Mark Hall
Senior Lecturer
Contact details
Tele: +44 (0) 117 33 17935Email: Mark.Hall@bristol.ac.uk
Office Hours:
Room: 3C3
Teaching Units
MGRCM2017: Operations ManagementMGRCM2028: Project Management
MGRCM2411: Project Management (MSc in Strategic Management)
MGRCM1802: Managing Change 1 (MSc in Management Learning and Change)
MGRCM2404: Managing Change (MSc in Strategic Management)
MGRCM1601: Research Methods
MGRCM2401: Strategic Human Resources Management
Research Interests
Mark is Director of Studies for the MSc in Management.
Mark’s research interests include are focused around project management and public sector service delivery. Current areas of research include:- The influence of cultural theory in project environments, with a focus on risk management practices.
- Performance measurement in the public sector and the impact on change and value.
- Sustainability, with a particular interest on the effects of policy on practice.
Mark (with R Holt) recently contributed a chapter on New Public Management to P. Windrum and P. Koch (eds). 'Innovation in public services: Management, creativity, and entrepreneurship', published in 2008 by Edward Elgar. He also provided two contributions to the ‘Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research’, also published in 2008 by Sage.
Recent Publications
- Kutsch, E. and Hall, M. (2008) The rational choice of not applying project risk management in information technology project, Project Management Journal, in press.
- Hall, M and Purchase, D. (2006) Building or Bodging: attitudes to sustainability in UK public sector housing construction development, Sustainable Development, 14:3, 205-218.
- Kutsch, E. and Hall, M. (2005) Intervening conditions on the management of project risk: Dealing with uncertainty in information technology projects, International Journal of Project Management, 23, 591-599.
- Hall, M. and Holt, R. (2003) Developing a culture of performance learning in UK public sector project management, Public Performance and Management Review, 26:3, 263-275.
Conference Papers Published in Proceedings
- Hall, M. and Kutsch, E. (July 2007) A culture of fatalism in IT projects? The curious case of the (lack of) risk management, in proceedings of the 5th Critical Management Studies Conference, University of Manchester.
- Hall, M. (September 2005) Inter-project learning using quality costing, in proceedings of the British Academy of Management Annual Conference, University of Oxford.
- Hall, M. and Purchase, D. (November 2003) Rhetoric and reality: implementation of sustainable development in UK public procurement, in proceedings of the CIB 2003 International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.