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Recent Publications and Conference Papers

(2004 - Present)

Books

  • Boreham, P., Thompson, P., Parker, R. and Hall, R. (2008) New Technology @ Work, Oxford: Routledge.
  • Cutcher, L (2008) Constructing the Customer, Verlag Dr Muller, Germany.
  • Palmer, I., Dunford, R. and Akin, G. (2009) Managing Organizational Change: A Multi-perspective Approach, 2nd ed., New York: McGraw-Hill.

Edited Books

  • Bamber, G., Lansbury, R., Wailes, N., Lee, J. and Zhao, S. (eds) (2007) International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalisation and the Developed Market Economies, Taipei: KEM Publishers (Traditional Chinese Edition).
  • Cutcher, L. and Wailes, N. (eds) (2006) Cases in Strategy and Management, Sydney: McGraw Hill Education.,
  • Feletto, E., Hughes, K., Palmer, I. and Dunford, R. (2006) Using Palmer, Dunford and Akin’s ‘Managing Organizational Change: A Multi-perspective Approach, New York: McGraw-Hill.
  • Grant, D., Hardy, C., Oswick, C. and Putnam, L. (eds) (2004) The Sage Handbook of Organizational Discourse, Sage Publications, London.
  • Hall, R. (ed) (2006) Industrial Relations – A Current Review, London: Sage.
  • Kitay, J., Cutcher, L. and Wailes, N. (eds) (2007) Globalisation and Employment Relations in Retail Banking, Kluwer Law International.
  • Lansbury, R., Wailes, N., Kitay, J. and Kirsch, A. (eds) (2008) Globalisation and Employment Relations in the Auto Assembly Industry: A Study of Seven Countries, Kluwer Law International.
  • Palmer, I., Dunford, R. and Akin, G (2006) Managing Organizational Change: A Multi-perspective Approach, New York: McGraw-Hill.

Book Chapters

  • Ainsworth, S. (2006) 'Constructing older workers: Cultural meanings of age and work', in Hearn, M. and Michelson, G. (eds), Rethinking Work: Time, Space and Discourse, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 308-342.
  • Ainsworth, S. and Hall, R. (2006) 'Rethinking HRM: Contemporary practitioner discourse and the tensions between ethics and business partnership', in Hearn, M. and Michelson, G. (eds), Rethinking Work: Time, Space and Discourse, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 263-284.
  • Ainsworth, S. and Hardy, C. (2004) 'Discourse and identities', in Grant, D., Hardy, C., Oswick, C. and Putnam, L. (eds), The Sage Handbook of Organizational Discourse, Sage Publications, London, 153-174.
  • Bamber, G., Lansbury, R. and Wailes, N. (2006) “How Does Globalisation Influence National Patterns of Employment Relations? Alternative Conceptual Perspectives” in  Val Nunez, T., Sanchez, Y. and Garcia, C. (eds),Economy, Entrepreneurship, Science and Society in the 21st Century, University of Alaca Press, Alaca de Hanares, 479-98.
  • Brandt, S., Grant, D. and Wailes, N. (2006) 'ATP innovations', in Cutcher, L. and Wailes, N. (eds), Case Studies in Strategy and Management, Sydney: McGraw Hill Education, 121-137.
  • Brandt, S. and Wailes, N. (2006) “The Sydney Real Estate Market” Cutcher, L. and Wailes, N. (eds), Cases in Strategy and Management, McGraw Hill, Sydney, 100-119.
  • Cutcher, L. (2006) ''Back to the future': Bendigo Bank's Community Bank® model', in Cutcher, L. and Wailes, N. (eds), Case Studies in Strategy and Management, Sydney: McGraw Hill Education, 14-26.
  • Cutcher, L. (2006) ''Not for profit, not for charity, but for service' - Credit unions: Not-for-profits in the financial services sector', in Cutcher, L. and Wailes, N. (eds), Cases in Strategy and Management, Sydney: McGraw Hill Education, 57-69.
  • Cutcher, L. and Van Den Broek, D. (2006) 'Transactions in time: The temporal dimensions of customer service work', in Hearn, M. and Michelson, G. (eds), Rethinking Work: Time, Space and Discourse, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 102-118.
  • Cutcher, L. and Wailes, N. (2006) 'Introduction - Using cases to study strategic management', in Cutcher, L. and Wailes, N. (eds), Cases in Strategy and Management, Sydney: McGraw Hill Education, 2-12.
  • Dery, K.F. and Samson, D.A. (2004) ‘The Alignment of Information Technology and Human Resource Management’, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, USA: Idea-group.
  • Dery, K. (2006) 'A meeting of minds: A US/Australian venture', in Cutcher, L. and Wailes, N. (eds), Cases in Strategy and Management, Sydney: McGraw Hill Education, 28-40.
  • Dunford, R. (2006) ‘Preface’, in Murray, P., Poole, D. and Jones, G. (eds), Contemporary Issues in Management and Organisational Behaviour, Melbourne: Thompson Learning.
  • Dunford, R. and Palmer, I. (2006) ‘Managing change’, in Australian Master Human Resources Guide, 4th ed, Sydney: CCH., 355-376.
  • Dunford, R. and Palmer, I. (2007) ‘Managing change’, in Australian Master Human Resources Guide, 5th ed, Sydney: CCH, 371-397
  • Gordon, R and Grant, D. (2006) ‘Corridors of Power, Critical Reflections and Alternative Viewpoints’, in Murray, P. Poole, D. Jones, G. (eds), Contemporary Issues in Management and Organisational Behaviour, Melbourne: Thomson Learning, 114-135.
  • Grant, D. (2008) ‘Metaphor and Organization’, in Bailey, J. and Clegg, S. (eds), International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, (Vol. 3) Beverley Hills CA: Sage, 896-900.
  • Grant D, Hardy C, Oswick C & Putnam L 2004 'Introduction - Organizational discourse: Exploring the field', in Grant, D., Hardy, C., Oswick, C. and Putnam, L. (eds), The Sage Handbook of Organizational Discourse, Sage Publications, London, 1-36.
  • Grant, D. and Shields, J. (2006) 'Identifying the subject: Worker identity as discursively constructed terrain', in Hearn, M. and Michelson, G. (eds), Rethinking Work: Time, Space and Discourse, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 285-307.
  • Hall, R. (2006) 'Australian Industrial Relations in 2005 - The Work Choices Revolution' in Hall, R. (eds), Industrial Relations – A Current Review, London: Sage, 1-12.
  • Hall, R. (2006) 'Knowledge management at Accenture Australia', in Cutcher, L. and Wailes, N. (eds), Cases in Strategy and Management, Sydney: McGraw Hill Education, 86-98.
  • Hall, R. (2006) 'Knowledge management practices in Australian organisations: Progressive development or deepening inequality', in Carton, M. and Meyer, J-B. (eds), La société des savoirs - Trompe-l'oeil ou perspectives ? - The Knowledge Society: Trompe-l'oeil or Accurate Perspective ?, Paris: L'Harmattan, 127-142.
  • Iedema, R., Ainsworth, S., and Grant, D. (2008) ‘The Contemporary ‘Clinician-manager’: Entrepreneurialising Middle Management?’, in Caldas-Coulthard, C., and Iedema. R. (eds), Identity Trouble - Discursive Constructions, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 273-291.
  • Lansbury, R., Kitay, J. and Wailes, N. (2006) “Globalization and Working Life: A Comparative Analysis of the Automobile and Banking Sectors in Australia and Korea” in Wood, G. and James, P. (eds), Institutions, Production and Working Life, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 83-103.
  • Lansbury, R. and Wailes, N. (2008) “Employee Involvement and Direct Participation” in Blyton, P., Heery, E., Bacon, N. and Fiorito, J. (eds), Sage Handbook of Industrial Relations, Sage, London, 434-46.
  • Lansbury, R., Wailes, N. and Kirsch, A. (2008) “Globalisation, Continuity and Change: The Automotive Assembly Industry” in Lansbury, R., Wailes, N., Kitay, J. and Kirsch, A. (eds), Globalisation and Employment Relations in the Auto Assembly Industry: A Study of Seven Countries, Kluwer Law International, 143-152.
  • Lund, J. and Wright, C. (2006) “Integrating the Supply Chain: Industrial Relations Implications in US Grocery Distribution”, in Rhodes, E., Warren, J., Carter, R. (eds), Supply Chains and Total Production Systems: A Reader, Blackwell, Oxford, 97-114.
  • Michelson, G. and Wailes, N. (2006) “Shareholder Value and Corporate Social Responsibility in Work Organisations” in Hearn, M. and Michelson, G. (eds), Rethinking Work: Time, Space, Discourse, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 239-62.
  • Palmer, I. and Dunford, R. (2008) ‘New organizational forms’ in Barry, D. and Hansen, H. (eds) Handbook of the New and Emerging in Organizational Studies, London: Sage.
  • Wailes, N. (2007) “Globalisation, Varieties of Capitalism and Employment Relations in Retail Banking” in Kitay, J., Cutcher, L. and Wailes, N. (eds), Globalisation and Employment Relations in Retail Banking, Kluwer Law International, 1-14.
  • Wailes, N., Lansbury, R., Kitay, J. and Kirsch, A. (2008) “Globalisation, Varieties of Capitalism and Employment Relations in the Automotive Assembly Industry” in Lansbury, R., Wailes, N., Kitay, J. and Kirsch, A. (eds), Globalisation and Employment Relations in the Auto Assembly Industry: A Study of Seven Countries, Kluwer Law International, 1-12.

Industry Reports

  • Williams, S.P., Elliot, S., Langfield Smith, K., Hardy, C.A. and Custodio, G. (2006) 'NeRPA Report on the Findings of the 2006 Australian National e-Procurement Survey (Linkage Grant LP0214841)', University of Sydney.

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Ainsworth, S. (2004) 'Critical discourse analysis and identity: Why bother?', Critical Discourse Studies, 1(2), 225-259.
  • Ainsworth, S. and Hardy, C. (2007) 'The construction of the older worker: privilege, paradox and policy', Discourse and Communication, 1(3), 295-313.
  • Ainsworth, S. and Hardy, C. (2008) 'The Enterprising Self: An Unsuitable Job for an Older Worker', Organization, 15(3), 389-405.
  • Ainsworth, S. and Cutcher, L. (2008) 'Expectant mothers and absent fathers: paid maternity leave in Australia', Gender, Work and Organization, 15(4), 376-343.
  • Ainsworth, S., Hardy, C. and Harley, B. (2005) 'Online consultation: eDemocracy and eResistance in the case of the development gateway', Management Communication Quarterly, 19(1), 120-145.
  • Barrett, M., Grant, D. and Wailes, N. (2006) 'ICT and organizational change: Introduction to the special issue', Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 42(1), 6-22.
  • Bryant, P. and Dunford, R. (2008) ‘The influence of regulatory focus on risky decision making’, Applied Psychology, 57(2), 335-359.
  • Cutcher, L. (2006) 'Profits before people: Shifting customer and employee relations in Australian credit unions', International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, 6(2), 248-262.
  • Cutcher, L. and Kerr, M. (2006) 'The shifting meaning of mutuality and co-operativeness in the credit union movement from 1959 to 1989', Labour History, 91, 31-46.
  • Dery, K., Hall, R. and Wailes, N. (2006) ‘ERPs as ‘technologies-in-practice’: Social construction, materiality and the role of organisational factors’, New Technology, Work and Employment, 21(3), 229-41.
  • Dery, K., Grant, D., Hall, R. and Wailes, N. (2005) 'Managing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems', Strategic Change, 14(5), 239-243.
  • Dery, K., Grant, D., Harley, B. and Wright, C. (2006) 'Work, organisation and Enterprise Resource Planning systems: An alternative research agenda', New Technology, Work and Employment, 21(3), 199-214.
  • Dery, K. and Wailes, N. (2005) 'Necessary but not Sufficient: ERPs and Strategic HRM', Strategic Change, 14(5), 265-272.
  • Dunford, R., Palmer, I., Crawford, J. and Benveniste, J. (2007) ‘Co-existence of ‘old’ and ‘new’ organizational practices: Transitory phenomenon or enduring feature?’, Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Resource Management, 45(1), 24-43.
  • Fenwick, T. and Hall, R. (2006) 'Editorial, Skills in the Knowledge Economy: Changing meanings in Changing Conditions', Journal of Industrial Relations, 48(5), 571-574.
  • Frost, G., Michelson, G., Van Der Laan, S. and Wailes, N. (2004) 'Bringing ethical investment to account', Australian Accounting Review, 14(3), 3-9.
  • Gordon, R. and Grant, D. (2005) 'Knowledge management or management of knowledge? Why people interested in knowledge management need to consider Foucault and the construct of power', Tamara: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science, 3(2), 27-38.
  • Grant, D., Hall, R., Wailes, N. and Wright, C. (2006) 'The false promise of technological determinism: The case of enterprise resource planning systems', New Technology, Work and Employment, 21(1), 2-15.
  • Grant, D. and Hardy, C. (2004) 'Struggles with organisational discourse', Organization Studies, 25(1), 5-13.
  • Grant, D., Harley, B. and Wright, C. (2006) 'Editorial introduction: The work and organisational implications of Enterprise Resource Planning systems ', New Technology, Work and Employment, 21(3), 196-198.
  • Grant, D. and Iedema, R. (2005) 'Discourse analysis and the study of organizations', Text: An interdisciplinary journal for the study of discourse, 25(1), 37-66.
  • Grant, D., Michelson, G., Oswick, C. and Wailes, N. (2005) 'Guest Editorial: Discourse and Organizational Change', Journal of Organizational Change Management, 18(1), 6-15.
  • Grant, D., Michelson, G., Oswick, C. and Wailes, N. (2005) 'Discourse and Organizational Change: Part 2', Journal of Organizational Change Management, 18(4), 309-311.
  • Hall, R. (2006) 'Temporary agency work and HRM in Australia: “Cooperation, specialisation and satisfaction for the good of all”?', Personnel Review, 35(2), 158-174.
  • Hall, R. (2007) ‘The First Year of Work Choices: Industrial Relations in Australia in 2006’, Journal of Industrial Relations, 49(3): 307-309.
  • Hall, R. (2005) 'The Impact of ERPs on Work Organisation: Evidence from Australian Organisations', Strategic Change, 14(5), 245-254.
  • Hall, R. (2008) ‘The Politics of Industrial Relations in Australia in 2007’, Journal of Industrial Relations, 50(3): 371-382.
  • Hall, R. (2007) ‘The “Work Choices” Revolution in Australia: Recent Legislative Reforms in Australia and Their Consequences’, Perspective on Work, Summer, 35-38.
  • Hall, R. and Lansbury, R. (2006) 'Skills in Australia: Towards Workforce Development and Sustainable Skill Ecosystems', Journal of Industrial Relations, 48(5), 575-592.
  • Hardy, C., Grant, D., Oswick, C. and Putnam, L. (2005) 'Diss-ing Discourse? A Response', Organization Studies, 26(5), 799-804.
  • Hardy, C., Lawrence, T. and Grant, D. (2005) 'Discourse and Collaboration: The Role of Conversations and Collective Identity', Academy of Management Review, 30(1), 58-77.
  • Hardy, C.A. and Williams, S.P. (2008) 'e-Government Policy and Practice: A Theoretical and Emperical Exploration of Public e-Procurement', Government Information Quarterly, 25(2), 155-80.
  • Harley, B., Wright, C., Hall, R. and Dery, K. (2006) 'Management reactions to technological change: The example of Enterprise Resource Planning', Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 42(1), 58-75.
  • Kitay, J. & Wright, C. (2007) ‘From Prophets to Profits: The Occupational Rhetoric of Management Consultants’, Human Relations, 60(11), 1613–1640.
  • Lansbury, R. and Wailes, N. (2007) ‘Industrial Relations Reform in Australia and New Zealand’, Perspectives on Work, Summer, 29-34.
  • Lansbury, R. and Wailes, N. (2007) ‘Social Partnership in Korean Industrial Relations’, Korean Prospect, Vol. 4, 90-104 (in Korean).
  • Lansbury, R., Wailes, N. and Yazbeck, C. (2007) ‘Different Paths to Similar Outcomes? Industrial Relations Reform and Public Policy in Australia and New Zealand’, Journal of Labor Research, 28(4), 629-41.
  • Michelson, G., Wailes, N., Van Der Laan, S. and Frost, G. (2004) 'Ethical Investment Processes and Outcomes', Journal of Business Ethics, 52(1), 1-10.
  • Oswick, C., Grant, D., Michelson, G. and Wailes, N. (2005) 'Looking forwards: Discursive directions in organizational change', Journal of Organizational Change Management, 18(4), 383-390.
  • Marshak, R. and Grant, D. (2008) ‘Organizational Discourse and New OD Practices’, British Journal of Management, 18: 7-19.
  • Marshak, R. and Grant, D. (2008) ‘Transforming Talk: The Interplay of Discourse, Power and Change’, Organization Development Journal, 25(1): 1-8.
  • Palmer, I. and Dunford, R. (2008) ‘Organizational change and the importance of embedded assumptions’, British Journal of Management, 19(s1), 20-32.
  • Palmer, I., Benveniste, J. and Dunford, R. (2007) ‘New organizational forms’, Organizational Studies, 28(12), 1829-1847.
  • Putnam, L., Grant, D., Cutcher, L. and Michelson, G. (2005) 'Discourse and Resistance: Targets, Practices, and Consequences ', Management Communication Quarterly, 19(1), 5-18.
  • Ramia, G. and Wailes, N. (2006) ‘Putting Wage Earners into Wage-Earners’ Welfare State: the relationship between social policy and industrial relations in Australia and New Zealand’, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 41(1), 49-68.
  • Seymour, R.G. (2007) 'The Significance of culture & context in entrepreneurial learning and teaching', Synergy, 26, 21-32.
  • Seymour R.G. (2006) 'Hermeneutic phenomenology and international entrepreneurship research', Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 4(4), 137-55.
  • Sturdy, A. & Wright, C. (2008), ‘A Consulting Diaspora? Enterprising Selves as Agents of Enterprise’, Organization, 15(3), pp. 427-444.
  • Williams, S.P. and Hardy, C.A. (2007) 'Update on e-Procurement in Australia', Procurement Professional, February/March.
  • Williams S.P., Scifleet, P. and Hardy, C.A. (2006) 'Online business reporting: An information management perspective', International Journal of Information Management, 26(2), 91-101.
  • Wright, C. (2008) ‘Reinventing Human Resource Management: Business Partners, Internal Consultants and the Limits to Professionalisation’, Human Relations, 61(8), 1063-1086.

Journal Special Issues

  • (2007) Bulletin of Comparative Labor Relations,‘Globalisation and Employment Relations in Banking’ (Cutcher, L., Kitay, J. and Wailes, N.), Volume 63.
  • (2006) Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, ‘ICT and Organizational Change’ (Barrett, M., Grant, D. and Wailes, N.), 42(1).
  • (2006) Journal of Industrial Relations, ‘Skills in the Knowledge Economy: Changing Meanings in Changing Conditions’ (Hall, R. and Fenwick, T.), 48(5).
  • (2006) New Technology, Work and Employment, ‘The Work and Organisational Implications of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems’ (Grant, D., Wright, C. and Harley, B), 21(3).

Forthcoming

  • Ainsworth, S., Grant, D. and Iedema, R. (2009 - forthcoming) “’Keeping Things Moving’: Space and the Construction of Middle Management Identity in a post-NPM Organization” Discourse and Communication 3(1).
  • Ainsworth, S. and Purss, A. (2009 - forthcoming) 'Same time next year? Human resource management and seasonal workers', Personnel Review, vol.38:3.
  • Feletto, E., Hughes, K., Palmer, I. and Dunford, R. (2009 - forthcoming) Using Palmer, Dunford and Akin’s ‘Managing Organizational Change: A Multi-perspective Approach 2nd ed.’, New York: McGraw-Hill.
  • Hall, R. and Wailes. N. (forthcoming) ‘International and Comparative Human Resource Management’ in Wilkinson, A. et al (eds) Sage Handbook of Human Resource Management, Sage, London.
  • Michelson, G. and Wailes, N. (2008) ‘The transfer of Management Ideas to the Western “Periphery”: the Case of Corporate Social Responsibility in Australia’, International Studies in Management and Organisational, Winter (in press).
  • Puck, J., Kittler, M. & Wright, C. (forthcoming) ‘Does It Really Work? Re-Assessing the Impact of Pre-Departure Cross-Cultural Training on Expatriate Adjustment’, International Journal of Human Resource Management (accepted for publication 2 July 2007).
  • Wailes, N., Lansbury, R. and Kitay, J. (2008a) ‘Varieties of Capitalism and Employment Relations under Globalization: Evidence from the Auto Industry’ in Whalen, C. (ed) New Directions in the Study of Work and Employment: Revitalizing Industrial Relations as an Academic Enterprise, Edward Elgar, London (in press).
  • Wailes, N., Lansbury, R. and Kitay, J. (2008b) ‘Varieties of Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Employment Relations under Globalization’ in Marshall, S., Mitchell, R. and Ramsay, I. (eds) Varieties of Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Employment Systems, Melbourne University Press (in press).
  • Wright, C. (forthcoming) ‘Inside Out? Organizational Membership, Ambiguity and the Ambivalent Identity of the Internal Consultant’, British Journal of Management (accepted for publication 20 August 2007).
  • Wright, C., Suh, C-S & Leggett, C. (forthcoming) ‘If At First You Don’t Succeed: Globalized Production and Organizational Learning at the Hyundai Motor Company’, Asia Pacific Business Review (accepted for publication 19 September 2007).

Refereed Full Length Conference Papers

  • Ainsworth, S. (2005) 'A case of therapeutic government: self-esteem and the older unemployed', Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Honolulu, Hawaii, 5-10 August.
  • Ainsworth, S., Baird, M. and Cutcher, L. (2006) 'WorkChoices and word choices', Our Work... Our Lives: National Conference on Women and Industrial Relations - Proceedings of the 1st Biennial Conference of the National Network of Working Women's Centres, Brisbane, Australia, 12-14 July.
  • Ainsworth, S. and Cutcher, L. (2006) ‘Representations of working mothers in the media: paid maternity leave in Australia’, in APROS 11: Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies 11th International Colloquium, Melbourne, 4-7 December 2005.
  • Ainsworth, S., Grant, D. and Hall, R. (2005) 'Managerial identities', ICRODSC Identity Workshop, University of Melbourne, 4 February.
  • Ainsworth, S., Grant, D. and Iedema. R. (2007) ‘Middle Management Identity in post-NPM Organizations’, Beyond Waltz - Dances of Individuals and Organization - 23rd EGOS Colloquiem, Vienna, July.
  • Ainsworth, S. and Hardy, C. (2005) 'Critical discourse analysis and identity', ICRODSC Identity and Methods Workshop, University of Melbourne, 18 February.
  • Ainsworth, S. and Hardy, C. (2004) 'Critical discourse analysis and identity: Why bother?', 6th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Artefacts, Archetypes and Architexts, Kings College, London.
  • Ainsworth, S. and Hardy, C. (2005) 'Using discourse analysis to study identity', Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 5-10 August.
  • Ainsworth, S., Knox, A., and O’Flynn, J. (2006) ‘(Re)producing gender: management accounts of affirmative action’, in APROS 11: Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies 11th International Colloquium, Melbourne, 4-7 December 2005.
  • Bryant, P. and Dunford, R. (2007) ‘Risk assessment and decision-making in entrepreneurial ventures’, Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, USA, 3-8, August.
  • Clark, C. and Dunford, R. (2007) ‘Predictors of success in strategy formulation’, Academy of Management Conference, Philadelphia, USA, 3-8 August.
  • Combes, C., Grant, D., Hardy, C., Keenoy, T., Oswick, C., Sebalis, I., Veenswijk, M. and Ybema, S. (2004) 'Organizational discourse: Artefacts, archetypes, and architexts', 6th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Artefacts, Archetypes and Architexts, King’s College, London, pp. 290.
  • Cutcher, L. (2005) 'Nostalgic innovation: Using the past to build customer loyalty and engender employee commitment in the present', Critical Management Studies Conference, Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge (UK), 4-6 July.
  • Cutcher, L. (2006) 'Not for Profit, Not for Charity, but for Service: Co-operativeness in the face of increasing competition in the Australian Credit Union Movement', Business and Labour History Group Conference, University of Sydney, 17 March.
  • Cutcher, L. (2006) 'Self-help in financial services', Business and Labour History Group Symposium, Women´s College, University of Sydney.
  • Dery, K.F. (2002) ‘Understanding the Alignment between Information Technology and Human Resource Management’, ACIS Doctoral Consortium, Adelaide, Australia.
  • Dery, K.F. (2003) ‘Alignment of Human resources and Information Technology: A Case Study of a Major Australian Bank’, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Victoria University, Melbourne.
  • Dery, K. (2005) 'I’m OK, you’re Not OK: A Study of the Alignment between HR and IT in ERP Implementations', Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Sydney, 30 November - 2 December.
  • Dery, K. and MacCormick, J. (2007) ‘Who takes the lead?: A study of the impact of Blackberrys on the organisational dancefloor’, 23rd EGOS Colloquium, Vienna, Switzerland.
  • Dery, K. and MacCormick, J. (2008) ‘To be Seen or Not to be Seen: A Study of Blackberrys in the context of Organisational Surveillance’, 24rd EGOS Colloquium, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Dery, K., Hall, R. and Wailes, N. (2005) 'The social construction of ERPs: A critical discursive perspective', Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 5-10 August.
  • Dery, K. and Wailes, N. (2005) 'Can ERP’s deliver on the Strategic HR Promise? ', 5th International Symposium on Multi-cultural Business Management: Human Resource Management in A Transitional Economy, Nanjing, China, 26-28 May.
  • Dunford, R. (2007) ‘Internationalising an innovative business model: Cumulative learning and knowledge transfer’, Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy 2007 Conference, Newcastle, Australia, 9-10 November.
  • Dunford, R. (2008)  ‘Open innovation and knowledge transfer in MNCs: A position paper’, Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 14-17, May.
  • Dunford, R. and Palmer, I. (2008) ‘’Steal with Pride’: Why the adoption of new Management ideas and practices cannot be assumed’, 24th Annual Conference of the European Group on Organizational Studies (EGOS), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-12 July.
  • Dunford, R., Palmer, I. and Benveniste, J. (2006) ‘Knowledge transfer in global networks: Retention, adaptation, transference and experimentation’, Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, USA, 11-16 August.
  • Grant, D. (2005) 'Discourse and Identity', Paper for symposium on Discourses of Identity in Practice, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 5-10 August.
  • Grant, D. and Hall, R. (2005) 'Power and Discourse in the Management and Organisation of ERPs', 4th International Critical Management Studies Conference, Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge (UK), 4-6 July.
  • Grant, D., Harley, B. and Wright, C. (2005) 'Critical Insights into the Organizational Implications of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems', Paper for symposium on Critical Insights into the Organizational Implications of ERPs, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 5-10 August.
  • Grant, D. and Iedema, R. (2004) 'The study of organizational discourse', International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Artefacts, Archetypes and Architexts, Amsterdam, pp. 104-107.
  • Grant, D., Iedema, R., Rhodes, C. and Scheeres, H. (2007) ‘Affective Organising’, The 5th Critical Management Studies Conference: Reconnecting Critical Management, Manchester, July.
  • Grant, D. and Marshak, R. (2006) 'Applications of organizational discourse to new OD practices', Knowledge, Action and the Public Concern - Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, USA, 11-16 August.
  • Grant, D. and Oswick, C. (2006) 'The discursive turn: Creating a meaningful agenda', Knowledge, Action and the Public Concern - Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, USA, 11-16 August.
  • Grant, D. and Shields, J. (2005) 'Reconstituting the subject: Changing representations of the worker in managerial and anti-managerial meta-narratives of work', 19th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, University of Sydney, 9-11 February.
  • Hall, R. (2007) ‘Whatever happened to labour process theory and the social study of technology at work?’, paper presented to the 25th International Labour Process Conference, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2-4 April.
  • Hall, R. (2006) '‘Work choices´ and ‘work rights´: competing discourses, rhetorical strategies and the struggle over worker identities and organization', Organizational Discourse: Identity, Ideology and Idiosyncrasy - Proceedings of the 7th Biennial Conference on Organizational Discourse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 26-28 July.
  • Hall, R. and Barnes, A. (2008) ‘Getting from fun to function: a preliminary analysis of the functions of, and attitudes towards, managed fun at Australian Workplaces’, paper presented to the 26th International Labour Process Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 18-20 March.
  • Hall, R. and Grant, D. (2005) 'Unlocking Multiple Organizational Narratives Concerning ERP Implementations', 21st European Group on Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Free University Berlin, 29 June - 2 July.
  • Hardy, C. A. and Williams, S.P. (2008) ‘Making e-Government Research Designs Visible: Reflexivity and Collaborative Research’, 4th European Conference on e-Government, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 23-24 October.
  • MacCormick, J. and Dery,K. (2008) ‘The Engagement Curve. Too much of a Good thing? BlackBerry use changing the rules of Engagement’, ANZAM, Auckland, New Zealand, (currently in review).
  • Marshak, R. and Grant, D. (2006) 'Organizational discourse and the new OD', Organizational Discourse: Identity, Ideology and Idiosyncrasy - Proceedings of the 7th Biennial on Organizational Discourse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 26 -28 July.
  • Nurmuliani, N., Zowghi, D. and Williams, S.P. (2006) 'Requirements Volatility and Its Impact on Change Effort: Evidence-based Research in Software Development Projects', 11th Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering (AWRE06), University of Adelaide SA, December.
  • Scifleet, P., Williams S.P. and Cole, C. (2007) 'The Human Art of Encoding: Markup as Documentary Practice', 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research, Ionian Academy, Corfu, Greece, 11-12 October.
  • Seymour, R.G. (2008) 'Business Attitudes and Behaviours Fostering Creative Deliverables: Themes & Findings of Interest in the Creative Industries', 14th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising: A new wave of innovation in Collaborative Networks, Lisbon Portugal, 23-25 June.
  • Shields, J., Cutcher, L., O’Donnell, M. and O’Brien, J. (2005) 'Laughing All the Way: Executive Pay, Company Performance and Corporate Governance in the Australian Banking Industry', 19th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, University of Sydney, 8-11 February.
  • Wailes, N. (2006) ‘Human Resource Management and the New Labour Relations: Rapporteur’s Report’ in Social Actors, Work Organisation and New technologies in the 21st century, proceedings of the IIRA 14th World Congress, Lima, Peru, September, 139-53.
  • Williams, S.P. and Hardy, C.A. (2006) 'Constructing the meaning of document retention: A policy research agenda', e-society 2006 - Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 13-16 July.
  • Williams, S. and Hardy, C.A. (2007) 'E-Procurement: current issues and future challenges', 15th European Conference on Information Systems, St Gallen, Switzerland.
  • Wright, C. (2007) ‘A Consultant to the Business: Professionalising the Human Resource Function?’, 5th International Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester Business School, 11-13 July.
  • Wright, C. & Sturdy, A. (2008) ‘Both Consultant and Client: Managers as Gatekeepers, Knowledge Brokers and Partners’, 24th EGOS Colloquium, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10-12 July.
  • Wright, C. & Sturdy, A. (2006) ‘A Consulting Diaspora? The Transition of Management Consultants into Organisational Roles’, 22nd EGOS Colloquium, Bergen, Norway, 6-8 July.

Journal Editorships

ODSC Group members are editors, associate editors or members of the editorial boards of the following academic journals:

  • Australian Accounting Review
  • Discourse & Communication
  • Group and Organization Management
  • Human Relations
  • International Journal of Information Management
  • Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
  • Journal of Industrial Relations
  • Journal of Management & Organization
  • Management Communication Quarterly
  • Organization Studies
  • Tamara

Media Commentary

During 2006/7 University of Sydney ODSC members were cited and interviewed in several magazines, newspapers and radio stations, including:

  • ABC Radio
  • Australian Financial Review and AFR Boss Magazine
  • Daily Telegraph
  • ICVET eZine
  • The Sydney Morning Herald