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Infantilized adults or confident consumers? Enterprise discourse in the UK retail banking industry (2008)
Journal Article

In this paper we examine the implications of enterprise discourse within the context of a culture of consumption. Drawing on empirical work on the UK retail banking industry we demonstrate how retail banking in the UK is central to constructing 'conf... Read More about Infantilized adults or confident consumers? Enterprise discourse in the UK retail banking industry.

Why "soft science" is the key to regaining leadership in marketing knowledge (2008)
Journal Article

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to highlight what the authors regard as serious problems with the continuing dominance of a "hard science" view of what constitutes "top quality" research, and to present evidence that a "softer" approach will y... Read More about Why "soft science" is the key to regaining leadership in marketing knowledge.

Poetry. Chapter 8 (2008)
Book Chapter

Business graduates and management jobs: An employability match made in heaven? (2008)
Journal Article

The rapid growth in undergraduate business education over the last three decades has coincided with the growing dominance of an economic ideology of higher education (HE); that its role is principally one of contributing to national competitiveness t... Read More about Business graduates and management jobs: An employability match made in heaven?.

"We can't join a union, that would harm the horses": Worker resistance in the UK horseracing industry (2008)
Journal Article

Internationalisation in hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism higher education: A call for further reflexivity in curriculum development (2008)
Journal Article

Case study on Haldiram’s: India’s answer to the McDonald’s and the Pizza Huts (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Western companies are opening up their factories and offices in India in an unprecedented manner and thus creating a need to study the organization and management of their Indian counterparts. The emergence of India as an economic power over the rece... Read More about Case study on Haldiram’s: India’s answer to the McDonald’s and the Pizza Huts.

The project of life: Generalizing spiritual theory for applied project management research and the interconnections (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This is an inter-disciplinary systemic research work. This work is not an inter-religion comparison and attempts to establish a relationship between the disciplines of project management and spirituality. In doing so the literature review was conduct... Read More about The project of life: Generalizing spiritual theory for applied project management research and the interconnections.

Digital/web-based technology in purchasing and supply management: A UK study (2008)
Journal Article

Purpose - To date little is known about the actual level of utilisation of digital/web-based interaction technologies in purchasing and supply management (SM) in the UK. This paper seeks to address this gap in the extant knowledge through empirical r... Read More about Digital/web-based technology in purchasing and supply management: A UK study.

Regulation of nutrition and health claims in advertising (2008)
Journal Article

This article reviews the intentions and assumptions underlying calls for greater regulation of nutrition and health claims in food advertising and examines the likely impact of new European regulations on health-related claims. After providing a revi... Read More about Regulation of nutrition and health claims in advertising.

A shift of intention: From inefficiency to toxicity in the working environment (2008)
Journal Article

Accounting for financial instruments in Turkish accounting standards (2008)
Journal Article

The Turkish Accounting Standards Board (TMSK) issued TMS 32, "Financial Instruments: Disclosure and Presentation” and TMS 39, “Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement” in 2006, and TFRS 7, “Financial Instruments: Disclosures” in 2007. Thes... Read More about Accounting for financial instruments in Turkish accounting standards.

Theorising under-theorisation in research on the HRM-Performance Link (2008)
Journal Article

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the conceptual underpinnings of the theoretical weaknesses of extant research investigating the HRM-Organizational Performance Link (hereafter HRM-P Link). Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews... Read More about Theorising under-theorisation in research on the HRM-Performance Link.

Higher education, the ‘knowledge economy’ and ‘knowledge workers’: does current education policy make sense? (2008)
Journal Article

The UK higher education (HE) system has undergone a major transformation over the past three decades from a system that catered for an elite group of entrants in the late 1960s and early 1970s to one that now aims to provide tertiary education to hal... Read More about Higher education, the ‘knowledge economy’ and ‘knowledge workers’: does current education policy make sense?.

Psychoanalytic phenomena and organizations: A dynamic approach with cross-cultural and film applications for dynamic times (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Counterfactual history, management and organizations: Reflections and new directions (2008)
Journal Article

This article reflects on the papers published in the Symposium on 'Counterfactual History in Management and Organizations'. After describing the background to the symposium we review some important themes in the multidisciplinary domain of counterfac... Read More about Counterfactual history, management and organizations: Reflections and new directions.

Donor retention: an exploratory study of door-to-door recruits (2008)
Journal Article

Door-to-door fundraising, where recruiters knock on the door of domestic dwellings to solicit a regular donation, is an increasingly popular recruitment technique. However, reported levels of attrition remain unacceptably high and in some cases chari... Read More about Donor retention: an exploratory study of door-to-door recruits.

Departmental affiliation, leadership and leadership development (2008)
Book Chapter

Book Review: Mary Jo Hatch, Monika Kostera and Andrzej K. Kozminski (2004), The Three Faces of Leadership: Manager, Artist, Priest (2008)
Journal Article

"Lighting the touchpaper. How social marketing can help ignite Active Bristol”. Report for Active Bristol (2008)
Report