Developing apprentice leaders through critical reflection (2019)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore opportunities for delivering sustainable leadership education through critical reflection embedded in the framework of higher and degree apprenticeships. Design/methodology/approach: This paper contrib... Read More about Developing apprentice leaders through critical reflection.

Leading Through Art: An Interview With Vicki Heywood CBE, Chair, Royal Society of Arts (2019)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. A recent interview with Vicki Heywood, Chair of the Royal Society of the Arts (RSA), highlights the role that arts can play in dealing with complex problems in society today and particularly from an international perspective. Th... Read More about Leading Through Art: An Interview With Vicki Heywood CBE, Chair, Royal Society of Arts.

Bringing the ugly back: A dialogic exploration of ethics in leadership through an ethno-narrative re-reading of the Enron case (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. In this article, we adopt a dialogic approach to examining narratives on ethics in leadership. We do this through an ethno-narrative re-reading of writing on the Enron case informed by Bakhtin’s ideas on dialogue. Employing conc... Read More about Bringing the ugly back: A dialogic exploration of ethics in leadership through an ethno-narrative re-reading of the Enron case.

The value of non-executive directors to small and medium size enterprises, including a gender perspective (2018)
Report

The role and value of NEDs is well defined within listed companies but little is known about NEDs in the SME market. Given the importance of SMEs to the economy and the need to support their growth and development, TLT, ACCA, Transpire and Practice c... Read More about The value of non-executive directors to small and medium size enterprises, including a gender perspective.

Studying Leadership: Traditional and Critical Approaches (2017)
Book

This book is a dynamic guide to key leadership theories, topics and trends.

Impression Management Activity in Vision, Mission, and Values Statements: A Comparison of Commercial and Charitable Organizations (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Abstract: This article investigates the extent to which vision, mission, and values (VM&V) statements play a role in corporate identity management by commercial and charitable organizations. Impressi... Read More about Impression Management Activity in Vision, Mission, and Values Statements: A Comparison of Commercial and Charitable Organizations.

Changing littering practices at Glastonbury Festival (2017)
Journal Article

Abstract

Findings:
This conceptual paper introduces practice theory as a potential alternative to the traditional ways that littering is conceptualised and tackled, and considers the strengths and pitfalls of the theoretical approach for the expe... Read More about Changing littering practices at Glastonbury Festival.

The absent follower: Identity construction within organisationally assigned leader–follower relations (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2017. This article seeks to add to our understanding of processes of identity construction within organisationally assigned leader–follower relations through an exploration of the role of the absent, feminised follower. We situate our... Read More about The absent follower: Identity construction within organisationally assigned leader–follower relations.

Leadership and Creativity in Public Services: An Interview With Lord Michael Bichard, Chair of the National Audit Office (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2017. This interview with Lord Michael Bichard, one of the most distinguished public sector leaders in the United Kingdom, explores his ideas around the relationship between leadership, creativity, and innovation. A champion of place-... Read More about Leadership and Creativity in Public Services: An Interview With Lord Michael Bichard, Chair of the National Audit Office.

Using Greek mythology in leadership development: The role of archetypes for self-reflection (2017)
Book Chapter

Deep, critical self-reflection is not easy (Reynolds, 1999). It requires time, space, courage and careful support and is often very difficult to achieve in the context of busy, demanding organisational lives where we are expected to be confident, str... Read More about Using Greek mythology in leadership development: The role of archetypes for self-reflection.

Leadership, Management and the Welsh Language (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 European Academy of Management Adopting a multilingual perspective, this empirical paper explores the varied use and meanings of referents of leadership and management among 24 Welsh senior managers. We argue the importance of recognizing the... Read More about Leadership, Management and the Welsh Language.

Digital Disruption and the Future of Leadership: An Interview With Rick Haythornthwaite, Chairman of Centrica and MasterCard (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Unprecedented changes in the nature and prevalence of digital technology have significant implications for leadership theory, practice, and development that, as yet, remain largely unexplored in mainstream academic liter... Read More about Digital Disruption and the Future of Leadership: An Interview With Rick Haythornthwaite, Chairman of Centrica and MasterCard.

Leveraging knowledge as a competitive asset? The intensity, performance and structure of universities’ entrepreneurial knowledge exchange activities at a regional level (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, The Author(s). Universities are no longer considered to be isolated islands of knowledge, but as institutions increasingly engaged with a range of external partners through entrepreneurial activities. This paper examines the associations betw... Read More about Leveraging knowledge as a competitive asset? The intensity, performance and structure of universities’ entrepreneurial knowledge exchange activities at a regional level.

Working with Language: A Refocused Research Agenda for Cultural Leadership Studies (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 British Academy of Management and John Wiley & Sons Ltd This paper critically reviews existing contributions from the field of cultural leadership studies with a view to highlighting the conceptual and methodological limitations of the domin... Read More about Working with Language: A Refocused Research Agenda for Cultural Leadership Studies.

The impact of foresight on entrepreneurship: The Wales 2010 case study (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Inc. This paper addresses the link between foresight and entrepreneurship over the long term. As such, it addresses two distinct gaps in foresight knowledge and literature namely the link between foresight and entrepreneurship; and lo... Read More about The impact of foresight on entrepreneurship: The Wales 2010 case study.

A feasibility study into the creation of a development bank for Wales (2015)
Report

Leadership development: A place for storytelling and Greek mythology? (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This article explores how storytelling and Greek mythology within classroom-based leadership development may facilitate learning to deal with ambiguity and social construction in leadership practice. We aim to show how u... Read More about Leadership development: A place for storytelling and Greek mythology?.

“Obviously in the cool group they wear designer things”: A social practice theory perspective on children’s consumption (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – This paper aims to propose the lens of social practice theory (SPT) as a means of deepening insights into childhood consumer culture. Design/methodology/approach – The data comprise four qualitative... Read More about “Obviously in the cool group they wear designer things”: A social practice theory perspective on children’s consumption.

A longitudinal study of entrepreneurial activities in the UK higher education sector (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Whilst the roles of institutional and locational characteristics of a university in determining its entrepreneurial performance level has been examined in prior research studies, they are not fully acknowledged in current UK policies facilitating lin... Read More about A longitudinal study of entrepreneurial activities in the UK higher education sector.

Access to finance for SMEs at a regional level: The case for a development bank for Wales? (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2013, the Welsh Government announced an independent review into access to finance in Wales. Its aim was to examine how effectively SMEs in Wales are served by existing sources of funding, identify areas of particular challenge and provide recommen... Read More about Access to finance for SMEs at a regional level: The case for a development bank for Wales?.