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- Ivory, Chris, et al.
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Latour and Woolgar's 'cycle of scientific credibility' as a basis for conceptualizing business school strategy
- 2020
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Ingår i: Review of Managerial Science. - : SPRINGER HEIDELBERG. - 1863-6683 .- 1863-6691. ; 14:2, s. 379-391
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on contemporary and historical discourse around UK business schools and insights from the sociology of scientific knowledge, we argue that business schools should be understood and judged, not as they typically have been, as engines of knowledge production, but as engines of credibility production. Credibility, we argue, is central to the attractiveness of business schools to students and other key stakeholders and therefore credibility, and the mechanisms through which credibility are maintained, should be at the center of strategic thinking within business schools. We argue that over-reliance on funding from corporate sources can have profound consequences for the ability of schools to continue to produce credibility. This article focuses primarily on the experiences of business schools in the UK.
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| 8232. |
- Ivory, Chris, et al.
(författare)
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Leadership of Business Schools : Perceptions, Priorities and Predicaments (Executive Briefing)
- 2008
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- UK business schools have grown rapidly over the last forty years. They account for a substantial proportion of students and overall income (especially from overseas), with one in seven undergraduates and one in five postgraduates studying business and management related subjects. Underlying this robust picture, where business schools are integral to their universities’ successes, some interesting issues arise about the future for business schools and particularly the leadership pipeline. This report focuses on business schools and how like other schools within universities face a challenging, complex and ambiguous future and there appears to be a limited pool of candidates applying to become deans.
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| 8234. |
- Ivory, Chris, et al.
(författare)
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Symbolic consumption, signification and the 'lockout' of electric cars, 1885-1914
- 2010
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Ingår i: Business History. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 0007-6791 .- 1743-7938. ; 52:7, s. 1107-1122
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper analyses the sources of meanings attached to consumption of the early automobile to inform analysis of the lockout of electric automobiles in the UK, mindful of related developments in France, and the USA. Data are gathered from archive sources, and include social and technical histories and popular newspapers and magazines from the period investigated (1885-1914). The paper asserts that the association of the early car with specific and particular cultural meanings, as defined by class and gender, led to it becoming an untenable choice for early consumers contributing to the 'lockout' of the electric car before it had a chance to establish itself as a viable socio-technical system. The conclusion highlights the limitations of an analytical focus privileging technical accounts of lockout and identifies the contribution of the concepts of symbolic consumption and signification.
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| 8235. |
- Ivory, Chris
(författare)
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The cult of customer responsiveness : Is design innovation the price of a client-focused construction industry?
- 2005
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Ingår i: Construction Management and Economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0144-6193 .- 1466-433X. ; 23:8, s. 861-870
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Much has been written about the positive contribution made by the customer to innovation in bespoke and low-volume products like those of construction. Far less attention has been given to the potentially corrosive effects the client might have on innovation. Drawing on three construction case studies, this paper argues that strong client leadership may have negative consequences for innovation, including the suppression of innovation and an overly narrow focus on particular types of innovation. Given that innovation has a key role in the future competitiveness of any industry, it is argued that the role of the client in construction innovation requires more careful examination than it has thus far been afforded. © 2005 Taylor & Francis.
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| 8236. |
- Ivory, Chris, et al.
(författare)
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The Future of Business School Faculty (Executive Briefing
- 2007
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The UK business schools are threatened by a potential shortage of faculty. Not only that but business schools face significant challenges within retention and development with data suggesting that there are worrying shortfalls in amounts of PhD students graduating and taking up faculty positions. The research reveals that a key part of devising a successful talent strategy is to understand the business school faculty shortage and the strategies for addressing it in the context of the different types of activity that business schools engage in.
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| 8237. |
- Ivory, Chris, et al.
(författare)
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The imagined user in projects : Articulating competing discourses of space and knowledge work
- 2009
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 9:2, s. 131-148
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper articulates the role of the imagined user in the design choices of a higher education client with respect to a project to provide new workspaces for one of its divisions. The case study centres on the disagreements that occurred between different factions within the client organisation regarding the type of office space that was appropriate for its workforce. The paper examines the ways in which competing images of academic knowledge work and knowledge workers were conjured up in differently imagined users and deployed as persuasive user-stories in the design process. The analysis of the case uses the narratives of key project actors to identify the underlying discourses that were articulated to support particular imaginings of the user. The case shows how the successful deployment of discourses was tied up with the power wielded by particular actors at different times during the project. The paper suggests that the articulation of an imagined user implies that project actualities may be presumed as well as real and that discourse analysis provides a useful mechanism for understanding these imagined actualities.
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| 8239. |
- Ivory, Chris
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The prospects for a production management body of knowledge in business schools : response to Koskela (2017) "Why is management research irrelevant?"
- 2017
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Ingår i: Construction Management and Economics. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 0144-6193 .- 1466-433X. ; 35:7, s. 385-391
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is a response to Lauri Koskela's recent piece in Construction Management and Economics (Why is management research irrelevant? 35(1-2): 4-23) which reflects on the relationship between academic research and management practice in business schools. In particular, Koskela asks why production management research and teaching has disappeared from the business school agenda and why management research has failed to produce a consistent body of knowledge that is of use to management practice. In this article, I try to provide some alternative perspectives on the present and past contexts of management theory and production research. I argue that production research, if not teaching, is alive and well and the site of theory generation, problem-focused research and innovation. I also question the veracity and wisdom of a creating body of knowledge in relation to management research and practice-even if it were possible, which I believe it is not. My assessment of the state of research in business schools, at least in the U.K. and the U.S. and notwithstanding a lack of consensus over how to approach management research, is that it is eclectic and vibrant and of much more use to practicing managers in that state.
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| 8240. |
- Ivory, Chris, et al.
(författare)
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The role of framing in complex transitional projects
- 2008
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Ingår i: Long range planning. - : PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. - 0024-6301 .- 1873-1872. ; 41:1, s. 93-106
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The role of perceptual frames and reframing in the context of the shifting demand for goods and services is explored. The case of Alstom Transport's building of the Pendolino tilting train for Virgin Trains' West Coast Mainline route is used as an example of how framing and reframing can be a key management tool in contexts where customers are driving new strategic directions in the delivery of goods and services. We see the successful management of transitional projects (projects which depart from existing knowledge and capabilities to deliver transformed goods and services) as dependent on the ability of project managers, and other key actors, to reshape and realign existing perceptual frames. The paper examines the difficulties of so doing.
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