André Spicer

André Spicer is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and the founding director of ETHOS: The Centre for Responsible Enterprise at Cass. He is an expert in the areas of Organisational Behaviour, Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Prior to joining Cass, André Spicer was a Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Warwick. He has also been a visiting Professor at the University of Innsbruck, University of Paris Dauphine, Lund University, the Central European University, University of St Gallen, Hanken School of Economics and the University of Sydney. Professor Spicer was educated at the University of Otago and holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne.

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. His course on corporate social responsibility is one of the most popular at Cass.

Professor Spicer has done work on organizational power and politics, organisational culture, employee identity, the creation of new organizational forms, space and architecture plays at work and leadership. His work looks at a wide range of settings including knowledge intensive firms, financial institutions, seaports, universities, libraries, media organizations, and new social movements.

He has published extensively in top scholarly journals such as Organization Science, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies. He has also published the books 'Contesting the Corporation' (Cambridge), 'Unmasking the Entrepreneur' (Edward Elgar), 'Understanding Organizations' (Sage), 'Metaphors we Lead By' (Routledge), and 'The Wellness Syndrome' (Polity). He has received research funding from the ESRC, British Academy, Handelsbanken Foundation, the Welsh Assembly, 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 and InterSpa (Austria). He is invited to give speeches in range of settings like the UK House of Lords, the European Commission, the Mansion House, Occupy London and at universities around the world.

Qualifications

PhD, MBus and BComm.

Visiting Appointments

• Visiting Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Aug 2012 – present
• Visiting Professor, Hanken School of Economics, Finland, May 2011
• Visiting Professor, University of Sydney, Mar – Apr 2011

Memberships of Professional Organisations

• Academy of Management, Aug 2003 – present
• European Group for Organization Studies, Jun 2003 – present

Expertise

Primary Topics

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

Industries/Professions

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

Geographic Areas

• Australia & Oceania
• Europe - Western
• Scandinavia

Title of Thesis: The role of business schools and their influence on business and society

Sep 2015

Summary of Research

Abstract

This qualitative research focuses on UK business schools, examining how business schools have portrayed their role in society through their own officially commissioned, historical narratives.

A second core aspect of Annette's research asks: how do business schools influence MBA student attitudes and mindsets about the role of business in society? In answering this question, Annette's research aims to provide a better understanding of future business leaders' mindsets about the role of business in society.

External Supervisors

• Gond, JP. Cass Business School, City, University of London.
• Mena, S. Cass Business School, City University London, London.
• Spicer, A. Cass Business School, City University London, London.

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

Books (4)

• Cederström, C. and Spicer, A. (2015). The Wellness Syndrome. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-7456-8893-0.
• Holmqvist, M. and Spicer, A. (2013). Managing 'Human Resources' by Exploiting and Exploring People's Potentials. Emerald Group Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78190-505-0.
• Alvesson, M. and Spicer, A. (2010). Metaphors We Lead By Understanding Leadership in the Real World. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-88943-1.
• Network, T.W.O.T., Hancock, P. and Spicer, A. (2009). Understanding Corporate Life. SAGE. ISBN 978-1-84920-448-4.

Chapters (24)

• 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 978-0-415-70286-7.
• 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 978-0-19-975561-5.
• 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 978-0-19-967108-3.
• Spicer, A. and Alvesson, M. (2013). Does Leadership Create Stupidity? In Lemmergaard, J. and Muhr, S.L. (Eds.), Critical Perspectives on Leadership: Emotion, Toxicity, and Dysfunction (pp. 183–202). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85793-112-2.
• 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 978-1-349-33149-9.
• Holmqvist, M. and Spicer, A. (2012). The Ambidextrous Employee: Exploiting and Exploring People's Potential. In Holmqvist, M. and Spicer, A. (Eds.), Managing ‘Human Resources’ by Exploiting and Exploring People’s Potentials (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 37) (pp. 1–23). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
• Spicer, A. and Holmqvist, M. (2012). Managing ‘Human Resources’ by Exploiting and Exploring People's Potentials. Managing ‘Human Resources’ by Exploiting and Exploring People’s Potentials; Research in the Sociology of Organizations Series (pp. i–i). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-78190-505-0.
• 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 978-0-415-55645-3.
• 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 978-1-906948-10-8.
• 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 978-1-84950-984-8.
• 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 978-0-415-56845-6.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 978-0-230-52479-8.
• 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 978-0-19-923771-5.
• 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.
• Spicer, A. (2009). Space. In Network, W.O.T., Hancock, P. and Spicer, A. (Eds.), Understanding Corporate Life (pp. 64–78). London: Sage. ISBN 978-1-4129-2384-2.
• Spicer, A. (2009). What do OB Tools and Practices Do? In Cooper, and Clegg, (Eds.), The Handbook of Macro Organizational Behaviour London: Sage.
• Spicer, A. (2008). Do Metaphors of Globalization Destroy the Public Service. In Kornprobst, M., Pouliot, V., Shah, N. and Zaiotti, R. (Eds.), Metaphors of Globalization Mirrors, Magicians and Mutinies (pp. 83–97). Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-0-230-52226-8.
• 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 978-87-630-0161-8.
• Spicer, A. (2005). Conferences. In O'Doherty, D. and Jones, C. (Eds.), Manifestos for the Business School of Tomorrow Turku: Devlin. ISBN 978-952-91-8907-6.
• 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 978-90-272-2706-5.
• 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 978-90-272-3307-3.
• 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 978-90-272-3307-3.

Journal Articles (50)

• Mena, S., Rintamaki, 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Spicer, A., Alvesson, M. and Kärreman, D. (2016). Extending critical performativity. Human Relations, 69(2), pp. 225–249. doi:10.1177/0018726715614073.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2014). Power in Management and Organization Science. Academy of Management Annals, 8(1), pp. 237–298. doi:10.1080/19416520.2014.875671.
• 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.
• 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.
• Spicer, A. (2013). Shooting the shit: The role of bullshit in organisations. Management (France), 16(5), pp. 653–666.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Spicer, A. (2012). The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism. ORGANIZATION STUDIES, 33(9), pp. 1257–1259. doi:10.1177/0170840611431913.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, 43(5), pp. 1173–1189. doi:10.1068/a43539.
• 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.
• Spicer, A. (2011). Guilty Lives: The Failed Search for Authenticity in Contemporary Society. Ephemera, 11(1), pp. 46–52.
• 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.
• 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.
• Spicer, A. (2010). Extutions: The Other Side of Institutions. Ephemera, 10(1), pp. 25–39.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Whittle, A. and Spicer, A. (2008). Is Actor Network Theory Critique? Organization Studies, 29(4), pp. 611–629. doi:10.1177/0170840607082223.
• Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2008). Beyond Power and Resistance. Management Communication Quarterly, 21(3), pp. 301–309. doi:10.1177/0893318907309928.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Spicer, A. (2005). The political process of inscribing a new technology. Human Relations, 58(7), pp. 867–890. doi:10.1177/0018726705057809.
• Jones, C. and Spicer, A. (2005). Disidentifying the subject: Lacanian comments on subjectivity, resistance and enterprise. Organization, 12(2), pp. 223–246.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Spicer, A. (2002). Technical questions: A review of key works on the question of technology. Ephemera, 2(1), pp. 64–83.
• Spicer, A. (2001). Out of the Cynical Bind. Ephemera, 1(1), pp. 92–102.

Editorial Activities (7)

• Journal of Management, Member of Editorial Board, 2011 – present.
• Journal of Management Studies, Associate Editor, 2010 – present.
• Management Communication Quarterly, Member of Editorial Board, 2008 – present.
• Social Movement Studies, Member of Editorial Board, 2008 – present.
• Human Relations, Member of Editorial Board, 2006 – 2011.
• Organization Studies, Member of Editorial Board, 2006 – present.
• Organization, Member of Editorial Board, 2005 – 2010.