Research Interests
General research interests: politics and ethics of working, learning and organising; identity, resistance and power at work; goodness; discourse theory and philosophy. Substantive areas: international development; MNCs and international management; NGOs management; management education and learning
Teaching in 2012-2013
Distance Learning MBA
- IB8020 Organisational Behaviour
Full Time MBA
- IB9070 Organisational Behaviour
Management and Organizational Analysis
- IB96U0 Foundation in Management & Organizational Analysis
- IB96V0 Organizational Behaviour
- IB96Z0 Researching Organizations
- IB97C0 Dissertation MAMOA
Email: Alessia.Contu@wbs.ac.uk / Tel: 024 765 22457 / Room E2.07
Biography
I taught at UMIST (Manchester) from 1998 to 2001 then worked as a lecturer at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) until Dec.2006. I was visiting fellow at Massey University, New Zealand in 2005. I have been an AIM associate and served on the board of the CMS Division of the American Academy of Management. At present I am a series editor of the Critical Management Study Series, Palgrave Macmillan, and serve on the editorial board of Organization Studies.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
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Dr Alessia Contu.
"Multinational corporations’ politics and resistance to plant shutdowns: a comparative case study in the south of France"
Human Relations (2013) -
Dr Alessia Contu.
"On Boundaries and Difference: communities of practice and power relations in creative work"
Management Learning (2013) -
Dr Alessia Contu.
"NGOs management and the value of ‘partnerships’ for equality in international development: What’s in a name?"
Human Relations Forthcoming (2013) -
Dr Alessia Contu.
"Jacques Lacan and Organization Studies"
Organization 17 (2010) -
Contu, A..
"Decaf resistance: misbehaviour, desire and cynicism in liberal workplaces"
Management Communication Quarterly 21 (2008): 364-379. -
Contu, A and Willmott, H.
"Studying Practice: Situating Talking About Machine"
Organization Studies 27 (2006): 1769-1782. -
Contu, A and Willmott, H.
"You Spin Me Round: The Critical Realist Turn in Management and Organization Studies"
Journal Of Management Studies 42 (2005): 1622-1645. -
Contu, A, Grey, C and Ortenblad, A.
"Against Learning"
Human Relations 56 (2003): 931-954. -
Contu, A and Willmott, H.
"Re-embedding Situatedeness: the importance of power relations in learning theory"
Organization Science 14 (2003): 283-296. -
Contu, A and Willmott, H.
"Leggere Le Organizzazioni: Il Contributo dellAnalisi Post-Marxista"
Sociologia Del Lavoro 84 (2002) -
Contu, A.
"A Political Answer to Questions of Struggles"
Ephemera 2 (2002): 160-174. -
Contu, A and Willmott, H.
"Knowing in Practice: a delicate flower in the Organisational Learning Field"
Organization 7 (2000): 269-276.
Book Chapters
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Contu, A..
"Critical management education"
The Oxford handbook of critical management studies (2009)27: 536-550. -
Contu, A.
"Groups and Teams at Work"
Introducing Organizational Behaviour and Management (2007) -
Contu, A and Willmott, H.
"Match, Lerner und Organization"
Personal, Organisation, Poststrukturalismus: An Wendungen (2003) -
Contu, A and Willmott, H.
"The Docudrama: a Situated Learning Experience"
Innovations in Teaching Business and Management (2001)
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