the swampy ground research project
a resource about partnership working for managers & educators in health & social care
Papers from the Lead Researchers
Marsh S. 2008 ‘The feminine in management consulting: power, emotion and values in consulting interactions’ Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan
Macalpine M. and Marsh S. 2008 'Supervising action research: a space for critical influence on organisational practice' in T. LeTrent-Jones, M. Vonorov, D, Weir and J. Wolfram-Cox (eds) Critical Management Studies at Work: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Negotiating Tensions between Theory and Practice. London: Edward Elgar (forthcoming) Download as PDF file
Macalpine M and Marsh S 2008 'The 'swampy lowland': using hyperlinks to navigate the multiple realities of partnership' in E. Ferlie, P. Hyde and L. McKee (eds) 'Organising and Reorganising - Power and Change in Health Care Organisations. London: Palgrave Macmillan
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Marsh S & Macalpine M. 2008 'Unpicking the Managerial Stitches' invited submission to The Journal of Workplace Rights and currently available in Critical Management Studies 5 Proceedings, Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory Download as PDF file
Marsh S. 2007 ‘Consultants, confidant(e)s and consorts: advice-giving in the premodern offering a ‘feminine’ discourse of management consulting’. Paper at the 5th International Critical Management Studies Conference, Univ. of Manchester.
Marsh S. 2005 ‘I didn’t have the balls for it’: a space for the feminine in consulting? Paper at 4th International Critical Management Studies Conference Cambridge July (paper to be published in: Critical Management Studies at Work: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Negotiating Tensions between Theory and Practice. T. LeTrent-Jones, M. Vonorov, D, Weir and J. Wolfram-Cox (eds) London: Edward Elgar 2008 forthcoming)
Macalpine M. and Marsh S. 2005 'On being white there's nothing I can say: exploring whiteness and power in organisations'. Management Learning,36(4): 453-474 Word document or smaller zipped file
Macalpine M and Maddock S. 2006 ‘An inspiration for our time: Mary Parker Follett’ Journal in Public Sector Management 2.2
Douglas C. and Macalpine M. ‘Can’t you see it’s always like that?’: silence, collusion and exclusion’ 2006, paper presented to the ‘Honoring the child, honoring equity’ conference at Melbourne University, Australia, November
Marsh M and Macalpine M 1999 ‘A 'really useful' tool for managing paradox’, Journal of Management Development vol 18 no 8 Word document or smaller zipped file
Marsh S. and Macalpine M. 1999 ‘Can you have ‘critical management’ as well as improve services?’, paper presented to First International Critical Management Studies Conference Manchester July Word document or smaller zipped file
Macalpine M. and Marsh S. 1998 ‘Negotiating a ‘borderland’ : nursing, gender and management’, Health Services Management Research, 11,
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Marsh S and Macalpine M. 1995 ‘Our Own Capabilities: nurse managers achieving strategic service improvement’ London The King's Fund