Hugh Willmott

Hugh Willmott is a Professor of Management and Organization Studies. He joined Cass Business School in 2014 having been a Research Professor in Organization Studies at Cardiff Business School. He has previously held professorial appointments at Cambridge (Judge Business School) and UMIST (now Manchester Business School) and visiting appointments at Copenhagen Business School, University of Sydney and Uppsala University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of the Judge Business School Cambridge.

Hugh’s research interests span the sub-fields of management organization studies. He has co-authored two major textbooks (Introducing Organizational Behaviour and Management, 3rd Edition and Organization Theory and Design: An International Perspective, 3rd Edition) and, additionally, has published over 20 books and contributed to a wide range of management and social science journals. He is particularly interested in the development and application of management theory by drawing upon the resources of critical social science. Substantively, his research has contributed to the areas of professionalization, teamwork, regulation, business ethics, management learning, accounting policy and practice, organizational culture, financialization, and the management of higher education. Most recently, he has been collaborating with Jeroen Veldman, Senior Research Fellow at Cass, in study of comparative models of corporate governance: The Modern Corporation.

Hugh is presently an Associate Editor on The Academy of Management Review, having previously served an equivalent role on the journal Organization. He has been a board member of numerous other journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies. He was appointed to the Business and Management Panel for the UK Research Assessment Exercise 2008 and is a member of the 2014 REF Panel. In 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate at Lund University.

Qualifications

• PhD (Honorary), Lund University, Lund, Sweden, 2011
• PhD, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 1977
• BSc, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 1972

Expertise

Primary Topics

• Business Ethics
• Corporate Governance
• Critical Management Studies
• Management
• Management Learning
• Organization Theory
• Organizational Culture
• Qualitative Research Methods

Featured Publication

Sikka, P., Willmott, H. and Puxty, T. (1995). The mountains are still there. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 8(3), pp. 113–140. doi:10.1108/09513579510094723.

Books (33)

• Murphy, J., Willmott, H. and Daft, R. (2017). Organization Theory and Design: An International Perspective. Cengage Learning EMEA. ISBN 978-1-4737-2638-3.
• Mir, R., Willmott, H. and Greenwood, M. (2016). Introduction: Philosophy in organization studies: Life, knowledge and disruption. ISBN 978-1-134-46608-5.
• Mir, R., Willmott, H. and Greenwood, M. (2016). The routledge companion to philosophy in organization studies. ISBN 978-1-134-46608-5.
• Daft, R.L. (2015). Organization Theory and Design. Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-1-305-53388-2.
• Collective, C.R. (2014). Fighting Corporate Abuse From Predatory to Responsible Capitalism. Pluto Press. ISBN 978-0-7453-3517-9.
• Willmott, H. and Bell, E. (2014). Qualitative Research in Business and Management (Fundamentals of Applied Research). SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-4462-8744-6.
• Murphy, J., Daft, R.L. and Willmott, H. (2014). Organization Theory and Design An International Perspective. Cengage Learning EMEA. ISBN 978-1-4080-7237-0.
• Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. (2012). Making Sense of Management A Critical Introduction. SAGE. ISBN 978-1-84920-085-1.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (2012). Introducing Organizational Behaviour and Management. Cengage Learning EMEA. ISBN 978-1-4080-3018-9.
• Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. (2011). Critical Management Studies. Sage. ISBN 978-0-85702-375-9.
• Kenny, K., Whittle, A. and Willmott, H. (2011). Understanding Identity and Organizations. SAGE. ISBN 978-1-4462-9216-7.
• Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (2010). Organizational Analysis: Essential Readings. Cengage Learning;. ISBN 978-1-4080-2017-3.
• Daft, R.L., Murphy, J. and Willmott, H. (2010). Organization Theory and Design. Cengage Learning EMEA. ISBN 978-1-84480-990-5.
• Alvesson, M., Bridgman, T. and Willmott, H. (2009). The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies. Oxford University Press on Demand. ISBN 978-0-19-923771-5.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (2007). Introducing Organizational Behaviour and Management. Cengage Learning EMEA. ISBN 978-1-84480-035-3.
• Grey, C. and Willmott, H. (2005). Critical Management Studies:A Reader. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-928608-9.
• Marchington, M., Grimshaw, D., Rubery, J. and Willmott, H. (2005). Fragmenting Work Blurring Organizational Boundaries and Disordering Hierarchies. Oxford University Press on Demand. ISBN 978-0-19-926224-3.
• Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. (2003). Studying Management Critically. SAGE. ISBN 978-0-7619-6737-8.
• Sturdy, A., Grugulis, I. and Willmott, H. (2001). Customer Service Empowerment and Entrapment. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-12952-9.
• Prichard, C., Chumer, M., Willmott, H. and Hull, R. (2000). Managing Knowledge Critical Investigations of Work and Learning. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-92157-9.
• Hassard, J., Holliday, R. and Willmott, H. (2000). Body and Organization. SAGE. ISBN 978-0-7619-5918-2.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (2000). The Reengineering Revolution Critical Studies of Corporate Change. SAGE. ISBN 978-1-4462-6589-5.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (1999). Management Lives Power and Identity in Work Organizations. SAGE. ISBN 978-1-84920-717-1.
• Willmott, H. and Alvesson, M. (1996). Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction. Sage. ISBN 978-0-8039-8388-5.
• Wilkinson, A. and Willmott, H. (1995). Making Quality Critical New Perspectives on Organizational Change. Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN 978-0-415-11569-8.
• Sturdy, A., Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (1992). Skill and Consent Contemporary Studies in the Labour Process. Cengage Learning EMEA. ISBN 978-0-415-08671-4.
• Willmott, H. and Alvesson, M. (1992). Critical Management Studies. Sage Publications.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (1991). White-Collar Work The Non-Manual Labour Process. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-44040-7.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (1990). Labour process theory. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-44038-4.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (1988). New Technology and the Labour Process. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-1-349-19242-7.
• Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (1986). Managing the Labour Process. Aldershot: Heinemann/Gower. ISBN 978-0-566-05000-8.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (1986). Gender and the labour process. Gower Pub Co. ISBN 978-0-566-00999-0.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (1985). Job redesign critical perspectives on the labour process. Gower Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-566-00885-6.

Chapters (85)

• Veldman, and Willmott, H.W. (2017). The Corporation in Management Studies. In baars, G. and spicer, A. (Eds.), The Corporation A Critical, Multi-Disciplinary Handbook (pp. 197–213). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-07311-1.
• Kenney, K., Whittle, A. and Willmott, H. (2016). Organizational Identity: The Significance of Power and Politics. In Pratt, M.G., Ashforth, B.E., Schultz, M. and Ravasi, D. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Identity Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-968957-6.
• Willmott, H. (2016). Bringing agency (back) into organizational analysis: responding to the crisis of (post) modernity. Routledge Revivals: Towards a New Theory of Organizations (1994) (pp. 87–130). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-30009-2.
• Willmott, H. and Veldman, J. (2016). Reimagining the Corporation: The Relevance of Legal, Economic and Political Imaginaries. In Haslam, J. and Sikka, P. (Eds.), Pioneers of Critical Accounting: A Celebration of the Life of Tony Lowe (pp. 231–257). London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-54211-3.
• Edward, P. and Willmott, H. (2015). Decision making: Between reason and the ethico-political moment. In Pullen, A. and Rhodes, C. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organizations (pp. 198–215). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-74624-6.
• Willmott, H. (2014). Michel Foucault (1926-1984). In Helin, J., Hernes, T., Hjorth, D. and Holt, R. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Process and Organization Studies (pp. 515–533). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-164810-6.
• Willmott, H. (2014). Conceptually grounded analysis: The elusive facticity and ethical upshot of ‘organization’. In Jeanes, E. and Huzzard, T. (Eds.), Critical Management Research: Reflections from the Field (pp. 189–208). SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-4462-8861-0.
• Willmott, H. (2013). Spirited Away: When Political Economy Becomes Culturalized. In du Gay, P. and Morgan, G. (Eds.), New Spirits of Capitalism?: Crises, Justifications, and Dynamics Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-959534-1.
• Willmott, H. (2013). Changing institutions: Critical Management Studies as a Social Movement. In Malin, V., Murphy, J. and Siltaoja, M. (Eds.), Getting Things Done (Dialogues in Critical Management Studies Vol. 2) (pp. 123–164). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-78190-954-6.
• Edward, P. and Willmott, H. (2013). Discourse and normative business ethics. Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics (pp. 549–580). ISBN 978-94-007-1494-6.
• Willmott, H. (2011). Considering the "Bigger Picture": Branding in Processes of Financialization and Market Capitalization. In Brannan, M.J., Parsons, E. and Priola, V. (Eds.), Branded Lives. The Production and Consumption of Meaning at Work Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-1-84980-092-1.
• Willmott, H. and Alvesson, M. (2011). Critical Management Studies: An Introduction. In Willmott, H. and Alvesson, M. (Eds.), Critical Management Studies (4 volume set) SAGE Publications Ltd. ISBN 978-0-85702-375-9.
• Willmott, H. (2011). Enron Narrative. In Painter-Morland, M. and ten Bos, R. (Eds.), Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy (pp. 96–116). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-50207-8.
• Willmott, H. (2011). Organizational culture. In Painter-Morland, M. and Ten Bos, R. (Eds.), Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-50207-8.
• Willmott, H. (2011). Back to the Future: What Does Studying Bureaucracy Tell Us? In Clegg, S.R., Harris, M. and Hopfl, H. (Eds.), Managing Modernity: Beyond Bureaucracy? (pp. 257–294). Oxford: OUP. ISBN 978-0-19-956364-7.
• Willmott, H. (2010). Governing Employability: Business School Accreditation as Soft Regulation. In Blyton, P., Heery, E. and Turnbull, P. (Eds.), Reassessing the Employment Relationship (pp. 249–270). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-22172-7.
• Willmott, H. and Ezzamel, M. (2010). Strategy and strategizing: A poststructuralist perspective. The Globalization of Strategy Research (pp. 75–109). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-84950-898-8.
• Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. (2009). All Offshore: The Sprat, the Mackerel, Accounting Firms, and the State in Globalization. Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions. Essays in Honour of Anthony Hopwood (pp. 396–414). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954635-0.
• Willmott, H. and O'Doherty, D. (2009). Avoiding Debate and the Immobilization of Labour Process Study: Strawmanning or Friedmanning? Bits of Organization (pp. 38–55). Copenhagen Business School Press DK. ISBN 978-91-47-08998-7.
• Cooper, D.J., Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. (2008). Examining "Institutionalization": A Critical Theoretic Perspective. In Greenwood, R., Oliver, C., Suddaby, R. and Sahlin-Andersson, K. (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism SAGE. ISBN 978-1-4462-0669-0.
• Willmott, H. (2008). Critical Management Studies. In Clegg, S.R. and Bailey, J.R. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies SAGE. ISBN 978-1-4129-1515-1.
• Willmott, H. and Edward, P. (2008). Structures, Identities and Politics: Bringing Corporate Citizenship into the Corporation. In Scherer, A.G. and Palazzo, G. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84844-292-4.
• Willmott, H. (2008). For Informed Pluralism, Broad Relevance and Critical Reflexivity. In Barry, D. and Hansen, H. (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization SAGE. ISBN 978-1-4462-0407-8.
• Willmott, H. and Ezzamel, M. (2007). Critical Management Perspective: A Foucauldian Perspective. In Jenkins, M., Ambrosini, V. and Mowbray, N. (Eds.), Advanced Strategic Management, A Multi-Perspective Approach Business, Management Palgrave. ISBN 978-1-4672-0858-1.
• Bridgman, T. and Willmott, H. (2007). Academics in the ‘knowledge economy’: From expert to intellectual? In Harding, A., Laske, S., Scott, A. and Burtscher, C. (Eds.), Bright Satanic Mills: Universities, Regional Development and the Knowledge Economy (pp. 149–162). Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7546-4585-6.
• Willmott, H. (2007). Critical Theory. In Thorpe, R. and Holt, R. (Eds.), The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research SAGE. ISBN 978-1-84920-341-8.
• Alvesson, E. and Willmott, H. (2005). Scandinavian Perspectives on Management Consulting. In Roos, G. and Bjartveit, S. (Eds.), Scandinavian Perspectives on Management Consulting Norwegian Library House.
• Willmott, H. (2005). Introduction to Critical Management Studies:A Reader. In Willmott, H. and Grey, C. (Eds.), Critical Management Studies:A Reader OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-928608-9.
• Willmott, H. (2005). Organization Theory as a Critical Science? Forms of Analysis and ‘New Organizational Forms’. In Knudsen, C. and Tsoukas, H. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-927525-0.
• Willmott, H. and Contu, A. (2003). Macht, Lerner und Organisation. Personal, Organisation, Poststrukturalismus: An-Wendungen (pp. 159–188). Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag.
• Willmott, H. (2003). Critical Approaches to Strategic Management. In Willmott, H. and Alvesson, M. (Eds.), Studying Management Critically SAGE. ISBN 978-0-7619-6737-8.
• Willmott, H. (2003). Making Learning Critical: Identity, Emotion and Power in Management Development. In Jeffcutt, P. (Ed.), The Foundations of Management Knowledge (pp. 130–151). Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-20778-2.
• Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (2003). Autonomy as Utopia or Dystopia. In Parker, M. (Ed.), Utopia and Organization (pp. 59–81). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-0072-4.
• Willmott, H., Knights, D., Noble, F. and Vurdubakis, T. (2002). Allegories of Creative Destruction: Technology and Organization in Narratives of the e-Economy. In Woolgar, S. (Ed.), Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality (pp. 99–114). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-924875-9.
• Willmott, H. and Yanow, D. (2002). Passionate Humility: Toward a Philosophy of Ethical Will. In Jun, J. (Ed.), Rethinking Administrative Theory The Challenge of the New Century (pp. 131–140). Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-97248-6.
• Willmott, H. and Contu, A. (2001). The Docudrama: A Situated Learning Experience. Innovations in Teaching Business and Management - SEDA Paper 111 (pp. 95–109). SEDA. ISBN 978-1-902435-14-5.
• Willmott, H. (2000). On Measuring and Commodifying Research Quality: The UK Experience. In Laske, S. (Ed.), Qualitätsentwicklung in Universitäten Konzepte, Prozesse, Wirkungen (pp. 101–118). Hampp. ISBN 978-3-87988-505-3.
• Willmott, H. (2000). Introduction to The Re-engineering Revolution? Critical Studies of Corporate Change,. In Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (Eds.), The Reengineering Revolution Critical Studies of Corporate Change (pp. 1–25). SAGE. ISBN 978-1-4462-6589-5.
• Willmott, H. (2000). From Knowledge to Learning. In Chumer, M., Willmott, H. and Hull, R. (Eds.), Managing Knowledge Critical Investigations of Work and Learning (pp. 216–222). Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-23363-1.
• Willmott, H. (2000). Introduction to The Body and Organization. In Hassard, J., Holliday, R. and Willmott, H. (Eds.), Body and Organization (pp. 1–14). SAGE. ISBN 978-0-7619-5918-2.
• Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (1999). Interpreting Conceptions of the "Networked Organization". In Dutton, W. (Ed.), Society on the Line Information Politics in the Digital Age (pp. 105–107). Oxford University Press on Demand. ISBN 978-0-19-877460-0.
• Willmott, H. and Sikka, P. (1999). Regulating Money Laundering: A Case Study of the UK Experience. In Engwall, L. and Morgan, G. (Eds.), Regulation and Organizations International Perspectives Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-18391-8.
• Willmott, H. and Wray-Bliss, E. (1999). Battling With the Gods: Workers, Management, and the Deities of Post Industrial Management Culture. In Goodman, R.A. (Ed.), Modern Organizations and Emerging Conundrums Exploring the Postindustrial Subculture of the Third Millenium (pp. 377–389). Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-0001-1.
• Willmott, H. (1999). On the Idolization of Markets and the Denigration of Marketers. In Brownlie, D., Saren, M., Wensley, R. and Whittington, R. (Eds.), Rethinking Marketing Towards Critical Marketing Accountings (pp. 205–222). SAGE. ISBN 978-0-8039-7491-3.
• Willmott, H. (1998). Re-cognizing "The Other": Reflections on a New Sensibility in Social and Organization Studies. In Chia, R. (Ed.), In the Realm of Organisation Essays for Robert Cooper (pp. 217–246). Routledge.
• Willmott, H. (1998). Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? In Rock, S. (Ed.), Knowledge Management A Real Business Guide (pp. 25–31). Confederation of British Industry (CBI), International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). ISBN 978-1-901844-03-0.
• Willmott, H. (1998). Towards a New Ethics? The Contributions of Posthumanism and Poststructuralism. In Parker, M. (Ed.), Ethics & Organizations (pp. 76–121). SAGE. ISBN 978-0-8039-7497-5.
• Knights, D., Noble, F. and Willmott, H. (1997). ‘We Should be Total Slaves to the Business’: Aligning Information Technology and Strategy—Issues and Evidence. In Bloomfield, B.P. (Ed.), Information Technology and Organizations: Strategies, Networks, and Integration Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-828939-5.
• Willmott, H. and Murray, F. (1997). Putting Information Technology in its Place: Towards Flexible Integration in the Network Age? Information Technology and Organizations: Strategies, Networks, and Integration Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-828939-5.
• Willmott, H. (1997). Critical Management Learning. In Burgoyne, J. and Reynolds, M. (Eds.), Management Learning Integrating Perspectives in Theory and Practice (pp. 161–176). SAGE. ISBN 978-0-8039-7644-3.
• Willmott, H. (1996). Thinking Accountability: Accounting for the Disciplined Production of Self. In Munro, R. (Ed.), Accountability Power, Ethos and the Technologies of Managing (pp. 23–39). Cengage Learning Emea. ISBN 978-0-412-62560-2.
• Willmott, H. and Wray-Bliss, E. (1996). Process Reengineering, Information Technology and the Transformation of Accountability: The emaindering of the Human Resource? In Orlikowski, W.J. (Ed.), Information Technology and Changes in Organizational Work (pp. 62–88). London: Chapman and Hall.
• Willmott, H., Grey, C. and Knights, D. (1996). 'Is a Critical Pedagogy of Management Possible? Rethinking Management Education (pp. 94–110). SAGE. ISBN 978-1-4462-3569-0.
• Willmott, H. (1996). Thinking Accountability: Accounting for the Disciplined Production of Self. In Munro, R. (Ed.), Accountability Power, Ethos and the Technologies of Managing (pp. 23–39). Cengage Learning Emea. ISBN 978-0-412-62560-2.
• Willmott, H. and Alvesson, M. (1995). Strategic Management as Domination and Emancipation: From Planning and Process to Communication and Praxis. Advances in Strategic Management (pp. 85–112). Jai Press.
• Willmott, H. and Wilkinson, A. (1995). Introduction to Making Quality Critical: New Perspectives on Organizational Change. In Wilkinson, A. and Willmott, H. (Eds.), Making Quality Critical: New Perspectives on Organizational Change Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN 978-0-415-11569-8.
• Willmott, H. (1995). Will the Turkeys Vote for Christmas?: The Reengineering of Human Resources. In Burke, G. and Peppard, J. (Eds.), Examining business process re-engineering current perspectives and research directions (pp. 306–315). Kogan Page Ltd.
• Willmott, H., Cooper, D., Puxty, T. and Robson, K. (1994). Regulating Accountancy in the UK: Episodes in A Changing Relationship Between the State and the Profession. Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice (pp. 270–298). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-46965-4.
• Willmott, H. (1994). Social Constructionism and Communication Studies: Hearing the Conversation But Losing the Dialogue. (pp. 42–54).
• Willmott, H. and Murray, F. (1993). The Communication Problem in Information Systems Development. In Quintas, E. (Ed.), Social Dimensions of Software Engineering (pp. 165–178). London: Ellis Horwood. ISBN 978-0-13-020306-9.
• Willmott, H. and Sikka, P. (1993). Le Force D'Une Image D'Independance: Strategies Pour Defendre Et Etendre La Jurisdiction De La Profession Comptable En Grande-Bretagne. In Dezalay, Y. (Ed.), Batailles territoriales et querelles de cousinage: juristes et comptables européens sur le marché du droit des affaires (pp. 195–232). Paris: Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence. ISBN 978-2-275-00471-6.
• Willmott, H. and Gilmore, C. (1992). Company Law and Financial Reporting: A Sociological History of the UK Experience. In Hopwood, T. and Bromwich, M. (Eds.), Accounting and the Law (pp. 159–190). Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW). ISBN 978-0-13-006115-7.
• Willmott, H., Ezzamel, M. and Polesie, T. (1992). Accounting and Trust: Some Implications for Management Control. Responsibility and Accounting The Organizational Regulation of Boundary Conditions (pp. 23–40). Chartwell Learning & Development Limited. ISBN 978-0-86238-306-0.
• Willmott, H. and Alvesson, M. (1992). Critical Theory and Management Studies: An Introduction. In Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. (Eds.), Critical Management Studies (pp. 1–20). Sage Publications. ISBN 978-0-8039-8455-4.
• Willmott, H., Sturdy, A. and Knights, D. (1992). Introduction to "Skill and Consent; Contemporary Studies in the Labour Process". In Willmott, H., Sturdy, A. and Knights, D. (Eds.), Skill and Consent Contemporary Studies in the Labour Process (pp. 1–23). Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-08585-4.
• Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (1991). Introduction to "White-Collar Work: The Non-Manual Labour Process". In Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (Eds.), White-Collar Work: The Non-Manual Labour Process (pp. 1–12). McMillan. ISBN 978-1-349-09476-9.
• Willmott, H. and Smith, C. (1991). The New Middle Class and the Labour Process. In Knights, D., Willmott, H. and Smith, C. (Eds.), White-Collar Work: The Non-Manual Labour Process (pp. 13–34). Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-09476-9.
• Willmott, H. and Alvesson, M. (1990). Critical Theory and the Sciences of Management. In Gastelaars, E., Magala, S. and Preuss, O. (Eds.), Critical theory and the science of management (The Frankfurt School : How relevant is it today?) (pp. 23–74). Rotterdam: University of Rotterdam. ISBN 978-90-237-1149-0.
• Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (1990). Capital Markets and Labour Processes; A Case Study of Class and Organisation in a Mutual Life Insurance Company. In Clegg, S.R. (Ed.), Organization Theory and Class Analysis New Approaches and New Issues (pp. 336–378). Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-012003-5.
• Willmott, H. (1990). The Dialectics of Praxis: Opening Up the Core of Labour Process Analysis. Labour process theory (pp. 336–378). Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-44038-4.
• Willmott, H. (1990). Introduction to "Labour Process Theory". In Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (Eds.), Labour process theory (pp. 1–45). Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-44038-4.
• Willmott, H. (1990). Beyond Paradigmatic Closure in Organisational Analysis. In Pym, D. and Hassard, J. (Eds.), The Theory and Philosophy of Organizations Critical Issues and New Perspectives (pp. 44–62). Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-06313-5.
• Willmott, H. (1989). Serving the Public Interest? A Critical Analysis of a Professional Claim. In Cooper, D.J. and Hopper, T.M. (Eds.), Critical Accounts: Reorientating Accounting Research Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-44970-7.
• Willmott, H. (1989). Autocritique II. In Chua, W.F., Lowe, T. and Puxty, T. (Eds.), Critical Perspectives in Management Control (pp. 331–340). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-38355-1.
• Willmott, H. (1989). Operational Research (OR) as a Problem Situation; From Soft Systems Methodology to Critical Science. In Jackson, M.C., Keys, P. and Cropper, S.A. (Eds.), Operational Research (OR) and the Social Sciences (Proceedings of IFORS Conference) (pp. 65–78). Plenum Press. ISBN 978-1-4613-0789-1.
• Willmott, H., Cooper, D., Puxty, T. and Lowe, T. (1989). The Accountancy Profession, Corporatism and the State. Critical Perspectives in Management Control (pp. 245–270). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-38355-1.
• Willmott, H., Knights, D. and Burnes, B. (1988). Introduction to "New Technology and the Labour Process". In Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (Eds.), New Technology and the Labour Process (pp. 1–19). Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-1-349-19242-7.
• Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (1987). The Executive Fix: Strategic Decision Making in the Financial Services Industry. In McGoldrick, J. (Ed.), Business Case File in Behavioural Science (pp. 59–72). Van Nost.Reinhold. ISBN 978-0-278-00037-7.
• Willmott, H. (1987). Racism, Politics and Employment Relations. In Lee, G. and Loveridge, R. (Eds.), The Manufacture of Disadvantage Stigma and Social Closure (pp. 128–143). Open University Press. ISBN 978-0-335-15502-6.
• Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (1986). Introduction to "Gender and the Labour Process". In Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (Eds.), Gender and the Labour Process (pp. 1–13). Aldershot: Gower Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-566-00999-0.
• Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (1986). Introduction to "Managing the Labour Process". In Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (Eds.), Managing the Labour Process (pp. 1–18). Aldershot: Heinemann/Gower. ISBN 978-0-566-05000-8.
• Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (1985). Introduction to "Job Redesign: Critical Perspectives on the Labour Process". In Willmott, H., Knights, D. and Collinson, D. (Eds.), Job Redesign Critical Perspectives on the Labour Process (pp. 1–9). Gower Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-566-00885-6.
• Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (1985). Conclusion to "Job Redesign: Critical Perspectives on the Labour Process". In Knights, D., Willmott, H. and Collinson, D. (Eds.), Job redesign critical perspectives on the labour process (pp. 227–231). Aldershot: Gower Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-566-00885-6.
• Willmott, H. (1985). Setting Accounting Standards in the U.K: The Emergence of Private Accounting Bodies and their Role in the Regulation of Accounting Practice. In Streeck, W. and Schmitter, P.C. (Eds.), Private Interest Government Beyond Market and State (pp. 44–71). London: Sage Publications. ISBN 978-0-8039-9722-6.
• Murphy, J. and Willmott, The Rise of the 1%: An Organizational Explanation.

Journal Articles (150)

• Venkitachalam, K. and Willmott, H. (2017). Strategic knowledge management—Insights and pitfalls. International Journal of Information Management, 37(4), pp. 313–316. doi:10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2017.02.002.
• Bell, E., Kothiyal, N. and Willmott, H. (2017). Methodology-as-Technique and the Meaning of Rigour in Globalized Management Research. British Journal of Management, 28(3), pp. 534–550. doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12205.
• Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. (2016). The cultural grammar of governance: The UK Code of Corporate Governance, reflexivity, and the limits of ‘soft’ regulation. Human Relations, 69(3), pp. 581–603. doi:10.1177/0018726715593160.
• Venkitachalam, K. and Willmott, H. (2016). Determining strategic shifts between codification and personalization in operational environments. Journal of Strategy and Management, 9(1), pp. 2–14. doi:10.1108/JSMA-09-2014-0082.
• Thompson, M. and Willmott, H. (2016). The social potency of affect: Identification and power in the immanent structuring of practice. Human Relations, 69(2), pp. 483–506. doi:10.1177/0018726715593161.
• Glynos, J., Klimecki, R. and Willmott, H. (2015). Logics in policy and practice: a critical nodal analysis of the UK banking reform process. Critical Policy Studies, 9(4), pp. 393–415. doi:10.1080/19460171.2015.1009841.
• Venkitachalam, K. and Willmott, H. (2015). Factors shaping organizational dynamics in strategic knowledge management. Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 13(3), pp. 344–359. doi:10.1057/kmrp.2013.54.
• Tourish, D. and Willmott, H. (2015). In Defiance of Folly: Journal rankings, mindless measures and the ABS Guide. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 26, pp. 37–46. doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2014.02.004.
• Willmott, H. (2015). Why Institutional Theory Cannot Be Critical. Journal of Management Inquiry, 24(1), pp. 105–111. doi:10.1177/1056492614545306.
• Paranque, B. and Willmott, H. (2014). Cooperatives—saviours or gravediggers of capitalism? Critical performativity and the John Lewis Partnership. Organization, 21(5), pp. 604–625. doi:10.1177/1350508414537622.
• Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. (2014). Registering ‘the Ethical’ in Organization Theory Formation: Towards the Disclosure of an ‘Invisible Force’. Organization Studies, 35(7), pp. 1013–1039. doi:10.1177/0170840614525324.
• Sambrook, S. and Willmott, H. (2014). The rigor of management education and the relevance of human resource development: Natural partners or uneasy bedfellows in management practice? Management Learning, 45(1), pp. 39–56. doi:10.1177/1350507612468422.
• Lok, J. and Willmott, H. (2014). Identities and identifications in organizations: Dynamics of antipathy, deadlock, and alliance. Journal of Management Inquiry, 23(3), pp. 215–230. doi:10.1177/1056492613504461.
• Willmott, H. (2014). Science, governance and self-understanding: From anthropocentricism to ecocentrism? Critical Policy Studies, 8(1), pp. 22–40. doi:10.1080/19460171.2014.883858.
• Willmott, H. (2013). Reflections on the Darker Side of Conventional Power Analytics. Academy of Management Perspectives, 27(4), pp. 281–286. doi:10.5465/amp.2013.0075.
• Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. (2013). The tax avoidance industry: Accountancy firms on the make. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 9(4), pp. 415–443. doi:10.1108/cpoib-06-2013-0019.
• Mingers, J. and Willmott, H. (2013). Taylorizing business school research: On the 'one best way' performative effects of journal ranking lists. Human Relations, 66(8), pp. 1051–1073. doi:10.1177/0018726712467048.
• Willmott, H. (2013). OT and Power: The Significance of Value-Orientations and a Plea for Pluralism. Tamara Journal of Critical Organisation Inquiry, 11(2), pp. 53–66.
• Willmott, H. (2013). 'The Substitution of One Piece of Nonsense for Another': Reflections on Resistance, Gaming, and Subjugation. Journal of Management Studies, 50(3), pp. 443–473. doi:10.1111/joms.12019.
• Weiskopf, R. and Willmott, H. (2013). Ethics as Critical Practice: The "Pentagon Papers", Deciding Responsibly, Truth-telling, and the Unsettling of Organizational Morality. Organization Studies, 34(4), pp. 469–493. doi:10.1177/0170840612470256.
• Veldman, J. and Willmott, H. (2013). What is the corporation and why does it matter? M@n@gement, 16(5), pp. 605–605. doi:10.3917/mana.165.0605.
• Willmott, H. (2012). Reframing Relevance as ‘Social Usefulness’: A Comment on Hodgkinson and Starkey's ‘Not Simply Returning to the Same Answer Over and Over Again’. British Journal of Management, 23(4), pp. 598–604. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8551.2012.00839.x.
• Glynos, J., Klimecki, R. and Willmott, H. (2012). Cooling Out the Marks: The ideology and politics of the financial crisis. Journal of Cultural Economy, 5(3), pp. 297–320. doi:10.1080/17530350.2012.675885.
• Willmott, H. (2011). Journal list fetishism and the perversion of scholarship: Reactivity and the ABS list. Organization, 18(4), pp. 429–442. doi:10.1177/1350508411403532.
• Willmott, H. (2011). Listing perilously. Organization, 18(4), pp. 447–448. doi:10.1177/1350508411403536.
• Willmott, H. (2011). Book Review: Making sense of the financial meltdown-an extended review of The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession. Organization, 18(2), pp. 239–260. doi:10.1177/1350508410394155.
• Willmott, H. (2011). “Institutional Work” for What? Problems and Prospects of Institutional Theory. Journal of Management Inquiry, 20(1), pp. 67–72. doi:10.1177/1056492610387224.
• Al-Amoudi, I. and Willmott, H. (2011). Where Constructionism and Critical Realism Converge: Interrogating the Domain of Epistemological Relativism. Organization Studies, 32(1), pp. 27–46. doi:10.1177/0170840610394293.
• Willmott, H. (2010). Creating 'value' beyond the point of production: Branding, financialization and market capitalization. Organization, 17(5), pp. 517–542. doi:10.1177/1350508410374194.
• Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. (2010). The dark side of transfer pricing: Its role in tax avoidance and wealth retentiveness. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 21(4), pp. 342–356. doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2010.02.004.
• O'Doherty, D. and Willmott, H. (2009). The Decline of Labour Process Analysis and the Future Sociology of Work. Sociology, 43(5), pp. 931–951. doi:10.1177/0038038509340742.
• Lowrie, A. and Willmott, H. (2009). Accreditation Sickness in the Consumption of Business Education: The Vacuum in AACSB Standard Setting. Management Learning, 40(4), pp. 411–420. doi:10.1177/1350507609335851.
• Klimecki, R. and Willmott, H. (2009). From demutualisation to meltdown: a tale of two wannabe banks. Critical perspectives on international business, 5(1/2), pp. 120–140. doi:10.1108/17422040910938749.
• Willmott, H. (2009). Commentary: Science as Intervention: Recasting Weber's Moral Vision. Organization, 16(1), pp. 143–153. doi:10.1177/1350508408098926.
• Willmott, H. (2008). Critical Management and Global Justice. Organization, 15(6), pp. 927–931. doi:10.1177/1350508408097913.
• Willmott, H. (2008). Listening, interpreting, commending: A commentary on the future of interpretive accounting research. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 19(6), pp. 920–925. doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2007.02.007.
• Knights, D., Vurdubakis, T. and Willmott, H. (2008). The night of the bug: Technology, risk and (dis)organization at the fin de siècle. Management & Organizational History, 3(3-4), pp. 289–309. doi:10.1177/1744935908095411.
• Edward, P. and Willmott, H. (2008). Corporate Citizenship: Rise or Demise of a Myth? Academy of Management Review, 33(3), pp. 771–773. doi:10.5465/AMR.2008.32465773.
• Ezzamel, M., Willmott, H. and Worthington, F. (2008). Manufacturing shareholder value: The role of accounting in organizational transformation. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 33(2-3), pp. 107–140. doi:10.1016/j.aos.2007.03.001.
• Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. (2008). Strategy as Discourse in a Global Retailer: A Supplement to Rationalist and Interpretive Accounts. Organization Studies, 29(2), pp. 191–217. doi:10.1177/0170840607082226.
• Willmott, H. and Taskin, L. (2008). Introducing Critical Management Studies: Key Dimensions. Gestion 2000, 6(Nov-Dec), pp. 27–38.
• Adler, P.S., Forbes, L.C. and Willmott, H. (2007). 3 Critical Management Studies. The Academy of Management Annals, 1(1), pp. 119–179. doi:10.1080/078559808.
• Knights, D., Noble, F., Vurdubakis, T. and Willmott, H. (2007). Electronic Cash and the Virtual Marketplace: Reflections on a Revolution Postponed. Organization, 14(6), pp. 747–768. doi:10.1177/1350508407082261.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (2007). Socialization, Yes. Skill Upgrading, Probably. Robust Theory of the Capitalist Labour Process, No. Organization Studies, 28(9), pp. 1369–1378. doi:10.1177/0170840607080746.
• Khan, F.R., Munir, K.A. and Willmott, H. (2007). A Dark Side of Institutional Entrepreneurship: Soccer Balls, Child Labour and Postcolonial Impoverishment. Organization Studies, 28(7), pp. 1055–1077. doi:10.1177/0170840607078114.
• Contu, A. and Willmott, H. (2006). Studying Practice: Situating Talking About Machines. Organization Studies, 27(12), pp. 1769–1782. doi:10.1177/0170840606071895.
• Lowrie, A. and Willmott, H. (2006). Marketing Higher Education: The Promotion of Relevance and the Relevance of Promotion. Social Epistemology, 20(3-4), pp. 221–240. doi:10.1080/02691720600879806.
• Lok, J. and Willmott, H. (2006). Institutional Theory, Language, and Discourse Analysis: A Comment on Philips, Lawrence, and Hardy. Academy of Management Review, 31(2), pp. 477–480. doi:10.5465/AMR.2006.20208692.
• Willmott, H. (2006). Pushing at an Open Door. Management Learning, 37(1), pp. 33–37. doi:10.1177/1350507606060978.
• Bridgman, T. and Willmott, H. (2006). Institutions and Technology: Frameworks for Understanding Organizational Change--The Case of a Major ICT Outsourcing Contract. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 42(1), pp. 110–126. doi:10.1177/0021886305284990.
• Balogun, J., Gleadle, P., Hailey, V.H. and Willmott, H. (2005). Managing change across boundaries: Boundary-shaking practices. British Journal of Management, 16(4), pp. 261–278. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8551.2005.00463.x.
• Contu, A. and Willmott, H. (2005). You Spin Me Round: The Realist Turn in Organization and Management Studies. Journal of Management Studies, 42(8), pp. 1645–1662. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00560.x.
• Willmott, H. (2005). Theorizing Contemporary Control: Some Post-structuralist Responses to Some Critical Realist Questions. Organization, 12(5), pp. 747–780. doi:10.1177/1350508405055947.
• Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. (2005). The withering of tolerance and communication in interdisciplinary accounting studies. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 18(1), pp. 136–146. doi:10.1108/09513570510584683.
• Ezzamel, M., Lilley, S. and Willmott, H. (2004). Accounting representation and the road to commercial salvation. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 29(8), pp. 783–813. doi:10.1016/j.aos.2003.10.004.
• Ezzamel, M., Willmott, H. and Worthington, F. (2004). Accounting and management–labour relations: the politics of production in the ‘factory with a problem’. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 29(3-4), pp. 269–302. doi:10.1016/S0361-3682(03)00014-X.
• Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. (2004). Rethinking strategy: contemporary perspectives and debates. European Management Review, 1(1), pp. 43–48. doi:10.1057/palgrave.emr.1500009.
• Contu, A. and Willmott, H. (2003). Re-Embedding Situatedness: The Importance of Power Relations in Learning Theory. Organization Science, 14(3), pp. 283–296. doi:10.1287/orsc.14.3.283.15167.
• Willmott, H. (2003). Commercialising Higher Education in the UK: The state, industry and peer review. Studies in Higher Education, 28(2), pp. 129–141. doi:10.1080/0307507032000058127.
• Willmott, H. (2003). Renewing Strength: Corporate Culture Revisited. M@n@gement, 6(3), pp. 73–73. doi:10.3917/mana.063.0073.
• Grey, C. and Willmott, H. (2002). Contexts of CMS. Organization, 9(3), pp. 411–418. doi:10.1177/135050840293006.
• Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. (2002). Identity Regulation as Organizational Control: Producing the Appropriate Individual. Journal of Management Studies, 39(5), pp. 619–644. doi:10.1111/1467-6486.00305.
• Sikka, P. and Wilmott, H.C. (2002). Commentary on 'Accountability of accounting educators and the rhythm of the university: resistance strategies for postmodern blues'. Accounting Education, 11(2), pp. 191–197. doi:10.1080/0963928021000031754.
• Grimshaw, D., Vincent, S. and Willmott, H. (2002). Going privately: partnership and outsourcing in UK public services. Public Administration, 80(3), pp. 475–502. doi:10.1111/1467-9299.00314.
• Willmott, H. and Contu, A. (2002). Rappresentare il lavoro "in azione": potere e capacità di apprendimento. Sociologia del lavoro, 86/87, pp. 85–104.
• Ezzamel, M., Willmott, H. and Worthington, F. (2001). Power, Control and Resistance in 'The Factory That Time Forgot'. Journal of Management Studies, 38(8), pp. 1053–1079. doi:10.1111/1467-6486.00272.
• Mitchell, A., Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. (2001). Policing knowledge by invoking the law: critical accounting and the politics of dissemination. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 12(5), pp. 527–555. doi:10.1006/cpac.2000.0452.
• Grimshaw, D., Vincent, S. and Willmott, H. (2001). New Control Modes and Emergent Organizational Forms: Private-Public Contracting in Public Administration. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 23(3), pp. 407–430. doi:10.1080/10841806.2001.11643534.
• Bos, R.T. and Willmott, H. (2001). Towards a Post-Dualistic Business Ethics: Interweaving Reason and Emotion in Working Life. Journal of Management Studies, 38(6), pp. 769–793. doi:10.1111/1467-6486.00258.
• O'Doherty, D. and Willmott, H. (2001). Debating Labour Process Theory: The Issue of Subjectivity and the Relevance of Poststructuralism. Sociology, 35(2), pp. 457–476. doi:10.1177/S0038038501000220.
• Knights, D., Noble, F., Vurdubakis, T. and Willmott, H. (2001). Chasing Shadows: Control, Virtuality and the Production of Trust. Organization Studies, 22(2), pp. 311–336. doi:10.1177/0170840601222006.
• O’Doherty, D. and Willmott, H. (2000). The Question of Subjectivity and the Labor Process. International Studies of Management & Organization, 30(4), pp. 112–132. doi:10.1080/00208825.2000.11656802.
• Willmott, H. (2000). Death. So What? Sociology, Sequestration and Emancipation. The Sociological Review, 48(4), pp. 649–665. doi:10.1111/1467-954X.00237.
• Contu, A. and Willmott, H. (2000). Comment on Wenger and Yanow. Knowing in Practice: A Delicate Flower in the Organizational Learning Field. Organization, 7(2), pp. 269–276. doi:10.1177/135050840072004.
• Yanow, D. and Willmott, H. (1999). Considering Passionate Humility. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 21(4), pp. 450–454. doi:10.1080/10841806.1999.11643401.
• Mitchell, A., Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. (1998). Sweeping it under the carpet: The role of accountancy firms in moneylaundering. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 23(5-6), pp. 589–607. doi:10.1016/S0361-3682(98)00010-5.
• Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. (1998). Accounting for Teamwork: A Critical Study of Group-Based Systems of Organizational Control. Administrative Science Quarterly, 43(2), pp. 358–358. doi:10.2307/2393856.
• Sikka, P., Puxty, A., Willmott, H. and Cooper, C. (1998). THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF ELIMINATING THE EXPECTATIONS GAP: SOME THEORY AND EVIDENCE. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 9(3), pp. 299–330. doi:10.1006/cpac.1997.0159.
• Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. (1998). Accounting, Remuneration and Employee Motivation in the New Organisation. Accounting and Business Research, 28(2), pp. 97–110. doi:10.1080/00014788.1998.9728902.
• McCabe, D., Knights, D., Kerfoot, D., Morgan, G. and Willmott, H. (1998). Making Sense of "Quality?"-Toward a Review and Critique of Quality Initiatives in Financial Services. Human Relations, 51(3), pp. 389–411. doi:10.1177/001872679805100308.
• Willmott, H. (1997). Making learning critical: Identity, emotion, and power in processes of management development. Systems Practice, 10(6), pp. 749–771. doi:10.1007/BF02557923.
• Willmott, H. (1997). Rethinking Management and Managerial Work: Capitalism, Control, and Subjectivity. Human Relations, 50(11), pp. 1329–1359. doi:10.1177/001872679705001101.
• Willmott, H. and Sikka, P. (1997). On the commercialization of accountancy thesis: A review essay. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 22(8), pp. 831–842. doi:10.1016/S0361-3682(96)00013-X.
• Puxty, A., Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. (1997). Mediating Interests: The Accountancy Bodies' Responses to the McFarlane Report. Accounting and Business Research, 27(4), pp. 323–340. doi:10.1080/00014788.1997.9729558.
• Wilimoft, H. (1997). Management and Organization Studies as Science? Organization, 4(3), pp. 309–344. doi:10.1177/135050849743002.
• Ezzamel, M., Lilley, S. and Willmott, H. (1997). Accounting for Management and Managing Accounting: Reflections on Recent Changes in the UK. Journal of Management Studies, 34(3), pp. 439–463. doi:10.1111/1467-6486.00058.
• Willmott, H. (1997). Outing' Organizational Analysts: Some Reflections Upon Parker's Tantrum. Organization, 4(2), pp. 255–268. doi:10.1177/135050849742006.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (1997). The Hype and Hope of Interdisciplinary Management Studies. British Journal of Management, 8(1), pp. 9–22. doi:10.1111/1467-8551.00035.
• Prichard, C. and Willmott, H. (1997). Just How Managed is the McUniversity? Craig Prichard, Hugh Willmott. Organization Studies, 18(2), pp. 287–316. doi:10.1177/017084069701800205.
• Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. (1997). PRACTISING CRITICAL ACCOUNTING. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 8(1-2), pp. 149–165. doi:10.1006/cpac.1996.0088.
• Willmott, H. (1996). A Metatheory of Management: Omniscience or Obfuscation? A Comment1. British Journal of Management, 7(4), pp. 323–327. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1996.tb00122.x.
• Cooper, D., Puxty, T., Robson, K. and Willmott, H. (1996). CHANGES IN THE INTERNATIONAL REGULATION OF AUDITORS: (IN)STALLING THE EIGHTH DIRECTIVE IN THE UK. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 7(6), pp. 589–613. doi:10.1006/cpac.1996.0063.
• Willmott, H. (1996). Smart Machine Derailed: Engineers Accuse Passengers. Electronic Journal of Radical Organisational Theory, 2(2), pp. 1–5.
• Ezzamel, M., Lilley, S. and Willmott, H. (1996). The View from the Top: Senior Executives' Perceptions of Changing Management Practices in UK Companies1. British Journal of Management, 7(2), pp. 155–168. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1996.tb00111.x.
• Wilkinson, A. and Willmott, H. (1996). Quality management, problems and pitfalls: a critical perspective. International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, 13(2), pp. 55–65. doi:10.1108/02656719610110014.
• Ezzamel, M., Lilley, S., Wilkinson, A. and Willmott, H. (1996). Practices and Practicalities In Human Resource Management 1. Human Resource Management Journal, 6(1), pp. 63–80. doi:10.1111/j.1748-8583.1996.tb00397.x.
• Willmott, H. (1995). What has been happening in organization theory and does it matter? Personnel Review, 24(8), pp. 33–53. doi:10.1108/00483489510099550.
• Wilkinson, A. and Willmott, H. (1995). Total Quality: Asking Critical Questions. Academy of Management Review, 20(4), pp. 789–791. doi:10.5465/AMR.1995.28081374.
• Willmott, H. (1995). The odd couple?: re-engineering business processes; managing human relations. New Technology, Work and Employment, 10(2), pp. 89–98. doi:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1995.tb00008.x.
• Willmott, H. (1995). Managing the Academics: Commodification and Control in the Development of University Education in the U.K. Human Relations, 48(9), pp. 993–1027. doi:10.1177/001872679504800902.
• Sikka, P., Willmott, H. and Puxty, T. (1995). The mountains are still there. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 8(3), pp. 113–140. doi:10.1108/09513579510094723.
• Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. (1995). Illuminating the State-Profession Relationship: Accountants acting as Department of trade and Industry Investigators. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 6(4), pp. 341–369. doi:10.1006/cpac.1995.1031.
• Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. (1995). The power of “independence”: defending and extending the jurisdiction of accounting in the United Kingdom. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 20(6), pp. 547–581. doi:10.1016/0361-3682(94)00027-S.
• Kjonstad, B.R. and Willmott, H. (1995). Business ethics: Restrictive or empowering? Journal of Business Ethics, 14(6), pp. 445–464. doi:10.1007/BF00872086.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (1995). Culture and control in a life insurance company1. Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies, 1(1), pp. 29–46. doi:10.1080/10245289508523444.
• Ezzamel, M., Lilley, S. and Willmott, H. (1994). The ‘new organization’ and the ‘new managerial work’. European Management Journal, 12(4), pp. 454–461. doi:10.1016/0263-2373(94)90031-0.
• Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. (1994). Changing Management Practices in Financial Services [1]. Journal of General Management, 20(1), pp. 22–28. doi:10.1177/030630709402000102.
• Robson, K., Willmott, H., Cooper, D. and Puxty, T. (1994). The ideology of professional regulation and the markets for accounting labour: Three episodes in the recent history of the U.K. accountancy profession. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 19(6), pp. 527–553. doi:10.1016/0361-3682(94)90022-1.
• Puxty, A.G., Sikka, P. and Willmott, H.C. (1994). Systems Of Surveillance And The Silencing Of UK Academic Accounting Labour. The British Accounting Review, 26(2), pp. 137–171. doi:10.1006/bare.1994.1011.
• Willmott, H. (1994). Business Process Re‐engineering and Human Resource Management. Personnel Review, 23(3), pp. 34–46. doi:10.1108/00483489410064559.
• Willmott, H. (1994). Management Education. Management Learning, 25(1), pp. 105–136. doi:10.1177/1350507694251008.
• Puxty, A., Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. (1994). (Re)forming the circle: education, ethics and accountancy practices. Accounting Education, 3(1), pp. 77–92. doi:10.1080/09639289400000006.
• Mitchell, A., Puxty, T., Sikka, P. and Willmott, H. (1994). Ethical statements as smokescreens for sectional interests: The case of the UK accountancy profession. Journal of Business Ethics, 13(1), pp. 39–51. doi:10.1007/BF00877153.
• Willmott, H., Puxty, T. and Cooper, D. (1993). Maintaining Self‐regulation: Making “Interests” Coincide in Discourses on the Governance of the ICAEW. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 6(4) . doi:10.1108/09513579310087408.
• Morgan, G. and Willmott, H. (1993). The “New” Accounting Research: On Making Accounting More Visible. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 6(4) . doi:10.1108/09513579310045675.
• Knights, D., Murray, F. and Willmott, H. (1993). NETWORKING AS KNOWLEDGE WORK: A STUDY OF STRATEGIC INTERORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY. Journal of Management Studies, 30(6), pp. 975–995. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1993.tb00475.x.
• Willmott, H. (1993). Paradigm Gridlock: A Reply. Organization Studies, 14(5), pp. 727–730. doi:10.1177/017084069301400506.
• Willmott, H. (1993). Breaking the Paradigm Mentality. Organization Studies, 14(5), pp. 681–719. doi:10.1177/017084069301400504.
• Ezzamel, M. and Willmott, H. (1993). Corporate Governance and Financial Accountability: Recent Reforms in the UK Public Sector. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 6(3) . doi:10.1108/EUM0000000001937.
• Willmott, H. (1993). STRENGTH IS IGNORANCE; SLAVERY IS FREEDOM: MANAGING CULTURE IN MODERN ORGANIZATIONS. Journal of Management Studies, 30(4), pp. 515–552. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1993.tb00315.x.
• Willmott, H., Puxty, T. and Sikka, P. (1993). Losing One’s Reason: On the Integrity of Accounting Academics. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 6(2) . doi:10.1108/09513579310036404.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (1993). 'It's a Very Foreign Discipline': the Genesis of Expenses Control in a Mutual Life Insurance Company. British Journal of Management, 4(1), pp. 1–18. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1993.tb00157.x.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (1992). CONCEPTUALIZING LEADERSHIP PROCESSES: A STUDY OF SENIOR MANAGERS IN A FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANY. Journal of Management Studies, 29(6), pp. 761–782. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1992.tb00688.x.
• Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. (1992). On the Idea of Emancipation in Management and Organization Studies. The Academy of Management Review, 17(3), pp. 432–432. doi:10.2307/258718.
• Willmott, H.C., Puxty, A.G., Robson, K., Cooper, D.J. and Lowe, E.A. (1992). Regulation of Accountancy and Accountants: A Comparative Analysis of Accounting for Research and Development in Four Advanced Capitalist Countries. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 5(2) . doi:10.1108/09513579210011853.
• Coombs, R., Knights, D. and Willmott, H.C. (1992). Culture, Control and Competition; Towards a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Information Technology in Organizations. Organization Studies, 13(1), pp. 051–72. doi:10.1177/017084069201300106.
• Willmott, H. (1992). Postmodernism and Excellence: The De‐differentiation of Economy and Culture. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 5(1), pp. 58–68. doi:10.1108/09534819210010980.
• Sikka, P., Willmott, H. and Lowe, T. (1991). “Guardians of Knowledge and Public Interest”: A Reply to Our Critics. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 4(4) . doi:10.1108/EUM0000000001930.
• Willmott, H. (1991). The auditing game: A question of ownership and control. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2(1), pp. 109–121. doi:10.1016/1045-2354(91)90021-5.
• Elkjær, B., Flensburg, P., Mouritsen, J. and Willmott, H. (1991). The commodification of expertise: The case of systems development consulting. Accounting, Management and Information Technologies, 1(2), pp. 139–156. doi:10.1016/0959-8022(91)90016-8.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (1989). Power and Subjectivity at Work: From Degradation to Subjugation in Social Relations. Sociology, 23(4), pp. 535–558. doi:10.1177/0038038589023004003.
• Sikka, P., Willmott, H. and Lowe, T. (1989). Guardians of Knowledge and Public Interest: Evidence and Issues of Accountability in the UK Accountancy Profession. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 2(2) . doi:10.1108/09513578910132286.
• Filby, I. and Willmott, H. (1988). Ideologies and Contradictions in a Public Relations Department: The Seduction and Impotence of Living Myth. Organization Studies, 9(3), pp. 335–349. doi:10.1177/017084068800900303.
• Willmott, H., Smith, C. and Whipp, R. (1988). Case study research in accounting: methodological breakthrough or ideological weapon. Advances in Public Interest Accounting, 2, pp. 95–120.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H.C. (1987). Organizational Culture as Management Strategy: A Critique and Illustration from the Financial Services Industry. International Studies of Management & Organization, 17(3), pp. 40–63. doi:10.1080/00208825.1987.11656461.
• Jackson, N. and Willmott, H. (1987). Beyond Epistemology and Reflective Conversation: Towards Human Relations. Human Relations, 40(6), pp. 361–379. doi:10.1177/001872678704000603.
• Willmott, H. (1987). Studying Managerial Work; A Critique and a Proposal. Journal of Management Studies, 24(3), pp. 249–270. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1987.tb00702.x.
• Hopper, T., Storey, J. and Willmott, H. (1987). Accounting for accounting: Towards the development of a dialectical view. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 12(5), pp. 437–456. doi:10.1016/0361-3682(87)90030-4.
• Puxty, A.G., Willmott, H.C., Cooper, D.J. and Lowe, T. (1987). Modes of regulation in advanced capitalism: Locating accountancy in four countries. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 12(3), pp. 273–291. doi:10.1016/0361-3682(87)90041-9.
• WILLMOTT, H.U.G.H.C. (1986). Unconscious Sources of Motivation in the Theory of the Subject; An Exploration and Critique of Giddens? Dualistic Models of Action and Personality. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 16(1), pp. 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5914.1986.tb00069.x.
• Willmott, H. (1986). Organising the profession: A theoretical and historical examination of the development of the major accountancy bodies in the U.K. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 11(6), pp. 555–580. doi:10.1016/0361-3682(86)90036-X.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (1985). Power and Identity in Theory and Practice. The Sociological Review, 33(1), pp. 22–46. doi:10.1111/j.1467-954X.1985.tb00786.x.
• Laughlin, R.C. and Willmott, H. (1984). ACCOUNTING REGULATION: AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE: A COMMENT. Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 11(4), pp. 585–591. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5957.1984.tb00775.x.
• Willmott, H.C. (1984). Images and ideals of managerial work: a critical examination of conceptual and empirical accounts. Journal of Management Studies, 21(3), pp. 349–368. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1984.tb00416.x.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (1983). Dualism and Domination: An Analysis of Marxian, Weberian and Existentialist Perspectives. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 19(1), pp. 33–49. doi:10.1177/144078338301900102.
• Willmott, H.C. (1983). Paradigms for accounting research: Critical reflections on Tomkins and Groves' “everyday accountant and researching his reality”. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 8(4), pp. 389–405. doi:10.1016/0361-3682(83)90052-1.
• Knights, D. and Willmott, H. (1982). Power, Values and Relations: A Comment on Benton. Sociology, 16(4), pp. 578–585. doi:10.1177/0038038582016004007.
• Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (1982). The Problem of Freedom: Fromm's Contribution to a Critical Theory of Work Organisation. PRAXIS International, 2(2), pp. 204–225.
• Willmott, H. (1981). The Structuring of Organizational Structure: A Note. Administrative Science Quarterly, 26(3), pp. 470–470. doi:10.2307/2392518.
• Willmott, H. and Knights, D. (1976). Humanistic social science and the theory of needs. Interpersonal Development, 5(4), pp. 213–223.