The visual and the cultural impact of ‘social industry’ has made a permanent impression on the landscape and on individual minds, whether for ill or for good, particularly in the Peak and Pennines region of northern England. In the current research we examine this impact and consider how...

An important mobilisation of postmodernism is as a way of thinking that pays particular attention to the play of differences in human thought and experience. Informed by the Derridean theory of deconstruction, the current discussion critically examines an original piece of health services...

Process thinking has given us signals regarding how to make critical judgements about, or else how to grasp actively and immanently, an organisational world on the move. The perspective of a world that is constantly changing draws our attention to the sensate feeling of time and to the creative...

The leadership literature typically talks about the discrete individuality of its subject and particularly the personal qualities and capabilities of a few key people occupying top positions in a hierarchy. Current leadership research now has begun to generate new knowledge about leadership...

This working paper draws on paradata from a range of sources to describe the operation of the Computer Assisted Web Interviewing (CAWI) element of the sequential mixed mode experiment implemented on the Innovation Panel from Wave 5. It extends the technical reports for Waves 5 and 6 and aims to...

This paper explores leadership as an emergent social process. We begin by discussing and contesting the tradition privileging linear management processes, and offer as a counterpoint accounts of distributed leadership out of which our focus on leadership as a plural process grows. Our concept of...

Past research on the relationship of risk communication and risk perception is predominantly focused on the way civilians deal with risk perceptions and messages about danger. Little research on this domain is done in complex interactive and tightly coupled organisations. Evaluations of recent...

This paper explores leadership as an emergent social process. We begin by discussing and contesting the tradition privileging linear management processes, and offer as a counterpoint accounts of distributed leadership out of which our focus on leadership as a plural process grows. Our concept of...

The dissemination of safety procedures and guidelines is perceived as pivotal to keep organizations managing high-risk technologies incident free. The role of clear communication is seen as essential in transferring these procedures and guidelines. However, previous research in these types of...