Ethics and Politics in Organizations
Under this theme the focus has been on exploring the vexed relationship between ethics and politics as they relate to the everyday goings on in organizations. Key areas of inquiry having been on the meaning of ethics in organizational practice, the ways that managerial subjectivity is informed by ethics, how ethics informs political action in organizations and the ethics of surveillance and resistance in organizations,
Organizations in Popular Culture
In exploring the critical representations of work and organizations in popular culture, special interest has been on understanding and theorizing popular critique as it is located in various types of narratives that can be found in the mass media – especially television, popular music and cinema.
Theory and Methods in Organization Studies
This research has sought to develop new approaches to theory and method in organization studies, especially in terms of writing and storytelling as it relates to both organizations and the writing of organizations studies. This work has also attended to, and tried to exemplify, how experimental and non-conventional writing can open up the possibilities for an avant-garde organization studies.
Can supervise: Yes
Carl is interested in supervising research students pursuing projects in any areas aligned with his research interests. This includes:
Ethics and politics in organizations
Leadership ethics
Business ethics
Resistance in and to organizations
Organization and popular culture
Narrative and organizations
Poststructuralist approaches to organization studies
