Professor David Collins

Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

Key Publications

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Growing (up) at work: Industrial placements and soft skill development among business students, Mikrut, Z., Collins, D. 30 Jun 2025, In: Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching
History, Humanity, and the Hope for Humanistic Management, Collins, D. 27 Oct 2025, AI and Humanistic Management, London, Routledge
The Rotten Core of In Search of Excellence: Reflections on the tainted legacy of the excellence project, Collins, D. 1 Sep 2025, In: Management Learning
Who's Excellent Now? The unspeakable nature of business excellence, Collins, D. 3 Jul 2024, In: Culture and Organization
A Spontaneous Outbreak of Education, Charlton, H., Collins, D. 25 May 2022, Chartered Association of Business Schools, Learning Teaching and Student Experience Conference
Speaking Truth to Power: The perils of (scientific) leadership in the green economy, Collins, D. 21 Mar 2022, Rethinking Leadership for a Green World, London, Taylor & Francis
The Emptiness of Business Excellence: The Flawed Foundations of Popular Management Theory, Collins, D., Collins, J. 2 Sep 2022
Rethinking Organizational Culture: Redeeming Culture through Stories, Collins, D. 2 Apr 2021
Tom Peters and Management: A history of organizational storytelling, Collins, D. 27 Dec 2021
Management Gurus: A Research Overview, Collins, D. 9 Jul 2020

Gemma Lockyer Turnbull The professionalisation of youth work in England; an investigation into how utilising a communities of practice based approach could support the development of an emerging profession. Start Date: 01/10/2022 End Date: 17/10/2025