Faculty of Economics and Commerce Department of Management and Marketing

Professor Graham Sewell

Profile

Career History


January-December 2006 Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College, London

August 2004-July 2005 Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia de España visiting professor, Department of Economics & Business, University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

1994-1997 - Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, University of Wollongong

1991-1994 - Lecturer, Manchester School of Management, UMIST

Graham has also held visiting appointments at the University of California Berkeley, the University of California Santa Cruz, and the University of South Florida

Research Interests


Workplace surveillance
Teamwork
Business ethics
Organisation & management theory
Qualitative research methods
Evolutionary psychology
Strategy development processes

Qualifications


BSc Hons. (Wales)
PhD (Wales-1994)
MPIA

Research

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Recent Publications


Refereed Journals

"Shaping the Other: Maintaining Expert Managerial Status in a Complex Change Management Program." Forthcoming in Group & Organization Management (with Richard Cooney).

"Applying Critical Discourse Analysis in Strategic Management Research." Organizational Research Methods 11: 770-789, 2008 (with Nelson Phillips & Steve Jaynes).

"The Fox and the Hedgehog Go to Work: A Natural History of Workplace Collusion." Management Communication Quarterly 21: 344-363, 2008. Winner of journal Best Paper Award, 2007-2008.

"Coercion versus Care: Using irony to make sense of organizational surveillance." Academy of Management Review 31: 934-961, 2006 (with James R. Barker).

"Nice Work: Rethinking management control in an era of knowledge work." Organization 12: 685-704, 2005.

“Doing What Comes Naturally? Why We Need a Practical Ethics of Teamwork.” International Journal of Human Resource Management 16(2): 202-219, 2005.

“Monkey Business? What Markóczy and Goldberg’s response tells us about the state of Evolutionary Psychology in Organization and Management Studies." Human Relations 57(8): 1047-1059, 2004.

“A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing: Getting Below the Surface of the Growth of ‘Knowledge Work’ in Australia." Work, Employment & Society 8(4): 725-747, 2004 (with Peter Fleming and Bill Harley).

“Exploring the Moral Consequences of Management Communication Theory and Practice.” Management Communication Quarterly 18(1): 97-114, 2004.

“Yabba-Dabba-Do: Evolutionary Psychology and the Rise of Flintstone Psychological Thinking in Organization & Management Studies.” Human Relations 57(8): 923-956, 2004.

“Looking for the Good Soldier, Švejk: Alternative Modalities of Resistance in the Contemporary Workplace.” Sociology, 36(4): 857-873, 2002 (with Peter Fleming).

“Neither Good nor Bad but Dangerous: Surveillance as an Ethical Paradox.” Ethics & Information Technology, 3: 183-196, 2001 (with James R. Barker).

Reprinted in: “What Goes Around, Comes Around: Inventing a Mythology of Empowerment.” Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 37: 70-89, 2001.

“Only Penguins: A Polemic on Organization Theory from the Edge of the World.” Organization Studies: 20th Anniversary Edition, 21: 103-117, 2000 (with Stewart R. Clegg and Stephen Linstead ).

Book Chapters

"From Lean Production to Mass Customization: Recent Developments in the Australian Automotive Industry." In Valeria Pulignano, Paul Stewart, Andy Danforth, & Mike Richardson (eds.), Flexibility at Work: Critical Developments in the International Automotive Industry. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 (with Richard Cooney).

“Max Weber and the Irony of Bureaucracy.” In Marek Korczynski, Randy Hodson & Paul Edwards (eds.), Social Theory at Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 (with James R. Barker).

“Casting the Other to the Ends of the Earth: The Production and Maintenance of Inequality in Organization Studies.” In Alison Linstead & Stephen Linstead (eds.), Organization and Identity. London: Routledge, 2004 (with Stewart R. Clegg and Stephen Linstead).

“Managing Teams.” In Stephen Linstead, Liz Fulop, & Simon Lilley (eds) Management and Organization: A Critical Text. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 (with Stephen Proctor, Liz Fulop, Stephen Linstead, and Frank Meuller).

“Controllo, Resistenze e Soggettività.” In Ada Cavazzani, Laura Fiocco and Giordano Sivini (eds.) Melfi in Time: Produzione snella e disciplinamento della forza lavoro alla Fiat. Potenza: Consiglio Regionale della Basilicata, 2002.

“Organizational Conflict.” In Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes (eds), International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier, 2001 (with Stewart R. Clegg).

Significant Publications


Refereed Journals

The Discipline of Teams: The Control of Team-Based Industrial Work Through Electronic and Peer Surveillance.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 43: 397-428, 1998.

Reprinted in: “Strategies for Technological Development in Taiwan and South Korea: The Case of Semiconductors.” Research Policy, 25: 759-783, 1996 (with Chen-Fen Cheng).

“Someone to Watch Over Me: Surveillance, Discipline and the Just-in-Time Labour Process.” Sociology, 26: 271-298, 1992 (with Barry Wilkinson).

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