Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (76)

Leaders, loungers, laggards: The strategic-planning-environment- performance relationship re-visited in manufacturing SMEs (2007)
Journal Article
O'Regan, N., Sims, M. A., & Gallear, D. (2007). Leaders, loungers, laggards: The strategic-planning-environment- performance relationship re-visited in manufacturing SMEs. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 19(1), 6-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/17410380810843426

Purpose This paper aims to assess the link between strategic-planning, aspects of the external environment and overall corporate performance in manufacturing SMEs. Design-methodology-approach A self-reported postal survey was used to collect data fro... Read More about Leaders, loungers, laggards: The strategic-planning-environment- performance relationship re-visited in manufacturing SMEs.

Contemplative leadership (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Simpson, P., & Tredget, D. (2007, December). Contemplative leadership. Paper presented at 6th International Studying Leadership Conference, Univerity of Warwick

The leadership of change involves both an engagement with uncertainty and an expectation to be the one to provide certainty for others. This paper will reflect on the nature of contemplative leadership, suggesting that it involves engaging with this... Read More about Contemplative leadership.

Living with the contradictions of modernization? Emotional management in the teaching profession (2007)
Journal Article
Jenkins, S., & Conley, H. (2007). Living with the contradictions of modernization? Emotional management in the teaching profession. Public Administration, 85(4), 979-1001. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.2007.00675.x

The state education system in the UK has undergone significant transformation such that New Labour's modernization policy embodies aspects of the marketized system, inspired by New Right thinking, with a concern for placing schools at the centre of t... Read More about Living with the contradictions of modernization? Emotional management in the teaching profession.

Capital mobility, job loss, and union strategy: The case of the UK aerospace industry (2007)
Journal Article
Danford, A., Richardson, M., Tailby, S., Stewart, P., & Upchurch, M. (2007). Capital mobility, job loss, and union strategy: The case of the UK aerospace industry. Labor Studies Journal, 32(3), 298-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160449X07299705

Drawing on case study data, this article analyzes contrasting workplace union responses to organizational restructuring in the United Kingdom's aerospace industry. It critically evaluates two distinct union strategies that resonate with contemporary... Read More about Capital mobility, job loss, and union strategy: The case of the UK aerospace industry.

Monetary policy transparency in the UK: The impact of independence and inflation targeting (2007)
Journal Article
Mariscal, I. B. F., Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal, I., & Howells, P. (2007). Monetary policy transparency in the UK: The impact of independence and inflation targeting. International Review of Applied Economics, 21(5), 603-617. https://doi.org/10.1080/02692170701525966

There is a widespread belief that the transparency of UK monetary policy has increased substantially as a result of the introduction of inflation targeting in 1992 and a number of procedural and institutional reforms which accompanied and followed it... Read More about Monetary policy transparency in the UK: The impact of independence and inflation targeting.

Blue sky thinking (2007)
Journal Article
Parry, G. (2007). Blue sky thinking. Manufacturing Engineer -London-, 86(4), 40-43. https://doi.org/10.1049/me%3A20070411

Building cars to customer order could provide the key to releasing billions of euros currently tied up in stock. Glenn Parry outlines a scheme to move the industry in this direction.

Beyond advertising: In-home promotion of “fast food” (2007)
Journal Article
Eagle, L., & Brennan, R. (2007). Beyond advertising: In-home promotion of “fast food”. Young Consumers, 8(4), 278-288. https://doi.org/10.1108/17473610710838635

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the range of potential influences on children's food choices, while suggesting that recent restrictions on advertising of some foods may not be as effective as expected. It aims to use home-delivered fo... Read More about Beyond advertising: In-home promotion of “fast food”.

The branding of charities (2007)
Book Chapter
Hudson, J. (2007). The branding of charities. In A. Sargeant, & W. Wymer Jr (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Nonprofit Marketing (65-74). Oxon: Routledge

Transition and organizational dissonance in Serbia (2007)
Journal Article
Hollinshead, G., & MacLean, M. (2007). Transition and organizational dissonance in Serbia. Human Relations, 60(10), 1551-1574. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726707083477

This study reveals and analyses contradictory narrative voices within a local enterprise in the troubled Balkan region, recently acquired by a multinational enterprise. We employ case study research methods informed by semi-structured interviews with... Read More about Transition and organizational dissonance in Serbia.

Public sector performance improvement through private sector management practices: A satisfactory solution? (2007)
Journal Article
Ghobadian, A., Gallear, D., Viney, H., & O'Regan, N. (2007). Public sector performance improvement through private sector management practices: A satisfactory solution?. International Journal of Business Performance Management, 9(4), 363-379. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBPM.2007.013360

This paper examines the assumption that the injection of market discipline and private sector management practices will result in the transformation of public services. The present UK government looks for an opportunity to achieve synergy between the... Read More about Public sector performance improvement through private sector management practices: A satisfactory solution?.

Leadership and its impact on the use of process technologies and management practices in the manufacturing sector (2007)
Journal Article
O'Regan, N., & Ghobadian, A. (2007). Leadership and its impact on the use of process technologies and management practices in the manufacturing sector. International Journal of Business Performance Management, 9(4), 419-433. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBPM.2007.013363

Leadership is widely acknowledged as the key driver of innovation and the achievement of overall organizational performance. In doing so, it draws on both process technologies and the use of management techniques. This paper examines the relationship... Read More about Leadership and its impact on the use of process technologies and management practices in the manufacturing sector.

Building donor loyalty: The antecedents and role of commitment in the context of charity giving (2007)
Journal Article
Sargeant, A., & Woodliffe, L. (2007). Building donor loyalty: The antecedents and role of commitment in the context of charity giving. Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector Marketing, 18(2), 47-68. https://doi.org/10.1300/J054v18n02_03

In both the United States and the United Kingdom donor attrition rates are an increasing cause for concern. Many organizations lose up to 60% of cash donors after their first donation. In this study we delineate the factors that drive donor commitmen... Read More about Building donor loyalty: The antecedents and role of commitment in the context of charity giving.

Accounting for the dark side of corporate history: Organizational culture perspectives and the Bertelsmann case (2007)
Journal Article
Booth, C., Clark, P., Delahaye, A., Procter, S., & Rowlinson, M. (2007). Accounting for the dark side of corporate history: Organizational culture perspectives and the Bertelsmann case. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 18(6), 625-644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2007.03.012

Organizations are increasingly being called to account for their history. In particular, German and non-German companies have been called to account for their relations with the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. Organizations are not only accountabl... Read More about Accounting for the dark side of corporate history: Organizational culture perspectives and the Bertelsmann case.

Performing women: The gendered dimensions of the UK new research economy (2007)
Journal Article
Fletcher, C., Boden, R., Kent, J., & Tinson, J. (2007). Performing women: The gendered dimensions of the UK new research economy. Gender, Work and Organization, 14(5), 433-453. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0432.2007.00359.x

This article explores the development and maintenance of familiar gendered employment patterns and practices in UK universities, which are exemplars of new modes of knowledge production, commodification and marketization. After discussing in detail t... Read More about Performing women: The gendered dimensions of the UK new research economy.