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Journal of Tropical Futures inaugural editorial (2022)
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Case, P., Wood, J., & Ng, E. (2024). Journal of Tropical Futures inaugural editorial. Journal of Tropical Futures, 1(1), 3 - 11. https://doi.org/10.1177/27538931221143352

With almost 3.8 billion people living between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the tropics are one of the fastest-growing regions in the world (Callender and Topp, 2020). Almost 99% of the people in the Tropics are considered to be living in ‘dev... Read More about Journal of Tropical Futures inaugural editorial.

Strengthening management, community engagement, and sustainability of the subnational response to accelerate malaria elimination in Namibia (2022)
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Chung, A. M., Love, E., Neidel, J., Mendai, I., Nairenge, S., van Wyk, L. A., …Gosling, R. (2022). Strengthening management, community engagement, and sustainability of the subnational response to accelerate malaria elimination in Namibia. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 106(6), 1646-1652. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.21-1195

Leadership and management skills are critical for health programs to deliver high-quality interventions in complex systems. In malaria-eliminating countries, national and subnational health teams are reorienting strategies to address focal transmissi... Read More about Strengthening management, community engagement, and sustainability of the subnational response to accelerate malaria elimination in Namibia.

Response to Raelin (2022)
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Śliwa, M., & Case, P. (2022). Response to Raelin. Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 41(1), 157-162. https://doi.org/10.5840/bpej20224113

We have been invited by Bastiaan Van Der Linden and Joe Raelin to write a response to Joe’s critique of our paper “Leadership Learning, Power and Practice in Laos: A Leadership-as-Practice Perspective,” published in Management Learning. The paper exp... Read More about Response to Raelin.

Concluding remarks (2022)
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Case, P., Raelin, J. A., & Śliwa, M. (2022). Concluding remarks. Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 41(1), 163-165. https://doi.org/10.5840/bpej20224114

The authors of the exchange now reunite to offer some concluding remarks. Although there are many facets of ethical theory and practice that emanate from our commentaries, clearly a principal contribution is how a Western-originated concept, namely l... Read More about Concluding remarks.

Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: An auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions (2022)
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Izak, M., Shortt, H., & Case, P. (2023). Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: An auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions. Management Learning, 54(2), 198–222. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076211070359

This article explores a conceptually modified notion of liminality in order to make better sense of contemporary ‘flexible’ working life. Previous conceptualizations of liminality rely on the assumed existence of socially sustained boundaries and the... Read More about Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: An auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions.

Effective management of district-level malaria control and elimination: Implementing quality and participative process improvements (2022)
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Agins, B., Case, P., Chandramohan, D., Chen, I., Chikodzore, R., Chitapi, P., …Viljoen, G. (2022). Effective management of district-level malaria control and elimination: Implementing quality and participative process improvements. BMC Public Health, 22(1), Article 140. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12322-2

Although it is widely recognized that strong program management is essential to achieving better health outcomes, this priority is not recognized in malaria programmatic practices. Increased management precision offers the opportunity to improve the... Read More about Effective management of district-level malaria control and elimination: Implementing quality and participative process improvements.

Monologue and organization studies (2021)
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Izak, M., Case, P., & Ybema, S. (2022). Monologue and organization studies. Organization Studies, 43(9), https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406211069434

In this essay, we propose that recent work in management and organization studies is typically inclined to understand organization and organizing as dialogic in form. Dialogicity is characterized by dynamic interlocution on the part of active human s... Read More about Monologue and organization studies.

A game-based approach to exploring gender differences in smallholder decisions to change farming practices: White rice production in Laos (2020)
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Larson, S., (Giger)-Dray, A., Cornioley, T., Thephavanh, M., Thammavong, P., Vorlasan, S., …Perez, P. (2020). A game-based approach to exploring gender differences in smallholder decisions to change farming practices: White rice production in Laos. Sustainability, 12(16), 6594. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166594

What influences farmers' decisions to adopt agricultural technologies is an important question for international agricultural research projects. There are often interpersonal differences between women and men that influence the adoption of decisions... Read More about A game-based approach to exploring gender differences in smallholder decisions to change farming practices: White rice production in Laos.

Gendered roles in agrarian transition: A study of lowland rice farming in Lao PDR (2020)
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Moglia, M., Alexander, K. S., Larson, S., (Giger)-Dray, A., Greenhalgh, G., Thammavong, P., …Case, P. (2020). Gendered roles in agrarian transition: A study of lowland rice farming in Lao PDR. Sustainability, 12(13), Article 5403. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12135403

Traditional lifestyles of lowland rice farmers of the southern provinces of Lao People’s Democratic Republic are rapidly changing, due to two important trends. Firstly, there is a push towards modernization and commercialization of farming. Secondly,... Read More about Gendered roles in agrarian transition: A study of lowland rice farming in Lao PDR.

Scaling up malaria elimination management and leadership: a pilot in three provinces in Zimbabwe, 2016-2018 (2020)
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Chung, A. M., Case, P., Gosling, J., Gosling, R., Madinga, M., Chikodzore, R., …Mberikunashe, J. (2020). Scaling up malaria elimination management and leadership: a pilot in three provinces in Zimbabwe, 2016-2018. Malaria Journal, 19, Article 185. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-020-03255-z

BACKGROUND: Focus for improved malaria programme performance is often placed on the technical challenges, while operational issues are neglected. Many of the operational challenges that inhibit malaria programme effectiveness can be addressed by impr... Read More about Scaling up malaria elimination management and leadership: a pilot in three provinces in Zimbabwe, 2016-2018.

Leadership learning, power and practice in Laos: A leadership-as-practice perspective (2020)
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Case, P., & Śliwa, M. (2020). Leadership learning, power and practice in Laos: A leadership-as-practice perspective. Management Learning, 51(5), 537-558. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507620909967

This article contributes to the growing body of literature developed within the leadership-as-practice perspective, focusing on issues of learning and power. It draws on a co-constructed (auto)ethnographic account of an individual’s longitudinal expe... Read More about Leadership learning, power and practice in Laos: A leadership-as-practice perspective.

Transdisciplinary agricultural research in Lao PDR (2019)
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Greenhalgh, G., Alexander, K. S., Larson, S., Thammavong, P., Sacklokham, S., Thephavanh, M., …Case, P. (2019). Transdisciplinary agricultural research in Lao PDR. Journal of Rural Studies, 72, 216-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.10.020

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Transdisciplinary research focussing on improving smallholder farmers' uptake of technological innovations enables the integration of knowledge systems and the co-design and delivery of creative solutions. In this paper, we illust... Read More about Transdisciplinary agricultural research in Lao PDR.

What is technology adoption? Exploring the agricultural research value chain for smallholder farmers in Lao PDR (2019)
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Alexander, K. S., Greenhalgh, G., Moglia, M., Thephavanh, M., Sinavong, P., Larson, S., …Case, P. (2019). What is technology adoption? Exploring the agricultural research value chain for smallholder farmers in Lao PDR. Agriculture and Human Values, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-09957-8

© 2019, Springer Nature B.V. A common and driving assumption in agricultural research is that the introduction of research trials, new practices and innovative technologies will result in technology adoption, and will subsequently generate benefits f... Read More about What is technology adoption? Exploring the agricultural research value chain for smallholder farmers in Lao PDR.

Managing international development: (Re)positioning critique in the post-2008 conjuncture (2018)
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Frenzel, F., Case, P., Sedgwick, M. W., & Kumar, A. (2018). Managing international development: (Re)positioning critique in the post-2008 conjuncture. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 18(3), 577-604

Despite earlier neglect, International Development (ID) has begun to receive some attention from the Critical Management Studies (CMS) community over the last two decades. This paper reviews existing CMS work that engages with ID and outlines directi... Read More about Managing international development: (Re)positioning critique in the post-2008 conjuncture.

On the relationship between attitudes and environmental behaviors of key Great Barrier Reef user groups (2018)
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Goldberg, J., Marshall, N., Birtles, R. A., Case, P., Curnock, M., & Gurney, G. (2018). On the relationship between attitudes and environmental behaviors of key Great Barrier Reef user groups. Ecology and Society, 23(2), 19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10048-230219

© 2018 by the author(s). Urgent action is required to address threats to ecosystems around the world. Coral reef ecosystems, like the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), are particularly vulnerable to human impacts such as coastal development, resource extract... Read More about On the relationship between attitudes and environmental behaviors of key Great Barrier Reef user groups.

A Bayesian network model to explore practice change by smallholder rice farmers in Lao PDR (2018)
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Moglia, M., Alexander, K. S., Thephavan, M., Thammavong, P., Sodahak, V., Khounsy, B., …Case, P. (2018). A Bayesian network model to explore practice change by smallholder rice farmers in Lao PDR. Agricultural Systems, 164, 84-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2018.04.004

© 2018 A Bayesian Network model has been developed that synthesizes findings from concurrent multi-disciplinary research activities. The model describes the many factors that impact on the chances of a smallholder farmer adopting a proposed change to... Read More about A Bayesian network model to explore practice change by smallholder rice farmers in Lao PDR.

Rice farming systems in Southern Lao PDR: Interpreting farmers’ agricultural production decisions using Q methodology (2017)
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Alexander, K. S., Parry, L., Thammavong, P., Sacklokham, S., Pasouvang, S., Connell, J. G., …Case, P. (2018). Rice farming systems in Southern Lao PDR: Interpreting farmers’ agricultural production decisions using Q methodology. Agricultural Systems, 160, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2017.10.018

© 2017 The agricultural sector in Lao PDR is forecast to move from subsistence rice production to a more modernized and market-oriented sector with greater focus on commercialization of agricultural production. Intensification of agricultural product... Read More about Rice farming systems in Southern Lao PDR: Interpreting farmers’ agricultural production decisions using Q methodology.

Commercialising smallholder agricultural production in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (2017)
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Alexander, K., Case, P., Jones, M., & Connell, J. (2017). Commercialising smallholder agricultural production in Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Development in Practice, 27(7), 965-980. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2017.1353064

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Many smallholder farmers in Lao People’s Democratic Republic are transitioning from subsistence to commercial production. This article employs the Agriculture Innovation System (AIS) fra... Read More about Commercialising smallholder agricultural production in Lao People’s Democratic Republic.

The role of Great Barrier Reef tourism operators in addressing climate change through strategic communication and direct action (2017)
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Goldberg, J., Birtles, A., Marshall, N., Curnock, M., Case, P., & Beeden, R. (2018). The role of Great Barrier Reef tourism operators in addressing climate change through strategic communication and direct action. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 26(2), 238-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2017.1343339

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The projected decline in reef health worldwide will have huge repercussions on millions of stakeholders depending upon coral reefs. Urgent action is needed to sustain coral reefs into th... Read More about The role of Great Barrier Reef tourism operators in addressing climate change through strategic communication and direct action.

The Landscape of Leadership in Environmental Governance: a Case Study from Solomon Islands (2017)
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Mills, D. J., Hicks, C. C., Cohen, P. J., Evans, L. S., Case, P., & Prideaux, M. (2017). The Landscape of Leadership in Environmental Governance: a Case Study from Solomon Islands. Human Ecology, 45(3), 357-365. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-017-9901-x

© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Sustainability science suggests a core set of factors that foster significant change in governance, with leaders and entrepreneurs often identified as the main instigators. Discussions of leadership i... Read More about The Landscape of Leadership in Environmental Governance: a Case Study from Solomon Islands.