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Professor David Collins

Professor

Department: Newcastle Business School

David Collins

Key Publications

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • The Rotten Core of In Search of Excellence: Reflections on the tainted legacy of the excellence project, Collins, D. 5 Dec 2024, In: Management Learning
  • Who's Excellent Now? The unspeakable nature of business excellence, Collins, D. 3 Jul 2024, In: Culture and Organization
  • A Spontaneous Outbreak of Education, Charlton, H., Collins, D. 25 May 2022, Chartered Association of Business Schools, Learning Teaching and Student Experience Conference
  • Speaking Truth to Power: The perils of (scientific) leadership in the green economy, Collins, D. 21 Mar 2022, Rethinking Leadership for a Green World, London, Taylor & Francis
  • The Emptiness of Business Excellence: The Flawed Foundations of Popular Management Theory, Collins, D., Collins, J. 2 Sep 2022
  • Rethinking Organizational Culture: Redeeming Culture through Stories, Collins, D. 2 Apr 2021
  • Tom Peters and Management: A history of organizational storytelling, Collins, D. 27 Dec 2021
  • Management Gurus: A Research Overview, Collins, D. 9 Jul 2020
  • Success and Failure in Professional Projects: The nature, contours and limits of consulting professionalism, Collins, D., Butler, N. 1 Jul 2020, In: British Journal of Management
  • The Organizational Storytelling Workbook: How to harness this powerful management and communication tool, Collins, D. 30 Jul 2020

PGR Supervision

Gemma Lockyer Turnbull The professionalisation of youth work in England; an investigation into how utilising a communities of practice based approach could support the development of an emerging profession. Start Date: 01/10/2022

Qualifications

  • Management Studies PhD July 10 2006
  • Senior Fellow (SFHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2020

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