Chris Grey
- Professor of Organisational Behaviour
BA (Manchester), PhD (Manchester)
Room E2.08 (Social Studies Building)
Warwick Business School
The University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
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Biography
Previously Professor of Organizational Theory at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Chair and/or member of various governmental advisory groups, and a member of numerous boards of academic journals. Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2010-12.
Research interests
Critical and sociological studies, both theoretical and empirical, of management and organizations (including historical studies, discourse analysis, ethnography and other qualitative methods); of management education and business schools; of professional service and knowledge intensive organizations; of the interface between politics, business and management.
Selected research projects
- A Secret History: The organization of Bletchley Park: Leverhulme Trust, October 2010 - September 2012.
- An analysis of the future organisation and management of the UK Intelligence and Security Community set against a background of new challenges: IAS (Institute of Advanced Study), September 2007 - July 2008.
- Mr Tony Campbell - Canada: IAS (Institute of Advanced Study), April 2008 - May 2008.
Only selected externally-funded projects are listed here.
Publications
Journal articles
- Organizing studies: publications, politics and polemic. Organization Studies 31 (2010) (Published): 677-694.
- Management: the work that dares not speak its name. Management Learning 41 (2010) (Published): 7-19.
- A chaos that worked: organizing Bletchley Park. Public Policy and Administration 25 (2010) (Published): 47-66.
- Security studies and organization studies: parallels and possibilities. Organization 16 (2009) (Published): 303-316.
Book chapters
- Speed. Understanding corporate life. Ed. Hancock, P. and Spicer, A. London: SAGE, 2009 (Published). Chapter 2. 27-45.