceived to involve dynamics that can have a major impact in organizations, but both have tended to be under researched.

Stop whining, start doing! Identity conflict in project managed software environments (2009)
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In this article we explore the relationship between software developers and IT project managers as expressed through narrative exchanges in an on-line discussion forum. We interrogate a naturalistic data set to show how the conflict between IT profe... Read More about Stop whining, start doing! Identity conflict in project managed software environments.

Aesthetics, performativity and resistance in the narratives of a computer programming community (2006)
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This article reports on an empirical study of a computer programmer community, focusing on online exchanges in which participants discuss the aesthetics of coding. Naturalistic data were collected during a 12-month period of non-participant observati... Read More about Aesthetics, performativity and resistance in the narratives of a computer programming community.

Astrology, alchemy and retro-organization theory: An astro-genealogical critique of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (2004)
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The influence of astrology and alchemy on organizational conduct has not hitherto attracted much serious social scientific attention. Retro-organizational theory licenses paying closer attention to topics that are systematically occluded by modern kn... Read More about Astrology, alchemy and retro-organization theory: An astro-genealogical critique of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®.

Watch Your Back Reflections on Trust and Mistrust in Management Education (2002)
Journal Article

This article attempts a critical reappraisal of the part played by 'trust' in management education. Our main contention is that trust is being perceptibly eroded by a range of factors that find their genesis in a wider set of social relations within... Read More about Watch Your Back Reflections on Trust and Mistrust in Management Education.

Risk management and the magical arts: Rituals of risk calculation in the banking industry
Book Chapter

Introduction: In search of alternative origins of organizing
Book Chapter

How might we imagine the origins of organizing? We trust that most readers of this volume will agree that this is a thought provoking and challenging question. Are we to anchor the origins of organizing to specific historical events, to particular ph... Read More about Introduction: In search of alternative origins of organizing.

Origins of Organizing
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Despite of the accumulating body of research on the birth of organizations and organizing, there have been astonishingly few contributions that challenge the established consensus of the social and philosophical programs marking the origin of organiz... Read More about Origins of Organizing.

Wisdom at work: Philosophical Practices for Leading and Organizing
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