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Between the Millstones: A Narrative Account of the Vulnerability of Middle Managers’ Storying
- D. Sims
- Business
- 1 October 2003
This article seeks to illuminate our understanding of the lives of middle managers by considering the special pressures on them to tell stories about their organization that make sense to three…
Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City Out of Control
- D. Sims, J. Abu-lughod
- History
- 1 February 2011
Trying to make sense of the urban giant that is Cairo This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the…
Marketing higher education: the MBA experience
- J. Nicholls, John Harris, E. Morgan, K. Clarke, D. Sims
- Business
- 1 April 1995
Given the increasing competition in higher education, including that on MBA degrees, it is surprising that more attention has not been paid to marketing issues, such as are educational institutions…
Leadership, Daoist Wu Wei and reflexivity: Flow, self-protection and excuse in Chinese bank managers’ leadership practice
Previous studies of Chinese leadership have identified Daoism as the main philosophical tradition that makes Chinese leadership behaviour different from western leadership behaviour in terms of its…
Practising and knowing management: A dialogic perspective
- R. MacIntosh, Nicola Beech, E. Antonacopoulou, D. Sims
- Business
- 5 July 2012
This article develops a dialogic perspective on practising and knowing management. It builds on prior work which has considered the nature of management research as well as the relationship between…
Organizing and Organizations
- D. Sims, Yiannis Gabriel, S. Fineman
- Business
- 25 May 2005
Introduction Organization and Organizing Entering and Leaving Lifelong Learning Motives and Motivating Rules Are Rules Buildings and Organizing Leading Politics and Deals Us and Them Being Different?…
The Phenomenology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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Egypt's Desert Dreams: Development or Disaster?
- D. Sims, T. Mitchell
- History
- 2015
Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country's problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new…
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