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Business and Management
UK
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
75
Citations
21019
World Ranking
229
National Ranking
30

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

David Knights is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with a specific concentration in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Other subfields include Gender Studies, Management of Technology and Innovation, General Health Professions, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, such as:

  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Organizational Learning and Leadership
  • Management Theory and Practice
  • Foucault, Power, and Ethics
  • Reproductive Health and Technologies
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes

Significant recent publications include:

  • "Identity Work and Pedagogy: Revisiting George Herbert Mead as a Vehicle for Critical Management Education and Learning" (2021) published in Academy of Management Learning and Education
  • "Critical management education: Selected auto-ethnographic vignettes on how attachment to identity may disrupt learning" (2021) published in Management Learning
  • "Organizing male infertility: Masculinities and fertility treatment" (2022) published in Gender Work and Organization
  • "Reaction to a low-carbon footprint food logo and other sustainable diet promotions in a UK University's Student Union 'Living Lab'" (2021) published in City Research Online (City University London)
  • "Challenging humanist leadership: Toward an embodied, ethical, and effective neo-humanist, enlightenment approach" (2021) published in Leadership

David Knights has frequently collaborated with the following co-authors:

  • Grace Gao
  • Jill Rubery
  • Deborah Kerfoot
  • Patricia Lewis
  • Ida Sabelis

The scientist has contributed to multiple publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Gender Work and Organization (7 publications)
  • Academy of Management Learning and Education (2 publications)
  • Management Learning (2 publications)
  • Leadership (2 publications)
  • Academy of Management Proceedings (2 publications)

In book publications, David Knights has authored works published by Lancaster University. One such book is Leadership, Gender and Ethics: Embodied Reason in Challenging Masculinities, released in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Corporate Strategy, Organizations, and Subjectivity: A Critique

    David Knights;Glenn Morgan

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

    David Knights;Hugh Willmott

  • Managing to discriminate

    David L. Collinson;David Knights;Margaret Collinson

  • MANAGEMENT, MASCULINITY AND MANIPULATION: FROM PATERNALISM TO CORPORATE STRATEGY IN FINANCIAL SERVICES IN BRITAIN*

    Deborah Kerfoot;David Knights

  • Managers Divided: Organisation Politics and Information Technology Management

    David Knights;Fergus Murray

  • Management Lives: Power and Identity in Work Organizations

    David Knights;Hugh Willmott

  • Resistance and power in organizations.

    John M. Jermier;David Knights;Walter R. Nord

  • Sex Discrimination in UK Academia

    David Knights;Wendy Richards

  • Changing Spaces: The Disruptive Impact of a New Epistemological Location for the Study of Management

    David Knights

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

    David Knights;Caroline A. Clarke

  • Labour process theory

    David Knights;Hugh Willmott

  • Foucault, power, resistance and all that

    D Knights;T Vurdubakis

  • ‘What Happens when the Phone goes Wild?’: Staff, Stress and Spaces for Escape in a BPR Telephone Banking Work Regime

    David Knights;Darren McCabe

  • Subjectivity, Power and the Labour Process

    David Knights

  • Chasing Shadows: Control, Virtuality and the Production of Trust

    David Knights;Faith Noble;Theo Vurdubakis;Hugh Willmott

  • `Ain't Misbehavin'? Opportunities for Resistance under New Forms of `Quality' Management

    David Knights;Darren McCabe

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

    David Knights;Deborah Kerfoot

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

    David Knights;David Collinson

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

    Rod Coombs;David Knights;Hugh C. Willmott

  • Governing through Teamwork: Reconstituting Subjectivity in a Call Centre*

    David Knights;Darren McCabe

  • Handbook of gender, work and organization

    David Knights;Emma Jeanes;Patricia Yancey Martin

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugh Willmott
Hugh Willmott City, University of London
Glenn Morgan
Glenn Morgan University of Bristol
David L. Collinson
David L. Collinson Lancaster University
Adrian John Wilkinson
Adrian John Wilkinson Griffith University
Andrew Sturdy
Andrew Sturdy University of Bristol
Carol Saunders
Carol Saunders University of Central Florida
Brian S. Butler
Brian S. Butler University of Maryland, College Park
Ken Starkey
Ken Starkey University of Nottingham
Mariana Mazzucato
Mariana Mazzucato University College London
Jörg Sydow
Jörg Sydow Freie Universität Berlin

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