Dr Peter Lenney
BSc Hons [1st Class] Chemistry (Leeds)
PhD (Lancaster)
P.G. Cert. Academic Practice
F.H.E.A.
Senior Fellow of the Foundation for Management Education
Lecturer
Department
Marketing
Office Hours
Monday 0850-0950
Professional Role
Director of the M.Sc. in Advanced Marketing Management
Pedagological Development - MBA
http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/news/mba/mindful-manager/
Current Teaching
Marketing 327 [Managing in Marketing]
Final Year Undergraduate
Marketing 401 [Marketing in Practice]
MSc in Advanced Marketing Management
Marketing 402-1 [Philosophy of Social Science]
MSc in Advanced Marketing Management
The Mindful Manager Programme of the MBA
The Marketing Module of the MBA
Research Interests
My main research interests are the nature and processes of managerial work, management education and particularly managerial judgement processes. This latter research has led me to become engaged with the conception of mindfulness and how the Aristotelian conception of practical wisdom – Phronesis, Heidegger's interpretations of Aristotle, together with Arendt’s & Beiner's perspective on judgement, can be mobilised in the education of managers.
Current Research
The descriptions of managerial work developed in the literature to date have been, in the main, decidedly ‘thin’ [Geertz 1973]. I am endeavouring to develop a ‘thicker’ description managerial work, one that reveals the ‘substance’ of the manifest managerial conduct. Descriptions of managerial work are being developed that rest at an ‘ontic level’ between that of classical / ‘Fayolian’ management theory and the conceptualisations generated through the empirical study of managerial work. These perspectives, I hope, will assist in the development of an explanatory account of managerial work, and will contribute to answering Hales’ question “ Why do managers do what they do” [1999].
New perspectives on both managerial conduct & the character of the ‘content’ of managerial work are being sought. Managerial judgement and sensemaking processes in the 'weak & wickedly problematic' milieu of management are a focus of attention.
My field research is largely ethnographic and deploys an array of longitudinal methodologies including programmes of diary-stimulated interviews, work shadowing, participant self-observation, participant-observation/action research and non-participant observation.
Profile
Before I became an academic I had spent some 20-odd years in industry. Mostly with the industrial coatings/paints division of Courtaulds, the British multinational [now part of Akzo-Nobel]. I graduated as a chemist. My business career took me from the laboratory bench of product development, via various R&D management appointments, through global marketing, to eventually become the Worldwide Business Director of International Paint Marine Coatings - a global supplier of coating systems & services to ship operators and shipbuilders worldwide; at that time a $500m turnover business. Long before the word ‘global’ was fashionable the marine coatings business was truly global. Global customers with globally mobile assets made that inevitable. As a result I have had extensive experience of international markets and marketing. Additionally industrial coating operations are very often so integrated into customer processes that in many senses you have to know the customers’ businesses better than they do themselves. In my technical roles this facet of the coatings industry led me to get involved in the detail of a very wide range of industries…everything from ship-building to beverage cans, yacht construction, petrochemical production and aerospace, to name just a few. There’s no business, like paint business!
Book (3)
Conference contribution (7)
Working paper (1)
Conference paper (2)
Selected publications (8)
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Publications
- Lenney P, Easton Geoffrey and Vanharanta H, 2010, 'The shaping and sustaining of commissions', Second International Symposium on Process Organization Studies (Rhodes) - 2010
View details - Lenney P and Easton Geoffrey, 2009, 'The weak and wicked world of marketing management', Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management (Liverpool) - 2009
View details - Lenney P and Easton Geoffrey, 2009, 'Actors, resources, activities and commitments', Industrial Marketing Management, vol 38
View details - Lenney P, Easton Geoffrey and Mouzas S, 2008, 'Umbrella agreements as commitment framing devices', 24th IMP Conference (Uppsala University, Sweden) - 2008
View details - Lenney P, Easton Geoffrey and Gilchrist A, 2007, 'The role of commitments in B2B relationships', 23rd IMP-Conference (Manchester) - 2007
View details - Vanharanta M, Easton Geoffrey and Lenney P, 2007, 'The cognitive iron cage: the paradox of NDM in organizations', International Conference in Naturalistic Decision Making (Asilomar) - 2007
View details - Lenney P, Easton Geoffrey and Gilchrist A, 2006, 'A participatory action research study of key account management changes', Marketing Working Paper Series
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View PDF - Baulch D L, Colburn A, Lenney P and Montague D C, 1981, 'Hg(63P1) photosensitization of cyclohexanone. Role of triplet biradical intermediates', Journal of the Chemical Society: Faraday Transactions II, vol 77, pp. 1803-1812.
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