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Dr Richard Holti

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Senior Lecturer in Human Resources Management

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Research interests

Current developments in models for managing inter-organisational relations in complex services, including the nature of barriers to strategic change and approaches to working with these barriers; approaches to managing and consulting to strategic change, bringing together political, cognitive, cultural and psycho dynamic perspectives; the nature and dilemmas of professional leadership; the scholarly and practical contribution of action research in the field of management research.

Research student supervision

Publications

Journal papers
Storey, J, Holti, R  (2013)  'The contribution of clinical leadership to service redesign: a naturalistic inquiry', Health Services Management Research, pp. (In press). Abstract
Hartnett, EJ, Daniel, EM, Holti, R  (2012)  'Client and consultant engagement in public sector IS projects', International Journal of Information Management, vol. 32, issue 4, pp. 307-317. Abstract
Holti, R  (2011)  'Understanding institutional change in project-based organizing', Journal of Applied Behavioural Science, vol. 47, issue 3, pp. 360-394. Abstract
Storey, J, Holti, RW  (2009)  'Sense-making by clinical and non-clinical executive directors within new governance arrangements', Journal of Health Organization and Management, vol. 23, issue 2, pp. 149-169. Abstract
Nicolini, D, Holti, RW, Smalley, M  (2001)  'Integrating project activities: the theory and practice of managing the supply chain through clusters', Construction Management and Economics, vol. 19, issue 1, pp. 37-47. Abstract
Nicolini, D, Holti, RW, Oldman, A, Smalley, M, Tomkins, C  (2000)  'Can target costing and whole life costing be applied in the construction industry? Evidence from two case studies', British Journal of Management, vol. 11, issue 4, Blackwell Publishing, pp. 303-324.
Neumann, JE, Holti, RW  (1999)  'Organisationsentwicklung: stand der entwicklung und perspektiven', Organisationsentwicklung, issue 1, pp. 70-71.
Neumann, JE, Holti, RW, Miller, EJ  (1999)  'Three contemporary challenges for OD practitioners', The Leadership and Organisational Development Journal, vol. 20, issue 4, pp. 216-221.
Books
Holti, RW, Stern, E  (1987)  'Distance Working', Paris, CEC/Futuribles.
Book chapters
Storey, J, Salaman, GJ, Holti, RW  (2008)  'Executive directors' knowledge', The Evolution of Business Knowledge, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 51-70. Abstract
Storey, J, Salaman, GJ, Holti, RW  (2007)  'Managers roles in the evolution of business knowledge', Scarbrough, H (ed.) The Evolution of Business Knowledge, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Holti, RW  (2001)  'Teams in manufacturing', Warner, M (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, Thompson Learning.
Reports
Holti, RW, Nicolini, D, Smalley, M  (1999)  'Building Down Barriers Interim Evaluation Report No. 1: the concept phase', London, The Tavistock Institute.
Conference papers
Holti, RW, Storey, J  (2008)  'Sense-making by clinical and non-clinical executive directors with new governance arrangements', Academy of Management Annual Meeting: the questions we ask, Anaheim, CA, USA, Open University Business School. Abstract
Holti, RW  (2006)  'Understanding social capital in developing collaboration for project-based organising', Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Holti, RW, Hutchinson, VJ  (2006)  'Institutional change and local learning: understanding the conditions for engagement and disengagement in the evolution of professional practices', European Group for Organisational Studies Annual Colloquium, Bergen, 6-8 July.
Holti, RW, Hutchinson, VJ  (2004)  'Institutional conditions and local learning: the troubled development of collaborative supply chain relations in the built environment', 20th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, "The Organization as a Set of Dynamic Relationships", Ljubljana University.
Holti, RW, Hutchinson, VJ, Smalley, M, Tomkins, C  (2003)  'Action research as a methodology for understanding and developing inter-organisational relationships in the construction sector', British Academy of Management Conference, Harrogate, September.
Holti, RW  (1997)  'The lost world: virtual organisation in the UK building', Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, USA, August.
Holti, RW, Standing, H  (1997)  'Psychodynamics and inter-occupational relations in an industrial sector - the case of UK construction', Annual Symposium of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations, Philadelphia, June.
Holti, RW, Neumann, JE  (1990)  'The issue of shared gains: co-operation versus collective bargaining in teamwork', International Conference on "Man and Work On The Threshold of the Third Millenium", Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, January.
Holti, RW  (1988)  'Recent developments in corporate strategy in the UK: consequences for worker influence', Worker Participation", Slovak Institute for Technology and Social Development, Bratislava, December.
Other
Storey, J, Holti, R  (2013)  'Possibilities and pitfalls for clinical leadership in improving service quality, innovation and productivity', HMSO, London, United Kingdom, Final report. NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation programme. Abstract
Storey, J, Holti, RW, Winchester, NJ, Green, R, Salaman, GJ, Bate, P  (2010)  'Comparative Governance Arrangements and Comparative Performance: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study', NCCSDO project: SDO/129/2006, issue March, Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO.
Holti, RW, Storey, J  (2008)  'Clinical and non-clinical executive directors' sense-making of the new governance arrangements in the NHS', NHS/SDO Project Working Paper, issue 2008/4.
Holti, RW, Smalley, M, Smith, K  (2007)  'Advancing the integration of the supply chain in construction: The challenges for commerical practice', Final evaluation report: findings from action research, London, UK, Constructing Intelligence.