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Reimagining the scales, dimensions, and fields of socio-ecological sustainability (2018)
Journal Article
O'Reilly, L., Allen, S., & Reedy, P. (2018). Reimagining the scales, dimensions, and fields of socio-ecological sustainability. British Journal of Management, 29(2), 220-234. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12278

This paper critiques the two-dimensional (hierarchical–spatial) focus on scales evident in management and organizational studies, and the capitalist ecological modernization (CEM) paradigm that dominates current corporate and governmental approaches... Read More about Reimagining the scales, dimensions, and fields of socio-ecological sustainability.

Critical performativity in the field: Methodological principles for activist ethnographers (2017)
Journal Article
Reedy, P. C., & King, D. R. (2019). Critical performativity in the field: Methodological principles for activist ethnographers. Organizational Research Methods, 22(2), 564-589. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428117744881

© The Author(s) 2017. It has been proposed that engagement with activism might make critical organizational scholarship more relevant to practitioners. However, there is a lack of systematic inquiry into how such engagement might be undertaken, which... Read More about Critical performativity in the field: Methodological principles for activist ethnographers.

Academic activism, radical ethnography and the critical scholar (2017)
Journal Article
Reedy, P., & King, D. (2017). Academic activism, radical ethnography and the critical scholar. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017(1), 13499. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2017.13499abstract

It has been proposed that engagement with activism might make critical organizational scholarship more relevant to practitioners. However, there are few examples of such engagement and thus a lack of systematic inquiry into how it might be undertaken... Read More about Academic activism, radical ethnography and the critical scholar.

Organizing for individuation: alternative organizing, politics and new identities (2016)
Journal Article
Reedy, P., King, D., & Coupland, C. (2016). Organizing for individuation: alternative organizing, politics and new identities. Organization Studies, 37(11), 1553-1573. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840616641983

Organization theorists have predominantly studied identity and organizing within the managed work organization. This frames organization as a structure within which identity work occurs, often as a means of managerial control. In our paper our contri... Read More about Organizing for individuation: alternative organizing, politics and new identities.

Impossible organisations: anarchism and organisational praxis (2014)
Journal Article
Reedy, P. (2014). Impossible organisations: anarchism and organisational praxis. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 14(4), 639-658

Organisational scholarship tends to focus its attention mainly on conventional work organisations and so neglects the organisational practices and principles of other sites of organising. The paper considers the implications of this limited focus eve... Read More about Impossible organisations: anarchism and organisational praxis.

The Vlaams Belang: the rhetoric of organizational identity (2014)
Journal Article
Moufahim, M., Reedy, P., & Humphreys, M. (2015). The Vlaams Belang: the rhetoric of organizational identity. Organization Studies, 36(1), 91-111. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840614546149

In this paper we combine work on rhetorical strategies with that of organizational identity theory. We highlight the relationship between organizational identity and the deployment of discursive resources at the societal level by organizations seekin... Read More about The Vlaams Belang: the rhetoric of organizational identity.

Death and organization: Heidegger's thought on death and life in organizations (2011)
Journal Article
Reedy, P., & Learmonth, M. (2011). Death and organization: Heidegger's thought on death and life in organizations. Organization Studies, 32(1), 117-131. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840610387242

Mortality has not been given the attention it deserves within organization studies. Even when it has been considered, it is not usually in terms of its implications for own lives and ethical choices. In particular, Heidegger's writing on death has be... Read More about Death and organization: Heidegger's thought on death and life in organizations.

Some unintended effects of teamwork in healthcare (2010)
Journal Article
Finn, R., Learmonth, M., & Reedy, P. (2010). Some unintended effects of teamwork in healthcare. Social science & medicine, 70(8), 1148-1154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.12.025

Teamwork has been emphasised as a key feature of health service reform, essential for safe, efficient and patient-centred care. Bringing together literatures from the sociology of healthcare and organizational theory, we examine how the teamwork phen... Read More about Some unintended effects of teamwork in healthcare.

Other possibilities? The contribution to management education of alternative organizations (2009)
Journal Article
Reedy, P., & Learmonth, M. (2009). Other possibilities? The contribution to management education of alternative organizations. Management Learning, 40(3), 241-258. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507609104338

Business education tends to reinforce the neo-liberal view that the best, perhaps the only desirable model of organization is the managed corporation. Furthermore, in competing to attract students, business schools frequently stress that lucrative ca... Read More about Other possibilities? The contribution to management education of alternative organizations.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall: Reflecting on the ethics and effects of a collective critical management studies identity project (2008)
Journal Article
Reedy, P. (2008). Mirror, mirror, on the wall: Reflecting on the ethics and effects of a collective critical management studies identity project. Management Learning, 39(1), 57-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507607085978

This article explores the relationship between the identity of critical management studies (CMS) academics and that of managers. The article argues that, as a result of the way in which CMS identities are pursued, managers often become represented as... Read More about Mirror, mirror, on the wall: Reflecting on the ethics and effects of a collective critical management studies identity project.