Professor Hugh Willmott

Teaching profile

Principles of Qualitative Research

Research interests

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

Selected publications

Books (2005-)

Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies (with M. Alvesson and T. Bridgeman), Oxford University Press

Critical Management Studies: A Reader (ed. with C. Grey) Oxford University Press

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

Italian edition of Introducing Organization Behaviour and Management translated and co-edited by R. Mercurio and G. Mangia, Comporamento Organizzativo: Oranizzasione Aziendale e Management., Turin: Isedi (408 pp)

Organization Theory and Design( with R. Daft and J. Murphy), Cengage Learning

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: 191-211(with Mahmoud Ezzamel)

'Critical Management and Global Justice', Organization, 15, 6: 927-31 (invited contribution)

'Corporate Citizenship : Rise or Demise of a Myth?', Academy of Management Review, 33, 3: 771-772 (with P. Edward)

'The Night of the Bug: Technology, Risk and (Dis)organization at the Fin de Siecle', Management and Organizational History, 3, 3-4: 289-309 reprinted in S. R. Clegg, ed. Sage Directions in Organization Studies, London: Sage (4 volumes), 2009

'Science as Intervention: Recasting Weber's Moral Vision', Organization, 16, 1: 143-154

'From Demutualization to Meltdown: A Tale of Two Wannabe Banks', Critical Perspectives on International Business, 5, 1-2: 12--140(with R. Klimecki)

'The Decline of Labour Process Analysis and the Future Sociology of Work',Sociology, 43(5): 931 - 951 (with D. O'Doherty)

'Accreditation Sickness in the Consumption of Business Education: The Vacuum in AACSB Standard Setting', Management Learning, 40, 4: 411-420 (with A.Lowrie) (invited contribution)

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, 2nded., 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

Structures, Identities and Politics : Bringing Corporate Citizenship into the Corporation' in A.S. Scherer and G. Palazzo, eds, Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship`, London: Edward Elgar (with P. Edward), pp 405-429

Avoiding Debate and the Immobilization of Labour Process Study: Strawmanning or Friedmanning? in A. Pullen and C. Rhodes, Bits of Organization, Copenhagen Business School Press/ Liber: Malmo (with D. O'Doherty), pp 38-55

'All Offshore - the Sprat, the Mackerel, Accounting Firms and the Statein Globalization' in C. Chapman, D. Cooper and P. Miller (eds), Accounting, Organizations and Institutions: Essays for Anthony Hopwood, Oxford University Press

Strategy and Strategizing: A Postrucuralist Perspective' in J.A.C.Baum and J. Lapmpel, eds., The Globalization of Strategy Research,Advances in Strategic Management, Vol. 27, Emerald: Bingley,, Yorkshire

Activities

Member of RAE 2008 Business and Management Panel
Editorial board member of Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies
Associate Editor of Organization
Co-editor of www.criticalmanagement.org
Visiting Professor, Department of Business Administraton, University of Lund, Sweden