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Understanding leadership in the environmental sciences (2015)
Journal Article

© 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.

A simple decision market model (2015)
Journal Article

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.

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.

Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation (2015)
Journal Article

© 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)
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

Buddhist belief and living ethics: Challenging business ethics (2012)
Book Chapter

Belief and Organization (2012)
Book

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.