Team
Led by Professor Charlotte Croft, the WOM group brings together scholars with diverse interests in the fields of Organisation studies and theory, organisational behaviour and psychology, and human resource management.
Subject group leads
SUBJECT GROUP HEADProfessor Charlotte Croft |
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DIRECTOR OF EDUCATIONDr Ali Rostron |
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DIRECTOR OF RESEARCHDr Mariella Miraglia |
Staff
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Chair in Management Learning |
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Lecturer in Work, Organisation and Management |
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Reader in Global Political Economy |
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Lecturer in Work, Organisation and Management Deputy Director of Studies Masters in Management |
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Deputy Director of Studies BA Business Management |
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PDRA in Organisation Studies |
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Lecturer in Organisation Studies Deputy Director of Studies: MSc Human Resource Management Programme and MSc Online HRM |
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Senior Lecturer in Work, Organisation and Management Director of Studies: MSc Human Resource Management Programme and MSc Online HRM |
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Lecturer in WOM |
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Senior Lecturer in Organisation and Management |
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Professor of Organisation Studies Subject Group Lead: WOM Group |
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Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour |
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Professor of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour |
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Lecturer in Work, Organisation and Management |
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Professor of Organisation Studies Deputy Dean Faculty and Accreditation |
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Professor of Work, Organisation and Management Associate Dean Research |
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Guzman, Mr Miguel Ibaceta |
Lecturer in Organisational Psychology |
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Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour |
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NWSSDTP Postdoctoral Fellow |
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Lecturer in Organisations and Management |
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Chair in Organisation Studies |
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Director: MSc Healthcare Leadership and Online Healthcare Leadership |
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Lecturer in Organisation Theory |
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Senior Lecturer in International Human Resource Management Director of Studies Master in Management |
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Lecturer in Work, Organisation and Management |
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MBA Career and Leadership Development Coach |
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Reader in Organisational Behaviour Director of Studies MSc Occupational and Organisational Psychology Postgraduatge Lead Work, Organisation and Management |
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Undergraduate Acadmic Integrity Officer |
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Business Director of Studies MSc Sports Business and Management and Online |
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Reader in Organisational Behaviour/Human Resource Management Director of Research: WOM Group |
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Director of Studies (BA Business Management) |
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Musiyarira, Hannah |
Research Assistant |
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Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour |
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Professor of Management and Organisation |
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Professor in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour Director of Studies for the MSc HRM Programme |
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Senior Lecturer in Work, Organisation and Management |
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Reader in Organisational Behaviour |
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Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour |
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Lecturer in Organisation Studies |
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Senior Lecturer in Work, Organisation and Management Director of Studies: Online DBA |
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Senior Lecturer in Management Director of Education: WOM Group |
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Undergraduate Recruitment, Admissions & Wider Participation Lead Lecturer in Public Sector Management |
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Senior Lecturer in Work, Organisation and Management |
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Senior Lecturer in Work, Organisation and Management |
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Professor and Chair in Organisation Theory |
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Reader in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour |
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Education
We offer an undergraduate BA in Business Management programme and four master’s programmes in Management, Human Resource Management, Occupational and Organisational Psychology, Organisational Psychology.
Our teaching is led by our world-leading research, with the work of WOM colleagues shaping understandings about working, organising and managing, with a direct impact on a wide range of organisations and institutions. Our staff also engages in prolific scholarship research that offers unique insights into management education and development as well as student experience and University curricula.
Research
Our researchers are making original contributions to work, organisation, and management theory and practice. They regularly publish in some of the top journals within the field, such as:
- Academy of Management Journal
- Academy of Management Review
- Academy of Management Annals
- Academy of Management Learning & Education
- Organisation Studies
- Journal of Management Studies
- Human Resource Management
- Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
- Journal of Organizational Behavior
Many group members also hold senior editorial positions in world-leading journals such as Journal of Management Studies, as well as holding associate editor positions across a range of FT50 journals.
Selected recent publications
2023
Colicev, A., Hakkarainen, T. and Pedersen, T., 2023. Multi‐project work and project performance: Friends or foes?. Strategic Management Journal, 44(2), pp.610-636.
Fetzer, G.T., Harrison, S. and Rouse, E.D., 2023. Navigating the Paradox of Promise through the Construction of Meaningful Career Narratives. Academy of Management Journal.
Bailey, C. and Suddaby, R., 2023. When Time Falls Apart: Re-centring human time in organisations through the lived experience of waiting. Organization Studies.
Suddaby, R., Israelsen, T., Robert Mitchell, J. and Lim, D.S., 2023. Entrepreneurial visions as rhetorical history: A diegetic narrative model of stakeholder enrollment. Academy of Management Review, 48(2), pp.220-243.
Suddaby, R., Israelsen, T., Bastien, F., Saylors, R. and Coraiola, D., 2023. Rhetorical history as institutional work. Journal of Management Studies, 60(1), pp.242-278.
2022
Chen, Y., Currie, G., McGivern, G. 2022. The role of professional identity in HRM implementation: Evidence from a case study of job redesign. Human Resource Management Journal, 32(2), pp. 283-98.
Croft, C., McGivern, G., Currie, G., Lockett, A., & Spyridonidis, D. (2022). Unified divergence and the development of collective leadership. Journal of Management Studies, 59(2), 460-488.
Fan, Z. and Liu, Y., 2022. Decoding secrecy as multiple temporal processes: Co-constitution of concealment and revelation in archival stories. Human Relations, 75(6), pp.1028-1052.
Gatrell, C., Ladge, J.J., Powell, G.N. 2021. A Review of Fatherhood and Employment: Introducing new perspectives for management research. Journal of Management Studies, 59(5), 1103-1358.
Shaffakat, S., Otaye-Ebede, L., Reb, J., Chandwani, R. and Vongswasdi, P., 2022. Mindfulness attenuates both emotional and behavioral reactions following psychological contract breach: A two-stage moderated mediation model. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(3), p.425.
Spencer, L., Anderson, L. and Ellwood, P., 2022. Interweaving scholarship and practice: A pathway to scholarly impact. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 21(3), pp.422-448.
Bednall, T.C., Sanders, K. and Yang, H., 2022. A meta‐analysis on employee perceptions of human resource strength: Examining the mediating versus moderating hypotheses. Human Resource Management, 61(1), pp.5-20.
2021
Chen, Y. and Reay, T., 2021. Responding to imposed job redesign: The evolving dynamics of work and identity in restructuring professional identity. Human Relations, 74(10), pp.1541-1571.
Miraglia, M., Johns, G. (2021). ‘The Social and Relational Dynamics of Absenteeism from Work: A Multi-Level Review and Integration’, Academy of Management Annals, 15(1): 37-67.
2020
Stollberger, J., Bosch, M. J., Las Heras, M., Rofcanin, Y., Daher, P. (2020). ‘The tone at the top: A trickle-down model of how manager anger relates to employee moral behaviour’, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 29(6):907-921.
Kenny, E. J., Donnelly, R. (2020). ‘Navigating the gender structure in information technology: How does this affect the experiences and behaviours of women?’, Human Relations, 73(3):326-350.
Breslin, D., Gatrell, C. (2020). ‘Theorizing Through Literature Reviews: The Miner-Prospector Continuum’, Organizational Research Methods, 26(1):139-167.
Li, M. (2020). ‘An examination of two major constructs of cross-cultural competence: Cultural intelligence and intercultural competence’, Personality and Individual Differences, 164(1):1-6.
Lee, A., Lyubovnikova, J., Tian, A., Knight, C. (2020). ‘Servant leadership: A meta-analytic examination of incremental contribution, moderation and mediation’, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 93(1):1-44.
- DOI: 10.1111/joop.12265
Miraglia, M., Johns, G. (2020). ‘The Social and Relational Dynamics of Absenteeism from Work: A Multi-Level Review and Integration’, Academy of Management Annals, 15(1):37-67.
Loon, M., Otaye-Ebede, L., Stewart, J. (2020). ‘Thriving in the New Normal: The HR Microfoundations of Capabilities for Business Model Innovation. An Integrated Literature Review’, Journal of Management Studies, 57(3):698-726.
- DOI: 10.1111/joms.12564
Pearson, G., Rowe, M. (2020). ‘Police Street Powers and Criminal Justice: Regulation and Discretion in a Time of Change’, Oxford: Hart Publishing.
Yang, H., Sanders, K., Van Rijn, M. (2020). ‘The effect of supervisor and organisational support on employees’ interactive informal learning: The moderating role of interdependent self-construal’, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 31(17):2217-2237.
2019
Goumaa, R., Anderson, L., Zundel, M. (2019). ‘What can managers learn online? Investigating possibilities for active understanding in the online MBA classroom’, Management Learning, 50 (2):226-244.
Sun, J., Cole, M., Huang, Z., Wang, S. (2019). ‘Chinese leadership: Provincial perspectives on promotion and performance’, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(4): 750-772.
Gatrell, C. (2019). ‘Boundary creatures? Employed, breastfeeding mothers and ‘abjection as practice’’, Organization Studies, 40(3):421-442.
Lee, A., Thomas, G., Martin, R., Guillaume, Y., Marstand, A. F. (2019). ‘Beyond relationship quality: The role of leader–member exchange importance in leader–follower dyads’, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 92(4):736-763.
- DOI: 10.1111/joop.12262
Lee, A., Thomas, G., Martin, R., Guillaume, Y. (2019). ‘Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) ambivalence and task performance: The cross-domain buffering role of social support’, Journal of Management, 45(5):1927-1957.
Li, M., Sharp, B., Bergh, D., Vandenberg, R. (2019). ‘Statistical and methodological myths and urban legends in strategic management research: The case of moderation analysis’, European Management Review, 16(1):209-220.
- DOI: 10.1111/emre.12319
Otaye-Ebede, L. (2019). ‘Antecedents and outcomes of managing diversity in a UK context: test of a mediation model’, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 30(18):2605-2627.
Cassell, C., Radcliffe, L., & Malik, F. (2019). ‘Participant Reflexivity in Organizational Research Design’, Organizational Research Methods, 23(4):750-773.
Research themes
The WOM colleagues position their world-leading research across the following themes:
Work, Health and Wellbeing
This research theme explores workplace health and wellbeing at the individual, organisational and societal levels.
Our body of research explores the macro, meso and micro factors that can foster health and wellbeing at work.
For instance, we work towards facilitating organisational cultures that can favour healthy workplaces, enhancing work-life/family balance, promoting positive mental health and understanding the implications of the (maternal) body for employment, among other aims.
Leadership
This theme investigates leadership behaviour, styles, processes, dynamics and outcomes, using a plethora of philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches.
For example, our researchers explore the impact of leader’s factors (eg personality traits, emotions, behaviours, gender) on employee and organisational productivity and wellbeing as well as the leader-follower relationship. They also promote the understanding and adoption of inclusive leadership practices.
Our research also focuses on higher-level leadership phenomena, including governance, global leadership and the political context of leadership.
Finally, research whithin this theme aims to understand how to enhance the education and development of current and future managers.
Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)
Research within this theme seeks to gain a better understanding of the lived experiences of individuals at work in relation to their differences in backgrounds, identities, values, abilities, beliefs and preferences.
Our work aims to embrace diversity and promote more inclusive and equitable organisations.
Our researchers explore the impact on work life of factors such as ethnicity, gender, religion, neurodiversity and disability.
They also evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of EDI practices in the workplace and investigate the implications of occupational factors, organisational culture and structures on EDI practices, processes and outcomes.
Identity
Research within this theme aims to understand identity at work, embracing multiple perspectives and considering several factors that can define identity, including, but not limited to gender, organisational roles, occupations and professions and multi-culturalism.
Some exemplary issues our researchers seek to address relate to the establishment of one’s sense of Self and Others in the changing and multicultural world of work.
This includes how individuals develop their sense of belonging to an organisation, how they challenge or conform to the predominant norms and standards, and how they alter their self-perceptions in the context of change.
Grand challenges in Work, Organisation and Management
This research theme looks at multiple challenges emerging from the changing world of work, and investigates the challenges involved in managing and working for global, cross-cultural organisations.
Our researchers also explore the decolonialisation of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices and processes, as well as of management education curricula.
Research within the theme also explores the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technology on work, organisation and management processes and practices, as well as on future management education.
Research centres
We host the School’s Centre for Organisational and Employee Wellbeing, aimed at conducting and disseminating novel research exploring how organising and managing affects production, working life and health.
Find out more about the Management School's research centres
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Upcoming seminars
Our Group regularly organises seminar series with prominent international speakers, to present their latest research and ideas in managing organisations and people:
Wednesday 20 November 2024
Organizing digital responsibility - a conceptualization of varieties of normative orders in the tech domain
- Speaker: Professor Mikkel Flyverbom, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark)
- Open to: WOM Group staff and students, with no sign up needed
- Time: 1.30-3 pm
- In person: Seminar Room 1
Abstract
Processes of digitalization and datafication are increasingly accompanied by aspirations towards ethics and increased responsibility in the tech domain.
While an increasing amount of literature seeks to understand and theorize this development, what remains missing is a more general exploration and conceptualization of what digital responsibility means, and how it points to different visions for digital futures.
In this paper, we present a conceptualization of digital responsibility and the underlying understandings of data and its societal value, the roles of different organizational actors and ideas about concrete governance arrangements and visions about the shape of digital futures.
Taken together, these dimensions of our conceptualization add up to what we think of as five distinct normative orders about digital responsibility as they unfold across a broad set of social and institutional domains.
This typology of varieties of digital responsibility is at the core of our paper.
We seek to contribute to work on the complex intersections between ethics, governance and social ordering by offering this conceptualization of digital responsibility and typology of its various forms, with a focus on how they come to animate organizational, normative and regulatory developments in the tech domain.
This contribution extends existing work on ethics, responsibility and the relationships between technology, business and society, and may inspire future research on digital responsibility in organization and management studies.
Past seminars
2024
Supporting the persistence of local crafts across generations: Manual gun making in Austria and Germany over the past 150 years
- Dr Rene Wiedner, University of Warwick (England)
- 30 October 2024
Smart management: How simple heuristics help leaders make good decisions in an uncertain world
- Professor Jochen Reb, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- 26 June 2024
Cleaners in the Twilight Zone: An ethnographic study in management and organizations of inequality and the rise of far-right politics in Germany
- Professor Jana Costas European University Viadrina, Frankfurt, Germany
- 20 June 2024
Commit professional suicide or take up my pilgrim’s staff again?’: A cultural examination of how female managers resolve shock events in developing regions
- Professor Linh-Chi Vo, Professor of Strategic Management, ESDES, Lyon Business SchooL, France
- 20 May 2024
HRM system strength: The influence of culture
- Professor Karin Sanders, Professor of HRM and Organisational Psychology, University of New South Wales, Australia
- 1 May 2024
Chasing storms: Temporal Work to Foster Group Engagement Under Uncertainty
- Professor Nina Granqvist, Professor of Management Studies, Aalto University School of Business, Finland
- 14 February 2024
2023
Regulating ‘moral grey zones’: Medical & nursing regulation in Kenya & Uganda
- Professor Gerry McGivern, Professor in Public Services Management & Organisation, King's Business School, UK
- 22 November 2023
Covid-19 lockdown in Nigeria: Socioeconomic challenges, coping strategies, and the vulnerability of street vendors
- Professor Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, Professor of Human Resource Management, Kent Business School, UK
- 18 October 2023
Reframing Methodology: From Craft to Critique
- Professor Hugh Willmott, Professor of Management and Organization Studies at Bayes Business School and Cardiff University, UK
- 20 September 2023
On studying charisma scientifically
- Professor John Antonakis, Professor of Organizational Behavior at University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- 17 May 2023
The endogeneity problem in mediation models
- Professor John Antonakis, Professor of Organizational Behavior at University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- 10 May 2023
Notes on the phenomenology of innovation – promise, phenomenon, performance, paradox
- Professor Alf Rehn, Professor of Technology and Innovation at University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- 20 April 2023
Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Professor Martyna Sliwa, Professor of Business Ethics and Organisation Studies at Durham University, UK
- 19 April 2023
The future of management
- Professor Alf Rehn, Professor of Technology and Innovation at University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- 19 April 2023
Leadership and wellbeing
- Professor Ilke Inceoglu, Professor in Organisational Behaviour and HR Management at University of Exeter, UK
- 19 April 2023
2022
Publishing in top-tier management journals: How can you do it?
- Professor Trish Reay, TELUS Chair in Management at University of Alberta, Canada
- 05 December 2022
Developing research practices
- Professor Renate Meyer, Professor of Organisation Studies at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
- 29 November 2022
Publishing qualitative research
- Professor Renate Meyer, Professor of Organisation Studies at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
- Professor Bill Harley, Professor of Management at the University of Melbourne, Australia
- 29 November 2022
How to win friends and influence people(‘s feelings)… And should we be doing so?
- Professor Karen Niven, Professor of Organisational Psychology at University of Sheffield, England
- 16 November 2022
One frame to bind them all’. The rhetoric of the anti-vaccination for large-scale institutional disruption
- Professor Renate Meyer, Professor of Organisation Studies at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
- 29 September 2022
Reflexive Practice: Developing Insights for Research and Leadership
- Professor Paul Hibbert, Professor of Management at University of St Andrews, Scotland
- 27 April 2022
On the charisma of crabs and other liminal critters: What HRM can learn from rockpooling
- Dr Lindsay Hamilton, Chair in Animal Organisation Studies at The York Management School (University of York), England
- 30 March 2022
2021
Does Physical Activity before the End of the Workday Improve Work Focus? A Within-Person Investigation in Regular Exercisers”.
- Dr Lieke ten Brummelhuis, Associate Professor of Management and Organisation Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada
- 24 February 2021
Post-corporate Entrepreneurship in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: The Role of Institutional Infrastructure
- Professor Tom Lawrence, Professor of Strategic Management at Said Business School, University of Oxford, England
- 28 April 2021
2020
Resolving the paradox of institutional stability: Process ontology and the temporality of institutions
- Professor Juliane Reinecke, Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, England
Understanding the factors that support breastfeeding women at work
- Professor Allison Gabriel, Professor of Management and Organisations, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, US
- 8 July 2020
Event in the Technologies and the Futures of Work series
- Professor Brian Silverman, Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada
- Professor David Berry, Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Sussex, England
- 10 June 2020
Labor market inclusion through predatory capitalism? The ‘sharing economy’, diversity, and the crisis of social reproduction in the Belgian coordinated market economy
- Professor Patrizia Zanoni, Professor in organisation Studies, Hasselt University, Belgium, and Utrecht University School of Governance, The Netherlands
- 12 February 2020
2019
Organisational culture and change: Developing theory and evidence-based SEMs for measuring organizational characteristics of relevance for adaptive change
- Professor Felix Brodbeck, Chair for Economic and Organisational Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
- 19 June 2019
Do relation-specific investments pay off? Comparing cross-sector and within-sector partnerships from a relational view perspective
- Professor Christiana Weber, Chair for Strategic Management and Organisation, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
- 22 May 2019
When is hierarchy functional? Clarity between status levels in the hierarchy system impacts the functionality of hierarchy in crowdsourcing teams & To Ask or Not to Ask: Effect of Age on Advice Seeking
- Professor Gokhan Ertug, Professor of Strategic Management, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- 1 May 2019
Business model innovation in the energy industry
- Professor Jonatan Pinkse, Professor of Strategy, IMP Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability, University of Manchester, England
- 3 April 2019
Expanding our understanding of the employee-organization relationship
- Professor Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London School of Economics, England
- 20 March 2019
History and the Micro-foundations of Dynamic Capabilities
- Professor Roy Suddaby, Chair in Organisation Theory, Work, Organisation and Management at University of Liverpool Management School, England, and Winspear Chair of Management at University of Victoria, Canada
- 22 February 2019
Nostalgic uses of the past, AMLE publishing workshop
- Professor Bill Foster, University of Alberta, Canada
- 22 January 2019
2018
The Origins of 'Organizational' Wrongdoing: Complicity-in-Practice
- Professor Jane Lê, Chair of Strategic Management, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany
- 12 December 2018
Servant Leadership and Frontline Employees' Customer Service Performance: A Cross-Level Test of Competing Perspectives
- Professor Sam Aryee, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, University of Surrey, England
- 7 November 2018
Strategy and virtue: Revisiting strategic management through virtue ethics
- Professor Hari Tsoukas, Professor of Strategic Management at University of Cyprus, and Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Warwick Business School, England
- 17 October 2018
Knowledge exchange
Members of our group work closely with business, the public sector and the third sector in impactful research and knowledge exchange projects.
Such activities are funded by a range of national and international funding agencies including the UK Reserach and innovation's Economic and Social Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, The British Academy, the National Institute for Health Research, and other public and private sector organisations.
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