Dr Warren Smith
Lecturer in Management
Dr Warren Smith is a member of The Open University's Centre for Human Resource and Change Management.
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Biography
Warren Smith is a lecturer in Management in the Centre for Human Resource and Change Management at The Open University Business School. Previously he worked at the School of Management, University of Leicester where he taught on a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, distance learning and full time programmes. He holds a PhD from Keele University, a Masters in Organizational Analysis from the University of Lancaster and a BSc. in Management Science from the University of Warwick.
Warren's research interests broadly relate to the arena of critical management studies and this has included work on academic practice, gender theorising and social marketing. This research has been published in such journals as Organization, Critical Sociology, Culture and Organization and Ephemera. He is also interested in the wider relationship between popular culture and modes of organization. This has involved contributions to edited collections on conspiracy theory, science fiction, chaos and complexity theory and more recently, the space programme.
Publications
(2009) 'To Infinity and Beyond', Space Travel and Culture: From Apollo to Space Tourism’, Oxford, Blackwell. Abstract
(2008) 'Cause related marketing: ethics and the ecstatic', Non Profit Marketing, vol. III, ed. Elizabeth Parsons, Pauline Maclaran and Mark Tadajewski, SAGE Publications, London, Sage, pp. 86-100. Abstract
(2007) 'The New Model Army, The Peasants Revolt, Guilds, Captain Swing, Rowntree, Wat Tyler, Ranters, Quakers and Saltaire in', Entries on William Blake, Robert Owen, Port Sunlight, New Lanark, Bournville, The Dictionary of Alternative and Utopian Organization, ed. Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier and Patrick Reedy, Zed Books, London.
(2001) 'Conspiracy, Corporate Culture and Criticism in', The Age of Anxiety: The Sociology of Conspiracy Theory, ed. Jane Parish and Martin Parker, Sociological Review Monograph, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 153-165.
(2001) 'I am a Man. And Nothing Human is Alien to Me: Alienation and Freakishness', Science Fiction and Organization, ed. W. Smith, M. Higgins, M. Parker and G. Lightfoot, London: Routledge, pp. 177-189.
(2001) 'Trust No One: Science Fiction and Marketing’s Future/Present', in Imagining Marketing, Stephen Brown, London: Routledge, pp. 107-123.
(1998) 'Computers and Representation: Organization in the Virtual World in', Organization/Representation: Work and Organizations in Popular Culture, J. Hassard and R. Holliday, London: Sage.
(2002) 'It’s not Really about Fighting’ Review of Fight Club', International Journal of Feminist Politics, vol. 14, issue 2, pp. 133-135.
(2002) 'The Case Against the Global Economy and for a Turn Towards Localisation’ Edited by Edward Goldsmith and Jerry Mander, Earthscan Publications and ‘Localisation: A Global Manifesto’, Colin Hines', Earthscan Publications, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, vol. 13.
(2001) 'Consumer Culture Coroners’ Review of One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the End of Economic Democracy', Thomas Frank Secker and Warburg, Ephemera, August, vol. 1, issue 3, pp. 291-295.
(2001) 'Violences of Men', Jeff Hearn, Sage, Gender, Work and Organization, vol. 8, issue 3, pp. 351-353.
(2010) 'An Ethics of Invisibility?', Paper to be presented at the 28th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, July.
(2001) 'Marketing a Sensitive Service: The Process of Objectification in Child Adoption', Paper presented at Ethics and Social Responsibility track, World Marketing Congress, 2001.
(2000) 'Socially Sensitive Marketing?: The Processes of Objectification in Child Adoption', Paper presented at Seventh Annual International Business Ethics Conference, New York, September 21st-23rd, 2000.
(1999) 'Building Better Worlds: Science Fiction and Marketing', Paper presented at Science Fiction and Organization Conference, Leicester, (Sept. 1999).
(1999) 'I Dreamt I was Caught Dead without my Virginform Casket: Science Fiction and Marketing’s Future Present', Proceedings of the Marketing Paradiso Conclave, 1999 (eds. Stephen Brown and Anthony Patterson) University of Ulster (ISBN 1-85923-1144) pg. 159-171.
(1999) 'Refreshing the Relationship Analogy: Marketing, Morality and Masochism', Paper presented at First Critical Management Conference, Manchester, (July, 1999).
(1999) 'Rough Cut for ‘Building Better Worlds: Science Fiction and Marketing - Released September 1999: Contains Continuity Errors and Lacks Soundtrack)', Paper presented at First Critical Management Conference, Manchester, (July, 1999).
(1999) 'Sense-less Violence and the Tumult of Imagination', Paper presented the 17th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Taking Liberties, Edinburgh, (July 1999).
(1998) 'What a Handsome Pair! :Relationship Marketing and Representations of the Consumer', Paper presented at British Academy of Management Conference, Nottingham (Sept. 1998).
(1998) 'Virtual Organizations as Communities of Difference?', Paper presented at EAST General Conference, ‘Culutres of Science and Technology: Europe and the Global Context, Lisbon (Sept. 1998).
(1997) 'Charity Begins at Hovis: Ethics and Cause Related Marketing', Proceedings of the Marketing Illuminations Spectacular (eds. Stephen Brown, Anne Marie Doherty and Bill Clarke) University of Ulster (ISBN 1-85923-063-6) pp. 240-251.
(2001) 'Science Fiction and Organization', London, Routledge.
(2008) 'Critical Management Studies: Accountability and Authenticity', Critical Sociology, vol. 34, issue 1, pp. 15-28. Abstract
(2006) 'Scripting Masculinity', Ephemera, vol. 6, issue 2, pp. 141-162.
(2006) 'Organizing Death: Remembrance and Re-collection', Organization, vol. 13, issue 2, pp. 225-244.
(2003) 'Popularisation, Paralogy and Postmodernism: The Cultural Life of Chaos Theory', Culture and Organization, vol. 9, issue 2, pp. 93-104.
(2002) 'Babies Cost Less at Tescos', Journal of Marketing Management, vol. 18, pp. 833-856.
(2001) 'The Sense of Violence and the Absence of Consolation', Studies in Organizations, Cultures and Societies, vol. 7, issue 2, pp. 127-146.
(2001) 'Community and its Virtual Promises: A Critique of Cyberlibertian Rhetoric', Information, Communication and Society, vol. 4, issue 3, pp. 370-387.
(2001) 'Chaos Theory and Postmodern Organization', International Journal of Organization Theory and Behaviour, vol. 4, issue 3 & 4, pp. 259-286.
(2000) 'Cause Related Marketing: Ethics and the Ecstatic', Business and Society, September, vol. 39, issue 3, pp. 304-322.
(2000) 'Reconsidering the Relationship Analogy', Journal of Marketing Management, vol. 16, issue 1, pp. 81-94.
(1999) 'Amazing Stories: Organization Studies as Science Fiction', Organization, vol. 6, issue 4, pp. 579-590.
(2000) 'The Sense of Violence and the Absence of Consolation', University of Leicester: Discussion Papers in Management and Organization Studies, issue 00/13.
(1999) 'Virtual Dreams, Imagined Communities', University of Leicester: Discussion Papers in Management and Organization Studies, issue 99/12.
(1998) 'Representing Postmodernism?: Control, Creation and Cyborg Mythology', University of Leicester: Discussion Papers in Management and Organization Studies, issue 98/1, pp. 01/01/19.
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