Overview
I have an established reputation in the broad field of management with a specialist focus in area of organization studies. Current interests include corporate goverance, theories of resistance and the significance of craft in research.
Publication
2024
- Willmott, H. 2024. Pluralism not triangulation [Dialogue]. Academy of Management Review (10.5465/amr.2023.0381)
2023
- Tourish, D. and Willmott, H. 2023. Despotic leadership and ideological manipulation at theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace. Organization Studies 44(11), pp. 1801-1824. (10.1177/01708406231171801)
- Tirapani, A. N. and Willmott, H. 2023. Revisiting conflict: Neoliberalism at work in the gig economy. Human Relations 76(1), pp. 53-86. (10.1177/00187267211064596)
2022
- Willmott, H. 2022. Critical essay: Blinding faith - Paradoxes and pathologies of opacity in peer review. Human Relations 75(9), pp. 1741-1769. (10.1177/00187267211016752)
- Wallace, J., Willmott, H. and Brewis, J. 2022. Culture. In: Knights, D. and Wilmott, H. eds. Introducing Organizational Behaviour & Management. Cengage, pp. 344-376.
- Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. 2022. Social ontology of the modern corporation: its role in understanding organizations. In: Meyer, R., Leixnering, S. and Veldman, J. eds. The Corporation: Rethinking the Iconic Form of Business Organization., Vol. 78. Research in the Sociology of Organizations Emerald, pp. 165-189., (10.1108/S0733-558X20220000078009)
- Willmott, H. 2022. Not the 'from the editors': on guarding 'topness'. Organization 29(1), pp. 178-196. (10.1177/1350508420972091)
2020
- Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. 2020. Performativity and convergence in comparative corporate governance. Competition and Change 24(5), pp. 408-428. (10.1177/1024529419857382)
- Bell, E. and Willmott, H. 2020. Ethics, politics and embodied imagination in crafting scientific knowledge. Human Relations 73(10), pp. 1366-1387. (10.1177/0018726719876687)
2019
- Willmott, H. 2019. Can it? On expanding institutional theory by disarming critique. Journal of Management Inquiry 28(3), pp. 350-353. (10.1177/1056492617744893)
- Lok, J. and Willmott, H. 2019. Embedded agency in institutional theory: Problem or paradox?. Academy of Management Review 44(2), pp. 470-471. (10.5465/amr.2017.0571)
- Chowdhury, R. and Willmott, H. 2019. Microcredit, the corporatization of nongovernmental organizations, and academic activism: The example of Professor Anu Muhammad. Organization 26(1), pp. 122-140. (10.1177/1350508418768002)
2018
- Mehrpouya, A. and Willmott, H. 2018. Making a niche: the marketization of management research and the rise of 'knowledge branding'. Journal of Management Studies 55(4), pp. 728-734. (10.1111/joms.12336)
- Munir, K., Ayaz, M., Levy, D. L. and Willmott, H. 2018. The role of intermediaries in governance of global production networks: Restructuring work relations in Pakistan's apparel industry. Human Relations 71(4), pp. 560-583. (10.1177/0018726717722395)
2017
- Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. 2017. Social ontology and the modern corporation. Cambridge Journal of Economics 41(5), pp. 1489 -1504. (10.1093/cje/bex043)
- Venkitachalam, K. and Willmott, H. 2017. Strategic knowledge management-Insights and pitfalls. International Journal of Information Management 37(4), pp. 313-316. (10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2017.02.002)
- Bell, E., Kothiyal, N. and Willmott, H. 2017. Methodology-as-technique and the meaning of rigour in globalized management research. British Journal of Management 28(3), pp. 534-550. (10.1111/1467-8551.12205)
2016
- Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. 2016. The cultural grammar of governance: The UK Code of Corporate Governance, reflexivity, and the limits of ‘soft’ regulation. Human Relations 69(3), pp. 581-603. (10.1177/0018726715593160)
- Thompson, M. and Willmott, H. 2016. The social potency of affect: Identification and power in the immanent structuring of practice. Human Relations 69(2), pp. 483-506. (10.1177/0018726715593161)
- Venkitachalam, K. and Willmott, H. 2016. Determining strategic shifts between codification and personalization in operational environments. Journal of Strategy and Management 9(1), pp. 2-14. (10.1108/JSMA-09-2014-0082)
2015
- Murphy, J. and Willmott, H. 2015. The rise of the 1%: an organizational explanation. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 43, pp. 25-53. (10.1108/S0733-558X20150000043013)
- Tourish, D. and Willmott, H. 2015. In defiance of folly: Journal rankings, mindless measures and the ABS guide. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 26, pp. 37. (10.1016/j.cpa.2014.02.004)
- Willmott, H. 2015. Why institutional theory cannot be critical. Journal of Management Inquiry 24(1), pp. 105-111. (10.1177/1056492614545306)
- Willmott, H. 2015. The power of science and the science of power. In: Bjartveit, S. and Roos, G. eds. Scandinavian perspectives on Management Consulting. Norwegian Library House
- Glynos, J., Klimecki, R. and Willmott, H. 2015. Logics in policy and practice: a critical nodal analysis of the UK banking reform process. Critical Policy Studies 9(4), pp. 393-415. (10.1080/19460171.2015.1009841)
2014
- Willmott, H. 2014. Conceptually grounded analysis: The elusive facticity and ethical upshot of 'organization'. In: Jeanes, E. and Huzzard, T. eds. Critical Management Research: Reflections from the Field. London: SAGE, pp. 189-208.
- Paranque, B. and Willmott, H. 2014. Cooperatives--saviours or gravediggers of capitalism? Critical performativity and the John Lewis Partnership. Organization 21(5), pp. 604-625. (10.1177/1350508414537622)
- Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2014. Registering 'the ethical' in organization theory formation: Towards the disclosure of an 'invisible force'. Organization Studies 35(7), pp. 1013-1039. (10.1177/0170840614525324)
- Lok, J. and Willmott, H. 2014. Identities and identifications in organizations: dynamics of antipathy, deadlock, and alliance. Journal of Management Inquiry 23(3), pp. 215-230. (10.1177/1056492613504461)
- Willmott, H. 2014. Science, governance and self-understanding: from anthropocentricism to ecocentrism?. Critical Policy Studies 8(1), pp. 22-40. (10.1080/19460171.2014.883858)
- Sambrook, S. and Willmott, H. 2014. The rigor of management education and the relevance of human resource development - natural partners or uneasy bedfellows in management practice?. Management Learning 45(1), pp. 39-56. (10.1177/1350507612468422)
- Willmott, H. 2014. Fighting corporate abuse: beyond predatory capitalism. Pluto Press.
- Daft, R., Murphy, J. and Willmott, H. 2014. Organization theory and design (2nd Edition). Cengage Learning.
- Bell, E. and Willmott, H. 2014. Qualitative research in business and management. SAGE.
- Bell, E. and Willmott, H. 2014. Introduction. In: Qualitative research in business and management. SAGE
- Willmott, H. and Weiskopf, R. 2014. Foucault. In: Helin, J. et al. eds. Oxford handbook of process philosophy and organization. Oxford Univeristy Press
2013
- Venkitachalam, K. and Willmott, H. 2013. Factors shaping organizational dynamics in strategic knowledge management. Knowledge Management Research & Practice 13(3), pp. 344-359. (10.1057/kmrp.2013.54)
- Willmott, H. 2013. Reflections on the darker side of conventional power analytics. Academy of Management Perspectives 27(4), pp. 281-286. (10.5465/amp.2013.0075)
- Mingers, J. and Willmott, H. 2013. Taylorizing business school research: on the 'one best way' performative effects of journal ranking lists. Human Relations 66(8), pp. 1051-1073. (10.1177/0018726712467048)
- Willmott, H. 2013. 'The substitution of one piece of nonsense for another': Reflections on resistance, gaming, and subjugation. Journal of Management Studies 50(3), pp. 443-473. (10.1111/joms.12019)
- Weiskopf, R. and Willmott, H. 2013. Ethics as critical practice: the "Pentagon Papers", deciding responsibly, truth-telling, and the unsettling of organizational morality. Organization Studies 34(4), pp. 469-493. (10.1177/0170840612470256)
- Willmott, H. and Silkka, P. 2013. The tax avoidance industry: accountancy firms on the make. Critical Perspectives on International Business 9(4), pp. 415-443. (10.1108/cpoib-06-2013-0019)
- Willmott, H. 2013. OT and power: The significance of value-orientations and a plea for pluralism. Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry 11(2), pp. 53-66.
- Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. 2013. What is the corporation and why does it matter?. M@n@gement 16(5), pp. 605-620.
- Willmott, H. 2013. Changing institutions: critical management studies as a social movement. In: Dialogues in Critical Management Studies: Getting things done., Vol. 2. Emerald, pp. 123-164.
2012
- Willmott, H. 2012. Reframing relevance as 'Social Usefulness': a comment on Hodgkinson and Starkey's 'Not Simply Returning to the Same Answer Over and Over Again'. British Journal of Management 23(4), pp. 598-604. (10.1111/j.1467-8551.2012.00839.x)
- Willmott, H. and Edwards, P. 2012. Discourse and normative business ethics. In: Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 549-580.
- Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. 2012. Making sense of management: A critical introduction (2nd ed.). London: SAGE.
- Glynos, J., Klimecki, R. and Willmott, H. 2012. Cooling out the marks: The ideology and politics of financial markets. Journal of Cultural Economy 5(3), pp. 297-320. (10.1080/17530350.2012.675885)
- Willmott, H. 2012. Spirited away: When political economy becomes culturalized... In: du Gay, P. and Morgan, G. eds. New Spirits of Capitalism? On the Ethics of the Contemporary Capitalist Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 98-123.
- Knights, D. and Willmott, H. 2012. Introducing organization behaviour and management. London: Cengage Learning.
2011
- Willmott, H. 2011. Metric Perversion. THE - Times Higher Education, pp. 30.
- Willmott, H. 2011. Organizational Culture. In: Painter-Morland, M. and ten Bos, R. eds. Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy. Cambridge: Canbridge University Press, pp. 61-95.
- Willmott, H. 2011. Enron Narrative. In: Painter-Morland, M. and ten Bos, R. eds. Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 96-116.
- Willmott, H. 2011. Préface. In: Leflaive, X. ed. Repenser L'Enterprise et la Gastion: Un enjeu de société. Gestion Paris: Economica, pp. 7-11.
- Willmott, H. 2011. Préface. In: Taskin, L. and de Nanteuil, M. eds. Perspectives critiques en management: Pour une gestion citoyenne. Méthodes & Recherches Bruxelles: De Boeck, pp. 5-9.
- Willmott, H. 2011. Journal list fetishism and the perversion of scholarship: reactivity and the ABS list. Organization 18(4), pp. 429-442. (10.1177/1350508411403532)
- Willmott, H. 2011. Listing Perilously [Letter]. Organization 18(4), pp. 447-448. (10.1177/1350508411403536)
- Al-Amoudi, I. and Willmott, H. 2011. Where constructionism and critical realism converge: interrogating the domain of epistemological relativism. Organization Studies 32(1), pp. 27-46. (10.1177/0170840610394293)
- Willmott, H. 2011. Making sense of the financial meltdown - an extended review of The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession: The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession, A. Gamble. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 208 pp. 15.99. ISBN 9780230230750 [Book Review]. Organization 18(2), pp. 239-260. (10.1177/1350508410394155)
- Willmott, H. 2011. Back to the future: what does studying bureaucracy tell us?. In: Clegg, S. R., Harris, M. and Höpfl, H. eds. Managing modernity : beyond bureaucracy?. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 257-294.
- Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. eds. 2011. Critical management studies (4 vols.). SAGE Library in Business and Management. London: SAGE.
- Kenny, K., Whittle, A. and Willmott, H. 2011. Understanding identity and organizations. London: SAGE.
- Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. 2011. Critical Management Studies - Introduction. In: Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. eds. Critical Management Studies (4 vols). SAGE Library in Business and Management London: SAGE, pp. xxi-xxxvii.
- Willmott, H. 2011. Considering the "Bigger Picture": Branding in Processes of Financialization and Market Capitalization. In: Brannan, M. J., Parsons, E. and Priola, V. eds. Branded Lives: The Production and Consumption of Meaning at Work. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 17-34.
2010
- Willmott, H. 2010. Governing employability: business school accreditation as 'soft' regulation. In: Blyton, P. R., Heery, E. J. and Turnbull, P. J. eds. Reassessing the Employment Relationship. Management, Work and Organisations London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 249-272.
- Willmott, H. 2010. Creating 'value' beyond the point of production: branding, financialization and market capitalization. Organization 17(5), pp. 517-542. (10.1177/1350508410374194)
- Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. 2010. The dark side of transfer pricing: its role in tax avoidance and wealth retentiveness. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 21(4), pp. 342-356. (10.1016/j.cpa.2010.02.004)
- Willmott, H. 2010. "Institutional work" for what? Problems and prospects of institutional theory. Journal of Management Inquiry 20(1), pp. 67-72. (10.1177/1056492610387224)
- Knights, W. and Willmott, H. 2010. Organizational Analysis: Essential Readings. Andover: Cengage Learning.
- Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2010. Strategy and strategizing: a poststructuralist perspective. In: Baum, J. A. and Lampel, J. eds. The globalization of strategy research., Vol. 27. Advances in Strategic Management Emerald, pp. 75-109., (10.1108/S0742-3322(2010)0000027007)
2009
- O'Doherty, D. and Willmott, H. 2009. The decline of labour process analysis and the future sociology of work. Sociology 43(5), pp. 931-951. (10.1177/0038038509340742)
- Calas, M. et al. 2009. After the fall: saving management knowledge from itself?. Presented at: 2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, 7-11 August 2009.
- Willmott, H. 2009. Commentary: Science as intervention: recasting Weber's moral vision. Organization 16(1), pp. 143-153. (10.1177/1350508408098926)
- Lowrie, A. and Willmott, H. 2009. Accreditation sickness in the consumption of business education: the vacuum in AACSB standard setting. Management Learning 40(4), pp. 411-420. (10.1177/1350507609335851)
- Klimecki, R. and Willmott, H. 2009. From demutualisation to meltdown: a tale of two wannabe banks. Critical Perspectives on International Business 5(1/2), pp. 120-140. (10.1108/17422040910938749)
- Willmott, H. and Sikka, P. 2009. All Offshore: the sprat, the mackerel, accounting firms, and the state in globalization. In: Chapman, C. S., Cooper, D. J. and Miller, P. B. eds. Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions: essays in Honour of Anthony Hopwood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 396-414., (10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546350.003.0018)
- Willmott, H. and O'Doherty, D. 2009. Avoiding debate and the immobilization of labour process study: Strawmanning or Friedmanning?. In: Pullen, A. and Rhodes, C. eds. Bits of Organization. Advances in Organization Studies Vol. 24. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, pp. 38-55.
- Thomas, R. 2009. Critical management studies on identity: mapping the terrain. In: Willmott, H., Bridgman, T. and Alvesson, M. eds. The Handbook of Critical Management Studies. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 166-185., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199595686.013.0008)
- Reed, M. I. 2009. Critical realism in critical management studies. In: Alvesson, M., Bridgman, T. and Willmott, H. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 52-75., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199595686.013.0003)
- Alvesson, M., Bridgman, T. and Willmott, H. eds. 2009. The Oxford handbook of critical management studies. Oxford handbooks in business and management. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2008
- Willmott, H. 2008. Critical management and global justice. Organization 15(6), pp. 927-931. (10.1177/1350508408097913)
- Willmott, H. 2008. Listening, interpreting, commending: A commentary on the future of interpretive accounting research. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 19(6), pp. 920-925. (10.1016/j.cpa.2007.02.007)
- Knights, D., Vurdubakis, T. and Willmott, H. 2008. The night of the bug: Technology, risk and (dis)organization at the fin de siecle. Management & Organizational History 3(3-4), pp. 289-309. (10.1177/1744935908095411)
- Edward, P. and Willmott, H. 2008. Corporate citizenship: Rise or demise of a myth?. Academy of Management Review 33(3), pp. 771-773.
- Ezzamel, M., Willmott, H. and Worthington, F. 2008. Manufacturing shareholder value: the role of accounting in organizational transformation. Accounting, Organizations and Society 33(2-3), pp. 107-140. (10.1016/j.aos.2007.03.001)
- Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2008. Strategy as discourse in a global retailer: a supplement to rationalist and interpretive accounts. Organization Studies 29(2), pp. 191-217. (10.1177/0170840607082226)
- Cooper, D. J., Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2008. Examining "institutionalization": a critical theoretic perspective. In: Greenwood, R. et al. eds. Handbook of organizational institutionalism. London: Sage, pp. 673-701.
- Willmott, H. 2008. For informed pluralism, broad relevance and critical reflexivity. In: Barry, D. and Hansen, H. eds. The SAGE handbook of new approaches in management and organization. London: Sage, pp. 82-83.
- Edward, P. and Willmott, H. 2008. Structures, identities and politics: bringing corporate citizenship into the corporation. In: Scherer, A. G. and Palazzo, G. eds. Handbook of research on global corporate citizenship. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, pp. 405-429.
- Willmott, H. 2008. Critical management studies. In: Clegg, S. and Bailey, J. R. eds. International encyclopedia of organization studies. London: Sage, pp. 321-325.
- Laurent, T. and Willmott, H. 2008. Introducing critical management studies: key dimensions. Gestion 2000. 25(6), pp. 27-38.
2007
- Knights, D., Noble, F., Vurdubakis, T. and Willmott, H. 2007. Electronic Cash and the Virtual Marketplace: Reflections on a Revolution Postponed. Organization 14(6), pp. 747-768. (10.1177/1350508407082261)
- Willmott, H. 2007. Political cultural economy and the financialization of brand equity. Presented at: ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change 3rd Annual Conference: Re-thinking Cultural Economy, Manchester, UK, 5-7 September 2007.
- Willmott, H. 2007. Psychoanalytic thinking and critical management studies. Presented at: American Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting; Ideas and Challenges from Psychoanalytic Thinking Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 3-8 August 2007.
- Willmott, H. 2007. The past and future of CMS. Presented at: American Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting; CMS Theme Session, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 3-8 August 2007.
- Willmott, H. 2007. Philosophical foundations of organizational research. Presented at: American Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting; Professional Development Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 3-8 August 2007.
- Khan, F. R., Munir, K. A. and Willmott, H. 2007. A Dark Side of Institutional Entrepreneurship: Soccer Balls, Child Labour and Postcolonial Impoverishment. Organization Studies 28(7), pp. 1055-1077. (10.1177/0170840607078114)
- Beverungen, A., Bohm, S., Contu, A., Daly, G., Glynos, J., Spicer, A. and Willmott, H. 2007. Does the social theory of hegemony allow us to rethink the labour-capital relationship?. Presented at: Rethinking Labour-Capital Relations: Class, Discourse, Hegemony, Warwick, UK, 9 July 2007.
- Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2007. Critical management perspective. In: Jenkins, M., Ambrosini, V. and Collier, N. eds. Advanced Strategic Management: A Multi-Perspective Approach, 2nd ed.. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 235-248.
- Jelinek, T. and Willmott, H. 2007. The political shift in cross-cultural studies. Presented at: Crosscultural Life of Social Values Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 18-19 May 2007.
- Willmott, H. 2007. On leading (in) clusters: insights into leadership processes in photonics clusters. Presented at: Making Connections: Relational Analysis, Boundary Concepts and the Future of Organization Studies: an international workshop, Cardiff, UK, 2-3 April 2007.
- Willmott, H. 2007. Process ontology, separability and the issue of leadership-context responsiveness. Presented at: Making Connections: Relational Analysis, Boundary Concepts and the Future of Organization Studies: an international workshop, Cardiff, UK, 2-3 April 2007.
- Smith, C., Edwards, P., Willmott, H., Grugulis, I. and Thompson, P. 2007. From Marx to Laclau. Presented at: 25th International Labour Process Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2-4 April 2007.
- Willmott, H. 2007. Academics in the knowledge economy: from expert to intellectual?. In: Harding, A. et al. eds. Bright Satanic Mills: Universities, Regional Development and the Knowledge Economy. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 149-162.
- Willmott, H. 2007. The financial logic of risk wars. Presented at: Financialization: in Retrospect and Prospect, London, UK, 12-13 February 2007.
- Willmott, H. 2007. Critical theory. In: Thorpe, R. and Holt, R. eds. Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research. London: Sage, pp. 66-68.
- Willmott, H. 2007. Critical management studies. In: Walsh, J. P. and Brief, A. P. eds. The Academy of Management Annals of Organization and Management, Vol. 1. The Academy of Management Annals Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis/Routledge, pp. 145-218.
- Knights, D. and Willmott, H. 2007. Socialization, Yes. Skill Upgrading, Probably. Robust Theory of the Capitalist Labour Process, No. Organization Studies 28(9), pp. 1369-1378. (10.1177/0170840607080746)
2006
- Contu, A. and Willmott, H. 2006. Studying practice: Situating Talking About Machines. Organization Studies 27(12), pp. 1769-1782. (10.1177/0170840606071895)
- Lok, J. and Willmott, H. 2006. Institutional Theory, Language, and Discourse Analysis: A Comment on Philips, Lawrence, and Hardy. Academy of Management Review 31(2), pp. 477-480. (10.5465/AMR.2006.20208692)
- Bridgman, T. and Willmott, H. 2006. Institutions and Technology: Frameworks for Understanding Organizational Change - The Case of a Major ICT Outsourcing Contract. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 42(1), pp. 110-126. (10.1177/0021886305284990)
- Knights, D. and Willmott, H. 2006. Introducing organizational behaviour and management. London: Thomson Learning.
- Lowrie, A. and Willmott, H. 2006. Marketing Higher Education: The Promotion of Relevance and the Relevance of Promotion. Social Epistemology 20(3-4), pp. 221-240. (10.1080/02691720600879806)
2005
- Balogun, J., Gleadle, P., Hailey, V. H. and Willmott, H. 2005. Managing Change Across Boundaries: Boundary-Shaking Practices. British Journal of Management 16(4), pp. 261-278. (10.1111/j.1467-8551.2005.00463.x)
- Contu, A. and Willmott, H. 2005. You spin me round: The realist turn in organization and management studies. Journal of Management Studies 42(8), pp. 1645-1662. (10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00560.x)
- Willmott, H. 2005. Theorizing contemporary control: Some post-structuralist responses to some critical realist questions. Organization 12(5), pp. 747-780. (10.1177/1350508405055947)
- Willmott, H. 2005. Organizational theory as a critical science? Forms of analysis and 'new organisational forms'. In: Tsoukas, H. and Knudsen, C. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory: Meta-Theoretical Perspectives. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 88-112., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199275250.003.0004)
- Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. 2005. The withering of tolerance and communication in interdisciplinary accounting studies. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 18(1), pp. 136-146. (10.1108/09513570510584683)
2004
- Ezzamel, M., Lilley, S. and Willmott, H. 2004. Accounting representation and the road to commercial salvation. Accounting, Organizations and Society 29(8), pp. 783-813. (10.1016/j.aos.2003.10.004)
- Ezzamel, M., Willmott, H. and Worthington, F. 2004. Accounting and management - labour relations: the politics of production in the 'factory with a problem'. Accounting Organizations and Society 29(3-4), pp. 269-302. (10.1016/S0361-3682(03)00014-X)
- Alveston, M. M. and Willmott, H. 2004. Identity regulation as organizational control producing the appropriate individual. In: Hatch, M. J. and Schultz, M. eds. Organizational Identity: A Reader. Oxford Management Readers Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 436-465.
- Christopher, G. and Willmott, H. 2004. Critical management studies: a reader. Oxford Management Readers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Marchington, M. et al. eds. 2004. Fragmenting work: blurring organizational boundaries and disordering hierarchies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2004. Rethinking strategy: contemporary perspectives and debates. European Management Review 1(1), pp. 43-48. (10.1057/palgrave.emr.1500009)
2003
- Willmott, H. 2003. Making learning critical: identity, emotion and power in processes of management development. In: Jeffcutt, P. ed. The Foundations of Management Knowledge: Examining Complex Relations Between Theory and Practice (2003). Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies Vol. 23. London: Routledge, pp. 130-151.
- Willmott, H. and Contu, A. 2003. Re-Embedding Situatedness: The Importance of Power Relations in Learning Theory. Organization Science 14(3), pp. 283-296. (10.1287/orsc.14.3.283.15167)
- Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. eds. 2003. Studying management critically. London: Sage.
- Willmott, H. 2003. Commercialising Higher Education in the UK: The state, industry and peer review. Studies in Higher Education 28(2), pp. 129-141. (10.1080/0307507032000058127)
- Willmott, H. 2003. Renewing strength: Corporate culture revisited. M@n@gement 6(3), pp. 73-87.
- Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. 2003. Introduction. In: Studying management critically. SAGE, pp. 1-22.
- Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. 2003. Critical approaches to strategic management. In: Studying Management Critically. SAGE
2002
- Grimshaw, D., Vincent, S. and Willmott, H. 2002. Going privately: partnership and outsourcing in UK public services. Public Administration 80(3), pp. 475-502. (10.1111/1467-9299.00314)
- Knights, D., Noble, F. F., Vurdubakis, T. and Willmott, H. 2002. Allegories of creative destruction: technology and organization, narratives of the e-Economy. In: Woolgar, S. ed. Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality. Oxford University Press
- Willmott, H. and Knights, D. 2002. Autonomy as utopia or dystopia. In: Parker, M. ed. Utopia and Organization. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 59-81.
- Grey, C. and Willmott, H. 2002. Contexts of CMS. Organization 9(3), pp. 411-418. (10.1177/135050840293006)
- Willmott, H. and Alvesson, M. 2002. Identity Regulation as Organizational Control: Producing the Appropriate Individual. Journal of Management Studies 39(5), pp. 619-644. (10.1111/1467-6486.00305)
- Conta, A. and Willmott, H. 2002. Macht, lernen und organisation [Power, learning and organization]. In: Weiskopf, R. ed. Menschenregierungskünste: Anwendungen poststrukturalistischer Analyse auf Management und Organisation. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, pp. 159-186.
- Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. 2002. Commentary on 'Accountability of accounting educators and the rhythm of the university: resistance strategies for postmodern blues'. Accounting Education 11(2), pp. 191-197. (10.1080/0963928021000031754)
- Willmott, H., Angeli, F. and Contu, A. 2002. Rappresentare il lavoro in azione: Pottere e capacita di apprendimentio. Sociologia del Lavoro 86(7), pp. 85-104.
- Sikka, P. N. and Willmott, H. 2002. Beyond reductionism in critical accounting research. Accounting and the Public Interest 2(1), pp. 88-93. (10.2308/api.2002.2.1.88)
2001
- Ezzamel, M., Willmott, H. and Worthington, F. 2001. Power, Control and Resistance in 'The Factory That Time Forgot'. Journal of Management Studies 38(8), pp. 1053-1079. (10.1111/1467-6486.00272)
- Mitchell, A., Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. 2001. Policing knowledge by invoking the law: critical accounting and the politics of dissemination. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 12(5), pp. 527-555. (10.1006/cpac.2000.0452)
- Willmott, H. and Bos, R. t. 2001. Towards a Post-Dualistic Business Ethics: Interweaving Reason and Emotion in Working Life. Journal of Management Studies 38(6), pp. 769-793. (10.1111/1467-6486.00258)
- Willmott, H., Grimshaw, D. and Vincent, S. 2001. New control modes and emergent organizational forms: Private-public contracting in public administration. Administrative Theory and Praxis 23(3), pp. 407-430.
- O'Doherty, D. and Willmott, H. 2001. Debating Labour Process Theory: The Issue of Subjectivity and the Relevance of Poststructuralism. Sociology 35(2), pp. 457-476. (10.1177/S0038038501000220)
- Sturdy, A., Grugulis, I. and Willmott, H. eds. 2001. Customer service: empowerment and entrapment. Critical Perspectives on Work and Organisations. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Willmott, H., Knights, D., Noble, F. and Vurdubakis, T. 2001. Chasing Shadows: Control, Virtuality and the Production of Trust. Organization Studies 22(2), pp. 311-336. (10.1177/0170840601222006)
- Yanow, D. and Willmott, H. 2001. Passionate humility: toward a philosophy of ethical will. In: Jun, J. S. ed. Rethinking Administrative Theory: The Challenge of the New Century. Westport, CN: Praeger, pp. 131-140.
1996
- Cooper, D., Puxty, T., Robson, K. and Willmott, H. 1996. Changes in the international regulation of auditors: (In)stalling the Eighth Directive in the UK.. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 7(6), pp. 589-613. (10.1006/cpac.1996.0063)
1994
- Ezzamel, M., Lilley, S. and Willmott, H. 1994. The new organization, the new managerial work. European Journal of Management 12(4), pp. 454-461.
- Robson, K., Willmott, H., Cooper, D. and Puxty, T. 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 19(6), pp. 527-553. (10.1016/0361-3682(94)90022-1)
- Ezzamel, M., Lilley, S. and Willmott, H. 1994. Changes in management practices in financial services. Journal of General Management 20(1), pp. 22-28.
1993
- Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 1993. Corporate governance and financial accountability: Recent reforms in the UK public sector. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal 6(3), pp. 109-132. (10.1108/EUM0000000001937)
1992
- Willmott, H., Puxty, A. G., Robson, K., Cooper, D. J. and Lowe, E. A. 1992. Regulation of accountancy and accountants: A comparative analysis of accounting for research and development in four advanced capitalist countries. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal 5(2), pp. 31-54. (10.1108/09513579210011853)
Articles
- Willmott, H. 2024. Pluralism not triangulation [Dialogue]. Academy of Management Review (10.5465/amr.2023.0381)
- Tourish, D. and Willmott, H. 2023. Despotic leadership and ideological manipulation at theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace. Organization Studies 44(11), pp. 1801-1824. (10.1177/01708406231171801)
- Tirapani, A. N. and Willmott, H. 2023. Revisiting conflict: Neoliberalism at work in the gig economy. Human Relations 76(1), pp. 53-86. (10.1177/00187267211064596)
- Willmott, H. 2022. Critical essay: Blinding faith - Paradoxes and pathologies of opacity in peer review. Human Relations 75(9), pp. 1741-1769. (10.1177/00187267211016752)
- Willmott, H. 2022. Not the 'from the editors': on guarding 'topness'. Organization 29(1), pp. 178-196. (10.1177/1350508420972091)
- Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. 2020. Performativity and convergence in comparative corporate governance. Competition and Change 24(5), pp. 408-428. (10.1177/1024529419857382)
- Bell, E. and Willmott, H. 2020. Ethics, politics and embodied imagination in crafting scientific knowledge. Human Relations 73(10), pp. 1366-1387. (10.1177/0018726719876687)
- Willmott, H. 2019. Can it? On expanding institutional theory by disarming critique. Journal of Management Inquiry 28(3), pp. 350-353. (10.1177/1056492617744893)
- Lok, J. and Willmott, H. 2019. Embedded agency in institutional theory: Problem or paradox?. Academy of Management Review 44(2), pp. 470-471. (10.5465/amr.2017.0571)
- Chowdhury, R. and Willmott, H. 2019. Microcredit, the corporatization of nongovernmental organizations, and academic activism: The example of Professor Anu Muhammad. Organization 26(1), pp. 122-140. (10.1177/1350508418768002)
- Mehrpouya, A. and Willmott, H. 2018. Making a niche: the marketization of management research and the rise of 'knowledge branding'. Journal of Management Studies 55(4), pp. 728-734. (10.1111/joms.12336)
- Munir, K., Ayaz, M., Levy, D. L. and Willmott, H. 2018. The role of intermediaries in governance of global production networks: Restructuring work relations in Pakistan's apparel industry. Human Relations 71(4), pp. 560-583. (10.1177/0018726717722395)
- Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. 2017. Social ontology and the modern corporation. Cambridge Journal of Economics 41(5), pp. 1489 -1504. (10.1093/cje/bex043)
- Venkitachalam, K. and Willmott, H. 2017. Strategic knowledge management-Insights and pitfalls. International Journal of Information Management 37(4), pp. 313-316. (10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2017.02.002)
- Bell, E., Kothiyal, N. and Willmott, H. 2017. Methodology-as-technique and the meaning of rigour in globalized management research. British Journal of Management 28(3), pp. 534-550. (10.1111/1467-8551.12205)
- Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. 2016. The cultural grammar of governance: The UK Code of Corporate Governance, reflexivity, and the limits of ‘soft’ regulation. Human Relations 69(3), pp. 581-603. (10.1177/0018726715593160)
- Thompson, M. and Willmott, H. 2016. The social potency of affect: Identification and power in the immanent structuring of practice. Human Relations 69(2), pp. 483-506. (10.1177/0018726715593161)
- Venkitachalam, K. and Willmott, H. 2016. Determining strategic shifts between codification and personalization in operational environments. Journal of Strategy and Management 9(1), pp. 2-14. (10.1108/JSMA-09-2014-0082)
- Murphy, J. and Willmott, H. 2015. The rise of the 1%: an organizational explanation. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 43, pp. 25-53. (10.1108/S0733-558X20150000043013)
- Tourish, D. and Willmott, H. 2015. In defiance of folly: Journal rankings, mindless measures and the ABS guide. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 26, pp. 37. (10.1016/j.cpa.2014.02.004)
- Willmott, H. 2015. Why institutional theory cannot be critical. Journal of Management Inquiry 24(1), pp. 105-111. (10.1177/1056492614545306)
- Glynos, J., Klimecki, R. and Willmott, H. 2015. Logics in policy and practice: a critical nodal analysis of the UK banking reform process. Critical Policy Studies 9(4), pp. 393-415. (10.1080/19460171.2015.1009841)
- Paranque, B. and Willmott, H. 2014. Cooperatives--saviours or gravediggers of capitalism? Critical performativity and the John Lewis Partnership. Organization 21(5), pp. 604-625. (10.1177/1350508414537622)
- Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2014. Registering 'the ethical' in organization theory formation: Towards the disclosure of an 'invisible force'. Organization Studies 35(7), pp. 1013-1039. (10.1177/0170840614525324)
- Lok, J. and Willmott, H. 2014. Identities and identifications in organizations: dynamics of antipathy, deadlock, and alliance. Journal of Management Inquiry 23(3), pp. 215-230. (10.1177/1056492613504461)
- Willmott, H. 2014. Science, governance and self-understanding: from anthropocentricism to ecocentrism?. Critical Policy Studies 8(1), pp. 22-40. (10.1080/19460171.2014.883858)
- Sambrook, S. and Willmott, H. 2014. The rigor of management education and the relevance of human resource development - natural partners or uneasy bedfellows in management practice?. Management Learning 45(1), pp. 39-56. (10.1177/1350507612468422)
- Venkitachalam, K. and Willmott, H. 2013. Factors shaping organizational dynamics in strategic knowledge management. Knowledge Management Research & Practice 13(3), pp. 344-359. (10.1057/kmrp.2013.54)
- Willmott, H. 2013. Reflections on the darker side of conventional power analytics. Academy of Management Perspectives 27(4), pp. 281-286. (10.5465/amp.2013.0075)
- Mingers, J. and Willmott, H. 2013. Taylorizing business school research: on the 'one best way' performative effects of journal ranking lists. Human Relations 66(8), pp. 1051-1073. (10.1177/0018726712467048)
- Willmott, H. 2013. 'The substitution of one piece of nonsense for another': Reflections on resistance, gaming, and subjugation. Journal of Management Studies 50(3), pp. 443-473. (10.1111/joms.12019)
- Weiskopf, R. and Willmott, H. 2013. Ethics as critical practice: the "Pentagon Papers", deciding responsibly, truth-telling, and the unsettling of organizational morality. Organization Studies 34(4), pp. 469-493. (10.1177/0170840612470256)
- Willmott, H. and Silkka, P. 2013. The tax avoidance industry: accountancy firms on the make. Critical Perspectives on International Business 9(4), pp. 415-443. (10.1108/cpoib-06-2013-0019)
- Willmott, H. 2013. OT and power: The significance of value-orientations and a plea for pluralism. Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry 11(2), pp. 53-66.
- Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. 2013. What is the corporation and why does it matter?. M@n@gement 16(5), pp. 605-620.
- Willmott, H. 2012. Reframing relevance as 'Social Usefulness': a comment on Hodgkinson and Starkey's 'Not Simply Returning to the Same Answer Over and Over Again'. British Journal of Management 23(4), pp. 598-604. (10.1111/j.1467-8551.2012.00839.x)
- Glynos, J., Klimecki, R. and Willmott, H. 2012. Cooling out the marks: The ideology and politics of financial markets. Journal of Cultural Economy 5(3), pp. 297-320. (10.1080/17530350.2012.675885)
- Willmott, H. 2011. Metric Perversion. THE - Times Higher Education, pp. 30.
- Willmott, H. 2011. Journal list fetishism and the perversion of scholarship: reactivity and the ABS list. Organization 18(4), pp. 429-442. (10.1177/1350508411403532)
- Willmott, H. 2011. Listing Perilously [Letter]. Organization 18(4), pp. 447-448. (10.1177/1350508411403536)
- Al-Amoudi, I. and Willmott, H. 2011. Where constructionism and critical realism converge: interrogating the domain of epistemological relativism. Organization Studies 32(1), pp. 27-46. (10.1177/0170840610394293)
- Willmott, H. 2011. Making sense of the financial meltdown - an extended review of The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession: The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession, A. Gamble. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 208 pp. 15.99. ISBN 9780230230750 [Book Review]. Organization 18(2), pp. 239-260. (10.1177/1350508410394155)
- Willmott, H. 2010. Creating 'value' beyond the point of production: branding, financialization and market capitalization. Organization 17(5), pp. 517-542. (10.1177/1350508410374194)
- Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. 2010. The dark side of transfer pricing: its role in tax avoidance and wealth retentiveness. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 21(4), pp. 342-356. (10.1016/j.cpa.2010.02.004)
- Willmott, H. 2010. "Institutional work" for what? Problems and prospects of institutional theory. Journal of Management Inquiry 20(1), pp. 67-72. (10.1177/1056492610387224)
- O'Doherty, D. and Willmott, H. 2009. The decline of labour process analysis and the future sociology of work. Sociology 43(5), pp. 931-951. (10.1177/0038038509340742)
- Willmott, H. 2009. Commentary: Science as intervention: recasting Weber's moral vision. Organization 16(1), pp. 143-153. (10.1177/1350508408098926)
- Lowrie, A. and Willmott, H. 2009. Accreditation sickness in the consumption of business education: the vacuum in AACSB standard setting. Management Learning 40(4), pp. 411-420. (10.1177/1350507609335851)
- Klimecki, R. and Willmott, H. 2009. From demutualisation to meltdown: a tale of two wannabe banks. Critical Perspectives on International Business 5(1/2), pp. 120-140. (10.1108/17422040910938749)
- Willmott, H. 2008. Critical management and global justice. Organization 15(6), pp. 927-931. (10.1177/1350508408097913)
- Willmott, H. 2008. Listening, interpreting, commending: A commentary on the future of interpretive accounting research. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 19(6), pp. 920-925. (10.1016/j.cpa.2007.02.007)
- Knights, D., Vurdubakis, T. and Willmott, H. 2008. The night of the bug: Technology, risk and (dis)organization at the fin de siecle. Management & Organizational History 3(3-4), pp. 289-309. (10.1177/1744935908095411)
- Edward, P. and Willmott, H. 2008. Corporate citizenship: Rise or demise of a myth?. Academy of Management Review 33(3), pp. 771-773.
- Ezzamel, M., Willmott, H. and Worthington, F. 2008. Manufacturing shareholder value: the role of accounting in organizational transformation. Accounting, Organizations and Society 33(2-3), pp. 107-140. (10.1016/j.aos.2007.03.001)
- Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2008. Strategy as discourse in a global retailer: a supplement to rationalist and interpretive accounts. Organization Studies 29(2), pp. 191-217. (10.1177/0170840607082226)
- Laurent, T. and Willmott, H. 2008. Introducing critical management studies: key dimensions. Gestion 2000. 25(6), pp. 27-38.
- Knights, D., Noble, F., Vurdubakis, T. and Willmott, H. 2007. Electronic Cash and the Virtual Marketplace: Reflections on a Revolution Postponed. Organization 14(6), pp. 747-768. (10.1177/1350508407082261)
- Khan, F. R., Munir, K. A. and Willmott, H. 2007. A Dark Side of Institutional Entrepreneurship: Soccer Balls, Child Labour and Postcolonial Impoverishment. Organization Studies 28(7), pp. 1055-1077. (10.1177/0170840607078114)
- Knights, D. and Willmott, H. 2007. Socialization, Yes. Skill Upgrading, Probably. Robust Theory of the Capitalist Labour Process, No. Organization Studies 28(9), pp. 1369-1378. (10.1177/0170840607080746)
- Contu, A. and Willmott, H. 2006. Studying practice: Situating Talking About Machines. Organization Studies 27(12), pp. 1769-1782. (10.1177/0170840606071895)
- Lok, J. and Willmott, H. 2006. Institutional Theory, Language, and Discourse Analysis: A Comment on Philips, Lawrence, and Hardy. Academy of Management Review 31(2), pp. 477-480. (10.5465/AMR.2006.20208692)
- Bridgman, T. and Willmott, H. 2006. Institutions and Technology: Frameworks for Understanding Organizational Change - The Case of a Major ICT Outsourcing Contract. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 42(1), pp. 110-126. (10.1177/0021886305284990)
- Lowrie, A. and Willmott, H. 2006. Marketing Higher Education: The Promotion of Relevance and the Relevance of Promotion. Social Epistemology 20(3-4), pp. 221-240. (10.1080/02691720600879806)
- Balogun, J., Gleadle, P., Hailey, V. H. and Willmott, H. 2005. Managing Change Across Boundaries: Boundary-Shaking Practices. British Journal of Management 16(4), pp. 261-278. (10.1111/j.1467-8551.2005.00463.x)
- Contu, A. and Willmott, H. 2005. You spin me round: The realist turn in organization and management studies. Journal of Management Studies 42(8), pp. 1645-1662. (10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00560.x)
- Willmott, H. 2005. Theorizing contemporary control: Some post-structuralist responses to some critical realist questions. Organization 12(5), pp. 747-780. (10.1177/1350508405055947)
- Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. 2005. The withering of tolerance and communication in interdisciplinary accounting studies. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 18(1), pp. 136-146. (10.1108/09513570510584683)
- Ezzamel, M., Lilley, S. and Willmott, H. 2004. Accounting representation and the road to commercial salvation. Accounting, Organizations and Society 29(8), pp. 783-813. (10.1016/j.aos.2003.10.004)
- Ezzamel, M., Willmott, H. and Worthington, F. 2004. Accounting and management - labour relations: the politics of production in the 'factory with a problem'. Accounting Organizations and Society 29(3-4), pp. 269-302. (10.1016/S0361-3682(03)00014-X)
- Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2004. Rethinking strategy: contemporary perspectives and debates. European Management Review 1(1), pp. 43-48. (10.1057/palgrave.emr.1500009)
- Willmott, H. and Contu, A. 2003. Re-Embedding Situatedness: The Importance of Power Relations in Learning Theory. Organization Science 14(3), pp. 283-296. (10.1287/orsc.14.3.283.15167)
- Willmott, H. 2003. Commercialising Higher Education in the UK: The state, industry and peer review. Studies in Higher Education 28(2), pp. 129-141. (10.1080/0307507032000058127)
- Willmott, H. 2003. Renewing strength: Corporate culture revisited. M@n@gement 6(3), pp. 73-87.
- Grimshaw, D., Vincent, S. and Willmott, H. 2002. Going privately: partnership and outsourcing in UK public services. Public Administration 80(3), pp. 475-502. (10.1111/1467-9299.00314)
- Grey, C. and Willmott, H. 2002. Contexts of CMS. Organization 9(3), pp. 411-418. (10.1177/135050840293006)
- Willmott, H. and Alvesson, M. 2002. Identity Regulation as Organizational Control: Producing the Appropriate Individual. Journal of Management Studies 39(5), pp. 619-644. (10.1111/1467-6486.00305)
- Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. 2002. Commentary on 'Accountability of accounting educators and the rhythm of the university: resistance strategies for postmodern blues'. Accounting Education 11(2), pp. 191-197. (10.1080/0963928021000031754)
- Willmott, H., Angeli, F. and Contu, A. 2002. Rappresentare il lavoro in azione: Pottere e capacita di apprendimentio. Sociologia del Lavoro 86(7), pp. 85-104.
- Sikka, P. N. and Willmott, H. 2002. Beyond reductionism in critical accounting research. Accounting and the Public Interest 2(1), pp. 88-93. (10.2308/api.2002.2.1.88)
- Ezzamel, M., Willmott, H. and Worthington, F. 2001. Power, Control and Resistance in 'The Factory That Time Forgot'. Journal of Management Studies 38(8), pp. 1053-1079. (10.1111/1467-6486.00272)
- Mitchell, A., Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. 2001. Policing knowledge by invoking the law: critical accounting and the politics of dissemination. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 12(5), pp. 527-555. (10.1006/cpac.2000.0452)
- Willmott, H. and Bos, R. t. 2001. Towards a Post-Dualistic Business Ethics: Interweaving Reason and Emotion in Working Life. Journal of Management Studies 38(6), pp. 769-793. (10.1111/1467-6486.00258)
- Willmott, H., Grimshaw, D. and Vincent, S. 2001. New control modes and emergent organizational forms: Private-public contracting in public administration. Administrative Theory and Praxis 23(3), pp. 407-430.
- O'Doherty, D. and Willmott, H. 2001. Debating Labour Process Theory: The Issue of Subjectivity and the Relevance of Poststructuralism. Sociology 35(2), pp. 457-476. (10.1177/S0038038501000220)
- Willmott, H., Knights, D., Noble, F. and Vurdubakis, T. 2001. Chasing Shadows: Control, Virtuality and the Production of Trust. Organization Studies 22(2), pp. 311-336. (10.1177/0170840601222006)
- Cooper, D., Puxty, T., Robson, K. and Willmott, H. 1996. Changes in the international regulation of auditors: (In)stalling the Eighth Directive in the UK.. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 7(6), pp. 589-613. (10.1006/cpac.1996.0063)
- Ezzamel, M., Lilley, S. and Willmott, H. 1994. The new organization, the new managerial work. European Journal of Management 12(4), pp. 454-461.
- Robson, K., Willmott, H., Cooper, D. and Puxty, T. 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 19(6), pp. 527-553. (10.1016/0361-3682(94)90022-1)
- Ezzamel, M., Lilley, S. and Willmott, H. 1994. Changes in management practices in financial services. Journal of General Management 20(1), pp. 22-28.
- Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 1993. Corporate governance and financial accountability: Recent reforms in the UK public sector. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal 6(3), pp. 109-132. (10.1108/EUM0000000001937)
- Willmott, H., Puxty, A. G., Robson, K., Cooper, D. J. and Lowe, E. A. 1992. Regulation of accountancy and accountants: A comparative analysis of accounting for research and development in four advanced capitalist countries. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal 5(2), pp. 31-54. (10.1108/09513579210011853)
Book sections
- Wallace, J., Willmott, H. and Brewis, J. 2022. Culture. In: Knights, D. and Wilmott, H. eds. Introducing Organizational Behaviour & Management. Cengage, pp. 344-376.
- Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. 2022. Social ontology of the modern corporation: its role in understanding organizations. In: Meyer, R., Leixnering, S. and Veldman, J. eds. The Corporation: Rethinking the Iconic Form of Business Organization., Vol. 78. Research in the Sociology of Organizations Emerald, pp. 165-189., (10.1108/S0733-558X20220000078009)
- Willmott, H. 2015. The power of science and the science of power. In: Bjartveit, S. and Roos, G. eds. Scandinavian perspectives on Management Consulting. Norwegian Library House
- Willmott, H. 2014. Conceptually grounded analysis: The elusive facticity and ethical upshot of 'organization'. In: Jeanes, E. and Huzzard, T. eds. Critical Management Research: Reflections from the Field. London: SAGE, pp. 189-208.
- Bell, E. and Willmott, H. 2014. Introduction. In: Qualitative research in business and management. SAGE
- Willmott, H. and Weiskopf, R. 2014. Foucault. In: Helin, J. et al. eds. Oxford handbook of process philosophy and organization. Oxford Univeristy Press
- Willmott, H. 2013. Changing institutions: critical management studies as a social movement. In: Dialogues in Critical Management Studies: Getting things done., Vol. 2. Emerald, pp. 123-164.
- Willmott, H. and Edwards, P. 2012. Discourse and normative business ethics. In: Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 549-580.
- Willmott, H. 2012. Spirited away: When political economy becomes culturalized... In: du Gay, P. and Morgan, G. eds. New Spirits of Capitalism? On the Ethics of the Contemporary Capitalist Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 98-123.
- Willmott, H. 2011. Organizational Culture. In: Painter-Morland, M. and ten Bos, R. eds. Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy. Cambridge: Canbridge University Press, pp. 61-95.
- Willmott, H. 2011. Enron Narrative. In: Painter-Morland, M. and ten Bos, R. eds. Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 96-116.
- Willmott, H. 2011. Préface. In: Leflaive, X. ed. Repenser L'Enterprise et la Gastion: Un enjeu de société. Gestion Paris: Economica, pp. 7-11.
- Willmott, H. 2011. Préface. In: Taskin, L. and de Nanteuil, M. eds. Perspectives critiques en management: Pour une gestion citoyenne. Méthodes & Recherches Bruxelles: De Boeck, pp. 5-9.
- Willmott, H. 2011. Back to the future: what does studying bureaucracy tell us?. In: Clegg, S. R., Harris, M. and Höpfl, H. eds. Managing modernity : beyond bureaucracy?. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 257-294.
- Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. 2011. Critical Management Studies - Introduction. In: Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. eds. Critical Management Studies (4 vols). SAGE Library in Business and Management London: SAGE, pp. xxi-xxxvii.
- Willmott, H. 2011. Considering the "Bigger Picture": Branding in Processes of Financialization and Market Capitalization. In: Brannan, M. J., Parsons, E. and Priola, V. eds. Branded Lives: The Production and Consumption of Meaning at Work. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 17-34.
- Willmott, H. 2010. Governing employability: business school accreditation as 'soft' regulation. In: Blyton, P. R., Heery, E. J. and Turnbull, P. J. eds. Reassessing the Employment Relationship. Management, Work and Organisations London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 249-272.
- Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2010. Strategy and strategizing: a poststructuralist perspective. In: Baum, J. A. and Lampel, J. eds. The globalization of strategy research., Vol. 27. Advances in Strategic Management Emerald, pp. 75-109., (10.1108/S0742-3322(2010)0000027007)
- Willmott, H. and Sikka, P. 2009. All Offshore: the sprat, the mackerel, accounting firms, and the state in globalization. In: Chapman, C. S., Cooper, D. J. and Miller, P. B. eds. Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions: essays in Honour of Anthony Hopwood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 396-414., (10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546350.003.0018)
- Willmott, H. and O'Doherty, D. 2009. Avoiding debate and the immobilization of labour process study: Strawmanning or Friedmanning?. In: Pullen, A. and Rhodes, C. eds. Bits of Organization. Advances in Organization Studies Vol. 24. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, pp. 38-55.
- Thomas, R. 2009. Critical management studies on identity: mapping the terrain. In: Willmott, H., Bridgman, T. and Alvesson, M. eds. The Handbook of Critical Management Studies. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 166-185., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199595686.013.0008)
- Reed, M. I. 2009. Critical realism in critical management studies. In: Alvesson, M., Bridgman, T. and Willmott, H. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 52-75., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199595686.013.0003)
- Cooper, D. J., Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2008. Examining "institutionalization": a critical theoretic perspective. In: Greenwood, R. et al. eds. Handbook of organizational institutionalism. London: Sage, pp. 673-701.
- Willmott, H. 2008. For informed pluralism, broad relevance and critical reflexivity. In: Barry, D. and Hansen, H. eds. The SAGE handbook of new approaches in management and organization. London: Sage, pp. 82-83.
- Edward, P. and Willmott, H. 2008. Structures, identities and politics: bringing corporate citizenship into the corporation. In: Scherer, A. G. and Palazzo, G. eds. Handbook of research on global corporate citizenship. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, pp. 405-429.
- Willmott, H. 2008. Critical management studies. In: Clegg, S. and Bailey, J. R. eds. International encyclopedia of organization studies. London: Sage, pp. 321-325.
- Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2007. Critical management perspective. In: Jenkins, M., Ambrosini, V. and Collier, N. eds. Advanced Strategic Management: A Multi-Perspective Approach, 2nd ed.. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 235-248.
- Willmott, H. 2007. Academics in the knowledge economy: from expert to intellectual?. In: Harding, A. et al. eds. Bright Satanic Mills: Universities, Regional Development and the Knowledge Economy. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 149-162.
- Willmott, H. 2007. Critical theory. In: Thorpe, R. and Holt, R. eds. Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research. London: Sage, pp. 66-68.
- Willmott, H. 2007. Critical management studies. In: Walsh, J. P. and Brief, A. P. eds. The Academy of Management Annals of Organization and Management, Vol. 1. The Academy of Management Annals Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis/Routledge, pp. 145-218.
- Willmott, H. 2005. Organizational theory as a critical science? Forms of analysis and 'new organisational forms'. In: Tsoukas, H. and Knudsen, C. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory: Meta-Theoretical Perspectives. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 88-112., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199275250.003.0004)
- Alveston, M. M. and Willmott, H. 2004. Identity regulation as organizational control producing the appropriate individual. In: Hatch, M. J. and Schultz, M. eds. Organizational Identity: A Reader. Oxford Management Readers Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 436-465.
- Willmott, H. 2003. Making learning critical: identity, emotion and power in processes of management development. In: Jeffcutt, P. ed. The Foundations of Management Knowledge: Examining Complex Relations Between Theory and Practice (2003). Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies Vol. 23. London: Routledge, pp. 130-151.
- Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. 2003. Introduction. In: Studying management critically. SAGE, pp. 1-22.
- Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. 2003. Critical approaches to strategic management. In: Studying Management Critically. SAGE
- Knights, D., Noble, F. F., Vurdubakis, T. and Willmott, H. 2002. Allegories of creative destruction: technology and organization, narratives of the e-Economy. In: Woolgar, S. ed. Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality. Oxford University Press
- Willmott, H. and Knights, D. 2002. Autonomy as utopia or dystopia. In: Parker, M. ed. Utopia and Organization. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 59-81.
- Conta, A. and Willmott, H. 2002. Macht, lernen und organisation [Power, learning and organization]. In: Weiskopf, R. ed. Menschenregierungskünste: Anwendungen poststrukturalistischer Analyse auf Management und Organisation. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, pp. 159-186.
- Yanow, D. and Willmott, H. 2001. Passionate humility: toward a philosophy of ethical will. In: Jun, J. S. ed. Rethinking Administrative Theory: The Challenge of the New Century. Westport, CN: Praeger, pp. 131-140.
Books
- Willmott, H. 2014. Fighting corporate abuse: beyond predatory capitalism. Pluto Press.
- Daft, R., Murphy, J. and Willmott, H. 2014. Organization theory and design (2nd Edition). Cengage Learning.
- Bell, E. and Willmott, H. 2014. Qualitative research in business and management. SAGE.
- Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. 2012. Making sense of management: A critical introduction (2nd ed.). London: SAGE.
- Knights, D. and Willmott, H. 2012. Introducing organization behaviour and management. London: Cengage Learning.
- Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. eds. 2011. Critical management studies (4 vols.). SAGE Library in Business and Management. London: SAGE.
- Kenny, K., Whittle, A. and Willmott, H. 2011. Understanding identity and organizations. London: SAGE.
- Knights, W. and Willmott, H. 2010. Organizational Analysis: Essential Readings. Andover: Cengage Learning.
- Alvesson, M., Bridgman, T. and Willmott, H. eds. 2009. The Oxford handbook of critical management studies. Oxford handbooks in business and management. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Knights, D. and Willmott, H. 2006. Introducing organizational behaviour and management. London: Thomson Learning.
- Christopher, G. and Willmott, H. 2004. Critical management studies: a reader. Oxford Management Readers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Marchington, M. et al. eds. 2004. Fragmenting work: blurring organizational boundaries and disordering hierarchies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. eds. 2003. Studying management critically. London: Sage.
- Sturdy, A., Grugulis, I. and Willmott, H. eds. 2001. Customer service: empowerment and entrapment. Critical Perspectives on Work and Organisations. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Conferences
- Calas, M. et al. 2009. After the fall: saving management knowledge from itself?. Presented at: 2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, 7-11 August 2009.
- Willmott, H. 2007. Political cultural economy and the financialization of brand equity. Presented at: ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change 3rd Annual Conference: Re-thinking Cultural Economy, Manchester, UK, 5-7 September 2007.
- Willmott, H. 2007. Psychoanalytic thinking and critical management studies. Presented at: American Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting; Ideas and Challenges from Psychoanalytic Thinking Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 3-8 August 2007.
- Willmott, H. 2007. The past and future of CMS. Presented at: American Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting; CMS Theme Session, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 3-8 August 2007.
- Willmott, H. 2007. Philosophical foundations of organizational research. Presented at: American Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting; Professional Development Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 3-8 August 2007.
- Beverungen, A., Bohm, S., Contu, A., Daly, G., Glynos, J., Spicer, A. and Willmott, H. 2007. Does the social theory of hegemony allow us to rethink the labour-capital relationship?. Presented at: Rethinking Labour-Capital Relations: Class, Discourse, Hegemony, Warwick, UK, 9 July 2007.
- Jelinek, T. and Willmott, H. 2007. The political shift in cross-cultural studies. Presented at: Crosscultural Life of Social Values Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 18-19 May 2007.
- Willmott, H. 2007. On leading (in) clusters: insights into leadership processes in photonics clusters. Presented at: Making Connections: Relational Analysis, Boundary Concepts and the Future of Organization Studies: an international workshop, Cardiff, UK, 2-3 April 2007.
- Willmott, H. 2007. Process ontology, separability and the issue of leadership-context responsiveness. Presented at: Making Connections: Relational Analysis, Boundary Concepts and the Future of Organization Studies: an international workshop, Cardiff, UK, 2-3 April 2007.
- Smith, C., Edwards, P., Willmott, H., Grugulis, I. and Thompson, P. 2007. From Marx to Laclau. Presented at: 25th International Labour Process Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2-4 April 2007.
- Willmott, H. 2007. The financial logic of risk wars. Presented at: Financialization: in Retrospect and Prospect, London, UK, 12-13 February 2007.
- Sambrook, S. and Willmott, H. 2014. The rigor of management education and the relevance of human resource development - natural partners or uneasy bedfellows in management practice?. Management Learning 45(1), pp. 39-56. (10.1177/1350507612468422)
- Willmott, H. 2013. 'The substitution of one piece of nonsense for another': Reflections on resistance, gaming, and subjugation. Journal of Management Studies 50(3), pp. 443-473. (10.1111/joms.12019)
- Weiskopf, R. and Willmott, H. 2013. Ethics as critical practice: the "Pentagon Papers", deciding responsibly, truth-telling, and the unsettling of organizational morality. Organization Studies 34(4), pp. 469-493. (10.1177/0170840612470256)
- Willmott, H. and Silkka, P. 2013. The tax avoidance industry: accountancy firms on the make. Critical Perspectives on International Business 9(4), pp. 415-443. (10.1108/cpoib-06-2013-0019)
- Willmott, H. 2012. Reframing relevance as 'Social Usefulness': a comment on Hodgkinson and Starkey's 'Not Simply Returning to the Same Answer Over and Over Again'. British Journal of Management 23(4), pp. 598-604. (10.1111/j.1467-8551.2012.00839.x)
- Willmott, H. 2011. Making sense of the financial meltdown - an extended review of The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession: The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession, A. Gamble. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 208 pp. 15.99. ISBN 9780230230750 [Book Review]. Organization 18(2), pp. 239-260. (10.1177/1350508410394155)
- Willmott, H. 2011. Back to the future: what does studying bureaucracy tell us?. In: Clegg, S. R., Harris, M. and Höpfl, H. eds. Managing modernity : beyond bureaucracy?. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 257-294.
- O'Doherty, D. and Willmott, H. 2009. The decline of labour process analysis and the future sociology of work. Sociology 43(5), pp. 931-951. (10.1177/0038038509340742)
- Willmott, H. 2009. Commentary: Science as intervention: recasting Weber's moral vision. Organization 16(1), pp. 143-153. (10.1177/1350508408098926)
- Lowrie, A. and Willmott, H. 2009. Accreditation sickness in the consumption of business education: the vacuum in AACSB standard setting. Management Learning 40(4), pp. 411-420. (10.1177/1350507609335851)
- Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2008. Strategy as discourse in a global retailer: a supplement to rationalist and interpretive accounts. Organization Studies 29(2), pp. 191-217. (10.1177/0170840607082226)
- Cooper, D. J., Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. 2008. Examining "institutionalization": a critical theoretic perspective. In: Greenwood, R. et al. eds. Handbook of organizational institutionalism. London: Sage, pp. 673-701.
- Edward, P. and Willmott, H. 2008. Structures, identities and politics: bringing corporate citizenship into the corporation. In: Scherer, A. G. and Palazzo, G. eds. Handbook of research on global corporate citizenship. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, pp. 405-429.
Research
Research interests
- Accounting in organizations and society
- Managerial work
- Management education and learning
- Social theory
PhD supervision research interests
- Critical study of aspects of management and organization
Teaching
Teaching commitments
- Principles of Qualitative Research
Biography
Education and qualifications
- 1972: BSsc in Management Sciences, Ist Class Hons (Manchester)
- 1977: PhD in Management / Sociology (Manchester)
- 2008 : Honorary PhD (Lund University, Sweden)
Professional service
- 1986- Editorial board member of Academy of Management Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Management Studies, Organization, Organization Studies and many others
- 2008 REF Panel Member for Business and Management
- 2012-2015 Associate Editor of Organization
- 2014 REF Panel Member for Business and Management
- 2015-2017 Associate Editor, Academy of Management Review
Honours and awards
Honours and Awards
- 1972 Royal Society of Arts Award (UMIST)
- 1989- Vistiting positions / professorships at Copenhagen Business School, Uppsala University, Cranfield University, Sydney University, University of Technology Sydney
- 2009 Elected to the Academy of Social Sciences
- 2015 Elected to the Royal Academy
Academic positions
- 1974-1976 Demonstrator, Department of Management Sciences, UMIST
- 1976-1983 Tutor and Course Counsellor, Open University
- 1977-1988 Lecturer, Aston Business School, University of Aston
- 1988-1991 Lecturer, Manchester School of Management, UMIST
- (1989) Visiting Professor, Copenhagen Business School
- (1990) Visiting Professor, Uppsala Business School
- 1991-1993 Senior Lecturer, Manchester School of Management,UMIST
- 1993-1995 Reader, Manchester School of Management, UMIST
- 1995 -2001 Professor of Organizational Analysis, Manchester School of Management, UMIST
- (1999-2004) Visiting Professor, University of Lund
- (2000-2003) Visiting Professor, Cranfield University
- 2001- 2006 Diageo Professor of Management Studies, Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge University
- (2005) Visiting Professor, University of Sydney
- (2006- )Research Professor of Organization Studies, Cardiff Business School, University of Cardif
- (2006 -) Fellow of Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
- (2007 -2010) Visiting Professor, University of Lund
- (2011-2012) Visiting Professor, University of Technology Sydney
- (2017- ) Visiting Professor, Copenhagen Business School
Contact Details
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+44 29208 74418
Aberconway Building, Room F09b, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU