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Mark Fenton-O'Creevy is professor of organisational behaviour at The Open University Business School.

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A reckless love of money?Copyrighted Image Weerapat Wattanapichayakul | Dreamstime.com

By Professor Mark Fenton-O'Creevy (The Open University)

01 October 2009

The psychology of decision making could be responsible for the global financial crisis, as Mark Fenton-O'Creevy explains.  Read more : A reckless love of money?

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Has Robert Peston caused a recession? Social amplification, performativity and risks in financial markets[image by SouthbankSteve, some rights reserved]

By Professor Mark Fenton-O'Creevy (The Open University)

17 October 2008

 Is it realistic to blame a national economnic downturn on one man?  Read more : Has Robert Peston caused a recession? Social amplification, performativity and risks in financial markets

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Trading on emotion: traders, reason and emotion in financial marketsCreative Commons Image Image by Oskay under CC-BY licence

By Professor Mark Fenton-O'Creevy (The Open University)

16 May 2008

What part does emotion play in the ups and downs of financial markets?  Read more : Trading on emotion: traders, reason and emotion in financial markets

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Has Gerry Robinson fixed the NHS?OU

By Professor Mark Fenton-O'Creevy (The Open University)

10 January 2007

After watching Can Gerry Robinson Fix The NHS?, Mark Fenton-O'Creevy asks whether Gerry Robinson has really made changes to the NHS.  Read more : Has Gerry Robinson fixed the NHS?

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Why is change so hard?photos.com

By Professor Mark Fenton-O'Creevy (The Open University)

08 January 2007

Mark Fenton-O'Creevy asks why change sometimes seems so difficult for organisations and the people in them.  Read more : Why is change so hard?

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Thomas Hardy, the Wired World and the Business of LoveBBC

By Professor Mark Fenton-O'Creevy (The Open University)

02 February 2006

Mark Fenton-O’Creevy discusses how the Internet has changed the pathway to love  Read more : Thomas Hardy, the Wired World and the Business of Love

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Thomas Hardy, the wired world and the business of loveNo Copyright Image George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress

By Professor Mark Fenton-O'Creevy (The Open University)

31 January 2006

A Google search identifies nearly 8.6 million references on the net to ‘online dating’. The internet is a medium which provides mystery and distance -...  Read more : Thomas Hardy, the wired world and the business of love

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The psychology of deceptionAlexskopje | Dreamstime.com

By Professor Mark Fenton-O'Creevy (The Open University)

10 November 2005

Why has there been an explosion of phone and online fraud, and why do fraudsters find it so easy to fool us? The answers to...  Read more : The psychology of deception

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Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Conole, Grainne; Lins, Jeffrey; Peffer, Gilbert; Adam, Marc; Lindley, Craig; Smidt, Ale; Clough, Gill and Scanlon, Eileen (2012). A learning design to support the emotion regulation of investors. In: OECD-SEBI International Conference on Investor Education, 3-4 February 2012, Goa, India.

Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Soane, Emma; Nicholson, Nigel and Willman, Paul (2011). Thinking, feeling and deciding: the influence of emotions on the decision making and performance of traders. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 32(8), pp. 1044–1061.

Vohra, Shalini and Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark (2011). Managing the heart of finance: domain specific emotion regulation in the work of financial traders. In: 71st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 12-16 August 2011, San Antonio, TX, USA.

Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Gooderham, Paul; Cerdin, Jean-Luc and Rønning, Rune (2011). Bridging roles, social skill and embedded knowing in multinational organisations. In: Dörrenbächer, Christoph and Geppert, Mike eds. Politics and Power in the Multinational Corporation: The Role of Institutions, Interests and Identities. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, pp. 101–138.

Brookes, Michael; Croucher, Richard; Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark and Gooderham, Paul (2011). Measuring competing explanations of human resource management practices through the Cranet survey: cultural versus institutional explanations. Human Resource Management Review, 21(1), pp. 68–79.

Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark and Hutchinson, Steven (2010). Building the foundations of professional expertise: creating a dialectic between work and formal learning. Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LATHE), 4(1), pp. 69–90.

Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Gooderham, Paul and Nordhaug, Odd (2008). Human resource management in US subsidiaries in Europe and Australia: centralisation or autonomy? Journal of International Business Studies, 39(1), pp. 151–166.

Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark and Wood, Stephen (2007). Diffusion of human resource management systems in UK headquartered multinational enterprises: integrating institutional and strategic choice explanations. European Journal of International Management, 1(4), pp. 329–349.

Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Knight, Peter and Margolis, Judith (2006). A Practice-Centered Approach to Management Education. In: Wankel, Charles and DeFillippi, Robert eds. New Visions of Graduate Management Education. Research in Management Education and Development. Greenwich, CT: Information Age, pp. 103–123.

Willman, Paul; Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Nicholson, Nigel and Soane, Emma (2006). Noise trading and the management of operational risk; firms, traders and irrationality in financial markets. Journal of Management Studies, 43(6), pp. 1357–1374.

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Trading on emotion: traders, reason and emotion in financial markets

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Being a stock trader myself I know how the emotions can cause serious problems when trading the market. To erase the emotions and become like a MR. Spock from Star Trek I have found for myself... Read more : Trading on emotion: traders, reason and emotion in financial markets

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Mark Fenton-O'Creevy is professor of organisational behaviour at The Open University Business School. His research includes investigations into the performance of traders in financial markets, and the problems that occur when management practices are transferred from one country to another.
He is also a national teaching fellow, and principal of the Centre for Practice-Based Professional Learning.

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