Tim Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6034-1948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Problematizing people management practices: A critical realist study of knowledge sharing
Within the field of Human Resource Management (HRM), it is assumed that people management practices, including teamworking and cultural initiatives, enable knowledge sharing because they encourage employees to work collaboratively. Perhaps less well understood are occasions when such efforts fail to deliver knowledge sharing arrangements. Here we employ the critical realist concept of emergence to situate the introduction of people management pra…
Realist evaluation of social outcomes in community care: The application of affordance theory to the Lindsay Leg Clubs
This study uses a scientific realist methodology to explain how social outcomes of community care interventions are produced, sustained and contextually dependent. We evaluate an organization dedicated to wound care and leg health known as the Lindsay Leg Club network, so far studied mostly from a phenomenological perspective, to demonstrate the generative role of places where Leg Clubs are located, with objects in their environment, and people w…
Living dolls? The role of clothing and fashion in ‘sexualisation’
This article considers the role that clothing and fashion have played, or continue to play, in ‘sexualisation’. It is pointed out that fashion, as in clothing, has often played a very small part in much wider discussions about ‘sexualisation’ much of which fails to problematise the meaning of the clothing concerned. The article thus considers what might constitute ‘sexualised’ clothing or fashion – whether this is simply baring of flesh, too ‘adu…
Introduction: De/humanization and critical realism
This short paper introduces the special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism on de/humanisation and critical realism. It discusses the significance of studying contemporary processes of dehumanisation as well as attempts to reorganise groups, organisations and societies. It provides a sketchy summary of the contributions to the special issue by Douglas Porpora, Peter Kahn, LAkshman Vimalasena, Hans Despain, Harvey Shoolmann and Alan Norrie
Explaining leadership in family firms: Reflexivity, social conditioning and institutional complexity
Research on leadership in family firms has concentrated on the drivers of performance viewed in the context of reciprocal family and business logics, family or non-family CEOs operating within different family governance and administrative settings. The explanatory aim is to ascertain the optimum configuration of elements for achieving improved economic rents so the benefits of family loyalty do not negatively impact firm performance. Our thesis …
Consolidating neo-institutionalism in the field of organizations: Recent contributions
Review Symposium: A Theory of Fields / N. Fligstein and D. McAdam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 238 pp. The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process / P. H. Thornton, W. Ocasio and M. Lounsbury. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 234 pp
Inhabiting Institutions: Critical Realist Refinements to Understanding Institutional Complexity and Change
This paper builds on recent contributions to understanding conditions of institutional complexity by developing a theoretical framework to elaborate the interdependencies between actions, contexts and institutional logics. Our aim is to refine existing explanations of how actors inhabit complex institutional settings. Drawing on a critical realist ontology, we treat agency and structure as analytically distinct phenomena to advance our understand…
Medusa's stare: Celebrity, Subjectivity and Gender
This article posits the argument that celebrity culture is gendered both in its production and consumption of fame and that this has, historically at least, been rather neglected within studies of celebrity. A key problematic within this is the role of subjectivity and the ways in which contemporary celebrity culture is both sold to and consumed by the sexes rather differently. This rests initially on a re-reading of Marxist analyses of object-ba…
The Real Prayer and the Imagined: The War against Romanticism in Twain, Howells, and Bierce
New Perspectives on “The War-Prayer” Essays on “The War-Prayer” The Real Prayer and the Imagined: The War Against Romanticism in Twain, Howells, and Bierce Tim EDWARDS Mark Twain’s “The War-Prayer” rehearses and recasts a dynamic which we nd op- erating in other realist texts that work to unmask the face of war. Emerson’s famous—and perhaps easily satirized—transparent eyeball image, of course, provides the central meta- phor of American Romant…
Challenging conventions: Roles and processes during non-isomorphic institutional change
In this article we theorize the early moments of non-isomorphic institutional change. In avoiding the `hero imagery' of the individual institutional entrepreneur we emphasize the role of different actors and broader historical processes in explaining the substantive changes and developments in the superyacht industry between the late 1960s and early 1980s. Particular attention is given to explaining the significance of entrepreneurialism, opposit…
Cultural Theory: Classical and Contemporary Positions
A Critical Assessment of the Evaluation of EU Interventions for Innovation in the SME Sector in Wales
In this paper, the EU Structural Fund intervention framework is critically assessed in an effort to reflect on the problems faced by policy-makers when trying to make sense of the complexity associated with innovation. An assessment is made of the `evidence-based' approach for reporting on EU Structural Fund interventions in the Welsh economy. It is argued that the measurement of quantifiable inputs and outputs fails to engage sufficiently with t…
Sex, Booze and Fags: Masculinity, Style and Men's Magazines
Queer Fears: Against the Cultural Turn
This article provides a strong critique of queer theory and politics and is intended to stimulate discussion of the wider cultural turn in the study of sexualities. There are three sections. The first considers definitions of queer theory and practice and criticizes the extent to which it marks a true break in lesbian and gay studies. The second provides a more detailed critique of the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Judith Butler. The third an…
Erotics and Politics: Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity and Feminity
Challenging conventions: Roles and processes during non-isomorphic institutional change
In this article we theorize the early moments of non-isomorphic institutional change. In avoiding the `hero imagery' of the individual institutional entrepreneur we emphasize the role of different actors and broader historical processes in explaining the substantive changes and developments in the superyacht industry between the late 1960s and early 1980s. Particular attention is given to explaining the significance of entrepreneurialism, opposit…
Medusa's stare: Celebrity, Subjectivity and Gender
This article posits the argument that celebrity culture is gendered both in its production and consumption of fame and that this has, historically at least, been rather neglected within studies of celebrity. A key problematic within this is the role of subjectivity and the ways in which contemporary celebrity culture is both sold to and consumed by the sexes rather differently. This rests initially on a re-reading of Marxist analyses of object-ba…
Sex, Booze and Fags: Masculinity, Style and Men's Magazines
Explaining leadership in family firms: Reflexivity, social conditioning and institutional complexity
Research on leadership in family firms has concentrated on the drivers of performance viewed in the context of reciprocal family and business logics, family or non-family CEOs operating within different family governance and administrative settings. The explanatory aim is to ascertain the optimum configuration of elements for achieving improved economic rents so the benefits of family loyalty do not negatively impact firm performance. Our thesis …
A Critical Assessment of the Evaluation of EU Interventions for Innovation in the SME Sector in Wales
In this paper, the EU Structural Fund intervention framework is critically assessed in an effort to reflect on the problems faced by policy-makers when trying to make sense of the complexity associated with innovation. An assessment is made of the `evidence-based' approach for reporting on EU Structural Fund interventions in the Welsh economy. It is argued that the measurement of quantifiable inputs and outputs fails to engage sufficiently with t…
Erotics and Politics: Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity and Feminity
Queer Fears: Against the Cultural Turn
This article provides a strong critique of queer theory and politics and is intended to stimulate discussion of the wider cultural turn in the study of sexualities. There are three sections. The first considers definitions of queer theory and practice and criticizes the extent to which it marks a true break in lesbian and gay studies. The second provides a more detailed critique of the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Judith Butler. The third an…
Sex, Booze and Fags: Masculinity, Style and Men's Magazines
Cultural Theory: Classical and Contemporary Positions
A Critical Assessment of the Evaluation of EU Interventions for Innovation in the SME Sector in Wales
In this paper, the EU Structural Fund intervention framework is critically assessed in an effort to reflect on the problems faced by policy-makers when trying to make sense of the complexity associated with innovation. An assessment is made of the `evidence-based' approach for reporting on EU Structural Fund interventions in the Welsh economy. It is argued that the measurement of quantifiable inputs and outputs fails to engage sufficiently with t…
Challenging conventions: Roles and processes during non-isomorphic institutional change
In this article we theorize the early moments of non-isomorphic institutional change. In avoiding the `hero imagery' of the individual institutional entrepreneur we emphasize the role of different actors and broader historical processes in explaining the substantive changes and developments in the superyacht industry between the late 1960s and early 1980s. Particular attention is given to explaining the significance of entrepreneurialism, opposit…
The Real Prayer and the Imagined: The War against Romanticism in Twain, Howells, and Bierce
New Perspectives on “The War-Prayer” Essays on “The War-Prayer” The Real Prayer and the Imagined: The War Against Romanticism in Twain, Howells, and Bierce Tim EDWARDS Mark Twain’s “The War-Prayer” rehearses and recasts a dynamic which we nd op- erating in other realist texts that work to unmask the face of war. Emerson’s famous—and perhaps easily satirized—transparent eyeball image, of course, provides the central meta- phor of American Romant…
Inhabiting Institutions: Critical Realist Refinements to Understanding Institutional Complexity and Change
This paper builds on recent contributions to understanding conditions of institutional complexity by developing a theoretical framework to elaborate the interdependencies between actions, contexts and institutional logics. Our aim is to refine existing explanations of how actors inhabit complex institutional settings. Drawing on a critical realist ontology, we treat agency and structure as analytically distinct phenomena to advance our understand…
Medusa's stare: Celebrity, Subjectivity and Gender
This article posits the argument that celebrity culture is gendered both in its production and consumption of fame and that this has, historically at least, been rather neglected within studies of celebrity. A key problematic within this is the role of subjectivity and the ways in which contemporary celebrity culture is both sold to and consumed by the sexes rather differently. This rests initially on a re-reading of Marxist analyses of object-ba…
Consolidating neo-institutionalism in the field of organizations: Recent contributions
Review Symposium: A Theory of Fields / N. Fligstein and D. McAdam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 238 pp. The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process / P. H. Thornton, W. Ocasio and M. Lounsbury. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 234 pp
Explaining leadership in family firms: Reflexivity, social conditioning and institutional complexity
Research on leadership in family firms has concentrated on the drivers of performance viewed in the context of reciprocal family and business logics, family or non-family CEOs operating within different family governance and administrative settings. The explanatory aim is to ascertain the optimum configuration of elements for achieving improved economic rents so the benefits of family loyalty do not negatively impact firm performance. Our thesis …
Introduction: De/humanization and critical realism
This short paper introduces the special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism on de/humanisation and critical realism. It discusses the significance of studying contemporary processes of dehumanisation as well as attempts to reorganise groups, organisations and societies. It provides a sketchy summary of the contributions to the special issue by Douglas Porpora, Peter Kahn, LAkshman Vimalasena, Hans Despain, Harvey Shoolmann and Alan Norrie
Living dolls? The role of clothing and fashion in ‘sexualisation’
This article considers the role that clothing and fashion have played, or continue to play, in ‘sexualisation’. It is pointed out that fashion, as in clothing, has often played a very small part in much wider discussions about ‘sexualisation’ much of which fails to problematise the meaning of the clothing concerned. The article thus considers what might constitute ‘sexualised’ clothing or fashion – whether this is simply baring of flesh, too ‘adu…
Realist evaluation of social outcomes in community care: The application of affordance theory to the Lindsay Leg Clubs
This study uses a scientific realist methodology to explain how social outcomes of community care interventions are produced, sustained and contextually dependent. We evaluate an organization dedicated to wound care and leg health known as the Lindsay Leg Club network, so far studied mostly from a phenomenological perspective, to demonstrate the generative role of places where Leg Clubs are located, with objects in their environment, and people w…
Problematizing people management practices: A critical realist study of knowledge sharing
Within the field of Human Resource Management (HRM), it is assumed that people management practices, including teamworking and cultural initiatives, enable knowledge sharing because they encourage employees to work collaboratively. Perhaps less well understood are occasions when such efforts fail to deliver knowledge sharing arrangements. Here we employ the critical realist concept of emergence to situate the introduction of people management pra…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social science (5 works)