Prof. Tim Edwards

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19Years (2008-Present)

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1 January 2015 in Journal of Business Venturing

Journal Article

Emotional arousal and entrepreneurial outcomes: Combining qualitative methods to elaborate theory

Jennifer E. Jennings

Tim Edwards

P. Devereaux Jennings

Rick Delbridge

24 September 2021 in European Management Review

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How does responsible leadership emerge? An emergentist perspective

Elina Meliou

Mustafa Ozbilgin

Tim Edwards

Increasing academic and practitioner conversations regarding corporate responsibility, have led some leadership scholars to question the possibilities to accomplish responsible leadership. Drawing on an emergentist perspective, through an empirical study in three organizations, the article develops the responsible leadership literature by offering a critical analysis of the emergence of responsible leadership. Our key finding is that responsible leadership emerges as participants' “shared concerns,” namely: ‘environmental and communal concerns,” “professional concerns,” “employment concerns,” and “commercial concerns,” which constitute social arrangements that give meaning to what is responsible and possible. The theoretical perspective we develop highlights the conditioning role of shared and nested concerns of the study participants and unpack how the social context variously shapes responsible leadership.

18 March 2015 in Human Relations

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Explaining leadership in family firms: Reflexivity, social conditioning and institutional complexity

Tim Edwards

Elina Meliou

Research on leadership in family firms has concentrated on the drivers of performance viewed in the context of reciprocal family and business logics, family or non-family CEOs operating within different family governance and administrative settings. The explanatory aim is to ascertain the optimum configuration of elements for achieving improved economic rents so the benefits of family loyalty do not negatively impact firm performance. Our thesis challenges this research, which treats family leadership as a contingent outcome of the governance and administrative contexts within which family and non-family CEOs make strategic choices. We argue that family leadership studies restrict explanations of action to a narrow bandwidth because leadership is effectively black-boxed when it is treated as an outcome of these contingent relations. To overcome this limitation we propose a nested framing of social conditioning that explains the connections between actors, organizations and multiple social orders (and not just family and business). Our contribution is to theorize family leadership in the context of multiple ‘social context – personal preference’ modes; that is, leadership is conceived through reflexivity, which is the personal process mediating the effects of our circumstances upon our actions.

14 April 2023 in Sustainability

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Technological Affordance and the Realities of Citizen Science Projects Developed in Challenging Territories

Fábio Grigoletto

Fernanda Antunes de Oliveira

Caio Momesso

Ibrahim Nehemy

João Emílio de Almeida Júnior

Tim Edwards

Citizen science has established itself as an important approach to the co-production of knowledge and public participation in scientific research. Combined with digital technologies and online tools, the approach has been celebrated as a path toward the democratization of science. However, only a few studies have investigated the role digital technologies play in shaping interactions between people and nature. Additionally, the role of context in shaping online and face-to-face participation in citizen science projects has yet to receive much attention. This article takes a citizen science initiative in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest in the state of São Paulo as an illustrative case of the emergence of unanticipated consequences of digital technologies. The emergence of a socio-material practice of animal identification through a popular instant-messaging app is described, allowing a better understanding of the role of digital technologies and the context framing citizen participation in challenging environments.

25 July 2013 in Celebrity Studies

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Medusa's stare: celebrity, subjectivity and gender

Tim Edwards

This article posits the argument that celebrity culture is gendered both in its production and consumption of fame and that this has, historically at least, been rather neglected within studies of celebrity. A key problematic within this is the role of subjectivity and the ways in which contemporary celebrity culture is both sold to and consumed by the sexes rather differently. This rests initially on a re-reading of Marxist analyses of object-based commodity fetishism but turns on a more Foucauldian understanding of subjectivity within contemporary celebrity culture. A content analysis of three leading celebrity magazines in the UK – heat, Hello! and OK! – is offered, demonstrating a clear demarcation of topics deemed to be of interest to the target young female reader and a narrow remit for their subjective engagement centred on looks, fashion and relationships. David and Victoria Beckham are also compared for the ways in which they also reaffirm this sense of demarcation of gendered difference, despite their positioning within a similar mediatised celebrity world. The relative paucity of empirical research on how men and women consume celebrity is something that needs to be addressed, yet the need to highlight gendered difference in the production and consumption of contemporary celebrity culture remains.

20 September 2021 in Journal of Business Ethics

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The Impact of Structure and Corporate Ideology on Leader–Follower Relations in the Bureaucratic Organization: A Reflection on Moral Mazes

Konstantinos Kakavelakis

Tim Edwards

About Me

Tim has a PhD in Innovation Management awarded from Aston University (2002), a MSc Management by Research, awarded from Aston University (1995), and a BA (Hons) in International Relations from Sussex University (1991). He has lived in a number of places including West London as a child, Brighton and Birmingham as a student and Bristol and Cardiff as an academic at Cardiff University. He is married and has two grown-up sons about to attend or already attending university in the UK. He has had two research sabbatical visits in his career - the first to the University of Alberta in 2007 and the second to UC Davis in 2016. Tim has also worked closely with colleagues from Grenoble Ecole de Management. Tim Edwards joined Cardiff Business School in 1999 as a research assistant before receiving a Personal Chair in 2016. He was Head of the Management, Employment and Organisation Group between 2019-2021 and then was appointed the Business School’s Pro-Dean for Research, Impact, and Innovation in 2021. He has subsequently been made a Co-Director of Cardiff University's Digital Transformation Innovation Institute (2022). His research expertise is in organisational theory with an interest in critical realism, which has been applied to empirical studies examining institutional change, organising, innovation and entrepreneurship.

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