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An investigation into hotel group and luxury fashion designer collaborations
Quek, Mary; Sandor, Adrienn (2012-11)This article is a preliminary exploration, aiming to identify the drivers of a plethora of developments led by luxury fashion designers. It was found that both luxury fashion designers and the hotel companies realised a ... -
Keeping means and ends in view-linking practical judgement, ethics and emergence.
Mowles, Christopher (2012-07)In this article I argue that the means and ends of development are constitutive of each other. If means appear to have become separated from the espoused ends of international nongovernment organisations (INGOs), then it ... -
Knowledge exchange through collaborative learning communities
Cooray, Muditha; Duus, Rikke (University of Hertfordshire, 2010)Purpose – To investigate how Collaborative Learning Communities (CLC) can be developed and managed in Higher Education Institutions (HEI), involving international HEI partners, business clients, students and staff, with ... -
A Knowledge Perspective on Ambicultural Management
Imani, Yassaman (2012-10-12)Gaining access to markets, natural resources and technological expertise, and learning from local marketing and management knowledge and skills have been identified as the main factors behind Chinese firms’ foreign direct ... -
Leadership and Organisational Structure in the Co-production of Government Funded Services
Schlappa, Hans; Imani, Yassaman (2012-11-22)We propose a conceptual framework from a critical relatioal perspective to better understand the process of co-production. The argument advanced here is twofold: First, that leadership must be shared to some extend for ... -
Leadership and structure in the co-production of public services
Schlappa, Hans; Imani, Yassaman (University of Hertfordshire, 2012-09-15)This paper aims to initiate a debate about the utility of the concept of co-production in developing a better understanding of contemporary challenges to leadership and management in the provision of public services. The ... -
Leadership, power dynamics and structure in co-produced public services
Schlappa, Hans; Imani, Yassaman (2013-06-27) -
Leading the co-production process : Who is in charge?
Schlappa, Hans; Imani, Yassaman (2015-06-08)The notion of service co-production is becoming firmly embedded in the contemporary discourse on public service provision. While talking about co-production is rapidly gaining in popularity among policy makers and ... -
Management and the Science of Complexity
Stacey, Ralph (1996-01) -
Managing in Uncertainty : Complexity and the paradoxes of everyday organizational life
Mowles, Christopher (Routledge, 2015-04-02)The reality of everyday organizational life is that it is filled with uncertainty, contradictions and paradoxes. Yet leaders and managers are expected to act as though they can predict the future and bring about the ... -
The Paradox of Stability and Change : Elias’ Processual Sociology
Mowles, Christopher (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015-03)The chapter explores the contribution of the process sociologist Norbert Elias to processual organisational scholarship -
Placemaking for Cities : Pilot project on the transfer of good practice in community-led placemaking
Schlappa, Hans (URBACT Secretariat, Paris, 2015-05-12)This report provides an account of the main outcomes of Placemaking 4 Cities (P4C) project and offers critical evaluation of process as well as content of this pilot project in good practice transfer (GPT). In doing so ... -
Planning to innovate. Designing change or caught up in a game?
Mowles, Chris (2011-05)In this article I engage with some orthodox theories of the management of innovation and change, which take for granted the idea that they can be predicted and controlled. Organizations are thought to be systems with ... -
Public sector funding can be good for you : A study on the impact of European Union funding and its implications for theory and practice
Schlappa, Hans (University of Hertfordshire, 2012)This paper focuses on organisational benefits that third sector organisations (TSOs) derived from using European Union funding. Drawing on contemporary concepts around the co-production of publicly funded services this ... -
Re-organisation of Hilton Hotels International, 1958-59 : a reactive crisis approach
Quek, Mary (Kerkyra Publication, 2014)This chapter aims to extend the study of crisis management in the tourism industry by analysing the issues faced by a multinational hotel firm, Hilton Hotels International (HHI), during the foray into the international ... -
Reflecting on Reflexivity : a complexity inspired approach to research
Kirkham, Janet; Imani, Yassaman; Calveley, Moira (2012)For the professional practitioner, reflexive approaches can be valuable in developing professional understanding and improving professional practice. When allied with complexity inspired research, in which people and the ... -
Rethinking Management : Radical Insights from the Complexity Sciences
Mowles, Christopher (Gower Publishing, 2011)In Rethinking Management, Chris Mowles argues that management courses may cause as many crises as they alleviate. Taking examples of managing and leading in contemporary organisations, his book treats uncertainty as central ... -
The Science of Complexity : An Alternative Perspective for Strategic Change Processes
Stacey, Ralph (1995-08)The two perspectives of strategy process most firmly established in the literature—strategic choice and ecology—assume the same about system dynamics: negative feedback processes driving successful systems (individual ... -
Speak to the Leg : A post-Paralympic analysis and re-theorization of consumer-object relations
Duus, Rikke; Davies, Andrea; Saren, Mike (2014) -
Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics : the Challenge of Complexity
Stacey, Ralph (F T Press, 2011)Renowned for its unconventional thinking, Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics continues to be a refreshing alternative for students and lecturers of strategic management specifically looking for something ...