Consultancy
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Professional/Advisory Work
Editorial Board Service includes:
Associate Editor of Gender, Work and Organization
Academy of Management Review (current)
Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (founding member)
Accounting, Organizations and Society
Administrative Science Quarterly
Advances in Public Interest Accounting (founding member)
Critical Perspectives in Accounting (founding member)
Journal of Organizational Change Management
Journal of Management Studies (current)
Organization (founding member), Associate Editor (current)
Organization Studies (current)
In addition to the above journals, I have undertaken refereeing for numerous other journals that include Accounting Education; Accounting, Management and Information Technology; British Journal of Industrial Relations; British Journal of Management; Communication Yearbook; Critical Sociology; European Accounting Review; Human Relations; Information Systems Research; International Journal of Management Reviews; International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management; Journal of Management Inquiry; Omega; Organization Science; Scandinavian Journal of Management; Sociological Review
Co-editor of the Critical Perspectives on Work and Organizations series, Macmillan (1995-2007
Consulting editor, Palgrave Macmillan Critical Management Studies series (2007-
Advisory Board Member: Culture, Economy and the Social, Routledge (2008-
Member of Programme Committee for :
ESRC Professions in Late Modernity Seminar Series. Joint organizer for Seminar No 3. `Professions and Technology', UMIST, October 1994
`Information Technology and Changes in Organizational Work' Conference, University of Cambridge, December 1995
` IT and Institutional Change in the Service Economy', IFIP WG 8.2, University of Toronto, 2008
`Marketing Science Annual Conference, Branding and Brand Management Track, Baltimore, May 2009
Best Paper award committee for Academy of Management Review, 2012
I have acted as a referee for research proposals to Economic and Social Research Council; Research Board, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales; Research Board, Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland; Leverhulme Trust; Swedish Social Science Research Council, Danish Social Research Council, Canadian Research Council
I have been an external assessor for professorial appointments at the University of Alberta, University of Essex, Nottingham Trent University, Keele University, Leicester University
Council member, Society for the Advancement of Management Studies, 2006 -
Research Assessment Exercise, Member of Business and Management Panel, 2008
Research Excellence Framework, Member of Business and Management Panel, 2013
Consultancy
I have acted inter alia as a consultant in developing and analysing a communication survey for the National Provident Institution; prepared a report for DG3 European Commission on New Management Practices and the Use of New Information and Communication Technologies; served as a member of a Committee established by the Defence Scientific Advisory Council (DSAC) where I prepared a report that examined the impact of organization structure on the design of information systems. Inter alia, I have contributed as a speaker to IBM's `Knowledge Management' programme and the Scottish Top Management Forum; advised a number of Universities about their research strategies; participated as a subject specialist in a major strategic review of Uppsala University; and consulted with national and international companies regarding their restructuring programmes through my business, OLC. My primary focus, however, is upon developing contacts with industry and government as a way of ensuring the practical relevance of my teaching and research interests. In this capacity, I have advised the Cabinet Office, delivered an Executive MBA course at Copenhagen Business School and made a number of contributions to Executive Education programmes, including those for WHO, McKinsey and Ernst and Young. In February 2014, I co-organized (with Frank Bold, a Brussels based public interest law firm and Jeroen Veldman) a conference in the European Parliament on The Purpose of the Corporation. Hosted by Richard Howitt, MEP., this conference comprised 120 delegates, including businesspeople, politicians, NGO representatives, trade unionists, shareholder representatives, accounting and regulation body representatives, journalists. They were joined by academics from the fields of Corporate Governance, Law, Economics, Socio-Economics, Accounting, and Organization Studies to debate the purpose of the corporation and new ways to develop the theory, practice and regulation of the modern corporation.