Dr Bronwen Rees
Senior Research Fellow
Location: Lord Ashcroft Building, 3rd floor, Cambridge
UK: 0845 196 2238
International: +44 (0)1245 493131 ext. 2238
Email: bronwen.rees@anglia.ac.uk
Bronwen is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Communication and Ethics in International Business. She has worked at Anglia Ruskin for ten years, and prior to that was Fellow at the Judge Institute, the Open University, and a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of management where she obtained her doctorate. She has published extensively in international journals, and is regularly invited over the world as a speaker.
She is the Founding Editor of Interconnections, the Lord Ashcroft International Business School journal dedicated to bridging the gap between theory and practice in international management, which is now considered to be a leading voice in promoting radical dialogue in the emergence of businesses working towards the creation of more sustainable business practice.
She is also Founder of the East West Sanctuary in Budapest, Centre of Contemplative Inquiry, a centre dedicated to the furtherance alternative research and educational thinking. Bronwen regularly leads workshops and retreats all over the world, including the US, Thailand and Hungary, on the exploration of a new paradigm for research and practices appropriate for a globalising world.
She is the Founding Editor of Interconnections, the Lord Ashcroft International Business School journal dedicated to bridging the gap between theory and practice in international management, which is now considered to be a leading voice in promoting radical dialogue in the emergence of businesses working towards the creation of more sustainable business practice.
She is also Founder of the East West Sanctuary in Budapest, Centre of Contemplative Inquiry, a centre dedicated to the furtherance alternative research and educational thinking. Bronwen regularly leads workshops and retreats all over the world, including the US, Thailand and Hungary, on the exploration of a new paradigm for research and practices appropriate for a globalising world.
Publications
Books
- Rees, B ( 2004) The Construction of Management: Gender and Identity at Work London: Edward Elgar ( 48 citations, GS)
- Wall, S and Rees, ( 2005) B International Business, 2nd edition London: Pearson International (6 citations, GS)
- Rees, B. (1995) Analysing the Cultural Environment Book 2, In 'Managing Your Enterprise', London: Open University
- Rees, B ( 1995) Analysing the Demographic and Social Environment, Book 3 in 'Managing Your Enterprise', London: Open University, 1995
Key: GS = Google Scholar citation.
Journal articles ( refereed)
Show more... Show all- Rees, B and Prayawong, W ( 2010) 'The Role of Employee Volunteer Programmes in Thailand' Journal of Corporate Citizenship.
- Rees. B ( 2009) 'Mindful Economics: How the US Economy works, Why it Matters, and How it could be Different' Review of Social Economy, pp.1-4
- Rees B, and Smith, J ( 2008) 'Breaking the silence: the traumatic circle of policing' International Journal of Police science and Management Vol. 10, no. 3 pp. 267-279 ( 10 Citations, GS)
- Rees, B and Garnsey E ( 2003) 'Analysing Competence: Gender and Identity at Work' Work, Gender and Organization Vol. 10, No. 5 ( 2003) (48 Citations, GS)
- Rees, B and Preston, J ( 2003) 'The International Patchwork: Introducing Reflexivity into the Business Curriculum' Innovations in Education and Teaching International, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp.123-133 (5 Citations, GS)
- Rees, B et al ( 8 others) Learning from the Patchwork Text Process - A retrospective discussion, Innovations in Education and Teaching International, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp.216 - 226 ( 5 Citations, GS)
- Illes, K and Rees B ( 2001) 'Unlocking History: The Shadow of Hungarian History' Journal of Eastern and Central Europe Management Vol, 6, 4 ( 3 Citations, GS)
- Du Gay, P, Salaman, G and Rees, B ( 1996)?The Conduct of Management and the Management of Conduct: Contemporary Managerial Discourse and the Constitution of the "Competent Manager"Journal of Management Studies, Vol.33, 3, May 1996 (180 citations, GS)
- Garnsey E and Rees, B ( 1996) 'Discourse and Enactment: Gender and Inequality in Text and Context' Human Relations Vol. 49, 8 (30 citations, GS)
- Rees, B. and Brewster, C ( 1995) Supporting Equality: Patriarchy at Work in Europe Bronwen Rees and Chris Brewster Personnel Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 ( Awarded highly commended for best paper 1999) (11citations GS)
Book articles
Show more... Show all- Rees, B ( forthcoming, 2012) 'East meets West: Methods and Development of Crucible Research in Inner Peace and Global Vision' - The Influence of Tibetan Buddhism on Leadership and Organizations ed. Schuyler, K.G Information Age Publishing, New York
- Rees, B and Agocs, T ( 2011)'The Application of Buddhist Theory and Practice in Modern organisations' in Buddhist Economics, Ed. Zolnai, L, Germany:Springer Verlag (3 citations GS)
- Illes, K and Rees, B ( 2004) 'Uncovering the communist and capitalist shadow: developing relational forms of inquiry and writing' In Research Methods for Transitional Economies. Eds. Clarke T , and Michailova, S, London: Palgravepp 57-77 (6 Citations, GS)
- Rees, B, Danavira and Atula, 'Organising Realities: A Buddhist Perspective' Management Research News, Vol. 25, Issue 8/10 pp. 163-165, MCB University Press, pp. 163-165,
- Rees, B ( 2002) 'So we think we're talking the same language? An exploration into globalisation, language and ethics. In National Culture - Globalization 'Roots and wings''. University of West Hungary, Faculty of Economic Sciences pp. 206-214.
- Rees, B ( 2000)'What price competitiveness? Unintended Consequences of Managerial Knowledge Transfer to Hungary' in Dimensions of Competitiveness. Eds. Wall, S. and Lloyd-Reason, L. London: Elgar.
- Rees, B ( 2000) 'Unlocking History: Communicating Across Cultures' in Multi-Organizational Partnerships and Co-operative Strategy 6-8 July 2000, Leuven, Belgium (published in 2001)
- Rees, B ( 1998) 'The Discourse of Competence: Language of Empowerment or Control?' in Organisational Discourse: Pretexts, Subtexts and Contexts. Eds. Coombes, C., Grant, D., Keenoy, T. and Oswick C. KMCP (1 Citation, GS)
- Contributor to The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988 (350 citations, GS)
- Reviewer Human Relations, Management Learning, Journal of Globally Responsible Leadership. Academy of Management conference. Editorial Board: International Journal of Pluralism in Economic Education.
Translations & Press Articles
Show more... Show all- Rees, B. (trans.) ( 1983) An Introduction to APL. S. Pommier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983
- Rees, B ( trans.) ( 1983) An Outline of Soil and Rock Mechanics. P.Habib. Cambridge:Cambridge University
Press Articles
Interconnections articles, Editor, Interconnections (Issues 1-8)
Issue 1
Issue 2
Issue 4
- 'Crossing the Theory/Practice Divide: The emergence of a new world view and its implications for business education' pp 9-16
- 'Ethics as a Bridge between Theory and Practice' Interview with john Wilson, pp.26-32
Issue 2
- 'Directions for environmental innovation- time, space and enterprise' - Interview with Eliabeth Garnsey pp.20.29
- 'Sharing Wisdom from the East; lesson from the King's Sufficiency Economy in Thailand' Interview with Apichai, Puntasen, pp.36-44
- Agenda for Change, pp 63-64
Issue 4
- 'The Nature of Systemic Power and the Implications for Managerial Change' - Interview with john Nirenberg, pp.9-17
- Changing Your mind: Including the 'spirit of mother 'at Work' Interview with Mae Chee Sansanee Sthirasuta pp.45-52
- 'Towards New Management Practice' pp. 72-73
Issue 5
- 'Changing Values': editorial pp.3-6
- 'Talking about Organisations, Dialogue with Andy Armitage' pp 64-69
- 'Can We afford Business as Usual?' pp 69-72
Issue 6
- 'From Quantitative to Qualitative: A Mind-Changing Revolution' pp. 6-12
Issue 7
Issue 8
- 'The Role of the Ethical Entrepreneur as Change Catalyst' pp 3-11
Issue 8
- 'Pathways for Sustainable Education: From Hierarchy to Holarchy' pp 47-59 with Linda Nowakowski
Refereed conference papers and keynotes( from 1998)
Show more... Show all- Rees, B ( 2011)'Creating a sustainable future: transformational learning, ethical inquiry and social enterprise' Green Economics Conference, 18th to 19 November, 2011, Oxford UK.
- Rees, B and Magee A ( 2010) 'Towards a new form of inquiry: a holonomic perspective' Conference on Spirituality and Education at Dublin University, June 22/23 2010.
- Rees, B 'Building Bridges Between East and West, Keynote speech at 2nd Buddhist Economic Conference, Ubon Rathatchani University, Thailand, April 2009.
- Rees, B and Wilson, J,(2008) Towards Ethical inquiry in Organisations Heterodox Economics conference, Cambridge, July, 2008.
- Rees, B and Wilson, J ( 2008) 'Developing Mindful Inquiry in the Modern Organisation' MidWest Economics Association, Chicago, March 13- 16, 2008.
- Rees, B, ( 2007) Integrating body and mind: a psychospiritual approach to therapy Keynote speech at Second National Conference on Transpersonal Psychotherapy, September 2007.
- Rees. B and Agocs, T( 2007) The East-West Crucible: exploring the application of Buddhist theory and practice in the modern organisation.
- 'Europe-Asia Dialogue on Business, Ethics and Spirituality. Annual Conference of the European SPES forum, June 30-July 2, Budapest, Hungary, 2007.
- Rees, B. Illes. K. O'Shea G ( 2006) Building trust in the workplace. 5th Global Conference on Business and Economics, Cambridge University, July 6-8, 2006.
- Rees. B ( 2005) 'Embodying the feminine: developing awareness and dialogue' Work, Gender and Organization Conference, Warwick, June 22-24, 2005.
- Rees. B and Preston, J ( 2004) The International Patchwork:'Introducing reflexivity into the Business Curriculum', Cambridge, June 2004.
- Rees. B and Wilson J ( 2003) 'Towards an understanding of organisational transformation through ethical enquiry' Management Theory at Work Conference Leadership, Learning and Participation Lancaster University, Monday 14th - Wednesday, 16th April ,2003.
- Rees, B, Danavira and Atula,( 2002) 'Unity in diversity and diversity in unity: consciousness and myth in organisational life' Workshop on A New Agenda for Organisation Theory in the 21st , Brussels, Belgium, February 7-8, 2002 and 'It's a Relational World' Warwick, March 13-15 2002.
- Rees, B, Huson, R and Dunlop, P.( 2002) Organising realities: a Buddhist Perspective Employment Research Unit, 17th annual conference, Cardiff, U.K. 12-13 September 2002.
- Rees. B ( 2002) 'Globalisation, communication, meaning'. 1st International conference on globalisation, Sopron, Hungary, April 2002.
- Rees. B and Illes K (2001) 'The Transformation of Educational Processes in Hungary: Fragmentation or Integration?' 5th Asean Inter-University Seminar on Social Development, Singapore, May 23-25 2001.
- Rees, B and Danavira (2001) 'Stillness in the Creation of a Dynamic Consciousness of Self and Other' ?It's a Relational World', conference on language and communication, University of Warwick, March 7-9, 2001
- Rees, B ( 2001) 'Human Resource Management in the UK: Towards an Organisational Ethics' Keynote speech and in proceedings of the national Human Resource Management conference, University of Vesprem, Hungary, April 24-25 200.
- Rees. B and Illes K ( 2001) 'Developing Competent Managers: The Shadow of Hungarian History' 16th Workshop on Strategic Human Resource Management, Brussels, April 2-4, 2001.
- Illes, K and Rees, B ( 2000)Developing Competent managers: The Shadow of Hungarian History Conference on Central and Eastern European Transition, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 20-22.
- Rees, B ( 2000) 'Unlocking History: Communicating across Cultures' Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multi-Organizational Partnerships and Co-operative Strategy Leuven, Belgium, 6-8 July 2000.
- Illes. K and Rees, B ( 2000) 'The Take-up of HRM Practices in Hungary: Illusion or Disillusion?'15th Workshop on Strategic Human Resource Management, Fontainebleau, France, 30 March-1 April 2000 ( one of eight papers selected from 50 submissions).
- Illes, K and Rees, B ( 1999) 'What Price Competitiveness? Unintended Consequences of Managerial Knowledge Transfer to Hungary'1st Centre for International Business and Economic Research Conference, Anglia Polytechnic University, September 1999.
- Illes, K and Rees, B ( 1999) 'The Transfer of Western Managerial Knowledge to Hungary' 14th Workshop on Strategic Human Resource Management, St Gallen, Switzerland, March 29-30 1999 and at the Human Resource for Development: People and Performance Conference,Manchester, 27-30 June.
- Rees. B ( 1999) ' "Re-becoming" in Right Livelihood', 6th Workshop on Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Colchester, UK, June 1-3.
- Rees. B ( 1999) 'Transcending Consumption; New Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Management' Workshop on the Challenges of Managing the Third Sector, Edinburgh, June 12-14 1999.
- Rees, B ( 1998) 'The Discourse of Competence: Language of Empowerment or Control?' 3rd International Conference on Organizational Discourse, King's College, University of London, 29-31 July.
- Rees, B ( 1998) 'Managing to Liberate or Managing to Control? The Rise and Rise of Instrumental Rationality in Modern Corporations' 14th EGOS Colloquium, Maastricht, The Netherlands, July 9/11 1998.
- Rees. B ( 1998) 'The Discourse of Competence: Language of Empowerment or Control?' Work, Employment and Society, Cambridge, September 14-16, 1998.
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