Recent Publications and Conference Papers (2004 - Present)

Refereed Journal Articles

2012

Ainsworth, S., Cutcher, L. and Thomas, R. (2012) 'Ideas That Work: Mobilizing Australian Workers Using a Discourse of Rights', International Journal of Human Resource Management, pp. 1-19.

Ainsworth, S. and Grant, D. (2012) 'Commentary: Revitalizing scholarship in identity studies', Scandinavian Journal of Management (Special issue on "Identities in Organizations"), 28(1), pp. 60-62.

Barker, R., Hendry, J., Roberts, J. and Sanderson, P. (2012) 'Can company-fund manager meetings convey informational benefits? Exploring the rationalisation of equity investment decision making by UK fund managers', Accounting, Organizations and Society, 37(4), pp. 207-22.

Brown A.D., Ainsworth, S. and Grant, D. (2012) 'The Rhetoric of Institutional Change', Organization Studies, 33(3), pp. 297-321.

de Cock, C., Cutcher, L. and Grant, D. (2012) 'Finance capitalism's perpetually extinguished pasts: Exploring discursive shifts 2007-2011. Editorial for Special Issue: Crisis, Critique and the Construction of Normality: Exploring Finance Capitalism's Discursive Shifts', Culture and Organization, 18(2), pp. 87-90.

Cuganesan, S., Dunford, R. and Palmer, I. (2012) 'Strategic Management Accounting and Strategy Practices within a Public Sector Agency', Management Accounting Research, 23(4), pp. 245-60.

Cutcher, L. and Dale, K. (2012) 'Introduction: Emotion and aesthetics: organisational space, embodiment and materiality', International Journal of Work, Organisation and Emotion, 5(1), pp. 1-5.

Dery, K. and MacCormick, J. (2012 - Forthcoming) 'Managing Mobile Technology: The Shift from Mobility to Connectivity', MIS Quarterly Executive, 11(4).

Dunford, R., Palmer, I., Cuganesan, S., Grant, D., Beaumont, R. and Steele, C. (2012 - Forthcoming) ''Flexibility' as the Rationale for Change: A Discourse Perspective', Journal of Organizational Change Management.

Hardy, C. and Grant, D. (2012) 'Readers Beware: Provocation, Problematization and ... Problems', Human Relations, 65(5), pp. 547-66.

Harvey, W.S. (2012) 'Brain circulation to the UK? Knowledge and investment flows from highly skilled British expatriates in Vancouver', Journal of Management Development, 31(2), pp. 173-86.

Hall, R. and van den Broek, D. (2012) 'Aestheticising retail workers: Orientations of aesthetic labour in Australian fashion retail', Economic and Industrial Democracy, 33(1), pp. 88-102.

Harvey, W.S. (2012) 'Labour market experiences of skilled British migrants in Vancouver', Employee Relations (Special Issue: Employee Relations, Migration and Geographical Mobility), 34(6), pp. 658-69.

Harvey, W.S. and Groutsis, D. (2012) 'Skilled migrants in the Middle East: definitions, mobility and integration', International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 8(4), pp. 438-53.

Jarzabkowski, P., Le, J.K. and Feldman, M. (2012) 'Toward a Theory of Coordinating: Creating Coordinating Mechanisms in Practice', Organization Science, 23(4), pp. 907-27.

Jarzabkowski P., Spee A.P. and Smets, A. (2012 - Forthcoming) 'Material artifacts: Practices for doing strategy with 'stuff'', European Management Journal.

Lacey, D., Cuganesan, S., Goode, S. and Jacobs, K. (2012) 'Celebrating Adversity: inter- Organizational Dependence and Public Sector Performance reporting in the Australian Federal Police', Public Administration, 90(2), pp. 393-411.

MacCormick, J., Dery, K. and Kolb, D. (2012) 'Engaged or just Connected? Smartphones and employee engagement', Organizational Dynamics, 41(3), pp. 194-201.

Murray, J. and Cutcher, L. (2012) 'Gendered Futures, Constrained Choices: Undergraduate Perceptions of Work and Family', Journal of Population Research (Special Issue: Family, work and well-being over the life course), 29(4), pp. 315-28.

Nyberg, D. (2012 - Forthcoming) ''You need to be healthy to be ill': Constructing sickness and framing bodies in Swedish healthcare', Organization Studies.

Nyberg, D. and Wright, C. (2012) 'Justifying Business Responses to Climate Change: Discursive Strategies of Similarity and Difference', Environment and Planning A, 44(8), pp. 1819-35.

Nyberg, D. and Sewell, G. (2012 - Forthcoming) 'Between resistance and collusion? Contrasting tales of surveillance and control in three call-centres', British Journal of Industrial Relations.

O'Mahoney, J., Heusinkveld, S. and Wright, C. (2012 - Forthcoming) 'Commodifying the Commodifiers: The Impact of Procurement on Management Knowledge', Journal of Management Studies.

Roberts, J. and Ng, W. (2012) 'Against economic (mis)conceptions of the individual: Constructing financial agency in the credit crisis', Culture and Organization, 18(2), pp. 91-105.

Seidl, D., Sanderson, P. and Roberts, J. (2012 - Forthcoming) 'Applying the "Comply or Explain" principle; Discursive legitimacy tactics with regard to codes of corporate governance', Journal of Management and Governance.

Sewell, G., Barker, J.R. and Nyberg, D. (2012) 'Working under intensive surveillance: When does 'measuring everything that moves' become intolerable?', Human Relations, 65(2), pp. 189-215.

Sturdy, A., Wylie, N. and Wright, C. (2012 - Forthcoming) 'Management Consultancy and Organisational Uncertainty: The Case of Internal Consultancy', International Studies of Management and Organization.

Warhurst, C., van den Broek, D., Nickson, D. and Hall, R. (2012) 'Great expectations: gender, looks and lookism at work', International Journal of Work, Organization and Emotion, 5(1), pp. 72-90.

Welch, C. and Welch, D.E. (2012) 'What Do HR Managers Really Do? HR Roles on International Projects', Management International Review, 52(4), pp. 597-617.

Wiblen, S., Dery, K. and Grant, D. (2012) 'Do you see what I see? The role of technology in talent identification', Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 50(4), pp. 421-38.

Wright, C. and Nyberg, D. (2012) 'Working With Passion: Emotionology, Corporate Environmentalism and Climate Change', Human Relations, 65(12), pp. 1561-87.

Wright, C., Nyberg, D. and Grant, D. (2012) '"Hippies on the Third Floor": Climate Change, Narrative Identity and the Micro-Politics of Corporate Environmentalism', Organization Studies, 33(11), pp. 1451-75.

Wright, C., Sturdy, A. and Wylie, N. (2012) 'Management Innovation Through Standardization: Consultants as Standardizers of Organizational Practice', Research Policy, 41(3), pp. 652-62.

2011

De Cock, C., Baker, M. and Volkmann, C. (2011) 'Financial Phantasmagoria: Corporate Image-Work in Times of Crisis', Organization, 18(2), 153-72.

Grant, D. and Marshak, R. J. (2011) 'Toward a Discourse-Centered Understanding of Organizational Change', Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 47(2), 204-35.

Hardy, C. A. and Williams, S. P. (2011) 'Assembling E-Government Research Designs: A Transdisciplinary View and Interactive Approach', Public Administration Review, 71(3), 405-13.

Harvey, W. S. (2011) 'British and Indian Scientists Moving to the United States', Work and Occupations, 38(1), 68-100.

Harvey W. S. (2011) 'Strategies for conducting elite interviews', Qualitative Research, 11(4), 431-41.

Jarzabkowski, P., Lê, J. K. and Feldman, M. (2011 - Forthcoming) 'Toward a Theory of Coordinating: Creating Coordinating Mechanisms in Practice', Organization Science.

Marshak, R. J. and Grant, D. (2011) 'Creating Change by Changing the Conversation', Organization Development Journal, 43(3), 2-7.

Sharma, A. and Grant, D. (2011) 'Narrative, Drama and Charismatic Leadership: The Case of Apple's Steve Jobs', Leadership, 7(1), 3-26.

Spee, A. P. and Jarzabkowski, P. (2011) 'Strategic planning as communicative process', Organization Studies (Special Issue: New Directions in Organizational Communication Research), 32(9), 1217-45.

Sturdy, A. and Wright, C. (2011) 'The Active Client: The Boundary-spanning Roles of Internal Consultants as Gatekeepers, Brokers and Partners of their External Counterparts', Management Learning, 42(5), 487-505.

Sturdy, A., Wylie, N. and Wright, C. (2011 - Forthcoming) 'Management Consultancy and Organisational Uncertainty: The Case of Internal Consultancy', International Studies of Management and Organization.

Todd Weaver, S., Moschis, G. P. and Davis, T. (2011) 'Antecedents of materialism and compulsive buying: A life course study in Australia', Australasian Marketing Journal, 19(4), 247-256.

Welch, C., Piekkari, R., Plakoyiannaki, E. and Paavilainen-Mäntymäki, E. (2011) 'Theorising from case studies: Towards a pluralist future for international business research', Journal of International Business Studies (Special Issue: Qualitative Research in International Business), 42(5), 740-62.

Wright, C. (2011) 'Historical Interpretations of the Labour Process: Retrospect and Future Research Directions', Labour History, Vol. 100, 19-32.

Wright, C., Sturdy, A. and Wylie, N. (2011 - Forthcoming) 'Management Innovation Through Standardization: Consultants as Standardizers of Organizational Practice', Research Policy.

2010

Cutcher, L. (2010) 'Local Heroes: Co-producing history, 'community' and the self', Consumption, Markets & Culture, 13(1), 79-90.

Davis, T. (2010) 'Thirdspaces or Heterotopias? Recreating and Negotiating Migrant Identity Using Online Spaces', Sociology, 44(4), 661-677.

Davis, T. and Patmore, G. (2010) 'Mirrored histories: Consumption and work in the Asia Pacific', Consumption, Markets & Culture, 13(1), 1-5.

Schneider, T. and Davis, T. (2010) 'Advertising food in Australia: Between antinomies and gastro-anomy', Consumption, Markets & Culture, 13(1), 31-41.

Sutton-Brady, C., Davis, T. and Jung, M. (2010) 'Perceived Cultural Spaces and Cultural In-betweens: Consumption among Korean Australians', Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 9(5), 349-363.

Dunford, R., Palmer, I. and Benveniste, J. (2010) 'Business model replication for early and rapid internationalisation: the ING Direct experience', Long Range Planning, 43, 655-674.

Fairhurst, G. and Grant, D. (2010) 'The Social Construction of Leadership: A Sailing Guide', Management Communication Quarterly, 23(4), 1-40.

Oswick, C., Grant, D., Marshak, R. and Wolfram-Cox, J. (2010) 'Organizational Discourse and Change: Premises, Perspectives and Prospects', Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 46(1), 8-15.

Shields, J. and Grant, D. (2010) 'Psychologising the Subject: HRM, Commodification, and the Objectification of Labour', The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 20(2): 61-76.

Hardy C. A. and Williams S. P. (2010) 'Assembling E-Government Research Designs: A Transdisciplinary View and Interactive Approach', Public Administration Review, 71(3), 405-413.

Liu, H. (2010) 'When Leaders Fail: A Typology of Failures and Framing Strategies', Management Communication Quarterly, 23(4), 232-259.

Webster, C. M., Seymour, R. G. and Daellenbach, K. (2010) '"Behind Closed Doors": Opportunity identification through observational research', Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal, 13(1), 24-35.

Piekkari, R., Plakoyiannaki, E. and Welch, C. (2010) ''Good' case research in industrial marketing: Insights from research practice', Industrial Marketing Management, 39(1), 109-117.

Wiblen, S., Grant, D. and Dery, K. (2010) 'Transitioning to a New HRIS: the Reshaping of Human Resources and Information Technology Talent', Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, (11)4, 251-268.

2009

Cutcher, L. (2009) 'Resisting change from within and without the organization', Journal of Organizational Change Management, 22(3), 275-89.

Grant, D. and Hall R. (2009) 'Making sense of Enterprise Resource Planning Implementations: A Narrative Analytic Approach', Journal of Japan Society for Management Information, 18(3), 203-220.

Ainsworth, S., Grant, D. and Iedema, R. (2009) 'Keeping Things Moving: Space and the Construction of Middle Management Identity in a post-NPM Organization', Discourse and Communication, 3(1), 5-25.

Nyberg, D. (2009) 'Computers, customer service operatives and cyborgs: Intra-actions in call centres', Organization Studies, 30(11), 1181-99.

Nyberg, D. and Mueller, F. (2009) 'Strategic cultural change and local discourses: The importance of being different', Scandinavian Journal of Management, 25(2), 146-156.

Van Gestel, N. and Nyberg, D. (2009) 'Translating national policy changes into local HRM practices', Personnel Review, 38(5), 544-59.

Wright, C., Suhb, C-S. and Leggett, C. (2009) 'If At First You Don't Succeed: Globalized Production and Organizational Learning at the Hyundai Motor Company', Asia Pacific Business Review, 15(2), 153-180.

2008

Ainsworth, S. and Cutcher, L. (2008) 'Expectant mothers and absent fathers: paid maternity leave in Australia', Gender, Work and Organization, 15(4), 376-343.

Bryant, P. and Dunford, R. (2008) 'The influence of regulatory focus on risky decision making', Applied Psychology, 57(2), 335-359.

Palmer, I. and Dunford, R. (2008) 'Organizational change and the importance of embedded assumptions', British Journal of Management, 19(s1), 20-32.

Marshak, R. and Grant, D. (2008) 'Organizational Discourse and New OD Practices', British Journal of Management, 18: 7-19.

Marshak, R. and Grant, D. (2008) 'Transforming Talk: The Interplay of Discourse, Power and Change', Organization Development Journal, 25(1): 1-8.

Hardy, C. A. and Williams, S. P. (2008) 'e-Government Policy and Practice: A Theoretical and Emperical Exploration of Public e-Procurement', Government Information Quarterly, 25(2), 155-80.

Puck, J., Kittler, M. and Wright, C. (2008) 'Does It Really Work? Re-Assessing the Impact of Pre-Departure Cross-Cultural Training on Expatriate Adjustment', International Journal of Human Resource Management, 19(12), 2182-2197.

Sturdy, A. and Wright, C. (2008), 'A Consulting Diaspora? Enterprising Selves as Agents of Enterprise', Organization, 15(3), 427-444.

Wright, C. (2008) 'Inside Out? Organizational Membership, Ambiguity and the Ambivalent Identity of the Internal Consultant', British Journal of Management, 20(3), 309-322.

Wright, C. (2008) 'Reinventing Human Resource Management: Business Partners, Internal Consultants and the Limits to Professionalisation', Human Relations, 61(8), 1063-1086.

2007

Dunford, R., Palmer, I., Crawford, J. and Benveniste, J. (2007) 'Co-existence of 'old' and 'new' organizational practices: Transitory phenomenon or enduring feature?', Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Resource Management, 45(1), 24-43.

Palmer, I., Benveniste, J. and Dunford, R. (2007) 'New organizational forms', Organizational Studies, 28(12), 1829-1847.

Seymour, R. G. (2007) 'The Significance of culture & context in entrepreneurial learning and teaching', Synergy, 26, 21-32.

Williams, S. P. and Hardy, C. A. (2007) 'Update on e-Procurement in Australia', Procurement Professional, February/March.

Kitay, J. and Wright, C. (2007) 'From Prophets to Profits: The Occupational Rhetoric of Management Consultants', Human Relations, 60(11), 1613'1640.

2006

Cutcher, L. and Kerr, M. (2006) 'The shifting meaning of mutuality and co-operativeness in the credit union movement from 1959 to 1989',Labour History, 91, 31-46.

Dery, K., Grant, D., Harley, B. and Wright, C. (2006) 'Work, organisation and Enterprise Resource Planning systems: An alternative research agenda', New Technology, Work and Employment, 21(3), 199-214.

Dery, K., Hall, R. and Wailes, N. (2006) 'ERPs as 'technologies-in-practice': Social construction, materiality and the role of organisational factors', New Technology, Work and Employment, 21(3), 229-41.

Barrett, M., Grant, D. and Wailes, N. (2006) 'ICT and organizational change: Introduction to the special issue', Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 42(1), 6-22.

Grant, D., Hall, R., Wailes, N. and Wright, C. (2006) 'The false promise of technological determinism: The case of enterprise resource planning systems', New Technology, Work and Employment, 21(1), 2-15.

Grant, D., Harley, B. and Wright, C. (2006) 'Editorial introduction: The work and organisational implications of Enterprise Resource Planning systems ', New Technology, Work and Employment, 21(3), 196-198.

Hall, R. (2006) 'Temporary agency work and HRM in Australia: "Cooperation, specialisation and satisfaction for the good of all"?',Personnel Review, 35(2), 158-174.

Fenwick, T. and Hall, R. (2006) 'Editorial, Skills in the Knowledge Economy: Changing meanings in Changing Conditions', Journal of Industrial Relations, 48(5), 571-574.

Seymour R. G. (2006) 'Hermeneutic phenomenology and international entrepreneurship research', Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 4(4), 137-55.

Williams S. P., Scifleet, P. and Hardy, C. A. (2006) 'Online business reporting: An information management perspective', International Journal of Information Management, 26(2), 91-101.

Harley, B., Wright, C., Hall, R. and Dery, K. (2006) 'Management reactions to technological change: The example of Enterprise Resource Planning', Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 42(1), 58-75.

2005

Dery, K., Grant, D., Hall, R. and Wailes, N. (2005) 'Managing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems', Strategic Change, 14(5), 239-243.

Dery, K. and Wailes, N. (2005) 'Necessary but not Sufficient: ERPs and Strategic HRM', Strategic Change, 14(5), 265-272.

Gordon, R. and Grant, D. (2005) 'Knowledge management or management of knowledge? Why people interested in knowledge management need to consider Foucault and the construct of power', Tamara: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science, 3(2), 27-38.

Grant, D. and Iedema, R. (2005) 'Discourse analysis and the study of organizations', Text: An interdisciplinary journal for the study of discourse, 25(1), 37-66.

Grant, D., Michelson, G., Oswick, C. and Wailes, N. (2005) 'Guest Editorial: Discourse and Organizational Change', Journal of Organizational Change Management, 18(1), 6-15.

Grant, D., Michelson, G., Oswick, C. and Wailes, N. (2005) 'Discourse and Organizational Change: Part 2', Journal of Organizational Change Management, 18(4), 309-311.

Hardy, C., Grant, D., Oswick, C. and Putnam, L. (2005) 'Diss-ing Discourse? A Response', Organization Studies, 26(5), 799-804.

Hardy, C., Lawrence, T. and Grant, D. (2005) 'Discourse and Collaboration: The Role of Conversations and Collective Identity', Academy of Management Review, 30(1), 58-77.

Oswick, C., Grant, D., Michelson, G. and Wailes, N. (2005) 'Looking forwards: Discursive directions in organizational change', Journal of Organizational Change Management, 18(4), 383-390.

Putnam, L., Grant, D., Cutcher, L. and Michelson, G. (2005) 'Discourse and Resistance: Targets, Practices, and Consequences ',Management Communication Quarterly, 19(1), 5-18.

Hall, R. (2005) 'The Impact of ERPs on Work Organisation: Evidence from Australian Organisations', Strategic Change, 14(5), 245-254.

2004

Grant, D. and Hardy, C. (2004) 'Struggles with organisational discourse', Organization Studies, 25(1), 5-13.

Frost, G., Michelson, G., Van Der Laan, S. and Wailes, N. (2004) 'Bringing ethical investment to account', Australian Accounting Review, 14(3), 3-9.

Michelson, G., Wailes, N., Van Der Laan, S. and Frost, G. (2004) 'Ethical Investment Processes and Outcomes', Journal of Business Ethics, 52(1), 1-10.