Cardiff Business School

CBS Faculty

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• managerial work; management education and learning;
• accounting in organizations and society;
• social theory

TEACHING PROFILE

• Principles of Qualitative Research

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books (2005-)

Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies (with M. Alvesson and T. Bridgement), Oxford University Press:
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/Management/?view=usa&ci=9780199237715

Critical Management Studies: A Reader (ed. with C. Grey) Oxford University Press:
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/Management/?view=usa&ci=9780199286089

Introducing Organization Behaviour and Management (ed. with D. Knights) London : Thomson


Journal Articles (2005- )

‘The Withering of Tolerance and Communication in Interdisciplinary Accounting Studies’, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 18:136-146 (with Prem Sikka)

'Theorizing Contemporary Control: Some Postructuralist Responses to Some Critical Realist Questions', Organization 12,5: 747-780

'You Spin Me Round', Journal of Management Studies, 42: 1645-1662 (with A. Contu)

'Managing Change Across Boundaries’, British Journal of Management, 16, 4: 261-278 (with J. Balogun, P., Gleadle, V. Hope-Hailey)

'Institutions and Technology: Frameworks for Understanding Organizational Change -The Case of a Major IT Outsourcing Contract', Journal of Applied Behavioural Science, 42, 1 :110-126 (with T Bridgman)
 
`Marketing Higher Education: The Promotion of Relevance and the Relevance Promotion', Social Epistemology, 20, 3-4:221-240 (with A. Lowrie)

'Institutional Theory, Language and Discourse Analysis: A Comment on Phillips, Lawrence and Hardy' Academy of Management Review 31, 2: 477-480 (with J. Lok)

`Studying Practice: Situating Talking About Machines', Organization Studies, 27, 12: 1769-1782 (with A. Contu)

`A Dark Side of Institutional Entrepreneurship: Soccer Balls, Child Labour and Postcolonial Impoverishment', Organization Studies, 28, 7: 1055-1077 (with F.R. Khan and K.A. Munir)

'Electronic Cash and the Virtual Marketplace: Reflections on a Revolution Postponed', Organization, 14, 6: 747-768 (with D. Knights. F. Noble and T. Vurdubakis)

`Socialization, Yes. Skill Upgrading, Probably. Robust Theory of Work Organization, No.', Organization Studies, 28, 9: 1369-1378 (with David Knights)

‘Manufacturing Shareholder Value: The Role of Accounting in Organizational Transformation’, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 33,2-3: 107-140 (with M. Ezzamel and F. Worthington)

`Listening, Interpreting, Commending: A Commentary on the Futures of Interpretive Accounting Research', Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 19,6: 920-925 (invited contribution)

`Strategy as Discourse in a Global Retailer: A Supplement to Rationalist and Interpretivist Accounts', Organization Studies, 29, 2: 191-217 (with Mahmoud Ezzamel)

Book Chapters (2005- )

'The Power of Science and the Science of Power' in Bjartveit, S and Roos, G. (eds), Scandinavian Perspectives on Management Consulting. Norwegian Library House, pp  (with M.Alvesson)

'Introduction' in C. Grey and H. C. Willmott, eds., Critical Management Studies: A Reader, Oxford  University Press, pp 1-20 (with C. Grey)

‘Academics in the ‘Knowledge Economy’: From Expert to Intellectual?’ in A. Harding, A. Scott, S. Laske and C. Burtscher (eds), Bright Satanic Mills : Universities, Regional Development and the Knowledge Economy,  Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, pp 149-162 (with T. Bridgman)

`Critical Management Perspective' in M. Jenkins and V. Ambrosini, eds, 2nd ed., Strategic Management: A Multi-Perspective Approach, London: Palgrave, pp 235-248 (with M. Ezzamel)

`For Informed Pluralism, Broad Relevance and Critical Reflexivity' in D. Barry and H. Hansen, eds., Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization, London : Sage, pp 82-83

`Critical Theory' in R. Thorpe and R. Holt, eds., Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research, London : Sage, pp 66-68
 
'Critical Management Studies' in A. Brief and J. Walsh, eds., Annals of the Academy of Management, Vol. 1  New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates  (with P. Adler and L. Forbes), pp 119-180       

'Examining "Institutionalization' : A Critical Theoretic Perspective' in R. Greenwood, C. Oliver, R. Suddaby and K. Sahlin-Anderson, eds., The Sage Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, London: Sage (with D. Cooper and M. Ezzamel) pp 673-701

'Critical Management Studies' in S. Clegg and James R. Bailey, eds., International Encyclopaedia of Organization  Studies, London: Sage

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Member of RAE Business and Management Panel
• Editorial board member of Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Organization
• Co-editor of www.criticalmanagement.org
  
  
  
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