Faculty

Dr Kyle Bruce

Senior Lecturer in Management

BEc Syd, MCom (Hons) PhD W’gong

Teaching Areas

• Marketing & Strategic Management
• People & Organisations

Contact Details
Phone:  +61 2 9850 9099
Email:    kyle.bruce@mgsm.edu.au

Research Statement

Driving Dr Bruce’s diverse teaching competences, his research is fundamentally interdisciplinary.  Kyle does not believe one can understand organisations, their heritage and environment, their strategic activities and capabilities, or their internal and external participants and stakeholders from any one disciplinary perspective.

Management Pedagogy

Managers are actually very good philosophers, inasmuch as they are capable of intuitively solving complex problems daily. Kyle believes that his job is to expose them to a range of interdisciplinary analytical toolkits that may assist them to be more reflective and formalise their problem-solving techniques. 

Contributions to Practice

Kyle’s research speaks directly to managers’ ability to make sense of their ever changing environment, their ability to attract, inspire, energise, and retain talented staff, and their ability to engage in change. In addition, Kyle has contributed extensively to the practice of management through executive education teaching, including the following UK based companies: VocaLink, Dollond and Aitchison, Carillion, Biffa Waste Services, The SIMS Group, Siemens UK and IBM UK.

Media Topics

• Institutional theory in Management/Organisation Studies and Economics;
• Business, Labour, and Management History;
• History of Management and Economic Thought;
• Evolutionary Economics and Business Strategy

 

Publications

journal articles

• Bruce, K. D. & von Staden, P. (in press, 2012). Embedded Agency and Institutional Change: The Neglected Sociocognitive Contribution of Douglass North. Journal of Management Inquiry.
• Bruce, K. D. & Nyland, C. (2011). Elton Mayo and the Deification of Human Relations. Organization Studies, 32(3), 383-405.
• Bruce, K. D. (2007). Early Labor Economics: Its Debt to the Management Practice of Henry S. Dennison. History of Political Economy, 39 (3), 403-433.
• Bruce, K. D. & Jordan, J. (2007). Between Markets and Hierarchies: Towards a Better Taxonomy of Hybrid Organisational Forms?, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 19 (1), 7-16.
• Bruce, K. D. & Jordan, J. (2007). Introduction: Governance, Competence, and Knowledge based Perspective on the Firm. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 19 (1), 1-5.
• Bruce, K. D. (2006). Activist Management: Henry S. Dennison's Institutionalist Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, 40 (4), 1113-1136.
• Bruce, K. D. (2006). Henry S. Dennison, Elton Mayo, and Human Relations historiography, Management and Organizational History, 1 (2), 177-199.
• Bruce, K. D. (2005).  Frank W. Taussig's Institutionalism, Journal Of Economic Issues, 39 (1), 205-220.
• Bruce, K. D. (2005). Magnus Alexander, the Economists and the Issue of Labour Turnover, Business History, 47 (4), 493-510.

book chapters

• Bruce, K. D. (In Press 2013). "George Elton Mayo", In M. Witzel & M. Warner (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
• Bruce, K. D. (In Press 2012). "The Demonization of Scientific Management and the Deification of Human Relations", In N. Lichtenstein & E. Tandy Shermer (Eds.) The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination (Politics and Culture in Modern America). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:  University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Trahair, R. C. S. & Bruce, K. D. (2012). "Human Relations and Management Consulting: Elton Mayo and Eric Trist", In M. Kipping & T. Clark (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting. Oxford, UK:  Oxford University Press.
• Bruce, K. D. (2006). Globalisation and Institutional Change in the Australian Labour Market, In K.C. Roy & J. Sideras (Eds) Institutions, Globalisation and Empowerment, (pp.308-326). UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.