Notes that a significant number of experienced senior executives are making themselves available as leased executives. Discusses the leased executive′s role and provides two case studies. Concludes that its benefits as a resourcing option are now becoming clear to many UK organisations who are...

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...

Theory purporting to identify leadership remains over-determined by one of two underlying fallacies. Traditionally, it hypostatizes leadership in psychological terms so that it appears as the collection of attributes belonging to an independent, discrete person. By contrast, contemporary...

Draws attention to the need for managers to re‐examine the dominant world view paradigm within which managing currently takes place. Uses the analogy of a salmon struggling up river to show management today as an uncertain journey from the narrow convergence of the paradigm downstream to the...

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...