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Overview

Mike Bresnen is affiliated with Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, Social Sciences, and Health Professions. Within these areas, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, General Health Professions, Management Science and Operations Research, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics of Mike Bresnen's research work include:

  • Construction Project Management and Performance
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • BIM and Construction Integration
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Public-Private Partnership Projects

They have published repeatedly in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Construction Management and Economics
  • Sociology of Health & Illness
  • Gender Work and Organization
  • Journal of Health Organization and Management
  • New Technology Work and Employment

Notable recent publications authored by Mike Bresnen or in collaboration include:

  • Partnering in construction re-visited: gauging progress in industry practice and prospects for advances in academic research (2024, Construction Management and Economics)
  • Managing death: navigating divergent logics in end-of-life care (2020, Sociology of Health & Illness)
  • Reinforced or disrupted ideal worker norms in the pandemic? Analyzing the gendered impact of the pandemic on professional specialisms in a Professional Services Firm in Kuwait (2022, Gender Work and Organization)
  • Implementing disruptive technological change in UK healthcare: exploring development of a smart phone app for remote patient monitoring as a boundary object using qualitative methods (2020, Journal of Health Organization and Management)
  • Ambiguous workarounds in policy piloting in the NHS: Tensions, trade-offs and legacies of organisational change projects (2021, New Technology Work and Employment)

Mike Bresnen has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Sarah-Jane Lennie
  • Nicholas Marshall
  • Simon Bailey
  • Damian Hodgson
  • Paula Hyde

Best Publications

  • Partnering in construction: a critical review of issues, problems and dilemmas

    Mike Bresnen;Nicholas Marshall

  • Social practices and the management of knowledge in project environments

    Mike Bresnen;Linda Edelman;Sue Newell;Harry Scarbrough

  • Project-Based Learning and the Role of Learning Boundaries:

    Harry Scarbrough;Jacky Swan;Stéphane Laurent;Mike Bresnen

  • Sharing Knowledge Across Projects Limits to ICT-led Project Review Practices

    Sue Newell;Mike Bresnen;Linda F. Edelman;Harry Scarbrough

  • Building Partnerships: Case Studies of Client-Contractor Collaboration in the UK Construction Industry.

    Mike Bresnen;Nicholas Marshall

  • Embedding New Management Knowledge in Project-Based Organizations

    Mike Bresnen;Anna Goussevskaia;Jacky Swan

  • Motivation, commitment and the use of incentives in partnerships and alliances

    Mike Bresnen;Nicholas Marshall

  • The Benefits and Pitfalls of Social Capital: Empirical Evidence from Two Organizations in the United Kingdom†

    Linda F. Edelman;Mike Bresnen;Sue Newell;Harry Scarbrough

  • Qualitative Research and the Study of Leadership

    Alan Bryman;Michael Bresnen;Alan Beardsworth;Teresa Keil

  • The object of knowledge: The role of objects in biomedical innovation

    Jacky Swan;Mike Bresnen;Susan Newell;Maxine Robertson

  • Deconstructing partnering in project-based organisation: Seven pillars, seven paradoxes and seven deadly sins

    Mike Bresnen

  • The Engineering or Evolution of Co-Operation? A Tale of Two Partnering Projects

    Mike Bresnen;Nicholas Marshall

  • Organizational Routines, Situated Learning and Processes of Change in Project-Based Organizations:

    Mike Bresnen;Anna Goussevskaia;Jacky Swan

  • The Processes of Project-based Learning An Exploratory Study

    Harry Scarbrough;Michael Bresnen;Linda F. Edelman;Stephane Laurent

  • Implementing change in construction project organizations: exploring the interplay between structure and agency

    Mike Bresnen;Anna Goussevskaia;Jacky Swan

  • Understanding the diffusion and application of new management ideas in construction

    Mike Bresnen;Nick Marshall

  • When Policy meets Practice: Colliding Logics and the Challenges of ‘Mode 2’ Initiatives in the Translation of Academic Knowledge

    Jacky Swan;Mike Bresnen;Maxine Robertson;Susan Newell

  • 'Best practice' development and transfer in the NHS: the importance of process as well as product knowledge:

    Sue Newell;Linda Edelman;Harry Scarbrough;Jacky Swan

  • All things to all people? Perceptions, attributions, and constructions of leadership

    Michael J. Bresnen

  • Modes of organizing biomedical innovation in the UK and US and the role of integrative and relational capabilities

    Jacky Swan;Anna Goussevskaia;Anna Goussevskaia;Susan Newell;Susan Newell;Maxine Robertson

  • The object of knowledge: the role of objects in biomedical innovation

    S. Newell;J. Swan;M. Bresnen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacky Swan
Jacky Swan University of Warwick
Sue Newell
Sue Newell University of Warwick
John Hassard
John Hassard University of Manchester
Harry Scarbrough
Harry Scarbrough City, University of London
Linda F. Edelman
Linda F. Edelman Bentley University
Alan Bryman
Alan Bryman University of Leicester
David L. Collinson
David L. Collinson Lancaster University
Sue Dopson
Sue Dopson University of Oxford
Stewart Clegg
Stewart Clegg University of Sydney
Cheryl Haslam
Cheryl Haslam Loughborough University

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