All Outputs (68)

Exploring the application of quality improvement programmes and ISO standards in the Indian marble mining sector (2014)
Journal Article
Garza-Reyes, J. A., Devpura, M., Garza-Reyes, J., Kumar, V., Rocha-Lona, L., & Soriano-Meier, H. (2014). Exploring the application of quality improvement programmes and ISO standards in the Indian marble mining sector. International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 13(3), 310-328. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPQM.2014.060420

In this era of globalisation, as competition intensifies, providing quality products and services has become a competitive advantage and a need to ensure survival. To ensure such competitive advantage, organisations of different industries around the... Read More about Exploring the application of quality improvement programmes and ISO standards in the Indian marble mining sector.

Narratives of fate and misfortune in organizational life: Stories of success and failure (2014)
Journal Article
Jalan, I., Sinha, S., & Ulus, E. (2014). Narratives of fate and misfortune in organizational life: Stories of success and failure. Culture and Organization, 20(5), 410-429. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2014.964239

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. In this paper, we discuss how both success and failure induce anxiety, and how narratives help defend against it. We argue, using a psychoanalytic approach, that these narratives become culturally embedded through sharing a... Read More about Narratives of fate and misfortune in organizational life: Stories of success and failure.

Investigating key antecedents of customer satisfaction in B2B information service firms (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Kumar, V., Kumari, A., Ruan, X., Garza-Reyes, J. A., & Akkaranggoon, S. (2014). Investigating key antecedents of customer satisfaction in B2B information service firms. In IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (327-337). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45526-5_30

Service sector has grown significantly over the years and now is one of the major contributors of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of most of the developed and developing economies. Within the service sector, information economy has grown significant... Read More about Investigating key antecedents of customer satisfaction in B2B information service firms.

Precarious pedagogies? The impact of casual and zero-hour contracts in Higher Education (2014)
Journal Article
Lopes, A., & Dewan, I. (2014). Precarious pedagogies? The impact of casual and zero-hour contracts in Higher Education. Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 7(8), 28-42

Precarious work is associated with and characterizes the effects of neoliberal policy—the transference of economic risk onto workers, the erosion of workers’ rights, the flexibilization and casualization of work contracts, self-responsibility, fina... Read More about Precarious pedagogies? The impact of casual and zero-hour contracts in Higher Education.

Theory of change: The Intervention Initiative bystander intervention model for universities (2014)
Other
Mott, H. L., & Fenton, R. A. (2014). Theory of change: The Intervention Initiative bystander intervention model for universities

Theory of change describing how the programme's teaching aims, activities and processes relate to intermediate and long-term outcomes of preventing violence against women in universities.

Where social enterprise practitioners draw the line: Towards an understanding of movement from social entrepreneurship as boundary work (2014)
Journal Article
Seanor, P., Bull, M., Baines, S., & Purcell, M. (2014). Where social enterprise practitioners draw the line: Towards an understanding of movement from social entrepreneurship as boundary work. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 27(4), 353-368. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPSM-11-2012-0139

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to offer new reflection upon the contested interaction of social enterprises with the public sector. It does this by fore fronting the notions of boundaries, boundary work and b... Read More about Where social enterprise practitioners draw the line: Towards an understanding of movement from social entrepreneurship as boundary work.

Project Management as Management Innovation (2014)
Book Chapter
Thomas, J., George, S., & Cicmil, S. (2014). Project Management as Management Innovation. In R. Lundin, & M. Hallgren (Eds.), Advancing Research on Projects and Temporary Organisations (169-195). Stockholm: CBS Press

Stop 'helping' me! Identity, recognition and agency in the nexus of work and care (2014)
Journal Article
Tomkins, L., & Eatough, V. (2014). Stop 'helping' me! Identity, recognition and agency in the nexus of work and care. Organization, 21(1), 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508412461293

This article explores what it is like to be a 'working carer'-that increasingly common category of employee who combines paid work with unpaid care.1 We draw on phenomenology for our initial motivation, epistemological assumptions and method of data... Read More about Stop 'helping' me! Identity, recognition and agency in the nexus of work and care.