Professor David T.H. Weir

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Name:

Professor David T.H. Weir

Email:

d.weir@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

York Business School

Organisation:

York St John University

Address:

Hadleigh House Main Street Skirpenbeck York YO 41 1HF

Country:

United Kingdom

Biography

Expertise:

Intercultural Management, Wasta networks, Craft Beer, Police sergeants, Storytelling, Auto-ethnography, MENA region, Islamic Management, Desert Leadership, Solitude

Job title:

Professor - Intercultural Management

Biography:

He researches in organisational behaviour, inter-cultural management, especially related to the Arab Middle East, risk, crisis and disaster management, the poetry and rhythms of management, the interface between technology and management and the life and works of the great entrepreneur, aeronautical engineer and popular novelist Nevil Shute. He is author and editor of twelve books and is on the board of several journals. He has taught at many universities and Business Schools in Europe, Asia, Latin America and North America and has consulted with many leading international businesses and organisations including the World Bank, Islamic Development Bank, the Palestinian National Authority, the Cambridge Muslim College, UNESCO, EFMD, the Scottish Development Agency, Accenture, the Police Fedemore...

Qualifications:

At Oxford University he obtained a MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and a Postgraduate Diploma in Public and Social Administration

My Latest

Helal, Rima Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9270-5136, Ali, Sa'ad ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4290-7757, Strecker, Sophie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1763-7385 and Weir, David T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722 (2023) Navigating wasta in business practices in Lebanon. Thunderbird International Business Review.
Weir, David T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722 (2023) Humans as Horses: A Revisionist Approach to the Conventional Foundational Story about “Management”. In: Mills, Albert J. and Deal, Nicholous, (eds.) A World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Storytelling. Singapore, World Scientific Publishing Co, pp. 75-95
Clarke, Daniel, Ellis, Vaughan, Patrick-Thomson, Holly and Weir, David T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722, eds. (2021) Researching Craft Beer: Understanding Production, Community and Culture in An Evolving Sector. Emerald
Weir, David T. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722 and Ali, Sa'ad (2022) Wasta as an example of informal Social Networks in Emerging Markets: Research Status and Suggestions for Future Directions. In: Informal networks in international business. Emerald
Motasem Thneibat, Motasem Thneibat, Weir, David T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722, McIntosh, Bryan and Walker-Smith, Lynsey (2022) HRM practices and innovation synergy: an intra-organisational perspective. International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, 22 (1-2). pp. 98-118.
Alsarhan, Fadi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-3700, Ali, Sa'ad ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4290-7757, Weir, David T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722 and Valax, Marc (2021) Impact of gender on use of wasta among human resources management practitioners. Thunderbird International Business Review, 63 (2). pp. 131-143.
Ali, Sa'ad and Weir, David T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722 (2020) Wasta: Advancing a Holistic Model to Bridge the Micro-Macro Divide. Management and Organization Review, 16 (3). pp. 657-685.
Megheirkouni, Majd and Weir, David T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722 (2019) Insights into informal practices of sport leadership in the middle east: the impact of positive and negative wasta. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 11 (4). pp. 639-656.
Weir, David T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722 (2013) Leadership in a desert war: Bernard Montgomery as an unusual leader. Review of Enterprise and Management Studies (REAMS), 1 (1). pp. 11-22.
Ali, S. and Weir, David T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722 (2019) Wasta: towards an integrated approach. In: ICOM 2019, 12-13th June 2019, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Unpublished)

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	Wasta: towards an integrated approach.	105
2	Critical Management: The Longer Haul Described in Almost Polemic Mode	96
3	Singing the critical life: folk, place, and the palimpsest of rhythms in the beat of the city	93	107
4	Leadership in the Arab Middle East	90	1
5	Leadership in a desert war: Bernard Montgomery as an unusual leader	90
6	What Makes the Autoethnographic Analysis Authentic?	89	170
7	Insights into informal practices of sport leadership in the middle east: the impact of positive and negative wasta	88	120
8	Wasta: Advancing a Holistic Model to Bridge the Micro-Macro Divide	84	99
9	Wasta in Jordanian banking: An emic approach to culture-specific concept of social networking and its power-implications	78
10	Ahlem Amana Worries About its Investment in a High Tech Company	62