Yr Athro Ismael Al-Amoudi
Reader in Organisational Studies
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My research studies how social norms are established or contested, with particular attention being drawn to the practices of corporations. How come certain practices are seen as 'natural' and 'acceptable' whereas others raise much concern and resistance?
I tackle these questions from a perspective that mixes philosophical questioning and ethnographic participant observation. My interest in normativity has brought me to study (and publish) in the fields of business ethics; organisation studies and social theory.
I worked as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in the early 2000s, before doing a PhD in Cambridge (2002-06) and joining academia. After my thesis, I worked as Senior Lecturer at the University of Reading (UK) and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Ontology (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland). I have also been active with the Occupy movement that purports to limit the contemporary excesses of capitalism.
I am open to PhD projects that consider the effects of contemporary organisations on society and that are anchored in the social sciences and humanities.
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Qualifications
- PhD (Cantab)
- Diplome ESCP-EUROPE
Editorial work
Peer review for ISI ranked journals:
- Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (member of the editorial board)
- British Journal of Management
- Cambridge Journal of Economics
- Journal of Management Inquiry
- Journal of Management Studies
- organisation
- organisation Studies
Anrhydeddau a Dyfarniadau
- Grant for current project on authority in a morphogenetic society: circa €180,000. Awarded by Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) in Spring 2011
- Grant for Oxford Seminar on Conventions and Rules (OSCAR): £10,000. Autumn 2009. Awarded by Abdul Lateef Jameel Community Services. Joint application with Dr John Latsis
- Grant for CIP conference. Reading 21st November 2008: £1,500. Awarded by the University of Reading
- School award for outstanding contributions to teaching and learning. University of Reading 2008
- AOM Meeting Best Papers Proceedings (2007)
- Judge Business School Spring Doctoral Conference (2006, Cambridge). Best paper award
- Wolfson College/Newton Trust Bursary (2006, Cambridge)
- ESRC PhD studentship (2003, Cambridge). Covered tuition fees for 3 years
- Cambridge European Trust Award (October 2002, Cambridge)
- ESCP Prize in arts and humanities essay (1997, Paris): "Borges and the Palimpsest".
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
- Cambridge Social Ontology Group
- Cardiff Organisation Research Group, Cardiff Business School
- Centre for Social Ontology
- Organisation, Carrières et Nouvelles Élites, Emlyon Business School
Cyhoeddiadau
2019
- Foroughi, H. and Al-Amoudi, I. 2019. Collective forgetting in a changing organization: when memories become unusable and uprooted.. Organization Studies 41(4), pp. 449-470. (10.1177/0170840619830130)
2018
- Al-Amoudi, I. 2018. Review: Homo Deus: a Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari. Organization Studies 39(7), pp. 995-998. (10.1177/0170840618754662)
- Lindebaum, D., Al-Amoudi, I. and Brown, V. L. 2018. Does leadership development need to care about neuro-ethics?. Academy of Management Learning and Education 17(1), pp. 96-109. (10.5465/amle.2016.0220)
2017
- O'Mahoney, J., O'Mahoney, H. and Al-Amoudi, I. 2017. How can the loggerhead sea-turtle survive? Exploring the journeys of the Caretta caretta using ANT and critical realism. Organization 24(6), pp. 781-799. (10.1177/1350508416672738)
- Al-Amoudi, I. and Latsis, J. 2017. The limits of ontological critique: from judgmental rationality to justification. Cambridge Journal of Economics 41(5), pp. 1303-1321. (10.1093/cje/bex039)
- Al-Amoudi, I.et al. 2017. Introduction: de/humanisation and critical realism. Journal of Critical Realism 16(4), pp. 349-352. (10.1080/14767430.2017.1348713)
2016
- Al-Amoudi, I. and Varman, R. 2016. Accumulation through derealization: how corporate violence remains unchecked. Human Relations 69(10), pp. 1909-1935. (10.1177/0018726716628970)
- Al-Amoudi, I. 2016. Reflexivity in a just Morphogenic society: a sociological contribution to political philosophy. In: Archer, M. ed. Provisional title: Morphogenesis & Eudemonia. Social Morphogenesis Springer
2015
- Al-Amoudi, I. and O'Mahoney, J. 2015. Ontology: philosophical discussions and implications for organization studies. In: Greenwood, M., Mir, R. and Willmott, H. eds. Routledge Companion of Philosophy in Organization Studies. Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting Routledge, pp. 15-32.
- Al-Amoudi, I. 2015. In letter & in spirit: social morphogenesis and the interpretation of codified social rules. In: Archer, M. S. ed. Morphogenesis and Normativity: Normogenetic Processes. Springer
- Al-Amoudi, I. and Latsis, J. 2015. Death contested: morphonecrosis and conflicts of interpretation. In: Archer, M. S. ed. Generative Mechanisms Transforming Late Modernity. Springer, pp. 231-248., (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13773-5_11)
2014
- Al-Amoudi, I. and Latsis, J. 2014. The arbitrariness and normativity of social conventions. British Journal of Sociology 65(2), pp. 358-378. (10.1111/1468-4446.12042)
- Al-Amoudi, I. 2014. Morphogenesis and normativity: problems the former creates for the latter. In: Archer, M. S. ed. Late modernity: trajectories towards morphogenic society. Social Morphogenesis London: Springer, pp. 193-220.
2013
- Al-Amoudi, I. and Blanc, S. 2013. Corporate institutions in a weakened welfare state: a Rawlsian perspective. Business Ethics Quarterly 23(4), pp. 497-525. (10.5840/beq201323438)
- Al-Amoudi, I. 2013. Authority’s hidden network: obligations, roles and the morphogenesis of authority. In: Archer, M. S. ed. Social Morphogenesis. London: Springer, pp. 187-204., (10.1007/978-94-007-6128-5_10)
2011
- 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)
2010
- Al-Amoudi, I. 2010. Immanent non-algorithmic rules: an ontological study of social rules. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 40(3), pp. 289-313. (10.1111/j.1468-5914.2009.00426.x)
2008
- Al-Amoudi, I. 2008. Relativism. In: Clegg, S. R. and Bailey, J. R. eds. International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. London: Sage, pp. 1-7.
2007
- Al-Amoudi, I. 2007. Redrawing Foucault's social ontology. Organization 14(4), pp. 543-563. (10.1177/1350508407078052)
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Teaching commitments
- Currently supervising a PhD student on organisational remembering and forgetting
- MBA module: Management Consulting
- Undergraduate module (year 3): Organisational Analysis & Change
Additional teaching
I have taught at the universities of Cambridge, Cardiff and Reading
- Philosophy of social science
- Qualitative methods of inquiry
- How to do a strategy audit (when you're alone and have got only 2 weeks...)
PhD supervision research interests
- The effects of contemporary organisations on society (anchored in the social sciences and humanities)
- Contestation and resistance
- Critical management studies
- Democracy
- Social theory
- Normativity and social rules
- Social transformation
- Violence
