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'It's a Very Foreign Discipline': the Genesis of Expenses Control in a Mutual Life Insurance Company

(Mis)managing diversity: exploring the dangers of diversity management orthodoxy

A Labour of Love? Academics in Business Schools

article by Caroline Clarke et al published March 2012 in Scandinavian Journal of Management

A road less travelled

article by David Knights & Darren McCabe published June 2002 in Journal of Organizational Change Management

Addressing disillusionment among young vets

scientific article published on 01 December 2016

An evaluation of quality in financial services: problems and prospects

Associations for Disruptiveness: The Pirate Bay vs. Spotify

Authority at Work: Reflections and Recollections

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Autonomy as Utopia or Dystopia

Between Representations and Subjectivity: Gender Binaries and the Politics of Organizational Transformation

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered: The meaning and experience of teamworking for employees in an automobile company

Binaries need to shatter for bodies to matter: Do disembodied masculinities undermine organizational ethics?

Bridging the Academic-Practitioner Divide: A Case Study Analysis of Business School Collaboration with Industry,

Calculations of risk: Towards an understanding of insurance as a moral and political technology

Can a leopard change its spots? ‐ seeking quality in financial services

Careering through academia: Securing identities or engaging ethical subjectivities?

Challenging Dualism: Public Professionalism in ‘Troubled’Times

Chasing Shadows: Control, Virtuality and the Production of Trust

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Considering Management Education: Insights from Critical Management Studies

article by Ann Cunliffe et al published October 2002 in Journal of Management Education

Consumption Denied?

Corporate Strategy, Organizations, and Subjectivity: A Critique

Culture, Control and Competition; Towards a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Information Technology in Organizations

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Customer relationship management in call centers: The uneasy process of re(form)ing the subject through the ‘people-by-numbers’ approach

Disciplining the shopfloor: A comparison of the disciplinary effects of managerial psychology and financial accounting

Dualism and Domination: An Analysis of Marxian, Weberian and Existentialist Perspectives

Editorial

Editorial: Addressing the Gender Gap in Studies of Emotion

Editorial: Breaking Boundaries: Women in Academia

Editorial: Questioning the Construction of ‘Balance’: A Time Perspective on Gender and Organization

Editorial: Undoing Gender: Organizing and Disorganizing Performance

Electronic Cash and the Virtual Marketplace: Reflections on a Revolution Postponed

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Feeling and speaking through our gendered bodies: embodied self-reflection and research practice in organisation studies

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Gendered incorporations: critically embodied reflections on the gender divide in organisation studies

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Gendered practices in veterinary organisations

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Gendering Jobs: Corporate Strategy, Managerial Control and the Dynamics of Job Segregation

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Guest Editors’ Introduction: Philosophical Contributions to Leadership Ethics

In Search of Relevance: Perspectives on the Contribution of Academic—Practitioner Networks

Information technology as organization/disorganization

scholarly article by David Knights et al published July 2005 in Information and Organization

Inter-managerial competition and capital accumulation: it specialists, accountants and executive control

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Introduction: A Post-crisis Critical Reflection on Business Schools

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It’s a Bittersweet Symphony, this Life: Fragile Academic Selves and Insecure Identities at Work

article published in 2013

Leadership Special Issue Call for Papers: Ways of leading in non-Anglophone contexts: Representing, expressing and enacting authority beyond the English-speaking world

Leadership and corporate strategy: Toward a critical analysis

Leadership, Ethics and Responsibility to the Other

Learning to listen? Exploring discourses and images of masculine leadership through corporate videos

Living on the edge? Professional anxieties at work in academia and veterinary practice

Making and Mending your Nets: Managing Relevance, Participation and Uncertainty in Academic-Practitioner Knowledge Networks

Management Control in Sales Forces: A Case Study from the Labour Process of Life Insurance

Managing masculinity/mismanaging the corporation

article published in 2011

Michel Foucault

Milkround Professionalism in Personnel Recruitment: Myth or Reality?

Myopic Rhetorics: Reflecting Epistemologically and Ethically on the Demand for Relevance in Organizational and Management Research

scholarly article by David Knights published December 2008 in Academy of Management Learning and Education

Open innovation, gender and the infiltration of masculine discourses

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Organizational discourse and subjectivity

Passing the Time in Pastimes, Professionalism and Politics

Politics and Pain in Managing Information Technology: A Case Study from Insurance

scholarly article by David Knights & Fergus Murray published April 1992 in Organization Studies

Power and Identity in Theory and Practice

Power and Subjectivity at Work: From Degradation to Subjugation in Social Relations

Power at Work in Organizations

Power, Values and Relations: A Comment on Benton

Practice makes perfect? Skillful performances in veterinary work

Pushing the Boundaries of Amnesia and Myopia: A Critical Review of the Literature on Identity in Management and Organization Studies

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Race Relations in Industry: Problems and Prospects for Equal Opportunity

Reflecting on a Critical Pedagogy in MBA Education

Reluctant Leaders: An Analysis of Middle Managers' Perceptions of Leadership in Further Education in England

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Sex Discrimination in UK Academia

Socialization, Yes. Skill Upgrading, Probably. Robust Theory of the Capitalist Labour Process, No

Stories about men implementing and resisting new technologies

Sustainability of the International Sourcing Model

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THE THEORY, PRACTICE AND POLITICS OF MANPOWER PLANNING: AN ANALYTICAL CRITIQUE WITH EMPIRICAL ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE N.H.S

TQM and BPR ‐ can you spot the difference?

The Concept of Strategy in Sociology: A Note of Dissent

The Power of Organization or the Organization of Power?

The human face of re‐engineering in financial services

The night of the bug: Technology, risk and (dis)organization at the fin de siècle

article by David Knights et al published August 2008 in Management & Organizational History

The politics of IT-enabled restructuring and the restructuring of politics through total quality management

The ‘Missing Masses’ of Resistance: An Ethnographic Understanding of a Workplace Dispute

scholarly article by David Knights & Darren McCabe published 18 May 2016 in British Journal of Management

Time, Self and Reified Artefacts

Towards an Ecology of Retail Financial Services: Understanding the Persistence of Door-to-Door Credit and Insurance Providers

Transaction Cost Economics and Open Innovation: Implications for Theory and Practice

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Understanding the Theory and Practice of Management Control

Walking with Moneylenders: The Ecology of the UK Home-collected Credit Industry

What is happening in “quality” in the financial services?

`It's About Time!'

‘Masters of the Universe’: Demystifying Leadership in the Context of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis