John D Roberts

Biographic Data

ID4989979
NAMEJohn D Roberts
GIVEN NAMESJohn D
FAMILY NAMERoberts
SIGNATUREROBERTS J D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cambridge
ORCID0000-0003-4965-9626
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS81
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX5

  • The ‘subject’ of corruption

    Open AccessJohn Roberts, John D RobertsARTICLECritical Perspectives on Accounting2015

  • In search of corporate social responsibility: Introduction to special issue

    Open AccessPeter Fleming, John Roberts et al.ARTICLEOrganization2013

    This introduction to the special issue aims to contextualize and critically comment on the current trajectory of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in both scholarly inquiry and business practice. It suggests that we must place it within the milieu of the ongoing economic crisis and the failure of a number of important opportunities to make business ethical (e.g. the 2012 Rio + 20 Earth Summit). It then suggests possible future terrain for ten…

  • Against economic (mis)conceptions of the individual: Constructing financial agency in the credit crisis

    John Roberts, John D Roberts et al.ARTICLECulture and Organization2012References: 9

    This paper draws upon the work of Lacan and Callon to interrogate and disrupt the foundational belief of neo-classical economics in the rationality and autonomy of the individual. Lacan's account of the ego's foundation in the ‘imaginary’ explains how the self may be grasped as if it were indeed autonomous and rational, but also what is ‘fictional’ about this image. Following Lacan, the credit crisis is explored in terms of the narcissism, parano…

  • Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism and Public Ethics

    John Roberts, John D RobertsARTICLEEuropean Accounting Review2009

    Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism and Public Ethics Alnoor Ebrahim and Edward Weisband (Eds) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 366pp. $39.99, ISBN-13:978-0521700115 Globa

  • Depression and Anxiety in Adults With Sickle Cell Disease: The PiSCES Project

    Jill L Levenson, James L Levenson et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2008

    OBJECTIVE: Depression and anxiety are common in sickle cell disease (SCD) but relatively little is known about their impact on SCD adults. This study measured prevalence of depression and anxiety in SCD adults, and their effects on crisis and noncrisis pain, quality-of-life, opioid usage, and healthcare utilization. METHODS: The Pain in Sickle Cell Epidemiology Study is a prospective cohort study in 308 SCD adults. Baseline variables included dem…

  • Helping the family’: The mediating role of outside directors in ethnic Chinese family firms

    Open AccessWilson Ng, John Roberts et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations2007Cited by: 6References: 44

    This article explores the nature and process of non-executive director (NED or non-executive) influence in quoted, familycontrolled firms (FCFs) through two company case studies in Singapore. Existing views of the non-executive role in such firms have been derived from theory, with traditional and ‘new’ agency approaches and resource dependence theory each offering differing prescriptions of the role. The article reviews this literature and sugge…

  • Owners or traders? Conceptualizations of institutional investors and their relationship with corporate managers

    Open AccessJohn Hendry, Paul Sanderson et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations2006Cited by: 9References: 41

    We draw on a series of in-depth interviews with senior managers from institutional investors and large listed corporations to explore how different conceptualizations of institutional investors, their role in the corporate governance process, and their interactions with corporate management, are reflected in the accounts of the actors concerned. We find that the conceptualizations in terms of ownership and agency that dominate both academic and p…

  • Taking relativism seriously

    Caroline New, John Roberts et al.ARTICLEJournal of Critical Realism2005

  • The Power of the ‘Imaginary’ in Disciplinary Processes

    Open AccessJohn Roberts, John D RobertsARTICLEOrganization2005

    The focus of this article is on processes of social control and the role that images and processes of identification play in effecting such control. The article begins by schematically tracing the history of the new paradigm of control firstly within the managerial literature as a move ‘from control to commitment’, then through critical accounts of ‘employee subjection’, through to more recent discussions of the nature of resistance. This history…

  • Excavating the Iconic: The Rediscovery of the Fairbottom Bobs Colliery Pumping Engine

    Michael Nevell, John Roberts et al.ARTICLEIndustrial Archaeology Review2004

    Steam engines were one of the first machine-types to attract the attention of antiquarians and later Industrial Archaeologists. From the first Newcomen engine in 1712 to the 20th-century steam turbine, these objects still exert a fascination for archaeologists and historians of the Industrial Era. None more so than the Newcomen or more properly the atmospheric steam engine. Such engines were described by L.T.C. Rolt as one of the prehistoric fore…

  • The Manufacture of Corporate Social Responsibility: Constructing Corporate Sensibility

    Open AccessJohn Roberts, John D RobertsARTICLEOrganization2003

    This paper develops a framework for differentiating between mere image and substance in corporate claims to social responsibility. The paper begins by drawing upon the work of Levinas to explore the nature of responsibility and ethical sensibility. It then explores four versions of corporate social responsibility (CSR): the conditions under which CSR is squeezed out by the dominance of financial pressures; the embrace of CSR as a form of public r…

  • Trust and Control in Anglo-American Systems of Corporate Governance: The Individualizing and Socializing Effects of Processes of Accountability

    Open AccessJohn Roberts, John D RobertsARTICLEHuman Relations2001Cited by: 47References: 54

    This article reformulates the problem of corporate governance through a shift of analytic focus, away from the problems of securing the interests of remote owners, to an understanding of processes of accountability and their effects, both objective and subjective, within Anglo-American systems of corporate governance. In place of the essentialist assumptions about human nature upon which both agency theorists and their organizational critics buil…

  • Buying leisure

    John Roberts, John D RobertsARTICLELeisure Studies1987Cited by: 5

  • The Power of Organization or the Organization of Power

    Open AccessDavid Knights, John Roberts et al.ARTICLEOrganization Studies1982Cited by: 14References: 12

    This article presents some of the problems that need to be resolved if organization is to be developed to its full potential. Our central argument is that both management and staff typically act on the basis of a false understanding of the nature of power. Power is typically treated as if it were an individual possession, rather than as a relationship between people. Consequently, managers ignore or attempt to deny their ultimate dependence on st…

  • Mules and Men

    John Roberts, John D Roberts et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1980

  • A Theological Conception of the State

    John D RobertsARTICLEJournal of Church and State1962

    Journal Article A Theological Conception of the State Get access J. Deotis Roberts J. Deotis Roberts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 1962, Pages 66–75, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/4.1.66 Published: 01 May 1962