All Outputs (4)

Contestation over a Profession's Memory: The UK Pharmacy Profession 1880-1905 (2024)
Journal Article
Currie, G., Wild, A., & Lockett, A. (in press). Contestation over a Profession's Memory: The UK Pharmacy Profession 1880-1905. Journal of Management Studies,

We draw on the historical case of the UK pharmacy industry from 1880-1905, to examine how, in face of a competitive threat to their survival, lower status professionals seek to re-invigorate memory of their role in providing community service in publ... Read More about Contestation over a Profession's Memory: The UK Pharmacy Profession 1880-1905.

Position taking and field level change: Capability Brown and the changing British landscape (2019)
Journal Article
Wild, A., Lockett, A., & Currie, G. (2020). Position taking and field level change: Capability Brown and the changing British landscape. Human Relations, 73(3), 351-377. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726719828436

How does a social actor in a disadvantaged position achieve field-level change? Using a longitudinal case of “Capability” Brown, an individual rising from humble origins to shape and refine the British landscape, we examine how an actor’s unfolding e... Read More about Position taking and field level change: Capability Brown and the changing British landscape.

Turnaround and failure: resource weaknesses and the rise and fall of Jarvis (2015)
Journal Article
Wild, A., & Locket, A. (2016). Turnaround and failure: resource weaknesses and the rise and fall of Jarvis. Business History, 58(6), 829-857. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2015.1024229

Research employing the resource-based view (RBV) has overwhelming focused on the upside of resources, namely those that provide benefit to the firm. However, an emerging research stream suggests that the downside of resources, namely resource weaknes... Read More about Turnaround and failure: resource weaknesses and the rise and fall of Jarvis.

The institutionalization of third stream activities in UK higher education: The role of discourse and metrics (2014)
Journal Article
Lockett, A., Wright, M., & Wild, A. (2015). The institutionalization of third stream activities in UK higher education: The role of discourse and metrics. British Journal of Management, 26(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12069

In this paper we examine the institutionalization of a new organizational practice around third stream activities in UK higher education from 1994 to 2008. Employing a longitudinal research design, involving archival, survey and contemporary intervie... Read More about The institutionalization of third stream activities in UK higher education: The role of discourse and metrics.