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Should the wheel be reinvented? Market-referencing in the electric vehicle market charging infrastructure (2024)
Journal Article

Market-referencing helps market actors learn from what has gone before – saving them from reinventing the wheel. While extant studies show that market-referencing is essential for stabilising and legitimising new markets, little is known about how ma... Read More about Should the wheel be reinvented? Market-referencing in the electric vehicle market charging infrastructure.

“That's bang out of order, mate!”: Gendered and racialized micro‐practices of disadvantage and privilege in UK business schools (2022)
Journal Article

The existence of gendered and racialized inequalities in academia has been well documented. To date, research has primarily addressed the intersectional disadvantages faced by members of minority groups with much less attention paid to the privileges... Read More about “That's bang out of order, mate!”: Gendered and racialized micro‐practices of disadvantage and privilege in UK business schools.

Learning from Each Other: Why and How Business Schools Need to Create a “Paradox Box” for Academic–Policy Impact (2022)
Journal Article

As the “impact agenda” continues to gain prominence internationally, a key challenge is enabling academics and policymakers to interact so that they can learn effectively from and with each other. There is an ethical position that, if we could contri... Read More about Learning from Each Other: Why and How Business Schools Need to Create a “Paradox Box” for Academic–Policy Impact.

The institutional work of a social enterprise operating in a subsistence marketplace: Using the business model as a market‐shaping tool (2020)
Journal Article

The void between formal and informal institutionalized practices that coexist in subsistence marketplaces can render them inaccessible to subsistence consumer-merchants. We conducted an in-depth auto-ethnographic study of Novo Dia Developments, a soc... Read More about The institutional work of a social enterprise operating in a subsistence marketplace: Using the business model as a market‐shaping tool.

Implementing Marketization in Public Healthcare Systems: Performing Reform in the English National Health Service (2020)
Journal Article

To implement marketization in public healthcare systems, policymakers need to situate abstract models of prescriptive practice in complex user settings. Using a performativity lens, we show how policy processes attempt to bring about the changes they... Read More about Implementing Marketization in Public Healthcare Systems: Performing Reform in the English National Health Service.

Markets under the Microscope: Making Scientific Discoveries Valuable through Choreographed Contestations (2018)
Journal Article

This paper breaks new ground by revealing and conceptualizing the marketization of science as a process that transforms scientific discoveries and markets through a series of choreographed contestations: moments of valuation that occur when different... Read More about Markets under the Microscope: Making Scientific Discoveries Valuable through Choreographed Contestations.

Kitchen concerns at the boundary between markets and consumption:agencingpractice change in times of scarcity (Husmodern, Sweden 1938–1958) (2018)
Journal Article

This paper investigates practice dynamics in kitchens situated at the boundary between markets and consumption. The kitchen is conceptualized as a market-consumption junction, a space where multiple concerned actors in markets and consumption come to... Read More about Kitchen concerns at the boundary between markets and consumption:agencingpractice change in times of scarcity (Husmodern, Sweden 1938–1958).

Managing to make markets: Marketization and the conceptualization work of strategic nets in the life science sector (2017)
Journal Article

This paper presents one of the first studies to identify and explain the marketization work of a strategic net. Through a study of the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst – a strategic net formed to support the marketization of Life Science Discoveries - w... Read More about Managing to make markets: Marketization and the conceptualization work of strategic nets in the life science sector.

Creating the competitive edge: A new relationship between operations management and industrial policy (2017)
Journal Article

Policy interventions by governments to alter the structure of economic activity have either been dismissed or ignored by operations management (OM) scholars. However, in recent years, such ‘industrial policy’ measures have gained increasing support i... Read More about Creating the competitive edge: A new relationship between operations management and industrial policy.

Impact and Management Research: Exploring Relationships between Temporality, Dialogue, Reflexivity and Praxis (2017)
Journal Article

This paper introduces the special issue focusing on impact. We present the four papers in the special issue and synthesize their key themes, including dialogue, reflexivity and praxis. In addition, we expand on understandings of impact by exploring ho... Read More about Impact and Management Research: Exploring Relationships between Temporality, Dialogue, Reflexivity and Praxis.

The role of proximity in business model design: Making business models work for those at the bottom of the pyramid (2016)
Journal Article

This paper explores the role of proximity in designing business models that work for those at the BoP. BoP markets represent an extreme setting where actors struggle to access and organise limited resources and develop appropriate socio-economic-poli... Read More about The role of proximity in business model design: Making business models work for those at the bottom of the pyramid.