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Fettered by the past in the march forward: Ideology as an explanation for today's malaise in Japan (2012)
Journal Article
von Staden, P. (2012). Fettered by the past in the march forward: Ideology as an explanation for today's malaise in Japan. Asia Pacific Business Review, 18(2), 187-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2011.561654

Japan's 'lost decade' of the 1990s is more than 10 years of economic downturn. The fact that a further decade later the malaise continues suggests that this is more than just an extended bad patch. Measures have been implemented to revitalize the eco... Read More about Fettered by the past in the march forward: Ideology as an explanation for today's malaise in Japan.

Key characteristics of SME procurement: An empirical study (2012)
Presentation / Conference
James, P., Saad, M., Douglas, A., & Phillips, W. (2012, April). Key characteristics of SME procurement: An empirical study. Paper presented at IPSERA Conference 2012, Naples, Italy

This research is part of the i-Compete project on improving competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the South West of England through best practice procurement. It is jointly funded by the ERDF (through Universities South West... Read More about Key characteristics of SME procurement: An empirical study.

Using equality to challenge austerity: New actors, old problems (2012)
Journal Article
Conley, H. (2012). Using equality to challenge austerity: New actors, old problems. Work, Employment and Society, 26(2), 349-359. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017011432906

This article critically examines the potential for 'new actors' in industrial relations to use developments in equality law to challenge government economic policy. The author draws on documentary analysis of the Fawcett Society's attempt to gain a j... Read More about Using equality to challenge austerity: New actors, old problems.

The Road to Financialization in Central and Eastern Europe: The Early Policies and Politics of Stabilizing Transition (2012)
Journal Article
Gabor, D. (2012). The Road to Financialization in Central and Eastern Europe: The Early Policies and Politics of Stabilizing Transition. Review of Political Economy, 24(2), 227-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2012.664333

Narratives of macroeconomic stabilization played an important part in the financialization of the formerly planned economies. The excess demand narrative, one of the least contested 'problems' of post-socialist transformation, shaped central banks' l... Read More about The Road to Financialization in Central and Eastern Europe: The Early Policies and Politics of Stabilizing Transition.

Epilogue: Retrospect and prospects: The significance of the 'lost decades' in Japan (2012)
Journal Article
von Staden, P. W., & Fletcher, W. M. (2012). Epilogue: Retrospect and prospects: The significance of the 'lost decades' in Japan. Asia Pacific Business Review, 18(2), 275-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2011.561659

This is the concluding article to a special issue on Japan's Lost Decade accepted by the journal Asia Pacific Business Review.

The influence of inter-firm relationships on Supply Chain Quality Management (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Soares, A., Soltani, E., & Liao, Y. (2012, March). The influence of inter-firm relationships on Supply Chain Quality Management. Presented at 4th Annual International Conference of the Association of Global Management Studies (AGMS), University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, USA)

Claims of the association between inter-firm relationships and the successful implementation of Supply Chain Quality Management (SCQM) practices have been long discussed in the literature. Nevertheless, these assumptions lack consistent empirical sup... Read More about The influence of inter-firm relationships on Supply Chain Quality Management.

Understanding the High Rates of Employment among Low-educated Women in Portugal: A Comparatively Oriented Case Study (2012)
Journal Article
Tavora, I. (2012). Understanding the High Rates of Employment among Low-educated Women in Portugal: A Comparatively Oriented Case Study. Gender, Work and Organization, 19(2), 93-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0432.2010.00489.x

This article addresses the question of why Portugal is an exception among southern European countries in having a high rate of female employment. Cross-national data show an even greater gap between Portugal and its southern European neighbours in th... Read More about Understanding the High Rates of Employment among Low-educated Women in Portugal: A Comparatively Oriented Case Study.

A Labour of Love? Academics in Business Schools (2012)
Journal Article
Clarke, C., Knights, D., & Jarvis, C. (2012). A Labour of Love? Academics in Business Schools. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 28(1), 5-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2011.12.003

This paper contributes to a growing literature on new public management in relation to academia in general but more specifically UK business schools. Following interviews with a range of staff in universities, we explore the impact that auditing and... Read More about A Labour of Love? Academics in Business Schools.

Discontinuous innovation: A challenge for purchasing (2012)
Journal Article
Johnsen, T., Calvi, R., & Phillips, W. Discontinuous innovation: A challenge for purchasing. Manuscript submitted for publication

Purpose of this paper This paper investigates the question: What are the challenges to the purchasing function when faced with discontinuous innovation? The paper defines discontinuous innovation, differentiating it from other forms of innovation, a... Read More about Discontinuous innovation: A challenge for purchasing.

Understanding the complex organisational processes that help and hinder creativity and innovation (2012)
Thesis
Sheffield, R. Understanding the complex organisational processes that help and hinder creativity and innovation. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/949569

Abstract: Understanding the complex organizational processes that help and hinder creativity and innovation. Robert James Sheffield, February 2012. This study looks at the topics of creativity and innovation and how they are experienced as ordinar... Read More about Understanding the complex organisational processes that help and hinder creativity and innovation.

Managing Performance in a Volatile Environment: Contrasting Perspectives on Luck and Causality (2012)
Journal Article
Parnell, J. A., Dent, E. B., O'Regan, N., & Hughes, T. (2012). Managing Performance in a Volatile Environment: Contrasting Perspectives on Luck and Causality. British Journal of Management, 23(SUPPL. 1), 104-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8551.2012.00815.x

Performance management is an increasingly perilous and challenging activity for many firms, and involves understanding the drivers of performance as well as its measurement. Academics tend to see performance in terms of rationality, whereas business... Read More about Managing Performance in a Volatile Environment: Contrasting Perspectives on Luck and Causality.

Governing the consumer: Technologies of consumption (2012)
Journal Article
Beckett, A. (2012). Governing the consumer: Technologies of consumption. Consumption, Markets and Culture, 15(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2011.604495

One of the recurring themes within commentaries of the cultural economy is the tension between the desire of producers to exercise control over consumers and consumers' sovereignty. Using Foucault's notion of Governmentality and drawing on a study of... Read More about Governing the consumer: Technologies of consumption.

The rhetoric of synergy in a global corporation: Visual and oral narratives of mimesis and similarity (2012)
Journal Article
Gaggiotti, H. (2012). The rhetoric of synergy in a global corporation: Visual and oral narratives of mimesis and similarity. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 25(2), 265-282. https://doi.org/10.1108/09534811211213946

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to expand understanding about the rhetoric of synergy and how it is manifested in a global corporation, Tubworld (name changed), during a period of mergers and acquisitions. Design/methodology/approach: The metho... Read More about The rhetoric of synergy in a global corporation: Visual and oral narratives of mimesis and similarity.

Fringe benefits: valuing the visual in narratives of hairdressers' identities at work (2012)
Journal Article
Shortt, H., & Warren, S. (2012). Fringe benefits: valuing the visual in narratives of hairdressers' identities at work. Visual Studies, 27(1), 18-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2012.642955

In this article, we focus on the use of respondent-led photography, as a narrative method through which we may research identity at work. We base our argument on empirical data drawn from a wider research study, the aim of which was to explore the id... Read More about Fringe benefits: valuing the visual in narratives of hairdressers' identities at work.

Complexity and change management: Analyzing church leaders' narratives (2012)
Journal Article
Simpson, P. (2012). Complexity and change management: Analyzing church leaders' narratives. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 25(2), 283-296. https://doi.org/10.1108/09534811211213955

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel approach to the analysis of individual and co-constructed change management narratives, utilizing a framework derived from the theory of complex responsive processes. Design/methodology/appro... Read More about Complexity and change management: Analyzing church leaders' narratives.

Customer-supplier relationships during the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach (2012)
Journal Article
Phillips, W., Lamming, R., & Caldwell, N. (2012). Customer-supplier relationships during the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach. Strategic Change, 21(5-6), 263-274. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.1908

Adopting an innovation systems approach, this paper addresses how institutions in supply markets, in the institutional economics sense of informal constraints and formal rules, influence the innovation process between firms. Within an innovation sys... Read More about Customer-supplier relationships during the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach.

Going with the flow: A systems approach to how an academic health science centre creates value through collaboration (2012)
Journal Article
Ng, I., Parry, G., Davies, S., & Lim, W. M. (2012). Going with the flow: A systems approach to how an academic health science centre creates value through collaboration. Executive Briefing,

This briefing looks at the case of Cambridge University Health Partners, the management organisation of the Cambridge Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC). An AHSC is a partnership between one or more universities and healthcare providers focusing o... Read More about Going with the flow: A systems approach to how an academic health science centre creates value through collaboration.

The southern European social model: Familialism and the high rates of female employment in Portugal (2012)
Journal Article
Tavora, I. (2012). The southern European social model: Familialism and the high rates of female employment in Portugal. Journal of European Social Policy, 22(1), 63-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928711425269

This paper focuses on the high rates of female full-time employment in Portugal and examines whether these are consistent with the familialistic features that typify the southern European social model. It employs a comparative methodology to investig... Read More about The southern European social model: Familialism and the high rates of female employment in Portugal.

Transformational leadership across hierarchical levels in UK manufacturing organizations (2012)
Journal Article
Edwards, G., & Gill, R. (2012). Transformational leadership across hierarchical levels in UK manufacturing organizations. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 33(1), 25-50. https://doi.org/10.1108/01437731211193106

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on an empirical study of the effectiveness of transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership across hierarchical levels in manufacturing organizations in the UK. The aim was to develop a f... Read More about Transformational leadership across hierarchical levels in UK manufacturing organizations.

The rating decision and the determinants of credit ratings: A UK empirical investigation (2012)
Journal Article
Gonis, E., Paul, S., & Wilson, N. The rating decision and the determinants of credit ratings: A UK empirical investigation. Manuscript submitted for publication

This study examines the determinants of the decision of UK non-financial companies to solicit a credit rating drawing upon the information asymmetry, signalling, agency and default literature. The paper extends the current literature on the determina... Read More about The rating decision and the determinants of credit ratings: A UK empirical investigation.