Helen Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 4399896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0892-9231 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Conceptualising Supply Chain Resilience Within Social Enterprises
This research seeks to conceptualise supply chain resilience (SCRes) in a social enterprise (SE) context, focusing on SEs with a social mission to tackle food insecurity and food poverty. Despite the increasingly mature field of SCRes and awareness of the critical role SEs play in tackling social challenges such as food poverty, no studies have explored what SCRes entails in an SE context and whether SEs build their SCRes differently. An in‐depth…
A Decision Theory Perspective on Wicked Problems, SDGs and Stakeholders: The Case of Deforestation
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an opportunity to address major social and environmental challenges. As a widely agreed framework they offer a potential way to mobilise stakeholders on a global scale. The manner in which the goals, with time-based targets and specific metrics, are set out within a voluntary reporting process adopted by both governments and business, provides a fascinating and important case for organisational studies…
A “Necessary Evil”: Staff Perspectives of Soft Restraint Kit Use in a High-Security Hospital
Thematic analysis was undertaken generating four themes: sense of responsibility, aptitude, enablers/inhibitors, and consequence. Conclusions suggest that Soft Restraint Kits provide a useful method of containment, although prolonged use presents considerable challenges for staff. The importance of preparation and training cannot be underestimated and continued support and supervision are absolutely essential
Experience Focussed Counselling with Voice Hearers: Towards a Trans-diagnostic Key to Understanding Past and Current Distress—A Thematic Enquiry
A relational, transformative and engaged approach to sustainable supply chain management: The potential of action research
This article describes how action research can advance sustainable supply chain management research. Most sustainable supply chain management research is empirical and little attention has been paid to reflecting upon how research is conducted in the field. Current research fails to make links with ideas of relationality, change and engagement proposed in broader sustainability research. We propose to address this gap by discussing how action res…
Sustainable Procurement
Sustainable procurement is on government and organizational agendas across the world and entails buying goods and services in socially, environmentally, and economically responsible ways. This article introduces the concept, explores the reasons for public and private organizations seeking to source more sustainably, and considers future research directions.
Collaborative Procurement: A Relational View of Buyer–Buyer Relationships
Collaborative procurement is increasingly on the policy agenda in many countries, yet problems with collaboration occur. This article adopts a relational theory perspective to explore the enablers of and barriers to collaboration in purchasing, helping identify success factors. The authors adopted a mixed qualitative/quantitative methodology and interviewed 51 senior staffers in the United Kingdom. They found that collaborative public procurement…
Sustainable procurement in the public sector: An international comparative study
Purpose Public bodies are being encouraged to procure sustainably, to reduce their social and environmental footprint and in order to stimulate sustainability in the private sector. However, little is known about how public sector organisations internationally are responding to this encouragement or of the conditions that are most conducive to sustainable procurement (SP). The purpose of this paper is to address these gaps in our knowledge so as …
Psychological Barriers in the Road to Sustainable Development: Evidence From Public Sector Procurement
This article provides a conceptual framework for understanding key psychological barriers to implementing sustainable development in procurement process by local government and health care authorities. This task is an important one as a comprehension of psychological barriers is a prerequisite for understanding how individuals engage with the often more visible technical, budgetary or regulatory barriers in sustainable procurement. The article hi…
Development of Purchasing Groups during Their Life Cycle: From Infancy to Maturity
Increasingly, public sector organizations collaborate to buy products and services. They collectively form purchasing groups to deliver more value for money. What is the progress of these small‐scale developments of public sector purchasing groups to date, in the early phases of their life cycle? Although previous research provides general descriptions of life‐cycle phases, little attention has been paid to detailed small‐scale developments that …
A Necessary Engagement: Reinventing America's Relations with the Muslim World * By Emile NAKHLEH
President Barack Obama’s seminal speech in Cairo on 4 June 2009 might well have been drafted by the author of this book. Dr Nakhleh, offering a blueprint for an American public diplomacy directed towards Muslims, claims not to engage in ‘policy-bashing’ but to offer a forward-looking road map that focuses on engaging Muslims and Arabs. He further argues that effective public diplomacy must be a unified effort pursued at the federal government lev…
Drivers and barriers to environmental supply chain management practices: Lessons from the public and private sectors
Women's Experiences and Perceptions of Age Discrimination in Employment: Implications for Research and Policy
This paper reports on pilot study research for an ESF funded project. It examines the experiences and perceptions of 12 women in relation to the concept of ageism in paid employment. The women were all aged 50 or over at the time. The results show that whilst most of the women had faced (to differing degrees) or observed gender and age based discrimination, the experiences and interpretations revealed were not static, nor isolated from the wider …
Managing the Transition to Work: The Role of the Planning Network in British Town Planning Education
The development of town planning education in the United Kingdom can be traced back over at least sixty years and has always enjoyed a close relationship with practitioners, employers and the professional body, the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). In order to ensure an intake of sufficient quality to a growing profession, the Institute offered its own exams until the 1980s and then initiated the current system of accrediting both undergradua…
The popularisation of the outdoor movement, 1900–1940
The program for training specialists in psychological measurement at Teachers College, Columbia University
Psychological Barriers in the Road to Sustainable Development: Evidence From Public Sector Procurement
This article provides a conceptual framework for understanding key psychological barriers to implementing sustainable development in procurement process by local government and health care authorities. This task is an important one as a comprehension of psychological barriers is a prerequisite for understanding how individuals engage with the often more visible technical, budgetary or regulatory barriers in sustainable procurement. The article hi…
Women's Experiences and Perceptions of Age Discrimination in Employment: Implications for Research and Policy
This paper reports on pilot study research for an ESF funded project. It examines the experiences and perceptions of 12 women in relation to the concept of ageism in paid employment. The women were all aged 50 or over at the time. The results show that whilst most of the women had faced (to differing degrees) or observed gender and age based discrimination, the experiences and interpretations revealed were not static, nor isolated from the wider …
The popularisation of the outdoor movement, 1900–1940
A relational, transformative and engaged approach to sustainable supply chain management: The potential of action research
This article describes how action research can advance sustainable supply chain management research. Most sustainable supply chain management research is empirical and little attention has been paid to reflecting upon how research is conducted in the field. Current research fails to make links with ideas of relationality, change and engagement proposed in broader sustainability research. We propose to address this gap by discussing how action res…
Experience Focussed Counselling with Voice Hearers: Towards a Trans-diagnostic Key to Understanding Past and Current Distress—A Thematic Enquiry
The program for training specialists in psychological measurement at Teachers College, Columbia University
The popularisation of the outdoor movement, 1900–1940
Managing the Transition to Work: The Role of the Planning Network in British Town Planning Education
The development of town planning education in the United Kingdom can be traced back over at least sixty years and has always enjoyed a close relationship with practitioners, employers and the professional body, the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). In order to ensure an intake of sufficient quality to a growing profession, the Institute offered its own exams until the 1980s and then initiated the current system of accrediting both undergradua…
Women's Experiences and Perceptions of Age Discrimination in Employment: Implications for Research and Policy
This paper reports on pilot study research for an ESF funded project. It examines the experiences and perceptions of 12 women in relation to the concept of ageism in paid employment. The women were all aged 50 or over at the time. The results show that whilst most of the women had faced (to differing degrees) or observed gender and age based discrimination, the experiences and interpretations revealed were not static, nor isolated from the wider …
Drivers and barriers to environmental supply chain management practices: Lessons from the public and private sectors
A Necessary Engagement: Reinventing America's Relations with the Muslim World * By Emile NAKHLEH
President Barack Obama’s seminal speech in Cairo on 4 June 2009 might well have been drafted by the author of this book. Dr Nakhleh, offering a blueprint for an American public diplomacy directed towards Muslims, claims not to engage in ‘policy-bashing’ but to offer a forward-looking road map that focuses on engaging Muslims and Arabs. He further argues that effective public diplomacy must be a unified effort pursued at the federal government lev…
Sustainable procurement in the public sector: An international comparative study
Purpose Public bodies are being encouraged to procure sustainably, to reduce their social and environmental footprint and in order to stimulate sustainability in the private sector. However, little is known about how public sector organisations internationally are responding to this encouragement or of the conditions that are most conducive to sustainable procurement (SP). The purpose of this paper is to address these gaps in our knowledge so as …
Psychological Barriers in the Road to Sustainable Development: Evidence From Public Sector Procurement
This article provides a conceptual framework for understanding key psychological barriers to implementing sustainable development in procurement process by local government and health care authorities. This task is an important one as a comprehension of psychological barriers is a prerequisite for understanding how individuals engage with the often more visible technical, budgetary or regulatory barriers in sustainable procurement. The article hi…
Development of Purchasing Groups during Their Life Cycle: From Infancy to Maturity
Increasingly, public sector organizations collaborate to buy products and services. They collectively form purchasing groups to deliver more value for money. What is the progress of these small‐scale developments of public sector purchasing groups to date, in the early phases of their life cycle? Although previous research provides general descriptions of life‐cycle phases, little attention has been paid to detailed small‐scale developments that …
Collaborative Procurement: A Relational View of Buyer–Buyer Relationships
Collaborative procurement is increasingly on the policy agenda in many countries, yet problems with collaboration occur. This article adopts a relational theory perspective to explore the enablers of and barriers to collaboration in purchasing, helping identify success factors. The authors adopted a mixed qualitative/quantitative methodology and interviewed 51 senior staffers in the United Kingdom. They found that collaborative public procurement…
Sustainable Procurement
Sustainable procurement is on government and organizational agendas across the world and entails buying goods and services in socially, environmentally, and economically responsible ways. This article introduces the concept, explores the reasons for public and private organizations seeking to source more sustainably, and considers future research directions.
A relational, transformative and engaged approach to sustainable supply chain management: The potential of action research
This article describes how action research can advance sustainable supply chain management research. Most sustainable supply chain management research is empirical and little attention has been paid to reflecting upon how research is conducted in the field. Current research fails to make links with ideas of relationality, change and engagement proposed in broader sustainability research. We propose to address this gap by discussing how action res…
Experience Focussed Counselling with Voice Hearers: Towards a Trans-diagnostic Key to Understanding Past and Current Distress—A Thematic Enquiry
A “Necessary Evil”: Staff Perspectives of Soft Restraint Kit Use in a High-Security Hospital
Thematic analysis was undertaken generating four themes: sense of responsibility, aptitude, enablers/inhibitors, and consequence. Conclusions suggest that Soft Restraint Kits provide a useful method of containment, although prolonged use presents considerable challenges for staff. The importance of preparation and training cannot be underestimated and continued support and supervision are absolutely essential
A Decision Theory Perspective on Wicked Problems, SDGs and Stakeholders: The Case of Deforestation
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an opportunity to address major social and environmental challenges. As a widely agreed framework they offer a potential way to mobilise stakeholders on a global scale. The manner in which the goals, with time-based targets and specific metrics, are set out within a voluntary reporting process adopted by both governments and business, provides a fascinating and important case for organisational studies…
Conceptualising Supply Chain Resilience Within Social Enterprises
This research seeks to conceptualise supply chain resilience (SCRes) in a social enterprise (SE) context, focusing on SEs with a social mission to tackle food insecurity and food poverty. Despite the increasingly mature field of SCRes and awareness of the critical role SEs play in tackling social challenges such as food poverty, no studies have explored what SCRes entails in an SE context and whether SEs build their SCRes differently. An in‐depth…
Business (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Marketing (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Public Procurement and Policy (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Sustainable Supply Chain Management (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)