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Global value chain reconfiguration and COVID-19: Investigating the case for more resilient redistributed models of production (2022)
Journal Article
Phillips, W., Roehrich, J. K., Kapletia, D., & Alexander, E. (2022). Global value chain reconfiguration and COVID-19: Investigating the case for more resilient redistributed models of production. California Management Review, 64(2), 71-96. https://doi.org/10.1177/00081256211068545

The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the global economy, laying bare the coordination challenges and vulnerabilities of global value chains (GVCs) across sectors. Governments, consumers, and firms alike have called for greater GVC resilience to ensure criti... Read More about Global value chain reconfiguration and COVID-19: Investigating the case for more resilient redistributed models of production.

Emerging technologies in emergency situations (Guest editorial) (2021)
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Fosso Wamba, S., Queiroz, M., Roscoe, S., Phillips, W., Kapletia, D., & Azadegan, A. (2021). Emerging technologies in emergency situations (Guest editorial). International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 41(9), 1405-1416. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-07-2021-0481

The world is witnessing an unprecedented upheaval in global operations and supply chains (Azadegan & Dooley, 2021; Scholten et al., 2020). Increasingly occurring natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic have plunged organisations into a state of e... Read More about Emerging technologies in emergency situations (Guest editorial).

Responding to information asymmetry in crisis situations: Innovation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
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Phillips, W., Roehrich, J. K., & Kapletia, D. (2023). Responding to information asymmetry in crisis situations: Innovation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Management Review, 25(1), 175-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2021.1960737

Crises test the resilience of public service organizations. Healthcare providers must respond and innovate within tight constraints to address challenges. Presenting COVID-19 as a knowable unknown (black swan event), we adopt information processing t... Read More about Responding to information asymmetry in crisis situations: Innovation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Distributed manufacturing: A new form of localised production? (2020)
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Srai, J. S., Graham, G., Hennelly, P., Phillips, W., Kapletia, D., & Lorentz, H. (2020). Distributed manufacturing: A new form of localised production?. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 40(6), 697-727. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-08-2019-0600

Purpose: The emergence of distributed manufacturing (DM) is examined as a new form of localised production, distinct from previous manifestations of multi-domestic and indigenous production. Design/methodology/approach: Supply network (SN) config... Read More about Distributed manufacturing: A new form of localised production?.

Developing a typology of the roles public contributors undertake to establish legitimacy: A longitudinal case study of patient and public involvement in a health network (2020)
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Barker, J., Moule, P., Evans, D., Phillips, W., & Leggett, N. (2020). Developing a typology of the roles public contributors undertake to establish legitimacy: A longitudinal case study of patient and public involvement in a health network. BMJ Open, 10(5), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033370

Objective To identify how public contributors established their legitimacy in the functioning of a patient and public involvement programme at a health network. Design A longitudinal case study with three embedded units (projects) involving public co... Read More about Developing a typology of the roles public contributors undertake to establish legitimacy: A longitudinal case study of patient and public involvement in a health network.

Redistributed manufacturing – challenges for operations management (2019)
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Kapletia, D., Phillips, W., Medcalf, N., Makatsoris, H., McMahon, C., & Rich, N. (2019). Redistributed manufacturing – challenges for operations management. Production Planning and Control, 30(7), 493-495. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2018.1540057

Recent advances in small-scale local production technologies and materials sciences, combined with the power of digital design and analysis methods, have generated new opportunities for product innovators to experiment with rapid prototyping and comm... Read More about Redistributed manufacturing – challenges for operations management.

Shifting logics: Limitations on the journey from 'state' to 'market' logic in UK higher education (2017)
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Alexander, E., Phillips, W., & Kapletia, D. (2017). Shifting logics: Limitations on the journey from 'state' to 'market' logic in UK higher education. Policy and Politics, 46(4), 551-569. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557317X15052077338233

© Policy Press 2018. Our study of UK higher education institutions (HEIs) offers insights into the role of institutional logics in the adoption of organisational practices - specifically outsourcing. We identify two logics prevalent within HEIs: a pu... Read More about Shifting logics: Limitations on the journey from 'state' to 'market' logic in UK higher education.

Going it alone won’t work! The relational imperative for social innovation in social enterprises (2017)
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Phillips, W., Alexander, E., & Lee, H. (2019). Going it alone won’t work! The relational imperative for social innovation in social enterprises. Journal of Business Ethics, 156(2), 315-331. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3608-1

Shifts in the philosophy of the “state” and a growing emphasis on the “Big Society” have placed an increasing onus on a newly emerging organizational form, social enterprises, to deliver innovative solutions to ease societal issues. However, the ques... Read More about Going it alone won’t work! The relational imperative for social innovation in social enterprises.

Distributed manufacturing: scope, challenges and opportunities (2016)
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Srai, J. S., Kumar, M., Graham, G., Phillips, W., Tooze, J., Ford, S., …Tiwari, A. (2016). Distributed manufacturing: scope, challenges and opportunities. International Journal of Production Research, 54(23), 6917-6935. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2016.1192302

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This discussion paper aims to set out the key challenges and opportunities emerging from distributed manufacturing (DM). We begin by describing the concept, available definitions and con... Read More about Distributed manufacturing: scope, challenges and opportunities.

Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review (2015)
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Phillips, W., Lee, H., Ghobadian, A., O'Regan, N., & James, P. (2015). Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review. Group and Organization Management, 40(3), 428-461. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601114560063

© The Author(s) 2014. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature suggests CSR initiatives extend beyond meeting the immediate interests of stakeholders of for-profit enterprises, offering the potential to also enhance performance. Growing disil... Read More about Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review.

Towards a model of the intervention process (2015)
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Lewis, M., Piercy, N., Phillips, W., & Palmer, J. (2015). Towards a model of the intervention process. Policy and Politics, 43(2), 255-271. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557312X655927

© Policy Press 2015. This paper explores the challenging circumstances when one part of government decides that the performance of a subsidiary part is unacceptable and arranges some kind of remedial intervention. Following the detailed analysis of a... Read More about Towards a model of the intervention process.

Change management in the public sector: The use of cross-functional teams (2013)
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Piercy, N., Phillips, W., & Lewis, M. (2013). Change management in the public sector: The use of cross-functional teams. Production Planning and Control, 24(10-11), 976-987. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2012.666913

Adoption of change management best practices continues to be offered as a route towards improved cost, quality and productivity of public services. These approaches are predominantly drawn from private sector research and their application by the pub... Read More about Change management in the public sector: The use of cross-functional teams.

Discontinuous innovation: A challenge for purchasing (2012)
Journal Article
Johnsen, T., Calvi, R., & Phillips, W. Discontinuous innovation: A challenge for purchasing. Manuscript submitted for publication

Purpose of this paper This paper investigates the question: What are the challenges to the purchasing function when faced with discontinuous innovation? The paper defines discontinuous innovation, differentiating it from other forms of innovation, a... Read More about Discontinuous innovation: A challenge for purchasing.

Customer-supplier relationships during the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach (2012)
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Phillips, W., Lamming, R., & Caldwell, N. (2012). Customer-supplier relationships during the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach. Strategic Change, 21(5-6), 263-274. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.1908

Adopting an innovation systems approach, this paper addresses how institutions in supply markets, in the institutional economics sense of informal constraints and formal rules, influence the innovation process between firms. Within an innovation sys... Read More about Customer-supplier relationships during the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach.

Public procurement of innovations, diffusion and endogenous institutions (2011)
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Rolfstam, M., Phillips, W., & Bakker, E. (2011). Public procurement of innovations, diffusion and endogenous institutions. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 24(5), 452-468. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513551111147178

Purpose: Public procurement has been increasingly seen as an important innovation policy tool. One neglected aspect of the public procurement of innovation is, however, diffusion. The purpose of this paper is to counter this neglect by exploring how... Read More about Public procurement of innovations, diffusion and endogenous institutions.

The difficulties of supplying new technologies into highly regulated markets: The case of tissue engineering (2011)
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Chaudhuri, J. B., Phillips, W., Johnsen, T., & Caldwell, N. (2011). The difficulties of supplying new technologies into highly regulated markets: The case of tissue engineering. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 23(3), 213-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2011.550391

This study provides an insight into the difficulties companies encounter in transposing basic science into commercially viable healthcare technologies, focusing on the issue of establishing a dominant supply model within a highly regulated market. Th... Read More about The difficulties of supplying new technologies into highly regulated markets: The case of tissue engineering.

Analysing customer-supplier relationships in the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach (2011)
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Phillips, W., Lamming, R., & Caldwell, N. Analysing customer-supplier relationships in the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach. Manuscript submitted for publication

Adopting an innovation systems approach, this paper addresses how institutions in supply markets, in the institutional economics sense of informal constraints and formal rules, influence the innovation process between firms. Within an innovation sys... Read More about Analysing customer-supplier relationships in the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach.

Sustainable procurement: Emerging issues (2009)
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Walker, H., & Phillips, W. (2009). Sustainable procurement: Emerging issues. International Journal of Procurement Management, 2(1), 41-61. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPM.2009.021729

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.