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Business and Management
UK
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
102
Citations
41041
World Ranking
42
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom University of London
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom University of London
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom University of London

Overview

Hugh Willmott is affiliated with City, University of London in the United Kingdom and specializes in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems and Management, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their research primarily addresses topics related to Management and Organizational Studies, Management Theory and Practice, Ethics in Business and Education, Digital Economy and Work Transformation, Sharing Economy and Platforms, Employment and Welfare Studies, and scientometrics and bibliometrics research.

Recent scholarly publications by Hugh Willmott include:

  • "Revisiting conflict: Neoliberalism at work in the gig economy," 2021, Human Relations
  • "Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace," 2023, Organization Studies
  • "Critical essay: Blinding faith - Paradoxes and pathologies of opacity in peer review," 2021, Human Relations
  • "SOCIAL ONTOLOGY OF THE MODERN CORPORATION: ITS ROLE IN UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONS," 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Not the 'from the editors': On guarding 'topness'," 2021, Organization

Hugh Willmott has frequently published in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Human Relations
  • Academy of Management Review
  • Organization Studies
  • Organization

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Jeroen Veldman
  • Alessandro Niccolo' Tirapani
  • David Gindis
  • Dennis Tourish
  • Mats Alvesson

Hugh Willmott has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Identity regulation as organizational control: Producing the appropriate individual

    Mats Alvesson;Hugh Willmott

  • Strength is Ignorance - Slavery is Freedom: Managing Culture in Modern Organizations

    Hugh Willmott

  • Critical Management Studies

    Mats Alvesson;Hugh Willmott

  • On the Idea of Emancipation in Management and Organization Studies

    Mats Alvesson;Hugh Willmott

  • Re-Embedding Situatedness: The Importance of Power Relations in Learning Theory

    Alessia Contu;Hugh Willmott

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

    David Knights;Hugh Willmott

  • Studying Management Critically

    Mats Alvesson;Hugh Willmott

  • 3 Critical Management Studies

    Paul S. Adler;Linda C. Forbes;Hugh Willmott

  • Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction

    Mats Alvesson;Hugh Willmott

  • A Dark Side of Institutional Entrepreneurship: Soccer Balls, Child Labour and Postcolonial Impoverishment

    Farzad R. Khan;Kamal A. Munir;Hugh Willmott

  • Breaking the Paradigm Mentality

    Hugh Willmott

  • Fragmenting work: blurring organizational boundaries and disordering hierarchies

    Mick Marchington;Damian Grimshaw;Jill Rubery;Hugh Willmott

  • Accounting for Teamwork: A Critical Study of Group-Based Systems of Organizational Control.

    Mahmoud Ezzamel;Hugh Willmott

  • Organising the profession: A theoretical and historical examination of the development of the major accountancy bodies in the U.K.☆

    Hugh Willmott

  • Management Lives: Power and Identity in Work Organizations

    David Knights;Hugh Willmott

  • Managing the Academics: Commodification and Control in the Development of University Education in the U.K.

    Hugh Willmott

  • The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies

    Mats Alvesson;Todd Bridgman;Hugh Willmott

  • Journal list fetishism and the perversion of scholarship: reactivity and the ABS list:

    Hugh Willmott

  • Modes of regulation in advanced capitalism: Locating accountancy in four countries

    A.G. Puxty;Hugh C. Willmott;David J. Cooper;Tony Lowe

  • Critical Management Studies: A Reader

    Christopher Grey;Hugh Willmott

  • Qualitative research in business and management

    Emma Bell;Hugh Willmott

Frequent Co-Authors

David Knights
David Knights Lancaster University
Prem Sikka
Prem Sikka University of Essex
Mahmoud Ezzamel
Mahmoud Ezzamel IE University
Mats Alvesson
Mats Alvesson Lund University
Damian Grimshaw
Damian Grimshaw King's College London
David J. Cooper
David J. Cooper University of Alberta
Jill Rubery
Jill Rubery University of Manchester
Mick Marchington
Mick Marchington University of Manchester
Glenn Morgan
Glenn Morgan University of Bristol
Martin Parker
Martin Parker University of Bristol

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