Professor Hugh Willmott

Research Professor in Organisational Studies

: WillmottH@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44 29208 74418
: Aberconway Building, Room F09b, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU

I have an established reputation in the broad field of management with a specialist focus in area of organization studies. Current interests include corporate goverance, theories of resistance and the significance of craft in research.

2023

Tourish, D. and Willmott, H. 2023. Despotic leadership and ideological manipulation at theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace. Organization Studies 44(11), pp. 1801-1824. (10.1177/01708406231171801)

2022

Willmott, H. 2022. Critical essay: Blinding faith - Paradoxes and pathologies of opacity in peer review. Human Relations 75(9), pp. 1741-1769. (10.1177/00187267211016752)
Wallace, J., Willmott, H. and Brewis, J. 2022. Culture. In: Knights, D. and Wilmott, H. eds. Introducing Organizational Behaviour & Management. Cengage, pp. 344-376.
Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. 2022. Social ontology of the modern corporation: its role in understanding organizations. In: Meyer, R., Leixnering, S. and Veldman, J. eds. The Corporation: Rethinking the Iconic Form of Business Organization., Vol. 78. Research in the Sociology of Organizations Emerald, pp. 165-189., (10.1108/S0733-558X20220000078009)
Willmott, H. 2022. Not the 'from the editors': on guarding 'topness'. Organization 29(1), pp. 178-196. (10.1177/1350508420972091)

2017

Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. 2017. Social ontology and the modern corporation. Cambridge Journal of Economics 41(5), pp. 1489 -1504. (10.1093/cje/bex043)
Venkitachalam, K. and Willmott, H. 2017. Strategic knowledge management-Insights and pitfalls. International Journal of Information Management 37(4), pp. 313-316. (10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2017.02.002)
Bell, E., Kothiyal, N. and Willmott, H. 2017. Methodology-as-technique and the meaning of rigour in globalized management research. British Journal of Management 28(3), pp. 534-550. (10.1111/1467-8551.12205)

2016

Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. 2016. The cultural grammar of governance: The UK Code of Corporate Governance, reflexivity, and the limits of ‘soft’ regulation. Human Relations 69(3), pp. 581-603. (10.1177/0018726715593160)
Thompson, M. and Willmott, H. 2016. The social potency of affect: Identification and power in the immanent structuring of practice. Human Relations 69(2), pp. 483-506. (10.1177/0018726715593161)
Venkitachalam, K. and Willmott, H. 2016. Determining strategic shifts between codification and personalization in operational environments. Journal of Strategy and Management 9(1), pp. 2-14. (10.1108/JSMA-09-2014-0082)

2015

Murphy, J. and Willmott, H. 2015. The rise of the 1%: an organizational explanation. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 43, pp. 25-53. (10.1108/S0733-558X20150000043013)
Tourish, D. and Willmott, H. 2015. In defiance of folly: Journal rankings, mindless measures and the ABS guide. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 26, pp. 37. (10.1016/j.cpa.2014.02.004)
Willmott, H. 2015. Why institutional theory cannot be critical. Journal of Management Inquiry 24(1), pp. 105-111. (10.1177/1056492614545306)
Willmott, H. 2015. The power of science and the science of power. In: Bjartveit, S. and Roos, G. eds. Scandinavian perspectives on Management Consulting. Norwegian Library House
Glynos, J., Klimecki, R. and Willmott, H. 2015. Logics in policy and practice: a critical nodal analysis of the UK banking reform process. Critical Policy Studies 9(4), pp. 393-415. (10.1080/19460171.2015.1009841)

2014

Willmott, H. 2014. Conceptually grounded analysis: The elusive facticity and ethical upshot of 'organization'. In: Jeanes, E. and Huzzard, T. eds. Critical Management Research: Reflections from the Field. London: SAGE, pp. 189-208.
Paranque, B. and Willmott, H. 2014. Cooperatives--saviours or gravediggers of capitalism? Critical performativity and the John Lewis Partnership. Organization 21(5), pp. 604-625. (10.1177/1350508414537622)
Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2014. Registering 'the ethical' in organization theory formation: Towards the disclosure of an 'invisible force'. Organization Studies 35(7), pp. 1013-1039. (10.1177/0170840614525324)
Lok, J. and Willmott, H. 2014. Identities and identifications in organizations: dynamics of antipathy, deadlock, and alliance. Journal of Management Inquiry 23(3), pp. 215-230. (10.1177/1056492613504461)
Willmott, H. 2014. Science, governance and self-understanding: from anthropocentricism to ecocentrism?. Critical Policy Studies 8(1), pp. 22-40. (10.1080/19460171.2014.883858)
Sambrook, S. and Willmott, H. 2014. The rigor of management education and the relevance of human resource development - natural partners or uneasy bedfellows in management practice?. Management Learning 45(1), pp. 39-56. (10.1177/1350507612468422)
Willmott, H. 2014. Fighting corporate abuse: beyond predatory capitalism. Pluto Press.
Daft, R., Murphy, J. and Willmott, H. 2014. Organization theory and design (2nd Edition). Cengage Learning.
Bell, E. and Willmott, H. 2014. Qualitative research in business and management. SAGE.
Bell, E. and Willmott, H. 2014. Introduction. In: Qualitative research in business and management. SAGE
Willmott, H. and Weiskopf, R. 2014. Foucault. In: Helin, J. et al. eds. Oxford handbook of process philosophy and organization. Oxford Univeristy Press

2013

Venkitachalam, K. and Willmott, H. 2013. Factors shaping organizational dynamics in strategic knowledge management. Knowledge Management Research & Practice 13(3), pp. 344-359. (10.1057/kmrp.2013.54)
Willmott, H. 2013. Reflections on the darker side of conventional power analytics. Academy of Management Perspectives 27(4), pp. 281-286. (10.5465/amp.2013.0075)
Mingers, J. and Willmott, H. 2013. Taylorizing business school research: on the 'one best way' performative effects of journal ranking lists. Human Relations 66(8), pp. 1051-1073. (10.1177/0018726712467048)
Willmott, H. 2013. 'The substitution of one piece of nonsense for another': Reflections on resistance, gaming, and subjugation. Journal of Management Studies 50(3), pp. 443-473. (10.1111/joms.12019)
Weiskopf, R. and Willmott, H. 2013. Ethics as critical practice: the "Pentagon Papers", deciding responsibly, truth-telling, and the unsettling of organizational morality. Organization Studies 34(4), pp. 469-493. (10.1177/0170840612470256)
Willmott, H. and Silkka, P. 2013. The tax avoidance industry: accountancy firms on the make. Critical Perspectives on International Business 9(4), pp. 415-443. (10.1108/cpoib-06-2013-0019)
Willmott, H. 2013. OT and power: The significance of value-orientations and a plea for pluralism. Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry 11(2), pp. 53-66.
Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. 2013. What is the corporation and why does it matter?. M@n@gement 16(5), pp. 605-620.
Willmott, H. 2013. Changing institutions: critical management studies as a social movement. In: Dialogues in Critical Management Studies: Getting things done., Vol. 2. Emerald, pp. 123-164.

2012

Willmott, H. 2012. Reframing relevance as 'Social Usefulness': a comment on Hodgkinson and Starkey's 'Not Simply Returning to the Same Answer Over and Over Again'. British Journal of Management 23(4), pp. 598-604. (10.1111/j.1467-8551.2012.00839.x)
Willmott, H. and Edwards, P. 2012. Discourse and normative business ethics. In: Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 549-580.
Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. 2012. Making sense of management: A critical introduction (2nd ed.). London: SAGE.
Glynos, J., Klimecki, R. and Willmott, H. 2012. Cooling out the marks: The ideology and politics of financial markets. Journal of Cultural Economy 5(3), pp. 297-320. (10.1080/17530350.2012.675885)
Willmott, H. 2012. Spirited away: When political economy becomes culturalized... In: du Gay, P. and Morgan, G. eds. New Spirits of Capitalism? On the Ethics of the Contemporary Capitalist Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 98-123.
Knights, D. and Willmott, H. 2012. Introducing organization behaviour and management. London: Cengage Learning.

2011

Willmott, H. 2011. Metric Perversion. THE - Times Higher Education, pp. 30.
Willmott, H. 2011. Organizational Culture. In: Painter-Morland, M. and ten Bos, R. eds. Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy. Cambridge: Canbridge University Press, pp. 61-95.
Willmott, H. 2011. Enron Narrative. In: Painter-Morland, M. and ten Bos, R. eds. Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 96-116.
Willmott, H. 2011. Préface. In: Leflaive, X. ed. Repenser L'Enterprise et la Gastion: Un enjeu de société. Gestion Paris: Economica, pp. 7-11.
Willmott, H. 2011. Préface. In: Taskin, L. and de Nanteuil, M. eds. Perspectives critiques en management: Pour une gestion citoyenne. Méthodes & Recherches Bruxelles: De Boeck, pp. 5-9.
Willmott, H. 2011. Journal list fetishism and the perversion of scholarship: reactivity and the ABS list. Organization 18(4), pp. 429-442. (10.1177/1350508411403532)
Willmott, H. 2011. Listing Perilously [Letter]. Organization 18(4), pp. 447-448. (10.1177/1350508411403536)
Al-Amoudi, I. and Willmott, H. 2011. Where constructionism and critical realism converge: interrogating the domain of epistemological relativism. Organization Studies 32(1), pp. 27-46. (10.1177/0170840610394293)
Willmott, H. 2011. Making sense of the financial meltdown - an extended review of The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession: The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession, A. Gamble. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 208 pp. 15.99. ISBN 9780230230750 [Book Review]. Organization 18(2), pp. 239-260. (10.1177/1350508410394155)
Willmott, H. 2011. Back to the future: what does studying bureaucracy tell us?. In: Clegg, S. R., Harris, M. and Höpfl, H. eds. Managing modernity : beyond bureaucracy?. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 257-294.
Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. eds. 2011. Critical management studies (4 vols.). SAGE Library in Business and Management. London: SAGE.
Kenny, K., Whittle, A. and Willmott, H. 2011. Understanding identity and organizations. London: SAGE.
Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. 2011. Critical Management Studies - Introduction. In: Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. eds. Critical Management Studies (4 vols). SAGE Library in Business and Management London: SAGE, pp. xxi-xxxvii.
Willmott, H. 2011. Considering the "Bigger Picture": Branding in Processes of Financialization and Market Capitalization. In: Brannan, M. J., Parsons, E. and Priola, V. eds. Branded Lives: The Production and Consumption of Meaning at Work. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 17-34.

2010

Willmott, H. 2010. Governing employability: business school accreditation as 'soft' regulation. In: Blyton, P. R., Heery, E. J. and Turnbull, P. J. eds. Reassessing the Employment Relationship. Management, Work and Organisations London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 249-272.
Willmott, H. 2010. Creating 'value' beyond the point of production: branding, financialization and market capitalization. Organization 17(5), pp. 517-542. (10.1177/1350508410374194)
Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. 2010. The dark side of transfer pricing: its role in tax avoidance and wealth retentiveness. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 21(4), pp. 342-356. (10.1016/j.cpa.2010.02.004)
Willmott, H. 2010. "Institutional work" for what? Problems and prospects of institutional theory. Journal of Management Inquiry 20(1), pp. 67-72. (10.1177/1056492610387224)
Knights, W. and Willmott, H. 2010. Organizational Analysis: Essential Readings. Andover: Cengage Learning.
Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2010. Strategy and strategizing: a poststructuralist perspective. In: Baum, J. A. and Lampel, J. eds. The globalization of strategy research., Vol. 27. Advances in Strategic Management Emerald, pp. 75-109., (10.1108/S0742-3322(2010)0000027007)

2009

O'Doherty, D. and Willmott, H. 2009. The decline of labour process analysis and the future sociology of work. Sociology 43(5), pp. 931-951. (10.1177/0038038509340742)
Calas, M. et al. 2009. After the fall: saving management knowledge from itself?. Presented at: 2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, 7-11 August 2009.
Willmott, H. 2009. Commentary: Science as intervention: recasting Weber's moral vision. Organization 16(1), pp. 143-153. (10.1177/1350508408098926)
Lowrie, A. and Willmott, H. 2009. Accreditation sickness in the consumption of business education: the vacuum in AACSB standard setting. Management Learning 40(4), pp. 411-420. (10.1177/1350507609335851)
Klimecki, R. and Willmott, H. 2009. From demutualisation to meltdown: a tale of two wannabe banks. Critical Perspectives on International Business 5(1/2), pp. 120-140. (10.1108/17422040910938749)
Willmott, H. and Sikka, P. 2009. All Offshore: the sprat, the mackerel, accounting firms, and the state in globalization. In: Chapman, C. S., Cooper, D. J. and Miller, P. B. eds. Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions: essays in Honour of Anthony Hopwood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 396-414., (10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546350.003.0018)
Willmott, H. and O'Doherty, D. 2009. Avoiding debate and the immobilization of labour process study: Strawmanning or Friedmanning?. In: Pullen, A. and Rhodes, C. eds. Bits of Organization. Advances in Organization Studies Vol. 24. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, pp. 38-55.
Thomas, R. 2009. Critical management studies on identity: mapping the terrain. In: Willmott, H., Bridgman, T. and Alvesson, M. eds. The Handbook of Critical Management Studies. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 166-185., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199595686.013.0008)
Reed, M. I. 2009. Critical realism in critical management studies. In: Alvesson, M., Bridgman, T. and Willmott, H. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 52-75., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199595686.013.0003)
Alvesson, M., Bridgman, T. and Willmott, H. eds. 2009. The Oxford handbook of critical management studies. Oxford handbooks in business and management. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2008

Willmott, H. 2008. Critical management and global justice. Organization 15(6), pp. 927-931. (10.1177/1350508408097913)
Willmott, H. 2008. Listening, interpreting, commending: A commentary on the future of interpretive accounting research. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 19(6), pp. 920-925. (10.1016/j.cpa.2007.02.007)
Knights, D., Vurdubakis, T. and Willmott, H. 2008. The night of the bug: Technology, risk and (dis)organization at the fin de siecle. Management & Organizational History 3(3-4), pp. 289-309. (10.1177/1744935908095411)
Edward, P. and Willmott, H. 2008. Corporate citizenship: Rise or demise of a myth?. Academy of Management Review 33(3), pp. 771-773.
Ezzamel, M., Willmott, H. and Worthington, F. 2008. Manufacturing shareholder value: the role of accounting in organizational transformation. Accounting, Organizations and Society 33(2-3), pp. 107-140. (10.1016/j.aos.2007.03.001)
Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2008. Strategy as discourse in a global retailer: a supplement to rationalist and interpretive accounts. Organization Studies 29(2), pp. 191-217. (10.1177/0170840607082226)
Cooper, D. J., Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2008. Examining "institutionalization": a critical theoretic perspective. In: Greenwood, R. et al. eds. Handbook of organizational institutionalism. London: Sage, pp. 673-701.
Willmott, H. 2008. For informed pluralism, broad relevance and critical reflexivity. In: Barry, D. and Hansen, H. eds. The SAGE handbook of new approaches in management and organization. London: Sage, pp. 82-83.
Edward, P. and Willmott, H. 2008. Structures, identities and politics: bringing corporate citizenship into the corporation. In: Scherer, A. G. and Palazzo, G. eds. Handbook of research on global corporate citizenship. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, pp. 405-429.
Willmott, H. 2008. Critical management studies. In: Clegg, S. and Bailey, J. R. eds. International encyclopedia of organization studies. London: Sage, pp. 321-325.
Laurent, T. and Willmott, H. 2008. Introducing critical management studies: key dimensions. Gestion 2000. 25(6), pp. 27-38.

2007

Knights, D., Noble, F., Vurdubakis, T. and Willmott, H. 2007. Electronic Cash and the Virtual Marketplace: Reflections on a Revolution Postponed. Organization 14(6), pp. 747-768. (10.1177/1350508407082261)
Willmott, H. 2007. Political cultural economy and the financialization of brand equity. Presented at: ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change 3rd Annual Conference: Re-thinking Cultural Economy, Manchester, UK, 5-7 September 2007.
Willmott, H. 2007. Psychoanalytic thinking and critical management studies. Presented at: American Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting; Ideas and Challenges from Psychoanalytic Thinking Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 3-8 August 2007.
Willmott, H. 2007. The past and future of CMS. Presented at: American Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting; CMS Theme Session, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 3-8 August 2007.
Willmott, H. 2007. Philosophical foundations of organizational research. Presented at: American Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting; Professional Development Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 3-8 August 2007.
Khan, F. R., Munir, K. A. and Willmott, H. 2007. A Dark Side of Institutional Entrepreneurship: Soccer Balls, Child Labour and Postcolonial Impoverishment. Organization Studies 28(7), pp. 1055-1077. (10.1177/0170840607078114)
Beverungen, A., Bohm, S., Contu, A., Daly, G., Glynos, J., Spicer, A. and Willmott, H. 2007. Does the social theory of hegemony allow us to rethink the labour-capital relationship?. Presented at: Rethinking Labour-Capital Relations: Class, Discourse, Hegemony, Warwick, UK, 9 July 2007.
Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2007. Critical management perspective. In: Jenkins, M., Ambrosini, V. and Collier, N. eds. Advanced Strategic Management: A Multi-Perspective Approach, 2nd ed.. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 235-248.
Jelinek, T. and Willmott, H. 2007. The political shift in cross-cultural studies. Presented at: Crosscultural Life of Social Values Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 18-19 May 2007.
Willmott, H. 2007. On leading (in) clusters: insights into leadership processes in photonics clusters. Presented at: Making Connections: Relational Analysis, Boundary Concepts and the Future of Organization Studies: an international workshop, Cardiff, UK, 2-3 April 2007.
Willmott, H. 2007. Process ontology, separability and the issue of leadership-context responsiveness. Presented at: Making Connections: Relational Analysis, Boundary Concepts and the Future of Organization Studies: an international workshop, Cardiff, UK, 2-3 April 2007.
Smith, C., Edwards, P., Willmott, H., Grugulis, I. and Thompson, P. 2007. From Marx to Laclau. Presented at: 25th International Labour Process Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2-4 April 2007.
Willmott, H. 2007. Academics in the knowledge economy: from expert to intellectual?. In: Harding, A. et al. eds. Bright Satanic Mills: Universities, Regional Development and the Knowledge Economy. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 149-162.
Willmott, H. 2007. The financial logic of risk wars. Presented at: Financialization: in Retrospect and Prospect, London, UK, 12-13 February 2007.
Willmott, H. 2007. Critical theory. In: Thorpe, R. and Holt, R. eds. Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research. London: Sage, pp. 66-68.
Willmott, H. 2007. Critical management studies. In: Walsh, J. P. and Brief, A. P. eds. The Academy of Management Annals of Organization and Management, Vol. 1. The Academy of Management Annals Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis/Routledge, pp. 145-218.
Knights, D. and Willmott, H. 2007. Socialization, Yes. Skill Upgrading, Probably. Robust Theory of the Capitalist Labour Process, No. Organization Studies 28(9), pp. 1369-1378. (10.1177/0170840607080746)

2006

Contu, A. and Willmott, H. 2006. Studying practice: Situating Talking About Machines. Organization Studies 27(12), pp. 1769-1782. (10.1177/0170840606071895)
Lok, J. and Willmott, H. 2006. Institutional Theory, Language, and Discourse Analysis: A Comment on Philips, Lawrence, and Hardy. Academy of Management Review 31(2), pp. 477-480. (10.5465/AMR.2006.20208692)
Bridgman, T. and Willmott, H. 2006. Institutions and Technology: Frameworks for Understanding Organizational Change - The Case of a Major ICT Outsourcing Contract. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 42(1), pp. 110-126. (10.1177/0021886305284990)
Knights, D. and Willmott, H. 2006. Introducing organizational behaviour and management. London: Thomson Learning.
Lowrie, A. and Willmott, H. 2006. Marketing Higher Education: The Promotion of Relevance and the Relevance of Promotion. Social Epistemology 20(3-4), pp. 221-240. (10.1080/02691720600879806)

2005

Balogun, J., Gleadle, P., Hailey, V. H. and Willmott, H. 2005. Managing Change Across Boundaries: Boundary-Shaking Practices. British Journal of Management 16(4), pp. 261-278. (10.1111/j.1467-8551.2005.00463.x)
Contu, A. and Willmott, H. 2005. You spin me round: The realist turn in organization and management studies. Journal of Management Studies 42(8), pp. 1645-1662. (10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00560.x)
Willmott, H. 2005. Theorizing contemporary control: Some post-structuralist responses to some critical realist questions. Organization 12(5), pp. 747-780. (10.1177/1350508405055947)
Willmott, H. 2005. Organizational theory as a critical science? Forms of analysis and 'new organisational forms'. In: Tsoukas, H. and Knudsen, C. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory: Meta-Theoretical Perspectives. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 88-112., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199275250.003.0004)
Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. 2005. The withering of tolerance and communication in interdisciplinary accounting studies. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 18(1), pp. 136-146. (10.1108/09513570510584683)

2004

Ezzamel, M., Lilley, S. and Willmott, H. 2004. Accounting representation and the road to commercial salvation. Accounting, Organizations and Society 29(8), pp. 783-813. (10.1016/j.aos.2003.10.004)
Ezzamel, M., Willmott, H. and Worthington, F. 2004. Accounting and management - labour relations: the politics of production in the 'factory with a problem'. Accounting Organizations and Society 29(3-4), pp. 269-302. (10.1016/S0361-3682(03)00014-X)
Alveston, M. M. and Willmott, H. 2004. Identity regulation as organizational control producing the appropriate individual. In: Hatch, M. J. and Schultz, M. eds. Organizational Identity: A Reader. Oxford Management Readers Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 436-465.
Christopher, G. and Willmott, H. 2004. Critical management studies: a reader. Oxford Management Readers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Marchington, M. et al. eds. 2004. Fragmenting work: blurring organizational boundaries and disordering hierarchies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2004. Rethinking strategy: contemporary perspectives and debates. European Management Review 1(1), pp. 43-48. (10.1057/palgrave.emr.1500009)

2003

Willmott, H. 2003. Making learning critical: identity, emotion and power in processes of management development. In: Jeffcutt, P. ed. The Foundations of Management Knowledge: Examining Complex Relations Between Theory and Practice (2003). Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies Vol. 23. London: Routledge, pp. 130-151.
Willmott, H. and Contu, A. 2003. Re-Embedding Situatedness: The Importance of Power Relations in Learning Theory. Organization Science 14(3), pp. 283-296. (10.1287/orsc.14.3.283.15167)
Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. eds. 2003. Studying management critically. London: Sage.
Willmott, H. 2003. Commercialising Higher Education in the UK: The state, industry and peer review. Studies in Higher Education 28(2), pp. 129-141. (10.1080/0307507032000058127)
Willmott, H. 2003. Renewing strength: Corporate culture revisited. M@n@gement 6(3), pp. 73-87.
Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. 2003. Introduction. In: Studying management critically. SAGE, pp. 1-22.
Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. 2003. Critical approaches to strategic management. In: Studying Management Critically. SAGE

2002

Grimshaw, D., Vincent, S. and Willmott, H. 2002. Going privately: partnership and outsourcing in UK public services. Public Administration 80(3), pp. 475-502. (10.1111/1467-9299.00314)
Knights, D., Noble, F. F., Vurdubakis, T. and Willmott, H. 2002. Allegories of creative destruction: technology and organization, narratives of the e-Economy. In: Woolgar, S. ed. Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality. Oxford University Press
Willmott, H. and Knights, D. 2002. Autonomy as utopia or dystopia. In: Parker, M. ed. Utopia and Organization. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 59-81.
Grey, C. and Willmott, H. 2002. Contexts of CMS. Organization 9(3), pp. 411-418. (10.1177/135050840293006)
Willmott, H. and Alvesson, M. 2002. Identity Regulation as Organizational Control: Producing the Appropriate Individual. Journal of Management Studies 39(5), pp. 619-644. (10.1111/1467-6486.00305)
Conta, A. and Willmott, H. 2002. Macht, lernen und organisation [Power, learning and organization]. In: Weiskopf, R. ed. Menschenregierungskünste: Anwendungen poststrukturalistischer Analyse auf Management und Organisation. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, pp. 159-186.
Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. 2002. Commentary on 'Accountability of accounting educators and the rhythm of the university: resistance strategies for postmodern blues'. Accounting Education 11(2), pp. 191-197. (10.1080/0963928021000031754)
Willmott, H., Angeli, F. and Contu, A. 2002. Rappresentare il lavoro in azione: Pottere e capacita di apprendimentio. Sociologia del Lavoro 86(7), pp. 85-104.
Sikka, P. N. and Willmott, H. 2002. Beyond reductionism in critical accounting research. Accounting and the Public Interest 2(1), pp. 88-93. (10.2308/api.2002.2.1.88)

2001

Ezzamel, M., Willmott, H. and Worthington, F. 2001. Power, Control and Resistance in 'The Factory That Time Forgot'. Journal of Management Studies 38(8), pp. 1053-1079. (10.1111/1467-6486.00272)
Mitchell, A., Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. 2001. Policing knowledge by invoking the law: critical accounting and the politics of dissemination. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 12(5), pp. 527-555. (10.1006/cpac.2000.0452)
Willmott, H. and Bos, R. t. 2001. Towards a Post-Dualistic Business Ethics: Interweaving Reason and Emotion in Working Life. Journal of Management Studies 38(6), pp. 769-793. (10.1111/1467-6486.00258)
Willmott, H., Grimshaw, D. and Vincent, S. 2001. New control modes and emergent organizational forms: Private-public contracting in public administration. Administrative Theory and Praxis 23(3), pp. 407-430.
O'Doherty, D. and Willmott, H. 2001. Debating Labour Process Theory: The Issue of Subjectivity and the Relevance of Poststructuralism. Sociology 35(2), pp. 457-476. (10.1177/S0038038501000220)
Sturdy, A., Grugulis, I. and Willmott, H. eds. 2001. Customer service: empowerment and entrapment. Critical Perspectives on Work and Organisations. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Willmott, H., Knights, D., Noble, F. and Vurdubakis, T. 2001. Chasing Shadows: Control, Virtuality and the Production of Trust. Organization Studies 22(2), pp. 311-336. (10.1177/0170840601222006)
Yanow, D. and Willmott, H. 2001. Passionate humility: toward a philosophy of ethical will. In: Jun, J. S. ed. Rethinking Administrative Theory: The Challenge of the New Century. Westport, CN: Praeger, pp. 131-140.

1996

Cooper, D., Puxty, T., Robson, K. and Willmott, H. 1996. Changes in the international regulation of auditors: (In)stalling the Eighth Directive in the UK.. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 7(6), pp. 589-613. (10.1006/cpac.1996.0063)

1994

Ezzamel, M., Lilley, S. and Willmott, H. 1994. The new organization, the new managerial work. European Journal of Management 12(4), pp. 454-461.
Robson, K., Willmott, H., Cooper, D. and Puxty, T. 1994. The ideology of professional regulation and the markets for accounting labour: Three episodes in the recent history of the U.K. accountancy profession. Accounting, Organizations and Society 19(6), pp. 527-553. (10.1016/0361-3682(94)90022-1)
Ezzamel, M., Lilley, S. and Willmott, H. 1994. Changes in management practices in financial services. Journal of General Management 20(1), pp. 22-28.

1993

Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 1993. Corporate governance and financial accountability: Recent reforms in the UK public sector. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal 6(3), pp. 109-132. (10.1108/EUM0000000001937)

1992

Willmott, H., Puxty, A. G., Robson, K., Cooper, D. J. and Lowe, E. A. 1992. Regulation of accountancy and accountants: A comparative analysis of accounting for research and development in four advanced capitalist countries. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal 5(2), pp. 31-54. (10.1108/09513579210011853)

Research interests

Accounting in organizations and society
Managerial work
Management education and learning
Social theory

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Critical study of aspects of management and organization

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Principles of Qualitative Research

Education and qualifications

1972: BSsc in Management Sciences, Ist Class Hons (Manchester)
1977: PhD in Management / Sociology (Manchester)
2008 : Honorary PhD (Lund University, Sweden)

Professional service

1986- Editorial board member of Academy of Management Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Management Studies, Organization, Organization Studies and many others
2008 REF Panel Member for Business and Management
2012-2015 Associate Editor of Organization
2014 REF Panel Member for Business and Management
2015-2017 Associate Editor, Academy of Management Review

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Honours and Awards

1972 Royal Society of Arts Award (UMIST)
1989- Vistiting positions / professorships at Copenhagen Business School, Uppsala University, Cranfield University, Sydney University, University of Technology Sydney
2009 Elected to the Academy of Social Sciences
2015 Elected to the Royal Academy

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1974-1976 Demonstrator, Department of Management Sciences, UMIST
1976-1983 Tutor and Course Counsellor, Open University
1977-1988 Lecturer, Aston Business School, University of Aston
1988-1991 Lecturer, Manchester School of Management, UMIST
(1989) Visiting Professor, Copenhagen Business School
(1990) Visiting Professor, Uppsala Business School
1991-1993 Senior Lecturer, Manchester School of Management,UMIST
1993-1995 Reader, Manchester School of Management, UMIST
1995 -2001 Professor of Organizational Analysis, Manchester School of Management, UMIST
(1999-2004) Visiting Professor, University of Lund
(2000-2003) Visiting Professor, Cranfield University
2001- 2006 Diageo Professor of Management Studies, Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge University
(2005) Visiting Professor, University of Sydney
(2006- )Research Professor of Organization Studies, Cardiff Business School, University of Cardif
(2006 -) Fellow of Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
(2007 -2010) Visiting Professor, University of Lund
(2011-2012) Visiting Professor, University of Technology Sydney
(2017- ) Visiting Professor, Copenhagen Business School

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