PROJECTS

Using the latest in insights from social theory and complexity science to meet the challenges of turbulent times.

LEADERSHIP, ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT

  • Understanding the role of metaphor in organization and management theory

  • Mobilizing the insights of complexity science

  • Prototyping the requirements of learning organizations

  • Designing and managing decentralised networks

  • Creating flexible team-based enterprise

  • Promoting creativity and innovation

  • Using theories of paradox and self-organisation to generate new methods of managing change

SOCIAL THEORY AND RESEARCH

  • Using multi-paradigm thinking in social research

  • Fostering open modes of inquiry

  • Constructive postmodernism: how the limitations of science and current thinking provide springboards for new insight

REINVENTING MANAGEMENT EDUCATION FOR A DIGITAL WORLD

Gareth is founder of the NewMindsets Project investigating how web-based technology can contribute to flexible ‘just in time’ modes of management education. See for example:

  • Gareth Morgan, “Thirteen ‘Must Ask’ Questions about e-Learning Products and Services.” The Learning Organization 8(5), 2001: 203-10.

  • Jean Adams and Gareth Morgan, “Second Generation e-Learning: Characteristics and Design Principles for Supporting Management Soft-Skills Development.” International Journal on E-Learning 6(2), 2007: 157-85.

    Gareth Morgan and Jean Adams, “Pedagogy First: Making Web-technologies Work for Leadership and Management Education.” Journal of Interactive Learning Research 20(2), 2009: 129-56.