Heike Doering

Cardiff University | CU · Cardiff Business School

This paper investigates how multiple stakeholders understand and navigate the interrelationship between past, present and future time-frames through what is termed omni-temporality. Despite an interest in the phenomenon within the corporate brand heritage literature, a limited understanding persists concerning how omni-temporality shapes stakeholde...

Purpose Drawing on the service-dominant logic and taking a multi-stakeholder brand value co-creation perspective, this paper aims to investigate whether positioning a place brand around sustainability helps or hinders stakeholders’ ability to co-create value for themselves and the brand. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on a case st...

Inquiries into organisational scandals repeatedly attribute wrongdoing to the normalisation of deviance. From this perspective, the cause of harm lies not in the actions of any individual but rather in the institutionalised practices of organisations or sectors. Although an important corrective to dramatic tales of bad apples, the normalisation the...

This book examines the rise of populism as a global phenomenon and focuses on the role of business in these developments. Business is often targeted by populists as part of their anti-elite agenda, and the new political practices associated with the populist turn also challenge many traditional channels of business influence. The book argues that t...

This book examines the rise of populism as a global phenomenon and focuses on the role of business in these developments. Business is often targeted by populists as part of their anti-elite agenda, and the new political practices associated with the populist turn also challenge many traditional channels of business influence. The book argues that t...

Although stakeholder participation in place branding is actively encouraged, there has been a paucity of studies examining why uneven involvement persists in practice. This study builds on Bourdieu's theory of field and capital to explain how stakeholders from the local state, destinations, businesses and local communities negotiate influence and l...

In this paper we argue that efforts to apply Varieties of Capitalism to emerging economies can retaining a central role for institutions as constraining, it is important to incorporate into the analysis the nature and role of social blocs and the development of growth regimes. The paper develops a framework that systematically explores the links an...

Reputational threats are key to understanding public services’ behaviour. Previous research has viewed external performance assessments as an unwelcome imposition on public managers and a threat to organizational identity. Analysing the adoption of a self-imposed process of peer-led assessment by public managers in UK local government we show how t...

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By the time of the election in May 2010, performance management and service improvement were still a high priority but the 2008 recession and significant reductions in public expenditure were dominating local and national politics. The incoming government adopted policies focused on austerity, ‘localism’ and a ‘sector-led approach’ to performance i...

This article provides an analysis of the uneven practices and outcomes of new developmentalism in Brazil. New developmentalism has been described as a hybrid approach to development. It combines liberal practices of privatization and export orientation with state intervention to achieve social inclusion and economic development. Academic and policy...

Performance management systems have become a key component of contemporary public administration. However, there has been only limited analysis of the social construction of performance by public managers who are subject to them. This article examines the ways in which public managers create, maintain, and disrupt performance management practices....

Recent research has identified many ways in which states can affect the development of firms and their capabilities in the current context of intensified international competition by developing new governance mechanisms. However, there often remain substantial barriers to these developments and in this symposium we will examine how novel forms of f...

The aim of this article is to investigate the sustainability agenda and its implications for employment and managerial practices within different institutional contexts. The article uses the comparative capitalisms literature and, in particular, the Varieties of Capitalism framework to examine how multinational corporations (MNCs) can exploit diffe...

This article engages with recent debates which assert that community participation and empowerment are place-contingent. The particular nature of localities has regularly been taken to account for success or failure in processes of participation and regeneration. In contrast, this article exposes the failings based in the nature of the process of r...

This paper deals with current issues in the constitution and maintenance of communities and the effect on notions of citizenship and public engagement. This review looks at a number of studies concerned with the building of communities and the effects of structural changes on the maintenance of communities. It uses the decline of the nation as domi...