Prof. Peter Case’s Peter's research encompasses organization development, international development, rural development, global health, leadership studies and organization theory & philosophy. For the past ten years Peter has acted as a programme management consultant for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) funded Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI) based at the University of California San Francisco, advising on projects in the Africa and the Greater Mekong Sub-region. Most recently he co-led an organization development project for the MEI in Zimbabwe concerned with restructuring and improving HIV prevention services at national and subnational level funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Peter has extensive experience of leading rural development projects in SE Asia, including several initiatives in Lao PDR funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. Peter's research is geared toward 'making a difference' to the wellbeing of others and achieving impact beyond academia.

Peter has been a tutor for the London Business School EMBA core module ‘Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility’ and has acted as an academic and personal coach to a number of senior executives in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. He also has consultancy experience within the UK NHS and a variety of private sector organizations.

Peter is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Tropical Futures (SAGE) and serves on the following editorial boards: Leadership (SAGE), Culture & Organization (Taylor & Francis), the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Development (Emerald), and the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion (Routledge). He is a member of the following research centres and institutes: Bristol Leadership & Change Centre; Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine; Cairns Institute; Centre for International Trade and Business in Asia.

 

Interests

Research

• Organization Theory
• Organization Philosophy
• Global Healthcare
• Research Ethics
• International Development
• Rural Development
• Malaria Healthcare

Teaching

• Leadership Studies
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Research Ethics
• Organization Theory

Experience

• 2011 to present - Professor of Management and Organization Studies, James Cook University (Townsville, Queensland)
• 2004 to present - Professor of Organization Studies, University of the West of England (Bristol, UK)
• 2002 to 2004 - Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Exeter (Exeter, UK)

Research Disciplines

• Strategy, management and organisational behaviour (3507)
• Agriculture, land and farm management (3002)
• Human resources and industrial relations (3505)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding knowledge (2801)
• Provision of health and support services (2003)

Fellowships

• 2010 - Fellow of the Leadership Trust Foundation (UK)

Other

• Editorial Board Member: Culture & Organization
• Editorial Board Member: Journal of Leadership and Organizational Development
• Editorial Board Member: Social Business
• Editorial Board Member: Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion
• 2022 - Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Tropical Futures (SAGE)
• 2011 to 2015 - Visiting Professor, University of Leicester (UK) School of Management
• 2008 to 2011 - Visiting Professor, University of Humanistics, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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Journal Articles

• Agins B, Case P, Chandramohan D, Chen I, Chikodzore R, Chitapi P, Chung A, Gosling R, Gosling J, Gumbi M, Ikeda D, Madinga M, Mnguni P, Murungu J, Smith Gueye C, Tulloch J, Vilgoen G and LEAP (2022) Effective management of district-level malaria control and elimination: implementing quality and participative process improvements. BMC Public Health, 22.
• Izak M, Shortt H and Case P (in press) Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: an auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions. Management Learning,
• Izak M, Case P and Ybema S (in press) Monologue and organization studies. Organization Studies,
• Marr Chung A, Love E, Neidel J, Mendai I, Nairenge S, van Wyk L, Rossi S, Larson E, Case P, Gosling J, Viljoen G, Hove M, Agnis B, Hamanyela J and Gosling R (2022) Strengthening management, community engagement, and sustainability of the subnational response to accelerate malaria elimination in Namibia. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 106 (6). pp. 1646-1652
• Alexander K, Greenhalgh G, Moglia M, Thephavanh M, Sinavong P, Larson S, Jovanovic T and Case P (2020) What is technology adoption? Exploring the agricultural research value chain for smallholder farmers in Lao PDR. Agriculture and Human Values, 37. pp. 17-32
• Case P and Sliwa M (2020) Leadership learning, power and practice in Laos: a leadership-as-practice perspective. Management Learning, 51 (5). pp. 537-558
• Larson S, (Giger)-Dray A, Corlioney T, Thephavanh M, Thammavong P, Vorlasan S, Connell J, Moglia M, Case P, Alexander K and Perez P (2020) A game-based approach to exploring gender differences in smallholder decisions to change farming practices: white rice production in Laos. Sustainability, 12 (16).
• Marr Chung A, Case P, Gosling J, Gosling R, Madinga M, Chikodzore R, Hove M, Viljoen G, Chitapi P, Gumbi M, Mnguni P, Murungu J, Dube M, Dhliwayo P and Mberikunashe J (2020) Scaling up malaria elimination management and leadership: a pilot in three provinces in Zimbabwe, 2016 -2018. Malaria Journal, 19.
• Moglia M, Alexander K, Larson S, (Giger)-Dray A, Greenhalgh G, Thammavong P, Thephavanh M and Case P (2020) Gendered roles in agrarian transition: a study of lowland rice farming in Lao PDR. Sustainability, 12 (13).
• Greenhalgh G, Alexander K, Larson S, Thammavong P, Sacklokham S, Thephavanh M, Sinavong P, Moglia M, Perez P and Case P (2019) Transdisciplinary agricultural research in Lao PDR. Journal of Rural Studies, 72. pp. 216-227
• Alexander K, Parry L, Thammavong P, Sackloham S, Pasouvang S, Connell J, Jovanovic T, Moglia M, Larson S and Case P (2018) Rice farming systems in Southern Lao PDR: interpreting farmers' agricultural production decisions using Q methodology. Agricultural Systems, 160. pp. 1-10

Book Chapters

• gosling J and Case P (2019) Choosing a life: (re)incarnating after leadership. In: After Leadership. Routledge Studies in Leadership Research. Routledge, New York, NY, USA, pp. 129-147

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Completed

• Exploring the application of the principles of Stoic philosophy in the workplace (2021, PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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