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 paper is based on an empirical study of attempts to achieve change in clinical behaviour across a United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) Health Authority (HA). We suggest that the evidence based medicine (EBM) movement underpinning such attempts is premised upon a highly rationalistic...

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...

Charismatic leadership is perceived as emerging under conditions of crisis. This study examines to what extent this statement is confirmed in an organizational context. Employing a case study from the airline industry, the behaviour of leaders and the perception of followers, regarding...

Numerous articles in academic publications have been examining the relationship between planning process and performance. However, the obtained findings are controversial. Even less research has been conducted for family businesses. In contrast to already conducted studies this work will explore...

King and Tomkins (2002) in their study of the ‘economy of makeshifts’1 of the poor in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries identify a network of different ‘sources and benefits’ from which ‘poor households cobbled together incomes’.2 Poor people, they argue,...