PhD Theses
This page is a libary of PhD theses related to critical management/organisation studies, which are available for download.
Send us (criticalmanagementorg@gmail.com) your thesis (ideally in pdf), and we will upload it.
PhD Theses
Nesterova, I. (2020) Small business transition towards degrowth. Download PDF here.
Langmead, K. (2017) 'Exploring the performance of democracy and economic diversity in worker cooperatives'. Download PDF here.
Ferns, G. (2017) Organizing nature as business: Discursive struggles, the global ecological crisis, and a social-symbolic deadlock. Download PDF here.
Pijpers, K. (2017) Haptic encounters with archaeological knowing: Bodily practices in excavation. Download PDF here.
Johnsen, C. G. (2015) Who are the post-bureaucrats? A philosophical examination of the creative manager, the authentic leader and the entrepreneur. Download PDF here
Limki, R. (2015) Postcolonial excess(es): On the mattering of bodies and the preservation of value in India. Download PDF here
Bradford, S. (2014) A major left wing think tank in Aotearoa – an impossible dream or a call to action. Download PDF here
Cristia, J. F. E. (2014) Organizing technological innovation of medical devices companies: An empirical study of two Midland venture companies. Download PDF here
Klein, V. H. Jr. (2014) Organizations and imagination: The imaginary institution of risk management. Download PDF here
LLoveras, J. (2014) Heterotopian markets for degrowth: An ethnographic inquiry. Download PDF here
Paulsson, A. (2014) Arenan och den entreprenöriella staden. Byråkrati, viljan att samverka och gåvans moraliska ekonomi. Download PDF here (in Swedish); Download abstract in English here
Alamgir, F. (2013) A peoples' perspective on rights centric industrial restructuring and sustainability: A case study on the state owned Jute Mills of Bangladesh. Download PDF here
Bell, D. (2013) Towards a nomadic utopianism: Gilles Deleuze and the good place that is no place. Download PDF here
Chertkovskaya, E. (2013) Consuming work and managing employability: Students' work orientations and the process of contemporary job search. Download PDF here
Wilson, S. E. (2013) Thinking differently about leadership: A critical history of the form and formation of leadership studies. Download PDF here
Alakavuklar, O. N. (2012) Yönetsel kontrole direncin ahlakı. Download PDF here (in Turkish); The ethics of resistance to managerial control. Download abstract in English here
Leonardi, E. (2012) Biopolitics of climate change: Carbon commodities, environmental profanations, and the lost innocence of use-value. Download PDF here
Nicholson, H. (2011) The undoing of identity in leadership development. Download PDF here
Tsaousi, C. (2011) Consuming underwear: Fashioning female identity. Download PDF here
Cassinger, C. (2010) Retailing retold. Unfolding the process of image construction in everyday practice. Download PDF here
Kokkinidis, G. (2010) (Agro)topia? A critical analysis of the agricultural cooperative movement in Greece. Download PDF here
Patsiaouras, G. (2010). Rethinking Veblen's contribution to consumer research: A phenomenological enquiry into the perception of 'status consumption' by middle income British consumers. Download PDF here
Veldman, J. (2010) The corporate condition. Download PDF here
Beverungen, A. (2009) Whither Marx in the business school? Download PDF here
Loacker, B. (2009) The ethos of artists – role-model of the postfordistic working world? An analysis of the subjectivity-constituting effects of project-based forms of work and organizing. Download PDF here (in German)
Pedersen, M. (2009) Tune in, break-down and reboot: On the production of the stress-fit self-managing employee. Download PDF here
Bojesen, A. (2008) The performative power of competence – An inquiry into subjectivity and social technologies at work. Download PDF here
McMahon, A. L. (2008) The politics of innovation: A critical analysis of the conditions in which innovations in health care may flourish. Download PDF here
Parsons, R. (2008) Constructions of 'community engagement' in the Australian minerals industry: A critical study. Download PDF here
Dunne, S. (2008) On the question of corporate social responsibility. Download PDF here
Chatzidakis, A. (2007) The role of neutralisation in consumers' ethical decision-making. Download PDF here
Hoedemaekers, C. (2007) Performance, pinned down. A Lacanian analysis of subjectivity at work. Download PDF here
Spoelstra, S. (2007) What is organization? Download PDF here
Tregidga, H. (2007) An analysis of organisational reporting discourse. Download PDFs in 3 parts: One, Two, Three
Al-Amoudi, I. (2006) Constituting rules: The production of legitimacy in two European organizations. Download PDF here
Bridgman, T. (2004) Commercialising the academic's public role: Theorising the politics of Identity constitution and practice in UK research-led business schools. Download PDF here
Monaghan, C. H. (2004) Development of the adult learners’ management philosophy through critical management studies courses. Download PDF here
Reedy, P. (2004) The manager's tale: An exploration of the narrative construction of managerial identity.
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Learmonth, M. (2003) Rereading NHS management. Download PDF here