Portrait of Professor André Spicer

Professor André Spicer

Executive Dean

Bayes Business School

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Overview

André Spicer is the Executive Dean of Bayes Business School. He is also Professor of Organisational Behaviour. He is an expert in the areas of Organisational Behaviour, Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Professor Spicer is originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand. He began his studies at the University of Otago and holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne in Australia. Prior to joining City St George's, he was a Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Warwick. He has been a visiting professor at London Business School, the Kellogg School at Northwestern, McGill University, Lund University, University of St Gallen and the University of Sydney. 

Professor Spicer is an award winning teacher. He has worked with students at all levels - from first year under-graduates to top level executives in large organisations. He recently co-developed an award winning course on critical thinking for business students.

Professor Spicer is known for his research on wellbeing, organizational politics, organisational culture, employee identity, new organizational forms, work space and leadership. His work looks at a wide range of settings including knowledge intensive firms, financial institutions, government departments, seaports, universities, libraries, media organizations, and social movements.

He has published extensively in top scholarly journals such as Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies and Harvard Business Review. He has also published many books including ’The Stupidity Paradox’ (profile), 'Metaphors we Lead By' (Routledge), 'The Wellness Syndrome' (Polity), ‘Business Bullshit’ (Routledge) and ‘Desperately Seeking Self Improvement’ (OR). He has received research funding from the ESRC, British Academy, Handelsbanken Foundation, the Welsh Assembly, the Civil Aviation Authority and the Higher Education Innovation fund.

He is a frequent commentator in the global media outlets such as FT, CNN, BBC, CNBC, Channel Four, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Times, Telegraph, Independent and many others. He has worked with a range of large organisations including Barclays, City of London Corporation, Skandia Old Mutual, BNY Mellon, Transport for London, IBM, Ford, UK Houses of Parliament, Odgers Brendtson, the Bank of England and InterSpa (Austria). He is invited to give speeches in range of settings like the European Central Bank, the UK House of Lords, the European Commission, the Mansion House, TEDx and at universities around the world.

He is a member of Senior Leadership Team of City St George's, University of London and sits on the University Council. He was previously the Head of Faculty of Management at Bayes.

Qualifications

  • PhD
  • MBus
  • BComm

Visiting appointments

  • Visiting Professor, Copenhagen Business School, August 2012 - present
  • Visiting Professor, Hanken School of Economics, Finland, May 2011
  • Visiting Professor, University of Sydney, March - April 2011

Memberships of professional organisations

  • Academy of Management, August 2003 - present
  • European Group for Organization Studies, June 2003 - present

Expertise

Primary topics

  • Business Ethics
  • Change Management
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Critical Management Studies
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Organization Theory
  • Organizational Behaviour
  • Organizational Culture

Industries

  • accountancy firms
  • advertising
  • agribusiness
  • arts
  • broadcasting
  • communications
  • education, training & employment agencies
  • electronics
  • fashion
  • film & entertainment
  • food & drink
  • journalism
  • non-profit & voluntary sector
  • professional services
  • public sector
  • publishing
  • television
  • wine, spirits & alcohol

Geographic Areas

  • Australia & Oceania
  • Europe - Western
  • Scandinavia

Research

My research focuses on political dynamics in and around organizations. I have written on a range of topics including political theories of organization, politics of seaports, the transformation of public broadcasting, changing library spaces, the politics of building new institutions, and the dynamics of new media organizations

Research topics

Making Moral Markets

Examines the construction of responsible organizations and markets

Leadership in Knowledge Intensive Firms

Examines leadership in a range of knowledge intensive contexts

New Organizational Spaces

Examines how the introduction of new spaces impacts on organization

Research students

Monika Mueller

Attendance: August 2010 - present, full-time

Thesis title: Internal Branding in Organizations

Role: 2nd Supervisor

Koen Van Bommel

Attendance: August 2009 - present, full-time

Thesis title: Institutionalization of Environmental Reporting

Role: 1st Supervisor

Noelia Schnurr

Attendance: August 2008 - May 2011, full-time

Thesis title: Emotional Antenarratives During a Merger

Role: 1st Supervisor

Susanne Ekmann

Attendance: July 2007 - July 2010, full-time

Thesis title: Work as self-realization – empirical studies of modern knowledge work organizations

Role: 2nd Supervisor

Holly Birkett (nee Marsh)

Attendance: August 2006 - January 2011, full-time

Thesis title: Identity Transitions in Organizations: The case of retirement and downshifting

Role: 1st Supervisor

Zhonyuan Zhang

Attendance: August 2004 - May 2008, full-time

Thesis title: The Production of Space in a Public Sector Organization

Role: 1st Supervisor

Sammy Toyoki

Attendance: August 2003 - May 2008, full-time

Thesis title: Temporal Orientation and Dialogical Story-Telling: A Study of Life-Transitions

Role: 2nd Supervisor

1stsupervisor

  • Daniel Fisher, Research Student
  • Annette Yunus Pendrey, Research Student

2ndsupervisor

  • Yousaf Nishat-Botero, Research Student

Publications

Books (12)

  1. Cederstrom, C. and Spicer, A. (2017). Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement. London, UK: OR Books. ISBN 9781682191026.
  2. Spicer, A. (2017). Business Bullshit. Routledge.
  3. Baars, G. and Spicer, A. (Eds.), (2017). The Corporation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107073111.
  4. Alvesson, M. and Spicer, A. (2016). The Stupidity Paradox The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work. London, UK: Profile Books. ISBN 1782832025.
  5. Cederström, C. and Spicer, A. (2015). The Wellness Syndrome. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780745688930.
  6. Holmqvist, M. and Spicer, A. (2013). Managing 'Human Resources' by Exploiting and Exploring People's Potentials. Emerald Group Publishing. ISBN 9781781905050.
  7. Alvesson, M. and Spicer, A. (Eds.), (2010). Metaphors We Lead By. Routledge.
  8. Network, T.W.O.T., Hancock, P. and Spicer, A. (2009). Understanding Corporate Life. SAGE. ISBN 9781849204484.
  9. Jones, C. and Spicer, A. (2009). Unmasking the entrepreneur.
  10. Hancock, P. and Spicer, A. (2009). Understanding corporate life: The warwick organisation theory network.
  11. Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2007). Contesting the Corporation Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107320963.
  12. Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2007). Contesting the Corporation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521860864.

Chapters (33)

  1. In Huzzard, T., Benner, M. and Kärreman, D. (Eds.), (2017). The Corporatization of the Business School. In Routledge.
  2. Baars, G. and Spicer, A. (2017). Introduction: Why the Corporation? The Corporation (pp. 1-18). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107073111.
  3. Parmar, I. (2017). Corporate Foundations and Ideology. The Corporation (pp. 434-447). Cambridge University Press.
  4. Banerjee, S. and Spicer, A. (2015). Governance: Changing conceptions of the corporation. In Mir, R., Willmott, H. and Greenwood, M. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies Routledge. ISBN 9780415702867.
  5. Bommel, K.V. and Spicer, A. (2015). Slow Food Movement. (pp. 1-2). Wiley. ISBN 9780470672846.
  6. van Bommel, K. and Spicer, A. (2015). Slow Food as a Social Movement. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (pp. 94-99). Elsevier. ISBN 9780080970875.
  7. Spicer, A. and Alvesson, M. (2014). Critical Perspectives On Leadership. In Day, D. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations (pp. 40-56). Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 9780199755615.
  8. Spicer, A. (2014). Organization Studies, Sociology and the Quest for Public Organization Theory. In Adler, P., du Gay, P., Morgan, G. and Reed, M. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies Contemporary Currents Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 9780199671083.
  9. In Lemmergaard, J. and Muhr, S.L. (Eds.), (2013). Critical Perspectives on Leadership. In Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9780857931122.
  10. Alvesson, M. and Spicer, A. (2013). Does leadership create stupidity? Critical Perspectives on Leadership Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9780857931122.
  11. Holmqvist, M. and Spicer, A. (2012). The Ambidextrous Employee: Exploiting and Exploring People's Potential. Research in the Sociology of Organizations (pp. 1-23). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781781905050.
  12. (2012). Managing ‘Human Resources’ by Exploiting and Exploring People's Potentials. In (pp. i-i). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781781905050.
  13. Howell, J. and Spicer, A. (2012). Alternative Media and Public Action: How Online Media Movements (Don't) Use Resources. In Howell, J. (Ed.), Global Matters for Non-Government Public Action (pp. 133-152). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781349331499.
  14. Spicer, A. and Levay, C. (2011). Critical Theories of Organizational Change. In Boje, D., Burnes, B. and Hassard, J. (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Organizational Change (pp. 276-290). London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415556453.
  15. Spicer, A., Cederstr�m, C. and Hoedemaekers, C. (2011). For the Love of Organization. In Cederström, C. and Hoedemaekers, C. (Eds.), Lacan and Organization (pp. 133-168). London: MayFlyBooks. ISBN 9781906948108.
  16. Spicer, A. and Alvesson, M. (2010). Leaders as Commanders: Leadership through Creating Clear Direction. Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding Leadership in the Real World (pp. 118-137). London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415568456.
  17. Spicer, A. and Alvesson, M. (2010). Conclusion. Metaphors We Lead by Understanding Leadership in the Real World (pp. 194-205).
  18. Spicer, A. and Alvesson, M. (2010). Metaphors for Leadership. In Alvesson, M. and Spicer, A. (Eds.), Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding Leadership in the Real World (pp. 31-50). London: Routledge.
  19. Spicer, A. and Alvesson, M. (2010). Theories of Leadership. In Alvesson, M. and Spicer, A. (Eds.), Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding Leadership in the Real World (pp. 8-30). Routledge.
  20. Perkmann, M. and Spicer, A. (2010). What are Business Models: Towards a Theory of Performative Representations. Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 29) (pp. 265-275). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781849509848.
  21. Hancock, P. and Spicer, A. (2010). Understanding Corporate Life: The Warwick Organisation Theory Network. SAGE Publications Ltd. ISBN 9781412923842.
  22. Spicer, A. (2009). Indymedia Global Justice Campaign, 2000s. International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest 1500 to the Present (pp. 1-2).
  23. Spicer, A. and Boussebaa, M. (2009). Managing conflict:the curious case of neuro-linguistic programming. In Hancock, P. and Tyler, M. (Eds.), The Management of Everyday Life (pp. 164-178). London: Palgrave. ISBN 9780230524798.
  24. Morgan, G. and Spicer, A. (2009). Critical approaches to organizational change. In Alvesson, M., Bridgman, T. and Willmott, H. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies (pp. 251-266). London: OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780199237715.
  25. Jones, C. and Spicer, A. (2009). Is the Marquis de Sade an entrepreneur? In Hjorth, D. and Steyaert, C. (Eds.), The Politics and Aesthetics of Entrepreneurship (pp. 131-147). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  26. Spicer, A. (2009). Space. In Network, W.O.T., Hancock, P. and Spicer, A. (Eds.), Understanding Corporate Life (pp. 64-78). London: Sage. ISBN 9781412923842.
  27. Spicer, A. (2009). What do OB Tools and Practices Do? In Cooper, and Clegg, (Eds.), The Handbook of Macro Organizational Behaviour London: Sage.
  28. In Kornprobst, M., Pouliot, V., Shah, N. and Zaiotti, R. (Eds.), (2008). Metaphors of Globalization. In Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 9781349356997.
  29. Spicer, A., Jones, and Campbell, (2006). Entrepreneurial excess. In Brewis, J., Linstead, S., Boje, D. and O'Shea, T. (Eds.), The Passion of Organizing (pp. 187-187). Copenhagen: Abstrakt. ISBN 9788763001618.
  30. Spicer, A. (2005). Conferences. In O'Doherty, D. and Jones, C. (Eds.), Manifestos for the Business School of Tomorrow Turku: Devlin. ISBN 9789529189076.
  31. Spicer, A. and Jones, C. (2005). Outline of a genealogy of the value of the Entrepreneur. In Erreygers, G.E.A. (Ed.), Language, Communication and Economy (pp. 179-198). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027227065.
  32. Spicer, A., Selsky, and Teicher, (2002). Paradox in symbols and subjects: The politics of constructing “The Wharfie”. In Clegg, S. (Ed.), Management and Organization Paradoxes (pp. 87-118). Amsterdam: Benjamins. ISBN 9789027233073.
  33. Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2002). Workers' playtime?: Unravelling the paradox of covert resistance in organizations. In Clegg, S. (Ed.), Management and Organization Paradoxes (pp. 65-86). Amsterdam: Benjamins. ISBN 9789027233073.

Conference papers and proceedings (3)

  1. Van Bommel, K., Rasche, A. and Spicer, A. Crowding out Morality: How the Commensuration of Sustainability Reporting Sidelined Moral Reflection. .doi:10.5465/ambpp.2022.60
  2. Hartmann, R.K., Krabbe, A.D. and Spicer, A. Towards an Untrepreneurial economy: The Entrepreneurship Industry and the Veblenian Entrepreneur. .doi:10.5465/ambpp.2020.152
  3. Spicer, A., Nyberg, D. and Wright, C. (2011). Constructing the corporate citizen. APROS 2011 28 November-1 December, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.

Journal articles (81)

  1. Alvesson, M. and Spicer, A. (2026). Critical Management Studies: From One‐Dimensional Critique to Three‐Dimensional Scepticism. Journal of Management Studies, 63(3), pp. 1637-1660. doi:10.1111/joms.13256

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  2. Ronzani, M., Gatzweiler, M.K., Amis, J. and Spicer, A. (2026). Addiction and Organization Studies. Organization Studies. doi:10.1177/01708406261418204

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  3. Rintamäki, J., Parker, S. and Spicer, A. (2025). Parasites, Functionaries, and Their Relations: Responding to Commentaries on Institutional Parasites. Academy of Management Review, 50(3), pp. 656-659. doi:10.5465/amr.2024.0584

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  4. Rintamäki, J., Parker, S. and Spicer, A. (2025). Institutional Parasites. Academy of Management Review, 50(3), pp. 612-631. doi:10.5465/amr.2021.0502

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  5. Järvelä, J., Sorsa, V.-.P. and Spicer, A. (2025). Silent Steering: How Public Actors Indirectly Influence Private Stakeholder Engagement. Business & Society, 64(6), pp. 1229-1260. doi:10.1177/00076503241274056

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  6. Spicer, A. and Alvesson, M. (2025). Critical Management Studies: A Critical Review. Journal of Management Studies, 62(1), pp. 446-483. doi:10.1111/joms.13047

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  7. Krlev, G., Hannigan, T. and Spicer, A. (2025). What Makes a Good Review Article? Empirical Evidence From Management and Organization Research. Academy of Management Annals, 19(1), pp. 376-403. doi:10.5465/annals.2021.0051

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  8. Hannigan, T.R., McCarthy, I.P. and Spicer, A. (2024). Beware of botshit: How to manage the epistemic risks of generative chatbots. Business Horizons, 67(5), pp. 471-486. doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2024.03.001

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  9. Krlev, G. and Spicer, A. (2023). Reining in Reviewer Two: How to Uphold Epistemic Respect in Academia. Journal of Management Studies, 60(6), pp. 1624-1632. doi:10.1111/joms.12905

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  10. van Bommel, K., Rasche, A. and Spicer, A. (2023). From Values to Value: The Commensuration of Sustainability Reporting and the Crowding Out of Morality. Organization & Environment, 36(1), pp. 179-206. doi:10.1177/10860266221086617

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  11. Spicer, A. (2023). Quagmires. Organization Studies, 44(2), pp. 340-343. doi:10.1177/01708406221131940

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  12. Spicer, A., Cankurtaran, P. and Beverland, M.B. (2022). Take a Look at Me Now: Consecration and the Phil Collins Effect. pp. 253-282. doi:10.1108/s0733-558x20220000077018

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  13. Spicer, A., Jaser, Z. and Wiertz, C. (2021). The Future of the Business School: Finding Hope in Alternative Pasts. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 20(3), pp. 459-466. doi:10.5465/amle.2021.0275

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  14. Kärreman, D., Spicer, A. and Hartmann, R.K. (2021). Slow management. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 37(2), pp. 101152-101152. doi:10.1016/j.scaman.2021.101152

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  15. Spicer, A. (2020). Organizational Culture and COVID‐19. Journal of Management Studies, 57(8), pp. 1737-1740. doi:10.1111/joms.12625

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  16. Spicer, A. (2020). Playing the Bullshit Game: How Empty and Misleading Communication Takes Over Organizations. Organization Theory, 1(2). doi:10.1177/2631787720929704

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  17. Alvesson, M., Hallett, T. and Spicer, A. (2019). Uninhibited Institutionalisms. Journal of Management Inquiry, 28(2), pp. 119-127. doi:10.1177/1056492618822777

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  18. Alvesson, M. and Spicer, A. (2018). Neo-Institutional Theory and Organization Studies: A Mid-Life Crisis? Organization Studies. doi:10.1177/0170840618772610

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  19. Frandsen, S., Gotsi, M., Johnston, A., Whittle, A., Frenkel, S. and Spicer, A. (2018). Faculty responses to business school branding: a discursive approach. European Journal of Marketing, 52(5/6), pp. 1128-1153. doi:10.1108/ejm-11-2016-0628

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  20. Cederström, C. and Spicer, A. (2017). Going public. Organization, 24(5), pp. 708-711. doi:10.1177/1350508417705006

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  21. Reinecke, J., van Bommel, K. and Spicer, A. (2017). When Orders of Worth Clash: Negotiating Legitimacy in Situations of Moral Multiplexity. pp. 33-72. doi:10.1108/s0733-558x20170000052002

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  22. Huault, I., Kärreman, D., Perret, V. and Spicer, A. (2017). Introduction to the special issue : The evolving debate about critical performativity. M@n@gement, 20(1), pp. 1-1. doi:10.3917/mana.201.0001

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  23. Adee, S. (2016). The road to hell is paved with corporate wellness. New Scientist, 232(3103), pp. 40-41. doi:10.1016/s0262-4079(16)32292-8

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  24. Willmott, H.C., Djelic, M.-.L., Spicer, A., Parker, M., Perrow, C., Pugh, D.S.... Veldman, J. (2016). The Modern Corporation Statement on Management. Cass Business School, City, University of London

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  25. Mena, S., Rintamäki, J., Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2016). On the Forgetting of Corporate Irresponsibility. Academy of Management Review, 41(4), pp. 720-738. doi:10.5465/amr.2014.0208

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  26. Scherer, A.G., Rasche, A., Palazzo, G. and Spicer, A. (2016). Managing for Political Corporate Social Responsibility: New Challenges and Directions for PCSR 2.0. Journal of Management Studies, 53(3), pp. 273-298. doi:10.1111/joms.12203

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  27. Alvesson, M. and Spicer, A. (2016). (Un)Conditional surrender? Why do professionals willingly comply with managerialism. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 29(1), pp. 29-45. doi:10.1108/jocm-11-2015-0221

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  28. Spicer, A., Alvesson, M. and Kärreman, D. (2016). Extending critical performativity. Human Relations, 69(2), pp. 225-249. doi:10.1177/0018726715614073

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  29. Berinato, S. and Spicer, A. (2015). Corporate Wellness Programs Make Us Unwell: An Interview with André Spicer. Harvard Business Review, 93(5), pp. 28-29

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  30. Moog, S., Spicer, A. and Böhm, S. (2015). The Politics of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives: The Crisis of the Forest Stewardship Council. Journal of Business Ethics, 128(3), pp. 469-493. doi:10.1007/s10551-013-2033-3

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  31. Davies, J.S. and Spicer, A. (2015). Interrogating Networks: Towards an Agnostic Perspective on Governance Research. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 33(2), pp. 223-238. doi:10.1068/c11292

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  32. Perkmann, M. and Spicer, A. (2014). How Emerging Organizations Take Form: The Role of Imprinting and Values in Organizational Bricolage. Organization Science, 25(6), pp. 1785-1806. doi:10.1287/orsc.2014.0916

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  33. Zhang, Z. and Spicer, A. (2014). ‘Leader, you first’: The everyday production of hierarchical space in a Chinese bureaucracy. Human Relations, 67(6), pp. 739-762. doi:10.1177/0018726713503021

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  34. Cederström, C. and Spicer, A. (2014). Discourse of the real kind: A post-foundational approach to organizational discourse analysis. Organization, 21(2), pp. 178-205. doi:10.1177/1350508412473864

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  35. Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2014). Power in Management and Organization Science. The Academy of Management Annals, 8(1), pp. 237-298. doi:10.1080/19416520.2014.875671

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  36. Huault, I., Perret, V. and Spicer, A. (2014). Beyond macro- and micro- emancipation: Rethinking emancipation in organization studies. Organization, 21(1), pp. 22-49. doi:10.1177/1350508412461292

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  37. Levy, D.L. and Spicer, A. (2013). Contested imaginaries and the cultural political economy of climate change. Organization, 20(5), pp. 659-678. doi:10.1177/1350508413489816

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  38. Nyberg, D., Spicer, A. and Wright, C. (2013). Incorporating citizens: corporate political engagement with climate change in Australia. Organization, 20(3), pp. 433-453. doi:10.1177/1350508413478585

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  39. Spicer, A. (2013). Shooting the shit: the role of bullshit in organisations. M@n@gement, 16(5), pp. 653-653. doi:10.3917/mana.165.0653

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  40. Alvehus, J. and Spicer, A. (2012). Financialization as a strategy of workplace control in professional service firms. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 23(7-8), pp. 497-510. doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2012.02.001

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  41. Alvesson, M. and Spicer, A. (2012). A Stupidity‐Based Theory of Organizations. Journal of Management Studies, 49(7), pp. 1194-1220. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.01072.x

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  42. Spicer, A. (2012). The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism. ORGANIZATION STUDIES, 33(9), pp. 1257-1259. doi:10.1177/0170840611431913

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  43. Alvesson, M. and Spicer, A. (2012). Critical leadership studies: The case for critical performativity. Human Relations, 65(3), pp. 367-390. doi:10.1177/0018726711430555

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  44. (2012). Managing ‘Human Resources’ by Exploiting and Exploring People’s Potentials. . doi:10.1108/s0733-558x(2012)37

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  45. Alvesson, M. and Spicer, A. (2012). Critical Leadership Studies. Human Relations
  46. van Bommel, K. and Spicer, A. (2011). Hail the snail: Hegemonic struggles in the slow food movement. Organization Studies, 32(12), pp. 1717-1744. doi:10.1177/0170840611425722

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  47. Sullivan, S., Spicer, A. and Böhm, S. (2011). Becoming Global (Un)Civil Society: Counter-Hegemonic Struggle and the Indymedia Network. Globalizations, 8(5), pp. 703-717. doi:10.1080/14747731.2011.617571

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  48. Frenzel, F., Böhm, S., Quinton, P., Spicer, A., Sullivan, S. and Young, Z. (2011). Comparing Alternative Media in North and South: The Cases of IFIWatchnet and Indymedia in Africa. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 43(5), pp. 1173-1189. doi:10.1068/a43539

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  49. Hancock, P. and Spicer, A. (2011). Academic architecture and the constitution of the new model worker. Culture and Organization, 17(2), pp. 91-105. doi:10.1080/14759551.2011.544885

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  50. Spicer, A. (2011). Guilty Lives: The Failed Search for Authenticity in Contemporary Society. Ephemera, 11(1), pp. 46-52

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  51. van Bommel, K. and Spicer, A. (2011). Hail the Snail : Hegemonic Struggles in the Slow Food Movement. Organization Studies, 32, pp. 1717-1744
  52. Alvesson, M. and Spicer, A. (2010). Introduction. Metaphors We Lead by Understanding Leadership in the Real World pp. 1-7
  53. Spicer, A. and Sewell, G. (2010). From National Service to Global Player: Transforming the Organizational Logic of a Public Broadcaster. Journal of Management Studies, 47(6), pp. 913-943. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00915.x

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  54. Böhm, S., Dinerstein, A.C. and Spicer, A. (2010). (Im)possibilities of Autonomy: Social Movements in and beyond Capital, the State and Development. Social Movement Studies, 9(1), pp. 17-32. doi:10.1080/14742830903442485

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  55. Spicer, A. (2010). Extutions: The Other Side of Institutions. Ephemera, 10(1), pp. 25-39

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  56. Spicer, A., Alvesson, M. and Kärreman, D. (2009). Critical performativity: The unfinished business of critical management studies. Human Relations, 62(4), pp. 537-560. doi:10.1177/0018726708101984

    [publisher’s website]

  57. Zhongyuan Zhang, , Spicer, A. and Hancock, P. (2008). Hyper-Organizational Space in the Work of J. G. Ballard. Organization, 15(6), pp. 889-910. doi:10.1177/1350508408095819

    [publisher’s website]

  58. Böhm, S., Spicer, A. and Fleming, P. (2008). Infra-political dimensions of resistance to international business: A Neo-Gramscian approach. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 24(3), pp. 169-182. doi:10.1016/j.scaman.2008.03.008

    [publisher’s website]

  59. Perkmann, M. and Spicer, A. (2008). How are management fashions institutionalized? The role of institutional work. Human Relations, 61(6), pp. 811-844. doi:10.1177/0018726708092406

    [publisher’s website]

  60. Whittle, A. and Spicer, A. (2008). Is Actor Network Theory Critique? Organization Studies, 29(4), pp. 611-629. doi:10.1177/0170840607082223

    [publisher’s website]

  61. Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2008). Beyond Power and Resistance. Management Communication Quarterly, 21(3), pp. 301-309. doi:10.1177/0893318907309928

    [publisher’s website]

  62. Perkmann, M. and Spicer, A. (2008). Management fashion as distributed institutional entrepreneurship. Human Relations, 61, pp. 811-844
  63. Taylor, S. and Spicer, A. (2007). Time for space: A narrative review of research on organizational spaces. International Journal of Management Reviews, 9(4), pp. 325-346. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2370.2007.00214.x

    [publisher’s website]

  64. Spicer, A. and Böhm, S. (2007). Moving Management: Theorizing Struggles against the Hegemony of Management. Organization Studies, 28(11), pp. 1667-1698. doi:10.1177/0170840606082219

    [publisher’s website]

  65. Perkmann, M. and Spicer, A. (2007). `Healing the Scars of History': Projects, Skills and Field Strategies in Institutional Entrepreneurship. Organization Studies, 28(7), pp. 1101-1122. doi:10.1177/0170840607078116

    [publisher’s website]

  66. Spicer, A. and Feming, P. (2007). Intervening in the Inevitable: Contesting Globalization in a Public Sector Organization. Organization, 14(4), pp. 517-541. doi:10.1177/1350508407078051

    [publisher’s website]

  67. Spicer, A. (2006). Beyond the Convergence–Divergence Debate: The Role of Spatial Scales in Transforming Organizational Logic. Organization Studies, 27(10), pp. 1467-1483. doi:10.1177/0170840606067515

    [publisher’s website]

  68. Sturdy, A., Schwarz, M. and Spicer, A. (2006). Guess who's coming to dinner? Structures and uses of liminality in strategic management consultancy. Human Relations, 59(7), pp. 929-960. doi:10.1177/0018726706067597

    [publisher’s website]

  69. Toyoki, S., Spicer, A. and Elliot, R. (2006). Beyond Old Horizons: Theorising the Rhythms of Social Reproduction. Tamara Journal of Critical Organisation Inquiry, 5(1/2), pp. 96-115
  70. Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2005). Stewart Clegg: Towards a Machiavellian Organization Theory? The Sociological Review, 53(1_suppl), pp. 95-105. doi:10.1111/j.1467-954x.2005.00543.x

    [publisher’s website]

  71. Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2005). How Objects Believe for Us: Applications in Organizational Analysis. Culture and Organization, 11(3), pp. 181-193. doi:10.1080/14759550500203094

    [publisher’s website]

  72. Spicer, A. (2005). The political process of inscribing a new technology. Human Relations, 58(7), pp. 867-890. doi:10.1177/0018726705057809

    [publisher’s website]

  73. Jones, C. and Spicer, A. (2005). The Sublime Object of Entrepreneurship. Organization, 12(2), pp. 223-246. doi:10.1177/1350508405051189

    [publisher’s website]

  74. Jones, C. and Spicer, A. (2005). Disidentifying the subject: Lacanian comments on subjectivity, resistance and enterprise. Organization, 12(2), pp. 223-246
  75. Spicer, A. (2004). The Philosophy of the Copy and the Art of Colonial Organisation. Philosophy of Management, 4(3), pp. 15-24. doi:10.5840/pom2004433

    [publisher’s website]

  76. Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2004). ‘You Can Checkout Anytime, but You Can Never Leave’: Spatial Boundaries in a High Commitment Organization. Human Relations, 57(1), pp. 75-94. doi:10.1177/0018726704042715

    [publisher’s website]

  77. Selsky, J.W., Spicer, A. and Teicher, J. (2003). ‘Totally Un‐Australian!’: Discursive and Institutional Interplay in the Melbourne Port Dispute of 1997–98*. Journal of Management Studies, 40(7), pp. 1729-1760. doi:10.1111/1467-6486.00398

    [publisher’s website]

  78. (2003). Transforming Technology: A Critical Theory Revisited (2nd ed.). Information Technology & People, 16(3), pp. 378-383. doi:10.1108/itp.2003.16.3.378.2

    [publisher’s website]

  79. Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2003). Working at a Cynical Distance: Implications for Power, Subjectivity and Resistance. Organization, 10(1), pp. 157-179. doi:10.1177/1350508403010001376

    [publisher’s website]

  80. Spicer, A. (2002). Technical questions: A review of key works on the question of technology. Ephemera, 2(1), pp. 64-83
  81. Spicer, A. (2001). Out of the Cynical Bind. Ephemera, 1(1), pp. 92-102

Reports (6)

  1. Beech, D. and Spicer, A. (2025). Universities are boxed in: Is there a way out? Higher Education Policy Institute. ISBN 9781915744449.
  2. Spicer, A., Lindley, D., Gond, J.-.P., Mosonyi, S., Jaser, Z., Marti, E.... Edwards, A. (2016). Cultural change in the FCA, PRA & Bank of England: Practising what they preach? London: New City Agenda/Cass Business School.
  3. Gond, J.-.P., Spicer, A., Patel, K., Fleming, P., Mosonyi, S., Benoit, C.... Parker, S. (2014). A Report on the Culture of British Retail Banking. New City Agenda; Cass Business School City, University of London.
  4. Silvester, J. and Spicer, A. (2014). Leading a Legislature: A Report on Findings. Evidence submitted to the House of Commons Governance Committee..
  5. Spicer, A., Cooper, and Clegg, (2009). What do OB Tools and Practices Do. London.
  6. Spicer, A., Kornprobst, M., Pouliot, V., Shah, N. and Zaiotti, R. (2008). Metaphors of Globalization Destroy the Public Sector? London.

Scholarly edition

  1. Huault, I., Perret, V. and Spicer, A. (2010). Rethinking Emancipation in Organization Studies. In the light of Jacques Rancière's Philosophy.

Working paper

  1. Yunus Pendrey, , Spicer, and gond, “Sustainability Has Won”: The Dynamics of Rhetorical History and Competing Logics on Organizational Legitimacy, EGOS, Copenhagen, 2017.

Professional activities

Editorial activity (7)

  1. Journal of Management, Member of Editorial Board, 2011 - present.
  2. Journal of Management Studies, Associate Editor, 2010 - present.
  3. Management Communication Quarterly, Member of Editorial Board, 2008 - present.
  4. Social Movement Studies, Member of Editorial Board, 2008 - present.
  5. Human Relations, Member of Editorial Board, 2006 - 2011.
  6. Organization Studies, Member of Editorial Board, 2006 - present.
  7. Organization, Member of Editorial Board, 2005 - 2010.

Events/conferences (38)

  1. The Future and Evolution of Management. (Conference) (2012). Organising Committee
  2. Departmental Seminar. (Seminar) Innsbruck, Austria (2012). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Brands, Branding and the Branded
    Author: Spicer A
  3. New Zealand Institute of Leadership. (Public lecture) Auckland (2012). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Metaphors we Lead By
    Author: Spicer A
  4. Departmental Seminar. (Public lecture) ECSP, Paris (2012). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Theory Building in Management
    Author: Spicer A
  5. Centre for Sustainability, Copenhagen Business School. (Public lecture) Copenhagen (2012). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Contesting Climate Imaginaries
    Author: Spicer A
  6. Art and Restructuring. (Public lecture) Paris (2012). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Representing Restructuring
    Author: Spicer A
  7. Identity and Organization. (Workshop) Helsinki (2012). Invited speaker.
    Paper: The Lost Boys
    Author: Spicer A
  8. EGOS. (Conference) Helsinki (2012).
    Paper: Conterperformativity
    Author: Spicer A
    Co-authors: C Wickert and S. Schafer
  9. University of West of England. (Public lecture) Bristol (2011). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Metaphors we Lead By
    Author: Spicer A
  10. University of Exeter. (Public lecture) Exeter (2011). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Metaphors we Lead By
    Author: Spicer A
  11. EGOS. (Conference) Gothenberg, Sweden (2011).
    Paper: Negotiating Moral Multiplexity
    Author: Spicer A
    Co-authors: J. Reinecke and K. van Bommel
  12. EGOS. (Conference) Gothenberg, Sweden (2011).
    Paper: Biomorality
    Author: Spicer A
    Co-authors: C. Cederstrom
  13. EGOS. (Conference) Gothenberg, Sweden (2011).
    Paper: The Mismanagement of Meaning
    Author: Spicer A.
    Co-authors: B. Sullivan-Taylor
  14. APROS. (Conference) Auckland (2011).
    Paper: Constructing the corporate citizen
    Author: Spicer A
    Co-authors: D. Nyberg and C. Wright
  15. Institutions Justified. (Conference) Vienna University of Economics and Business (2010). Organising Committee
  16. Foundations of Sustainability. (Conference) (2010). Organising Committee
  17. Bio-Politics at Work. (Conference) Montreal (2010). Organising Committee
  18. Value, Worth and Valuation. (Conference) University of Cambridge (2010). Organising Committee
  19. University of Paris, Dauphine. (Public lecture) Paris, France (2010). Invited speaker.
    Paper: A Stupidity based theory of organizations
    Author: Spicer A
  20. Haniel Lecture. (Public lecture) St Gallen, Switzerland (2010). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Unmasking the Entrepreneur
    Author: Spicer A
  21. Free University Berlin. (Public lecture) Berlin, Germany (2010). Invited speaker.
    Paper: A Stupidity Based Theory of the Firm
    Author: Spicer A
  22. Politics and Aesthetics Symposium. (Workshop) St Gallen, Swizterland (2010).
    Paper: Rethinking Emancipation
    Author: Spicer A
    Co-authors: I Huault and V Perrett
  23. Copenhagen Business School. (Workshop) Copenhagen (2010). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Metaphors we Lead By
    Author: Spicer A
  24. EGOS. (Conference) Lisbon (2010).
    Paper: Critical Leadership Studies
    Author: Spicer A
    Co-authors: M Alvesson
  25. EGOS. (Conference) Lisbon (2010).
    Paper: Brands, Branding and the Branded
    Author: Spicer A
    Co-authors: D Karreman
  26. EGOS. (Conference) Montreal, Canada (2010).
    Paper: Institutional Bricolage in the Translation of Organizational Forms
    Author: Spicer A
    Co-authors: M Perkmann
  27. Academy of Management. (Conference) Montreal, Canada (2010). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Extitutions
    Author: Spicer A
  28. The New Spirit of Capitalism. (Conference) University of Southern California (2009). Organising Committee
  29. Critical Management Studies Conference. (Conference) University of Warwick (2009). Organising Committee
  30. Creativity and Enterprise in Unusual Places. (Conference) EGOS Vienna (2007). Organising Committee
  31. Rethinking Labour - Capital Relations. (Conference) University of Warwick (2007). Organising Committee
  32. SAMS/JMS Reviewing and Publishing Workshop, One day pre-conference workshop. (Conference) Manchester (2007). Organising Committee
  33. Entrepreneurship outside Enterprise. (Conference) Warwick Business School (2006). Organising Committee
  34. From Revolution to Resentment. (Conference) Academy of Management Conference, Atlanta (2006). Organising Committee
  35. Laclau and Mouffee in Organization Studies. (Conference) Warwick Business School (2006). Organising Committee
  36. Space, Architecture and Organization. (Conference) Warwick Business School (2005). Organising Committee
  37. Art of Subversion. (Conference) Art and Management Conference, Paris (2004). Organising Committee
  38. Researching Organizational Space. (Conference) Academy of Management Conference, New Orleans (2004). Organising Committee

Media appearances (30)

  1. European taxi strike against Uber backfires as usage spikes. (2014) NewsNetNebraska (website).
  2. Co-op Bank fears as losses hit £1.3bn. (2014) The Daily Telegraph (newspaper).
  3. Top executive exit throws Co-op's future into fresh doubt. (2014) 99.9 Radio USA (radio).
  4. In England gibt's Kredite beim BusverkŠufer. (2014) Berliner Morgenpost (newspaper).
  5. Londons Immobilienblase wŠchst bedrohlich. (2014) Die Welt (newspaper).
  6. McEwan: RBS is least trusted UK company. (2014) Hispanic Business.
  7. Disagreement among US regulators leads to Volcker rule confusion. (2014) Blue and Green Tomorrow (magazine).
  8. Friday 5: look who's quids in as markets rise. (2014) Citywire.
  9. Hate the peer-review process? Einstein did too. (2014) AllVoices.
  10. The hidden cost of curbing banker bonuses. (2014) News www.businesses.com.au (website).
  11. Britain Co-operative Bank plunges into crisis. (2013) Dunya News.
  12. (2013) BBC.
  13. Euan SutherlandÕs streamlined approach lost out and the Co-op may suffer. (2013) Yahoo! Finance UK (website).
  14. Co-op Group could give up majority control of bank to US hedge funds. (2013) Blue and Gree Tomorrow (magazine).
  15. Hedge funds circling troubled Co-op. (2013) Wiltshire Times (newspaper).
  16. Wall Street banks lose battle over Volcker Rule. (2013) Telegraph.co.uk (website).
  17. LehmanÕs Ð five years on. (2013) Radio France (radio).
  18. (2013) BBC 5Live (radio).
  19. Commission leaves audit stranglehold firmly in place. (2013) The Times (newspaper).
  20. City welcomes bank reforms but warns of resistance. (2013) The Independant (newspaper).
  21. Viewpoints: banking committee report. (2013) BBC.co.uk (website).
  22. bail-in plan to rescue the Co-operatives troubled banking arm. (2013) The Northern Echo (newspaper).
  23. Charities seek clarity on direction of Co-op Bank under new ownership. (2013) CivilSociety.co.uk (website).
  24. Co-operative Bank plc : UK's Co-operative details bank rescue plan. (2013) 4Traders (website).
  25. Do not think, do! the crisis and because of stupid workers. (2013) Valori (magazine).
  26. FCA to demand tighter affordability checks and compliant ads from payday lenders. (2013) Mortage Solutions (website).
  27. RBS Internal 'Bad Bank' Just PR Spin to Help Privatisation? (2013) International Business Times (website).
  28. RBS creates £38bn 'bad bank' - reaction. (2013) The Telegraph (newspaper).
  29. Credit notes, Sound bites. (2013) Credit today.
  30. Kweku Adoboli - La chute d'un chanceux. (2012) L'Echo (newspaper).