Constantine Manolchev
Biographic Data
| ID | 4368445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constantine Manolchev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constantine |
| FAMILY NAME | Manolchev |
| SIGNATURE | MANOLCHEV C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9621-5166 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Manufacturing Consent revisited
Revisiting Manufacturing Consent with Paul Thompson
Few texts have done more to shape how sociologists and social theorists think about workplace politics, labour agency, the everyday production of cooperation and even the sociology of work than Michael Burawoy’s Manufacturing Consent . As a result, discussing it poses a two-fold challenge – of scope and of depth. The first requires a profound understanding of the theoretical foundation of industrial sociology on which Burawoy built. The second, i…
Returning to Manufacturing Consent 45 years on
We open the special section ‘Forty-five Years of Manufacturing Consent ’ by returning to Michael Burawoy’s Manufacturing Consent 45 years after its publication to ask why it remains both enduring and contested in the sociology of work. Burawoy’s core insight was that workplace order is not secured by control alone: consent can be organised through everyday routines, incentives, relationships, and ‘games’ that make work workable even when power is…
Exploring the Coping Strategies of Bullying Targets in Organisations Through Abductive Reasoning
Over recent decades, workplace bullying and other forms of ‘negative acts’ have become a phenomenon of global interest. Extant scholarship has recognized the negative effects, which escalating acts of verbal and physical aggression can have on individuals and the wider, ethical infrastructure of organisations. While previous studies have explored the antecedents of such negative acts and proposed various intervention and prevention strategies, th…
Gaming Hope
This article seeks to uncover Carys’ precarious experiences as a professional female footballer. To date, research has largely examined uncertain labour market conditions, processes and outcomes, often overlooking the ‘hope labour’ of skilled precarious workers who take present risks in anticipation of future opportunities. Carys’ story highlights the critical role of individual agency in navigating such hope labour. We find that although her job…
Working through (mis)recognition
Most workers around the world are part of the precariat, characterized by non-permanent, informal, short-term, low-pay, low-skill, and insecure jobs. While there have been many socio-economic critiques of the negative impacts of precarity on workers, the literature has increasingly asked how precarious workers actually live their lives and how their subjectivities are produced on a daily basis. We contribute to this literature by providing a psyc…
Trapped in the abject
The place of humour in organisational interactions has been the subject of long-standing interest. Studies have considered the positive role of humour in increasing social contact and promoting group cohesion, while warning it can be a means for expressing hostility and excluding group members. However, more ambiguous uses of humour remain underexplored and under-theorised. Using a single case study of employee experiences at 'Hillside', a high-s…
Dances with Daffodils
Physically demanding and low-paid, work in the agri-food sector has been described in the literature as equal measures precarious and exploitative. In order to investigate the everyday realities of a flower-picker's job, we trace Ivan's journey from a Bulgarian university to the daffodil fields of Cornwall, UK. Following two rounds of successful promotions, Ivan's work is no longer governed by the seasonal rhythms of the flower-picking industry. …
The future of university or universities of the future
Purpose Using narratives from leading international academics and commentators, the authors chart four, possible, “universities of the future” models and discuss how current university management issues can enable or hinder them. Design/methodology/approach Deploying a Gioia methodology analysis of “University of the Future” narratives, the authors derive 12 categories of institutional properties and, ultimately, four distinct models. Findings Th…
Migrant labour as space
The UK agri-food industry is heavily dependent on migrant labour and, as result, the position and experiences of migrant workers have remained topics of research interest for over a decade. To date, a prolific body of research in the organisation studies literature has addressed the subordinate and exploited position of migrants against a backdrop of precarious terms and conditions of work. Studies have also extolled the scope for worker mobility…
Working through (mis)recognition
Most workers around the world are part of the precariat, characterized by non-permanent, informal, short-term, low-pay, low-skill, and insecure jobs. While there have been many socio-economic critiques of the negative impacts of precarity on workers, the literature has increasingly asked how precarious workers actually live their lives and how their subjectivities are produced on a daily basis. We contribute to this literature by providing a psyc…
Trapped in the abject
The place of humour in organisational interactions has been the subject of long-standing interest. Studies have considered the positive role of humour in increasing social contact and promoting group cohesion, while warning it can be a means for expressing hostility and excluding group members. However, more ambiguous uses of humour remain underexplored and under-theorised. Using a single case study of employee experiences at 'Hillside', a high-s…
The future of university or universities of the future
Purpose Using narratives from leading international academics and commentators, the authors chart four, possible, “universities of the future” models and discuss how current university management issues can enable or hinder them. Design/methodology/approach Deploying a Gioia methodology analysis of “University of the Future” narratives, the authors derive 12 categories of institutional properties and, ultimately, four distinct models. Findings Th…
Migrant labour as space
The UK agri-food industry is heavily dependent on migrant labour and, as result, the position and experiences of migrant workers have remained topics of research interest for over a decade. To date, a prolific body of research in the organisation studies literature has addressed the subordinate and exploited position of migrants against a backdrop of precarious terms and conditions of work. Studies have also extolled the scope for worker mobility…
Trapped in the abject
The place of humour in organisational interactions has been the subject of long-standing interest. Studies have considered the positive role of humour in increasing social contact and promoting group cohesion, while warning it can be a means for expressing hostility and excluding group members. However, more ambiguous uses of humour remain underexplored and under-theorised. Using a single case study of employee experiences at 'Hillside', a high-s…
Dances with Daffodils
Physically demanding and low-paid, work in the agri-food sector has been described in the literature as equal measures precarious and exploitative. In order to investigate the everyday realities of a flower-picker's job, we trace Ivan's journey from a Bulgarian university to the daffodil fields of Cornwall, UK. Following two rounds of successful promotions, Ivan's work is no longer governed by the seasonal rhythms of the flower-picking industry. …
Working through (mis)recognition
Most workers around the world are part of the precariat, characterized by non-permanent, informal, short-term, low-pay, low-skill, and insecure jobs. While there have been many socio-economic critiques of the negative impacts of precarity on workers, the literature has increasingly asked how precarious workers actually live their lives and how their subjectivities are produced on a daily basis. We contribute to this literature by providing a psyc…
Exploring the Coping Strategies of Bullying Targets in Organisations Through Abductive Reasoning
Over recent decades, workplace bullying and other forms of ‘negative acts’ have become a phenomenon of global interest. Extant scholarship has recognized the negative effects, which escalating acts of verbal and physical aggression can have on individuals and the wider, ethical infrastructure of organisations. While previous studies have explored the antecedents of such negative acts and proposed various intervention and prevention strategies, th…
Gaming Hope
This article seeks to uncover Carys’ precarious experiences as a professional female footballer. To date, research has largely examined uncertain labour market conditions, processes and outcomes, often overlooking the ‘hope labour’ of skilled precarious workers who take present risks in anticipation of future opportunities. Carys’ story highlights the critical role of individual agency in navigating such hope labour. We find that although her job…
Manufacturing Consent revisited
Revisiting Manufacturing Consent with Paul Thompson
Few texts have done more to shape how sociologists and social theorists think about workplace politics, labour agency, the everyday production of cooperation and even the sociology of work than Michael Burawoy’s Manufacturing Consent . As a result, discussing it poses a two-fold challenge – of scope and of depth. The first requires a profound understanding of the theoretical foundation of industrial sociology on which Burawoy built. The second, i…
Returning to Manufacturing Consent 45 years on
We open the special section ‘Forty-five Years of Manufacturing Consent ’ by returning to Michael Burawoy’s Manufacturing Consent 45 years after its publication to ask why it remains both enduring and contested in the sociology of work. Burawoy’s core insight was that workplace order is not secured by control alone: consent can be organised through everyday routines, incentives, relationships, and ‘games’ that make work workable even when power is…
Sociology (5 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Emotional Labor in Professions (2 works)