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Professor Michael Reed
Professor of Organisational Analysis
- ReedM@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29208 76701
- Aberconway Building, Room Room D22b, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Overview
I am Professor of Organisational Analysis in the Management, Employment and Organisation Section, Cardiff University Business School (CARBS). My research interests are focused on the changing relationship between elites, experts and managers in contemporary organisations. I have a particular research interest in professionals working in public service organisations in the education and health sectors. In addition, I have made major contributions to 'theory development' within the field of organisation studies and to the debates which have crystalized around these developments. I have published extensively in a wide range of international journals such as Organisation Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Research in the Sociologyof Organization s and the Journal of Professions and Organization. I am a founding editor of the international organisation theory journal, Organization. I have also held a number of academic leadership positions within Cardiff University Business School and Lancaster Management School, such as Head of Department and Associate Dean, Reserarch. Currently, I am Chair of the Shadow Management Board in CARBS.
Publication
2024
- Reed, M. 2024. Metaphors and organization studies: A critical realist view. In: Örtenblad, A. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Metaphors in Organization Studies. Oxford university Press, pp. 420-433., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192895707.013.26)
2023
- Reed, C. and Reed, M. 2023. Enough of experts: Expert authority in crisis. De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences. DeGruyter. (10.1515/9783110734911)
- Reed, M. 2023. Sociology of organizations in the twenty-first century. International Sociology 38(2), pp. 163-174. (10.1177/02685809231158208)
2022
- Wallace, M., Reed, M., O'Reilly, D., Tomlinson, M., Morris, J. and Deem, R. 2022. Developing public service leaders: elite orchestration, change agency, leaderism, and neoliberalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (10.1093/oso/9780199552108.001.0001)
- Reed, M. 2022. Sociology of organizations in the twenty first century. International Sociology 37(5), pp. 545-556. (10.1177/02685809221138200)
- Reed, C. and Reed, M. 2022. Expert authority in crisis: Making authority real through struggle. Organization Theory 3(4), pp. 1-21. (10.1177/26317877221131587)
2021
- Courpasson, D., Younes, D. and Reed, M. 2021. Durkheim in the neoliberal organization: taking resistance and solidarity seriously. Organization Theory 2(1), pp. 1-24. (10.1177/2631787720982619)
2019
- Reed, M. 2019. Management ideas and managing public service professionals. In: Sturdy, A. et al. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas. Oxford Handbooks Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Reed, M. and Burrell, G. 2019. Theory and organization studies: the need for contestation. Organization Studies 40(1), pp. 39-54. (10.1177/0170840617745923)
2018
- Reed, M. 2018. Elites, professions and the neoliberal state. Journal of Professions and Organization 5(3), pp. 297-312. (10.1093/jpo/joy010)
2016
- Morris, J., Farrell, C. and Reed, M. 2016. The indeterminacy of 'temporariness': control and power in neo-bureaucratic organizations and work in UK television. Human Relations 69(12), pp. 2274-2297. (10.1177/0018726716648387)
2015
- Reed, M. and Wallace, M. 2015. Elite discourse and institutional innovation: making the hybrid happen in English public services. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 43, pp. 269-302. (10.1108/S0733-558X20150000043022)
2014
- Adler, P. S. et al. eds. 2014. Oxford handbook of sociology, social theory and organization studies. Contemporary Currents. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2012
- O'Reily, D. and Reed, M. I. 2012. 'Leaderism' and the discourse of leadership in the reformation of UK public services. In: Teelken, C., Ferlie, E. and Dent, M. eds. Leadership in the Public Sector: Promises and Pitfalls. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 21-43.
- Reed, M. I. 2012. Masters of the universe: power and elites in organization studies. Organization Studies 33(2), pp. 203-221. (10.1177/0170840611430590)
- Reed, M. I. 2012. Researching organizational elites: a critical realist perspective. In: Courpasson, D., Golsorkhi, D. and Sallaz, J. J. eds. Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets. Research in the Sociology of Organizations Vol. 34. Bingley: Emerald, pp. 21-53.
2011
- Wallace, M. and Reed, M. I. 2011. Making the hybrid happen: Leadership discourse and organizational hybridization in public services. Presented at: British Academy of Management Conference (BAM) 2011, Birmingham, UK, 13-15 September 2011.
- Reed, M. I. and O'Reilly, D. 2011. The grit in the oyster: professionalism, managerialism and leaderism as discourses of UK public services modernization. Organization Studies 32(8), pp. 1079-1101. (10.1177/0170840611416742)
- Newton, T., Deetz, S. and Reed, M. I. 2011. Responses to social constructionism and critical realism in organization studies. Organization Studies 32(1), pp. 7-26. (10.1177/0170840610394289)
- Reed, M. I. 2011. The post-bureaucratic organization and the control revolution. In: Clegg, S. R., Harris, M. and Höpfl, H. eds. Managing Modernity: Beyond Bureaucracy?. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 230-256.
2010
- O'Reilly, D. and Reed, M. I. 2010. 'Leaderism': an evolution of managerialism in UK public service reform. Public Administration 88(4), pp. 960-978. (10.1111/j.1467-9299.2010.01864.x)
- Reed, M. I. 2010. Control in contemporary work organizations. In: Blyton, P. R., Heery, E. J. and Turnbull, P. J. eds. Reassessing the Employment Relationship. Management, work and organisations Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 41-70.
- Wallace, M., O'Reilly, D., Reed, M. I. and Tomlinson, M. 2010. Developing public service leaders as change agents: the mediation of mobilization. Presented at: British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference 2010, Sheffield, UK, 14-16 September 2010.
2009
- Reed, M. I. 2009. The theory/practice gap: a problem for research in business schools?. Journal of Management Development 28(8), pp. 685-693. (10.1108/02621710910985450)
- Reed, M. I. 2009. Is communication constitutive of organization?. Management Communication Quarterly 24(1), pp. 151-157. (10.1177/0893318909351583)
- Reed, M. I. 2009. Critical realism: philosophy, method or philosophy on search of a method?. In: Buchanan, D. and Bryman, A. eds. The Sage Handbook of Organizational Research Methods. London: Sage
- 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)
- Reed, M. I. 2009. Bureaucratic theory and intellectual renewal of contemporary organization studies. In: Adler, P. S. ed. Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management C Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 559-584., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199535231.003.0025)
2008
- O'Reilly, D. and Reed, M. I. 2008. "Leaderism" and UK public service reform. Presented at: 24th EGOS Colloquium, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-12 July 2008.
- Ezzamel, M. and Reed, M. I. 2008. Governance: a code of multiple colours. Human Relations 61(5), pp. 597-615. (10.1177/0018726708092316)
- Keenoy, T. and Reed, M. I. 2008. Managing modernisation: introducing performance management in British universities. In: Mazza, C., Quattrone, P. and Riccaboni, A. eds. European universities In transition: issues, models and cases. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, pp. 188-204.
2007
- Reed, M. I. 2007. Engineers of human souls, faceless technocrats or merchants of morality? Changing professional forms and identities in the face of the neo-liberal challenge. In: Pinnington, A., Campbell, T. and Macklin, R. eds. Human Resource Management: Ethics and Employment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 171-189.
- Deem, R., Hillyard, S. and Reed, M. I. 2007. Knowledge, higher education, and the new managerialism: the changing management of UK universities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2006
- Reed, M. I. 2006. Organizational theorizing: a historically contested terrain. In: Clegg, S. R. et al. eds. The Sage Handbook of Organization Studies (2nd ed.). London: Sage, pp. 19-54.
2005
- Reed, M. I. 2005. Reflections on the 'Realist Turn' in Organization and Management Studies. Journal of Management Studies 42(8), pp. 1621-1644. (10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00559.x)
- Reed, M. I. 2005. Doing the Loco-Motion: Response to Contu and Willmott's Commentary on 'The Realist Turn in Organization and Management Studies'. Journal of Management Studies 42(8), pp. 1663-1673. (10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00561.x)
- Reed, M. I. 2005. Beyond the iron cage?: bureaucracy and democracy in the knowledge economy and society. In: Paul, D. G. ed. The Values of Bureaucracy.. Oxford University press, pp. 115-140.
- Reed, M. I. 2005. The agency/structure dilemma in organization theory; open doors and brick walls. 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. 289-309., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199275250.003.0011)
2004
- Courpasson, D. and Reed, M. I. 2004. Introduction: Bureaucracy in the Age of Enterprise. Organization 11(1), pp. 5-12. (10.1177/1350508404039656)
2003
- Reed, M. I. 2003. Open doors and brick walls: the agency/structure dilemma in organization theory.. In: Tsoukas, H. and Knudsen, C. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory.. Oxford University Press, pp. 289-309.
- Reed, M. I. 2003. New managerialism, professional power and organisational governance in UK universities: a review and assessment. In: Amaral, A., Jones, G. A. and Karseth, B. eds. Governing Higher Education: National Perspectives on Institutional Governance. Higher Education Dynamics Vol. 2. Springer, pp. 163-186.
2002
- Reed, M. I. and Deem, R. 2002. New managerialism: the manager-academic and technology of management in universities - looking forward to virtuality?. In: Robins, K. and Webster, F. eds. The Virtual University? Knowledge, Markets, and Management. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 126-147.
- Reed, M. I. 2002. New managerialism and the management of UK universities. In: Thys-Clent, F., Dewatripont, M. and Wilkin, L. eds. European Universities: Change and Convergence?. Brussels: Les Editions De L'Universitie De Bruxelles, pp. 69-83.
2001
- Reed, M. I. 2001. From eating to meeting: The rise of the meeting society. Theory, Culture & Society 18(5), pp. 131-143. (10.1177/02632760122052002)
- Reed, M. I. 2001. Organization, Trust and Control: A Realist Analysis. Organization Studies 22(2), pp. 201-228. (10.1177/0170840601222002)
Articles
- Reed, M. 2023. Sociology of organizations in the twenty-first century. International Sociology 38(2), pp. 163-174. (10.1177/02685809231158208)
- Reed, M. 2022. Sociology of organizations in the twenty first century. International Sociology 37(5), pp. 545-556. (10.1177/02685809221138200)
- Reed, C. and Reed, M. 2022. Expert authority in crisis: Making authority real through struggle. Organization Theory 3(4), pp. 1-21. (10.1177/26317877221131587)
- Courpasson, D., Younes, D. and Reed, M. 2021. Durkheim in the neoliberal organization: taking resistance and solidarity seriously. Organization Theory 2(1), pp. 1-24. (10.1177/2631787720982619)
- Reed, M. and Burrell, G. 2019. Theory and organization studies: the need for contestation. Organization Studies 40(1), pp. 39-54. (10.1177/0170840617745923)
- Reed, M. 2018. Elites, professions and the neoliberal state. Journal of Professions and Organization 5(3), pp. 297-312. (10.1093/jpo/joy010)
- Morris, J., Farrell, C. and Reed, M. 2016. The indeterminacy of 'temporariness': control and power in neo-bureaucratic organizations and work in UK television. Human Relations 69(12), pp. 2274-2297. (10.1177/0018726716648387)
- Reed, M. and Wallace, M. 2015. Elite discourse and institutional innovation: making the hybrid happen in English public services. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 43, pp. 269-302. (10.1108/S0733-558X20150000043022)
- Reed, M. I. 2012. Masters of the universe: power and elites in organization studies. Organization Studies 33(2), pp. 203-221. (10.1177/0170840611430590)
- Reed, M. I. and O'Reilly, D. 2011. The grit in the oyster: professionalism, managerialism and leaderism as discourses of UK public services modernization. Organization Studies 32(8), pp. 1079-1101. (10.1177/0170840611416742)
- Newton, T., Deetz, S. and Reed, M. I. 2011. Responses to social constructionism and critical realism in organization studies. Organization Studies 32(1), pp. 7-26. (10.1177/0170840610394289)
- O'Reilly, D. and Reed, M. I. 2010. 'Leaderism': an evolution of managerialism in UK public service reform. Public Administration 88(4), pp. 960-978. (10.1111/j.1467-9299.2010.01864.x)
- Reed, M. I. 2009. The theory/practice gap: a problem for research in business schools?. Journal of Management Development 28(8), pp. 685-693. (10.1108/02621710910985450)
- Reed, M. I. 2009. Is communication constitutive of organization?. Management Communication Quarterly 24(1), pp. 151-157. (10.1177/0893318909351583)
- Ezzamel, M. and Reed, M. I. 2008. Governance: a code of multiple colours. Human Relations 61(5), pp. 597-615. (10.1177/0018726708092316)
- Reed, M. I. 2005. Reflections on the 'Realist Turn' in Organization and Management Studies. Journal of Management Studies 42(8), pp. 1621-1644. (10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00559.x)
- Reed, M. I. 2005. Doing the Loco-Motion: Response to Contu and Willmott's Commentary on 'The Realist Turn in Organization and Management Studies'. Journal of Management Studies 42(8), pp. 1663-1673. (10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00561.x)
- Courpasson, D. and Reed, M. I. 2004. Introduction: Bureaucracy in the Age of Enterprise. Organization 11(1), pp. 5-12. (10.1177/1350508404039656)
- Reed, M. I. 2001. From eating to meeting: The rise of the meeting society. Theory, Culture & Society 18(5), pp. 131-143. (10.1177/02632760122052002)
- Reed, M. I. 2001. Organization, Trust and Control: A Realist Analysis. Organization Studies 22(2), pp. 201-228. (10.1177/0170840601222002)
Book sections
- Reed, M. 2024. Metaphors and organization studies: A critical realist view. In: Örtenblad, A. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Metaphors in Organization Studies. Oxford university Press, pp. 420-433., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192895707.013.26)
- Reed, M. 2019. Management ideas and managing public service professionals. In: Sturdy, A. et al. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas. Oxford Handbooks Oxford: Oxford University Press
- O'Reily, D. and Reed, M. I. 2012. 'Leaderism' and the discourse of leadership in the reformation of UK public services. In: Teelken, C., Ferlie, E. and Dent, M. eds. Leadership in the Public Sector: Promises and Pitfalls. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 21-43.
- Reed, M. I. 2012. Researching organizational elites: a critical realist perspective. In: Courpasson, D., Golsorkhi, D. and Sallaz, J. J. eds. Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets. Research in the Sociology of Organizations Vol. 34. Bingley: Emerald, pp. 21-53.
- Reed, M. I. 2011. The post-bureaucratic organization and the control revolution. In: Clegg, S. R., Harris, M. and Höpfl, H. eds. Managing Modernity: Beyond Bureaucracy?. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 230-256.
- Reed, M. I. 2010. Control in contemporary work organizations. In: Blyton, P. R., Heery, E. J. and Turnbull, P. J. eds. Reassessing the Employment Relationship. Management, work and organisations Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 41-70.
- Reed, M. I. 2009. Critical realism: philosophy, method or philosophy on search of a method?. In: Buchanan, D. and Bryman, A. eds. The Sage Handbook of Organizational Research Methods. London: Sage
- 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)
- Reed, M. I. 2009. Bureaucratic theory and intellectual renewal of contemporary organization studies. In: Adler, P. S. ed. Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management C Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 559-584., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199535231.003.0025)
- Keenoy, T. and Reed, M. I. 2008. Managing modernisation: introducing performance management in British universities. In: Mazza, C., Quattrone, P. and Riccaboni, A. eds. European universities In transition: issues, models and cases. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, pp. 188-204.
- Reed, M. I. 2007. Engineers of human souls, faceless technocrats or merchants of morality? Changing professional forms and identities in the face of the neo-liberal challenge. In: Pinnington, A., Campbell, T. and Macklin, R. eds. Human Resource Management: Ethics and Employment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 171-189.
- Reed, M. I. 2006. Organizational theorizing: a historically contested terrain. In: Clegg, S. R. et al. eds. The Sage Handbook of Organization Studies (2nd ed.). London: Sage, pp. 19-54.
- Reed, M. I. 2005. Beyond the iron cage?: bureaucracy and democracy in the knowledge economy and society. In: Paul, D. G. ed. The Values of Bureaucracy.. Oxford University press, pp. 115-140.
- Reed, M. I. 2005. The agency/structure dilemma in organization theory; open doors and brick walls. 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. 289-309., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199275250.003.0011)
- Reed, M. I. 2003. Open doors and brick walls: the agency/structure dilemma in organization theory.. In: Tsoukas, H. and Knudsen, C. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory.. Oxford University Press, pp. 289-309.
- Reed, M. I. 2003. New managerialism, professional power and organisational governance in UK universities: a review and assessment. In: Amaral, A., Jones, G. A. and Karseth, B. eds. Governing Higher Education: National Perspectives on Institutional Governance. Higher Education Dynamics Vol. 2. Springer, pp. 163-186.
- Reed, M. I. and Deem, R. 2002. New managerialism: the manager-academic and technology of management in universities - looking forward to virtuality?. In: Robins, K. and Webster, F. eds. The Virtual University? Knowledge, Markets, and Management. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 126-147.
- Reed, M. I. 2002. New managerialism and the management of UK universities. In: Thys-Clent, F., Dewatripont, M. and Wilkin, L. eds. European Universities: Change and Convergence?. Brussels: Les Editions De L'Universitie De Bruxelles, pp. 69-83.
Books
- Reed, C. and Reed, M. 2023. Enough of experts: Expert authority in crisis. De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences. DeGruyter. (10.1515/9783110734911)
- Wallace, M., Reed, M., O'Reilly, D., Tomlinson, M., Morris, J. and Deem, R. 2022. Developing public service leaders: elite orchestration, change agency, leaderism, and neoliberalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (10.1093/oso/9780199552108.001.0001)
- Adler, P. S. et al. eds. 2014. Oxford handbook of sociology, social theory and organization studies. Contemporary Currents. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Deem, R., Hillyard, S. and Reed, M. I. 2007. Knowledge, higher education, and the new managerialism: the changing management of UK universities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Conferences
- Wallace, M. and Reed, M. I. 2011. Making the hybrid happen: Leadership discourse and organizational hybridization in public services. Presented at: British Academy of Management Conference (BAM) 2011, Birmingham, UK, 13-15 September 2011.
- Wallace, M., O'Reilly, D., Reed, M. I. and Tomlinson, M. 2010. Developing public service leaders as change agents: the mediation of mobilization. Presented at: British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference 2010, Sheffield, UK, 14-16 September 2010.
- O'Reilly, D. and Reed, M. I. 2008. "Leaderism" and UK public service reform. Presented at: 24th EGOS Colloquium, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-12 July 2008.
Research
My research has focused on the changing relationship between elites, experts and managers in a wide range of societal, institutional and organisational settings. I have also made significant contributions to 'theory development' in the field of organisation studies, with particular reference to the implications of 'critical realism' for the study of organisations and organisational processes. Much of my empirical research has been concerned with the ways in which the organisational settings of public service professionals - such as doctors, teachers and academics - have been transformed by the introduction of 'New Public Management' (NPM) across the public sector since the 1980s.
