Dr Steven Henderson

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business, Sport and Enterprise

      
Telephone:
+44 (0)23 8031 9858    
Extension:
3858 
Room:
RM115

Biography

Steven trained as an economist at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He worked at Toronto Dominion Bank until Black Monday 1987. Senior Researcher at Consumers' Association.

Steven's main teaching interests include Strategic Management, Research Skills, Critical Management and PhD Supervision.

Taught Courses

  1. CIM Chartered Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing Stage 1 (Part Time)
  2. CIM Chartered Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing Stage 2 (Part Time)
  3. MA Management and International Business (Full Time)
  4. Master of Business Administration (Full Time)
  5. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Fundamentals (Part Time)
  6. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Professional (Part Time)

Recent publications

Outputs

Becoming Misrepresentations in Strategy and Time, Management Decision, 45,1 131-146, 2007

Being and Knowing – Ontological Perspectives of Knowledge Management, Electronic Journal, Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, March 2007

Beyond All Reasonable Doubt? Epistemology of the Learning Organisation (with James Connelly and Deborah Blackman). Philosophy of Management (5, 3 2007)

Towards an Ontology of Strategy, Academy of Management, Atlanta Georgia, August 2006

Becoming Misrepresentations in Strategy and Time, 7th Dynamics of Strategy Conference, Seychelles, April 2006 (awarded best paper).

Strategic Issues for UK Leisure Centres – A SPACE Analysis, Leisure Management, (with Angela Benson) 2006

UK Leisure Centres Under Best Value – A Strategic Analysis, 2006 (with Angela Benson), International Journal of Public Sector Management 18, 3

Best Value and the Market Orientation of English Recreation Centres (with Larry Nelson), Local Government Studies 31, 2 2006

Know Way in Knowledge Management (with Deborah Blackman) International Journal of the Learning Organization special edition – Has Knowledge Management Been Done edited J Firestone and M McElroy, 12, 2 2005

The Origins and Lessons of Entrepreneurial Achievement: A Multi-Paradigm Perspective Via the Case Method. (with Ajay Bhalla and David Watkins) in A Fayolle, P Kyrö, J Ulijn (Eds.), Entrepreneurship Research in Europe, Outcomes and Perspectives, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2005

Why Learning Organisations Are Not Transformational (with Deborah Blackman) International Journal of the Learning Organisation, 12, 1, 2005

Market Orientation and the Performance of English Professional Football Clubs, (with Taro Ozawa and John Cross), Journal of Targeting, Measurement and Analysis of Marketing, 13,1 2004

A Case Based Approach to Study Strategic Attributes of an Ethnic Family Firm, (with Ajay Bhalla and David Watkins) in. Astrachan J, Poutziouris P, Family Business Case Annual published by Family Business Review, Spring 2004

Autopoietic Limitations of Probing the Future (with Deborah Blackman) Chapter 11 of Managing the Future, Foresight in the Knowledge Economy, Hari Tsukas and Jill Shepherd, (Eds) Blackwell 2004

Strategic and Sporting Success of English Football Clubs, (with John Cross) International Football Conference, University of Central Lancashire, September 2004.

Why Learning Organisations are Not Transformational (with Deborah Blackman), Dynamics of Strategy Conference, Surrey University June 2004

Book Review – Bakken and Hernes: Autopoietic Organization Theory, Organization Studies 24, 7 2004

Autopoiesis and Dysfunctional Organisational Processes (with Deborah Blackman), International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, Inaugural edition 2004

Why Foresight Leads to Unforeseen Outcomes: the Role of Double Loop Doubting, (with Deborah Blackman) Futures, Special Edition Foresight in the 21st Century, 36, 2, 2004

Is Double Loop Learning a Reliable Knowledge Creation Process? (With Deborah Blackman and James Connolly) Learning Organisation, 11, 1 2004

Strategic Challenges in the Football Business: A SPACE Analysis (with John Cross) Journal of Strategic Change, 12, 2003

Whatever Happened to the Excellent Marketers? A Study of Financial Performance and Excellent Marketing. (with Whysnianti Basuki) Journal of General Management, 29, 2, 2003

A Processual View of Agile Manufacturing (with Yang Dai and Nicholas Woodfine) Chinese Automation and Computing Society UK, 9th Annual Conference, Luton University, Luton, 20th September 2003 (by invitation).

Balanced Agile Manufacturing and the Miles and Snow Typology, (with Yang Dai and Nicholas Woodfine) International Conference for Manufacturing Research, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, September 9-11, 2003

Strategie management im Kontext Ethniscer und Nicht Ethischer. Familienunternehmen Mit hoher Wachstumsrate (with Ajay Bhalla and David Watkins), Zeitschrift fur Klein –und Mittelunternehmen, 51, 2, 2003

The Origins, Lessons and Definition of Entrepreneurial Achievement: a Multi Paradigm Perspective via the Case Method (with Ajay Bhalla and David Watkins) Academy of Management Annual Conference, Seattle, Aug 1st-6th 2003

Deepening and Broadening the Theoretical Base of Entrepreneurship Research, (with Ajay Bhalla and David Watkins) Research Paradigms in Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 13th Small Business and Entrepreneurship Development Conference, University of Surrey, 3-4th April 2003

A test of the Appropriateness of Alternative Strategic Management Paradigms in the context of High Growth Ethnic and Non- Ethnic Family Firms (with Ajay Bhalla and David Watkins) Radical Change in the World – Will SMEs Soar or Crash, St. Gallan, September 2002, (555-571), Swiss Research Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 

Narratives of Transformation, A Strategic Decision-Makers Guide (with Angela Zvesper) Management Decision, 2002; 40 (5): 476-485)

Autopoietic Limitations of Probing the Future, (with Deborah Blackman) Probing the Future: Developing Organizational Foresight in the Knowledge Economy, Strathclyde University, July 2002

Double-Loop Doubting: challenging past experience to frame a future (with Deborah Blackman), Probing the Future: Developing Organizational Foresight in the Knowledge Economy July2002

Is Double Loop Learning Reliable? (with Deborah Blackman and James Connolly), Developing Philosophy of Management - Crossing Frontiers:Reason in Practice, Queen Anne College, Oxford June 2002

Responsive Manufacturing and the Miles and Snow Typology, (with Dai Yang) 2nd International Conference on Responsive Manufacturing, Gaziatep, Turkey, June 2002

ACCA Strategic Management and Planning Study Guide, Foulks Lynch 2001

Analysing Football Businesses, (with John Cross) Centre Circle, January 2001

Epistemological Approaches to the Learning Organisation, BAM, August 2000 (refereed track paper)

SPACING Out your Leisure Centre, (with Angela Benson) Recreation, July 2000

Leisure Industry SPACED Out, (with Angela Benson) Recreation, May 2000

SPACE Analysis of the Leisure Industry, (with Angela Benson) ILAM Conference, Glasgow, July 2000

Scope for Relationship Marketing in the Fast Ferry Industry, (with Karen Hewitt) Journal of Targeting, Measurement, and Analysis for Marketing, October 1998

No Such Thing as a Market Orientation, Management Decision, October 1998 (Anbar rating "excellent")

The Virgin Existentialist, in Kelly and Kelly, An Existential Systems Approach to Managing Organisations, Quorum, 1997

Black Swans Don't Fly Double Loops, Learning Organisation 4, 3 99-106, 1997 (Anbar rating "excellent")

There's No Such Thing as the Market Orientation, Faculty Seminar, Chemnitz Technical University, Germany, November 1996

Dissent in the Ascent of Management Thought, Times of India, November 1996, reprinted in Middle East Times, December 1996

Chaotic Advertising Budgets, (with John Latham) Journal of Targeting, Measurement and Analysis for Marketing, July 1995, p1-14.

The Elasticity of Explanation, (with Angela Zvesper), BAM, Aston University 1996

Conference Chair, Dissent in Management Thought, London, September 1995

Strategic Management in Smaller Bio-technology Companies (with Ashok Ranchhod), in Richardson B and Boyatt I, Enterprise in Action, Pavic Press 1995

Which? Style Guide to Strategic Posture ACCA Students Newsletter, May 1995

Chaos in Marketing, Marketing Education Group Conference, Ullster, July 1994, with J Latham

Business Indecision (with P McHardy); forming Chapter 20 of "Group Based Learning in Higher Education, edited by L. Phorley and R Gregory for the HEC Movement. Kogan Page, Autumn 1994

Strategy in Biotechnology, (with Ashok Ranchhod), Enterprise in Action, Sheffield, November 1994

Management for Engineers, with (P McHardy and R Illige). Heinemann 1994 (Writer and Co-ordinating Editor)

Learning and Unlearning in Biotechnology (with Ashok Ranchhod), British Academy of Management Conference, Lancaster University, September 1994.

Scientific Thinking and Business Thinking: Management and the Professions Conference at Stirling University, August 1993, with (D M Glasse)

Understanding the FT: (with D Ball), published by CACA, May 1993 reprinted in CIPFA business manuals 1194-5

Corporate Indecision, (with P McHardy), Calogue International Pedagogie de a Prise de Decision, Groupe ICN, Institut Commercial de Nancy, pp 190-216, May 1992

Interactive Group-based Learning: with (P McHardy), HEC Conference on Group Based Learning, Oxford, November 1992.

Various money related articles for Which? Magazine.

Selected Consultancy Projects

Lead Evaluator, Local Evaluation of Security and Capital Projects, Thornhill NEC 2005

Local Evaluation of Outer Shirley Wheatsheaf Trust Intermediate Labour Market, 2004 (NDC)

Feasibility study on expert systems for Offshore Outsourcing

Local Evaluation of Wheatsheaf Trust Extra 2, 2004 (ESU)

Strategic Management training at Newsquest

Lead Tutor for Cocoa Cola /NEC / Bradford Management Centre: Distance Learning degree programme

Lead Tutor Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship Unit for APU EC funded project for SME development by distance learning.

Computer conference co-ordinator for Open University MBA Programme

Editorial review panel for Lynch, Corporate Strategy, Pitman 1999

Consultant/writer for National Extension College: Distance Learning Management NVQ level 4/5 courses

Consultant writer for Foulks – Lynch ACCA Study Guides (Strategic Management)

Consultant management writer to Pilgrim Projects

Refereeing

Management Decision

Journal of Management Philosophy

International Journal of Public Sector Management

International Journal of the Learning Organization – European Editor

Academy of Management Conference (Business Policy and Critical Management)