Ace Volkmann Simpson

Biographic Data

ID3436883
NAMEAce Volkmann Simpson
GIVEN NAMESAce Volkmann
FAMILY NAMESimpson
SIGNATURESIMPSON A V
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Technology Sydney
ORCID0000-0002-7768-328X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Paradox(a)

    Ace Volkmann Simpson, Angela Greco et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Power2025References: 7

  • Cultivating staff equality, diversity, and inclusion in higher education in the post-pandemic era

    Open AccessHaleh Hashemi Toroghi, Fiona Denney et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sociology2024References: 12

    The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing challenges faced by academic staff in UK higher education and drawn attention to issues of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). Amidst global competitiveness and workplace pressures, challenges such as managerialism, increased workload, and inequalities have worsened, significantly impacting mental health. This paper presents a conceptual analysis connecting EDI with organizational compassio…

  • Team ground rules

    Open AccessMiguel Pina E Cunha, Arménio Rego et al.ARTICLEOrganizational Dynamics2022

    Teams are complex relational systems. Effective team functioning depends on members willingness to coordinate and work together. Ground rules play a fundamental but frequently ignored role in this process. We define ground rules as the mutual agreements informally established by members to regulate team functioning. These agreements may subsequently be rendered formal or explicit. The nature and functions of ground rules (including as social-norm…

  • Theorizing compassionate leadership from the case of Jacinda Ardern

    Open AccessAce Volkmann Simpson, Arménio Rego et al.ARTICLELeadership2021Cited by: 2References: 21

    During times of suffering such as that inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic, compassion expressed by leaders helps to ease distress. Doing so, those in a position to provide resources that might facilitate coping and recovery are attentive to the situations of distress. Despite an abundance of leadership theorizing and models, there still is little academic literature on compassionate leadership. To address this limitation, we present an explorator…

  • Selfless and strategic, interpersonal and institutional

    Maria Leonor Araújo, Ace Volkmann Simpson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Power2019References: 17

    We asked 32 professionals what organizational compassion is to them. Analysis of the responses revealed four conflicting, if not paradoxical, dimensions. With insight from Habermas’ theory of ‘communicative action’, we paired these dimensions as two lifeworld/system couples: (1) selfless compassion (lifeworld) and strategic compassion (system), as well as (2) interpersonal compassion (lifeworld) and institutional compassion (system). While the co…

  • Doing compassion or doing discipline? Power relations and the Magdalene Laundries

    Ace Volkmann Simpson, S R Clegg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Power2014Cited by: 1References: 26

    We address the Magdalene Laundries. On the one hand this institution was constituted as a compassionate response to managing troubled young women; on the other hand it was seen as a disciplinary apparatus imposing total institutional life on its inmates. The antinomy of views about the institution is evident in the analysis we make of 116 comments by 66 commenters on an online newspaper article about the Magdalene Laundries. We analyse these comm…

  • Being social in organizational studies

    Ace Volkmann Simpson, Marco BertiARTICLEJournal of Political Power2014References: 16

    Routledge Revivals, an initiative that aims to reissue out of print works by distin- guished academics, has republished six early publications (co-)authored or edited over an 11-year period between 1975 and 1986 by Stewart Clegg. These are works by Clegg as an early career researcher, not yet established in either sociology or management but hovering in between the two disciplines. Clegg’s (2005) ‘Vita Contemplative’ indicates that he wrote the f…

  • Compassion, power and organization

    Ace Volkmann Simpson, S R Clegg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Power2013Cited by: 3References: 24

    In this paper, we analyse the significance of compassion as an emotion in its relationship to various manifestations of power within the organisational context. We critique those theories of compassion that assume that compassion in organsational contexts is motivated only by a noble intent. The paper draws on a study of organisational responses to the flood that devastated the City of Brisbane Australia on the morning of 11 January 2011. We use …

  • Of Revelation and Revolution

    A Simpson, Ace Volkmann SimpsonARTICLEAfrican Affairs1999

    Journal Article Of Revelation and Revolution: The dialectics of modernity on a South African frontier Get access Of Revelation and Revolution: The dialectics of modernity on a South African frontier, by John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxiii+588 pp. £19.95 paperback. ISBN 0-226-11444-9. ANTHONY SIMPSON ANTHONY SIMPSON University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …