the organisation studies research group
The organisation studies research group makes major contributions to key theoretical developments in organisation studies in relation to post-structuralist theory, critical realism, neo-institutional theory, discourse analysis and theoretical perspectives on organisational culture.
It has made major contributions to core substantive research areas such as identity, gender, control, governance, change and innovation, and globalisation.
There is a very strong multi-method, multi-level and comparative orientation to its work encompassing empirically-based comparative case study research in Western Europe, US, Japan, China and India in which changes to national and transnational managerial/professional structures and identities emerge as a central theme. Members of the group are linked into a wide range of international scholarly networks such as the European Group for International Studies, Critical Management Studies and the International Centre for Research in Organisational Discourse (ICRODSC).
Members of the group have played central roles in organising and leading several international conferences at the Academy of Management, Critical Management Studies Conferences and the European Group for Organization Studies Colloquium. Members have also won best paper prizes at major international conferences. The group now constitutes one of the most intellectually influential concentrations of organisation studies researchers internationally. They have published extensively in leading international journals, such as Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Human Relations and the International Journal of Human Resource Management.