Professor Darren McCabe
Professor EmeritusResearch Overview
Darren McCabe has published on a number of workplace innovations including Total Quality Management, Business Process Reengineering and Teamwork. He has a broad interest in the cultural conditions of work, power, resistance, identity and subjectivity. He is generally interested in qualitative/ethnographic research and has conducted research in the Financial Services and Manufacturing sectors.
PhD Supervisions Completed
2005, Dr.Chandana Allawattage. The labour process in Sri Lankan Tea Plantations.
2006, Dr.Anita Mangan. The introduction of IT in the Irish Credit Union.
2008, Dr.Mohammed Salem. Obstacles to Economic Development inPalestine.
2009, Dr.Beverley Hawkins. Gender and Teamwork in a Transport Agency.
2012, Dr.Stephanie Russell. A Critique of Institutional Theory in the Passive Fire Protection Industry
PhDs Examined
Internal PhD Examiner
2002, Dr.Joan Lockyer ‘From Entrapment to emancipation: a critical analysis of ‘rationality’ in
Modern organisational management
2004, Dr. Emma Surman ‘No place like home: mapping place and identity in telework’
2011, Dr.Teresa Oultram ‘Exploring the identities of the Young Male Worker: A Case Study of English Apprenticeship Schemes’
External PhD Examiner
2008, Steven Suckling ‘Organisation, power and Email: An Investigation of Electronic Power Relationships’ Staffordshire University, Stafford,UK.
2011, Vibeke Vad Baunsgaard ‘Dominant Ideological Modes of Rationalities: Cross functional Integration in the Process of Product Innovation’, Centre for Strategic Management and Globalization, Copenhagen Business School,Denmark.
2012, Ole Friis, ‘Strategy-as-Practice – Involving Employees’, Aarhus University, AU Herning, Denmark.
14th Annual Ethnography Symposium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
14th Organization Studies Workshop ‘Technology and Organization
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Interrogating Resistance as Positive/Productive: The Case of a Local Government Authority
Invited talk
36th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
9th Latin American and European Meeting on Organization Studies (LAEMOS) Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
35th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
11th Annual Ethnography Symposium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
32nd European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Human Relations (Journal)
Editorial activity
10th Annual Ethnography Symposium, August 25-28th University of Liverpool, UK.
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
International Interdisciplinary Conference on Research on Work, WORK2015 - New Meanings of Work
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Looking for Thorns, Paradoxes and Blind Spots as Triggers for Reflection about Research and Practices of Change and Stability’ 31st European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
On the limitations of a Productive account of Resistance: Exploring change in a Local Government Authority
Invited talk
Scandinavian Journal of Management (Journal)
Editorial activity
Scandinavian Journal of Management (Journal)
Editorial activity
Resistance as Positive: The Limitations and Implications of a Facilitative Understanding of Resistance
Invited talk
9th Annual Ethnography Symposium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
32nd Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
8th Annual Liverpool Symposium on Current Developments in Ethnographic Research in the Social and Management Sciences
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
31st Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
13th EURAM Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
8th Organization Studies Summer Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
‘Organizational Death, Memory and Loss’ seminar hosted by the Culture, Organizations and Markets Group
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The 7th Annual Ethnography Symposium, University of Liverpool
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
28th EGOS Colloquium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
28th EGOS Colloquium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Invited Speaker
Invited talk
EnANPAD, the Brazilian Academy of Management
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
European Group for Organizational Studies, 27th EGOS Colloquium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
European Group for Organizational Studies, 27th EGOS Colloquium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Journal of Management Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity
Journal of Organizational Ethnography (Journal)
Editorial activity
Journal of Organizational Ethnography (Journal)
Editorial activity
EGOS Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
4th Annual Ethnography Symposium, University of Liverpool
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
European Grouping for Organization Studies, 25th Colloquium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
24th EGOS Colloquium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Organization (Journal)
Editorial activity
The International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management (Journal)
Editorial activity
The International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management (Journal)
Editorial activity
Human Relations (Journal)
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Organization Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity
- Management and Society