Professor Stefano Harney
Chair in Strategy, Culture, and Society

Roles: Director of Global Learning
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 7441
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 3615
Location: Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building, Room 3.34
Email: s.harney@qmul.ac.uk

Research interests:

Stefano Harney joined Queen Mary in September 2006. He is an expert on business ethics, corporate governance, and responsible management education, and a frequent commentator in the media on banking regulation and ethics,. He is founder of Finance Watch, a research NGO dedicated to banking reform, and he is current Chair of the European Business Ethics Network (UK).  Stefano Harney's new book, Business World (Routledge, forthcoming) focuses on the borderless business school and the rise of extreme neo-liberalism. His last book, State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality (Duke, 2002) was a phenomenology of labour in the state aiming to rethink the contemporary state-form. He is part of the editorial collectives at the journals Social Text and Lateral. His first book was a study of postcolonial Trinidad.. He is also co-founder of the NGO Clinic, a pro bono organizational development and change service for not-for-profits .

Publications:

Journal Articles: 

S. Harney, (2010) Creative Industries Debate, Journal impact factor: 0.523 Cultural Studies, (Web of Science, 2008)

S. Harney, (2010) Unfinshed Business: the cultural commodity and its labour process, Cultural Studies

S. Harney, F. Moten F, (2010) Debt and Study, E-flux Journal 14, March 2010

S. Harney, S, (2010) Accounting, Risk, and Revolution, Critical Perspectives on Accounting 21 (1) 14-17, 2010

S. Harney, S. Linstead (2009) The Post-Colonial Classroom, Management Learning. 40:1, 69-85,

S. Harney, M. Parker, S. Dunne, (2008) The Responsibilities of Management Intellectuals: A Survey, Organisation. 15:2, 271-282

C. Oswick, S. Harney, G. Hanlon, (2008) The New Securocracy and the ‘Police Concept’ of Public Sector Worker Identity, International Journal of Public Administration, 31(9): 1-13

S. Harney, (2007) Socialisation and the Business School, Management Learning, 38:2, 139-153

S. Harney, R. Martin, (2007) Modes of Excess: Bataille, Criminality, and the War on Terror, Theory and Event, 10:2,

S. Harney, (2006) Management and Self-Activity: Accounting for the Crisis in Profit-taking, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 17:7, 935-946

S. Harney, (2006) Programming Cultural Labour, Social Semiotics, 16:1, 75-87

S. Harney, C. Oswick, (2006) Regulation and Freedom in Global Business Education, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 26(3/4): 97-109

S. Harney, (2005) Why is Management a Cliché? Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 16:5, 579-591

S. Harney, F. Moten,  (2004) The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses, Social Text, 22:2, 2004

Books:

Harney, SM, (2002) State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina

Other Publications:

M. Bousquet, S. Harney, F. Moten, (2009) On Study: A Polygraph Roundtable Discussion, Polygraph 21

S. Harney, (2009) Experience is Not Enough, Times Higher Education

S. Harney, S. Dunne, M. Parker, T. Tinker, (2008) Discussing the role of the business school, Ephemera: theory and politics in organization

S. Harney, (2008) L'abolizione della schiviatu e il General Intellect, Posse, June

S. Harney, (2008) Did poor teaching lead to the crash? Times Higher Education

S. Harney, (2008)Business schools must spurn rewards culture that shamed City, Times Higher Education, 20 November

S. Harney, (2008)Governance and the Undercommons, Autonomedia.org,

S. Harney, (2006) Governance, State, and Living Labour, Cultural Logic

Undergraduate teaching:

Courses delivered:
Business and Society
BUS204: Strategy

Postgraduate teaching:

PhD Supervision: 

Scott Cheshier - 1st Supervisor
‘The New Class in Vietnam’

Paulo Do - 1st Supervisor
‘The Global University; The Political Economy of Knowledge and the Transnationalization of the Higher Education’

Matteo Pasquinelli - 1st Supervisor

Angela Mitropoulos - 1st Supervisor

Valeria Graziano - 2nd Supervisor
‘The formatting of encounters: a political device’

Marina Vishmidt - 2nd Supervisor
‘Speculation as Mode of Production: Money, Art and Abstract Labour’