Weir, Professor David T.H.

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Name:

Weir, Professor David T.H.

Email:

d.weir@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

York Business School

Organisation:

York St John University

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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

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Ali, Sa’ad ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4290-7757, Weir, David T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722, AlQahtani, Munirah Sarhan and Mrabet, Mansour ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0852-3570 (2024) Emic and Etic Perspectives on HR Practice for Managing Human Resource Issues Affected by the Prevalence of Informal Networks in Arab Countries. Administrative Sciences, 14 (10). p. 236.
Weir, David T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722 (2022) A device to attract the money? Or an invitation to partnership? In: Marnet, Oliver, (ed.) Research Handbook on Corporate Board Decision-Making. Edward Elgar, pp. 199-223
Weir, David T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722 (2021) The value of wilderness time for leaders and would-be leaders. In: Stern, Julian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4126-0100, Sink, Christopher A., Ho, Wong Ping and Walejko, Malgorzata, (eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness. Bloomsbury
Weir, David T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722 (2022) Arbitrage and Mediation in Stories the sergeants tell each other to get to know who they are. In: Vine, Tom and Richards, Sarah, (eds.) Stories, Storytellers and Storytelling. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 195-215
Weir, David T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722, Clark, Daniel and Patrick-Thomson, Holly (2022) Storytime in the Craft Beer Bar: narratives, gobbets and segments. In: Vine, Tom and Richards, Sarah, (eds.) Stories, Storytellers and Storytelling. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 173-194
El Kharouf, Amal, Abualbasal, Abdulraheem, Abbadi, Hiba S. and Weir, David T.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6722 (2021) The Entrepreneurship Ecosystem for enhancing Women’s Entrepreneurship in Jordan. In: Metcalfe, Beverly Dawn, Bastian, Bettina Lynda and Haya, Al-Dajani, (eds.) Women, Entrepreneurship and Development in the Middle East. Routledge
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, 65 (6). pp. 639-648.
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

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#	Item title
1	Wasta: towards an integrated approach.	152
2	Critical Management: The Longer Haul Described in Almost Polemic Mode	139
3	Leadership in a desert war: Bernard Montgomery as an unusual leader	137
4	Insights into informal practices of sport leadership in the middle east: the impact of positive and negative wasta	136	206
5	Leadership in the Arab Middle East	129	1
6	Wasta: Advancing a Holistic Model to Bridge the Micro-Macro Divide	127	252
7	What Makes the Autoethnographic Analysis Authentic?	125	263
8	Singing the critical life: folk, place, and the palimpsest of rhythms in the beat of the city	124	93
9	Wasta in Jordanian banking: An emic approach to culture-specific concept of social networking and its power-implications	117
10	Ahlem Amana Worries About its Investment in a High Tech Company	111