All Outputs (7)

Knowledge for development : enhancing people's capabilities : a case-study of knowledge management and social entrepreneurship based on a Mexican community experience (2016)
Thesis
González-Hernández, M. A. (2016). Knowledge for development : enhancing people's capabilities : a case-study of knowledge management and social entrepreneurship based on a Mexican community experience. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219733

This thesis presents a case-study based on the academic fields of Development Theory, Knowledge Management and Social Entrepreneurship that portrays the development history of a Mexican rural community (Huixcazdhá) that hosts a food processing compan... Read More about Knowledge for development : enhancing people's capabilities : a case-study of knowledge management and social entrepreneurship based on a Mexican community experience.

Soft OR in China: A critical report (2013)
Journal Article
Li, Y., & Zhu, Z. (2014). Soft OR in China: A critical report. European journal of operational research, 232(3), 427-434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2013.04.035

As China's reform steps into the 'deep water zone' where value complexity becomes paramount, general-purpose decision-making aids such as Operational Research (OR) are increasingly confronted with the challenge of dealing with interest conflicts. How... Read More about Soft OR in China: A critical report.

Managerial work identity construction and problem-solving : systemic reflections (2012)
Thesis
Wu, S. (2012). Managerial work identity construction and problem-solving : systemic reflections. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219682

In modern society, organizations and individuals are facing great challenges in managing people’s identity because of some newly emerged social and organizational phenomena. However, academic research in the identity field fails to make explicit the... Read More about Managerial work identity construction and problem-solving : systemic reflections.

Pragmatic strategy: Eastern wisdom, global success (2012)
Book
Nonaka, I., & Zhu, Z. (2012). Pragmatic strategy: Eastern wisdom, global success. Cambridge University Press

Pragmatism is enjoying a renaissance in management studies and the social sciences. Once written off as amoral, relativist and opposed to the ideals of Truth, Reason and Progress, it is now regaining influence in public policy, international relation... Read More about Pragmatic strategy: Eastern wisdom, global success.

After paradim: Why mixing-methodology theorising fails and how to make it work again (2011)
Journal Article
Zhu, Z. (2011). After paradim: Why mixing-methodology theorising fails and how to make it work again. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 62(4), 784-798. https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2010.31

Combining multiple methodologies works in practice, but not yet in theory. One of the reasons is that current theorising is dominated by a paradigm mentality, preoccupied with wholesale philosophical legitimation. 'Paradigm' and the associated 'incom... Read More about After paradim: Why mixing-methodology theorising fails and how to make it work again.

Theorizing systems methodologies across cultures (2010)
Journal Article
Zhichang, Z. (2010). Theorizing systems methodologies across cultures. Systems research and behavioral science, 27(2), 208-223. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.1026

People across cultures solve problems differently, so do they theorize systems methodologies. Mainstream systems research has thus far managed to ignore the cultural dimension, which generates frustrations in cross-border conversation and application... Read More about Theorizing systems methodologies across cultures.

From marketing systems to systems marketing (1995)
Thesis
Zhu, Z. (1995). From marketing systems to systems marketing. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4210432

This thesis attempts to explore an alternative taking us beyond the paradigmatic tension which currently dominates and stagnates the discipline of marketing study.This is done in the light of Habermas's critical theory and contemporary critical syste... Read More about From marketing systems to systems marketing.