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Paul Williams
Researcher at Cardiff Metropolitan University
Publications - 18
Citations - 1804
Paul Williams is an academic researcher from Cardiff Metropolitan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Context (language use) & Corporate governance. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 18 publications receiving 1628 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul Williams include Swansea University & University of Wales.
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The Competent Boundary Spanner
TL;DR: A critical review of the relevant literature, both from an institutional and relational perspective, is undertaken in this article, complemented by some new empirical research that involves an engagement with groups of particular types of boundary spanner using a combination of surveys and in-depth interviews.
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We are all boundary spanners now
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the roles and competencies of boundary spanners in the context of collaboration, and examine the problematic nature of these roles, and consider the communalities between different types of boundary spanner.
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Leadership for Collaboration: Situated agency in practice
TL;DR: In this paper, the Q-method was employed to uncover different interpretations of leadership for collaboration among public managers in Wales, and the concept of situated agency was used to explain why public managers offer diverse interpretations of Leadership for Collaboration despite working within the same governance framework.
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Faces of integration
Paul Williams,Helen Sullivan +1 more
TL;DR: The importance of structure and agency complementing each other to determine effective integration is emphasised, together with the scope that is available for interpretation and meaning by individual actors within the contested discourse of integration.
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Community strategies: mainstreaming sustainable development and strategic planning?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that community strategies are unlikely to be effective if their preparation is grounded on the use of the rational or classical model of strategic management, and they suggest that alternative strategic management paradigms, and their implications for the preparation of community strategies.