Hugh Willmott

59 catalog papers. Identity-linked publications and additional name matches are distinguished below.

ORCID: 0000-0003-1321-7041

Bayes Business School and Cardiff Business School

Publications

Pluralism Not Triangulation: A Commentary on Joep Cornelissen’s “The Problem with Propositions” — Academy of Management Review 2025
Despotic Leadership and Ideological Manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace — Organization Studies 2023
Revisiting conflict: Neoliberalism at work in the gig economy — Human Relations 2023
Critical essay: Blinding faith – Paradoxes and pathologies of opacity in peer review — Human Relations 2022
Ethics, politics and embodied imagination in crafting scientific knowledge — Human Relations 2020
Embedded Agency in Institutional Theory: Problem or Paradox? — Academy of Management Review 2019
The role of intermediaries in governance of global production networks: Restructuring work relations in Pakistan’s apparel industry — Human Relations 2018
Making a Niche: The Marketization of Management Research and the Rise of ‘Knowledge Branding’ — Journal of Management Studies 2018
The social potency of affect: Identification and power in the immanent structuring of practice — Human Relations 2016
The cultural grammar of governance: The UK Code of Corporate Governance, reflexivity, and the limits of ‘soft’ regulation — Human Relations 2016
Registering ‘the Ethical’ in Organization Theory Formation: Towards the Disclosure of an ‘Invisible Force’ — Organization Studies 2014
Taylorizing business school research: On the ‘one best way’ performative effects of journal ranking lists — Human Relations 2013
‘The Substitution of One Piece of Nonsense for Another’: Reflections on Resistance, Gaming, and Subjugation — Journal of Management Studies 2013
Ethics as Critical Practice: The “Pentagon Papers”, Deciding Responsibly, Truth-telling, and the Unsettling of Organizational Morality — Organization Studies 2013
Where Constructionism and Critical Realism Converge: Interrogating the Domain of Epistemological Relativism — Organization Studies 2011
Strategy as Discourse in a Global Retailer: A Supplement to Rationalist and Interpretive Accounts — Organization Studies 2008
Corporate Citizenship: Rise or Demise of a Myth? — Academy of Management Review 2008
Critical Management Studies: A Reader — Academy of Management Review 2008
Manufacturing shareholder value: The role of accounting in organizational transformation — Accounting, Organizations and Society 2008
Critical Management Studies — Academy of Management Annals 2007
A Dark Side of Institutional Entrepreneurship: Soccer Balls, Child Labour and Postcolonial Impoverishment — Organization Studies 2007
Socialization, Yes. Skill Upgrading, Probably. Robust Theory of the Capitalist Labour Process, No — Organization Studies 2007
Studying Practice: Situating Talking About Machines — Organization Studies 2006
Institutional Theory, Language, and Discourse Analysis: A Comment on Philips, Lawrence, and Hardy — Academy of Management Review 2006
You Spin Me Round: The Realist Turn in Organization and Management Studies* — Journal of Management Studies 2005
Book Review: Muddling with CMS — Organization Studies 2005 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
Accounting and management–labour relations: the politics of production in the ‘factory with a problem’ — Accounting, Organizations and Society 2004
Accounting representation and the road to commercial salvation — Accounting, Organizations and Society 2004
Re-Embedding Situatedness: The Importance of Power Relations in Learning Theory — Organization Science 2003
Identity Regulation as Organizational Control: Producing the Appropriate Individual — Journal of Management Studies 2002
Power, Control and Resistance in ‘The Factory That Time Forgot’ — Journal of Management Studies 2001
Chasing Shadows: Control, Virtuality and the Production of Trust — Organization Studies 2001
Towards a Post-Dualistic Business Ethics: Interweaving Reason and Emotion in Working Life — Journal of Management Studies 2001
Making Sense of "Quality?"-Toward a Review and Critique of Quality Initiatives in Financial Services — Human Relations 1998
Sweeping it under the carpet: The role of accountancy firms in moneylaundering — Accounting, Organizations and Society 1998
On the commercialization of accountancy thesis: A review essay — Accounting, Organizations and Society 1997
Accounting for Management and Managing Accounting: Reflections on Recent Changes in the UK† — Journal of Management Studies 1997
Rethinking Management and Managerial Work: Capitalism, Control, and Subjectivity — Human Relations 1997
Just How Managed is the McUniversity? Craig Prichard, Hugh Willmott — Organization Studies 1997
Business ethics: Restrictive or empowering? — Journal of Business Ethics 1995
Managing the Academics: Commodification and Control in the Development of University Education in the U.K. — Human Relations 1995
Total Quality: Asking Critical Questions — Academy of Management Review 1995
The power of “independence”: defending and extending the jurisdiction of accounting in the United Kingdom — Accounting, Organizations and Society 1995
Ethical statements as smokescreens for sectional interests: The case of the UK accountancy profession — Journal of Business Ethics 1994
The ideology of professional regulation and the markets for accounting labour: Three episodes in the recent history of the U.K. accountancy profession — Accounting, Organizations and Society 1994
Critical Management Studies — Academy of Management Review 1993
Paradigm Gridlock: A Reply — Organization Studies 1993
NETWORKING AS KNOWLEDGE WORK: A STUDY OF STRATEGIC INTERORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY* — Journal of Management Studies 1993
STRENGTH IS IGNORANCE; SLAVERY IS FREEDOM: MANAGING CULTURE IN MODERN ORGANIZATIONS* — Journal of Management Studies 1993
Breaking the Paradigm Mentality — Organization Studies 1993
CONCEPTUALIZING LEADERSHIP PROCESSES: A STUDY OF SENIOR MANAGERS IN A FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANY* — Journal of Management Studies 1992
On the Idea of Emancipation in Management and Organization Studies — Academy of Management Review 1992
Culture, Control and Competition; Towards a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Information Technology in Organizations — Organization Studies 1992
Ideologies and Contradictions in a Public Relations Department: The Seduction and Impotence of Living Myth — Organization Studies 1988
Beyond Epistemology and Reflective Conversation: Towards Human Relations — Human Relations 1987
STUDYING MANAGERIAL WORK: A CRITIQUE AND A PROPOSAL[1] — Journal of Management Studies 1987
IMAGES AND IDEALS OF MANAGERIAL WORK: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF CONCEPTUAL AND EMPIRICAL ACCOUNTS — Journal of Management Studies 1984
Issues of Deception and Complicity: Replies to the Commentaries on “Management Theory: Jungle, Myth, or Hoax?” — Academy of Management Review
Management Theory: Jungle, Myth, or Hoax? — Academy of Management Review