Outputs (42)

Sustainable procurement: Emerging issues (2009)
Journal Article

Sustainable procurement is the pursuit of sustainable development objectives (WCED, 1987) through the purchasing and supply process, and involves balancing environmental, social and economic objectives. It is rising on the policy agenda for many coun... Read More about Sustainable procurement: Emerging issues.

Successful strategic re-orientation: lessons from Cadbury's experience: An interview with Todd Stitzer, Chief Executive of Cadbury (2009)
Journal Article

© 2009, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how key strategic decisions are made in practice at a successful FTSE 100 company. Design/methodology/ approach – The paper is based on semi-structured... Read More about Successful strategic re-orientation: lessons from Cadbury's experience: An interview with Todd Stitzer, Chief Executive of Cadbury.

Who cares about project deadlines? A processual relational perspective on problems with information sharing in project environments (2009)
Journal Article

The paper draws on a study of a manufacturing company which delivers engineering solutions, through projects, to customers in the international oil and gas industry. It focuses on the problem of persistent project delays and failure to meet promised... Read More about Who cares about project deadlines? A processual relational perspective on problems with information sharing in project environments.

Users' perceptions of the free, virtual-only service experience (2009)
Journal Article

Using two stages of large-scale empirical data collection and analysis, this article presents a first attempt to develop a scale (netQ) for measuring the quality of free, virtual-only service experience. In the first stage, based on responses to an o... Read More about Users' perceptions of the free, virtual-only service experience.

Project managers as senior executives (2009)
Report

Over the past five decades in the evolution of modern project management there has been little research regarding the career paths of persons working in this field: project planning and control specialists, project managers, program managers, and exe... Read More about Project managers as senior executives.

Complexity and the paradox of project control (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A comparison of inter-organisational knowledge integration process between collaborative and competitive working by social network analysis approach (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Delivering complex services (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Modelling issues in the relationship between audit and non-audit fees (2009)
Journal Article

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine modelling issues in the research of the relationship between audit and non-audit fees by comparing the outcome of a single-equation model of fees to the results of simultaneous equation model (SEM) of t... Read More about Modelling issues in the relationship between audit and non-audit fees.

A critique of product and service based systems (2009)
Journal Article

Project managers’ career paths (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Several apparent similarities exist between the roles and responsibilities of top level executives of large organizations of various kinds, and those of large, complex program and project managers of various program and project categories. But little... Read More about Project managers’ career paths.

Interview with Sir Mike Rake, Chairman of BT (2009)
Journal Article

© 2009, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – British Telecom (BT) has achieved a classic turnaround that involved divestment and efficiency drives. This interview with Sir Mike Rake, Chairman of BT, sheds light on BT's past development and f... Read More about Interview with Sir Mike Rake, Chairman of BT.

The pedagogical implications of social science disciplines: service science (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Improving academic/practitioner engagement in marketing: what can we learn from other management disciplines? (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Strategic thinking in family businesses (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Abstract: This practitioner orientated paper seeks to understand better how management knowledge is created, shared and disseminated in family businesses (FBs). It outlines the initial findings from an exploratory study with senior managers of 20 FBs... Read More about Strategic thinking in family businesses.

Value co-creation in a UK air defence, service availability contract - the problem of multiple customer perspectives and diverse cultures (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Public sector managers and entrepreneurship in Islamic Republic of Iran (2009)
Journal Article

Purpose - In Iran the role of entrepreneurs in developing communities is considered to be a special issue by planners and policy-makers; thus the aim of this paper is to explore and examine some of the main structural, behavioural and environmental b... Read More about Public sector managers and entrepreneurship in Islamic Republic of Iran.

Enterprise imaging: visualising the scope and complexity of large scale services (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Building a FTSE 100 company by hitting the sweet spot of strategy: An interview with Rod Aldridge OBE (2009)
Journal Article

© 2009, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the views of Rod Aldridge OBE on building the strategy of a FTSE 100 company. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of an interview. Findin... Read More about Building a FTSE 100 company by hitting the sweet spot of strategy: An interview with Rod Aldridge OBE.

Project management behind the facade (2009)
Journal Article