Professor Dawson has been researching change in organizations in a number of different countries for over twenty-five years. He has held positions at Universities in Australia, Denmark, England and Scotland and has been a keynote speaker at international conferences. He has dual nationality (Australian and British) and he actively supports young academics as a Research Fellow and Distinguished Member of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. He has acted as external reviewer for number of programmes and schools, including, Stirling University, Newcastle University and Durham University Business School. He is well known in the field of change management and his work is often cited in the academic literature. He also presents his work to leading companies and business organizations who are interested in developing their understanding of change management.
Articles
Occupational health and safety management in organizations: A review (with Michael Zanko), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2012)
In examining the research literature on occupational health and safety (OHS), this paper argues that...
The role of socio-cultural norms in workplace stress: an empirical study of bank employees in Nigeria (with Adunola Oke), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2012)
This article contributes new data on workplace stress drawn from a sample of 305 employees...
Change and wicked problems in health care transitioning (with Michael Zanko, Peter D. McLean, Christopher S. Sykes, and S Marciano), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
Attention is focussed on multiple stakeholder issues that cut across organizational boundaries andcreate `wickedÿ problems...
Dispersed change agency and the improvisation of strategies during processes of change (with Kathryn Charles), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
This article explores the implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) in a multinational corporation (MNC)....
Social innovation at work: sustainable OHS in HRM (with Michael Zanko), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
Contributions to Books
The contribution of the processual approach to the theory and practice of organizational change, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2012)
The contribution of the processual approach in providing a methodology for studying the dynamics of...
Change management, In G. Ritzer (eds.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2006)
A key aim of change management is to manage processes towards a future that, even...
Presentations
Working at the coalface: being a miner in times of change (with Peter D. McLean), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2010)
A case study analysis of the introduction of a new system for appraising worker performance...
Innovative workplace change: social well-being and health (with Michael Zanko), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)
Socially innovative and commercially viable: Partners or prisoners of future business developments (with Trevor A. Spedding, Lisa Daniel, and Michael D. Clements), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)
There is a growing need for supply chain partners to work together in improving their...
Biotechnology Integration as a Sociology of Innovation (with L. J. Daniel), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2008)
Understanding the sociological process by which innovations are developed and adopted provides an interesting challenge...
Contextualising Workplace Stress: The Experience of Bank Employees in Nigeria (with A. Oke), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2008)
This article draws attention to the contextual dimensions to workplace stress and advocates the need...