Professor Mike Wallace

Teaching profile

Organizational Behaviour (2nd year undergraduate)

Research interests

complexity of public service change and coping capacity
public policy implementation and mediation
ironic perspective on organisational life and change

Selected publications

Wallace, M., O’Reilly, D., Morris, J. and Deem, R. (2011) Public service leaders as change agents – for whom? Mediatory responses to leadership development in England . Public Management Review 13(1):65-93.

Wallace, M., Deem, R., O’Reilly, D. and Tomlinson, M. (2011) Developing leadership capacity in English secondary schools and universities: global positioning and local mediation. British Journal of Educational Studies 59(1):21-40.

Wallace, M. and Tomlinson, M. 2010. Contextualizing leader dynamics: how public service leaders endeavour to build influence. Leadership 6(1):21-45.

Wallace, M. and Schneller, E. 2008. Orchestrating emergent change: the ‘hospitalist movement’ in US Healthcare. Public Administration 86(3): 761-778.

Hoyle, E. and Wallace, M. 2008. Two faces of organizational irony: endemic and pragmatic. Organizational Studies 29(11): 1427-1447.

Hartley, J., Donaldson, C., Skelcher, C. and Wallace, M. (Eds). 2008. Managing to Improve Public Services. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Wallace, M., Fertig, M. and Schneller, E. (Eds). 2007. Managing change in the public services. Blackwell: Oxford.

Wallace, M. 2007. Educational myth-making with ‘due accuracy and impartiality’? A current affairs TV episode in the UK. Peabody Journal of Education, 82(1): 10-31.

Wallace, M. and Wray, A. 2006. Critical reading and writing for postgraduates. Sage: London.

Hoyle, E. and Wallace, M. 2005. Educational leadership: Ambiguity, professionals and managerialism. Sage. London.

Wallace, M. 2003. Managing the unmanageable? Coping with complex educational change. Educational Management and Administration, 31(1):9-29.

Wallace, M. and Pocklington, K. 2002. Managing complex educational change: Large scale reorganisation of schools. RoutledgeFalmer: London.

Activities

ESRC Strategic Adviser for Researcher Development
Associate Director for Capacity Building, ESRC/EPSRC Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM)
Co-opted member of Council, British Academy of Management