Chris Carter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3609414 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chris Carter |
| PRENOMES | Chris |
| SOBRENOME | Carter |
| ASSINATURA | CARTER C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6391-362X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 182 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
When Stanley Aronowitz Went to Business School
The authors reflect on Stanley Aronowitz's influence in the 2000s on the then emerging fields of critical accounting and critical management studies, recalling his visits to Leicester University, and the subsequent visit the authors organized together where Stanley was hosted for extended periods at Queen Mary University of London and St. Andrews University. Stanley's influence is still felt in UK institutions practicing a critical approach
The Creative Business Model Canvas
Purpose Creative and cultural producers, like social enterprises, operate in a complex business environment where the value proposition is difficult to define, and the organisational motivations are not always financially driven. In the case of Australian visual artists, low incomes and limited access to government funding magnify the importance of developing sustainable business models. This paper aims to present the Creative Business Model Canv…
Pre-European Plant Consumption and Cultural Changes in the Coastal Lluta Valley, Atacama Desert, Northern Chile (Ca. 5140–390 Cal Yr BP)
Professionals with borders
Recent claims assert that the transnational has displaced the national in importance vis-à-vis the governance of international professional organizations. Crucial to such claims are assumptions about rising geographical mobilityandtheemergenceofcosmopolitanprofessionalswhoareincreasinglydetachedfromnationalprofessional regimes and contexts. We interrogate claims about the importance of transnational spaces through a crossnational study of global …
Using archaeological shell middens as a proxy for past local coastal upwelling in northern Chile
Taste matters
Recent literature suggests that elites are increasingly fragmented and divided. Yet there is very little empirical research that maps the distinctions between different elite groups. This article explores the cultural divisions that pertain to elite factions in two distinct but proximate Strategic Action Fields. A key insight from the article is that the public sector faction studied exhibits a much broader, more aesthetic set of cultural disposi…
Tracking habitus across a transnational professional field
The sociology of the professions has shied away from cross-national comparative work. Yet research in different professional jurisdictions emphasizes the transnational nature of professional fields. Further work is therefore needed that explores the extent to which transnational professional fields are characterized by unity or heterogeneity. To that end, this article presents the results of a qualitative interrogation of the habitus of partners …
Global ends, local means
An expanding institutionalist literature on professional service firms (PSFs) emphasizes that these are ridden by contradictions, paradoxes and conflicting logics. More specifically, literature looking at PSFs in a global context has highlighted how these contradictions prevent firms from becoming truly global in nature. What it takes to make partner in the Big 4 is at the core of such interrogations because partners belong to global firms yet ar…
Digital imaging and prehistoric imagery
An exploration of the professional habitus in the Big 4 accounting firms
The meaning of professionalism is changing, with the commercial pressures of globalization exerting dramatic pressures on the nature of professional work and the skill sets required of professionals. This article engages with this debate by reporting on a qualitative, empirical study undertaken in a domain that has been largely neglected by sociology: professional accounting. Focusing on the elite 'Big 4' accounting firms, the ways in which partn…
Cultures of strategy
This article explores the changes that took place in the BBC during the late 1980s and 1990s. The paper traces the antecedents to the changes, particularly a report prepared by McKinsey, the management consulting firm, in the early 1970s. Many of the problems identified by McKinsey were tackled a generation later, although using strikingly different methods from those advocated by the consulting firm. The second section of the paper focuses on th…
The Age of Strategy
The authors of the articles are to be thanked for providing such thought-provoking articles; a special debt is owed to the reviewers, who provided constructive and challenging reviews. The special issue was edited from Newcastle University Business School, an environment that has proved fruitful and conducive for critical strategy research. Earlier versions of many of the articles that appear in this Special Issue were presented and commented on …
Governmentality, power and organization
Michel Foucault has moved from being marginal to organization studies to perhaps the most important authority in critical management studies. Yet his methods, historiography and the theoretical value of his work remain obscure, contested or, even worse, simply taken for granted. Governmentality, Foucault's term for how institutions are imagined, offers a way of understanding how specific forms of knowledge and power emerge, develop and decline. G…
Science and psychic phenomena
A factual and conscientious argument against materialism's vehement denial of psi phenomena"--Provided by publisher
In TripAdvisor we trust
Making sense of career in a Big Four accounting firm
There is little existing research on how managers within the 'Big Four' professional services firms (PSFs) respond to the increasing normative pressures and performative cultures that characterize contemporary PSFs. It is primarily managers within PSFs that enact the new managerial roles, systems and ethos that differentiate 'managed professional businesses' (MPBs) from the P2 archetype. It is managers who in their own estimation need to ensure t…
Invisible walls’ and ‘silent hierarchies’
In this article we investigate how power relates to the production of creative identities and outcomes. We report on an in-depth case study of an award-winning creative architecture firm. Our data show how talk about creativity and the creative identities of architects can be analysed as effects of power. Theoretically, our study represents an investigation into the disciplining of professional architects’ discourse about their selves, their orga…
Managing Globalization
© Oxford University Press, 2013. This article discusses some approaches to globalization that contribute to a critical management studies (CMS) agenda. The vast majority of the literature in management and organization theory takes an inveterately mainstream approach to globalization and lacks a critical perspective. Articles in scholarly journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies and the Colombia Journal of World Business ten…
Management
On the eve of World War I, scientific management became the first big management fad, a source of innumerable new truths about work and its organization, all of which were oriented to the efficiency of the individual human body. At the same time a revolution in manufacturing also occurred when Henry Ford introduced the assembly line, modeled on the Chicago slaughterhouses (see Upton Sinclair's 1906 ethnographic novel, The Jungle ). In the abattoi…
Social Accountability and Governance
Recent accounting scandals such as Enron, Parmalat, and WorldCom have concentrated attention on the accountability and governance of corporations. Social accounting has been described and critiqued from a variety of positions, ranging from right‐wing neoliberal critiques all the way through to Marxist and deep green critiques. The different positions taken on the desirability or otherwise of social accounting can be understood by considering the …
Institutional Theory, New
Emerging from the sociology of education in the 1970s, new institutional theory (NIT) has become one of the foremost positions within the mainstream of American management studies. It seeks to explain the ways in which institutions are created, sustained, and diffused. NIT's antecedents lay in the institutional theorizing of writers such as Philip Selznick a generation before. Adherents of NIT are keen to draw a distinction between “new” and “old…
Professions, Organized
Professions are one of the main forms of institutionalizing expertise in western societies (Giddens 1991). The term “profession” is a curious one. It immediately conjures up images drawn from television shows featuring lawyers or medical doctors. Such representations point to the hold that certain professions have on our imagination. In Bleak House , Charles Dickens's celebrated novel, Richard Carstone considers which profession he wants to take …
Management Fashion
One of the striking features of the organizational world in the last 30 years has been the rise and fall of a dazzling array of management initiatives. Typically originating in the US, such ideas have spread across the industrialized world (Czarniawska & Sevon 1996). The raft of initiatives includes Total Quality Management (TQM), Business Process Re‐Engineering (BPR), Culture Change, the Learning Organization, Knowledge Management (KM), Sharehol…
Spectres of Accounting
Introduction
An exploration of the professional habitus in the Big 4 accounting firms
The meaning of professionalism is changing, with the commercial pressures of globalization exerting dramatic pressures on the nature of professional work and the skill sets required of professionals. This article engages with this debate by reporting on a qualitative, empirical study undertaken in a domain that has been largely neglected by sociology: professional accounting. Focusing on the elite 'Big 4' accounting firms, the ways in which partn…
Tracking habitus across a transnational professional field
The sociology of the professions has shied away from cross-national comparative work. Yet research in different professional jurisdictions emphasizes the transnational nature of professional fields. Further work is therefore needed that explores the extent to which transnational professional fields are characterized by unity or heterogeneity. To that end, this article presents the results of a qualitative interrogation of the habitus of partners …
Invisible walls’ and ‘silent hierarchies’
In this article we investigate how power relates to the production of creative identities and outcomes. We report on an in-depth case study of an award-winning creative architecture firm. Our data show how talk about creativity and the creative identities of architects can be analysed as effects of power. Theoretically, our study represents an investigation into the disciplining of professional architects’ discourse about their selves, their orga…
Global ends, local means
An expanding institutionalist literature on professional service firms (PSFs) emphasizes that these are ridden by contradictions, paradoxes and conflicting logics. More specifically, literature looking at PSFs in a global context has highlighted how these contradictions prevent firms from becoming truly global in nature. What it takes to make partner in the Big 4 is at the core of such interrogations because partners belong to global firms yet ar…
Governmentality, power and organization
Michel Foucault has moved from being marginal to organization studies to perhaps the most important authority in critical management studies. Yet his methods, historiography and the theoretical value of his work remain obscure, contested or, even worse, simply taken for granted. Governmentality, Foucault's term for how institutions are imagined, offers a way of understanding how specific forms of knowledge and power emerge, develop and decline. G…
The ‘Long March’ of the Management Modernizers
This article deals with a transition process from a professional engineering archetype to a modernizing managerialist archetype in a British electricity utility. This took place in the context of the substantially changing utility sector characterized by privatization, the introduction of efficiency targets, the introduction of a regulatory system, the prospect of mergers and predatory takeovers. The high-flying rhetoric of modernizing managerial…
Digital imaging and prehistoric imagery
Taste matters
Recent literature suggests that elites are increasingly fragmented and divided. Yet there is very little empirical research that maps the distinctions between different elite groups. This article explores the cultural divisions that pertain to elite factions in two distinct but proximate Strategic Action Fields. A key insight from the article is that the public sector faction studied exhibits a much broader, more aesthetic set of cultural disposi…
Professionals with borders
Recent claims assert that the transnational has displaced the national in importance vis-à-vis the governance of international professional organizations. Crucial to such claims are assumptions about rising geographical mobilityandtheemergenceofcosmopolitanprofessionalswhoareincreasinglydetachedfromnationalprofessional regimes and contexts. We interrogate claims about the importance of transnational spaces through a crossnational study of global …
The Age of Strategy
The authors of the articles are to be thanked for providing such thought-provoking articles; a special debt is owed to the reviewers, who provided constructive and challenging reviews. The special issue was edited from Newcastle University Business School, an environment that has proved fruitful and conducive for critical strategy research. Earlier versions of many of the articles that appear in this Special Issue were presented and commented on …
Making sense of career in a Big Four accounting firm
There is little existing research on how managers within the 'Big Four' professional services firms (PSFs) respond to the increasing normative pressures and performative cultures that characterize contemporary PSFs. It is primarily managers within PSFs that enact the new managerial roles, systems and ethos that differentiate 'managed professional businesses' (MPBs) from the P2 archetype. It is managers who in their own estimation need to ensure t…
New Deals, No Wheels
Attention has largely fallen on the grand providers and users of new information communication technologies, such as corporations, government and municipal authorities with their needs to reduce public expenditure bills, but there are new dimensions to social existence opened up by these technologies at the community and individual levels which have been repeatedly ignored. The paper explores, from a radical organisational perspective, the extent…
Cultures of strategy
This article explores the changes that took place in the BBC during the late 1980s and 1990s. The paper traces the antecedents to the changes, particularly a report prepared by McKinsey, the management consulting firm, in the early 1970s. Many of the problems identified by McKinsey were tackled a generation later, although using strikingly different methods from those advocated by the consulting firm. The second section of the paper focuses on th…
Pre-European Plant Consumption and Cultural Changes in the Coastal Lluta Valley, Atacama Desert, Northern Chile (Ca. 5140–390 Cal Yr BP)
On Gibbs sampling for state space models
We show how to use the Gibbs sampler to carry out Bayesian inference on a linear state space model with errors that are a mixture of normals and coefficients that can switch over time. Our approach simultaneously generates the whole of the state vector given the mixture and coefficient indicator variables and simultaneously generates all the indicator variables conditional on the state vectors. The states are generated efficiently using the Kalma…
The Spectrum of ( Explacit ) Knowledges in Firms and Nations
New Deals, No Wheels
Attention has largely fallen on the grand providers and users of new information communication technologies, such as corporations, government and municipal authorities with their needs to reduce public expenditure bills, but there are new dimensions to social existence opened up by these technologies at the community and individual levels which have been repeatedly ignored. The paper explores, from a radical organisational perspective, the extent…
Introduction
Foucault and History in Organization Studies
There is an increasing call for an historical perspective in organization studies. Clegg, Jacques and Burrell in particular combine this call with a Foucauldian reformulation of organization studies. But Foucauldians in organization studies have largely ignored the criticisms of Foucault from historians. We rehearse six main criticisms of Foucault from historians: (1) impenetrable style; (2) avoidance of narrative; (3) ambivalence to truth; (4) e…
The ‘Long March’ of the Management Modernizers
This article deals with a transition process from a professional engineering archetype to a modernizing managerialist archetype in a British electricity utility. This took place in the context of the substantially changing utility sector characterized by privatization, the introduction of efficiency targets, the introduction of a regulatory system, the prospect of mergers and predatory takeovers. The high-flying rhetoric of modernizing managerial…
Spectres of Accounting
Management
On the eve of World War I, scientific management became the first big management fad, a source of innumerable new truths about work and its organization, all of which were oriented to the efficiency of the individual human body. At the same time a revolution in manufacturing also occurred when Henry Ford introduced the assembly line, modeled on the Chicago slaughterhouses (see Upton Sinclair's 1906 ethnographic novel, The Jungle ). In the abattoi…
Social Accountability and Governance
Recent accounting scandals such as Enron, Parmalat, and WorldCom have concentrated attention on the accountability and governance of corporations. Social accounting has been described and critiqued from a variety of positions, ranging from right‐wing neoliberal critiques all the way through to Marxist and deep green critiques. The different positions taken on the desirability or otherwise of social accounting can be understood by considering the …
Institutional Theory, New
Emerging from the sociology of education in the 1970s, new institutional theory (NIT) has become one of the foremost positions within the mainstream of American management studies. It seeks to explain the ways in which institutions are created, sustained, and diffused. NIT's antecedents lay in the institutional theorizing of writers such as Philip Selznick a generation before. Adherents of NIT are keen to draw a distinction between “new” and “old…
Professions, Organized
Professions are one of the main forms of institutionalizing expertise in western societies (Giddens 1991). The term “profession” is a curious one. It immediately conjures up images drawn from television shows featuring lawyers or medical doctors. Such representations point to the hold that certain professions have on our imagination. In Bleak House , Charles Dickens's celebrated novel, Richard Carstone considers which profession he wants to take …
Management Fashion
One of the striking features of the organizational world in the last 30 years has been the rise and fall of a dazzling array of management initiatives. Typically originating in the US, such ideas have spread across the industrialized world (Czarniawska & Sevon 1996). The raft of initiatives includes Total Quality Management (TQM), Business Process Re‐Engineering (BPR), Culture Change, the Learning Organization, Knowledge Management (KM), Sharehol…
Managing Globalization
© Oxford University Press, 2013. This article discusses some approaches to globalization that contribute to a critical management studies (CMS) agenda. The vast majority of the literature in management and organization theory takes an inveterately mainstream approach to globalization and lacks a critical perspective. Articles in scholarly journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies and the Colombia Journal of World Business ten…
Invisible walls’ and ‘silent hierarchies’
In this article we investigate how power relates to the production of creative identities and outcomes. We report on an in-depth case study of an award-winning creative architecture firm. Our data show how talk about creativity and the creative identities of architects can be analysed as effects of power. Theoretically, our study represents an investigation into the disciplining of professional architects’ discourse about their selves, their orga…
In TripAdvisor we trust
Making sense of career in a Big Four accounting firm
There is little existing research on how managers within the 'Big Four' professional services firms (PSFs) respond to the increasing normative pressures and performative cultures that characterize contemporary PSFs. It is primarily managers within PSFs that enact the new managerial roles, systems and ethos that differentiate 'managed professional businesses' (MPBs) from the P2 archetype. It is managers who in their own estimation need to ensure t…
Governmentality, power and organization
Michel Foucault has moved from being marginal to organization studies to perhaps the most important authority in critical management studies. Yet his methods, historiography and the theoretical value of his work remain obscure, contested or, even worse, simply taken for granted. Governmentality, Foucault's term for how institutions are imagined, offers a way of understanding how specific forms of knowledge and power emerge, develop and decline. G…
Science and psychic phenomena
A factual and conscientious argument against materialism's vehement denial of psi phenomena"--Provided by publisher
Cultures of strategy
This article explores the changes that took place in the BBC during the late 1980s and 1990s. The paper traces the antecedents to the changes, particularly a report prepared by McKinsey, the management consulting firm, in the early 1970s. Many of the problems identified by McKinsey were tackled a generation later, although using strikingly different methods from those advocated by the consulting firm. The second section of the paper focuses on th…
The Age of Strategy
The authors of the articles are to be thanked for providing such thought-provoking articles; a special debt is owed to the reviewers, who provided constructive and challenging reviews. The special issue was edited from Newcastle University Business School, an environment that has proved fruitful and conducive for critical strategy research. Earlier versions of many of the articles that appear in this Special Issue were presented and commented on …
An exploration of the professional habitus in the Big 4 accounting firms
The meaning of professionalism is changing, with the commercial pressures of globalization exerting dramatic pressures on the nature of professional work and the skill sets required of professionals. This article engages with this debate by reporting on a qualitative, empirical study undertaken in a domain that has been largely neglected by sociology: professional accounting. Focusing on the elite 'Big 4' accounting firms, the ways in which partn…
Global ends, local means
An expanding institutionalist literature on professional service firms (PSFs) emphasizes that these are ridden by contradictions, paradoxes and conflicting logics. More specifically, literature looking at PSFs in a global context has highlighted how these contradictions prevent firms from becoming truly global in nature. What it takes to make partner in the Big 4 is at the core of such interrogations because partners belong to global firms yet ar…
Digital imaging and prehistoric imagery
Taste matters
Recent literature suggests that elites are increasingly fragmented and divided. Yet there is very little empirical research that maps the distinctions between different elite groups. This article explores the cultural divisions that pertain to elite factions in two distinct but proximate Strategic Action Fields. A key insight from the article is that the public sector faction studied exhibits a much broader, more aesthetic set of cultural disposi…
Tracking habitus across a transnational professional field
The sociology of the professions has shied away from cross-national comparative work. Yet research in different professional jurisdictions emphasizes the transnational nature of professional fields. Further work is therefore needed that explores the extent to which transnational professional fields are characterized by unity or heterogeneity. To that end, this article presents the results of a qualitative interrogation of the habitus of partners …
Sociology (19 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Management and Organizational Studies (15 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Business (11 obras) · Economics (10 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Public relations (10 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras) · Politics (8 obras)