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Flexibility, robustness and real options. (2007)
Book Chapter
DYSON, R.G. and OLIVEIRA, F.S. 2007. Flexibility, robustness and real options. In Dyson, R.G. and O'Brien, F.A. (eds.) Supporting strategy: frameworks, methods and models. Chichester, Wiley, chapter 13, pages 343-366.

The importance of flexibility in the strategic development process goes back to the formative days of strategic planning. One of its earliest manifestations was in the guise of contingency planning. For example, Argenti (1974) in his book "Systematic... Read More about Flexibility, robustness and real options..

The mechanisms and process of entrepreneurial networks: continuity and change. (2006)
Book Chapter
DRAKOPOULOU DODD, S., JACK, S. and ANDERSON, A.R. 2006. The mechanisms and process of entrepreneurial networks: continuity and change. In Wiklund, J., Dimov, D., Katz, J.A. and Shepherd, D.A. (eds.) Entrepreneurship: frameworks and empirical investigations from forthcoming leaders of European research. Advances in entrepreneurship, firm emergence and growth, 9. Bingley: Emerald [online], pages 107-145. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1074-7540(06)09005-2

The relevance of networks for entrepreneurship is now well established. However, despite the extent of work carried out there are still clear gaps in our understanding about how networks change and adapt over time and how entrepreneurs actually go ab... Read More about The mechanisms and process of entrepreneurial networks: continuity and change..

The vulnerability of peripheral tourism: the rapid disenchantment of peripheral attraction. (2006)
Book Chapter
IRVINE, W. and ANDERSON, A. 2006. The vulnerability of peripheral tourism: the rapid disenchantment of peripheral attraction. In Müller, D.K. and Jansson, B. (eds.) Tourism in peripheries: perspectives from the far north and south. Wallingford: CABI, pages 109-123.

This chapter explores the impact of foot and mouth disease on peripheral tourist destinations. It is argued that such destinations are extremely vulnerable to changes in visitor perception and that the effects of national disasters impact disproporti... Read More about The vulnerability of peripheral tourism: the rapid disenchantment of peripheral attraction..

The appraisal interview reappraised. (2006)
Book Chapter
TOURISH, D. 2006. The appraisal interview reappraised. In Hargie, O. (ed.) The handbook of communication skills. Third edition. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 18, pages 505-530. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203007037.ch18

The appraisal interview is one of the most ubiquitous features of life in organisations. It is also one of the most ridiculed. Evidence mounts each year to the effect that most such interviews are poorly managed, fail to improve organisational perfor... Read More about The appraisal interview reappraised..

EU interest representation or US-style lobbying? (2005)
Book Chapter
GREENWOOD, J. and YOUNG, A.R. 2005. EU interest representation or US-style lobbying? In Jabko, N. and Parsons, C. (eds.) With US or against US? European trends in American perspective. The state of the European Union, 7. Oxford: Oxford University Press [online], chapter 12. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/0199283958.003.0012

While the number of interest groups competing for influence at the European level has exploded, the EU policy process is usually described as strikingly apolitical. The initial surge in interest group participation was principally a consequence of th... Read More about EU interest representation or US-style lobbying?.

The devil is in the e-tale: form and structure in the entrepreneurial narrative. (2004)
Book Chapter
SMITH, R. and ANDERSON, A.R. 2004. The devil is in the e-tale: form and structure in the entrepreneurial narrative. In Hjorth, D. and Steyaert, C. (eds.) Narrative and discursive approaches in entrepreneurship: a second movements in entrepreneurship book. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pages 125-143.

In this chapter we explore the genre of Entrepreneurial Tales, which we refer to as e-tales. The title is an obvious parody of the proverb, The devil is in the detail and reflects the power of entrepreneurial narratives, a power that stems from the n... Read More about The devil is in the e-tale: form and structure in the entrepreneurial narrative..

Communication audits: building world class communication systems. (2004)
Book Chapter
TOURISH, D. and HARGIE, O. 2004. Communication audits: building world class communication systems. In Oliver, S.M. (ed.) Handbook of corporate communication and public relations: pure and applied. London: Routledge, chapter 8, pages 131-144.

Effective internal communication is a vital pre-requisite for the functioning of all organisations. Yet it is a commonplace that communication is poor in most. Employees complain that they neither know nor understand corporate priorities, while frust... Read More about Communication audits: building world class communication systems..

The communication consequences of downsizing trust, loyalty and commitment. (2003)
Book Chapter
TOURISH, D. and HARGIE, O., 2004. The communication consequences of downsizing trust, loyalty and commitment. In Tourish, D. and Hargie, O. (eds.) Key issues in organizational communication. London: Routledge [online], chapter 2, pages 17-36. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203634394-8

Researchers have increasingly argued that much of mainstream management practice is characterized by the enthusiastic adoption of fads (for example, Shapiro, 1995; Jackson, 2001). Managers embark on radical programmes of restructuring that throw thei... Read More about The communication consequences of downsizing trust, loyalty and commitment..

The crisis of management and the role of organizational communication. (2003)
Book Chapter
TOURISH, D. and HARGIE, O. 2004. The crisis of management and the role of organizational communication. In Tourish, D. and Hargie, O. (eds.) Key issues in organizational communication. London: Routledge [online], chapter 1, pages 1-16. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203634394-7

What does the future hold for the theory and practice of management? What role, if any, is there for organisational communication in these deliberations? Exactly which aspects of communication contribute centrally to the core of corporate practice? T... Read More about The crisis of management and the role of organizational communication..

Trade associations, change and the new activism. (2003)
Book Chapter
GREENWOOD, J. 2003. Trade associations, change and the new activism. In John, S. and Thomson, S. (eds.). New activism and the corporate response. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan [online], pages 49-65. Available from: https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781403903112

There is a breakdown of trust and a corresponding rise in corrosive cynicism in both corporate activity and in mainstream politics. Trust is the cement in the relationship between institutions and civil society. When trust breaks down, civil society... Read More about Trade associations, change and the new activism..

Electricity liberalization. (2002)
Book Chapter
GREENWOOD, J. 2002. Electricity liberalization. In Pedler, R. (ed.). European Union lobbying: changes in the arena. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan [online], pages 269-294. Available from: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780333971529

Electricity was an obvious candidate in the renewed drive to complete a European Single Market in the Delors years. Despite the energy sector being the first candidate for European integration in 1951, electricity consumption remained, in the mid-198... Read More about Electricity liberalization..