Publications
Managing and Leading Organizational Change
2019
This textbook speaks both to the applied and practical aspects of organizational change, as well as questioning the research and evidence base of organizational change practices. I am sorry it took so many words to reach this level of understanding, but grateful to have reached this point.
In this monograph, I established why there was a shift from managing change to leading change. I undertook a narrative literature review commencing in 1978 when J.M. Burns claimed that leadership studies was suffering a crisis of intellectual mediocrity. Managing change was depicted as failing in order to give legitimacy and authority to leading change.
Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics
2023 with Rune Todnem By and Bernard Burnes
I was delighted to be invited to join Rune and Bernard in editing and contributing chapters to the second edition of this edited reader. It encourages intelligent disobedience in support of greater leadership capabilities and capacity in organizations and societies.
How studying organizational change lost its way
2022
My academic writing became increasingly critical as I lost faith in what Business Schools were peddling. My final paper was rather “shouty”, other academics might say too shouty. You can make up your own mind. If you click on the title (above) it takes you to the non-firewalled paper, published as part of the Reflections series.
Google Scholar Page
Public Profile
A listing of most of my academic publications over three decades with a useful ‘performative’ quantification of citations. The academic mantra used to go ‘publish or perish’! I am no longer publishing, but at the time of writing I haven’t perished.
ORCID
Public Profile
ORCID provides links to recently published academic journal papers. Please note that these papers are invariably firewalled by publishers, so only useful if you have online journal access.