From necessity to choice: An exploration of participants’ learning experience of online coaching training programmes (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Mangion-Thornley, K. (2023). From necessity to choice: An exploration of participants’ learning experience of online coaching training programmes. In The 23rd International Conference on Human Resource Development Research and Practice across Europe, “Workplace change – disruption, continuity and reinvention. The role of HRD in a changing Global Context”. Book of Abstracts (173-174)

This exploratory study examines how online coaching education is experienced by managers and senior leaders taking part in a Coaching and Mentoring (C&M) qualification at level 5 and 7. This is particularly timely and important considering the shift... Read More about From necessity to choice: An exploration of participants’ learning experience of online coaching training programmes.

Paradoxes of multi-level leadership: Insights from an integrated care system (2023)
Journal Article
Bolden, R., Kars, S., Jarvis, C., & Sheffield, R. (in press). Paradoxes of multi-level leadership: Insights from an integrated care system. Journal of Change Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2023.2234388

In this paper, we draw on systems leadership, complexity and paradox theory to elucidate the tensions that organisational actors experience when practising multi-level leadership. We explore these issues through a study of the perceptions and experie... Read More about Paradoxes of multi-level leadership: Insights from an integrated care system.

When workplace humour turns into conflict: Exploring HR practices in the case of conflict management (2023)
Journal Article
Liao, Q., & Pandeli, J. (2023). When workplace humour turns into conflict: Exploring HR practices in the case of conflict management. Employee Relations, 45(5), 1275-1298. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-10-2022-0464

Purpose: Although humour and conflict are popular topics in management, little attention has been paid to the negative effects of humour in terms of how workplace humour could turn into unexpected conflicts. From the perspective of conflict managemen... Read More about When workplace humour turns into conflict: Exploring HR practices in the case of conflict management.

Organisational leadership: Introduction to the special issue (2023)
Journal Article
Bolden, R., Jain, A. K., & Atapattu, M. (2023). Organisational leadership: Introduction to the special issue. Colombo Business Journal, 14(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.4038/cbj.v14i1.138

In this special issue, we focus on the topic of organisational leadership. The call for papers was intentionally quite broad, recognising that what happens in organisations is influenced by societal trends and issues, as well as the particular charac... Read More about Organisational leadership: Introduction to the special issue.

Usage of online food delivery in food waste generation in China during the crisis of COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Wei, L., Prabhakar, G., & Duong, L. N. K. (2023). Usage of online food delivery in food waste generation in China during the crisis of COVID-19. International Journal of Food Science and Technology, 58(10), 5602-5608. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijfs.16552

This study connects food waste (FW) with online food delivery (OFD) service and aims to explore the impacts of the usage of OFD service on FW generation in China during the COVID-19 lockdown period. Through responses from 123 consumers of OFD service... Read More about Usage of online food delivery in food waste generation in China during the crisis of COVID-19.

Making a difference: Opportunities and challenges for critical leadership studies (2023)
Book Chapter
Bolden, R. (in press). Making a difference: Opportunities and challenges for critical leadership studies. In O. Smolović-Jones, S. Wilson, H. Liu, & D. Knights (Eds.), Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Critical Leadership Studies (CLS) is founded on the premise that the leader-centrism that characterises traditional approaches to leadership theory, practice and development constrains the ability to work in more inclusive, collaborative and sustaina... Read More about Making a difference: Opportunities and challenges for critical leadership studies.

How technostress may affect employee performance in educational work environments (2023)
Journal Article
Bourlakis, M., Nisar, T. M., & Prabhakar, G. (2023). How technostress may affect employee performance in educational work environments. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 193, Article 122674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122674

Despite there being a proliferation of research into the relationship between educators and work-related stress, there appears to be a lack of research on how institutions respond to this problem. The development of information and communications tec... Read More about How technostress may affect employee performance in educational work environments.

Stoicism, philosophy as a way of life, and Negative Capability. Developing a capacity for working in radical uncertainty (2023)
Journal Article
Hirsch, C., von Bülow, C., & Simpson, P. (2023). Stoicism, philosophy as a way of life, and Negative Capability. Developing a capacity for working in radical uncertainty. Leadership, 19(5), 393-412. https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150231178092

Philosophy and leadership are not generally held in close association. By contrast, this paper is a call to action for the academy and organisational practitioners to reflect on the potential contribution to leadership of a practice of philosophy as... Read More about Stoicism, philosophy as a way of life, and Negative Capability. Developing a capacity for working in radical uncertainty.

Innovative approaches to solving environmental issues in the context of the green deal (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Ratanova, I., Andrejevs, V., & Prabhakar, G. (2023, May). Innovative approaches to solving environmental issues in the context of the green deal. Presented at XIII International Scientific Conference “Time of challenges and opportunities: Challenges, solutions, perspectives”, Riga, Latvia

This article discusses the place of the Green Deal in the National Development Plan of Latvia. Low-carbon, resource-efficient and climate-sustainable development enables Latvia to achieve national goals in climate change mitigation, energy, air and w... Read More about Innovative approaches to solving environmental issues in the context of the green deal.

Approaches leading to a successful project: A special reference to construction industry in China (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Pan, Y., Ratanova, I., & Prabhakar, G. (2023, May). Approaches leading to a successful project: A special reference to construction industry in China. Paper presented at XIII International Scientific Conference “Time of challenges and opportunities: Challenges, solutions, perspectives”, Latvia, Riga

This paper analyses the approaches that lead to the success of projects in Chinese construction industry. The research data analysis reveals that the project manager is the crucial success factor for projects in the Chinese construction industry. R... Read More about Approaches leading to a successful project: A special reference to construction industry in China.

Female entrepreneurs’ motivations, intentions and barriers in Higher Education: A case study from Team Academy Bristol (2023)
Book Chapter
Urzelai, B., Caple, L., & Watkins, S. (2023). Female entrepreneurs’ motivations, intentions and barriers in Higher Education: A case study from Team Academy Bristol. In J. H. Block, J. Halberstadt, N. Högsdal, A. Kuckertz, & H. Neergaard (Eds.), Progress in Entrepreneurship Education and Training: New Methods, Tools, and Lessons Learned from Practice (223-241). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28559-2_15

The objective of this study is to examine factors contributing to entrepreneurial intention, motivation and barriers among female university students. For this, we take a case study approach and focus on a Team Academy undergraduate degree programme... Read More about Female entrepreneurs’ motivations, intentions and barriers in Higher Education: A case study from Team Academy Bristol.

Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse: On the Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences (2023)
Book
Bouzanis, C. (2023). Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse: On the Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429201349

This book departs from approaches to truth in social science and ideas in philosophy that connect truth to the ability of language to fulfil certain ‘real-world’ conditions of objectivity. Pointing to an extra-linguistic level in our cognition at whi... Read More about Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse: On the Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences.

"Storying the unstoried" Experiences of organisational change: How can team interventions using story disruption change sensemaking? (2023)
Thesis
Galpin, K. "Storying the unstoried" Experiences of organisational change: How can team interventions using story disruption change sensemaking?. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9982745

A series of interventions based on storytelling and restorying were used to explore how two teams made sense of their experiences during organisational changes. Seven monthly collaborative interventions were run with each team, facilitating the telli... Read More about "Storying the unstoried" Experiences of organisational change: How can team interventions using story disruption change sensemaking?.

Rise of the machines (2023)
Digital Artefact
Bolden, R. (2023). Rise of the machines. [https://ilaglobalnetwork.org/rise-of-the-machines/]

ILA Fellow, Professor Richard Bolden (University of the West of England), asked ChatGPT-4 to identify the top implications of AI for leadership. Bolden shares the generative AI’s response as well as some general principles leadership professionals ca... Read More about Rise of the machines.

Guest editorial: Living in a “bubble”: Global working communities and insulation in mobile contexts (2023)
Journal Article
Gaggiotti, H., Case, P., & Lauring, J. (2023). Guest editorial: Living in a “bubble”: Global working communities and insulation in mobile contexts. Journal of Global Mobility, 11(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-03-2023-101

Globally mobile workers are often depicted as isolated individuals and families, who navigate crises and hazards more or less on their own (Dabic, González-Loureiro and Harvey, 2015; Bader, Stoermer, Bader and Schuster, 2018; McNulty, Lauring, Jonass... Read More about Guest editorial: Living in a “bubble”: Global working communities and insulation in mobile contexts.

Exploring Leadership: Individual, organizational and societal perspectives, 2nd Edition (2023)
Book
Bolden, R., Gosling, J., & Hawkins, B. (2023). Exploring Leadership: Individual, organizational and societal perspectives, 2nd Edition. (2nd Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press

What is leadership and why does it matter? Why do people willingly follow some leaders and not others? How can we develop more inclusive and effective leadership? Leadership is one of the most talked about yet least understood concepts in busine... Read More about Exploring Leadership: Individual, organizational and societal perspectives, 2nd Edition.

Reflections from advances in global leadership's Emerald Literati award winners (2023)
Book Chapter
Osland, J. S., Levy, O., Peiperl, M., Huesing, T., Ludema, J. D., Ann Nelson, J., …Miska, C. (2023). Reflections from advances in global leadership's Emerald Literati award winners. In J. S. Osland, B. S. Reiche, M. E. Mendenhall, & M. L. Maznevski (Eds.), Advances in Global Leadership, Volume 15 (181-213). Bingley: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1535-120320230000015006

The book/journal editors of Emerald Publishing are asked to select the Outstanding Author Contribution in each volume, which is a difficult choice. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Emerald Literati Awards were handed out in a ceremony at the Academy... Read More about Reflections from advances in global leadership's Emerald Literati award winners.

Leadership and culture (2023)
Book Chapter
Iwowo, V., Case, P., & Iwowo, S. (2023). Leadership and culture. In D. Schedlitzki, M. Larsson, B. Carroll, M. C. Bligh, & O. Epitropaki (Eds.), SAGE Handbook of Leadership Studies (383-394). (2nd). SAGE Publications

Interest in the relationship between leadership and culture first garnered attention during the ‘cultural turn’ in management and organization studies in the 1980s (Peters & Waterman, 1982; Smircich and Morgan, 1982; Morgan, 1986) and has grown consi... Read More about Leadership and culture.

Leaving Leadership (2023)
Digital Artefact
Bolden, R. (2023). Leaving Leadership. [Blog]

ILA Fellow Richard Bolden delves into what the surprise resignations of Nicola Sturgeon and Jacinda Ardern reveal about today’s toxic leadership contexts, what it means to be a “strong leader,” and how leaders transition out of their roles.

Paradoxes of leadership (2023)
Book Chapter
Bolden, R. (2023). Paradoxes of leadership. In G. R. Goethals, S. T. Allison, & G. J. Sorenson (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies. SAGE Publications

Recognizing the tensions and contradictions within leadership theory and practice is an important starting point for developing more creative and constructive ways of working. The ambiguity, uncertainty and complexity that now permeate all areas of... Read More about Paradoxes of leadership.