
Overview
Background
Dr Newey has pioneered a wellbeing approach to business and society. This framework assists leaders to integrate eight components of wellbeing: economic, environmental, social, cultural, physical, psychological, spiritual and material. Contemporary leadership in both business and society is seen to have to wrestle with competing tensions between these eight components. Dr Newey uses polarity leveraging as a way to assist leaders to create value across these eight components thus integrating businesses and societies to maximise wellbeing for their stakeholders. This integrated wellbeing model has been developed through a rigorous empirical research agenda and includes a number of conceptual papers laying out the core ideas, a measurement paper which specialises in how to measure wellbeing as well as field research. The field research has consisted of a large international study of the wellbeing beliefs and practices of leaders across Alaska, India and Norway as well as in-depth on-the-ground applied research with the City of Anchorage, Alaska. Included within the research is the study of how businesses and societies can successfully transition to wellbeing frameworks. Also included is a specialisation in circumstances of gridlock in societies where decision-making is characterized by polarization and lack of community investment. The research is currently being translated into a number of products including wellbeing frameworks for business and society as well as a wellbeing leadership development program for primary and secondary schools.
A passionate teacher, Dr Newey has won numerous internal University Teaching Awards as well as a prestigious National Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. These awards were earned based on undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Social Entrepreneurship. Dr Newey innovated deep experiential learning experiences for students who are challenged to develop and execute with real stakeholders a social entrepreneurship model around a social issue of their choosing. These projects have addressed and made important contributions to issues including mental health, environmental sustainability, children with severe disabilities, homelessness, human trafficking and child services for victims of domestic violence.
In 2019, Dr Newey will launch his new course 'Entrepreneurial Leadership' which utilises insights from his groundbreaking research to develop a generation of leader able to deal with complex challenges as well as undertake ongoing personal development.
Availability
- Dr Lance Newey is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours), Queensland University of Technology
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research impacts
Societal Impact
Dr Newey's wellbeing research is currently assisting the City of Anchorage, Alaska in two main ways:
1. Moving beyond patterns of decision-making gridlock across the sectors and organizations in the City;
2. The above is seen as a precursor to assisting the City towards wellbeing-based decision-making and goal-setting
This work is laying the foundation for wellbeing models that can be adopted by other businesses and societies.
Next Generation Impact
The research is being funded by a collaboration between local Brisbane primary and secondary schools. Research findings are entering research and development in the form of a wellbeing leadership training program for primary and secondary school age students. The vision is to develop a new generation of leader based on knowing how to synergise the eight components of wellbeing under study in the research.
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Greatest good for the greatest number – the role of managers’ ethical meaning-making and subjective wellbeing complexity
Mishra, Archana, Newey, Lance and Spee, Paul (2024). Greatest good for the greatest number – the role of managers’ ethical meaning-making and subjective wellbeing complexity. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-23. doi: 10.1007/s10551-024-05748-2
2024
Journal Article
““I have to put my citizens hat on”: operational and societal mindsets to provide a new perspective on organisational decision making for sustainability
Meath, Cristyn, Newey, Lance and Griffiths, Andrew (2024). ““I have to put my citizens hat on”: operational and societal mindsets to provide a new perspective on organisational decision making for sustainability. Business Strategy and the Environment, 33 (7), 6652-6670. doi: 10.1002/BSE.3836
2024
Journal Article
Absorptive capacity, complexity and regional renewal: a developmental psychology perspective
Newey, Lance R. (2024). Absorptive capacity, complexity and regional renewal: a developmental psychology perspective. Regional Studies, 58 (3), 668-681. doi: 10.1080/00343404.2023.2209121
2022
Journal Article
Well-being as a staged social responsibility process: exploratory testing of a new theory
Newey, Lance Richard, Torres de Oliveira, Rui and Mishra, Archana (2022). Well-being as a staged social responsibility process: exploratory testing of a new theory. Social Responsibility Journal, 19 (2), 286-304. doi: 10.1108/SRJ-09-2021-0394
2021
Journal Article
Lock-in, paradox and regional renewal
Newey, Lance R. and Coenen, Lars (2021). Lock-in, paradox and regional renewal. Regional Studies, 56 (8), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/00343404.2021.1976745
2020
Book Chapter
SDG 12 responsible consumption and production: sustainable community development through entrepreneurship: corporate-based versus wellbeing-centred approaches to responsible production
Franco, Isabel B. and Newey, Lance (2020). SDG 12 responsible consumption and production: sustainable community development through entrepreneurship: corporate-based versus wellbeing-centred approaches to responsible production. Actioning the global goals for local impact: towards sustainability science, policy, education and practice. (pp. 187-217) edited by Isabel B. Franco , Tathagata Chatterji , Ellen Derbyshire and James Tracey. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-32-9927-6_13
2019
Journal Article
Healing the half-world: How my worldview changed from helping leaders with complexity
Newey, Lance (2019). Healing the half-world: How my worldview changed from helping leaders with complexity. Strive (July-Sept)
2019
Journal Article
This mindset will help train a new generation of wellbeing leaders
Lance Newey (2019). This mindset will help train a new generation of wellbeing leaders. Entrepreneur Asia Pacific
2019
Journal Article
Wellbeing as emergent from the leveraging of polarities: harnessing component interdependencies
Newey, Lance and de Oliveira, Rui Torres (2019). Wellbeing as emergent from the leveraging of polarities: harnessing component interdependencies. Social Indicators Research, 144 (2), 575-600. doi: 10.1007/s11205-019-02061-8
2019
Conference Publication
Heuristics to survive firm collapse
Manfield, Russell and Newey, Lance (2019). Heuristics to survive firm collapse. Academy of Management Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 9-13 August 2019. Briarcliff Manor, NY, United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2019.16064abstract
2019
Conference Publication
Navigating Trouble: The emergence of heuristics with unstable resources
Manfield, Russell, Eberl, Martina, Newey, Lance and Eberl, Peter (2019). Navigating Trouble: The emergence of heuristics with unstable resources. EGOS 2019, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 3-6 July 2019. Sage.
2018
Journal Article
Wellbeing as a staged social responsibility process for business and society
Newey, Lance R. (2018). Wellbeing as a staged social responsibility process for business and society. Social Responsibility Journal, 15 (1) SRJ-10-2017-0213, 75-89. doi: 10.1108/SRJ-10-2017-0213
2018
Journal Article
New paradigms in a complex world
Newey, Lance R. (2018). New paradigms in a complex world. Strive: Inspiration of Innovation (Apr-June), 36-38.
2017
Journal Article
'Changing the system': compensatory versus transformative social entrepreneurship
Newey, Lance R. (2017). 'Changing the system': compensatory versus transformative social entrepreneurship. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 9 (1), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/19420676.2017.1408671
2017
Journal Article
Resilience as an entrepreneurial capability: integrating insights from a cross-disciplinary comparison
Manfield, Russell Charles and Newey, Lance Richard (2017). Resilience as an entrepreneurial capability: integrating insights from a cross-disciplinary comparison. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 24 (7), 1155-1180. doi: 10.1108/IJEBR-11-2016-0368
2015
Journal Article
Escaping the collapse trap: remaining capable without capabilities
Manfield, Russell and Newey, Lance (2015). Escaping the collapse trap: remaining capable without capabilities. Strategic Change, 24 (4), 373-387. doi: 10.1002/jsc.2016
2015
Book Chapter
Portfolio planning: a valuable strategic tool
Newey, Lance R. and Zahra, Shaker A. (2015). Portfolio planning: a valuable strategic tool. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. (pp. 1-2) edited by Mie Augier and David J. Teece. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137294678
2014
Journal Article
On the frontiers: the implications of social entrepreneurship for international entrepreneurship
Zahra, Shaker A., Newey, Lance R. and Li, Yong (2014). On the frontiers: the implications of social entrepreneurship for international entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 38 (1), 137-158. doi: 10.1111/etap.12061
2014
Conference Publication
Utilities: microfoundations of capability dismantling and rebuilding
Manfield, Russell and Newey, Lance (2014). Utilities: microfoundations of capability dismantling and rebuilding. 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2014), Philadelphia, PA, United States, 1-5 August 2014. Commerce, TX, United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2014.14738abstract
2012
Journal Article
The relationship between dynamic and operating capabilities as a stage-gate process: Insights from radical innovation
Newey, Lance R., Verreynne, Martie-Louise and Griffiths, Andrew (2012). The relationship between dynamic and operating capabilities as a stage-gate process: Insights from radical innovation. Journal of Management and Organization, 18 (1), 123-140. doi: 10.5172/jmo.2012.18.1.123
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Lance Newey is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Integrating Indigenous & Western Models of Governance for Social Enterprises
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sharlene Leroy-Dyer
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
How and Why Senior Managers Think Differently About Wellbeing: Towards a Constructive-Developmental Theory
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Paul Spee
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Organisational vulnerability to natural capital decline: Investigating the influence of the enacted environment of decision makers through a cognitive processing model
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Andrew Griffiths
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