Dr Simon Parker
Senior Lecturer in Business and Society - Leadership
Contact
- +44 (0)20 7040 5060
- S.Parker@citystgeorges.ac.uk
About
Overview
Dr Simon Parker is a Senior Lecturer in Business and Society. He joined Bayes Business School in July 2024 following previous roles at Nottingham University Business School, Bayes Business School and Warwick Business school, where he was awarded his PhD.
In his research Simon adopts a critical perspective and covers a wide variety of topics and phenomena largely related to issues of justice and fairness. Often this is through the examination of alternative organizational forms such as cooperatives and sustainable financial institutions that are aimed at challenging and disrupting the dominate ways of organizing and doing business. Other times his work seeks to problematize existing organizational practices exploring deviant actors and misconduct.
Simon has taught a variety of topics across all levels and was awarded the Lord Dearing award for student engagement and teaching in 2023 at the University of Nottingham for his use of creative pedagogical methods in the classroom.
Publications
Chapters (4)
- Forrest, N. and Parker, S. (2026). Sustainability and alternative organising: worker cooperatives, local communities and radical democracy. Handbook of Research on Sustainability and Governance (pp. 272-284). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781035328031.
- Racz, M. and Parker, S. (2020). Critically responsible management: agonistic answers to antagonistic questions. Research Handbook of Responsible Management Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781788971959.
- Levillain, K., Parker, S., Ridley-Duff, R., Segrestin, B., Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. (2018). Protecting Long-term Commitment. Oxford University Press.
- van Werven, R., Parker, S. and Nigam, A. Backed by God or backed by evidence? How institutional assumptions within the Church of England changed through debate. Moving beyond the microfoundations and macrofoundations of institutions: A cross-level linguistic perspective Emerald Publishing.
Conference papers and proceedings (2)
- Van Werven, R., Nigam, A. and Parker, S. Bible Backers: How Taken-For-Granted Assumptions Changed in The Church of England. .doi:10.5465/amproc.2025.342bp
- Parker, S., Racz, M.M. and Palmer, P.W. Decentering the Learner through Alternative Organizations. .doi:10.5465/ambpp.2018.69
Journal articles (9)
- Langmead, K. and Parker, S. (2026). Alternative organizing, alienation and wage labour: Exploring the importance of democracy in UK worker cooperatives. Human Relations. doi:10.1177/00187267261437665
- Parker, S. and Cluley, R. (2026). How to not change the world: Actionism and pseudo-praxis in organization and management theory. Human Relations. doi:10.1177/00187267261434771
- 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
- 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
- Mena, S. and Parker, S. (2024). The Temporal Structuring of Corporate Sustainability. Journal of Business Ethics, 195(1), pp. 1-23. doi:10.1007/s10551-024-05648-5
- Giorga, A., Hughes, M., Parker, S., Smith, A. and Young, A. (2023). Quality of life after severe acute pancreatitis: systematic review. BJS Open, 7(4). doi:10.1093/bjsopen/zrad067
- Parker, S., Racz, M. and Palmer, P. (2020). Reflexive learning and performative failure. Management Learning, 51(3), pp. 293-313. doi:10.1177/1350507620903170
- Parker, S. and Racz, M. (2020). Affective and effective truths: Rhetoric, normativity and critical management studies. Organization, 27(3), pp. 454-465. doi:10.1177/1350508419855717
- Parker, S. and Parker, M. (2017). Antagonism, accommodation and agonism in Critical Management Studies: Alternative organizations as allies. Human Relations, 70(11), pp. 1366-1387. doi:10.1177/0018726717696135