Philip Hancock
BA (Nottingham Trent), PGDip (Derby), MA (Warwick), PGCPCE(HE) (Warwick), PhD (Keele)
Associate Professor (Reader) of Organisational Behaviour
Room E2.13 (Social Studies Building)
Warwick Business School
The University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
+44 (0)24 7652 2618
Biography
Previously Lecturer in Applied Social Studies, University College Scarborough; Lecturer in Sociology, Glasgow Caledonian University. Member of British Sociological Association, Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism, European Group for Organisational Studies.
Research interests
Organisation and social theory; the philosophy of organisational research; organisational culture, art and aesthetics; the management of everyday life
Research projects
- Affective Labour at Christmas: Performing Santa Claus: British Academy, October 2009 - September 2011.
- Abjection and Alterity in the Workplace: ESRC, December 2007 - November 2009.
- Organizational Space in the New Library: British Academy, July 2006 - June 2007.
Publications
Book chapters
- Aesthetics and Aestheticization. Understanding Corporate Life. Ed. Hancock, P. and Spicer, A. London: Sage, 2009. Chapter 3. 46-63.
- Management and Colonization in Everyday Life. The Management of Everyday Life. Ed. Hancock, P. & Tyler, M. Palgrave, 2009. Chapter 1. 1-20.
- Managing Sleep? The Colonization of Everyday/ Night Life. The Management of Everyday Life. Ed. Hancock, P. & Tyler, M. Palgrave, 2009. Chapter 5. 74-91.
- Functionalism. International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. Ed. S. Clegg & Bailey, J.R. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2008.
- Communicative Action. International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. Ed. S. Clegg & Bailey, J.R. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2008.
- It's All Too Beautiful: Emotion and Organization in the Aesthetic Economy. The Emotional Organization: Passions and Power. Ed. Fineman, S. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Chapter 14. 202-217.
- Organisation. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Ed. A. Harrington, B. Marshall and H-P Miller. London: Routledge, 2006. 408-411.
- Bureaucracy. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Ed. A. Harrington, B. Marshall and H-P Miller. London: Routledge, 2006. 40-42.
- Organisation Studies. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Ed. A. Harrington, B. Marshall and H-P Miller. London: Routledge, 2006. 411-412.
- Emotion at Work. Contemporary Human Resource Management. Ed. T. Rman and A. Wilkinson. London: Prentice Hall, 2005. Chapter 18. 450-472.
- Beautiful Untrue Things - Aestheticizing the Corporate Culture Industry. Art and Aesthetics at Work. Palgrave, 2003. Chapter 12. 174-194.
- Critical Engagements with Aesthetics at Work: An Introduction. Art and Aesthetics at Work. Palgrave, 2003. Chapter 9. 135-137.
- Art and Aesthetics as a Way of Knowing Organization: An Introduction. Art and Aesthetics at Work. Palgrave, 2003. Chapter 1. 3-6.
- Work as an Aesthetically Ordered Activity: An Introduction. Art and Aesthetics at Work. Palgrave, 2003. Chapter 5. 67-69.
- Flight Attendants and the Management Of Gendered Organizational Bodies. Constructing Gendered Bodies. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Chapter 2.
- The Working Body. The Body, Culture and Society: An Introduction. Ed. P. Hancock, B. Hughes, E. Jagger, K. Paterson, R. Russell, E. Tulle-Winton and M. Tyler. Milton Keynes: OU Press, 2000. Chapter 5. 84-99.
- The Look of Love: Gender and The Organization of Aesthetics. Body and Organization. Ed. J. Hassard, R. Holliday and H. Willmott. London: Sage, 2000. Chapter 6. 108-129.
- The Metaphysics of Motivation. Jean Baudrillard: Volumes 1 - 4. Ed. M. Gane. London: Sage, 2000.
Journal articles
- Networks of Aestheticisation: Producing Pathos in an Interactive Service. Work, Employment And Society 23 (2009): 460-476.
- Beyond the Confines: Managerial Colonization and the Everyday. Critical Sociology 34 (2008): 29-49.
- Cultures of Sleep: Organization and the Lure of Dormancy. Cultures and Organizations 14 (2008): 411-424.
- Embodied Generosity and an Ethics of Organization. Organization Studies 29 (2008): 1357-1373.
- Tales of Hyper-Organizational Space: The Work of JG Ballard. Organization 15 (2008): 889-910.
- Another Time, Another Place: Space and Time in Organization Studies. Tamara 5 (2007): 89-93.
- Un-doing Gender and the Aesthetics of Organizational Performance. Gender, Work And Organization 14 (2007): 512-533.
- The Iron Rose: Mackintosh and the Psychodynamics of Organizational Design. Tamara 6 (2007): 83-105.
- The Spatial and Temporal Mediation of Social Change. Journal of Organizational Change Management 19 (2006): 619-639.
- Beyond the Scope of the Possible: Art, Photography and Organisational Abjection. Cultures and Organizations 12 (2006): 109-125.
- Space and Time in Organizational Change Management. Journal of Organizational Change Management 19 (2006): 545-557.
- Uncovering the Semiotic in Organizational Aesthetics. Organization 12 (2005): 29-50.
- Gibson Burrell: Diabolical Architect. Sociological Review, The 53 (2005): 46-62.
- "MOT Your Life": Critical Management Studies and the Management of Everyday Life. Human Relations 57 (2004): 619-645.
- Managing Organizational Aesthetics. Tamara 2 (2002): 64-71.
- Organizational Subjectivity and The Dialectic of Self-Consciousness. Organization 8 (2001): 565-585.
- Baudrillard and the Metaphysics of Motivation: A Reappraisal of Corporate Culturalism in the Light of the Work and Ideas of Jean Baudrillard. Journal Of Management Studies 36 (1999): 145-165.
- Citizenship or Vassalage? Organizational Membership in the Age of Unreason. Organization 4 (1997): 93-111.
Books
- Work, Postmodernism and Organization: A Critical Introduction. London: Sage, 2001.
- The Body, Culture and Society: An Introduction. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 2000.
