All Outputs (20)

Bridging the divides: A case study of collective action across Scottish university business schools to support small business (2024)
Journal Article
Cunningham, J., Hughes, J., Hay, A., Greene, F., & Seaman, C. (2024). Bridging the divides: A case study of collective action across Scottish university business schools to support small business. Journal of Business Research, 183, Article 114859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114859

Support for small business is widely acknowledged as a complex issue of interrelated economic resilience and sustainability. Despite an established literature on the mechanisms through which university business schools support business, few studies h... Read More about Bridging the divides: A case study of collective action across Scottish university business schools to support small business.

Meta-Practices: The Role of Ecosystems Actors in Social Innovation (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hughes, J., Pitsis, T., Leighton, M., & Bhatia, K. (2024, April). Meta-Practices: The Role of Ecosystems Actors in Social Innovation. Paper presented at 9th Annual Entrepreneurship as Practice Conference 2024, University of Leeds

A long and winding road: The hard graft of scaling social change in complex systems (2024)
Journal Article
Healy, J., Hughes, J., Donnelly-Cox, G., & Shantz, A. (2024). A long and winding road: The hard graft of scaling social change in complex systems. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 21, Article e00455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2024.e00455

Advice abounds on how to implement large-scale social change, much of which emphasizes a simplistic linear process, led by a heroic central actor. Rigorous case studies have shown that social change is far more complex: it is a reci... Read More about A long and winding road: The hard graft of scaling social change in complex systems.

From practice to theory and back again: Exploring social innovation scaling processes through multiple lenses (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hughes, J. (2023, November). From practice to theory and back again: Exploring social innovation scaling processes through multiple lenses. Paper presented at Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference 2023, Birmingham

From practice to theory and back again: Exploring social innovation scaling processes through multiple lenses (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hughes, J., Healy, J., & Donnelly-Cox, G. (2023, November). From practice to theory and back again: Exploring social innovation scaling processes through multiple lenses. Paper presented at ISBE 2023, Birmingham

The purpose of this paper is to explore the theoretical underpinnings of social innovation, and the assumptions key actors make about how the process of social innovation ought to unfold. By studying the practice literature within the social innovati... Read More about From practice to theory and back again: Exploring social innovation scaling processes through multiple lenses.

From practice to theory and back again: Exploring social innovation scaling processes through multiple lenses (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Healy, J., Donnelly-Cox, G., & Hughes, J. (2023, July). From practice to theory and back again: Exploring social innovation scaling processes through multiple lenses. Paper presented at 39th EGOS Colloquium 2023, Cagliari, Italy

My colleagues (do not) think the same: Middle managers’ shared and separate realities in strategy implementation (2023)
Journal Article
Schuler, B., Orr, K., & Hughes, J. (2023). My colleagues (do not) think the same: Middle managers’ shared and separate realities in strategy implementation. Journal of Business Research, 160, Article 113782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113782

How does middle managers’ sensemaking of other middle managers’ attitudes to a new strategy affect strategy implementation? We explore this question using a qualitative-abductive approach. Our investigation of the implementation of a top-down strateg... Read More about My colleagues (do not) think the same: Middle managers’ shared and separate realities in strategy implementation.

Sowing the seeds of value? Persuasive practices and the embedding of big data analytics. (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hughes, J., & Ball, K. (2022, December). Sowing the seeds of value? Persuasive practices and the embedding of big data analytics. Paper presented at Beyond Big Data Surveillance: Freedom and Fairness, Ottawa, Canada

Innovation and Creativity in Taught Postgraduate Summer Project Modules: Leveraging Technology and Supporting Future Career Pathways. (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hughes, J. (2021, December). Innovation and Creativity in Taught Postgraduate Summer Project Modules: Leveraging Technology and Supporting Future Career Pathways. Paper presented at Advance HE’s Teaching and Learning Conference 2021, Online

Organizational strategy and its implications for strategic studies: A review essay (2021)
Journal Article
Hughes, J., Kornberger, M., MacKay, B., O’Brien, P., & Reddy, S. (2023). Organizational strategy and its implications for strategic studies: A review essay. Journal of Strategic Studies, 46(2), 427-450. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2021.1994950

In this review essay, we investigate how organisational strategy can help refresh traditional strategic and security studies debates. Despite their shared history, both disciplines have evolved in silos, lacking interdisciplinary engagement. To foste... Read More about Organizational strategy and its implications for strategic studies: A review essay.

Strategizing for grand challenges: economic development and governance traditions in Malaysian local government (2021)
Journal Article
Hughes, J., Orr, K., & Yusoff, M. (2023). Strategizing for grand challenges: economic development and governance traditions in Malaysian local government. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 89(2), 363-380. https://doi.org/10.1177/00208523211048167

This qualitative study provides empirical knowledge and develops theory about the role of strategic management in Malaysian local government. As the country addresses the grand challenge of economic growth amid enduring national aspirations of moving... Read More about Strategizing for grand challenges: economic development and governance traditions in Malaysian local government.

Making Things Great Again: Evidence from the post-apartheid LGBTI field in South Africa of the enabling and constraining influences of social myths. (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Healy, J., & Hughes, J. (2021, September). Making Things Great Again: Evidence from the post-apartheid LGBTI field in South Africa of the enabling and constraining influences of social myths. Paper presented at Twelfth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies (PROS)., Online

SISP as practice: De-isolating SISP activity across multiple levels (2021)
Journal Article
Hughes, J., & McDonagh, J. (2021). SISP as practice: De-isolating SISP activity across multiple levels. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 30(2), Article 101658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2021.101658

The strategic information systems planning (SISP) literature has retained a narrow focus on organizational level activity to date. Limited empirical research has explored SISP’s multi-level interlinkages and complexities. Studies that have attempted... Read More about SISP as practice: De-isolating SISP activity across multiple levels.

Sowing the seeds of value? Persuasive practices and the embedding of big data analytics (2020)
Journal Article
Hughes, J., & Ball, K. (2020). Sowing the seeds of value? Persuasive practices and the embedding of big data analytics. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 161, Article 120300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120300

Making Things Great Again: The Practices of Aligning around Strategies to Address Social Challenges. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Healy, J., & Hughes, J. (2019, July). Making Things Great Again: The Practices of Aligning around Strategies to Address Social Challenges. Paper presented at European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Annual Conference., Edinburgh, Scotland

Lost in Translation? Persuasive Practices and Big Data Analytics. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hughes, J., & Ball, K. (2018, December). Lost in Translation? Persuasive Practices and Big Data Analytics. Paper presented at Tension in the Data Environment: Can Organisations Meet the Challenge?, Coventry, England

A Guide to Information Technology and Cybersecurity Risks (2017)
Report
Armstrong, R., & Hughes, J. (2017). A Guide to Information Technology and Cybersecurity Risks. [No known commissioning body]

Your GDPR Journey (2017)
Report
Armstrong, R., Hughes, J., Adair, M., & Hogan, A. (2017). Your GDPR Journey. Saros Consulting

The European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation[1] will come into effect on the 25th of May, 2018. The GDPR marks a signifi cant change in the EU data protection and privacy regime. It will repeal and replace the current EU Data Protectio... Read More about Your GDPR Journey.

In defence of the case study methodology for research into strategy practice (2017)
Journal Article
Hughes, J., & McDonagh, J. (2017). In defence of the case study methodology for research into strategy practice. The Irish Journal of Management, 36(2), 129-145. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijm-2017-0013

New Avenues in Strategic Information Systems Planning Research: A Strategy as Practice Perspective (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hughes, J., & McDonagh, J. (2014, September). New Avenues in Strategic Information Systems Planning Research: A Strategy as Practice Perspective. Paper presented at BAM2014: British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the strategic information systems planning (SISP) literature. Given the broader research project within which the review was executed, a simple summary of the literature was deemed to be a less than optim... Read More about New Avenues in Strategic Information Systems Planning Research: A Strategy as Practice Perspective.