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Dr. Steve Leybourne Ph.D
Assistant Professor
 Administrative Sciences Department

 

 

Personal Bibliography

(updated August 2010)

 

Published Papers:

 

Leybourne S. (2002) The Project Management of Change within UK Financial Services: What about Improvisation? Proceedings of PMI Research Conference 2002 Newtown Square, PA: PMI - ISBN 1-880410-99-0

 

Leybourne S.A. (2006) Managing Improvisation within Change Management: Lessons from UK Financial Services Service Industries Journal 26(1) 73-95

 

Leybourne S.A. (2006) Managing Change by abandoning Planning and embracing Improvisation Journal of General Management 31(3) 11-29

 

Leybourne S.A. & Sadler-Smith E. (2006) The Role of Intuition and Improvisation in Project Management Int. Journal of Project Management 24 (6) 483-492

 

Leybourne S.A. (2006) Improvisation within the Project Management of Strategic Change: Some Observations from UK Financial Services  Journal of Change Management 6(4) 365-381

 

Leybourne S.A. (2007) The Changing Bias of Project Management Research: A Consideration of the Literatures and an Application of Extant Theory Project Management Journal 38(1) 62-73

 

Leybourne S.A. (2007) Improvisation within Management: Oxymoron, Paradox, or Legitimate Way of Achieving  Int. Journal of Management Concepts & Philosophy 2(3) 224-239

 

Leybourne S.A. (2009) Improvisation and Agile Project Management: A Merging of Two Ideals? Int. Journal of Managing Projects in Business 2(4) 519-535

 

Leybourne S.A. (2009) Culture and Organisational Improvisation in UK Financial Services Journal of Service Science and Management 2(4) 237-254

This paper was awarded the ODC Division 'Rupert F. Chisholm Best Theory to Practice Paper Prize at AoM2006 - Atlanta, GA

 

Leybourne S.A. (2010) Project Management and High Value Superyacht Projects: An Improvisational and Temporal Perspective  Project Management Journal 41(1) 17-27

 

Unger B., Greiman V.A. & Leybourne S.A. (2010) A Study of Postinvestment Monitoring Practices in Life Science Venture Capital Firms Journal of Transnational Management 15 3-25 (This paper was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 18th World Business Congress, Tbilisi, Georgia)

 

Perry, J., Badger, B., Lean, J. and Leybourne, S. (2010) Taking over the reins: the needs of individuals who purchase small established enterprises International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation 11(1) 57-68.

 

Leybourne S.A. (2010) Improvisation as a Way of Dealing With Ambiguity and Complexity Graziadio Business Report 13(3) online at http://gbr.pepperdine.edu/103/improv.html

 

Journal Papers Accepted:

  

None at present

 

Journal Papers Under Review:

 

Leybourne S.A. ‘Transformation and Change in the UK Financial Sector: Equipping Employees to cope with Change’ Under Review at Journal of Organisational Transformation and Social Change

 

 

Papers Completed but not yet Submitted for Publication:
 

Leybourne S.A. “Emotionally Sustainable Change: Two Frameworks to Assist with Transition”

 

 

Recent Conference Papers Presented:

 

 Institute of Management South Wales Branch (2000) – Millennial Management Paper – 1st Place awarded for Leybourne S.A. ‘2025; How will we make our way there, and what skills will we need to do it?’

 

PMI Research Conference (2002) - Seattle – Leybourne S.A. ‘The Project Management of Change within UK Financial Services: What about Improvisation?’

 

Academy of Management (2003) - Seattle – Leybourne S.A. ‘Managing Improvisation within the Management of Change: Some Lessons from UK Financial Services’

 

Academy of Management (2004) - New Orleans – Leybourne S.A. 'Managing Change or Changing Management: Abandoning Planning and Embracing People within Strategic Implementation'

 

Leybourne S.A. & Sadler-Smith E.'Going-with-your-Gut: The Role of Intuition and Improvisation in Project Management'

 

PMI Research Conference 2004 – London – Leybourne S.A. 'Intuition and Rationality in Project Decision-Making: Thoughts on The Impact on Improvisational Working Practices'  

 

Academy of Management (2005) - Honolulu – Leybourne S.A. 'Improvising within Management: Oxymoron, Paradox, or Legitimate Way of Achieving?'

 

PMI Research Conference 2006 – Montreal – Leybourne S.A. 'The Changing Bias of Project Management Research: A Consideration of the Literatures and an Application of Extant Theory'

 

Academy of Management (2006) - Atlanta – Leybourne S.A. 'Culture and 'Organisational Improvisation: Some Conceptions informed by UK Financial Services' (awarded Rupert F. Chisholm 'Best Theory to Practice' paper award)

 

Academy of Management (2007) - Philadelphia – Leybourne S.A. ‘Transformation and Change in the UK Financial Sector: Equipping Employees to cope with Change’

 

PMI Research Conference 2008 – Warsaw, Poland – Leybourne S.A. ‘Improvisation and Agile Project Management: A Merging of Two Ideals?’

 

Academy of Management (2008) - Anaheim – Leybourne S.A. ‘Project Management and High Value Superyacht Projects: An Improvisational and Temporal Perspective’

 

PMI Global Congress (2009) - Orlando, FL  - Kanabar V., Warburton R. & Leybourne S.A. 'Practical Calculation of Delays and Cost Overruns'

 

PMI Research Conference 2010 – Washington, DC – Leybourne S.A. ‘Classifying Improvisation: Comments on Managing Chaotic Evolution’

 

Conference Papers Accepted:

 

PMI Global Congress 2010 - Washington, DC - Leybourne S.A., Kanabar V. & Warburton R. 'Understanding and Overcoming Communications Complexity in Projects'

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