Improved management practice has been identified as a key enhanced productivity and performance as well as to sustained innovation. A considerable inventory of promising practices has been collected in the private and public sector of the UK. Some of that inventory is well founded upon evidence from rigorous research; other work is less well grounded. The potential value of this inventory is not realised because in part research is not reaching practising managers in ways that lead most effectively to adaptation and therefore changes in practice but also in part because we do not understand enough about the specific conditions which either facilitate or disable the adoption of specific practices. With the involvement of those seeking to identify adapt and effect change we at AIM Research try to encourage wider appreciation and adaptation of what has been learned. View our outputs below to find out more.

Promising Practices Projects:

Gerard Hodgkinson and Gerry Johnson - A Survey of Strategy Workshop
Chris Huxham - Collaborative Advantage
Chris Huxham - Collaboration in the Context of Industrial Clusters
George Yip - Corporate Governance Effects on Global Strategy
Chris Voss - Development and Adaptation of Promising Practice
Chris Voss - Experienced Based Services
Ian Clarke - Exploring Cognitive Capabilities in Action I: A Field Study of Strategic Management Practice
Ian Clarke - Exploring Cognitive Capabilities in Action II: A Field Study of Strategic Management Practice
George Yip - Global Customer-Supplier Management
Chris Huxham - Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations
Chris Huxham - Learning and Collaboration
Gerry Johnson - Micro Perspectives on Strategic Development and Decision-Making
Chris Voss - Next Generation Practices and Tools
Gerard Hodgkinson and Gerry Johnson - Strategy Workshops
Chris Huxham - Storying Practice: Adaptation and Adoption
Lynda Gratton - The Cooperative Advantage: Building the Critical Organizational Capability
Lynda Gratton - The Nature of Cooperation
Chris Huxham - The Role of Stories of Practice in the Adoption of Promising Practice
Chris Huxham - The Theory and Practice of Collaborative Advantage
Gerard Hodgkinson - Towards a (Pragmatic) Science of Strategic Intervention: The Case of Scenario Planning
Chris Huxham - Tradition in Inter-Organizational Collaboration
Gerard Hodgkinson - Understanding and Enhancing Employee Performance and Well Being: A Managerial & Organisational Cognition Perspective
Chris Huxham - Understanding Success in Collaboration
Nic Beech - The Enactment of Management Practice
David Denyer - The Dark Side of Management Practices: Routine Non-Conformity, Non-Adoption and Adverse Events
Katy Mason - Making Markets: The Practice of Business Models
Joe O'Mahoney - Exploring the Role of Management Consultancies in Innovating Management Practices
Markus Perkmann - How Practice Entrepreneurs Innovate: The Challenge and Opportunity of Open Intellectual Property Regime
Zoe Radnor - Conditions of Readiness to Support Sustainability of Lean in Public Services
Jennifer Whyte - Management Practices in Project-Based Design Environments
Paula Jarzabkowski -Adopting Promising Strategizing Practices
Julia Balogun - Promising Practices, Strategic Change


For further information relating to the Promising Practice Projects, please contact Claire Fitzpatrick.

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