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44
Citations
13923
World Ranking
4015
National Ranking
677

Overview

Martin Parker is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the domain of social sciences, with a focus on organizational behavior, strategy, political science, geography, and conservation. The work demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach by addressing multiple subfields such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Political Science and International Relations, Geography, Planning and Development, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their recent scholarly output includes notable papers published between 2020 and 2021. Key publications are:

  • The possibility of disalienated work: Being at home in alternative organizations (2020, Human Relations)
  • The Critical Business School and the University: A Case Study of Resistance and Co-optation (2020, Critical Sociology)
  • Against management: Auto-critique (2021, Organization)
  • Practices of freedom and the disruption of binary genders: Thinking with trans (2020, Organization)
  • The romance of prefiguration and the task of organization (2021, Journal of Marketing Management)

Martin Parker's major research topics include:

  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Labor Movements and Unions
  • Cooperative Studies and Economics
  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The scientist has contributed extensively to several academic journals, regularly publishing in:

  • Organization (12 publications)
  • Human Relations (2 publications)
  • Critical Sociology (2 publications)
  • Academy of Management Proceedings (2 publications)
  • Journal of Marketing Management (1 publication)

Frequent collaborators include Daniel L. King, Sarah Stookey, Richard Marens, Jerzy Kociatkiewicz, and Monika Kostera, reflecting a collaborative research network.

Best Publications

  • Against Management: Organization in the Age of Managerialism

    Martin Parker

  • Organizational Culture and Identity: Unity and Division at Work

    Martin Parker

  • Postmodernism and organizations

    John Hassard;Martin Parker

  • The McUniversity: Organization, Management and Academic Subjectivity

    Martin Parker;David Jary

  • Post-Modern Organizations or Postmodern Organization Theory?

    Martin Parker

  • The Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization

    Martin Parker;George Cheney;Valerie Fournier;Christopher Land

  • For Business Ethics

    Campbell Jones;Martin Parker;Rene ten Bos

  • Shut Down the Business School

    Martin Parker

  • Organizational Culture and Identity

    Martin Parker

  • University, Ltd: : Changing a business school

    Martin Parker

  • The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization

    Martin Parker;Valérie Fournier;Patrick Reedy

  • Critique in the Name of What? Postmodernism and Critical Approaches to Organization

    Martin Parker

  • Queering Management and Organization

    Martin Parker

  • Utopia and organization

    Martin Parker

  • Speaking out : the responsibilities of management intellectuals : a survey

    Stephen Brendan Dunne;Stefano Harney;Martin Parker

  • Antagonism, Accommodation and Agonism in Critical Management Studies: Alternative Organizations as Allies

    Simon Parker;Martin Parker

  • Capitalism, Subjectivity and Ethics: Debating Labour Process Analysis

    Martin Parker

  • What is a critical journal

    Martin Parker;Robyn Thomas

  • Five Texts in Search of an Author: A Response to John Hassard's 'Multiple Paradigms and Organizational Analysis'

    Martin Parker;Gerard McHugh

  • Gender, bureaucracy and organizational culture.

    Karen Ramsay;Martin Parker

  • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies

    Raza Mir;Hugh Willmott;Michelle Ruth Greenwood

  • The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education

    Chris Steyaert;Timon Beyes;Martin Parker

  • Towards a New Theory of Organizations

    John Hassard;Martin Parker

Frequent Co-Authors

George Cheney
George Cheney University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Glenn Morgan
Glenn Morgan University of Bristol
John Hassard
John Hassard University of Manchester
David Bell
David Bell University of Leeds
Barbara Czarniawska
Barbara Czarniawska University of Gothenburg
Yiannis Gabriel
Yiannis Gabriel University of Bath
Jean-Pascal Gond
Jean-Pascal Gond City, University of London
Carl Rhodes
Carl Rhodes University of Technology Sydney

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