Senior Lecturer in Management and Organisation Studies

Contact details

• Tel: + 44 (0)116 252 3811
• Email: sr307@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 529A, Level 5, Ken Edwards Building
• Office hours: Wednesday 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (check door), other times by email appointment.

Biography

I started working at Leicester in October 2011. Previously I worked at Open University Business School and Lancaster University Management School. I have a BA from Essex, an MA from Leicester and PhD from Lancaster University. From 2007-2010 I was co-investigator on AIM Innovation Challenge/ESRC funded: ‘Knowledge and Technology Transfer, Innovation and Competitive Advantage Past and Present’, with colleagues at Lancaster and Leeds universities. At OUBS I led the development of the new stage 1 of the MBA programme: ‘Management perspectives and practice’.   I have also worked in teaching and education development in a variety of countries, including Ukraine and China, France and Spain.

Research interests

My current work focuses largely on developing applications of the conceptual framework Pierre Bourdieu in management and organization studies and theory, including the application of field, forms of capital, habitus, hysteresis, and symbolic violence to transitional periods, boundary crossing and work on and across fields, and on the transferability of management ideas and concepts to different cultural settings. Areas in which this work takes place and broader areas of interest include:

Organisation learning and knowledge transfer: knowledge transfer across traditional boundaries and the role of boundary spanners, hybrid roles and institutional entrepreneurship. This includes the role of HEIs in knowledge exchange and regional development, especially in developing and sustaining social networks and communities of practice. Leadership: critical approaches to leadership, intercultural leadership. International management learning, including implementation of western approaches and HRD practices in non-western or multinational contexts; the ‘internationalisation’ of management education; the role and development of the MBA and Internationalisation/globalisation of management learning/education. Qualitative research methods:  the development and application critical hermeneutic and visual methods in management and organisation research.

PhD Supervision

Ms. Frances Gunn, Open University Business School (part-time)

I am interested in supervising PhD study in the following areas:

• Organisational and management learning
• Knowledge exchange and transfer
• Critical approaches to leadership
• Visual methods in organisational research

Teaching

MN3123 Doing Qualitative Research: Collecting Qualitative Data
MN3124 Doing Qualitative Research: Analysing Qualitative Data

Administrative Responsibilities

MSc Management Programme Leader (Full Time)

MSc Management Programme Leader (Distance Learning)

Recent Publications

Robinson, S. and Kerr, R. ‘From symbolic violence to economic violence: the globalizing of the Scottish banking elite’ Organization Studies (forthcoming 2012).

Elliott, C and Robinson, S.  ‘MBA Imaginaries – projections of internationalisation’. Management Learning (forthcoming 2012).

Kerr, R. and Robinson, S. (2011) ‘Leadership as an elite field: the role of the Scottish banks in the crisis of 2007-2009’, Leadership, vol. 7 (2), pp.151-173.

Johnston, L., Robinson, S.K., and Lockett, N. (2010) 'Recognising ‘open innovation’ in HEI-Industry Interaction for Knowledge Transfer and Exchange', International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research. Vol.16 issue 6 pp 540-560.

Robinson, S.K. and Kerr, R. (2009) 'The symbolic violence of leadership: a critical hermeneutic study of leadership and succession in a British organization in the post-Soviet context' Human Relations, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 875-903.

Robinson, S.K. and Kerr, R. (2009) 'The hysteresis effect as creative adaptation of the habitus: dissent and transition to the 'corporate' in post-Soviet Ukraine' Organization, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 829-853.

Lockett, N., Cave, F., Kerr, R. and Robinson, S.K. (2009) 'The influence of co-location in higher education institutions on small firms - perspectives of knowledge transfer' Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: an international Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 265-283.

Lockett, N, Kerr, R and Robinson, SK (2008) 'Multiple perspectives on knowledge transfer between higher education institutions and industry' International Small Business Journal, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 661-681.

Robinson, S. (2006) ‘Reflecting on the “International Group Working Experience”: a study of two MBA programmes’. International Journal of Management Education Vol. 5 No. 2, pp3-14.

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