All Outputs (33)

Change management in the public sector: The use of cross-functional teams (2013)
Journal Article

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.

Evaluating the benefits of outsourcing: The case of UK higher education institutions (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Outsourcing has been commonly practised within the private sector for decades and the outsourcing of publically provided services is becoming evermore prevalent as the pulic sector responds to the need to bring about ‘more for less’. Despite this pre... Read More about Evaluating the benefits of outsourcing: The case of UK higher education institutions.

Social innovation in practice: The role of relationships in developing, acquiring and utilising dynamic capabilities in social enterprises (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In a constantly changing environment social enterprises (SEs) need to utilise dynamic capabilities in their pursuit of social innovation. Addressing the ‘double bottom line’ of both social and financial goals, alongside managing the challenge of fluc... Read More about Social innovation in practice: The role of relationships in developing, acquiring and utilising dynamic capabilities in social enterprises.

Innovation management and dynamic capability (2013)
Book Chapter

Practising social innovation: The role of social enterprises (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Social innovation has been practiced for decades, however relatively little is known. According to Mulgan (2006), Social innovation refers to the innovative activities motivated by a social need and objective, predominantly diffused through organisat... Read More about Practising social innovation: The role of social enterprises.

Key characteristics of SME procurement: An empirical study (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research is part of the i-Compete project on improving competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the South West of England through best practice procurement. It is jointly funded by the ERDF (through Universities South West... Read More about Key characteristics of SME procurement: An empirical study.

Discontinuous innovation: A challenge for purchasing (2012)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

A square peg in a round hole? A case study of whole life costing applications within sustainable procurement practices in the UK social housing sector (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The UK social housing sector is facing challenging times. The reduction in housing grant subsidy, the restructuring of affordable rent levels and the planned reforms of housing benefit under the Comprehensive Spending Review (HM Treasury, 2010) have... Read More about A square peg in a round hole? A case study of whole life costing applications within sustainable procurement practices in the UK social housing sector.

Public procurement of innovations, diffusion and endogenous institutions (2011)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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)
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.