Prof Katy Mason's Outputs (45)
Imagining (Re-)Organizing Markets: Conceptualizing Fiction in the Performance of a Circular Economy (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Calculating and accounting for the Future of Healthcare: The Secret Life of the mHealth Hypecycle (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Realising the value of open innovation in policy making: Equipping entrepreneurs for valuation work (2019)
Journal Article
Open innovation succeeds when it forms productive collaborations that cross organisational, disciplinary and practice boundaries. Success can, however, be hidden from stakeholders if the means to articulate value in novel, entrepreneurial open innova... Read More about Realising the value of open innovation in policy making: Equipping entrepreneurs for valuation work.
Managing to make market agencements: The temporally bound elements of stigma in favelas (2019)
Journal Article
How do entrepreneurs working at the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) manage to make new, powerful, associations
between people and places to break down the barriers of Rio's stigmatised markets? Drawing on the notion of
agencement and, specifically, the... Read More about Managing to make market agencements: The temporally bound elements of stigma in favelas.
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.
Managing technological uncertainty in science incubation: a prospective sensemaking perspective (2018)
Journal Article
This paper focuses on the adaption challenge that confronts the top management team (TMT) of science incubators in situations of substantial technological uncertainty. To do that, we draw on the three-year longitudinal analysis of a major bioscience... Read More about Managing technological uncertainty in science incubation: a prospective sensemaking perspective.
Performing a Myth to Make a Market: The construction of the ‘magical world’ of Santa (2018)
Journal Article
If you believe in Santa, do not read this paper. Through an in-depth, qualitative, empirical study, we follow the Santa myth to a remote northern location in Lapland, Finland where, for one month a year, multiple actors come together to create a tour... Read More about Performing a Myth to Make a Market: The construction of the ‘magical world’ of Santa.
Management Education in Turbulent Times (2018)
Journal Article
This special section was initiated by members of the British Academy of Management’s Management Knowledge and Education project. Management Knowledge and Education is an academy-wide initiative, launched in 2014 to advance the creation and circulatio... Read More about Management Education in Turbulent Times.
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.
Markets and marketing at the bottom of the pyramid (2017)
Journal Article
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.
Exploring the performativity of marketing: theories, practices and devices (2014)
Journal Article
Web-based social movements contesting marketing strategy: The mobilisation of multiple actors and rhetorical strategies (2013)
Journal Article
Previous studies suggest that marketing strategy is developed and used to mobilise and configure the actions of firm actors, creating a set of stabilising activities focused on the firm–customer dyad. Destabilising forces precipitated by the Internet... Read More about Web-based social movements contesting marketing strategy: The mobilisation of multiple actors and rhetorical strategies.
What are bottom of the pyramid markets and why do they matter? (2013)
Journal Article
There are thousands of journal articles that concern themselves with markets at the bottom of the pyramid (BoP). What is there to say that hasn’t been said already? In 2002, an article published in the Harvard Business Review (Prahalad and Hammond, 2... Read More about What are bottom of the pyramid markets and why do they matter?.
Causal Social Mechanisms; from the what to the why (2013)
Journal Article
Over 40 years of research in the IMP tradition has resulted in a variety of different kinds of published outputs; data, information, knowledge, concepts, stories, models, case studies, frameworks and even some things that we might like to call theori... Read More about Causal Social Mechanisms; from the what to the why.
Shared learning in supply networks: evidence from an emerging market supply network (2012)
Journal Article
Purpose – Firms face the challenge of developing learning capabilities that enable them to work as part of an effective business network. While an extensive literature examines learning capabilities
within the firm, little attention has been given t... Read More about Shared learning in supply networks: evidence from an emerging market supply network.