Journal articles
Hutchison F, Bailey AR, Coles T (In Press). An Evidence Based Methodology for Cultural Institutions Seeking to Identify and Profile their Local Populations. Museum Management and Curatorship (RMMC)
Bailey AR, Alexander A (In Press). Cadbury and the rise of the supermarket: innovation in marketing 1953-1975. Business History
Bailey AR, Shaw G, Alexander A, Nell D (In Press). Consumer behaviour and the life-course: shopper reactions to self service grocery shops and supermarkets in England c.1947-1975.
Environment and Planning A: Society and SpaceAbstract:
Consumer behaviour and the life-course: shopper reactions to self service grocery shops and supermarkets in England c.1947-1975
The paper examines the development of self-service grocery shopping from a consumer perspective. Using qualitative data gathered through a nationwide biographical survey and oral histories, it is possible to go beyond contemporary market surveys which give insufficient attention to shopping as a socially and culturally embedded practice. The paper uses the conceptual framework of the life-course, to demonstrate how grocery shopping is a complex activity, in which the retail encounter is shaped by the specific interconnection of different retail formats and their geographies, alongside consumer characteristics and their situational influences. Consumer reactions to retail modernization must be understood in relation to the development of consumer practices at points of transition and stability within the life-course. These practices are accessed by examining retrospective consumer narratives about food shopping.
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Shaw G, Bailey AR, Nell D, Alexander A (In Press). Queuing as a Changing Shopper Experience: the case of grocery shopping in post-war Britain. Journal of Contemporary British History
Vainker S, Bailey AR (In Press). Students as human resources in the corporatised school.
British Journal of Sociology of Education CBSEAbstract:
Students as human resources in the corporatised school
The transfer of Human resource management (HRM) practices from the corporate business context into schools has taken a novel turn. No longer restricted to the management of school teachers, HRM techniques are now being applied to the management of students. HRM views the student as a human resource to serve the school, and seeks to systematically regulate students’ identities in order to align them with school values and goals. The paper introduces the Uncommon Schools model as an exemplar of student centred HRM. The case study demonstrates how student-centred HRM is being operationalised in schools and concludes by exploring the potential of this systematic innovation in student management. The paper is informed by critical management theories and argues that student centred HRM constitutes a radical shift in the relationship between school and student.
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Jia F, Zuluaga L, Bailey AR, Rueda X (In Press). Sustainable supply chain management in developing countries: an analysis of the literature. Journal of Cleaner Production
Colombo LA, Bailey AR, Gomes MVP (2023). Scaling in a post-growth era: Learning from Social Agricultural Cooperatives.
Organization, 135050842211474-135050842211474.
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Scaling in a post-growth era: Learning from Social Agricultural Cooperatives
it has become normative in organization and management studies literature to consider scaling as a synonym for organizational growth. Scaling is typically understood as scaling-up. This article demonstrates that, in the context of post-growth organizations, scaling involves a more complex set of dynamics. Directing scholarly attention to scaling in the context of Italian Social Agricultural Cooperatives (i.e. organizations that hold a different rationale and modus operandi from the capitalist enterprise), this research contributes to the literature on scaling the impact of post-growth organizations by identifying nine different scaling routes: organizational growth (vertical and horizontal); organizational downscaling; impact on policies; multiplication; impact on organizational culture; impact on societal culture; aggregation; and diffusion. This article demonstrates that post-growth scaling: (1) requires the synergistic interaction of different strategies; (2) focuses on impacting societal culture; (3) does not necessarily require organizational growth; and (4) is a relational process, embedded in socio-ecological systems. The typology presented in this article empowers post-growth organizations to become more aware of different available scaling routes, unlocking their transformative potential and supporting the transition towards a post-growth future, in which the goal of economics is the pursuit of human and ecological flourishing.
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Liang Q, Dong H, Bailey AR, Hu W, Jia F (2022). Exploring multiple drivers of cooperative governance: a paired case comparison of vegetable growing cooperatives in the UK and China. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 25(4), 651-670.
Hood L, Bailey AR, Coles T, Pringle E (2022). Liminal spaces and the shaping of family museum visits: a spatial ethnography of a major international art museum. Museum Management and Curatorship, 37(5), 531-554.
Bailey AR, Fu J, Dong H, Martins TS (2021). Sustaining supply chain relationships for co-operative success: the case of South Devon Organic Producers Co-operative (UK).
International Food and Agribusiness Management Review,
24(1), 162-178.
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Sustaining supply chain relationships for co-operative success: the case of South Devon Organic Producers Co-operative (UK)
Co-operatives play a vital role in supplying various goods and services in the UK, as well as in other parts of the world. In the past twenty years co-operatives have become important players in modern organic food supply chains, providing small-scale farmers with access to knowledge and markets, alongside opportunities to scale up their production. This teaching case is developed from qualitative interviews with current and former members and employees from the South Devon Organic Producers (SDOP) Co-operative, an award-winning organic vegetable grower co-operative based in South Devon (UK). The case is supplemented with interviews with key managerial personnel at the SDOP’s main stakeholder Riverford Organic Farms Limited. The case explores how the relationship between SDOP and Riverford is the key to understanding SDOP’s participation in the organic food chain.
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Bailey AR, Alexander A, Shaw G (2019). Queuing as a Changing Shopper Experience: the Case of Grocery Shopping in Britain 1945-1975.
Enterprise and Society,
20, 652-683.
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Queuing as a Changing Shopper Experience: the Case of Grocery Shopping in Britain 1945-1975
Queues are part of everyday routine and experienced by most shoppers, yet little attention has been given to providing historical accounts of queuing as a consumer task or as a shopper experience. This paper examines grocery shop queues and the changing experience of shoppers in historical perspective, specifically focusing upon the shift from counter service to self-service grocery formats in Britain from 1945-1975. The paper draws upon a wide range of material utilising evidence from oral histories and witness groups, which are supported by contemporary sources from Mass Observation, newspapers, shopper surveys, trade publications and reports. The conceptual framework developed in the paper explores the public and private dimensions of queues to consider the experiences and perceptions of shoppers during a period of rapid change in the retail grocery system. More generally the paper contributes to our understanding of how management innovations are connected to untraded public values.
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Bailey AR (2017). The Chicken and the Quetzal: Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala's Cloud Forest.
TOURISM MANAGEMENT,
60, 65-66.
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Bailey AR (2015). Nelson Lichtenstein, ed. Wal-Mart: the Face of Twenty-First Century Capitalism. London: the New Press, 2006. xv + 249 pp. ISBN 1-59558-021-2, $21.95 (paper). Enterprise & Society, 10(4), 866-868.
Bailey AR (2014). Environmentally, Resistance and Solidarity: the Politics of Friends of the Earth International.
ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES,
23(6), 750-752.
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Bailey AR (2013). Between God and Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change.
ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES,
22(1), 135-137.
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Shaw G, Bailey A, Alexander A, Nell D, Hamlett J (2012). The coming of the supermarket: the processes and consequences of transplanting American know-how into Britain. , 35-53.
Shaw G, Bailey AR, Williams A (2011). Aspects of service-dominant logic and its implications for tourism management:
Examples from the hotel industry.
Tourism Management,
32(2), 207-214.
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Aspects of service-dominant logic and its implications for tourism management:
Examples from the hotel industry
This paper introduces the concept of service-dominant logic as a research paradigm in marketing management. It does so in the context of tourism management’s need to engage with wider debates within the mainstream management literature. Moreover it demonstrates the importance of service dominant logic in uncovering the role played by co-production and co-creation in the tourism industry. These ideas are developed in detail through a case study of the UK hotel industry that draws on new empirical research undertaken by the authors.
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Shaw G (2011). Aspects of service-dominant logic and its implications for tourism management: Examples from the hotel industry. Tourism Management, 32(2), 207-214.
Bailey AR (2011). Regulating the supermarket in 1960s Britain: exploring the changing relationship of food manufacturers and retailers through the Cadbury archive. Business Archives, 103(103), 1-23.
Bailey AR, Shaw G, Nell D, Alexander A (2010). Consumer behaviour and the life-course: shopper reactions to self service grocery shops and supermarkets in England c.1947-1975.
Environment and Planning A: international journal of urban and regional research,
42, 1496-1512.
Abstract:
Consumer behaviour and the life-course: shopper reactions to self service grocery shops and supermarkets in England c.1947-1975
The paper examines the development of self-service grocery shopping from a consumer perspective. Using qualitative data constructed through a nationwide biographical survey and oral histories, it is possible to go beyond contemporary market surveys which give insufficient attention to shopping as a socially and culturally embedded practice. The paper uses the conceptual framework of the life-course, to demonstrate how grocery shopping is a complex activity, in which the retail encounter is shaped by the specific interconnection of different retail formats with consumer characteristics and situational influences. Consumer reactions to retail modernization must be understood in relation to the development of consumer practices at points of transition and stability within the life-course. These practices are accessed by examining retrospective consumer narratives about food shopping.
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Alexander A, Nell D, Bailey AR, Shaw G (2010). The Co-Creation of a Retail Innovation: Shoppers and the Early Supermarket in Britain.
Enterprise and Society,
10, 529-558.
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The Co-Creation of a Retail Innovation: Shoppers and the Early Supermarket in Britain
In this paper we examine shoppers’ reactions to the development
of early supermarket retailing in post-war Britain. Positioning our
discussion in relation to multi-disciplinary contributions on the
role of consumers in innovation, we argue that more attention
needs to be given to the shopper’s input in the debate on retail
innovation, including the supermarket. New oral history data
drawn from a nationwide survey is presented in support of our arguments.
Shoppers’ contributions to the supermarket innovation
are shown to be multi-faceted in nature, incorporating processes
of co-production and value creation; processes that were altered
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Alexander A, Nell D, Bailey AR, Shaw G (2009). The Co-Creation of a Retail Innovation: Shoppers and the Early Supermarket in Britain.
Enterprise & Society,
10(3), 529-558.
Abstract:
The Co-Creation of a Retail Innovation: Shoppers and the Early Supermarket in Britain
In this paper we examine shoppers' reactions to the development of early supermarket retailing in post-war Britain. Positioning our discussion in relation to multi-disciplinary contributions on the role of consumers in innovation, we argue that more attention needs to be given to the shopper's input in the debate on retail innovation, including the supermarket. New oral history data drawn from a nationwide survey is presented in support of our arguments. Shoppers' contributions to the supermarket innovation are shown to be multi-faceted in nature, incorporating processes of co-production and value creation; processes that were altered in the transition from counter-service to self-service retail environments. Shoppers' discussions of such alterations were frequently structured around four aspects of interaction; with the physical environment of the store, with the goods for sale, with other shoppers and with shop staff. Whilst increasingly part of 'ordinary consumption' routines, the data highlights that in the switch to the supermarket, shopping became a more reflective activity and one that resulted in a variety of experiences and emotions.
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Bailey A, Brace C, Harvey DC (2009). Three Geographers in an Archive: positions, predilections and passing comment on transient lives.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
34(2), 254-269.
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Three Geographers in an Archive: positions, predilections and passing comment on transient lives
Despite the existence of research conducted by geographers eschewing or professing
religious faith, the influence of researchers and their methods have yet to receive
critical attention within the study of religion. The experience of three geographers
working on a three-year research project suggests that it is vital to reflect upon the
inter-subjective relationships and methodologies used to reconstruct the religious past.
How do different subject positions influence our selections from historical records?
We also consider whether the spatialities of putatively ‘religious’ archives, whether
formally or informally constituted, make a difference to the construction of
historiographical knowledge. In attempting to answer these questions, the paper
argues that developing an awareness of different types of positionality, vis-à-vis
religious faith and practice, combined with reflexivity, vis-à-vis methodology, can
enrich the interpretative reconstruction of the religious past.
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Bailey AR, Brace C, Harvey DC (2009). Three geographers in an archive: positions, predilections and passing comment on transient lives. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34(2).
Bailey AR (2009). Wal-Mart: the Face of Twenty-First Century Capitalism.
ENTERPRISE & SOCIETY,
10(4), 866-868.
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Nell D, Alexander A, Shaw G, Bailey AR (2009). ‘Investigating shopper narratives of the supermarket in early postwar England 1945-1975’.
Oral History Journal, 61-73.
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‘Investigating shopper narratives of the supermarket in early postwar England 1945-1975’
The advent of self-service and supermarket retailing marked a significant departure
from the counter-service format that had dominated food shopping in Britain until the 1950s. But reactions of shoppers to this new mode of shopping are poorly understood. The Reconstructing Consumer Landscapes Project
was designed to cast light on the complexities of consumer reaction to changes in food shopping between 1945 and 1975 through a large-scale survey combined with one hundred and twenty-two semi-structured oral history interviews. This article introduces approaches to understanding consumers, and looks, in particular, at the ways in which academic scholars have characterized the reactions of consumers to the rise of self-service and supermarket shopping. The article then highlights some of the strengths we observed in our use of oral history interviewing in reconstructing the experiences of shoppers
in early supermarkets. We also discuss our use of a content analysis approach to analyse material from the interviews and what this has revealed about consumer reactions as seen in interviewees’ accounts of their first experiences
of supermarket shopping.
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Hamlett J, Bailey A, Alexander A, Shaw G (2008). Ethnicity and Consumption: South Asian food shopping Patterns in Britain 1947-75. Journal of Consumer Culture, 8(1), 91-116.
Hamlett J, Bailey AR, Alexander A, Shaw G (2008). Ethnicity and Consumption: South Asian food shopping patterns in Britain, 1947–75.
Journal of Consumer Culture,
8(1), 91-116.
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Ethnicity and Consumption: South Asian food shopping patterns in Britain, 1947–75
This article reviews the literature that explores the relationship between ethnic
identities and food consumption, with particular reference to business management
studies. It focuses on the food shopping practices of south Asians in Britain in the
period 1947 to 1975, to illustrate the need for more historically contextualized studies
that can provide a more nuanced exploration of any interconnections between ethnic
identity and shopping behaviour. The article draws on a reasonably long-standing
interest in ethnicity and consumption in marketing studies, and explores the
conceptual use of acculturation within this literature. The arguments put forward are
framed by recent interdisciplinary studies of the broader relationship between
consumption and identity, which stress the importance of contextualizing any
influence of ethnic identifications through a wider consideration of other factors
including societal status, gender and age, rather than giving it singular treatment. The
article uses a body of empirical research drawn from recent oral histories, to explore
how these factors informed everyday shopping practices among south Asians in Britain. It examines some of the shopping and wider food provisioning strategies
adopted by early immigrants on arrival in Britain. It considers the interaction between
the south Asian population and the changing retail structure, in the context of the
development of self-service and the supermarket. Finally, it demonstrates how age,
gender and socioeconomic status interacted with ethnic identities to produce
variations in shopping patterns.
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Hamlett J, Alexander A, Bailey AR, Shaw G (2008). ‘Regulating UK supermarkets: an oral-history perspective’.
History and PolicyAbstract:
‘Regulating UK supermarkets: an oral-history perspective’
The case for tightened regulation of supermarket retailers through competition legislation and land-use planning has become a prominent issue for policy makers and communities.
The AHRC Reconstructing Consumer Landscapes Project has recently conducted an oral history of the coming of the supermarket and self service to post-war England. The very early findings of this project are used in this paper to bring a historical perspective to the debate.
the supermarket did not simply supersede independent and family shops: multiple stores are a long-standing part of the British retail landscape and consumers have been comfortably making use of them for more than a century.
Historically, ownership mattered less to consumers than has previously been assumed: it was the service offered by stores that played the crucial role in determining consumer satisfaction.
Policy makers should therefore give in-store experience more consideration.
Consumer choice was shaped not just by the variety of goods on offer, but by social and cultural factors such as class, gender and ethnicity.
There is therefore a need for a diverse range of services and goods that reflects the varied social and cultural background of consumers.
Historically, small shops have played an important role in communities, but multiple stores have also fostered social interaction and cohesion.
Policy makers should look beyond the question of ownership and size to recognise that well-managed service encounters can foster social interaction for shoppers in a diversity of retail spaces.
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Bailey AR, Harvey DC, Brace C (2007). Disciplining Youthful Methodist Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Cornwall. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 97(1), 142-157.
Harvey DC, Bailey AR, Leyshon CS (2007). Parading the Cornish Subject: Methodist Sunday Schools in West Cornwall c. 1830-1930. Journal of Historical Geography, 33(1), 24-44.
Harvey DC, Bailey AR, Brace C (2007). Parading the Cornish subject: Methodist Sunday schools in west Cornwall, c.1830-1930.
Journal of Historical Geography,
33(1), 24-44.
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Parading the Cornish subject: Methodist Sunday schools in west Cornwall, c.1830-1930
This paper explores the historical relationships between Methodist Sunday school tea treats and parades and the formation of religious identity in west Cornwall between c. 1830 and 1930. Through these ritual activities, people were entrained into the symbolic identity-forming apparatus of Methodist faith and practice. Moving beyond the spaces of school rooms and chapels, the paper focuses on the organisation, the use of public space and the territorial significance of annual tea treats and parades in the nurturing and maintenance of a Methodist constituency. In so doing, the paper draws on work in the history of Nonconformity, geographies of religion and the historical geography of parades to conduct a critical analysis of tea treats and parades as ritual, spectacle and carnival. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Bailey AR, Bryson JR (2006). 'A Quaker experiment in town planning: George Cadbury and the construction of Bournville Model Village'. Quaker Studies, 11, 89-114.
Harvey DC, Bailey A, Brace C (2006). Religion, place and space: a framework for investigating historical geographies of religious identities and communities.
Progress in Human Geography,
30(1), 28-43.
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Religion, place and space: a framework for investigating historical geographies of religious identities and communities
Despite a well-established interest in the relationship between space and identity, geographers still know little about how communal identities in specific places are built around a sense of religious belonging. This paper explores both the theoretical and practical terrain around which such an investigation can proceed. The paper makes space for the exploration of a specific set of religious groups and practices, which reflected the activities of Methodists in Cornwall during the period 1830 - 1930. The paper is concerned to move analysis beyond the 'officially sacred' and to explore the everyday, informal, and often banal, practices of Methodists, thereby providing a blueprint for how work in the geography of religion may move forward.
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Bailey AR (2006). Sacred space in early modern Europe. Journal of Historical Geography, 32(4), 876-878.
Bailey AR, Bryson JR (2006). Stories of suburbia (Bournville, UK): from planning to people tales.
Social and Cultural Geography,
7(2), 179-198.
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Stories of suburbia (Bournville, UK): from planning to people tales
In this paper we show that the avoidance or reduction of difference found in the popular history of Bournville was the result of storytellers situated in specific institutional contexts. During the initial development of Bournville a particular (sub)urban future was imagined and mediated by these storytellers, through processes of simplification and choice, which served to reduce the past to an imposed and arbitrary simplicity or organised saga. In this saga the voices of residents are silenced. Our approach is, first, to explore ways of conceptualising the construction of urban history and, second, to construct two different and deliberately conflicting representations of Bournville. The first account provides a critique of the common representation or town planning account of Bournville. In contrast, the second account works through the voices of residents providing an opportunity for them to construct a lived account of Bournville with specific reference to temperance and the consumption of alcohol. Our first story is about the construction of a particular urban space whilst the second is about the ways in which the space was partially 'colonised' by residents. By constructing conflicting accounts of the same place we aim to open the dominant discourses associated with Bournville to complexity and heterogeneity.
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