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  1. Practice makes perfect? Skillful performances in veterinary work

    Article • Human Relations, April 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  2. Celebrating the academic contribution of Joan Acker

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, December 2017, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  3. The ‘Missing Masses’ of Resistance: An Ethnographic Understanding of a Workplace Dispute

    Article • British Journal of Management, May 2016, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  4. (Mis)managing diversity: exploring the dangers of diversity management orthodoxy

    Article • Equality Diversity and Inclusion An International Journal, February 2016, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  5. Rethinking Diversity in Organizations and Society

    Article • November 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David Knights

  6. ‘Masters of the Universe’: Demystifying Leadership in the Context of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis

    Article • British Journal of Management, January 2015, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  7. Embodied ethics in organizations

    Article • Organization, December 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  8. Masculinity in the Financial Sector

    Article • December 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David Knights

  9. Open innovation, gender and the infiltration of masculine discourses

    Article • International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, September 2013, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  10. Transaction Cost Economics and Open Innovation: Implications for Theory and Practice

    Article • Creativity and Innovation Management, June 2012, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  11. A Labour of Love? Academics in Business Schools

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Management, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor David Knights

  12. Book Review: David Knights reviews Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis, by Fintan Walsh

    Article • Organization, January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  13. Embody organisational research through visceral self-reflection

    Article • International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, January 2012, Inderscience Publishers

    Professor David Knights, Professor Torkild Thanem

  14. Challenging the gender binary in organisation studies

    Article • International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, January 2011, Inderscience Publishers

    Professor David Knights, Professor Torkild Thanem

  15. Introduction: A Post-crisis Critical Reflection on Business Schools

    Article • British Journal of Management, March 2010, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  16. Power at Work in Organizations

    Article • September 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David Knights

  17. Making and Mending your Nets: Managing Relevance, Participation and Uncertainty in Academic-Practitioner Knowledge Networks

    Article • British Journal of Management, March 2009, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  18. Editorial: Questioning the Construction of ‘Balance’: A Time Perspective on Gender and Organization

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, September 2008, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  19. The Conditions of Our Freedom: Foucault, Organization, and Ethics

    Article • Business Ethics Quarterly, July 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Knights

  20. Editorial: Breaking Boundaries: Women in Academia

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, May 2008, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  21. Customer relationship management in call centers: The uneasy process of re(form)ing the subject through the ‘people-by-numbers’ approach

    Article • Information and Organization, January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor David Knights

  22. Editorial: Addressing the Gender Gap in Studies of Emotion

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, December 2007, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  23. Editorial: Undoing Gender: Organizing and Disorganizing Performance

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, November 2007, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  24. Outsourcing (the) economy to India: utopian and dystopian discourses of offshoring

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, October 2007, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  25. ‘Strategic Management’

    Article • February 2007, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  26. Leadership, Ethics and Responsibility to the Other

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, August 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  27. Walking with Moneylenders: The Ecology of the UK Home-collected Credit Industry

    Article • Urban Studies, January 2006, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  28. Reflecting on corporate scandals: the failure of ethical leadership

    Article • Business Ethics A European Review, October 2005, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  29. Information technology as organization/disorganization

    Article • Information and Organization, July 2005, Elsevier

    Professor David Knights

  30. Stories about men implementing and resisting new technologies

    Article • New Technology Work and Employment, November 2004, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  31. Between Representations and Subjectivity: Gender Binaries and the Politics of Organizational Transformation

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, July 2004, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  32. Towards an Ecology of Retail Financial Services: Understanding the Persistence of Door-to-Door Credit and Insurance Providers

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, April 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  33. Strategy as a ‘Project’: overcoming dualisms in the strategy debate

    Article • European Management Review, January 2004, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  34. Governing through Teamwork: Reconstituting Subjectivity in a Call Centre*

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, November 2003, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  35. Sex Discrimination in UK Academia

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, March 2003, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  36. We’re All Partying Here: Target and Games, or Targets as Games in Call Centre Management

    Article • January 2003, Nature

    Professor David Knights

  37. A road less travelled

    Article • Journal of Organizational Change Management, June 2002, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  38. Autonomy as Utopia or Dystopia

    Article • The Sociological Review, May 2002, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  39. ‘Big Brother is Watching You!’: Call Centre Surveillance

    Article • January 2002, Nature

    Professor David Knights

  40. Preface

    Article • International Studies of Management and Organization, December 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Knights

  41. Glossary

    Article • International Studies of Management and Organization, December 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Knights

  42. Hanging out the Dirty Washing

    Article • International Studies of Management and Organization, December 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Knights

  43. The human face of re‐engineering in financial services

    Article • Measuring Business Excellence, September 2000, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  44. Management Lives: Power and Identity in Work Organizations20002David Knights and Hugh Wilmott. Management Lives: Power and Identity in Work Organizations . London: Sage 1999. 192 pp, ISBN: ISBN 0 8039 8334 4 £15.99 (paperback)

    Article • Leadership & Organization Development Journal, September 2000, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  45. ‘Ain't Misbehavin’? Opportunities for Resistance under New Forms of ‘Quality’ Management

    Article • Sociology, August 2000, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  46. From the Editor

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, July 2000, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  47. The human face of re‐engineering in financial services

    Article • Managing Service Quality, April 2000, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  48. Automated Lines and "Modern" Times: a Distal and Proximal Understanding of Skill/Knowledge

    Article • Emergence, September 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Knights

  49. Financial Institutions and Social Transformations: International Studies of a Sector

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, November 1998, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  50. The politics of IT-enabled restructuring and the restructuring of politics through total quality management

    Article • Accounting Management and Information Technologies, September 1998, Elsevier

    Professor David Knights, Professor Adrian Wilkinson

  51. Dreams and Designs on Strategy: A Critical Analysis of TQM and Management Control

    Article • Work Employment and Society, September 1998, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  52. DREAMS AND DESIGNS ON STRATEGY: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF TQM AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL

    Article • Work Employment and Society, September 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Knights

  53. 'What Happens when the Phone goes Wild?': Staff, Stress and Spaces for Escape in a BPR Telephone Banking Work Regime

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, March 1998, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  54. TQM and BPR ‐ can you spot the difference?

    Article • Personnel Review, February 1998, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  55. ‘The times they are a changin’? transformative organizational innovations in financial services in the UK

    Article • The International Journal of Human Resource Management, January 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Knights

  56. Resistance and Power in Organizations.

    Article • Administrative Science Quarterly, December 1997, JSTOR

    Professor David Knights

  57. ‘How would you measure something like that?’: Quality in a Retail Bank

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, May 1997, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  58. Resistance and Power in Organizations

    Article • Academy of Management Review, April 1997, The Academy of Management

    Professor David Knights

  59. Can a leopard change its spots? ‐ seeking quality in financial services

    Article • Managing Service Quality, April 1997, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  60. Information Technology and Organizations

    Article • March 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David Knights

  61. Introduction: The Problematic of Information Technology and Organization

    Article • March 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David Knights

  62. Markets, Managers, and Messages: Managing Information Systems in Financial Services

    Article • March 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David Knights

  63. ‘We Should be Total Slaves to the Business’: Aligning Information Technology and Strategy—Issues and Evidence

    Article • March 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David Knights

  64. Networking as Knowledge Work: A Study of Strategic Inter-Organizational Development in the Financial Services Industry

    Article • March 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David Knights

  65. Editorial

    Article • British Journal of Management, March 1997, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  66. The Hype and Hope of Interdisciplinary Management Studies

    Article • British Journal of Management, March 1997, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  67. Financial Institutions and Social Transformations

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  68. Regulation and Deregulation in European Financial Services

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  69. Introduction

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  70. An Industry in Transition: Regulation, Restructuring and Renewal

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  71. Marketing the Soul: from the Ideology of Consumption to Consumer Subjectivity

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  72. Governmentality and Financial Services: Welfare Crises and the Financially Self-Disciplined Subject

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  73. Networks and partnerships in the evolution of home banking

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  74. “A bridge too far?”: consistent quality initiatives in financial services

    Article • The TQM Journal, October 1996, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  75. Do quality initiatives need management?

    Article • The TQM Journal, June 1996, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  76. An evaluation of quality in financial services: problems and prospects

    Article • Managing Service Quality, February 1996, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  77. White-Collar Work

    Article • January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  78. Introduction

    Article • January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  79. Selling Oneself: Subjectivity and the Labour Process in Selling Life Insurance

    Article • January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  80. What is happening in “quality” in the financial services?

    Article • The TQM Journal, August 1995, Emerald

    Professor David Knights, Professor Adrian Wilkinson

  81. Culture and control in a life insurance company1

    Article • Studies in Cultures Organizations and Societies, June 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Knights

  82. STRATEGY UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND IT IN FINANCIAL SERVICES*

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, March 1995, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  83. Book Reviews : RESISTANCE AND POWER IN ORGANIZATIONS Edited by John Jermier, David Knights and Walter Nord. Routledge, London, 1994, xv + 335 pp., $45.95 (paperback)

    Article • Journal of Industrial Relations, January 1995, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  84. The Consumer Rules?

    Article • European Journal of Marketing, March 1994, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  85. Editors' Introduction

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, January 1994, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  86. Andrew Sturdy, David Knights, and Hugh Willmott (eds.): Skill and Consent: Contemporary Studies in the Labour Process: 1992, London and New York: Routledge. 263 pages

    Article • Organization Studies, January 1994, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  87. NETWORKING AS KNOWLEDGE WORK: A STUDY OF STRATEGIC INTERORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY*

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, November 1993, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  88. Labour Process Theory

    Article • British Journal of Sociology, September 1993, JSTOR

    Professor David Knights

  89. MANAGEMENT, MASCULINITY AND MANIPULATION: FROM PATERNALISM TO CORPORATE STRATEGY IN FINANCIAL SERVICES IN BRITAIN*

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, July 1993, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  90. 'It's a Very Foreign Discipline': the Genesis of Expenses Control in a Mutual Life Insurance Company

    Article • British Journal of Management, March 1993, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  91. CONCEPTUALIZING LEADERSHIP PROCESSES: A STUDY OF SENIOR MANAGERS IN A FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANY

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, November 1992, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  92. Leadership and corporate strategy: Toward a critical analysis

    Article • The Leadership Quarterly, September 1992, Elsevier

    Professor David Knights

  93. PLANNING FOR PERSONNEL?-HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT RECONSIDERED

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, September 1992, Wiley

    Professor David Knights

  94. Book Reviews : David L. Collinson, David Knights and Margaret Collinson: Managing to Discriminate 1990, London and New York: Routledge. 251 pages

    Article • Organization Studies, July 1992, SAGE Publications

    joseph agassi, Professor David Knights

  95. Changing Spaces: The Disruptive Impact of a New Epistemological Location for the Study of Management

    Article • Academy of Management Review, July 1992, The Academy of Management

    Professor David Knights

  96. David L. Collinson, David Knights and Margaret Collinson. Managing to Discriminate

    Article • Relations industrielles, January 1992, Consortium Erudit

    Professor David Knights, Professor DAVID LEONARD COLLINSON

  97. Constructing Consumers and Consumer Protection: the Case of the Life Insurance Industry in the United Kingdom

    Article • January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  98. Labor Process Theory.

    Article • Administrative Science Quarterly, December 1991, JSTOR

    Professor David Knights

  99. Labour Process Theory.

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, July 1991, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  100. Gendering Jobs: Corporate Strategy, Managerial Control and the Dynamics of Job Segregation

    Article • Work Employment and Society, June 1991, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  101. Introduction

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  102. White-Collar Work

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  103. Selling Oneself: Subjectivity and the Labour Process in Selling Life Insurance

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  104. Management Control in Sales Forces: A Case Study from the Labour Process of Life Insurance

    Article • Work Employment and Society, September 1990, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  105. The Concept of Strategy in Sociology: A Note of Dissent

    Article • Sociology, August 1990, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  106. Inter-managerial competition and capital accumulation: it specialists, accountants and executive control

    Article • Critical Perspectives on Accounting, June 1990, Elsevier

    Professor David Knights

  107. INVESTOR PROTECTION AND THE “COWBOY” STEREOTYPE: A CRITICAL VIEW

    Article • Managerial Finance, May 1990, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  108. Labour Process Theory

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  109. Subjectivity, Power and the Labour Process

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  110. Introduction

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  111. New Technology and the Self-disciplined Worker in the Insurance Industry

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  112. Milkround Professionalism in Personnel Recruitment: Myth or Reality?

    Article • Personnel Review, January 1990, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  113. Power and Subjectivity at Work: From Degradation to Subjugation in Social Relations

    Article • Sociology, November 1989, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  114. The Process of Technological Change

    Article • British Journal of Sociology, June 1989, JSTOR

    Professor David Knights

  115. Intervention and Change

    Article • January 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  116. New Technology and the Labour Process

    Article • January 1988, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  117. Introduction

    Article • January 1988, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Knights

  118. The Ambivalence Of Personnel In In Life Insurance: The Challenge Of Change

    Article • Personnel Review, January 1988, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  119. Organizational Culture as Management Strategy: A Critique and Illustration from the Financial Services Industry

    Article • International Studies of Management and Organization, September 1987, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Knights

  120. Job Redesign: Critical Perspectives on the Labor Process.

    Article • ILR Review, July 1987, JSTOR

    Professor David Knights

  121. Disciplining the shopfloor: A comparison of the disciplinary effects of managerial psychology and financial accounting

    Article • Accounting Organizations and Society, January 1987, Elsevier

    Professor David Knights

  122. David Knights, Hughes Willmott, and David Collinson (eds.): Job Redesign. Critical Perspectives on the Labour Process 1985, Aldershot, Brookfield: Gower. 236 pages

    Article • Organization Studies, January 1986, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  123. THE THEORY, PRACTICE AND POLITICS OF MANPOWER PLANNING: AN ANALYTICAL CRITIQUE WITH EMPIRICAL ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE N.H.S.

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, March 1985, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  124. Power and Identity in Theory and Practice

    Article • The Sociological Review, February 1985, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  125. Understanding the Theory and Practice of Management Control

    Article • Employee Relations, April 1983, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  126. Book Reviews

    Article • Sociology, February 1983, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  127. Power, Values and Relations: A Comment on Benton

    Article • Sociology, November 1982, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  128. Race Relations in Industry: Problems and Prospects for Equal Opportunity

    Article • Employee Relations, May 1982, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  129. The Common‐Sense World of Everyday Selling

    Article • Management Decision, January 1974, Emerald

    Professor David Knights

  130. The gendered terrains of paternalism

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor David Knights

  131. Michel Foucault

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  132. Academic Commentary on Part I

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  133. 7. Power at Work in Organizations

    Article • Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David Knights

  134. It's a Matter of Time: The Significance of the Women's Market in Consumption

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  135. The Reengineering Revolution? An Introduction

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  136. ‘The Best is Yet to Come?’: The Quest for Embodiment in Managerial Work

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  137. ‘Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on’: BPR up against the Wall of Functionalism, Hierarchy and Specialization

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights

  138. Bridging the Academic-Practitioner Divide: A Case Study Analysis of Business School Collaboration With Industry,

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor David Knights