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Attitudes of undergraduate business students toward sustainability issues (2015)
Journal Article

© 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.

‘The smell of the place’: Managerialist culture in contemporary UK business schools (2014)
Journal Article

© 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)
Journal Article

Give me the answer: The paradox of dependency in management learning (2013)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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)
Book Chapter

Belief and Organization (2012)
Book

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)
Book

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)
Report

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)
Journal Article

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.

Stop whining, start doing! Identity conflict in project managed software environments (2009)
Journal Article

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.

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.

Aesthetics, performativity and resistance in the narratives of a computer programming community (2006)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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®.