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Learning from project management implementation by applying a management innovation lens (2012)
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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.

Service co-creation and value realisation (2012)
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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)
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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.

"Back the Bid": The London Olympic Bid Committee and the Sun newspaper (2012)
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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.

Understanding complex service systems through different lenses: An overview (2012)
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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)
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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?.

The impact of work placements on skills development and career outcomes for business and management graduates (2012)
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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.

Making connections: A review of supply chain management and sustainability literature (2012)
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Purpose: The objective of this paper is to investigate systematically the discipline of supply chain management (SCM) within the context of sustainability. The two concepts are increasingly aligned, and sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) repr... Read More about Making connections: A review of supply chain management and sustainability literature.

Disrupting practices: New insights into innovation (2012)
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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.

Phenomenology as a method for exploring management practice (2012)
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Phenomenology is a term that has been described as a philosophy, a research paradigm, a methodology and equated with qualitative research. In this paper first we clarify phenomenology by tracing its movement both as a philosophy and as a research met... Read More about Phenomenology as a method for exploring management practice.

Managing Capital Accounts in Emerging Markets: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis (2012)
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AbstractThe global financial crisis forcefully highlighted the importance of curbing the impact of large and volatile capital inflows on growth and financial stability in developing countries. It led the IMF to reconsider its long-standing rejection... Read More about Managing Capital Accounts in Emerging Markets: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis.

The MLQ factor structure in a UK context (2012)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factor structure of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) in a UK context. For a number of years studies have failed to reproduce the original MLQ factor structure. A paper published i... Read More about The MLQ factor structure in a UK context.

Going global, feeling small: An examination of managers' reactions to global restructuring in a multinational organisation (2012)
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This paper is concerned with examining the reactions of managers to the process of global restructuring in a large, multinational food-processing company. Much extant research concerning globalisation has focused on the wider economic, political and... Read More about Going global, feeling small: An examination of managers' reactions to global restructuring in a multinational organisation.

Transitioning from a goods-dominant to a service-dominant logic: Visualising the value proposition of Rolls-Royce (2012)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a visualisation of the firm's offering from a service-dominant logic (S-DLogic) perspective. The case of Rolls-Royce is presented as an avenue through which to explore an alternative view of the firm's... Read More about Transitioning from a goods-dominant to a service-dominant logic: Visualising the value proposition of Rolls-Royce.

The power of collateral: The ECB and geographies of bank funding (2012)
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This paper explores the importance of geographies of bank funding for the design of central banks’ crisis interventions in financial markets. It first distinguishes between market-based and bank-based measures to then focus on the collateral manageme... Read More about The power of collateral: The ECB and geographies of bank funding.

A visual inquiry into ethics and change (2012)
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce the practices and findings of a visual inquiry developed by the co-authors with students in a Business School in the south west of England. The authors are interested in how students engaged with the visual a... Read More about A visual inquiry into ethics and change.

Slum Tourism: Developments in a Young Field of Interdisciplinary Tourism Research (2012)
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This paper introduces the Special Issue on slum tourism with a reflection on the state of the art on this new area of tourism research. After a review of the literature we discuss the breadth of research that was presented at the conference 'Destinat... Read More about Slum Tourism: Developments in a Young Field of Interdisciplinary Tourism Research.

The road to financialization in Central and Eastern Europe: Revisiting the early policies and politics of stabilizing transition (2012)
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Early stabilization policies played an important part in the financialization of the formerly planned economies. The excess demand narrative, one of the least contested ‘problems’ of post-socialist transformation, structured central banks’ liquidity... Read More about The road to financialization in Central and Eastern Europe: Revisiting the early policies and politics of stabilizing transition.

From theoria to theory: Leadership without contemplation (2012)
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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.

The Road to Financialization in Central and Eastern Europe: The Early Policies and Politics of Stabilizing Transition (2012)
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Narratives of macroeconomic stabilization played an important part in the financialization of the formerly planned economies. The excess demand narrative, one of the least contested 'problems' of post-socialist transformation, shaped central banks' l... Read More about The Road to Financialization in Central and Eastern Europe: The Early Policies and Politics of Stabilizing Transition.