University of Reading

Faculty Member, Henley Business School

Other Affiliations: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Centre d'Ontologie Sociale

Associate professor (SL) in organisation studies

About

These days, I am on a research leave at the Centre for Social Ontology hosted at EPFL (Lausanne). I purport to write a book on authority in a morphogenetic society, ie a society where change breeds more change as conservative mechanisms are relatively weaker than mechanisms of transformation.

I am also interested in questions of social theory that relate to the practice of organising and managing:
- What sort of things are social rules and why do we respect them?
- How do conventions evolve and disseminate?
- Why do management students seem to feel such intense pleasure when they step into a 'CEO perspective'?
- Can I be a realist AND a relativist?
- Can I be pluralist without abandoning rationality? (And vice versa)

I studied at ESCP-Europe, Lancaster and Cambridge (PhD).

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