Professor Jonathan Morris

2026

• Burrow, R. , Courpasson, D. and Morris, J. 2026. The power of lore: how occupational myths help precarious workers endure. Human Relations (10.1177/00187267261434774)
• Farrell, C. , Hassard, J. and Morris, J. 2026. Organizational restructuring, precarious employment and work intensification: women managers’ experience of work under Neoliberalism. Economic and Industrial Democracy 47 (1), pp.119-149. (10.1177/0143831X241306232)

2025

• Hassard, J. and Morris, J. 2025. The impact of human resource management practices on managerial work: Institutional constraints, strategic actions and organizational outcomes. Economic and Industrial Democracy 46 (4), pp.967-985. (10.1177/0143831X241265551)
• Morris, J. , Islam, G. and Davies, J. 2025. The search for meaningful work under neo-bureaucracy: Work precarity in freelance TV. Organization 32 (6), pp.790-815. (10.1177/13505084241236454)

2024

• Hassard, J. and Morris, J. 2024. Is managerial homeworking new? Assessing strategic, technological and political influences before, during and after coronavirus. Organization Studies 45 (6), pp.777-800. (10.1177/01708406241242885)

2023

• Morris, J. , Mckinlay, A. and Farrell, C. 2023. The ties that bind us: networks, projects and careers in British TV. Human Relations 76 (2), pp.341-361. (10.1177/00187267211062863)

2022

• Wallace, M. et al. 2022. Developing public service leaders: elite orchestration, change agency, leaderism, and neoliberalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (10.1093/oso/9780199552108.001.0001)
• Hassard, J. and Morris, J. 2022. The extensification of managerial work in the digital age: middle managers, spatio-temporal boundaries and control. Human Relations 75 (9), pp.1647-1678. (10.1177/00187267211003123)

2021

• Morris, J. et al. 2021. Understanding managerial work in the modern Japanese firm: The influence of new organizational forms and changing human resource management practices. Economic and Industrial Democracy 42 (4), pp.1378-1406. (10.1177/0143831X19875785)
• Morris, J. , Jenkins, J. and Donaghey, J. 2021. Uneven development, uneven response: the relentless search for meaningful regulation of GVCs. British Journal of Industrial Relations 59 (1), pp.3-24. (10.1111/bjir.12573)

2020

• Hassard, J. and Morris, J. 2020. Corporate restructuring, work intensification and perceptual politics: exploring the ambiguity of managerial job insecurity. Economic and Industrial Democracy 41 (2), pp.323-350. (10.1177/0143831X17710733)
• Lai, K. , Morgan, G. and Morris, J. 2020. ‘Eating bitterness’ in a Chinese multinational: identity regulation in context. Organization Studies 41 (5), pp.661-680. (10.1177/0170840619835271)

2019

• Delbridge, R. , Endo, T. and Morris, J. 2019. Entrepreneurs or employees? The emergence of "disciplining entrepreneurialism" in subsidiary organizations at cyberagent. In: Sydow, J. and Berends, H. eds. Managing Inter-organizational Collaborations: Process Views. Vol. 64, Research in the Sociology of Organizations Emerald. , pp.163-183. (10.1108/S0733-558X20190000064012)
• Foster, W. M. et al., 2019. The changing nature of managerial work: The effects of corporate restructuring on management jobs and careers. Human Relations 72 (3), pp.473-504. (10.1177/0018726719828439)
• Zhang, B. et al. 2019. Industry capital intensity and firms utilization of HCSW: does firm size matter?. Personnel Review 48 (2), pp.492-510. (10.1108/PR-03-2017-0069)

2018

• Morris, J. , Delbridge, R. and Endo, T. 2018. The layering of meso-level institutional effects on employment systems in Japan. British Journal of Industrial Relations 56 (3), pp.603-630. (10.1111/bjir.12296)
• Hassard, J. and Morris, J. 2018. Contrived competition and manufactured uncertainty: understanding managerial job insecurity narritives in large corporations. Work, Employment and Society 32 (3), pp.564-580. (10.1177/0950017017751806)

2017

• Farrell, C. and Morris, J. 2017. Neo-bureaucratic organisational forms, technology, control and contingent work: the case of UK TV. New Technology, Work and Employment 32 (2), pp.115-130. (10.1111/ntwe.12088)

2016

• Morris, J. , Farrell, C. and Reed, M. 2016. The indeterminacy of 'temporariness': control and power in neo-bureaucratic organizations and work in UK television. Human Relations 69 (12), pp.2274-2297. (10.1177/0018726716648387)

2015

• Endo, T. , Delbridge, R. and Morris, J. 2015. Does Japan still matter? Past tendencies and future opportunities in the study of Japanese firms. International Journal of Management Reviews 17 (1), pp.101-123. (10.1111/ijmr.12039)

2013

• Yorozu, C. et al., 2013. Japan, corporate organizational reform and the global financial crisis: the case of Shinsei Bank. Asia Pacific Business Review 19 (2), pp.200-216. (10.1080/13602381.2013.767636)
• Zhang, B. and Morris, J. L. 2013. High-performance work systems and organizational performance: testing the mediation role of employee outcomes using evidence from PR China. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 25 (1), pp.68-90. (10.1080/09585192.2013.781524)

2012

• Hassard, J. , Morris, J. L. and McCann, L. 2012. 'My brilliant career'? New organizational forms and changing managerial careers in Japan, the UK, and USA. Journal of Management Studies 49 (3), pp.571-599. (10.1111/j.1467-6486.2011.01032.x)

2011

• Wallace, M. et al. 2011. Public service leaders as 'change agents' - for whom? Responses to leadership development provision in England. Public Management Review 13 (1), pp.65-93. (10.1080/14719037.2010.501614)

2010

• Farrell, C. and Morris, J. 2010. Professional perceptions of bureaucratic change in the public sector: GPs, headteachers and social workers. Public Money and Management 19 (4), pp.31-36. (10.1111/1467-9302.00186)
• McCann, L. , Hassard, J. and Morris, J. L. 2010. Restructuring managerial labour in the USA, the UK and Japan: challenging the salience of 'varieties of capitalism'. British Journal of Industrial Relations 48 (2), pp.347-374. (10.1111/j.1467-8543.2010.00794.x)
• Morris, J. L. et al. 2010. China's state enterprise reform: From Marx to the market. Routledge Contemporary China Series Taylor & Francis/Routledge.

2009

• Farrell, C. and Morris, J. L. 2009. Still searching for the evidence? Evidence-based policy, performance pay and teachers. Journal of Industrial Relations 51 (1), pp.75-94. (10.1177/0022185608099666)
• Hassard, J. , McCann, L. and Morris, J. L. 2009. Managing in the modern corporation: the intensification of managerial work in the USA, UK and Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Morris, J. L. , Wilkinson, B. and Gamble, J. 2009. Strategic international human resource management or the 'bottom line'? the cases of electronics and garments commodity chains in China. International Journal of Human Resource Management 20 (2), pp.348-371. (10.1080/09585190802670722)

2008

• Iida, T. and Morris, J. L. 2008. Farewell to the salaryman? The changing roles and work of middle managers in Japan. International Journal of Human Resource Management 19 (6), pp.1072-1087. (10.1080/09585190802051378)
• McCann, L. , Morris, J. L. and Hassard, J. 2008. Normalized intensity: the New Labour process of middle management. Journal of Management Studies 45 (2), pp.343-371. (10.1111/j.1467-6486.2007.00762.x)
• Morris, J. L. , Hassard, J. and McCann, L. 2008. The resilience of 'institutionalized capitalism': managing managers under 'shareholder capitalism' and 'managerial capitalism'. Human Relations 61 (5), pp.687-710. (10.1177/0018726708091767)

2007

• Hassard, J. , McCann, L. and Morris, J. L. 2007. At the sharp end of new organizational ideologies: Ethnography and the study of multinationals. Ethnography 8 (3), pp.324-344. (10.1177/1466138107081041)
• Hassard, J. et al., 2007. Steeling for reform: state-enterprise restructuring and the surplus labour question. In: Lee, G. O. M. and Warner, M. eds. Unemployment in China: Economy, Human Resources and Labour Markets. Routledge Contemporary China Series London: Routledge. , pp.203-228.
• McCann, L. , Hassard, J. and Morris, J. L. 2007. New communities of inquiry in multinational research: Politics, resistance and perspective. Ethnography 8 (3), pp.381-391. (10.1177/1466138107081027)
• Morris, J. L. and Farrell, C. 2007. The 'post-bureaucratic' public sector organization: New organizational forms and HRM in ten UK public sector organizations. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 18 (9), pp.1575-1588. (10.1080/09585190701570544)

2006

• Morris, J. L. , Hassard, J. and McCann, L. 2006. New Organizational Forms, Human Resource Management and Structural Convergence? A Study of Japanese Organizations. Organization Studies 27 (10), pp.1485-1512. (10.1177/0170840606067513)
• Hassard, J. et al., 2006. Downsizing the danwei: Chinese state-enterprise reform and the surplus labour question. International Journal of Human Resource Management 17 (8), pp.1441-1455. (10.1080/09585190600804648)
• McCann, L. , Hassard, J. and Morris, J. L. 2006. Hard times for the salaryman: corporate restructuring and middle managers' working lives. In: Matanle, P. and Lunsing, W. eds. Perspectives on Work, Employment and Society in Japan. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.98-116.
• Wu, B. and Morris, J. L. 2006. 'A life on the ocean wave': the 'post-socialist' careers of Chinese, Russian and Eastern European seafarers. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 17 (1), pp.25-48. (10.1080/09585190500366201)

2005

• Morris, J. L. , Ezzamel, M. and Smith, J. 2005. Accounting for new organisational forms: The case of subcontracting and outsourcing. Project Report.[Online].Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Available at: http://www.cimaglobal.com/Documents/Thought_leadership_docs/MigratedDocsMarch2010/Resouces%20(pdfs)/Research%20full%20reports/Accounting%20for%20new%20organisational%20forms%20the%20case%20of%20subcontracting%20and%20outsourcing.pdf.
• Smith, J. A. , Morris, J. L. and Ezzamel, M. 2005. Organisational change, outsourcing and the impact on management accounting. The British Accounting Review 37 (4), pp.415-441. (10.1016/j.bar.2005.07.004)

2004

• Farrell, C. and Morris, J. L. 2004. Resigned compliance: Teacher attitudes towards performance-related pay in schools. Educational Management Administration and Leadership 32 (1), pp.81-104. (10.1177/1741143204039301)
• Gamble, J. , Morris, J. L. and Wilkinson, B. 2004. Mass production is alive and well: the future of work and organization in east Asia. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 15 (2), pp.397-409. (10.1080/0958519032000158572)
• Hassard, J. , Morris, J. L. and Sheehan, J. 2004. The 'third way': The future of work and organization in a 'corporatized' Chinese economy. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 15 (2), pp.314-330. (10.1080/0958519032000158536)
• McCann, L. , Hassard, J. and Morris, J. L. 2004. Middle managers, the new organizational ideology and corporate restructuring: comparing Japanese and Anglo-American management systems. Competition and Change 8 (1), pp.27-44. (10.1080/1024529042000269798)
• Morris, J. L. 2004. The future of work: organizational and international perspectives. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 15 (2), pp.263-275. (10.1080/0958519032000158509)
• Morris, J. L. , Smith, J. and Ezzamel, M. 2004. Trim figures; on organisational change. Financial Management Nov , pp.34-36.
• Morris, J. L. , Ezzamel, M. and Smith, J. 2004. Accounting for new organisational forms. Project Report.CIMA.

2003

• Morris, J. L. and Farrell, C. M. 2003. The `Neo-Bureaucratic' State: Professionals, Managers and Professional Managers in Schools, General Practices and Social Work. Organization 10 (1), pp.129-156. (10.1177/1350508403010001380)
• Ezzamel, M. , Morris, J. L. and Smith, J. 2003. Accounting for new organisational forms: initial findings on subcontracting and outsourcing in the UK. London, UK: Cardiff Business School. Available at: http://www.cimaglobal.com/Documents/Thought_leadership_docs/MigratedDocsMarch2010/Resouces%20(pdfs)/Research%20full%20reports/Accounting%20for%20new%20organisational%20forms%20the%20case%20of%20subcontracting%20and%20outsourcing.pdf.
• Gamble, J. , Morris, J. L. and Wilkinson, B. 2003. Japanese and Korean Multinationals: The Replication and Integration of Their National Business Systems in China. Asian Business and Management 2 (3), pp.347-369. (10.1057/palgrave.abm.9200059)
• Morris, J. L. , Hassard, J. and McCann, L. 2003. Endangered but surviving: The plight of UK middle managers in 10 large organisations. Management Research News 26 (9), pp.132-134.

2002

• Ezzamel, M. , Morris, J. and Smith, J. A. 2002. Accounting for new organisational forms: initial findings on subcontracting and outsourcing in the UK. Presented at: 6th Annual Conference of the Financial Reporting and Business Communications Research Unit Cardiff, UK July 2002.
• Hassard, J. , Morris, J. L. and Sheehan, J. 2002. The elusive market: Privatization, politics and state-enterprise reform in China. British Journal of Management 13 (3), pp.221-231. (10.1111/1467-8551.00239)
• Hassard, J. , McCann, L. and Morris, J. L. 2002. Universality and convergence in organisational forms: a study of Japanese firms. Management Research News 25 , pp.74-78.
• Morris, J. L. , Hassard, J. and Sheehan, J. 2002. Privatization, Chinese-style: economic reform and the state-owned enterprises. Public Administration 80 (2), pp.359-373. (10.1111/1467-9299.00308)

2001

• Morris, J. L. , Sheehan, J. and Hassard, J. 2001. From Dependency to Defiance? Work-Unit Relationships in China's State Enterprise Reforms. Journal of Management Studies 38 (5), pp.697-717. (10.1111/1467-6486.00255)
• Wilkinson, B. et al., 2001. The New International Division of Labour in Asian Electronics: Work Organisation and Human Resources in Japan and Malaysia. Journal of Management Studies 38 (5), pp.675-695. (10.1111/1467-6486.00254)
• Driscoll, A. and Morris, J. L. 2001. Stepping out: Rhetorical devices and culture change management in the UK Civil Service. Public Administration 79 (4), pp.803-824. (10.1111/1467-9299.00281)
• Morris, J. L. 2001. A survey of teachers' attitudes towards performance related pay in schools. Working paper. Cardiff, UK: Morfa Press.
• Morris, J. L. 2001. Inward Investment in a Cold Climate. Work, Employment and Society 15 (3), pp.661-665. (10.1017/S0950017001000435)
• Morris, J. L. et al. 2001. Globalization, economic institutions and workplace change: the economic reform processes in China. In: Debrah, Y. A. and Smith, I. G. eds. Globalization, Employment and the Workplace: Diverse Impacts. Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy London: Routledge. , pp.115-129.
• Morris, J. L. and Farrell, C. 2001. Policy and Politics in School Education: Professional Autonomy, Bureaucratic Control and Performance Management [Abstract]. Management Research News 24 (10/11), pp.28-29. (10.1108/01409170110782973)
• Xiao, J. et al., 2001. The Group Company Experiment in China. International Journal of Applied Management 2 , pp.119-130.

2000

• Morris, J. L. 2000. Keiretsu. In: Tung, R. L. ed. The IEBM Handbook of International Business. International Encyclopedia of Business & Management London: Thomson Learning. , pp.3615-3619.
• Wilkinson, B. et al., 2000. International Production Networks and Human Resources: The Case of the Malaysian Electronics Industry. Presented at: Second Conference on Global Change Manchester, UK 1998. Published in: Thorpe, R. and Little, S. E. eds. Global Change: The Impact of Asia in the 21st Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave. , pp.366-385.