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Joanne Vincett

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Research student

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Biography

Joanne previously was the Associate Director for the social enterprise sector and international lead for the Career Development Office at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in the US. She also was an Adjunct Professor at Granite State College and taught a Business Management course ‘Effecting Positive Change in Organizations’.

Prior to academia, Joanne started in the graphic arts paper manufacturing industry in corporate sales and marketing. After 5 years, she changed her focus to social enterprises and worked for the US Peace Corps in the Eastern Caribbean as a Small Business Development Trainer and Counsellor for a rural agricultural development NGO and was the elected Lead Volunteer for a group of 19 Peace Corps Volunteers.

She holds a BSc in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a specialisation in Marketing. She has an International MBA from Escuela de Alta Dirección y Administración (EADA) in Barcelona, Spain, and completed her apprenticeship with the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland and Vienna, Austria. She holds a Professional Coaching Certification and also created the Professional Coaching Portal for the non-profit organization MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching).

Current research

Judgment in Day-to-Day Managing

Scarce qualitative research has been conducted on how judgement is used in day-to-day managing and even less exists in the context of social enterprises leaders. I am particularly interested in using an organisational ethnographic approach to study these leaders that are often juggling multiple tasks and playing multiple roles. My research will aim to bring accounts of participants’ intuitive judgements to a conscious level and how they make sense of what is behind this form of ‘in the moment’ decision-making.

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