CBS Faculty
Mike Wallace
Professor of Public Management
Office: S05
Cardiff Business School
Aberconway Building
Colum Drive,
Cardiff, CF10 3EU.
Telephone: +44 (0)29 2087 5848
Fax: +44 (0)29 2087 4419
Email Address: Wallaceam@cardiff.ac.uk
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- complexity of public service change and coping capacity
- public policy implementation and mediation
- ironic perspective on organisational life and change
TEACHING PROFILE
- MPA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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.
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
- ESRC Strategic Adviser for Researcher Development
- Associate Director for Capacity Building, ESRC/EPSRC Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM)
- Providing research training for management researchers through AIM’s ESRC Researcher Development Initiative (RDI) project
- Co-opted member of Council, British Academy of Management