Professor Peter Fleming
Professor of Work, Organisation and Society
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 2706
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 3615
Location: Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building, Room 4.11
Email: p.fleming@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
Peter Fleming’s research focuses on the political economy of corporations and the relations of power that underlie them. One line of investigation explores the way in which conflict and resistance constitutes the formal corporate form currently dominating western economies. Another area of interest is the cultural politics of work organizations, and the modes of ideological control that operate to enlist the participation of labour. He also researches corporate corruption and the social dynamics that characterise it.
Peter’s research interests include organisation theory, business ethics, power, conflict and resistance in the workplace, representations of organisations in the media, critical management studies, social theory.
He has published the following books:
Cederström, C. and Fleming, P. (2012). Dead Man Working. London: Zero Books.
Fleming, P. and Jones, M. (2012). The End of Corporate Social Responsibility: Capitalism, Crisis and Critique. London: Sage.
Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2007). Contesting the Corporation: Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fleming, P. (2009). Authenticity and the Cultural Politics of Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fleming, P. and Zyglidopoulos, S. (2009). Charting Corporate Corruption: Structure, Agency and Escalation. London: Edward Elgar Press.
Professor Fleming is currently on the editorial board of Organization Studies.
Publications:
Refereed Journal Articles:
Fleming, P. (forthcoming, 2013). ‘Down with Big Brother! The End of Corporate Culturalism?’ Journal of Management Studies.
Fleming, P. (forthcoming, 2013). “Some Call it Work … But We Don’t”: Self-Exploitation and the Rise of ‘Free Work’ Capitalism’. Research on the Sociology of Organizations.
Fleming, P. (2012). ‘The Playing Fields of Late Capitalism’, Ephemera, 11 (4): 495-500.
Fleming, P. (2012). 'The Birth of "Biocracy" and its Discontents at Work'. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 35: 177-199.
Mutola, A. M and Fleming, P. (2011). 'The Business of Authenticity: Introduction to Special Issue.' Ephemera, 12 (1): 1-5.
Fleming, P. and Zyglidopoulos (2011). 'Corporate Accountability and the Ideology of Transparency in Late Modernity'. Organization. 18 (5): 691-706.
Oswick, C. Fleming, P. and Hanlon, G. (2011). 'From Borrowing to Blending: Rethinking the Process of Organizational Theory-Building'. Academy of Management Review, 36 (2): 317-337.
Fleming, P. (2010). ‘Recalibrating resistance in the brave new world of bio-power’ Hvorfo, Et Studietdsskrift for Filosofi Og Okonomi, (5): 30-41
Fleming, P. and Sturdy, A. (2010). ‘Being Yourself in the Electronic Sweatshop: New forms of Normative Control’. Human Relations 64, 2177-200.
Fleming, P. and Hanlon, G. (2009). ‘Updating the Critical Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibly’. Sociology Compass, Volume 3
Fleming, P. and Sturdy, A. (2009). 'Just Be Yourself!' Towards Neo-Normative Control in Organizations? Employee Relations, 31 (6): 569-583
Costas, J. and Fleming, P (2009) ‘Beyond Dis-identification: Towards a Discursive Approach to Self-Alienation in Contemporary Organizations. Human Relations, 62 (3): 353-378
Fleming, P. and Di Domenico, M (2009). ‘This is Not a Brothel!’ Policing Sex in the Home-Workplace’. Human Relations, 62 (2): 245-269
Fleming, P. and Zyglidopoulos, S (2009). ‘Rationalization, Overcompensation and the Escalation of Corruption in Organizations’ Journal of Business Ethics
Bohm, S., Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2008). "Infra-Political Dimensions of Resistance to International Business: A Neo-Gramscian Approach" Scandinavian Journal of Management, 24 (3): 169-182
Fleming, P. and Zyglidopoulos, S. (2008). ‘The Escalation of Deception in Organizations’ Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 81(4), pages 837-850
Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2008). ‘Beyond Power and Resistance? New Approaches to Organizational Politics: Introduction to Special Issue.’ Management Communication Quarterly. 21 (3): 301-309
Zyglidopoulos, S. and Fleming, P. (2008). ‘Ethical Distance in Corrupt Firms: How Do Innocent Bystanders Become Guilty Perpetrators?’ Journal of Business Ethics, 78 (1): 265-274
Spicer, A. and Fleming, P (2007). ‘Intervening in the Inevitable: Resistance to Globalization in a Public Sector Organization’ Organization. 14 (4): 517-541
De Cock, C., Fleming, P. and Rehn, A. (2007). ‘Organizing Revolution: Introduction to Special Issue’. Management and Organizational History, 2 (2): 107-114
Fleming, P. (2007). ‘Sexuality, Power and Resistance in the Workplace’. Organization Studies, 28 (2): 239-256 Reprinted in Stewart Clegg (Ed) (2009). Directions in Organization Studies. Sage: London
Fleming, P. (2005). ‘Kindergarten Cop: Paternalism and Resistance in a High Commitment Organization.’ Journal of Management Studies, 42 (7): 1469-1492
Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2005). ‘How Objects Believe For Us: Applications in Organizational Analysis.’ Culture and Organization, 11 (3): 181-193
Fleming, P. (2005) ‘Workers’ Playtime? Boundaries and Cynicism in a “Culture of Fun” Program.’ Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 41 (3): 285-303.
Fleming, P. (2005) ‘Metaphors of Resistance’. Management Communication Quarterly, 19 (1): 45-66.
Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2005). ‘Stewart Clegg: Towards a Machiavellian Organization Studies?’ Sociological Review, 53(s1): 95-105
Fleming, P., Harley, B and Sewell, G. (2004). ‘A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing: Getting Below the Growth of ‘Knowledge Work’ in Australia.’ Work, Employment and Society, 18 (4): 725-747
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): 75-95
Jones, M. and Fleming, P. (2003). ‘Unpacking Complexity Through Critical Stakeholder Analysis: The Case of Globalization.’ Business and Society 42 (4): 430-455
Sturdy, A. and Fleming, P. (2003). ‘Talk as Technique: A Critique of the Words/Deeds Distinction in the Diffusion of Customer Service Cultures in Call Centres.’ Journal of Management Studies, 40 (4): 753-73
Fleming, P and Spicer, A. (2003). ‘Working at a Cynical Distance: Implications for Subjectivity, Power and Resistance.’ Organization, 10 (1): 157-179
Fleming, P. and Sewell, G. (2002). ‘Looking for “The Good Soldier Svejk”: Alternative Modalities of Resistance in the Contemporary Workplace.’ Sociology 36 (4): 857-873
Fleming, P. (2002). ‘Lines of Flight’. Ephemera, 2 (4): 193-208
Books, Chapters and Sections:
Fleming, P. (forthcoming, 2013). The Common and the Corporation. New York: Routledge.
Fleming, P. (forthcoming, 2012). 'The working Stakeholder.' Lindgreen, A., P. Kotler, J. Vanhamme & F. Maon (eds). A Stakeholder Approach to Corporate social Responsibility. Gower Publishing: Aldershot.
Fleming, P (2011). 'You are where you are not: Lacanian Perspectives on Ideology via Zizek'. In C. Cederstrom (Ed), Lacan and Organization. Mayfly Books: London.
Fleming, P. Delbridge, R. and Sturdy, A. (2010). Normative Control and Beyond in contemporary Capitalism. In Paul Thompson and Chris Smith (eds). Renewing Labour Process Analysis. Sage: London.
Fleming, P. and Sturdy, A. (2009) ‘Bringing everyday Life Back into the Workplace?’ In Management and Everyday Life. P. Hancock and M. Tyler (eds). London: Palgrave
Fleming, P. and Mandarini, M. (2009). ‘Towards a Workers Society? New Perspectives on Work and Emancipation in Contemporary Organizations’. In The Handbook of Critical Management Studies. M. Alvesson, H. Willmott and T. Bridgman (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press
Zyglidopoulos, S and Fleming, P. (2009). ‘The Escalation of Corruption in Organizations’. In Cary Cooper (Ed) Corruption in Organizations. Edward Elgar Press
Fleming, P. (2008). ‘Resistance’. In Organizing Words: A Critical Thesaurus for Social and Organization Studies (ed. Y. Gabriel). Oxford: Oxford University Press
Fleming, P. (2007). ‘Class’. In The International Encyclopaedia of Organization Studies. Stewart Clegg and James Bailey (eds). London: Sage
Fleming, P. (2007). ‘Managerial Capitalism’. In The International Encyclopaedia of Organization Studies. Stewart Clegg and James Bailey (eds). London: Sage
Fleming, P. (2007). ‘Resistance to Change’. In The International Encyclopaedia of Organization Studies. Stewart Clegg and James Bailey (eds). London: Sage
Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2002). ‘Workers Playtime? Unravelling the Paradox of Resistance to Corporate Culture.’ Management and Organization Paradoxes. Stewart R. Clegg (ed). Amsterdam: Benjamins
Grice, S. and Fleming, P. (1999). ‘Opening our global eyes: the politics of narrating globalisation.’ In Narratives of Business and Society in New Zealand. J. Monin, N. Monin and R. Walker. (eds) Longman
Conference Papers:
Fleming, P. (2010). ‘Recalibrating Resistance in the Bio-Political Era.’ EURAM Conference, 19-22 May, Rome, Italy.
Fleming, P. 2009 (November). ‘Trotsky at Saatchi and Saatchi?’ Historical Materialism Conference, November 27, SOAS, London
Fleming, P. 2009 (November). ‘Branding as Bio-Domination’. Branding workshop, Lund University, Sweden.
Fleming, P. 2009. ‘Shitty Work’. The 25nd EGOS Colloquium, Barcelona, Spain
Fleming, P. and Zygolopolous, S. 2008 (June). ‘What a Complex Web we Weave: deception and Escalation in Corrupt Organizations.’ Organization Studies Summer Workshop on Process, Pissouri, Cyprus
Fleming, P. 2008 (April). ‘Individualism, Identity and Designer Resistance.’ The 2nd Latin American and European Meeting of Organization Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fleming, P. and Sewell, G. (2007). ‘Nice up the dance: A natural history of Jamaican music from Nyabingi to Krumping or How Jamaicans invented popular culture and nobody noticed’. The 23nd EGOS Colloquium 2007, Vienna, Austria
Fleming, P. and Cederstrom, C. (2007). ‘The liberal gaze of the Other’. Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester, UK
Fleming, P and Andre Spicer, P. (2006). (July). Self, struggle and solidarity: From Foucauldian micro-politics to Arendtian struggle in organizations. The 22nd EGOS Colloquium 2006, Bergen, Norway
Fleming, P. (2006) (May). The Labour of Dis-identification: Using the Image of Production to Understand Identity and Resistance. Managing Identities in Complex Organizations: An International Workshop, Lund University, Sweden
Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. (2005). (December). Power, Resistance, Struggle. Asia Pacific Research in Organisation Studies Conference, Melbourne, Australia
Fleming, P. and Sturdy, A. (2005). (December). Post-Normative Control in Organizations: Implications for Class Analysis. Asia Pacific Research in Organisation Studies Conference, Melbourne, Australia
Fleming, P. and Bridgman, T. (2005) (December). Articulation and simultaneity: Conceptualizing cynicism as both a radical and conservative force in the contemporary workplace. Asia Pacific Research in Organisation Studies Conference, Melbourne, Australia
Fleming, P. (2005) (July). Marcuse, Memory and the Psychoanalysis of Workplace Resistance. Critical Management Studies Conference, Cambridge, UK
Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. 2005 (June). Why Resist Empire? European Group of Organization Studies, Berlin, Germany
Fleming, P. and Zygolopolous, S. 2005 (June). ‘Time and Deceit: The Escalation of Lying in Corrupt Organizations.’ Organization Studies Summer Workshop on Process, Santorini, Greece
Spicer, A. and Fleming, P. 2005 (May). ‘The Preconditions of Virtuous Praxis in Organizations’ Governance without Government Conference, Cardiff Business School, Wales
Fleming, P. and G. 2004 (August). ‘The Imagined Space of Workplace Resistance’. Academy of Management Conference. New Orleans, USA
Spicer, A. and Fleming, P. 2003 (August). ‘Contesting Globalization in the Public Sector’. Academy of Management Conference. Seattle, Washington. USA
Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. 2003 (July) ‘Resistance First’ European Group of Organization Studies, Copenhagen, Demark
Fleming, P. and Sturdy, A. 2003 (July) ‘Class and Post-Modernism’. Critical Management Studies Conference. Lancaster, UK.
Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. 2003 (July) ‘Its Likes Me Well: The Objectivity of Belief in Organizations.’ Critical Management Studies Conference. Lancaster, UK
Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. 2002 (July) ‘Plateaux of power and resistance.’ International Sociological Association Congress, Brisbane, Australia
Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. 2002 (July) ‘Resisting Globalisation in the Organisation of the Public Sphere.’ ANZAM / IFSAM 6th World Congress, Gold Coast, Australia
Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. 2001 (July) ‘Workers Playtime? Unravelling the Paradox of Covert Resistance.’ Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom
Spicer, A. and Fleming, P. 2001 (July) ‘Making Ethnography Critical.’ Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom
Fleming, P. and Sturdy, A. 2001 (July) ‘Talk as Technique: A Critique of the Words/Deeds Distinction in the Diffusion of Customer Service Cultures.’ European Group of Organization Studies, Lyon, France
Jones, C and Fleming, P. 2001 (March) ‘Inside/outside the Labour Process: On the Spatiality of the indeterminacy of Labour Power.’ Annual International Labour Process Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
Fleming, P. and Spicer, A. 2000 (December) ‘Working from a Cynical Distance: Implications for the Subject and Power.’ Asia Pacific Research in Organisation Studies Conference, Sydney, Australia
Fleming, P. and Stablein, R. 1998 (August). ‘Normative control: A Review.’ Academy of Management Conference, San Diego, USA
Undergraduate teaching:
Courses delivered:
BUS210: Critical and Post-Modern Theories of Organisations
BUS313: Corporate Social Responsibility
