Research outputs
Selected research outputs
- Breaching the professional social contract to drive system innovation: Nurse managers and the emergence of a new professional group. (Journal article - 2025)
- Leveraging normative power in co‐production to redress power imbalances (Journal article - 2025)
- Neutralized, enhanced, tokenistic: The influence of formal employment of service-users on processes of co-production (Journal article - 2022)
- Unified Divergence and the Development of Collective Leadership (Journal article - 2022)
- Professionalism in a Pandemic: Shifting Perceptions of Nursing Through Social Media (Chapter - 2021)
- Improvisation during a crisis: hidden innovation in healthcare systems (Journal article - 2020)
- The competing influences of national identity on the negotiation of ideal worker expectations: Insights from the Sri Lankan knowledge work industry (Journal article - 2018)
- Moving from rational to normative ideologies of control over public involvement: A case of continued managerial dominance. (Journal article - 2016)
- BROKEN ‘TWO‐WAY WINDOWS’? AN EXPLORATION OF PROFESSIONAL HYBRIDS (Journal article - 2015)
- The Impact of Emotionally Important Social Identities on the Construction of a Managerial Leader Identity: A Challenge for Nurses in the English National Health Service (Journal article - 2015)
2025
Breaching the Nurse Manager Professional Social Contract to Drive System Innovation (WITHDRAWN)
Croft, C. (2025). Breaching the Nurse Manager Professional Social Contract to Drive System Innovation (WITHDRAWN). Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025(1). doi:10.5465/amproc.2025.24385abstract
Breaching the professional social contract to drive system innovation: Nurse managers and the emergence of a new professional group.
Croft, C., & Reay, T. (2025). Breaching the professional social contract to drive system innovation: Nurse managers and the emergence of a new professional group.. Social science & medicine (1982), 373, 118054. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118054
Leveraging normative power in co‐production to redress power imbalances
Chen, Y., Croft, C., & Currie, G. (2025). Leveraging normative power in co‐production to redress power imbalances. Public Administration, 103(1), 296-312. doi:10.1111/padm.13015
2023
How to Develop Inclusive, Sustainable Leadership in Nursing? Clean the Sticky Floor!
Croft, C., & Dawson, A. (2023). How to Develop Inclusive, Sustainable Leadership in Nursing? Clean the Sticky Floor!. In Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare (pp. 115-130). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24212-0_6
Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) for Enhancing Absorptive Capacity (ACAP) in Pursuit of High-Quality, Affordable and Equitable Healthcare
Croft, C., Currie, G., & Kiefer, T. (2023). Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) for Enhancing Absorptive Capacity (ACAP) in Pursuit of High-Quality, Affordable and Equitable Healthcare. In Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare (pp. 93-111). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24212-0_5
2022
Neutralized, enhanced, tokenistic: The influence of formal employment of service-users on processes of co-production
Chauhan, T., Croft, C., & Spyridonidis, D. (2022). Neutralized, enhanced, tokenistic: The influence of formal employment of service-users on processes of co-production. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. doi:10.1111/padm.12839
Unified Divergence and the Development of Collective Leadership
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. doi:10.1111/joms.12744
2021
Professionalism in a Pandemic: Shifting Perceptions of Nursing Through Social Media
Croft, C., & Chauhan, T. (2021). Professionalism in a Pandemic: Shifting Perceptions of Nursing Through Social Media. In Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare (pp. 203-223). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-82696-3_10
2020
Improvisation during a crisis: hidden innovation in healthcare systems
Wiedner, R., Croft, C., & McGivern, G. (2020). Improvisation during a crisis: hidden innovation in healthcare systems. BMJ Leader, 4(4), 185-188. doi:10.1136/leader-2020-000259
Bridging the research-practice gap in healthcare: a rapid review of research translation centres in England and Australia.
Robinson, T., Bailey, C., Morris, H., Burns, P., Melder, A., Croft, C., . . . Teede, H. (2020). Bridging the research-practice gap in healthcare: a rapid review of research translation centres in England and Australia.. Health research policy and systems, 18(1), 117. doi:10.1186/s12961-020-00621-w
Flipping the paradigm: a qualitative exploration of research translation centres in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Robinson, T., Skouteris, H., Burns, P., Melder, A., Bailey, C., Croft, C., . . . Teede, H. (2020). Flipping the paradigm: a qualitative exploration of research translation centres in the United Kingdom and Australia.. Health research policy and systems, 18(1), 111. doi:10.1186/s12961-020-00622-9
Realizing policy aspirations of voluntary sector involvement in integrated care provision: Insights from the English National Health Service.
Croft, C., & Currie, G. (2020). Realizing policy aspirations of voluntary sector involvement in integrated care provision: Insights from the English National Health Service.. Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 124(5), 549-555. doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.03.008
Using patient experience data to support improvements in inpatient mental health care: the EURIPIDES multimethod study
Weich, S., Fenton, S. -J., Staniszewska, S., Canaway, A., Crepaz-Keay, D., Larkin, M., . . . Griffiths, F. (2020). Using patient experience data to support improvements in inpatient mental health care: the EURIPIDES multimethod study.
2018
The competing influences of national identity on the negotiation of ideal worker expectations: Insights from the Sri Lankan knowledge work industry
Croft, C., & Fernando, W. D. A. (2018). The competing influences of national identity on the negotiation of ideal worker expectations: Insights from the Sri Lankan knowledge work industry. Human Relations, 71(8), 1096-1119. doi:10.1177/0018726717733530
Realist Evaluation of the Use of Patient Experience Data to Improve the Quality of Inpatient Mental Health Care (EURIPIDES) in England: study protocol.
Weich, S., Fenton, S. -J. H., Bhui, K., Staniszewska, S., Madan, J., Larkin, M., . . . Griffiths, F. (2018). Realist Evaluation of the Use of Patient Experience Data to Improve the Quality of Inpatient Mental Health Care (EURIPIDES) in England: study protocol.. BMJ open, 8(6), e021013. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021013
The capacity of health service commissioners to use evidence: a case study
Currie, G., Croft, C., Chen, Y., Kiefer, T., Staniszewska, S., & Lilford, R. J. (2018). The capacity of health service commissioners to use evidence: a case study. doi:10.3310/hsdr06120
2016
Moving from rational to normative ideologies of control over public involvement: A case of continued managerial dominance.
Croft, C., Currie, G., & Staniszewska, S. (2016). Moving from rational to normative ideologies of control over public involvement: A case of continued managerial dominance.. Social science & medicine (1982), 162, 124-132. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.06.010
Impact of managerialism upon professionals in public services organizations
Currie, G., & Croft, C. (2016). Impact of managerialism upon professionals in public services organizations. In Perspectives on Contemporary Professional Work Challenges and Experiences (pp. 35-59).
2015
BROKEN ‘TWO‐WAY WINDOWS’? AN EXPLORATION OF PROFESSIONAL HYBRIDS
CROFT, C., CURRIE, G., & LOCKETT, A. (2015). BROKEN ‘TWO‐WAY WINDOWS’? AN EXPLORATION OF PROFESSIONAL HYBRIDS. Public Administration, 93(2), 380-394. doi:10.1111/padm.12115
A New Approach to Hybrid Leadership Development
Croft, C. (2015). A New Approach to Hybrid Leadership Development. In Managing Change (pp. 170-185). Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi:10.1057/9781137518163_12
Examining hybrid nurse managers as a case of identity transition in healthcare: developing a balanced research agenda
Currie, G., & Croft, C. (2015). Examining hybrid nurse managers as a case of identity transition in healthcare: developing a balanced research agenda. Work, Employment and Society, 29(5), 855-865. doi:10.1177/0950017015572581
The Impact of Emotionally Important Social Identities on the Construction of a Managerial Leader Identity: A Challenge for Nurses in the English National Health Service
Croft, C., Currie, G., & Lockett, A. (2015). The Impact of Emotionally Important Social Identities on the Construction of a Managerial Leader Identity: A Challenge for Nurses in the English National Health Service. Organization Studies, 36(1), 113-131. doi:10.1177/0170840614556915