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Papers by Ken Starkey

Research paper thumbnail of Towards Green Narrative: Management and the Evolutionary Epic

Social Science Research Network, Apr 1, 2003

ABSTRACT We use a narrative perspective to explore the relevance of the sciences dealing with eco... more ABSTRACT We use a narrative perspective to explore the relevance of the sciences dealing with ecology for management theory and practice, presenting the issues of ecoscience from the perspective of green narrative, based on the "evolutionary epic." Adopting an interpretive sensemaking perspective on narrative, we address the narratological basis of the evolutionary epic and examine the potential for the narrative to inform a new relationship between management and the natural environment. We suggest implications for management theory and practice by examining elements of the narrative.

Research paper thumbnail of How Management Academics Have Locked Themselves in an Iron Cage

Routledge eBooks, May 19, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of The Strange Absence of Management During the Current Financial Crisis

Academy of Management Review, Oct 1, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Not Simply Returning to the Same Answer Over and Over Again: Reframing Relevance

British Journal of Management, Aug 19, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Can We Save the Business School? <i>Shut Down the Business School. What’s Wrong With Management Education,</i> by Martin Parker, 2018, London: Pluto Press, 198 pages

Academy of Management Learning and Education, Mar 1, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of The lengthening hour: Time and the demise of psychoanalysis as therapy

Social Science & Medicine, 1985

Time is an under-researched area in the social sciences. Rationales concerning its use govern all... more Time is an under-researched area in the social sciences. Rationales concerning its use govern all forms of work activity. The case of psychoanalysis is considered as an example of a therapeutic enterprise that has foundered on its temporal recipes. The demand for shorter, sharper, faster therapeutic procedures is making analysis increasingly marginal as therapy. The writings of psychoanalysts from Freud to Lacan on time and analysis are considered and contrasted with more recent concepts of appropriate therapeutic temporal formats. It is suggested that the concept of faith as well as the unsuccessful search for an effective therapy need to be considered as explanations of psychoanalysis&#39;s inexorable lengthening.

Research paper thumbnail of flexible specialization and the reconfiguration of television production in the UK

Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 1997

... TV media entertainment in developments as yet embryonic in the UK, such as home shopping chan... more ... TV media entertainment in developments as yet embryonic in the UK, such as home shopping channels ... complete movies on 5-inch compact discs are now arriving in the consumer market-place, and it becomes clear that public access to the output of television product has ...

Research paper thumbnail of Back to the Future: Teaching the Greed Business

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2009

One of the most eloquent defences of greed appears in Oliver Stone’s film Wall Street, the story ... more One of the most eloquent defences of greed appears in Oliver Stone’s film Wall Street, the story of insider trading during a time of stock market boom, and the arrival on the scene of a new breed of businessman, the corporate raider. In a speech to a shareholder’s meeting of Teldar Paper, Gordon Gekko, an archetypal raider planning to take over the company and, as we find later, asset strip and sell it on, mounts a swingeing critique of its management, an eloquent defence of his own actions and a business philosophy that survives.

Research paper thumbnail of The impact of the impact agenda

Research paper thumbnail of Strategy and human resource management

International Journal of Human Resource Management, Dec 1, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Strategic Management: Issues and Cases

© 2004 by Paul Dobson, Kenneth Starkey and John Richards 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, ... more © 2004 by Paul Dobson, Kenneth Starkey and John Richards 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of Paul Dobson, Kenneth Starkey and John Richards to be ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Strategic Management Blueprint

An academic directory and search engine.

Research paper thumbnail of From crisis to purpose

Journal of Management Development, Aug 14, 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to argue that the current economic crisis offers an opportuni... more PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to argue that the current economic crisis offers an opportunity to rethink the role of the business school and how business schools can reinvent what they do by an engagement with history and the design sciences.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on an ongoing research project into the role of the business school. It provides an historical analysis of the business school's evolving role.FindingsDebates about the nature of the business school fall into two camps, one that argues that the business school is a professional school, and another that says the business school needs to be a better social science school. This paper suggests an alternative perspective, more geared to a view of management as an art, rather than a science, offering less economics, more humanities and history.Originality/valueThe paper aligns itself with a growing call for business school reform and suggests how alternative disciplines might help shape its future.

Research paper thumbnail of The ethical challenge of management buy-outs as a form of privatisation in Central and Eastern Europe

Journal of Business Ethics, Jul 1, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of Toward Green Narrative: Management and the Evolutionary Epic

Academy of Management Review, Apr 1, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of The Business School and the Bottom Line

In recent decades, business schools have become important components of higher education througho... more In recent decades, business schools have become important components of higher education throughout the world. Yet, surprisingly, they have received little serious attention. This book provides a sober and evidence-based assessment, charting the history and character of business schools in the light of current debates about the role of universities and the evolution of advanced economies. Previous commentators have viewed business schools as falling between two stools: lacking in academic rigour yet simultaneously derided by the corporate world as broadly irrelevant. However, over-concern with criticism risks ignoring the benefits of reform. What business schools need is reconfiguration based on new relationships with academia and business. Such change would deliver institutions that are truly fit for purpose, allowing them to become key players in the 21st century's emergent knowledge societies. This timely critique should be read by academics and policy-makers concerned with the present state and future development of business education.

Research paper thumbnail of Time and professional work in public sector organisations: an examination of four occupational groups in education and medicine

Research paper thumbnail of Strategic Management : Issues and cases Ed. 2

Blackwell Publishing eBooks, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of Time and work: A psychological perspective

Research paper thumbnail of The Secrets of Corporate Longevity: A Critical Review

Human Relations, Sep 1, 1996

... PETERS, T., & WATERMAN, RH In search of excellence. ... BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES KEN STARKEY is... more ... PETERS, T., & WATERMAN, RH In search of excellence. ... BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES KEN STARKEY is Professor of Strategic Management in the School of Management and Finance, University of Nottingham, and Director of the Executive MBA Programme. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Towards Green Narrative: Management and the Evolutionary Epic

Social Science Research Network, Apr 1, 2003

ABSTRACT We use a narrative perspective to explore the relevance of the sciences dealing with eco... more ABSTRACT We use a narrative perspective to explore the relevance of the sciences dealing with ecology for management theory and practice, presenting the issues of ecoscience from the perspective of green narrative, based on the &quot;evolutionary epic.&quot; Adopting an interpretive sensemaking perspective on narrative, we address the narratological basis of the evolutionary epic and examine the potential for the narrative to inform a new relationship between management and the natural environment. We suggest implications for management theory and practice by examining elements of the narrative.

Research paper thumbnail of How Management Academics Have Locked Themselves in an Iron Cage

Routledge eBooks, May 19, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of The Strange Absence of Management During the Current Financial Crisis

Academy of Management Review, Oct 1, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Not Simply Returning to the Same Answer Over and Over Again: Reframing Relevance

British Journal of Management, Aug 19, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Can We Save the Business School? <i>Shut Down the Business School. What’s Wrong With Management Education,</i> by Martin Parker, 2018, London: Pluto Press, 198 pages

Academy of Management Learning and Education, Mar 1, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of The lengthening hour: Time and the demise of psychoanalysis as therapy

Social Science & Medicine, 1985

Time is an under-researched area in the social sciences. Rationales concerning its use govern all... more Time is an under-researched area in the social sciences. Rationales concerning its use govern all forms of work activity. The case of psychoanalysis is considered as an example of a therapeutic enterprise that has foundered on its temporal recipes. The demand for shorter, sharper, faster therapeutic procedures is making analysis increasingly marginal as therapy. The writings of psychoanalysts from Freud to Lacan on time and analysis are considered and contrasted with more recent concepts of appropriate therapeutic temporal formats. It is suggested that the concept of faith as well as the unsuccessful search for an effective therapy need to be considered as explanations of psychoanalysis&#39;s inexorable lengthening.

Research paper thumbnail of flexible specialization and the reconfiguration of television production in the UK

Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 1997

... TV media entertainment in developments as yet embryonic in the UK, such as home shopping chan... more ... TV media entertainment in developments as yet embryonic in the UK, such as home shopping channels ... complete movies on 5-inch compact discs are now arriving in the consumer market-place, and it becomes clear that public access to the output of television product has ...

Research paper thumbnail of Back to the Future: Teaching the Greed Business

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2009

One of the most eloquent defences of greed appears in Oliver Stone’s film Wall Street, the story ... more One of the most eloquent defences of greed appears in Oliver Stone’s film Wall Street, the story of insider trading during a time of stock market boom, and the arrival on the scene of a new breed of businessman, the corporate raider. In a speech to a shareholder’s meeting of Teldar Paper, Gordon Gekko, an archetypal raider planning to take over the company and, as we find later, asset strip and sell it on, mounts a swingeing critique of its management, an eloquent defence of his own actions and a business philosophy that survives.

Research paper thumbnail of The impact of the impact agenda

Research paper thumbnail of Strategy and human resource management

International Journal of Human Resource Management, Dec 1, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Strategic Management: Issues and Cases

© 2004 by Paul Dobson, Kenneth Starkey and John Richards 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, ... more © 2004 by Paul Dobson, Kenneth Starkey and John Richards 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of Paul Dobson, Kenneth Starkey and John Richards to be ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Strategic Management Blueprint

An academic directory and search engine.

Research paper thumbnail of From crisis to purpose

Journal of Management Development, Aug 14, 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to argue that the current economic crisis offers an opportuni... more PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to argue that the current economic crisis offers an opportunity to rethink the role of the business school and how business schools can reinvent what they do by an engagement with history and the design sciences.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on an ongoing research project into the role of the business school. It provides an historical analysis of the business school's evolving role.FindingsDebates about the nature of the business school fall into two camps, one that argues that the business school is a professional school, and another that says the business school needs to be a better social science school. This paper suggests an alternative perspective, more geared to a view of management as an art, rather than a science, offering less economics, more humanities and history.Originality/valueThe paper aligns itself with a growing call for business school reform and suggests how alternative disciplines might help shape its future.

Research paper thumbnail of The ethical challenge of management buy-outs as a form of privatisation in Central and Eastern Europe

Journal of Business Ethics, Jul 1, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of Toward Green Narrative: Management and the Evolutionary Epic

Academy of Management Review, Apr 1, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of The Business School and the Bottom Line

In recent decades, business schools have become important components of higher education througho... more In recent decades, business schools have become important components of higher education throughout the world. Yet, surprisingly, they have received little serious attention. This book provides a sober and evidence-based assessment, charting the history and character of business schools in the light of current debates about the role of universities and the evolution of advanced economies. Previous commentators have viewed business schools as falling between two stools: lacking in academic rigour yet simultaneously derided by the corporate world as broadly irrelevant. However, over-concern with criticism risks ignoring the benefits of reform. What business schools need is reconfiguration based on new relationships with academia and business. Such change would deliver institutions that are truly fit for purpose, allowing them to become key players in the 21st century's emergent knowledge societies. This timely critique should be read by academics and policy-makers concerned with the present state and future development of business education.

Research paper thumbnail of Time and professional work in public sector organisations: an examination of four occupational groups in education and medicine

Research paper thumbnail of Strategic Management : Issues and cases Ed. 2

Blackwell Publishing eBooks, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of Time and work: A psychological perspective

Research paper thumbnail of The Secrets of Corporate Longevity: A Critical Review

Human Relations, Sep 1, 1996

... PETERS, T., & WATERMAN, RH In search of excellence. ... BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES KEN STARKEY is... more ... PETERS, T., & WATERMAN, RH In search of excellence. ... BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES KEN STARKEY is Professor of Strategic Management in the School of Management and Finance, University of Nottingham, and Director of the Executive MBA Programme. ...