Staff Profile

Dr Lamb obtained a PhD in Business Management from the University of Nottingham, UK. 

Dr Lamb has worked for the past sixteen years in China with the Nottingham University Business School. He has extensive teaching and learning experience in leadership and organisational behaviour at UG and PG programmes. 

Dr Lamb also has extensive teaching and learning leadership experience.

Dr Lamb is a member of the Leadership, Work and Organisation subject group at Newcastle University Business School.

Dr Lamb's research interests focus the translation of management knowledge, management learning and pedagogy. 

Undergraduate

• BUS1001 Introduction to Management and Organisation
• BUS1015 Management and Organisation
• BUS2018 Research Methods
• BUS3017 Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics
• BUS3054 Strategy, Organisations and Society

Postgraduate

• NBS8130 Management Consultancy Project
• NBS8329 Strategic Business Analysis and Decision-Making
• NBS8599 Research based Dissertation for International Business Management
• NBS8600 Practice based Dissertation for International Business Management

• Articles

  • Hsu SW, Lamb P. Still in Search of Learning Organization? Towards a Radical Account of the 5th Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. The Learning Organization 2020, 27(1), 31-41. In Preparation.
  • Lamb P, Hsu SW, Lemanski M. A threshold concept and capability approach to the cross-cultural contextualization of western management education. Journal of Management Education 2020, 44(1), 101-120.
  • Lamb P, Örtenblad A, Hsu SW. Pedagogy as Translation: Extending the Horizons of Translation Theory. International Journal of Management Reviews 2016, 18(3), 351-365.
  • Miao Q, Newman A, Lamb P. Transformational Leadership and the work outcomes of Chinese migrant workers: the mediating effects of identification with leader. Leadership 2012, 8(4), 377-395.

• Book Chapters

  • Örtenblad A, Lamb P, Hsu SW. Empowering students to translate management panaceas. In: Anders Örtenblad, ed. Handbook of Research on Management Ideas and Panaceas. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2015, pp.380-398.
  • Örtenblad A, Hsu SW, Lamb P. A stakeholder approach to advising on the relevance of management ideas and panaceas. In: Anders Örtenblad, ed. Handbook of Research on Management Ideas and Panaceas. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2015, pp.204-222.

• Review

  • Lamb P. Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable For The Rest of Us [Book Review]. The Learning Organization 2021, 28(5), 505-507.