Dr Lance Newey

Dr Lance Newey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business at The University of Queensland. His research focuses on wellbeing frameworks for business and society, emphasizing the integration of eight components of wellbeing: economic, environmental, social, cultural, physical, psychological, spiritual, and material. Dr Newey's work explores how leaders can leverage polarity to create value across these components, with applications in both business and societal contexts. His research includes empirical studies in Alaska, India, and Norway, as well as applied projects with the City of Anchorage. He has developed wellbeing leadership programs for primary and secondary schools and has received multiple teaching awards for his innovative approach to social entrepreneurship education.

Lance Newey is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland Business School, focusing on community wellbeing and paradox theory. His research explores how dynamic and operating capabilities interact to enable entrepreneurship, particularly in the context of social entrepreneurship and internationalization. Newey investigates resilience as an entrepreneurial capability, integrating insights from cross-disciplinary comparisons. His work also examines absorptive capacity, systemic absorptive capacity, and the role of social knowledge in SMEs' innovative gains. He emphasizes the importance of well-being as a staged social responsibility process and explores how organizations can navigate paradoxes to achieve sustainable development.