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Cultural impacts in project organisations: Emerging research questions (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Cicmil, S. (2012, December). Cultural impacts in project organisations: Emerging research questions. Presented at Seminar 4: Cultural Impacts on Project Processes and Outputs ‐A research agenda, UCL, London

Svetlana will bring her critical perspective to an examination of culture in projects. She will highlight the importance of the relational in manifestations of project cultures through looking at issues of agency, risk and social psychology of trust.... Read More about Cultural impacts in project organisations: Emerging research questions.

From political economy to economics and beyond (2012)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2012). From political economy to economics and beyond. Historical Materialism, 20(3), 61-80. https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206X-12341258

Ben Fine and Dimitris Milonakis have done political economy a great service by drawing attention to the insights lost in the twists, turns and reductions in the transition from political economy to economics. These two volumes constitute a solid foun... Read More about From political economy to economics and beyond.

Learning from project management implementation by applying a management innovation lens (2012)
Journal Article
Thomas, J. L., Cicmil, S., & George, S. (2012). Learning from project management implementation by applying a management innovation lens. Project Management Journal, 43(6), 70-87. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmj.21308

Management innovation is a complex and dynamic process of organizational change that is not well understood. Drawing from the innovation and organizational change literatures, and using project management as an example of one particular form of manag... Read More about Learning from project management implementation by applying a management innovation lens.

The politics of mobility: Some insights from the study of protest camps (2012)
Book Chapter
Frenzel, F. (2012). The politics of mobility: Some insights from the study of protest camps. In S. Kesselring, & G. Vogl (Eds.), New Mobilities Regimes in Art and Social Sciences. Ashgate

Regimes of Camps and Camping. The political mobility of activist encampments Political encampments have been part and parcel of the politics of New Social Movements in Europe over the last few decades. From the counter-cultural music festival circui... Read More about The politics of mobility: Some insights from the study of protest camps.

The role of ICT in supporting transnational diaspora entrepreneurship (2012)
Book Chapter
Luong, Q., Achtenhagen, L., Henoch, B., & Evansluong, Q. (2012). The role of ICT in supporting transnational diaspora entrepreneurship. In M. Vidal-Blasco, & T. Torres-Coronas (Eds.), Social E-Enterprise (148-164). Hershey/PA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2667-6.ch009

Millions of people around the world live in other countries than their countries of origin. In many developing countries, remittances sent home by migrants are a vital part of the economy. Transnational entrepreneurial activities by migrant entrepren... Read More about The role of ICT in supporting transnational diaspora entrepreneurship.

Service co-creation and value realisation (2012)
Journal Article
Hilton, T., Hughes, T., & Chalcraft, D. (2012). Service co-creation and value realisation. Journal of Marketing Management, 28(13-14), 1504-1519. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2012.736874

The notion of value co-creation is central to the discourse of Service-Dominant Logic (S-D logic) yet there remains little agreement among academics seeking to explain or research the value co-creation process. We distinguish service co-creation from... Read More about Service co-creation and value realisation.

The 'Collective Pierre Rivière': Using collective biography and ambling conversational methods to interrogate and re-present pivotal moments from the Pierre Rivière narratives (2012)
Journal Article
Page, M., & Speedy, J. (2012). The 'Collective Pierre Rivière': Using collective biography and ambling conversational methods to interrogate and re-present pivotal moments from the Pierre Rivière narratives. Emotion, Space and Society, 5(4), 235-242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2011.11.005

Collective biography is a research strategy that works at the level of bodily and emotional knowledge and moves beyond individualized versions of the subject, towards subjects-in-process and subjects-in-relation (Davies and Gannon, 2006). In this pap... Read More about The 'Collective Pierre Rivière': Using collective biography and ambling conversational methods to interrogate and re-present pivotal moments from the Pierre Rivière narratives.

Leadership and expectation: Thomas Pynchon (2012)
Book Chapter
Pelzer, P., & Case, P. (2012). Leadership and expectation: Thomas Pynchon. In P. Villiers, & J. Gosling (Eds.), Fictional Leaders: Heroes, Villans and Absent Friends (155-165). London: Palgrave Macmillan

"Back the Bid": The London Olympic Bid Committee and the Sun newspaper (2012)
Journal Article
Mackay, C. (2012). "Back the Bid": The London Olympic Bid Committee and the Sun newspaper. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 36(4), 410-421. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723512455922

This article explores how the London Olympic Bid Committee (LOBC) sought to gain the popular support required for London's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games by attempting to influence the journalists of the U.K. newspaper with the greatest readership to... Read More about "Back the Bid": The London Olympic Bid Committee and the Sun newspaper.

Institutional imprinting effects for standard-setting participation and innovation outcomes in the mobile handset industry (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Vasudeva, G., Alexander, E. A., & Jones, S. (2012, October). Institutional imprinting effects for standard-setting participation and innovation outcomes in the mobile handset industry. Paper presented at Strategic Management Society, Prague, Czech Republic

We apply perspectives from institutional theory to understand firms’ participation in standard setting organizations and the effectiveness of these standard setting organizations in terms of the innovation outcome for focal firms. In particular, we a... Read More about Institutional imprinting effects for standard-setting participation and innovation outcomes in the mobile handset industry.

Understanding complex service systems through different lenses: An overview (2012)
Journal Article
Briscoe, G., Keränen, K., & Parry, G. (2012). Understanding complex service systems through different lenses: An overview. European Management Journal, 30(5), 418-426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2012.06.004

The 2011 Grand Challenge in Service conference aimed to explore, analyse and evaluate complex service systems. A case scenario, improving the perception of safety in the London Borough of Sutton, provided a common context to link participant contribu... Read More about Understanding complex service systems through different lenses: An overview.

μ-Opioid receptor desensitization: Homologous or heterologous? (2012)
Journal Article
Llorente, J., Lowe, J. D., Sanderson, H. S., Tsisanova, E., Kelly, E., Henderson, G., & Bailey, C. P. (2012). μ-Opioid receptor desensitization: Homologous or heterologous?. European Journal of Neuroscience, 36(12), 3636-3642. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.12003

There is considerable controversy over whether μ-opioid receptor (MOPr) desensitization is homologous or heterologous and over the mechanisms underlying such desensitization. In different cell types MOPr desensitization has been reported to involve r... Read More about μ-Opioid receptor desensitization: Homologous or heterologous?.

Emotions and remote working: Are there inferences for the development of leadership theory and practice? (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Wilkinson, J., & Knights, D. (2012, September). Emotions and remote working: Are there inferences for the development of leadership theory and practice?. Presented at BAM 2012, Cardiff University, UK

The aim of this presentation is to explore notions of flexible working practices and the emotional experiences of remote working, concluding in a consideration of these new working practices for the development of leadership theory and practice.

Practising social innovation: The role of social enterprises (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Lee, H., Collins, L., Phillips, W., & James, P. (2012, September). Practising social innovation: The role of social enterprises. Paper presented at British Academy of Management Conference, Cardiff, UK

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.

Disrupting practices: New insights into innovation (2012)
Journal Article
Beckett, A. (2012). Disrupting practices: New insights into innovation. Strategic Change, 21(5-6), 217-229. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.1905

In building theories to explain phenomena one of the key challenges is to identify the correct ‘unit of analysis’. This is fundamental if theory is to be useful in explaining the salient features of that phenomena and its broader impact. Within the... Read More about Disrupting practices: New insights into innovation.

The impact of work placements on skills development and career outcomes for business and management graduates (2012)
Journal Article
Wilton, N. (2012). The impact of work placements on skills development and career outcomes for business and management graduates. Studies in Higher Education, 37(5), 603-620. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2010.532548

It has become a received wisdom that the completion of a work placement as part of a sandwich undergraduate degree is of positive benefit both to graduates and employers, particularly in an era that stresses the economic contribution of higher educat... Read More about The impact of work placements on skills development and career outcomes for business and management graduates.