Personal Bibliography
Published Papers
Leybourne S. (2002) The Project Management of Change within UK Financial Services: What about Improvisation? Proceedings of PMI Research Conference 2002: PMI – ISBN 1-880410-99-0 Newtown Square, PA
Leybourne S.A. (2006) Managing Improvisation within Change Management: Lessons from UK Financial Services Service Industries Journal 26(1) 73-95
Leybourne S.A. (2006) Managing Change by abandoning Planning and embracing Improvisation Journal of General Management 31(3) 11-29
Leybourne S.A. & Sadler-Smith E. (2006) The Role of Intuition and Improvisation in Project Management Int. Journal of Project Management 24 (6) 483-492
Leybourne S.A. (2006) Improvisation within the Project Management of Strategic Change: Some Observations from UK Financial Services Journal of Change Management 6(4) 365-381
Leybourne S.A. (2007) The Changing Bias of Project Management Research: A Consideration of the Literatures and an Application of Extant Theory Project Management Journal 38(1) 62-73
Leybourne S.A. (2007) Improvisation within Management: Oxymoron, Paradox, or Legitimate Way of Achieving Int. Journal of Management Concepts & Philosophy 2(3) 224-239
Leybourne S.A. (2009) Improvisation and Agile Project Management: A Merging of Two Ideals? Int. Journal of Managing Projects in Business 2(4) 519-535
Leybourne S.A. (2009) Culture and Organisational Improvisation in UK Financial Services Journal of Service Science and Management 2(4) 237-254 This paper was awarded the ODC Division ‘Rupert F. Chisholm Best Theory to Practice Paper Prize at the AoM conference 2006 – Atlanta, GA
Leybourne S.A. (2010) Project Management and High Value Superyacht Projects: An Improvisational and Temporal Perspective Project Management Journal 41(1) 17-27
Unger B., Greiman V.A. & Leybourne S.A. (2010) A Study of Postinvestment Monitoring Practices in Life Science Venture Capital Firms Journal of Transnational Management 15. 3-25 This paper was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 18th World Business Congress, Tbilisi, Georgia
Perry, J., Badger, B., Lean, J. and Leybourne, S. (2010) Taking over the reins: the needs of individuals who purchase small established enterprises International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation 11(1) 57-68.
Leybourne S.A. ‘Improvisation as a way of dealing with Ambiguity and Complexity’ Graziadio Business Report 13(3) online at http://gbr.pepperdine.edu/2010/08/improvisation-as-a-way-of-dealing-with-ambiguity-and-complexity-3/
Leybourne S.A (2011) Steve Leybourne’s Reflections on David Hillson’s Risk Doctor Briefing Journal of Project, Program, and Portfolio Management 2 (1) 8-9
Leybourne S.A (2011) Summary of Reflections on David Hillson’s Risk Doctor Briefing Journal of Project, Program, and Portfolio Management 2 (1) 1-2
Leybourne S.A., Kanabar V. & Warburton R. (2011) Developing and Teaching of a World-class Online Project Management Curriculum Journal of Project, Program, and Portfolio Management 2(2) 1-19
Leybourne S.A. & Sainter P. (2012) Advancing Project Management: Authenticating the Shift from Process to “Nuanced” Project-based Management in the Ambidextrous Organization Project Management Journal 43(6): 5-15
Leybourne S.A, Warburton R. & Kanabar V. (2014) Is Project Management the New Management 2.0? Organisational Project Management 1(1): 16-36
Leybourne S.A., Lynn G. & Vendelo M.T. (2014) Forms, Metaphors and Themes: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Organizational Improvisation Creativity & Innovation Management 23(4): 353-358
Leybourne S.A. & Kennedy M. (2015) Learning to Improvise, or Improvising to Learn: Knowledge Generation and ‘Innovative Practice’ in Project Environments Knowledge and Process Management 22(1): 1-10 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/kpm.1457
Leybourne S.A. & Cook P. (2015) “Rockin All Over the World”: Organisational Improvisation Lessons from the Music-based Practitioner International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy 9(1): 1-19
Turner N., Kutsch E. & Leybourne S.A. (2016) Rethinking Project Reliability using the Ambidexterity and Mindfulness Perspectives International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 9(4): 845-864 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJMPB-08-2015-0074
Leybourne S.A. (2016) Emotionally Sustainable Change; Two Frameworks to Assist with Transition International Journal of Strategic Change Management 7(1): 23-42
Leybourne S.A. (2017) “It’s All Up Here”: Adaptation and Improvisation within the Modern Project International Journal of Project Organisation and Management 9(3): 217-229
Leybourne S.A. (2018) IRNOP 2017 – Reflections from a Co-Chair Project Management Research & Practice https://utsepress.lib.uts.edu.au/site/chapters/10.5130/pmrp.irnop2017.5768
Leybourne S.A. (2018) A Cross-Section of Papers from IRNOP 2017 – Boston Project Management Research & Practice https://utsepress.lib.uts.edu.au/site/chapters/10.5130/pmrp.irnop2017.5787
Book Chapters
Warburton R, Leybourne S.A. & Kanabar V. (2011) “The Third Decade of Online Education: What have we Learned?” in Our Digital Renaissance, Edited by Antonio Morena, Francesca Bocci Benucci, and Zachary Bostwick Nowak
Conference Papers Presented
Institute of Management South Wales Branch (2000) – Millennial Management Paper – 1st Place awarded for Leybourne S.A. ‘2025; How will we make our way there, and what skills will we need to do it?’
PMI Research Conference (2002) – Seattle – Leybourne S.A. ‘The Project Management of Change within UK Financial Services: What about Improvisation?’
Academy of Management 2003 – Seattle, WA: Leybourne S.A. ‘Managing Improvisation within the Management of Change: Some Lessons from UK Financial Services’ of Management (2003) – Seattle
Academy of Management 2004 – New Orleans, LA: Leybourne S.A. ‘Managing Change or Changing Management: Abandoning Planning and Embracing People within Strategic Implementation’ of Management (2004) – New Orleans
Leybourne S.A. & Sadler-Smith E.‘Going-with-your-Gut: The Role of Intuition and Improvisation in Project Management’
PMI Research Conference 2004 – London – Leybourne S.A. ‘Intuition and Rationality in Project Decision-Making: Thoughts on The Impact on Improvisational Working Practices’
Academy of Management 2005 – Honolulu, HI: Leybourne S.A. ‘Improvising within Management: Oxymoron, Paradox, or Legitimate Way of Achieving?’
PMI Research Conference 2006 – Montreal: Leybourne S.A. ‘The Changing Bias of Project Management Research: A Consideration of the Literatures and an Application of Extant Theory’
Academy of Management 2006 – Atlanta, GA: Leybourne S.A. ‘Culture and ‘Organisational Improvisation: Some Conceptions informed by UK Financial Services’ (awarded Rupert F. Chisholm ‘Best Theory to Practice’ paper award) at Academy of Management conference (2006)
Academy of Management 2007 – Philadelphia, PA: Leybourne S.A. ‘Transformation and Change in the UK Financial Sector: Equipping Employees to cope with Change’
PMI Research Conference 2008 – Warsaw, Poland: Leybourne S.A. ‘Improvisation and Agile Project Management: A Merging of Two Ideals?’
Academy of Management 2008 – Anaheim, CA: Leybourne S.A. ‘Project Management and High Value Superyacht Projects: An Improvisational and Temporal Perspective’ of Management (2008)
PMI Global Congress 2009 – Orlando, FL: Kanabar V., Warburton R.D.H. & Leybourne S.A. ‘Practical Calculation of Delays and Cost Overruns’
PMI Research & Education Conference 2010 – Washington, DC: Leybourne S.A. ‘Classifying Improvisation: Comments on Managing Chaotic Evolution’
PMI Global Congress 2010 – Washington, DC: Leybourne S.A., Kanabar V. & Warburton R.D.H. ‘Understanding and Overcoming Communications Complexity in Projects’
Academy of Management 2011 – San Antonio, TX: Leybourne S.A. “Emotionally Sustainable Change: Two Frameworks to Assist with Transition”
PMI Global Congress 2011 – Dallas, TX: Leybourne S.A. “Improvisation and Project Management: What, When, and How”
PMI Research & Education Conference 2012 – Limerick, Ireland: Leybourne S.A. & Sainter P. Advancing Project Management: Authenticating the Shift from Process to ‘Nuanced’ Project-based Management in the Ambidextrous Organization
Leybourne S.A., Warburton R.D.H. & Kanabar V. Is Project Management the New Management 2.0?
Academy of Management 2012 – Boston, MA: Kennedy M. & Leybourne S.A. “Learning to Improvise, or Improvising to Learn: Knowledge Generation in Project Environments”
PMI Global Congress 2012 – Vancouver, BC, Canada: Leybourne S.A. & Warburton R.D.H. “The Creativity Matrix: Balancing Architectural and Process Creativity”
IRNOP 2013 – Oslo, Norway: Leybourne S.A. & Warburton R.D.H. “The Creativity Matrix: Balancing Architectural and Process Creativity in Project-based Management”
PMI Global Congress 2013 – New Orleans, LA: Leybourne S.A. “It’s All Up Here: Adaptation and Improvisation Within The Modern Project”
IRNOP 2015 – London, UK: Leybourne S.A. & Greiman V.A. “Change Management and the Changing Project: Expectations, Opinions, and Themes”
EFMD Americas 2016 – Buenos Aires, Argentina: Leybourne S.A. “How Does A Business School Collaborate Internationally in the Online Space?”
DSI Conference 2016 – Austin, TX: Leybourne S.A. & Warburton R.D.H. “Creativity: Its Definition and Management in Projects”
IRNOP 2018 – Melbourne, Australia: Leybourne S.A. & Bernardin E.M. “Project Knowledge into Project Practice: Generational Issues in the Knowledge Management Process”
