Mark N K Saunders
Biographic Data
| ID | 101086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark N K Saunders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark N K |
| FAMILY NAME | Saunders |
| SIGNATURE | SAUNDERS M N K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5176-8317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting
Focusing on management consulting firms, this study scrutinizes a core group of knowledge workers revealing the complexity and diversity of meanings attached to their trust-related decisions, emotions and behaviours. Drawing on 50 interviews utilizing critical incident technique with management consultants working in leading UK and US consulting firms, the study offers insights into the complex nature of human interactions and their embeddedness …
Media Review: Handbook of Mixed Methods Research in Business and Management
As a business and management research methodologist, I was keen to review Roslyn Cameron’s and Xanthe Golenko’s edited volume Mixed Methods Research in Business and Management. Having read the 26 chapters, written by both leading mixed methods researchers and early career academics from Australia, North America, Europe, and Asia, suffice to say, I am pleased to have had the opportunity. This volume considers a wide variety of innovations in mixed…
Human resource management in the age of generative artificial intelligence: Perspectives and research directions on ChatGPT
ChatGPT and its variants that use generative artificial intelligence (AI) models have rapidly become a focal point in academic and media discussions about their potential benefits and drawbacks across various sectors of the economy, democracy, society, and environment. It remains unclear whether these technologies result in job displacement or creation, or if they merely shift human labour by generating new, potentially trivial or practically irr…
A Novel Use of Honey's Aggregation Approach to the Analysis of Repertory Grids
This article examines and appraises a novel approach for generating shared group constructs through aggregative analysis: the application of Honey's aggregation procedure to repertory grid technique (RGT) data. Revisiting personal construct theory's underlying premises and adopting a social constructivist epistemology, we argue that, while "implicit theories" of the world, elicited via RGT, are unique to individuals, the constructs on which they …
The complexities of religious tourism motivations: Sacred places, vows and visions
Religiousness as tourist performances: A case study of Greek Orthodox pilgrimage
The aim of this paper is to decipher ways of experiencing religiousness through tourist performances, intersecting textual approaches with the essential embodiment and materiality of the tourist world. Exploring the diversity of religious tourists’ practices within the Greek Orthodox context, two dimensions underpinning religious tourist experience are highlighted: institutional performances and unconventional performances. Focussing on the embod…
The consent process: Enabling or disabling patients' active participation
Standards expected by doctors' regulatory bodies in respect of the process of consent to treatment have arguably sought to restructure the nature of the doctor-patient relationship from one of the paternalism to that of shared decision-making. Yet, few studies have explored empirically, from patients' perspectives, the extent to which the process of consent to treatment enables or disables patients' participation in medical decision-making. Our a…
Reporting and Justifying the Number of Interview Participants in Organization and Workplace Research
In this paper we examine established practice regarding the reporting, justification and number of interview participants chosen within organization and workplace studies. For such qualitative research there is a paucity of discussion across the social sciences, the topic receiving far less attention than its centrality warrants. We analysed 798 articles published in 2003 and 2013 in ten top and second tier academic journals, identifying 248 stud…
Concepts and theory building
Handbook of Research Methods on Trust: Second Edition
The second edition of this handbook provides an updated and expanded overview of the variety of methods that researchers can apply when they study the multi-faceted phenomenon of trust.This second edition responds to the growing interest in research on trust, recognising that it is one of the most fascinating and fundamental social phenomena yet at the same time one of the most 'elusive' (Gambetta, 1988) and challenging concepts one could study.O…
Why the epistemologies of trust researchers matter
In this thought piece we take stock of and evaluate the nature of knowledge production in the field of trust research by examining the epistemologies of 167 leading trust scholars, who responded to a short survey. Following a brief review of major epistemological perspectives, we discuss the nature of the prevalent views and their geographical distribution within our field. We call on trust researchers to engage in epistemological reflection, dev…
Trust and distrust: Polar opposites, or independent but co-existing
This article provides an empirical test of whether trust and distrust can co-exist in the mind of an employee. Two interrelated questions are considered: firstly, whether trust and distrust judgements are ‘symmetrical’ or whether they can occur ‘simultaneously’ as separate constructs; and, secondly, whether trust and distrust judgements entail the same or conceptually different expectations as revealed in their expressions and anticipated manifes…
Elective surgical patients' narratives of hospitalization: The co-construction of safety
The origins and conceptualizations of ‘triple-loop’ learning: A critical review
In the organizational learning literature a variety of concepts exists denoting some third order of organizational learning, notably that of ‘triple-loop’ learning. Despite this there has been no systematic, critical consideration of this concept or its origins, impeding both theoretical development and empirical research. Whilst ‘triple-loop learning’ has been inspired by Argyris and Schön, we establish that the term does not arise in their publ…
Web versus Mail: The Influence of Survey Distribution Mode on Employees’ Response
Despite organizations' widespread Internet use and ready availability of Web survey software, few studies have examined explicitly the impact on employees' responses of using the Web as opposed to mail-based surveys (MBS). This article addresses this gap using an employee attitude survey distributed to a 50% systematic sample of 3,338 employees by mail, the remaining employees receiving the survey via a Web link. Although the return rate for the …
Handbook of Research Methods on Trust
The Handbook of Research Methods on Trust provides an authoritative in-depth consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical study of trust in the social sciences. As this topic has matured, a growing number of practical approaches and techniques has been utilised across the broad, multidisciplinary community of trust research, providing both insights and challenges. This unique Handbook draws together a wealth of research met…
Organizational Trust: A Cultural Perspective
The globalized nature of modern organizations presents new and intimidating challenges for effective relationship building. Organizations and their employees are increasingly being asked to manage unfamiliar relationships with unfamiliar parties. These relationships not only involve working across different national cultures, but also dealing with different organizational cultures, different professional cultures and even different internal const…
The impact of European community mutual recognition of professional qualifications on local authority recruitment
The Influence of Job-Vacancy Advertising upon Migration: Some Empirical Evidence
Recent theoretical work suggests that vacancy information is important in the job search and migration processes. Empirical research has shown that the way an employer notifies a vacant post and the likelihood of migration are both related to the type of post. Migration has also been shown to be related to the migrant's personal characteristics. However, little empirical evidence exists to relate the way an employer notifies a post to the likelih…
Trust and distrust: Polar opposites, or independent but co-existing
This article provides an empirical test of whether trust and distrust can co-exist in the mind of an employee. Two interrelated questions are considered: firstly, whether trust and distrust judgements are ‘symmetrical’ or whether they can occur ‘simultaneously’ as separate constructs; and, secondly, whether trust and distrust judgements entail the same or conceptually different expectations as revealed in their expressions and anticipated manifes…
Religiousness as tourist performances: A case study of Greek Orthodox pilgrimage
The aim of this paper is to decipher ways of experiencing religiousness through tourist performances, intersecting textual approaches with the essential embodiment and materiality of the tourist world. Exploring the diversity of religious tourists’ practices within the Greek Orthodox context, two dimensions underpinning religious tourist experience are highlighted: institutional performances and unconventional performances. Focussing on the embod…
The complexities of religious tourism motivations: Sacred places, vows and visions
Elective surgical patients' narratives of hospitalization: The co-construction of safety
Why the epistemologies of trust researchers matter
In this thought piece we take stock of and evaluate the nature of knowledge production in the field of trust research by examining the epistemologies of 167 leading trust scholars, who responded to a short survey. Following a brief review of major epistemological perspectives, we discuss the nature of the prevalent views and their geographical distribution within our field. We call on trust researchers to engage in epistemological reflection, dev…
The Influence of Job-Vacancy Advertising upon Migration: Some Empirical Evidence
Recent theoretical work suggests that vacancy information is important in the job search and migration processes. Empirical research has shown that the way an employer notifies a vacant post and the likelihood of migration are both related to the type of post. Migration has also been shown to be related to the migrant's personal characteristics. However, little empirical evidence exists to relate the way an employer notifies a post to the likelih…
The consent process: Enabling or disabling patients' active participation
Standards expected by doctors' regulatory bodies in respect of the process of consent to treatment have arguably sought to restructure the nature of the doctor-patient relationship from one of the paternalism to that of shared decision-making. Yet, few studies have explored empirically, from patients' perspectives, the extent to which the process of consent to treatment enables or disables patients' participation in medical decision-making. Our a…
Media Review: Handbook of Mixed Methods Research in Business and Management
As a business and management research methodologist, I was keen to review Roslyn Cameron’s and Xanthe Golenko’s edited volume Mixed Methods Research in Business and Management. Having read the 26 chapters, written by both leading mixed methods researchers and early career academics from Australia, North America, Europe, and Asia, suffice to say, I am pleased to have had the opportunity. This volume considers a wide variety of innovations in mixed…
Web versus Mail: The Influence of Survey Distribution Mode on Employees’ Response
Despite organizations' widespread Internet use and ready availability of Web survey software, few studies have examined explicitly the impact on employees' responses of using the Web as opposed to mail-based surveys (MBS). This article addresses this gap using an employee attitude survey distributed to a 50% systematic sample of 3,338 employees by mail, the remaining employees receiving the survey via a Web link. Although the return rate for the …
The impact of European community mutual recognition of professional qualifications on local authority recruitment
The Influence of Job-Vacancy Advertising upon Migration: Some Empirical Evidence
Recent theoretical work suggests that vacancy information is important in the job search and migration processes. Empirical research has shown that the way an employer notifies a vacant post and the likelihood of migration are both related to the type of post. Migration has also been shown to be related to the migrant's personal characteristics. However, little empirical evidence exists to relate the way an employer notifies a post to the likelih…
The impact of European community mutual recognition of professional qualifications on local authority recruitment
Organizational Trust: A Cultural Perspective
The globalized nature of modern organizations presents new and intimidating challenges for effective relationship building. Organizations and their employees are increasingly being asked to manage unfamiliar relationships with unfamiliar parties. These relationships not only involve working across different national cultures, but also dealing with different organizational cultures, different professional cultures and even different internal const…
Handbook of Research Methods on Trust
The Handbook of Research Methods on Trust provides an authoritative in-depth consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical study of trust in the social sciences. As this topic has matured, a growing number of practical approaches and techniques has been utilised across the broad, multidisciplinary community of trust research, providing both insights and challenges. This unique Handbook draws together a wealth of research met…
The origins and conceptualizations of ‘triple-loop’ learning: A critical review
In the organizational learning literature a variety of concepts exists denoting some third order of organizational learning, notably that of ‘triple-loop’ learning. Despite this there has been no systematic, critical consideration of this concept or its origins, impeding both theoretical development and empirical research. Whilst ‘triple-loop learning’ has been inspired by Argyris and Schön, we establish that the term does not arise in their publ…
Web versus Mail: The Influence of Survey Distribution Mode on Employees’ Response
Despite organizations' widespread Internet use and ready availability of Web survey software, few studies have examined explicitly the impact on employees' responses of using the Web as opposed to mail-based surveys (MBS). This article addresses this gap using an employee attitude survey distributed to a 50% systematic sample of 3,338 employees by mail, the remaining employees receiving the survey via a Web link. Although the return rate for the …
Elective surgical patients' narratives of hospitalization: The co-construction of safety
Trust and distrust: Polar opposites, or independent but co-existing
This article provides an empirical test of whether trust and distrust can co-exist in the mind of an employee. Two interrelated questions are considered: firstly, whether trust and distrust judgements are ‘symmetrical’ or whether they can occur ‘simultaneously’ as separate constructs; and, secondly, whether trust and distrust judgements entail the same or conceptually different expectations as revealed in their expressions and anticipated manifes…
Concepts and theory building
Handbook of Research Methods on Trust: Second Edition
The second edition of this handbook provides an updated and expanded overview of the variety of methods that researchers can apply when they study the multi-faceted phenomenon of trust.This second edition responds to the growing interest in research on trust, recognising that it is one of the most fascinating and fundamental social phenomena yet at the same time one of the most 'elusive' (Gambetta, 1988) and challenging concepts one could study.O…
Why the epistemologies of trust researchers matter
In this thought piece we take stock of and evaluate the nature of knowledge production in the field of trust research by examining the epistemologies of 167 leading trust scholars, who responded to a short survey. Following a brief review of major epistemological perspectives, we discuss the nature of the prevalent views and their geographical distribution within our field. We call on trust researchers to engage in epistemological reflection, dev…
Reporting and Justifying the Number of Interview Participants in Organization and Workplace Research
In this paper we examine established practice regarding the reporting, justification and number of interview participants chosen within organization and workplace studies. For such qualitative research there is a paucity of discussion across the social sciences, the topic receiving far less attention than its centrality warrants. We analysed 798 articles published in 2003 and 2013 in ten top and second tier academic journals, identifying 248 stud…
Religiousness as tourist performances: A case study of Greek Orthodox pilgrimage
The aim of this paper is to decipher ways of experiencing religiousness through tourist performances, intersecting textual approaches with the essential embodiment and materiality of the tourist world. Exploring the diversity of religious tourists’ practices within the Greek Orthodox context, two dimensions underpinning religious tourist experience are highlighted: institutional performances and unconventional performances. Focussing on the embod…
The consent process: Enabling or disabling patients' active participation
Standards expected by doctors' regulatory bodies in respect of the process of consent to treatment have arguably sought to restructure the nature of the doctor-patient relationship from one of the paternalism to that of shared decision-making. Yet, few studies have explored empirically, from patients' perspectives, the extent to which the process of consent to treatment enables or disables patients' participation in medical decision-making. Our a…
The complexities of religious tourism motivations: Sacred places, vows and visions
A Novel Use of Honey's Aggregation Approach to the Analysis of Repertory Grids
This article examines and appraises a novel approach for generating shared group constructs through aggregative analysis: the application of Honey's aggregation procedure to repertory grid technique (RGT) data. Revisiting personal construct theory's underlying premises and adopting a social constructivist epistemology, we argue that, while "implicit theories" of the world, elicited via RGT, are unique to individuals, the constructs on which they …
Human resource management in the age of generative artificial intelligence: Perspectives and research directions on ChatGPT
ChatGPT and its variants that use generative artificial intelligence (AI) models have rapidly become a focal point in academic and media discussions about their potential benefits and drawbacks across various sectors of the economy, democracy, society, and environment. It remains unclear whether these technologies result in job displacement or creation, or if they merely shift human labour by generating new, potentially trivial or practically irr…
Media Review: Handbook of Mixed Methods Research in Business and Management
As a business and management research methodologist, I was keen to review Roslyn Cameron’s and Xanthe Golenko’s edited volume Mixed Methods Research in Business and Management. Having read the 26 chapters, written by both leading mixed methods researchers and early career academics from Australia, North America, Europe, and Asia, suffice to say, I am pleased to have had the opportunity. This volume considers a wide variety of innovations in mixed…
Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting
Focusing on management consulting firms, this study scrutinizes a core group of knowledge workers revealing the complexity and diversity of meanings attached to their trust-related decisions, emotions and behaviours. Drawing on 50 interviews utilizing critical incident technique with management consultants working in leading UK and US consulting firms, the study offers insights into the complex nature of human interactions and their embeddedness …
Computer Science (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Engineering (4 works)