Oliver S. Crocco

Books

Long-form scholarship

Books, published and under contract, with Palgrave Macmillan and Cambridge University Press. The work spans regional human capability development in Southeast Asia, leadership development, paradox, and case-based teaching.

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Published · 2021

Developing Human Resources in Southeast Asia

A Holistic Framework for the ASEAN Community

Oliver S. Crocco · Palgrave Macmillan

The first systematic framework for understanding human resource development at the regional level in Southeast Asia. Argues that ASEAN's HRD ecosystem is a complex adaptive system shaped by the ASEAN Way of musjawarah and mufakat — deliberation and consensus — and traces emergence, convergence, and divergence across macro, meso, and micro dimensions of the region's HRD landscape.

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Published · 2026

Foundations of Leadership Development

The Self-Leadership Journey

Oliver S. Crocco, Tomika W. Greer, Edward A. Gibbons III · Palgrave Macmillan

A leadership development textbook that starts with the one person a student can actually direct. It introduces the Self-Leadership Stance, five daily actions (start with yourself, be curious, access resources, cultivate discipline, and show compassion) that run through all fifteen chapters, and organizes the material as a journey in three parts: leading yourself, leading with others, and leading in the world.

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Cambridge University Press

Leading Through Paradox

How Global Leaders Model Learning and Becoming

Oliver S. Crocco · Rajashi Ghosh

co author

Under contract · Forthcoming

Leading Through Paradox

How Global Leaders Model Learning and Becoming

Oliver S. Crocco, Rajashi Ghosh · Cambridge University Press

Under contract with Cambridge University Press. A treatment of paradox as a defining condition of global leadership: competing demands that sharpen when leading crosses cultures, institutions, and national contexts. Grounded in adult learning and development, the book examines how global leaders learn and become inside those irreducible tensions rather than imagining them away. It reflects both authors' sustained cross-cultural engagement: Crocco's years living, teaching, and conducting fieldwork across Southeast Asia, from community-based organizations on the Thai-Myanmar border to a visiting professorship at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and Ghosh's scholarship on developmental relationships and mentoring across cultural contexts.

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Cases of Learning and Development in HRD and Adult Learning

Oleksandr Tkachenko · Oliver S. Crocco · Laura L. Bierema

co editor

Under contract · Forthcoming

Cases of Learning and Development in HRD and Adult Learning

Oleksandr Tkachenko, Oliver S. Crocco, Laura L. Bierema · Palgrave Macmillan

An edited volume bringing together case studies of learning and development across diverse HRD and adult learning contexts. Under contract with Palgrave Macmillan.

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