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Transaction Cost Economics and Open Innovation: Implications for Theory and Practice (2012)
Journal Article
Remneland-Wikhamn, B., & Knights, D. (2012). Transaction Cost Economics and Open Innovation: Implications for Theory and Practice. Creativity and Innovation Management, 21(3), 277-289. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8691.2012.00639.x

Transaction cost economics (TCE) has had a strong impact on theories of economic exchange but also on open innovation, even though the relationship is often implicit rather than explicit. In this paper, we highlight what we consider to be the problem... Read More about Transaction Cost Economics and Open Innovation: Implications for Theory and Practice.

Activist ethnography and social movements: Opportunities and potentialities (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Sutherland, N. (2012, August). Activist ethnography and social movements: Opportunities and potentialities. Paper presented at 7th Ethnography Symposium, Liverpool

A criticism recently directed at social movement literature is that movement activists are often disappointed by what they find in social movement theory (Howley, 2008; Plows, 2008; Jasper, 2010; DeFilippis et al, 2010). It fails to address practical... Read More about Activist ethnography and social movements: Opportunities and potentialities.

Leadership, WTO, commerce, and new strategies for corporatization of government institutions: A top Indian bureaucrat's take (2012)
Book Chapter
Prabhakar, G. P., & Saran, P. (2012). Leadership, WTO, commerce, and new strategies for corporatization of government institutions: A top Indian bureaucrat's take. In J. Diamond, & J. Liddle (Eds.), Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management (161-172). UK: Emerald Books

To provide a select perspective from India in terms of its Civil Services, leadership, and its unique challenges

Managing masculinity/mismanaging the corporation (2012)
Journal Article
Knights, D., & Tullberg, M. (2012). Managing masculinity/mismanaging the corporation. Organization, 19(4), 385-404. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508411408170

There are numerous accounts of the financial crisis that shocked the Western world in 2008. Almost all the commentaries are steeped in the same cognitive paradigm of linear thinking and assumptions of economic self-interest that could be seen to have... Read More about Managing masculinity/mismanaging the corporation.

Lawyers and cyberspace: Seeing the elephant? (2012)
Journal Article
Gillen, M. (2012). Lawyers and cyberspace: Seeing the elephant?. SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology and Society, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.2966/scrip.090212.130

This paper considers the problem of Internet regulation, and how it has been exacerbated by poor theoretical models for cyberspace. Furthermore, it considers how the conceptual difficulties with regard to the nature of cyberspace have been replicated... Read More about Lawyers and cyberspace: Seeing the elephant?.

Feeling and speaking through our gendered bodies: Embodied self-reflection and research practice in organisation studies (2012)
Journal Article
Thanem, T., & Knights, D. (2012). Feeling and speaking through our gendered bodies: Embodied self-reflection and research practice in organisation studies. International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 5(1), 91-108. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWOE.2012.048594

Despite the growing organisational literature on the gendered body, we argue that much of this literature remains disembodied. We therefore seek to further embody the study of gendered bodies and organisations by viewing the body as lived gendered em... Read More about Feeling and speaking through our gendered bodies: Embodied self-reflection and research practice in organisation studies.

CEOs in India: How leadership and management philosophies drive innovation (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Prabhakar, G. P., & Liddle, J. (2012, July). CEOs in India: How leadership and management philosophies drive innovation. Paper presented at Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA) conference, Valencia, Spain

This work highlights the corporate and non-corporate leadership practices in India, the effect of culture and religion on such practices and how these drive innovation. Many qualities of a good leader, as defined by Indian CEOs were derived from the... Read More about CEOs in India: How leadership and management philosophies drive innovation.

Lessons from the tea party: What happens when you can't please everyone all the time (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Lloyd, J. (2012, July). Lessons from the tea party: What happens when you can't please everyone all the time. Paper presented at IPSA XXII World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, Spain

This paper explores the extent to which it is possible to achieve a ‘market orientation’ in the field of politics when the stakeholders that comprise those markets appear to have ‘needs’ and ‘wants’ that are not only diverse but sometimes also contra... Read More about Lessons from the tea party: What happens when you can't please everyone all the time.

Illuminated by the smog: Exploring the readability of political websites during the 2010 UK general election (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Lloyd, J., & Dean, D. (2012, July). Illuminated by the smog: Exploring the readability of political websites during the 2010 UK general election. Paper presented at Academy of Marketing Conference 2012, University of Southampton, England

The 59% turnout in the 2001 UK General Election raised serious concerns about democratic legitimacy and resulted in a concerted effort to re-engage citizens’ in electoral participation. Whilst explanations for the decline are many and disparate, ther... Read More about Illuminated by the smog: Exploring the readability of political websites during the 2010 UK general election.

Do 6-month-old infants see point-light, biological motion as animate? (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Schlottmann, A., Bertin, E., Pollick, F. E., Haerri, U., Piwek, L., & Wilkening, F. (2012, June). Do 6-month-old infants see point-light, biological motion as animate?. Paper presented at International Society of Infant Studies (ISIS), Minneapolis Minnesota, US

Resource integration (2012)
Journal Article
Woratschek, H., Peters, L. D., Kleinaltenkamp, M., Brodie, R. J., Frow, P., & Hughes, T. (2012). Resource integration. Marketing Theory, 12(2), 201-205. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470593111429512

We identify five themes relevant to gaining a clearer understanding of the role of social and economic factors in resource integration. The themes and the broad relationships between them are conceptualized in Figure 1. Here we identify actors who po... Read More about Resource integration.

Laws and tendencies in Marxist political economy (2012)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2012). Laws and tendencies in Marxist political economy. Capital and Class, 36(2), 235-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816812437921

Whilst terms like 'law of the tendency', 'tendency law' and 'tendential law' appear in Marxist political economy, they are unclear. This paper identifies the main conceptions of laws and tendencies and disambiguates them. Part 1 differentiates betwee... Read More about Laws and tendencies in Marxist political economy.