Ian Kirkpatrick


 

1. BASIC INFO

Last name: Kirkpatrick
First name: Ian
Main Position: Catedrático, Leeds University Business School, UK.
Email: ik@lubs.leeds.ac.uk

 

 

2. EDUCATION

 

Ph.D. University of Wales College of Cardiff, 1996: ‘Rules, Negotiations and Control: The case of a Public Service Agency’.

 

M.Sc. Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, 1989, London School of Economics.

 

BA (Hons) History, University of York.

 

 

3. PROFESSIONAL CAREER

 

2011 -              Director of Leeds Social Science Institute, University of Leeds.

 

2008 – 11:       Faculty (Business) Director of Postgraduate Research, member of Faculty Executive Group.

 

2006 -              Professor in Work and Organization – Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds.

 

2000–2006      Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour, Leeds University Business School.

 

1994-2000      Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour, Cardiff Business School.

 

1990–1994      Research Associate, Cardiff Business School.

 

 

4. CURRENT UNIVERSITY POSITIONS

 

 

2012 -              Chair of Academic Quality Committee for the White Rose (ESRC) Social Science Doctoral Training Centre.

 

2011 -              Director of Leeds Social Science Institute, University of Leeds.

 

2011 -              Director of University of Leeds Professional Services Hub (match funded by HEIF 5).

 

2011 -              Advisory Board member of University of Leeds Building Sustainable Societies transformation project.

 

2011 -              University of Leeds representative on Northern 8 social sciences steering group.

 

2007 -              Deputy Director Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change, University of Leeds.

 

 

5. TEACHING

 

Currently I am involved in teaching on the following LUBS modules

 

- Human Resource Management (Full time MBA core module)

- Human Resource Management (MA HRM core module)

- Management Consulting (Full and Part time MBA elective module)

- Medicine and Management (Postgraduate module linked to the PG Certificate Doctors as Managers).

 

 

6. Supervision AND EXAMINING of Research Students

 

Successfully completed

- Sarah Mollitt, (2006) ‘Unwanted flexibility: agency working in health and social care’.

- Hadi El Farr (2012) – ‘Knowledge management and HRM’

- Alison Lewis (2012) – ‘The implications of human resource outsourcing for the HR function’

- Kathy Hartley (2013) – ‘The development clinical leaders as role transition’

 

Current doctoral students

Barbara Deschilder-Omoro (2007 - ) – Extended roles of support workers in the NHS

Ali Naqvi (2009 - ) – Client professionalism and management consulting

 

External Examiner

Stirling University (2000)

Lancaster University (2007)

Leicester University (2010)

 

 

7. EXTERNAL POSITIONS

 

2013 -              External Examiner, Warwick Business School (Postgraduate programes in Clinical Leadership)

 

2010 -              Editorial management team, Work, Employment and Society (British Sociological Association Journal)

 

2009 -              Management Committee Chair, ESF COST Action IS0903, ‘Enhancing the role of medicine in management in European health systems’.

 

2007 - 2012     External Examiner, Nottingham University Business School (Undergraduate programes, Nottingham, Ningbo and Malaysia)

 

2007                Panel member, National Inquiry into Management and Medicine, University of Leeds.

 

2004-2007      Editorial board, Work, Employment and Society (BSA Journal)

 

2005-               Chief Examiner, Organisational Behaviour (External programme), London School of Economics.

 

2002–2003      Visiting Profesor - Departamento de Economia y Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).

 

2001-               Member of Institutional Economics and Public Management Research Network, University of Valencia.

 

2000 – 2002:   External Examiner, Hull University Business School

 

Peer review for: Economic and Social Research Council; Organisation; Organisation Studies; Public Administration; Public Administration Review; Journal of Management Studies; British Journal of Management; Employee Relations; International Journal of Public Sector Management; Management Learning, Sociology of Health and Illness, Public Management Review.

 

Member of: European Group for Organisational Studies; Critical Management Studies network; European Group for Public Administration.

 

 

 

8. MAIN FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

 

 

- ESRC/SAMs Management Develop Fellow in professional services (2012), £50,000, (co-funded by LUBS) [PI].

 

- ‘Evaluation of Support Carers in UK General practice’ (2011), £30,000 Carers UK (with A.Wifield, S.Yeandle, V.Joyes, G.Fry and C. Buse) [CI].

 

- ‘Navigating from below: patients shaping health systems to address non communicable diseases’ (2011), £11,000 WUN Researcher Development Fund (in partnership with colleagues at Universities of Sydney and Alberta) [CI].

- Knowledge Transfer Partnership – ‘Delivering a health promoting hospital: challenges and opportunities’ (2010), £29,000, NHS Leeds and Technology Strategy Board (with Chris McCabe) [PI].

 

- Enhancing the role of medicine in management in European health systems’ (2010-14), €400,000, European Science Foundation COST Action IS0903 [PI].

 

- Knowledge Transfer Partnership - ‘Enhancing the effectiveness of Clinical Directorates’ (2008-10), £130,000, Economic and Social Research Council, Northern Way and Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust [PI].

- ‘Exploring change in the management of European Health Systems’ (2007-8),  £6000, University of Leeds International fund [PI].

 

- ‘Agency working & employment change in health and social care: a UK and Australia comparison’ (2007-8), £95,000, ESRC (RES-000-22-2000) (with Kim Hoque, Alex DeRuyter and Chris Lonsdale) [PI].

 

- ‘National Inquiry into Management and Medicine’ (2006-7), £5000, Higher Education Innovation Fund, KT pump priming grant: £5000, Leeds University Business School [PI].

 

- ‘External Management of Children’s Homes by Local Authorities’ (1997-1999), £150,000, Department of Health (with Professor Richard Whipp and Dr Martin Kitchener) [CI].

 

- ‘Professions in late modernity – seminar series’ (1993), £5000, ESRC (Richard Whipp) [PI].

 

- ‘Anglo-German research network on public sector reforms’ (1993), £4000, Hans Bockler Foundation [PI].

 

 

9. PUBLICATIONS

 

Books (Monographs)

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Ackroyd, S. And Walker, R. (2005) The New Managerialism and Public Service Professions, London: Palgrave.

 

Whipp, R., Kirkpatrick, I., and Kitchener, M. (2005) Managing Residential Child Care: A Managed Service?, London: Palgrave.

 

 

Journal articles

 

Kipping, M. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2013) ‘Alternative pathways of change in professional services firms: the case of management consulting’, Journal of Management Studies (Forthcoming).

 

Veronesi, G., Kirkpatrick, I. and Vallascas, F. (2013) ‘Does clinical management improve efficiency? Evidence from the English NHS’, Public Money and Management (Forthcoming).

 

Veronesi, G., Kirkpatrick, I. and Vallascas, F. (2013) ‘Clinicians on the Board: What Difference does it make?’, Social Science and Medicine, 77, 147-155.

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Bullinger, B., Dent, M. & Lega, F. (2012) ‘The development of medical-manager roles in European hospital systems: a framework for comparison’. International Journal of Clinical Practice, 66(2): 121–124.

 

Grugulis, I. Stuart, M., Forde, C., Kirkpatrick, I. Mackenzie, R. and Tomlison, J. (2012) ‘Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society: different voices, same language’, Work, Employment and Society. 26(1): 5-9.

 

Kirkpatrick, I., De Ruyter, A., Hoque, K., and Lonsdale, C. (2011) ‘Practicing what they preach? The disconnect between the state as regulator and user of employment agencies’, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Issue 18, 3711-3726. [ABS 3*]

 

Muzio, D., Kirkpatrick, I. and Kipping, M. (2011) ‘Professions, Organizations and the State: Applying the Sociology of the Professions to the Case of Management Consultancy’, Current Sociology, 59 (6) 805-824.

 

Hoque, K., Kirkpatrick, I., Lonsdale, C. and DeRuyter, A. (2011) ‘Outsourcing the procurement of agency workers: assessing the impact of vendor managed services in English social care’, Work Employment and Society, 25 (3), 522-539.

 

Stuart, M., Gurgulis, I., Forde, C., Kirkpatrick, I., MacKenzie, R. and Tomlinson, J. (2011) ‘The more things change…towards 25 years of Work, Employment and Society’, Work Employment and Society, 25 (2) 197-201.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. and McCabe, C. (2011) ‘A full blooded market system: at what cost to the NHS?’, British Medical Journal, 343: doi: 10.1136, 13 July.

 

Muzio, D. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2011) ‘Introduction: professions and organisations – a conceptual framework’, Current Sociology, 59, 4, 389-405.

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Kragh-Jespersen, P., and Dent, M. (2011) ‘The contested terrain of hospital management: professional projects and healthcare reform in Denmark’ Current Sociology, 59, 4, 489-506.

 

Londsdale, C., Kirkpatrick, I., Hoque, K. and De Ruyter, A. (2010) ‘Supplier Behaviour and Public Contracting in the English Agency Nursing Market’, Public Administration, 88, 3: 800-818.

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Kragh Jespersen, P., Dent, M. and Neogy, I. (2009) ‘Medicine and management in a comparative perspective: the cases of England and Denmark’, Sociology of Health and Illness, 31 (5), 642-658.

 

Shelly, M.S. and Kirkpatrick, I (2008) ‘Medical engagement redefined: managing productive relationships between doctors and managers’, Clinical Leader, 1, 2:69-78.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. Shelly, M., S., Dent, M. and Neogy, I. (2008) ‘Towards a “productive” relationship between medicine and management: reporting from a national inquiry’, International Journal of Clinical Leadership, 16, 1:27-35.

 

Hoque, K., Kirkpatrick, I., De Ruyter, A. and Lonsdale, C. (2008) ‘New contractual relationships in the agency worker market: the case of the UK NHS’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 46, 3: 389-412.

 

Hoque, K. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2008) ‘Making the core contingent: agency work and its consequences for UK public services’, Public Administration, 86, 2: 331-344.

 

De Ruyter, A., Kirkpatrick, I., Hoque, K., Lonsdale, C. and Malan, J. (2008) ‘Agency working and the degradation of public service employment: the case of nurses and social workers’ International Journal of Human Resource Management, 19, 3: 432-45.

Ackroyd, S., Kirkpatrick, I. And Walker, R. (2007) ‘Public management reform and its consequences for professional organisation: a comparative analysis’. Public Administration, 85, 1: 9-26.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. and Hoque, K. (2006) ‘A retreat from permanent employment? Accounting for the rise of professional agency work in UK public services’, Work, Employment and Society, 20, 4: 649-666.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. (2006) ‘Between markets and networks: the reform of social care provision in the UK’, Revista de Analisis Economico, 21, 2, Sept-Dec.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. (2005) ‘Taking stock of the new managerialism in English social services’, Social Work and Society [online journal] 3, 3, December.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. (2005) ‘Los mercados de la asistencia social en la practica: La experiencia del reino unido’. Revista Asturiana Economia, num. 32, Enero-Abril.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. and Hoque, K. (2005) ‘The decentralisation of employment relations in the British public sector’, Industrial Relations Journal, 36, 2.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. and Ackroyd, S. (2003) ‘Archetype theory and the changing professional organization: a critique and alternative’, Organization, 10, 4: 739-758.

 

Hoque, K. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2003) ‘Non-standard employment in the management and professional workforce: training, consultation and gender implications’, Work Employment and Society, 17, 4:667-689.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. and Ackroyd, S. (2003) ‘Transforming the professional archetype?: the new managerialism in UK social services’, Public Management Review, 5, 4.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. (2002) ‘A jungle of competing requirements: management reform in the organizational field of UK social services’, Social Work and Social Sciences Review , 10, 3: 24-47.

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Kitchener, M. and Whipp, R. (2001) ‘Out of sight, out of mind? Assessing the impact of markets for local authority children’s services’, Public Administration, 79, 1: 49-71.

 

Boyne, G., Kirkpatrick, I. and Kitchener, M.J. (2001) ‘Introduction to the symposium on new labour and the “modernisation” of public management’, Public Administration, 79, 1: 1-4.

 

Kitchener, M., Kirkpatrick, I. and Whipp, R.  (2000) ‘Supervising professional work under new public management: evidence from an “invisible trade”’, British Journal of Management, 11, 3: 213-226.

[Reprinted in: Managing Care: Perspectives and Practice, Atkinson, D and Henderson, J. (eds) (2003) London: Routledge.]

 

Kirkpatrick, I. (2000) ‘Workplace assimilation and conflict in professional service organisations: the case of university libraries’ Public Policy and Administration, 14, 4: 71-86.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. (1999) ‘Managers or colleagues?: the changing nature of intra-professional relationships in UK public services’, Public Management, 1, 4: 489-509.

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Kitchener, M., Owen, D. and Whipp, R. (1999) ‘Un-chartered territory: experiences of the purchaser/provider split in local authority children’s services’, British Journal of Social Work, 29: 707-726.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. (1999) ‘The worst of both worlds?: public services without markets or bureaucracy’, Public Money and Management, 19, 4: 7-14.

 

Kitchener, M., Kirkpatrick, I. and Whipp, R.  (1999) ‘Decoupling management control: the case of UK children’s homes’, International Journal of Public Sector Management, 12, 4: 338-350.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. and Martinez-Lucio, M. (1996) ‘The contract state and the future of public management: introduction’, Public Administration, 74, 1:1-8.

 

Davies, A., and Kirkpatrick, I. (1995) ‘Face to face with the sovereign consumer: service quality and the changing role of professional librarians’, Sociological Review, 43, 4: 782-807.

 

Davies, A., Kirkpatrick, I., and N. Oliver. (1992) 'The organisational culture of an academic library: implications for library strategy', British Journal of Academic Librarianship, 7, 2: 69-89.

 

 

Editorship of journal special issues

 

Special edition of Management Research News, ‘The contract state? The future of public management?’, 17, 1994 (edited with Miguel Martinez-Lucio and Bob Turner).

 

Special issue of Public Administration, ‘The Contract State’, 74, 1. 1996 (joint editor with Miguel Martinez-Lucio).

 

Symposium in Public Administration, ‘New Labour and the modernisation of public management’, 79, 1, 2001 (joint editor with George Boyne and Martin Kitchener).

 

Special edition of Current Sociology ‘reconnecting professional organisations and occupations’, 2011, 59. (with Daniel Muzio).

 

Edited books

 

Kirkpatrick, I. and Martinez-Lucio, M. (eds.) (1995) The Politics of Quality: Management of Change in the U.K. Public Sector, Routledge: London.

 

 

Chapters in books

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Dent, M. and Lega, F.  (2013) ‘Hybrid connections between professional work and organizations’, in Noordegraaf, M. and Waring, J. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Public Professionalism, London: Routledge.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. (2013) 'The Changing Relationship between Organisations and Occupations in Professional Services Firms', in Empson, L., Muzio, D., Broschak, J. and Hinings, B. (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Professional Service Firms, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Muzio, D. and Ackroyd, S. (2012) ‘The sociology of professions’, in Clark, T. and Kipping, M. (eds) The Oxford handbook of management Consulting, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Kipping, M. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2011) “O Desenvolvimento da Consultoria de Gestão Empresarial entre Estrutura e Agência”, in Julio Cesar Donadone and Maria A. Chaves Jardim (eds), As centralidades e as fronteiras das empresas do século 21. Bauru: Edusc, pp. 249-284.

 

Dent, M. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2011) 'Medical leadership and Management Reforms in Hospitals in England, Denmark, Netherlands and Kaiser Permanente', in Teelken, C., Dent, M. and Ferlie, E. (eds.)  Leadership, Management, and the Professions in the Public Sector, London: Routledge.

 

Kipping, M. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2007) ‘From Talyor as product to taylorism as process: Knowledge intensive firms in a historical perspective’, in Muzio, D. Ackroyd, S. and Chalant, F. (eds.) Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour: Law, Medicine and Management Consultancy, London: Palgrave.

 

Kipping, M., Kirkpatrick, I. and Muzio, D. (2006) ‘Overly controlled or out of control: management consultants and the new corporate professionalism’, in Craig, J. (ed.) Production Values: Futures for Professionalism, London: Demos.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. (2006) ‘La organizacion y gestion de la asistencia social en el reino unido y sus consecuencias: jerarquias, mercados y redes’, in Toboso, F. and  Arias, X.C. (Eds.): Organización de gobiernos y mercados. Análisis de casos desde la Nueva Economía Institucional. PUV: Valencia.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. (2006) ‘Post-Fordism and the new regime of organising within the state administration’ in Alonso, L. and Martinez Lucio, M. (eds.) Change and Conflict in the ‘New Economy’: Discussing the Development of Post-Fordism, London: Palgrave – forthcoming.

 

Hebdon, R. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2005) ‘Changes in the organization of public services and their consequences for employment relations’, in Ackroyd, S., Batt, R., Thompson, P. and Tolbert, P.S. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organisation, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Whipp, R., and Davies, A.  (1996) 'New Public Management and Professions' in Glover, I and Hughes, M. (eds.) The Professional-Managerial Class: Contemporary British Management in the Pursuer Mode, Gower.

 

Davies, A. and Kirkpatrick, I. (1995) 'Performance indicators, bureaucratic control and the decline of professional autonomy: the case of academic librarians', in Kirkpatrick and Martinez (eds.) The Politics of Quality, Routledge: London.

 

Delbridge, R. and Kirkpatrick, I. (1994) 'Theory and Practice of Participant Observation',  In Wass, V. and Wells, P. (eds.) Principles and Practice in Business and Management Research, Dartmouth Gower: Aldershot

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Davies, A., & Oliver, N. (1992) 'Decentralisation: friend or foe of human resource management', in Blyton, P. and Turnbull, P (eds.) Reassessing Human Resource Management, Sage, London.

 

Major Reports

 

Neogy, I. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2009) Medicine and Management: Lessons Across Europe, Centre for Innovation and Health Management, November.

 

Kirkpatrick, I.,. Hoque, K., Lonsdale, C. and De Ruyter, A, (2009) Professional Agency Working in Nursing and Social Work: Implications for Management, Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change Policy Report No.3, Leeds: CERIC. [Full report available at: lubswww2.leeds.ac.uk/CERIC/.../user.../CERIC_policy_report_3.pdf]

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Malby, R., Dent, M., Neogy, I., Mascie-Taylor, H., Pollard, L. National Inquiry into Management and Medicine: Final Report, Centre for Innovation and Health Management, University of Leeds, January 2007.

[Full report available at: http://www.cihm.leeds.ac.uk/themes/managers/downloads]

 

Hoque, K., De Ruyter, A. Kirkpatrick, I., Hoque, K., Lonsdale C. An Assessment of Regulatory Change on the Health and Social Care Agency Market, Report for the Recruitment Employers Confederation, March 2007.

 

Whipp, R., Kirkpatrick, I. and Kitchener, M. The External Management of Children’s Homes by Local Authorities, Report for the Department of Health, January 1999.

[Major findings circulated to all senior managers in: Caring for Children Away From Home: Messages from Research, Department of Health, John Wiley, 1999]

 

Recent conference papers

 

Kirkpatrick, I. and Wolfenden, N. ‘Willing but unable to lead: developing medical managers in a UK hospital trust’, Paper presented at 28th European Group for Organisation Studies Colloquium, Helsinki, July, 2012.

 

Veronesi, G., Kirkpatrick, I. and Vallascas, F. ‘Clinicians on the Board: What Difference does it make?’, Paper presented at 16th International Research Society in Public Management, Rome, April 11-13, 2012.

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Dent, M., Lega, F. and Bullinger, B. ‘The development of medical manager roles in European Health Systems: A Framework for Comparison’, paper presented at 27th European Group for Organisation Studies Colloquium, Gothenburg, July, 2011.

 

Wolfenden, N. and Kirkpatrick, I. ‘Integrating clinical leadership development with service improvement: a case study of an English NHS trust’. Paper presented at the European Health Managers Association annual conference, Porto, June, 2011.

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Hoque, K. and Lonsdale, C. ‘Re-connecting contingent professionals and organisations – an impossible task?’. Paper presented at XVII International Sociological Association World Congress, Gothenburg, July 2010.

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Muzio, D. and Kipping, M. ‘From Association led to corporate-led professions: the case of management consulting in the UK’, paper presented at International Sociological Association conference, Barcelona, September. 2008.

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Hoque, K., Lonsdale, C. and De Ruyter, A. ‘Transforming the agency worker supply chain! The impact of vendor neutral services in UK local government’,

Paper presented at the 24th European group of Organization Studies colloquium, Amsterdam, July. 2008.

 

Hoque, K., Kirkpatrick, I., Lonsdale, C. and De Ruyter, A. ‘New contractual relationships in the market for agency workers: the case of the UK’s National Health Service’, paper presented at the Work, Employment and Society conference, Aberdeen, September, 2007.

 

Kirkpatrick, I., Kragh Jespersen, P., Dent, M. and Neogy, I. ‘Medicine and management in a comparative perspective’, paper presented at Critical Management Studies conference, July 2007.

 

Kirkpatrick, I. and Kipping, M. ‘Theorizing the expansion of the Management Consulting Industry: A Critical Realist Approach’. Paper presented at the Academy of Management conference, Atlanta, August 2006.

 

[Information on earlier conference papers is available on request]

 

 

Other publications and invited presentations

 

A full list of invited presentations, conference plenary talks can be made available. I have also published a number of book reviews and shorter papers in practitioner journals and newspapers, which I can make available on request. A selection of recent newspaper articles includes:

 

- ‘More doctors on boards improves hospital performance’, Guardian, 11 September 2012 (With Gianluca Veronesi)

 

- ‘The NHS braces itself for privatisation’, Guardian, 12 April, 2011. (with Chris McCabe)

 

- ‘The private sector is drooling over health privatisation plans’, Guardian, 17 March 2011

 

- ‘Unravelling the hidden costs of an NHS free-market’, Guardian, 1 March, 2011