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Journal article

VIVIER, E., ROBINSON, B., JENKINS, L. and SMIT, A., 2024. Institutional logics and relational shifts: permeating hierarchies and silos in the healthcare sector. Public Management Review, 26 (10), pp. 2943-2965. ISSN 1471-9037

VIVIER, E. and SANCHEZ‐BETANCOURT, D., 2023. Participatory governance and the capacity to engage: a systems lens. Public Administration and Development, 43 (3), pp. 220-231. ISSN 0271-2075

VIVIER, E., 2023. Place leadership in social accountability initiatives. Journal of Change Management, 23 (1), pp. 72-92. ISSN 1469-7017

VIVIER, E., PAINTER, M., POGRUND, G. and MYRES, K., 2022. What an ethics management program cannot sufficiently address in an African context: an ethics survey’s results read through a Levinasian lens. Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 41 (2), pp. 287-314. ISSN 0277-2027

VIVIER, E., DE JONGH, D. and THOMPSON, L., 2021. Public leadership and participation: understanding the experiences of South African local government officials' engagement within informal settlements in the Western Cape. Public Management Review, 23 (12), pp. 1789-1807. ISSN 1471-9037

VIVIER, E. and SANCHEZ-BETANCOURT, D., 2020. Community leaders as intermediaries: how everyday practices create and sustain leadership in five informal settlements in Cape Town. Leadership, 16 (6), pp. 738-756. ISSN 1742-7150

YU, K. and VIVIER, E., 2015. Speaking or being Chinese: the case of South African-born Chinese. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2015 (236), pp. 55-73. ISSN 0165-2516

VIVIER, E., SEABE, D., WENTZEL, M. and SANCHEZ-BETANCOURT, D., 2015. From information to engagement: exploring communication platforms for the government-citizen interface in South Africa. The African Journal of Information and Communication (15), pp. 81-92. ISSN 2077-7205

VIVIER, E. and WENTZEL, M., 2013. Community participation and service delivery: perceptions of residents in Cape Town. Journal of Public Administration, 48 (2), pp. 239-250. ISSN 0036-0767

VIVIER, E., 2013. 'A tough line to work through': ethical ambiguities in a South African SME. African Journal of Business Ethics, 7 (2), pp. 68-78. ISSN 1817-7417

STRUWIG, J., ROBERTS, B. and VIVIER, E., 2011. A vote of confidence: election management and public perceptions of electoral processes in South Africa. Journal of Public Administration, 46 (3.1), pp. 1122-1138. ISSN 0036-0767

Authored book

HOUSTON, G., MATI, S., MAGIDIMISHA, H., VIVIER, E. and DIPHOLO, M., 2017. The other side of freedom: stories of hope and loss in the South African liberation struggle, 1950-1994. Cape Town: HSRC Press. ISBN 9780796925572

Chapter in book

SANCHEZ-BETANCOURT, D. and VIVIER, E., 2019. Action and community-based research: improving local governance practices through the community scorecard. In: S. LAHER, A. FYNN and S. KRAMER, eds., Transforming research methods in the social sciences: case studies from South Africa. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 375-392. ISBN 9781776142750

YU, K. and VIVIER, E., 2017. Speaking or being Chinese: the case of South African-born Chinese. In: G. LI and W. MA, eds., Educating Chinese-heritage students in the global-local nexus: identities, challenges, and opportunities. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781315394541

VIVIER, E., 2012. Construction of identity in the philosophy of Hannah Arendt. In: M. KEARNEY, ed., From conflict to recognition: moving multiculturalism forward. At the interface / probing the boundaries (79). Leiden: Brill | Rodopi, pp. 83-100. ISBN 9789042035355

Conference contribution

VIVIER, E., 2025. Place leadership and co-creation in urban regeneration: how place attachments shape perceptions of legitimacy. In: European Urban Research Association annual conference, Bristol, UK, 10-13 June 2025.

ZEMANDL, E., VIVIER, E., ECKERSLEY, P., NUNES, A., FRIMPONG ANIM, B., MYINT AUNG, J. and TIERI GEORGES, S., 2025. A Nottingham debate revisited: post-Brexit and post-pandemic perspectives on graduate retention, belonging and placemaking. In: A Nottingham Debate Revisited, Nottingham Trent University, 12 May 2025.

VIVIER, E., KIRK, J. and TOMS, N., 2024. Inspirational worth in inter-organisational collaborations: lessons from a city-based regeneration project. In: 40th EGOS Colloquium, Milan, Italy, 04-06 July 2024.

VIVIER, E., 2023. Co-creation through the lens of place: temporal and scalar orientations. In: 36th Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 5-7 December 2023.

VIVIER, E., 2023. Cartography as leadership: mapping a research agenda. In: International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) Conference 2023, Budapest, Hungary, 3-5 April 2023.

VIVIER, E., ONAJI-BENSON, T. and SANCHEZ-BETANCOURT, D., 2023. Organising solutions to grand challenges: the potential and pitfalls of community-led alternatives. In: Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN) 13th annual conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 30 November - 1 December 2023.

VIVIER, E., ONAJI-BENSON, T. and SANCHEZ-BETANCOURT, D., 2022. Crossing boundaries in informal community organising: a view from South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. In: 38th EGOS (European Group for Organization Studies) Colloquium, Vienna, Austria, 7-9 July 2022.

VIVIER, E., NORTH, Z., ROBINSON, B., JENKINS, L. and PAINTER, M., 2022. A relational and values-driven approach to responsible leadership: lessons from public healthcare in South Africa. In: Responsible Leadership Reimagined Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 16-18 March 2022.

VIVIER, E. and TOMS, N., 2022. The role of place in public value co-creation. In: 38th EGOS (European Group for Organization Studies) Colloquium, Vienna, Austria, 7-9 July 2022.

VIVIER, E., ONAJI-BENSON, T. and SANCHEZ-BETANCOURT, D., 2021. Crossing boundaries in informal community organising: a view from South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. In: 37th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) colloquium, Online, 07-10 July 2021.

VIVIER, E. and TOMS, N., 2021. Tracing social accountability in urban development decisions: the case of Broadmarsh in the City of Nottingham. In: PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) Regional Chapter UK and Ireland 7th Annual Conference, University of Lincoln, 6-7 July 2021.

PAINTER, M., VIVIER, E., ONAJI-BENSON, T., JALAN, I. and POGRUND, G., 2021. The sacrificial structure of whistleblower subjectivity: a Derridean perspective. In: 37th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherands [virtual], 8-10 July 2021.

VIVIER, E. and SANCHEZ-BETANCOURT, D., 2021. The participatory governance system: views from South African officials and implications for municipal responsiveness. In: International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) conference, Online, 20-23 April 2021.

ONAJI-BENSON, T., VIVIER, E., SCHEEPERS, C. and RAVI, P., 2021. MNE cross-sector partnerships and shared value: understanding complex collaboration in crises. In: Academy of International Business (AIB) Conference, Online, 28 June - 2 July 2021.

VIVIER, E., 2020. Public leadership and the power to structure: challenging the notion of 'shared power' in collaboration. In: 5th Public and Political Leadership (PUPOL) International Conference, Leiden University, The Hague, Netherlands (online), 15-16 October 2020.

PAINTER, M., VIVIER, E. and KARAKILIC, E., 2020. Ethical self-formation in climate-change discourses online. In: 80th Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Virtual, 7-11 August 2020.

ABUBAKRE, M., VIVIER, E. and OZOLINA, A., 2020. How do digital platforms influence community organizing and inequalities? Lessons from community use of a locally developed digital platform in South Africa. In: 36th EGOS Colloquium: Organizing for a Sustainable Future: Responsibility, Renewal and Resistance, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2-4 July 2020.

VIVIER, E. and SANCHEZ-BETANCOURT, D., 2019. Community leadership practices as relational governance: insights from service maintenance in informal settlements in Cape Town. In: 4th International Public and Political Leadership (PUPOL) Conference, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 10-11 April 2019.

VIVIER, E., 2017. Situating local service delivery within community engagement: a qualitative study of South African metro officials’ experiences, practices and constraints. In: 10th Annual SPMA International Conference on Public Management and Administration, Burgers Park Hotel, Pretoria, South Africa, 26-27 October 2017.

VIVIER, E., 2017. Tracing leadership practices in participation between citizens and local officials in Cape Town. In: Fourth International Conference on Responsible Leadership, Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa, 15-16 March 2017.

VIVIER, E. and SANCHEZ-BETANCOURT, D., 2015. Action research and learning through the community scorecard: bridging participative methodologies. In: 9th Action Learning, Action Research Association (ALARA) 2015 World Congress, St. George Hotel, Centurion, South Africa, 4-7 November 2015.

VIVIER, E., 2015. What makes public engagement effective in service delivery? In: World Social Science Forum (WSSF) 2015: Transforming Global Relations for a just World, Durban International Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa, 13-16 September 2015.

VIVIER, E., 2013. A tough line to work through: ethical uncertainties in a South African SME. In: Business Ethics Network (BEN)-Africa 14th Annual Conference, Lagos, Nigeria, 30 October - 1 November 2013.

VIVIER, E., HOUSTON, G., WENTZEL, M. and YU, K., 2013. Modes of engagement and adjustment: the changing roles of associations in Chinese immigrant communities in Pretoria, South Africa. In: South-South relations and globalization: Chinese migrants in Africa, African migrants in China, Dakar, Senegal, 20-25 January 2013.

VIVIER, E., 2009. Construction of identity in the philosophy of Hannah Arendt. In: 3rd Global Conference of Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging, Mansfield College, Oxford, 25-28 September 2009.

Research report for external body

WALKER, C., NUNES, A., VIVIER, E., ZEMANDL, E. and ECKERSLEY, P., 2025. Using customer personas to expand more-than-food support: a case study of the Meadows Food Pantry in Nottingham (Policy paper). Nottingham: Nottingham Trent University.

Review

VIVIER, E., 2012. Book review: Displaced at home: ethnicity and gender among Palestinians in Israel. Journal of International Women's Studies, 13 (3), pp. 203-207. ISSN 1539-8706

VIVIER, E., 2012. Book Review: Women of the conquest dynasties: gender and identity in Liao and Jin China. Journal of International Women's Studies, 13 (1), pp. 155-159. ISSN 1539-8706

Thesis

VIVIER, E., 2019. Public leadership practices in participation: a social constructionist analysis of South African local government. PhD, University of Pretoria.

Other

ZEMANDL, E. and WALKER, C., 2025. Proposal and interim action plan for the Nottingham City Sustainable Food Partnership. (Unpublished)