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41
Citations
8445
World Ranking
4977
National Ranking
843

Overview

Dennis Tourish is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Social Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Political Science and International Relations, and Sociology and Political Science. The focus of their work spans multiple topics related to management and organizational studies, higher education governance and development, digital economy and work transformation, employment and welfare studies, and issues surrounding academic integrity and plagiarism.

The scientist's recent papers demonstrate a range of interests and include the following publications:

  • Introduction to the special issue: Why the coronavirus crisis is also a crisis of leadership (2020), published in Leadership
  • Dark Academia: How Universities Die (2021), published in Academy of Management Learning and Education
  • Using retracted journal articles in psychology to understand research misconduct in the social sciences: What is to be done? (2020), published in Research Policy
  • Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace (2023), published in Organization Studies
  • It is time to use the F word about Trump: Fascism, populism and the rebirth of history (2023), published in Leadership

Dennis Tourish frequently publishes in specific academic venues. Their most common publication outlets include:

  • Leadership
  • Academy of Management Learning and Education
  • Research Policy
  • Organization Studies
  • Organization Theory

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Russell Craig
  • Zahira Jaser
  • Adam B. Cox
  • Alistair Thorpe
  • Hugh Willmott

Their body of work covers various topics such as management and organizational studies, which appears in ten publications, and higher education governance and development, reflected in four publications. Additional research areas include digital economy and work transformation, employment and welfare studies, COVID-19 pandemic impacts, academic integrity and plagiarism, and applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare and education.

Best Publications

  • Uncertainty during organizational change: Is it all about control?

    Prashant Bordia;Elizabeth Hunt;Neil Paulsen;Dennis Tourish

  • The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership: A Critical Perspective

    Dennis Tourish

  • Transformational Leadership, Corporate Cultism and the Spirituality Paradigm: An Unholy Trinity in the Workplace?

    Dennis Tourish;Ashly Pinnington

  • Leadership, more or less? A processual, communication perspective on the role of agency in leadership theory

    Dennis Tourish

  • Teaching Leadership Critically: New Directions for Leadership Pedagogy

    David Collinson;Dennis Tourish

  • Handbook of communication audits for organisations

    Owen Hargie;Dennis Tourish

  • The Triumph of Nonsense in Management Studies

    Dennis Tourish

  • Charismatic leadership and corporate cultism at Enron: the elimination of dissent, the promotion of conformity and organizational collapse

    Dennis Tourish;Naheed Vatcha

  • Sensemaking and the distortion of critical upward communication in organizations

    Dennis Tourish;Paul Robson

  • Communication Audits and the Effects of Increased Information: A Follow-up Study:

    Owen Hargie;Dennis Tourish;Noel Wilson

  • The transformational leader as pedagogue, physician, architect, commander, and saint: Five root metaphors in Jack Welch's letters to stockholders of General Electric:

    Joel Amernic;Russell Craig;Dennis Tourish

  • Auditing Organizational Communication: A Handbook of Research, Theory and Practice.

    Owen Hargie;Dennis Tourish

  • Perverse Audit Culture and Accountability of the Modern Public University

    Russell Craig;Joel Amernic;Dennis Tourish

  • Measuring and Assessing Tone at the Top Using Annual Report CEO Letters

    Joel Amernic;Russell Craig;Dennis Tourish

  • Key Issues in Organizational Communication

    Dennis Tourish;Owen Hargie

  • The downsides of downsizing: Communication processes and information needs in the aftermath of a workforce reduction strategy

    Dennis J. Tourish;Neil Paulsen;Elizabeth V. Hobman;Prashant Bordia

  • Spirituality at Work, and its Implications for Leadership and Followership: A Post-structuralist Perspective

    Dennis Tourish;Naheed Tourish

  • In defiance of folly: Journal rankings, mindless measures and the ABS guide

    Dennis Tourish;Hugh Willmott

  • Managing internal communication: an organizational case study

    Paul J.A. Robson;Dennis Tourish

  • The dark side of transformational leadership

    Dennis. Tourish

  • Leadership from a Communication Perspective

    Dennis Tourish

Frequent Co-Authors

Prashant Bordia
Prashant Bordia Australian National University
David L. Collinson
David L. Collinson Lancaster University
Yiannis Gabriel
Yiannis Gabriel University of Bath

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