Professor John Storey
Professor in Human Resource Management
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Biography
John is Professor of Human Resource Management at The Open University Business School. He was Professor of Management at the University of Loughborough and Deputy Director of the Business School. Before that he was Principal Research Fellow at Warwick Business School where he lectured on the Warwick Executive MBA and was module leader for the HR course on the Consortium MBA.
He is an Elected Fellow of the British Academy of Management. He was Editor of the Human Resource Management Journal 1994-2000. He is Chairman of the Involvement & Participation Association (IPA). He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the journal Leadership and the Human Resource Management Journal. He is General Editor of Blackwell's series on Management, Organizations and Business. He is an Associate of the Center for Global Strategic Human Resource Management, Rutgers University, USA and of the ESRC Skills and Knowledge Centre (SKOPE) at Oxford and Warwick University.
He is a member of the UK government's Leadership & Management Panel which advises Ministers in the Department of Business and the Department of Education. He is a non-executive director of the Land Command Personnel Management Board, and he is Chairman of the Executive Board of the IPA. He has consulted at board level for Waitrose, John Lewis, the MOD, Barclays Bank, and KPMG. He has been a Visiting Professor at the National Police Training College.
He has been awarded research grants by the ESRC, the EPSRC, the EU and the Department of Health. He is a current award holder for two research projects funded by the Department of Health research branch. The first is an £150,000 project on the "Possibilities and Pitfalls of Clinical Leadership" and the second is £290,000 project on Technology Adoption in the NHS. He recently completed a £300,000 research contract from the National Health Service on "Governance in the NHS"; was also the lead on a project funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) on 'Managers' Business Knowledge'. He has recently completed research contracts for the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) - for a project on 'Customer Responsive Supply Chains' and, for the ESRC, another project on 'The Management of Innovation'.
He has authored and edited 24 books including Developments in the Management of Human Resources, (Blackwell); Managerial Dilemmas: Exploiting Paradox for Strategic Leadership (Wiley); Managers of Innovation (Blackwell); Governing the New NHS: Issues and Tensions in Health Service Management (Routledge); Human Resource Management: A Critical Text (Thomson Learning); Adding Value Through Information and Consultation (Palgrave Macmillan); The Management of Innovation (Edward Elgar); Leadership in Organizations: Current Issues and Key Trends (Routledge); The Realities of Human Resource Management (with Keith Sisson, Open University Press).
He has published more than 100 journal articles including articles in such international journals as: Journal of Management Studies; Accounting, Organizations and Society; Sociology; International Journal of Human Resource Management; British Journal of Industrial Relations; Journal of Organizational Change Management; International Journal of the Management of Innovation; Work, Employment & Society; Human Resource Management Journal.
Teaching interests
Designed and authored courses in Human Resource Management including authored units, prepared supporting video and audio materials, and assessment methods. Also authored course units for courses on Knowledge Management and Performance Management. Most of this teaching work is at MBA level.
Research interests
Key research interests revolve around the management of work organisations; strategic aspects of human resource management; management of knowledge at strategic levels; leadership and management development; the management of innovation and change; strategic management; the linkages between governance, leadership and management in health services.
External contributions
Editorial Board member of the journal Leadership and of the Human Resource Management Journal; former Editor of the Human Resource Management Journal. Fellow of the British Academy of Management. Chairman of the Invoilvement & Particpation Association (IPA). Consultancy work at Board level for John Lewis and Waitrose. Former consultancy work for Barclays Bank, KPMG and the Ministry of Defence. Member of the Department of Business Innovation and Skills Panel on Leadership and Management. Academic Advisor for ACAS and the Good Governance Institute (GGI).
International collaborations
International research, teaching collaboration and writing with Randall Schuler, Rutgers University, New Jersey; Dave Ulrich, University of Michigan; Patrick Wright, Cornell University..
Areas of expertise
- human resource management (HRM)
- governance
- innovation management
- health service management
- leadership
Current projects
Publications
(2013) 'The contribution of clinical leadership to service redesign: a naturalistic inquiry', Health Services Management Research, pp. (In press). Abstract
(2013) 'Factors affecting the adoption of quality assurance technologies in healthcare', Journal of Health Organization and Management, pp. (In press). Abstract
(2013) 'The ground beneath my feet: projects, project management and the intensified control of R&D engineers', New Technology Work and Employment, pp. (In press). Abstract
(2012) 'Freelancing expertise: contract professionals in the new economy', British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 50, issue 3, Wiley, pp. 587-588. Abstract
(2012) 'Will GPs "lead" or "govern" the new Clinical Commissioning Groups?', Leadership in Health Services, vol. 25, issue 4, pp. 263-272. Abstract
(2012) 'Will GPs lead or govern the new Clinical Commissioning Groups?', Leadership in Health Services, vol. 25, issue 4, pp. (In press). Abstract
(2011) 'Steering whilst rowing: governing and managing health services from the centre', Journal of Health Organization and Management, vol. 25, issue 6, pp. 625-644. Abstract
(2010) 'Accountability of foundation trusts in the English NHS: views of directors and governors', Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, vol. 15, issue 2, pp. 82-89. Abstract
(2010) 'The adoption and rejection patterns of practitioner-developed technologies: a review, a model and a research agenda', International Journal of Innovation Management, pp. (In Press). Abstract
(2010) 'Don't stop the clock: the manipulation of hospital waiting lists', Journal of Health Organization and Management, vol. 24, issue 4, pp. 343-360. Abstract
(2010) 'Politics and power in training and learning: the rise and fall of the NHS University', Management Learning, vol. 41, issue 1, pp. 87-99. Abstract
(2010) 'Processes of senior managers' sensemaking and learning in a transitional economy', Human Resource Development International, vol. 13, issue 5, pp. 501-518. Abstract
(2010) 'The reconfiguration of practical knowledge in competitive alliances', International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies, vol. 4, issue 2, pp. 114-131. Abstract
(2010) 'Steering whilst rowing: governing and managing health services from the centre', Journal of Health Organization and Management, pp. (In Press). Abstract
(2009) 'Nature has no outline, but imagination has': contrasting executive renditions of the 'commitment to innovation'', European Management Journal, vol. 27, issue 4, pp. 234-242.
(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
(2009) '‘Nature has no outline, but imagination has’ contrasting executive renditions of the ‘commitment to innovation’', European Management Journal, vol. 27, issue 4, pp. 234-242. Abstract
(2008) 'Healthcare governance and organizational barriers to learning from mistakes', Journal of Health Organization and Management, vol. 22, issue 6, pp. 642-651. Abstract
(2008) 'Reply to Fenwick', Organization, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 333-334. Abstract
(2008) 'Reply to Tara Fenwick', Organization, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 333-334.
(2008) 'Understanding enterprise', Organization, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 315-323. Abstract
(2007) ''Leadership transmission': a muddled metaphor?', Journal of Health Organization and Management, vol. 21, issue 3, pp. 246-258. Abstract
(2007) 'Senior managers’ business knowledge in a transition economy', Management Research News, vol. 30, issue 4, pp. 252-270.
(2006) 'Customer responsive supply chain strategy: an unnatural act?', International Journal of Logistics: research and applications, vol. 9, issue 1, pp. 47-56. Abstract
(2006) 'Buyer–supplier collaborative relationships: Beyond the normative accounts', Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, vol. 12, issue 5, pp. 236-245. Abstract
(2006) 'Managing the supply chain using in-store supplier employed merchandisers', International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, vol. 34, issue 6, pp. 467-481. Abstract
(2006) 'Supply chain management: theory, practice and future challenges', International Journal of Operations and Production Management, vol. 26, issue 7, Emerald, pp. 754-774. Abstract
(2005) 'What next for strategic level leadership research?', Leadership, vol. 1, issue 1, Sage, pp. 89-104. Abstract
(2005) 'The barriers to customer-responsive supply chain management', International Journal of Operations and Production Management, vol. 25, issue 3, Bradford, W.Yorks., Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 242-260. Abstract
(2005) 'The knowledge work of general managers', Journal of General Management, vol. 31, issue 2, Braybrooke Press, pp. 57-73. Abstract
(2005) 'Living with enterprise in an enterprise economy: freelance and contract workers in the media', Human Relations, vol. 58, issue 8, London, Sage Publications, pp. 1033-1054. Abstract
(2004) 'Leadership development through corporate universities', Training and Management Development Methods, vol. 18, issue 4, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 41-49.
(2002) 'What are the key General Manager issues in 'Supply Chain Management'?', Journal of General Management, vol. 27, issue 4, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, The Braybrook Press, pp. 15-28.
(2002) 'Flexible employment contracts and their implications for product and process innovation', International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 13, issue 1, Abingdon, Routledge, pp. 1-18. Abstract
(2002) 'Managers' theories about the process of innovation', Journal of Management Studies, vol. 39, issue 2, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, pp. 147-165. Abstract
(2001) 'Industry change and trade union mergers in British retail finance', British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 39, issue 2, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing Limited, pp. 237-256.
(2001) 'Narratives of learning, development and innovation: evidence from a manufacturing SME', Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies, vol. 2, issue 2, Abingdon, Routledge, pp. 83-101. Abstract
(2000) 'The management of innovation problem', International Journal of Innovation Management, vol. 4, issue 3, pp. 347-369.
(2000) 'Managers' accounts of innovation processes in small and medium-sized enterprises (Best Paper of the Year Award)', Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, vol. 7, issue 4, Bradford, W.Yorks., Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 315-325.
(2000) 'New employee relations strategies in Britain: towards individualism or partnership?', British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 38, issue 3, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing Limited, pp. 407-427.
(1999) 'Equal opportunities in retrospect and prospect', Human Resource Management Journal, vol. 9, issue 1, Industrial Relations Services, pp. 05-Aug.
(1998) 'HRM and company performance: the use of measurement and the influence of economic cycles', Human Resource Management Journal, vol. 8, issue 2, Croydon, Reed Elsevier, pp. 51-65.
(1997) 'Towards the learning organisation? Explaining current trends in training practice in the UK', International Journal of Training and Development, vol. 1, issue 1, Blackwell Publishing, pp. 01/09/21.
(1996) 'It's a small world: managing human resources in small businesses', International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 7, issue 1, Abingdon, Routledge, pp. 82-100.
(1995) 'Focusing on how business changes affect individuals', People Management, vol. 1, issue 8, pp. 53.
(1993) 'Executive Development', Executive Development, vol. 6, issue 3, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. Nov-19.
(1992) 'Making European managers: an overview', Human Resource Management Journal, vol. 3, issue 1, Industrial Relations Services, pp. 01-Nov.
(1990) 'The changing face of employment management in local government', Journal of General Management, vol. 16, issue 1, Henley-on-Thames, The Braybrooke Press Ltd., pp. 14-30.
(1990) 'Limits to transformation: human resource management in the British context', Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 21, issue 1, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, pp. 60-65.
(1990) 'Making managers in Britain: a progress report', Public Money and Management, vol. 10, issue 1, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, pp. Sep-15.
(1989) 'The means of management control: a reply to Friedman', Sociology, vol. 23, issue 1, Sage Publications, pp. 119-124.
(1989) 'Human resource management in the public sector', Public Money and Management, vol. 9, issue 3, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, pp. Feb-15.
(1989) 'Management development: a literature review (Part 1: conceptualizations and practices)', Personnel Review, vol. 18, issue 4, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. Mar-18.
(1988) 'Developing effective managers', Personnel Review, vol. 17, issue 4, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. Apr-18.
(1985) 'The means of management control: levels and circuits', Sociology, vol. 19, issue 2, Sage Publications, pp. 193-211.
(1981) 'An analysis of some cultural determinants of pay differentials', International Journal of Women's Studies, vol. 4, issue 3, pp. 289-303.
(1980) 'Higher education in Britain and the United States: selectivity versus universality', The Journal of General Education, vol. 32, issue 3, Penn State University Press, pp. 167-192.
(1976) 'Workplace collective bargaining and managerial prerogatives', Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 7, issue 2, Blackwell Publishing, pp. Feb-23.
(2011) 'Accountability in the NHS: Implications of the Government's Reform Programme', London, The King's Fund, pp. 64. Abstract
(2010) 'Governing the New NHS: Issues and Tensions in Health Service Management', London, Routledge, pp. 194. Abstract
(2010) 'Leadership in organizations: current issues and key trends (2nd edition)', London, Routledge. Abstract
(2009) 'The Routledge Companion to Strategic HRM', Oxford, UK and New York, USA, Routledge. Abstract
(2009) 'Managerial Dilemmas: Exploiting Paradox for Strategic Leadership', Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell. Abstract
(2008) 'The Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management', Financial Times, London and New York, Routledge. Abstract
(2007) 'Human Resource Management: A Critical Text (3rd Edition)', London, Thomson. Abstract
(2005) 'Managers of innovation: insights into making innovation happen', Management, Organizations and Business Series, Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing, pp. 193. Abstract
(2005) 'Adding value through information and consultation', London, UK, Palgrave Macmillan. Abstract
(2005) 'Strategic human resource management: theory and practice. 2nd edition.', London, Sage Publications Ltd, pp. 360. Abstract
(2005) 'Handbook of corporate university development: managing strategic learning initiatives in the public and private domains', Aldershot, UK, Gower Publishing. Abstract
(2004) 'Leadership in organizations: current issues and key trends', London, Routledge, pp. 368. Abstract
(2004) 'The Management of innovation', issue 2, Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing. Abstract
(2001) 'Changing Patterns of Management Development', Oxford, U.K., Blackwell, pp. 304. Abstract
(2001) 'Human resource management: a critical text. 2nd edition', London, UK, Thomson. Abstract
(2000) 'The Realities of Human Resource Management: Managing the Employment Relationship', Managing Work and Organizations, Buckingham, U.K. and Philadelphia, PA U.S., Open University Press, pp. 286. Abstract
(1998) 'Human Resource Management: a strategic introduction', Blackwell Publishers.
(1998) 'Strategic Human Resource Management: a reader', Sage Publications Ltd.
(1997) 'Managers in the Making: Careers, Development and Control in Corporate Britain and Japan', Industrial management series and Issues in Marketing series, vol. 1, London, U.K., Thousand Oaks, U.S. and New Delhi, India, Sage, pp. 262. Abstract
(1997) 'A Portrait of Management Development', London, Institute of Management.
(1996) 'Blackwell Cases in Human Resource and Change Management', Oxford, Blackwell Publishing.
(1994) 'New Wave Manufacturing Strategies: organizational and human resource dimensions', Sage Publications.
(1993) 'Managing Human Resources and Industrial Relations', Managing work and organizations, Milton Keynes, U.K. and Philadephia, U.S., Open University Press, pp. 274. Abstract
(1992) 'Developments in the Management of Human Resources: an analytical review', Oxford, Blackwell Publishing.
(1989) 'New Perspectives on Human Resource Management', International Thomson Business Press.
(1983) 'Managerial Prerogatives and the Question of Control', London, Routledge.
(1980) 'The Challenge to Management Control', London, Hutchinson Business Books.
(2011) 'The changing theories of leadership and leadership development', Leadership in Organizations: Current Issues and Key Trends (2nd ed.), Abingdon, Routledge, pp. 14-37. Abstract
(2011) 'Governance and organizational change', The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change (In press), London, Routledge, pp. 389-402. Abstract
(2011) 'Governance and organizational change', The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change, London, Routledge, pp. 389-402. Abstract
(2010) 'Signs of change: 'damned rascals' and beyond', Leadership in Organizations: Current Issues and Key Trends (2nd ed.), Abingdon, U.K., Routledge, pp. 3-13. Abstract
(2008) 'Employee engagement', Storey, J, Wright, P and Ulrich, D (eds) The Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management, London and New York, Routledge.
(2008) 'Executive directors' knowledge', The Evolution of Business Knowledge, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 51-70. Abstract
(2008) 'Introduction to strategic human resource management', Storey, J, Wright, P and Ulrich, D (eds) The Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management, London and New York, Routledge.
(2008) 'The knowledge underpinning HR strategy', Storey, J, Wright, P and Ulrich, D (eds) The Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management, London and New York, Routledge.
(2008) 'New organisational structures and forms', Storey, J, Wright, P and Ulrich, D (eds) The Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management, London and New York, Routledge.
(2007) 'Human resource approaches for managing knowledge workers', Sukhvinder Kaur Multani (ed.) Managing Knowledge Workers: a new HR paradigm, Hyderabad, CFAI University Press, pp. 111-139.
(2007) 'Human resource management today: an assessment', Storey, J (ed.) Human Resource Management: a critical text , 3rd edition, London, Thomson.
(2007) 'Managers roles in the evolution of business knowledge', Scarbrough, H (ed.) The Evolution of Business Knowledge, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
(2007) 'What is strategic human resource management?', Storey, J (ed.) Human Resource Management: a critical text, 3rd edition, London, Thompson.
(2007) 'Wither the HR function?', Storey, J (ed) Human Resource Management: a critical text, 3rd edition, London, Thomson.
(2006) 'Changing employment practices in UK banking', Beynon, H (ed.) Patterns of Work in the Post-fordist Era: Fordism and Post-fordism, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar.
(2006) 'Flexible employment contracts and their implications for product and process innovation', Johnson, P and Clark, M (eds) Business and Management Research Methodologies, New Delhi, Sage.
(2006) 'Human resource management for knowledge workers', Taher, N (ed.) Complexities of Managing Knowledge Workers, Hyderabad, Institute for Chartered Financial Analysts of India.
(2006) 'The realities of supply chain management', Chaturvedi, BM (ed.) Supply Chain Management: an introduction, 2nd edition, ICFAI Press.
(2005) 'Strategic human resource management: defining the field', Strategic human resource management: theory and practice, London, Sage Publications Ltd. Abstract
(2005) 'Information and consultation in small and medium sized enterprises', Adding value through information and consultation, London, Palgrave Macmillan. Abstract
(2005) 'Introductory overview', Adding value through information and consultation, London, Palgrave Macmillan. Abstract
(2005) 'What kind of financial literacy do employee representatives need?', Adding value through information and consultation, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan. Abstract
(2005) 'Human resource policies for knowledge work', Managing knowledge: an essential reader (2nd ed.), London, Sage Publications Ltd, pp. 199-221. Abstract
(2005) 'New organisational forms and their link with HR', Strategic human resource management: theory and practice (2nd ed.), London, Sage Publications, pp. 189-208. Abstract
(2005) 'Corporate universities as strategic learning initiatives', Handbook of corporate university development: managing strategic learning initiatives in the public and private domains, London, UK, Gower Publishing, pp. 5-16. Abstract
(2005) 'Evolution and experimentation: the Barclays University case', Handbook of corporate university development: managing strategic learning initiatives in the public and private domains, London, UK, Gower Publishing, pp. 71-82. Abstract
(2005) 'Reviewing and reporting results', Handbook of Corporate University Development: Managing Strategic Learning Initiatives in the Public and Private Domains, London, Gower Publishing, pp. 123-132. Abstract
(2005) 'Achieving 'fit': managers' theories of how to manage innovation', Salaman, G, Storey, J and Billsberry, J (eds) Strategic Human Resource Management: theory and practice, Sage.
(2005) 'Benefitting from a multi-channel approach', Adding Value Through Information and Consultation, London, UK, Palgrave McMillan, pp. 59-68.
(2005) 'Knowledge management initiatives: learning from failure', Little, S and Ray, T (eds) Managing Knowledge: an essential reader, 2nd edition, London, Sage Publications Ltd, pp. 221-237.
(2005) 'La Legitimite Strategique de la GRH', Jose Allouche, J et al (eds) Encyclopedie des Ressources Humaines, Paris, Vuibert.
(2005) 'Managers theories of how to innovate', Salaman, G, Storey, J and Billsberry, J (eds) Strategic Human Resource Management: theory and practice, Sage Publications Ltd, pp. 55-74.
(2005) 'Performance-related pay', Salaman, G, Storey, J and Billsberry, J (eds) Strategic Human Resource Management: theory and practice, Sage.
(2005) 'Using a corporate university initiative to drive strategic change', Handbook of Corporate University Development: Managing Strategic Learning Initiatives in the public and private domains, London, Gower Publishing, pp. 17-28. Abstract
(2004) 'Changing theories of leadership and leadership development', Leadership in organizations: current issues and key trends, London, UK, Routledge, pp. 11-37. Abstract
(2004) 'Making leadership and management development measure up', Leadership in Organizations: current issues and key trends, London, U.K., Routledge, pp. 152-170. Abstract
(2004) 'The realities of supply chain management', Chaturvedi, BM (ed.) Supply Chain Management: an introduction, ICFAI Press.
(2003) 'Bringing the strands together', Leadership in organizations: current issues and key trends, London, UK, Routledge, pp. 339-344. Abstract
(2003) 'Competences of managers, competences of leaders', Leadership in organizations: current issues and key trends, London, UK, Routledge. Abstract
(2003) 'Corporate universities and leadership development', Leadership in Organizations: current issues and key trends, UK, London: Routledge, pp. 103-124. Abstract
(2003) 'The Elements of leadership', Leadership in organizations: current issues and key trends, London, Routledge, pp. 39-40. Abstract
(2003) 'A new look at dispersed leadership: power, knowledge and context', Leadership in organizations: current issues and key trends, London, Routledge, pp. 319-336. Abstract
(2003) 'Signs of change: 'damned rascals' and beyond', Storey, J (ed.) Leadership in Organizations: current issues and key trends, London, Routledge, pp. 03/10/10.
(2003) 'Designing and delivering leadership education and development: the role of corporate universities (2nd edition)', Leadership in Organizations: Current issues and key trends, Abingdon, U.K. and New York, NY, U.S., Routledge, pp. 93-113. Abstract
(2003) 'The individualisation of the career and its implications for leadership and management development', Leadership in Organizations: Current Issues and Key Tends, London, Routledge, pp. 249-268. Abstract
(2003) 'La gestion des ressources humaines: la perspective du Royaume-Uni', Allouche, J (ed.) Encyclopedie des Ressources Humaines, Paris, Vuibert.
(2003) 'La legitimite strategique de la GRH', Encyclopedie des ressources humains, Paris, Vuibert. Abstract
(2003) 'Leadership and leadership development in education', Leadership in organizations: current issues and key trends, Routledge, pp. 203-224. Abstract
(2003) 'When companies become networks', International Management, Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 388-394. Abstract
(2002) 'When internal boundaries become network relationships', Mastering People Management, London, UK, Financial Times/ Prentice Hall. Abstract
(2001) 'HRM and its link with strategic management', Human resource management: a critical text, London, Thomson Learning EMEA. Abstract
(1993) 'Structural strategies', Salaman, G and Mabey, C (eds) Managing Human Resource Strategy, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing.
(1989) 'Looking to the future', Storey, J (ed.) New Perspectives on Human Resource Management, International Thomson Business Press.
(2007) 'The Institution that wasn't: The British National Health Service University', The Observatory On Borderless Higher Education, London, The Association of Commonwealth Universities and Universities UK, pp. 27.
(1998) 'Management Development: the views of the association of MBAs', London, The Association of MBAs.
(2010) 'Actors' behaviours within dynamic inter-organizational networks characterised by competitive and co-operative collaboration', The 17th Annual MOPAN Conference, Keele, UK. Abstract
(2008) 'Learning difficulties: collaborative inter-organisational information system use within UK retail supply networks', British Academy of Management Annual Conference, University of Bradford, Harrogate UK. Abstract
(2008) 'The politics of simulation: actors' information system use', 3rd International Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Conference, University of Aarhus Copenhagen. Abstract
(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
(2007) 'Top-level managers’ knowledge about strategy and strategizing in a turbulent environment', British Academy of Management Annual conference, University of Warwick, 11-13, September.
(2006) 'Knowing Business: the business knowledge of senior managers', Beyond Knowledge Management Conference, University of Durham, 22-23 September.
(2006) 'Managers interpretations of required knowledge and capabilities in a transition economy', British Academy of Management, Belfast, 12-14 September.
(2006) 'Managers' business knowledge in a transition economy', OLKC 2006 Conference, University of Warwick, 20-22 March.
(2006) 'Negotiating the inter-organizational information systems space', The First International Conference on Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities, University of Warwick, UK. Abstract
(2006) 'Senior managers’ business knowledge in a transition economy', British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Belfast, 12-14 September (Awarded best paper authored by a doctoral student).
(2006) 'Strategising and the use of business knowledge', EGOS conference, Bergen, Norway 6-8 July.
(2006) 'Top managers’ knowledge about strategizing and capability: a study in Ethiopia', DRUID Summer Conference 2006 on 'Knowledge, Innovation and Competitiveness: Dynamics of Firms, Networks, Regions and Institutions', Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-20 June.
(2006) 'Understanding enterprise', EGOS Conference, Bergen, Norway, 6-8 July.
(2005) 'Acting outside the box? Constituting boundary spanning information systems', British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Oxford University, 13-15 September.
(2005) 'Information technology and inter-organizational relations', British Academy of Management, Oxford, 13-15 September.
(2005) 'Managers business knowledge in Ethiopia', British Academy of Management, University of Oxford, 13-15 September.
(2001) 'Customer responsive supply chains: an exploratory view of concepts and definitions', Logistics Research Network Conference, Edinburgh, UK. Abstract
(2000) 'Intra and inter organizational knowledge sharing for innovation within changing environments', Knowledge Management: Concepts and Controversies Conference, Warwick University.
(1997) 'Management development and its determinants', British Academy of Management Annual Conference.
(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
(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.
(2008) 'Business Models and their Implications for Skills', Monograph Number 11, Cardiff and Oxford, ESRC SKOPE. Abstract
(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.
(2008) 'New governance arrangements in the NHS: emergent implications', NHS/SDO Project Working Paper, issue 2008/3.
(2007) 'Devolved governance systems', NHS/SDO Project Working Paper, issue 2007/2.
(2007) 'Managing the NHS', issue 09/01/10, Blog for OpenLearn.
(2007) 'Patient safety and clinical governance', SDO Project Working Paper, issue 2007/1.
(2007) 'The politics of NHS management', issue 10/01/10, Blog for OpenLearn.
(2007) 'Trusts and hospitals', issue 06/12/10, Blog for OpenLearn.
(2006) 'A classification of business knowledge', Evolution Business Knowledge Working Paper, issue EBK 2006/01.
(2005) 'Knowing Business: the business knowledge of senior managers', Evolution Business Knowledege Working Paper, issue EBK 2004/03.
(2005) 'Links between Governance, Incentives and Outcomes: a Review of the Literature', London, UK, National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R&D (NCCSDO). Abstract
(2005) 'The management of knowledge and the knowledge of managers', Evolution of Business Knowledge Working Paper, issue EBK 2005/04.
(2002) 'Comparative Practice in Employee Representation and Consultation: A Study in European Central Banking', Open University Business School Working Paper, issue 02/02/10. Abstract
(2002) 'The European System of Central Banks as an Organizational Innovation: Implications for Work Practices and Employment Relations', Open University Business School Working Paper, issue 02/01/10. Abstract
(2001) 'The Realities of Supply Chain Management', Open University Business School Working Paper, issue 01/07/10. Abstract
(2000) 'Flexibility, Networks and the Management of Innovation', Open University Business School Working Paper, issue 00/02. Abstract
(1999) 'Barriers to Knowledge Management: a case study', Open University Business School Working Paper, issue 99/14. Abstract
(1999) 'The Contested Terrain: innovation in mature firms', Open University Business School Working Paper, issue 99/11. Abstract
(1999) 'Understanding Innovation through Narrative', Open University Business School Working Paper, issue 99/09. Abstract
(1999) 'Utilizing internal and external resources for innovation: employment practices and inter-firm collaboration', Open University Business School Working Paper, issue 99/02.
(1997) 'Innovations and Contracts: individuals, organisations and networks', Open University Business School Working Paper, issue 97/06.
(1997) 'Opportunity through people - IPD Consultative Document', London, Institute of Personnel and Development.
(1983) 'The Unemployment Industry', London, Broadcasting Support Services.
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