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Organizing strategic foresight: A contextual practice of 'way finding' (2013)
Journal Article
Sarpong, D., Maclean, M., & Alexander, E. (2013). Organizing strategic foresight: A contextual practice of 'way finding'. Futures, 53, 33-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2013.09.001

Strategic foresight as a derived outcome of corporate foresight exercises has led to the dominant discourse on strategic foresight as an episodic intervention encompassing a proliferation of organizational foresight methodologies. We argue that such... Read More about Organizing strategic foresight: A contextual practice of 'way finding'.

Myths, reality, and sexual violence: Changing attitudes, changing practice (2013)
Journal Article
Fenton, R. A., McCartan, K., Rumney, P., & Jones, J. (2013). Myths, reality, and sexual violence: Changing attitudes, changing practice

This paper describes an event held as part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science and was funded by the ESRC and the University of the West of England (UWE). It took place on an afternoon in March 2013 in an inn... Read More about Myths, reality, and sexual violence: Changing attitudes, changing practice.

Time for a real shift to relations: Appraisal of social network analysis applications in the UK construction industry (2013)
Journal Article
Ruan, X., Ochieng, E., Price, A., & Egbu, C. (2013). Time for a real shift to relations: Appraisal of social network analysis applications in the UK construction industry. Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 13(1), 92-105

The Social Network Analysis (SNA) has been adopted in the UK construction management research and generated meaningful insights in analysing project management organisations from network perspectives. As an effective tool, social network analysis has... Read More about Time for a real shift to relations: Appraisal of social network analysis applications in the UK construction industry.

Democracy in transition: Political participation in the european union (2013)
Book
Demetriou, K. N., Riley, S., Griffin, C., & Morey, Y. (2013). K. Demetriou (Ed.), Democracy in transition: Political participation in the european union. UK: Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30068-4

© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. All rights are reserved. The papers in this collection, written by a cross-regional group of experts, provide insights into the causes of declining levels of citizen participation and other distinct forms of... Read More about Democracy in transition: Political participation in the european union.

Knowledge acquisition in knowledge transfer partnerships: An activity theory based study of business process improvement using process mapping (2013)
Thesis
White, G. Knowledge acquisition in knowledge transfer partnerships: An activity theory based study of business process improvement using process mapping. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/929721

Knowledge and its acquisition are seen to be an increasingly important aspect of business management. Universities, through initiatives such as Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP), are influential in the effective co-production and transfer of busi... Read More about Knowledge acquisition in knowledge transfer partnerships: An activity theory based study of business process improvement using process mapping.

Leadership without leaders? (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Sutherland, N. (2013, July). Leadership without leaders?. Paper presented at International Conference in Critical Management Studies, Manchester

Although there has been growing interest in Organization and Management Studies (OMS) and Critical Management Studies (CMS) in Social Movement Organizations (SMOs) in recent years, there is little research examining the organizational processes of an... Read More about Leadership without leaders?.

The public apology as a reputational paradox (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Hill, B. (2013, July). The public apology as a reputational paradox. Paper presented at Academy of Marketing Conference 2013, University of South Wales, UK

Analysis of trauma and gender in an Indian workplace (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ulus, E. (2013, July). Analysis of trauma and gender in an Indian workplace. Paper presented at Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Montreal, Canada

White collar crime and the global financial crisis; How long will we have to wait for the ‘day of reckoning’? (2013)
Journal Article
Ryder, N. (2013). White collar crime and the global financial crisis; How long will we have to wait for the ‘day of reckoning’?

During the height of the Global Financial Crisis, and whilst leader of the Conservative party, David Cameron boldly proclaimed that the City of London faced a ‘Day of Reckoning’ and that severe penalties would be imposed for those bankers whose reckl... Read More about White collar crime and the global financial crisis; How long will we have to wait for the ‘day of reckoning’?.

Promoting Effective Consultation? Assessing the Impact of the ICE Regulations (2013)
Journal Article
Parker, J., Terry, M., Hall, M., Purcell, J., & Hutchinson, S. (2013). Promoting Effective Consultation? Assessing the Impact of the ICE Regulations. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 51(2), 355-381. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8543.2011.00870.x

Drawing on evidence from longitudinal case studies in 25 organizations, this article examines whether information and consultation (I&C) bodies established in the context of the UK's Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 have bee... Read More about Promoting Effective Consultation? Assessing the Impact of the ICE Regulations.

Avoiding performance failure payment deductions in PFI/PPP projects: Model of critical success factors (2013)
Journal Article
Oyedele, L. O., & Oyedele, L. (2013). Avoiding performance failure payment deductions in PFI/PPP projects: Model of critical success factors. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, 27(3), 283-294. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CF.1943-5509.0000367

The overall aim of this paper is to identify critical success factors that would help Private Finance Initiative/facility management (PFI/FM) contractors to avoid performance failure payment deductions in Public Private Partnership/PFI (PPP/PFI) proj... Read More about Avoiding performance failure payment deductions in PFI/PPP projects: Model of critical success factors.

Client employment of previous auditors: Shareholders views on auditor independence (2013)
Journal Article
Dart, E., & Chandler, R. (2013). Client employment of previous auditors: Shareholders views on auditor independence. Accounting and Business Research, 43(3), 205-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2012.707968

The role of auditors is to add credibility to financial information and to reduce the risk of management manipulation or concealment. It is vital that auditors be independent of company management. In practice, however, various circumstances may pose... Read More about Client employment of previous auditors: Shareholders views on auditor independence.

Narratives of transition from social to enterprise: You can't get there from here! (2013)
Journal Article
Baines, S., Bull, M., Seanor, P., Bull, M., Baines, S., & Ridley-Duff, R. (2013). Narratives of transition from social to enterprise: You can't get there from here!. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 19(3), 324-343. https://doi.org/10.1108/13552551311330200

Purpose: In response to calls to critically analyse and conceptually advance social enterprise, the purpose of this paper is to examine narratives and models representing a spectrum of social enterprise from the "social" to the "economic". The paper... Read More about Narratives of transition from social to enterprise: You can't get there from here!.

Co-production and self-service: The application of Service-Dominant Logic (2013)
Journal Article
Hilton, T., & Hughes, T. (2013). Co-production and self-service: The application of Service-Dominant Logic. Journal of Marketing Management, 29(7-8), 861-881. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2012.729071

Service-Dominant Logic (S-D logic) theory and related literature is reviewed to demonstrate S-D logic's potential to provide new insights for understanding an important contemporary issue in service delivery: the application of self-service technolog... Read More about Co-production and self-service: The application of Service-Dominant Logic.