Michael focuses especially on the management of global law, consulting and reinsurance firms. He employs innovative qualitative methodologies, such as video- and team-ethnography, to capture the minute details of professional work. Most recently, he did so in a widely-noted ‘fly on the wall’ study of reinsurance trading in Lloyd’s of London.
He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College and a member of the Centre for Professional Service Firms, based at Saïd Business School.
Expertise:
- Organisation Theory
- Institutional Theory
- Institutional Logics
- Institutional Complexity and Ambidexterity
- Practice Theory
- Professional Service Firms
- Strategic Management
- Career Structures
- Innovation
- Internationalisation
- Law Firms, Consulting, Reinsurance
- Methods
- Qualitative Interviewing
- Organisational ethnography
- Video- and team-ethnography