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Faculty  David Sims Research
David Sims
Research
Recent Publications
| 2003 |
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| Sims D, Sims, D. (2003) Management learning as a critical process: the practice of storying. The Foundations of Management Knowledge. (eds: P. Jeffcutt) London: Routledge |
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| Sims D, Sims, D. (2003) Knowing, loving and the Velveteen Rabbit. Organisation and Narrative Tradition: Pre-modern stories for a post-modern world of organizations. (eds: Y. Gabriel) Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| 2002 |
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| Sims D, Doyle, J. (2002) Enabling strategic metaphor in conversation: a technique of cognitive sculpting for explicating knowledge. Mapping strategic knowledge. (eds: A. Huff and M. Jenkins) London: Sage., 63-85. |
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| Sims D, (2002) Pitt, M. and McAulay, L. Promoting strategic change: 'playmaker' roles in organisational agenda formation. 11 Strategic Change, 155-172. |
| 2001 |
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| Sims D, (2001) Thinking in organizations to Management in the thought-full enterprise: an historical projection. Management in the thought-full enterprise European ideas on organizing. (eds: B Hellgren and J. Lowestedt) Oslo: Fagbokforlaget. , 281-293. |
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| Sims D, Dowds, N., McAulay, L. and Pitt, M. (2001) Understanding agenda formation as organizational cognition: a reversible butterfly model. Management in the thought-full enterprise: European ideas on organizing. (eds: B Hellgren and J. Lowestedt) Oslo: Fagbokforlaget., 179-194. |
| 2000 |
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| Sims D, Gabriel, Y., Fineman, S. (2000) Organizing and organizations: an introduction. 2nd edition London: Sage. |
| 1999 |
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| Sims D, (1999) Organizational learning as the development of stories: canons, apocryphas and pious myths. Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization (eds: M. Easterby-Smith, J. Burgoyne and L. Araujo) London: Sage., 44-58. |
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| Sims D, Galpin, S. (1999) Naratives and identity in flexible working and teleworking organizations. Virtual Working: social and organizational dynamics. (eds: P Jackson,) London: Routledge. , 76 - 94 |
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| Sims D, Eden, C. (1999) Futures Research - Working with Management Teams Strategic Management in Public and Voluntary Services: A Reader. 2nd ed. (eds: JM. Bryson) Oxford: Pergamon, 173-186. |
| 1998 |
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| Sims D, Wallemacq, A. (1998) The struggle with sense. Discourse and Organization. (eds: D. Grant, T Keenoy and C. Oswick) , 119 - 133. |
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| Sims D, Pitt, M. (1998) Preparing for novel situations: evoking managerial role identities. Journal of Management Education 22 (6) , 682-706. |
| 1997 |
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| Sims D, Birts, A., McAulay, L, Pitt, M., Saren, M. (1997) The expertise of finance and accountancy: an interdisciplinary study. British Journal of Management 8 , 75-83. |
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| Sims D, Pitt, M., McAulay, L., Dowds, N. (1997) Horse races, governance and the chance to fight: the the formation of Organizational Agendas. British Journal of Management 8 , S19-S30. |
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| Sims D, (1997) Who needs management education? Invest in the Thames Valley. |
| 1996 |
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| Sims D, Fineman, S. and Gabriel, Y. (1996) Sex. The effective manager: perspectives and illustrations. (eds: J Billsberry) London: Sage, 295-304. |
| 1995 |
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| Sims D, Doyle, J. (1995) Cognitive sculpting as a means of working with managers' metaphors. Omega. 23 (2) , 117-124. |
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| Sims D, McAulay, L. (1995) Management learning as a learning process: an invitation. Management Learning. 26 (1) , 5-20. |
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| Sims D, (1995) Cognitive mapping for today's managers. Business North West. 28 (9) , 8-9. |
| 1994 |
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| Sims D, Morgan, E., Nicholls, J., Clarke, K. and Harris, J. (1994) Between experience and knowledge: Learning within th MBA programme. Management Learning. 25 (2) , 275 - 287. |
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| Sims D, (1994) Cognitive mapping for managers. Network: the Government Training and Personnel Journal. Summer , 12-13. |
| 1993 |
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| Sims D, Fineman, S. and Gabriel, Y. (1993) Organizing and organizations: an introduction. London: Sage. |
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| Sims D, (1993) The formation of top managers: a discourse analysis of five managerial autobiographies. British Journal of Management 4 , 57-68. |
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| Sims D, Sims, A. (1993) The management of professionals in multidisciplinary teams. Leadership and Organization Development Journal 14 (6) , 12-16. |
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| Sims D, (1993) Coping with misinformation. Management Decision 31 (5) , 18-21. |
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| Sims D, (1993) Lee, J. S.-K. Discovering an alternative view of managing: a study with Singaporean women managers. 42 (4) Applied Psychology: an International Review. , 365-377. |
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| Sims D, Sims, A. (1993) Top teams. Health Service Journal 103 (5357) , 28-30. |
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| Sims D, (1993) Bring forth problems, not solutions. Church Times , 9 |
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| Sims D, Sims, A. (1993) Clinical management: the case of the consultant psychiatrist. Health Manpower Management 19 (3) , 20-24. |
| 1992 |
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| Sims D, (1992) Information systems and constructing problems. Management Decision 30 (5) , 21-27. |
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| Sims D, Harris, J., Clarke, K., D., Morgan, E. and Nicholls, J. (1992) MBA courses: learning from diversity and similarity. Management Education and Development 23 (4) , 335-346. |
Recent Conference Presentations
| 2003 |
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| Living a story and storying a life; what happens if you get life-narrative writer's block?
The Construction of Identity in Organizations Workshop, University of Strathclyde |
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| Learning about the self: exploring emotion and identity through cognitive sculpting
ESRC Seminar Series on Emotional Learning: Reparative forms of emotional learning, Brunel University |
| 2002 |
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| Where two paradigms meet: an exploration of economic analysis, stakeholder analysis and agenda shaping as applied to treatment of myocardial infarction.
4th International Conference on Organizational Behaviour in Health, Oxford
Co-presenters: Merril, C. |
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| Careers as Prospective Story Telling: a narrative understanding.
European Groupon Organization Studies (EGOS) Sub-theme 14., Barcelona |
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| Understanding the Narration of the Managerial Self by inverting Weick: Sequence as the source of sense or vice versa?
5th International Conference on Organizational discourse. , King's College, London. |
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| Passion as a Prime Determinant of Organizational Success.
Strategic Management Society Conference, Paris
Co-presenters: Raimond, P. |
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| Between the millstones: who cares about the subaltern's storying?
Subaltern Storytelling Seminar, University College Cork |
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| Pursued by narrative: understanding management through retrospective and prospective narratives.
Research Seminar , University of Luton |
| 2001 |
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| Death by Chocolate: Comfort thinking and sublimated passion in organizations.
9th International Workshop on Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Paris |
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| Knowing, Loving, and the Velveteen Rabbit
European Group on Organization Studies (EGOS), Lyon |
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| Moral indignation and passion in organizations; the case of the 'bastard'.
Research Seminar, Strathclyde Business School |
| 2000 |
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| You bastard: a study of moral indignation in organizations.
4th International Conference on Organizational discourse., King's College, London. |
| 1999 |
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| Rewriting the contents page: a narrative view of organizational learning and knowledge management in a merging organization.
Organizational learning: 3rd International Conference., Lancaster University |
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| Storing the Stories: How organizations refashion their narrative worlds and reshape their agendas.
Sixth International Workshop on Managerial and Organizational Cognition, University of Essex |
| 1998 |
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| Practitioners and academics on the floor of the intellectual capital exchange: beyond knowledge management and organizational learning.
British Academy of Management annual conference symposium, University of Nottingham
Co-presenters: McCarthy, A. |
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| Agenda formation in organizations: approaches from social cognition, narrative and both.
4th Symposium on Cognition and Creativity in organizational settings. , Paris Graduate School of Management. |
| 1997 |
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| The importance of being intellectual: on the nature of intellectual work.
Fifth International Workshop on Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Namur
Co-presenters: Stjernberg, T. and Stymne, B. |
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| The narrative nature of organizational learning.
British Academy of Management Annual Conference, London. |
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| The process and principles of narrative research.
Staff and research student seminar, Stockholm School of Economics |
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| Power, agendas and stories.
Seminar , Keele University, Department of Health Studies |
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| The everyday practice of narrative research.
Doctoral Seminar, University of Glamorgan. |
| 1996 |
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| Horse races, governance and the chance to fight: on the formation of organizational agendas.
British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Aston
Co-presenters: Pitt, M., McAulay, L., Dowds, N. |
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| The struggle with sense: a dialogue between two approaches.
Second International Conference on Organizational Discourse: talk, text and tropes. , King's College, London
Co-presenters: Wallemacq, A. |
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| The author, the actor, the teller and their listeners: understanding agenda formation as organizational cognition.
Fourth International Workshop on Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Stockholm,
Co-presenters: Dowds, N., McAulay, L. and Pitt, M. |
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| Organizational learning as the development of a canon of stories.
Organizationl Learning and the Learning Organization: Theoretical and Research Developments. , Lancaster |
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| Researching the unresearchable: agendas, narratives, protocols and the entertainer.
British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Aston
Co-presenters: Dowds, N., McAulay, L., Pitt, M. |
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| From 'Thinking in organizations' to 'Management in the thought-full enterprise'.
Fourth International Workshop on Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Stockholm |
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| Gendered agendas and Tory stories.
Faculty seminar, Faculty of Social Sciences, Brunel University |
| 1995 |
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| A narrative approach to agenda shaping.
Third International Workshop on Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Strathclyde University |
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| Building individual agendas in organizations: a participatory action research project?
European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, theme: 'Thinking in Organizations', Istanbul |
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| Agenda formation in organizations: collective revitalisation through the expression of individual role identities.
British Academy of Management, Sheffield
Co-presenters: Pitt, M., Dowds, N., McAulay, L. |
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| Thinking new thoughts in management: a case study of going beyond discipline.
New Perspectives in Management Education, University of Leeds |
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| Four readings and a funeral: the uneasy relationship between management education and management learning.
ESRC Seminar on Critique in Management Education, Leeds |
| 1994 |
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| Cognitive sculpting as a means of discovering managers' metaphors.
2nd International Workshop on Managerial and Organizational Cognition, EIASM, Brussels
Co-presenters: Doyle, J. |
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| Enabling metaphors in conversation: a technique of cognitive sculpting.
Metaphors in Organisational Theory and Behaviour., King's College, London
Co-presenters: Doyle, J. |
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| Invoking metaphors of managerial role-identity.
British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Lancaster
Co-presenters: Pitt, M. |
Research Grants and Contracts
| 2002 |
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| Narrative Learning on Placements.
GBP 8000
Sponsor: Faculty of Social Sciences, Brunel University.
Co-applicants: Cortazzi, M, and Murray, L. |
| 1995 |
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| The nature of managerial learning in organizations.
GBP 15000
Sponsor: Sundridge Park Research Fund.
Co-applicants: Pitt, M. |
| 1994 |
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| The shaping of agendas in organizations.
GBP 89280
Sponsor: ESRC.
Co-applicants: Pitt, M. and McAulay, L. |
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