Alex Murdock

Biographic Data

ID6564927
NAMEAlex Murdock
GIVEN NAMESAlex
FAMILY NAMEMurdock
SIGNATUREMURDOCK A
AFFILIATIONSLondon South Bank University
ORCID0000-0002-5623-4143
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Public service resilience post-Covid

    Adina I Dudau, Roula Masou et al.ARTICLEPublic Management Review2023

    Several years ago, (Duit 2016) noted the turn of public administration design from a focus on efficiency and equity to a concern for robustness and flexibility. If that was true then, the overwhelm

  • Asymmetric forks

    Open AccessDamiano Cortése, Alex MurdockARTICLEBritish Food Journal2020

    Purpose The paper suggests moral imagination as an approach to picture sustainable scenarios in the food industry, which are based on knowledge sharing among stakeholders and knowledge management. This can lead to a wider awareness, consequently a deeper understanding and finally more sustainable behaviors and choices in the food sector. Design/methodology/approach The research paper analyzes the relevant literature on sustainability, stakeholder…

  • Food Banking and Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries

    Open AccessLaurie Mook, Alex Murdock et al.ARTICLEVoluntas Revista Internacional de…2020Cited by: 3References: 5

    Food banks are a particular type of voluntary sector organization that bridges the government sector, private sector, and civil society. This special issue of Voluntas adds to the stream of research on the role of food banks in addressing food insecurity in high-income countries. We begin by outlining the concept of food insecurity and a number of direct responses to alleviating food insecurity at the household and individual level by governments…

  • Conclusions and Looking to the Future

    Open AccessAlex MurdockCHAPTERPrivate Action for Public Purpose2017

    This final chapter has an ambitious remit. It firstly seeks to draw together the concept of private provision for public purpose with particular reference to the work of Falck, the global international rescue company. This will draw upon the various contents of this book and draw the links and implications of the chapters using a number of themes. We utilise a format from a book of 1982 which was widely used to identify “excellent companies” (Pet…

  • Private Action for Public Purpose

    Open AccessAlex MurdockBOOKPrivate Action for Public Purpose2017

    © The Editor(s) and The Author(s) 2017. This book analyses the private provision of rescue and emergency services, and focuses on the emergence of the world’s largest rescue company, Falck. The author’s structured academic perspective is informed through close co-operation with Falck, which operates in 44 countries and across 6 continents. The chapters examine aspects of reliability, culture, innovation, trust, governance and business development…

  • Knowledge exchange between academia and the third sector

    Alex Murdock, Razia Shariff et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2013Cited by: 5

    This paper considers the different approaches to undertake knowledge exchange between academia and the third sector from three practitioner perspectives. London South Bank University (LSBU), as part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) Social Enterprise Capacity Building Cluster (CBC), has been involved in a number of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) and other capacity building projects. …

  • Social Innovation

    Open AccessAlex Nicholls, Alex MurdockEDITORBOOKRicordanza2012

    Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this book is organised to address three of the most important th