All Outputs (20)

Targets and terror (2025)
Book Chapter

The concept of "targets and terror" (T&T) originates from the 1930s Soviet Union, where production targets enforced through deterrence and unpredictable punishments drove dramatic results. Similar performance metrics emerged in the 1950s U.S. militar... Read More about Targets and terror.

Misfitting Together (2025)
Book Chapter

Doing academia differently: A provocation review (2025)
Journal Article

In this article, we celebrate the interconnected Management Learning traditions of provocation and reimagining academia by developing a provocation literature review approach and applying it to the growing literature on doing academia differently. We... Read More about Doing academia differently: A provocation review.

The late entrance: muddy water and dry grass? (2023)
Book Chapter

The focus of this gallery is on those who come into academia later in life, and for who it is a second or later career. Through two miniatures and one portrait, the contributors address many themes to depict their experience: the complexity of univer... Read More about The late entrance: muddy water and dry grass?.

Introduction: Entrance hall and cloakroom (2023)
Book Chapter

Nurturing careers (2023)
Book Chapter

A restorative space where one can feel resourced and nurtured, this gallery explores how careers are shaped differently by various kinds of nurturing and caring, including motherhood, care for the environment and broader communities, care for student... Read More about Nurturing careers.

Exit via the gift shop (2023)
Book Chapter

The gift shop is a collective endeavour by the editors and authors of this book, and the gifts on offer are as eclectic as the rest of the exhibition. There is plenty of the usual gift shop fare on display, but also some rather unusual items. Looking... Read More about Exit via the gift shop.

Living precariously and overcoming the odds (2023)
Book Chapter

In this gallery contributors took the opportunity to reflect on how different kinds of precarity have made their careers different. Through five contributions (two full portraits and three miniatures), it touches upon a wide array of themes, includin... Read More about Living precariously and overcoming the odds.

Doing Academic Careers Differently (2023)
Book

Should academic careers always unfold in exactly the same way? Is there one best way of being an academic? This book says no. Assumptions about who academics are and what they should do are becoming increasingly narrow and focused on achieving so-cal... Read More about Doing Academic Careers Differently.

Management Education and Early Career Academics: Challenges and Opportunities (2022)
Book Chapter

Mechanisms of micro-terror? Early career CMS academics’ experiences of ‘targets and terror’ in contemporary business schools (2020)
Journal Article

In this article, we apply the concept of ‘targets and terror’, previously used in the healthcare sector, to the audit culture within business schools. We explore to what extent terror, or the inculcation of fear through processes of domination, is id... Read More about Mechanisms of micro-terror? Early career CMS academics’ experiences of ‘targets and terror’ in contemporary business schools.

Academic arrhythmia: Disruption, dissonance, and conflict in the early-career rhythms of CMS academics (2019)
Journal Article

Starting a career on the margins of the neoliberal business school is becoming increasingly challenging. We contribute to the understanding of the problems involved and to potential solutions by developing a theoretically informed approach to the rhy... Read More about Academic arrhythmia: Disruption, dissonance, and conflict in the early-career rhythms of CMS academics.

Ambiguity and polysemy as rhetorical resources in knowledge disputes: The struggle over the interpretation of Kuhn in organisation studies (2019)
Journal Article

In knowledge disputes about the paradigmatic status of management and organisation studies, many commentators have debated whether or not interpretations of Thomas Kuhn’s work have been accurate, and have deplored the lack of a common and shared use... Read More about Ambiguity and polysemy as rhetorical resources in knowledge disputes: The struggle over the interpretation of Kuhn in organisation studies.

Being an Early-Career CMS Academic in the Context of Insecurity and ‘Excellence’: The Dialectics of Resistance and Compliance (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Drawing on a dialectical approach to resistance, we conceptualise the latter as a multifaceted, pervasive and contradictory phenomenon. This enables us to examine the predicament in which early-career Critical Management... Read More about Being an Early-Career CMS Academic in the Context of Insecurity and ‘Excellence’: The Dialectics of Resistance and Compliance.

Labour pains: Starting a career within the neo-liberal university (2017)
Journal Article

This paper explores how Early Career Academics (ECAs) come to understand their future and the nature of their academic labour at a time when the profession as a whole faces increasingly uncertain and challenging working conditions. Focusing on a grou... Read More about Labour pains: Starting a career within the neo-liberal university.

Critical learning and tempered radicalism: An exploration of the roles and development of early career academics (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Drawing on a study of 30 CMS Early Career Academics (ECAs) this paper explores how they learn to practice according to their own CMS motivations and maintain such endeavours within environments and evaluation systems which increasingly require high l... Read More about Critical learning and tempered radicalism: An exploration of the roles and development of early career academics.

Resistance as institutional entrepreneurship in unsettled times: The case of early-career academics in critical management studies (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper we respond to the subtheme’s call by presenting an empirical study of one important group of university stakeholders, namely early career academics (ECAs), the future of the profession. The purpose of this paper is to explore how this g... Read More about Resistance as institutional entrepreneurship in unsettled times: The case of early-career academics in critical management studies.

The shifting boundaries of organisation theory across time: A demarcation perspective (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

What happen to organization theory when it travels from one context to another? This paper takes a science-demarcation perspective to analyse over time contests over the legitimate realm of organization theory. By looking at the rhetorical commonplac... Read More about The shifting boundaries of organisation theory across time: A demarcation perspective.

The ambivalent relationship between management studies and the natural sciences: A longitudinal rhetorical analysis (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

For constructivist analysts of science, maps that define what constitutes legitimate science are variable, changeable and relatively inconsistent. Gieryn (1999) invites us to see the signifier ‘science’ as a cultural space that has no essential or un... Read More about The ambivalent relationship between management studies and the natural sciences: A longitudinal rhetorical analysis.

The never-ending ‘paradigm debate’ in Organisation Studies: Rhetorical practices that sustain scientific controversies (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Many commentators within organisation studies have noted how difficult it is in this field to bring closure to controversies. This paper uses a rhetorical perspective to reflect on the character of one of the most important debate within the field, w... Read More about The never-ending ‘paradigm debate’ in Organisation Studies: Rhetorical practices that sustain scientific controversies.