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Hannigan, T. R., McCarthy, I. P. & Spicer, A. (2024). Beware of botshit: How to manage the epistemic risks of generative chatbots. Business Horizons, 67(5), pp. 471-486. doi: 10.1016/j.bushor.2024.03.001

Järvelä, J., Sorsa, V-P. & Spicer, A. (2024). Silent Steering: How Public Actors Indirectly Influence Private Stakeholder Engagement. Business and Society, doi: 10.1177/00076503241274056

Rintamäki, J., Parker, S. & Spicer, A. (2024). Institutional Parasites. Academy of Management Review, doi: 10.5465/amr.2021.0502

Spicer, A. & Alvesson, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-8709-4684 (2024). Critical Management Studies: A Critical Review. Journal of Management Studies, 62(1), pp. 446-483. doi: 10.1111/joms.13047

van Bommel, K., Rasche, A. & Spicer, A. (2023). From Values to Value: The Commensuration of Sustainability Reporting and the Crowding Out of Morality. Organization and Environment, 36(1), pp. 179-206. doi: 10.1177/10860266221086617

Spicer, A. (2023). Quagmires. Organization Studies, 44(2), pp. 340-343. doi: 10.1177/01708406221131940

Krlev, G. & Spicer, A. (2022). Reining in Reviewer Two: How to Uphold Epistemic Respect in Academia. Journal Of Management Studies, 60(6), pp. 1624-1632. doi: 10.1111/joms.12905

Spicer, A., Cankurtaran, P. & Beverland, M. B. (2022). Take a look at me now: Consecration and the Phil Collins effect. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 77, pp. 253-282. doi: 10.1108/s0733-558x20220000077018

Kärreman, D., Spicer, A. & Hartmann, R. (2021). Slow management. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 37(2), article number 101152. doi: 10.1016/j.scaman.2021.101152

Spicer, A., Jaser, Z. & Wiertz, C. (2021). The future of the business school: finding hope in alternative pasts. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 20(3), pp. 459-466. doi: 10.5465/amle.2021.0275

Spicer, A. (2020). Organizational Culture and COVID-19. Journal Of Management Studies, 57(8), pp. 1737-1740. doi: 10.1111/joms.12625

Spicer, A. (2020). Playing the Bullshit Game: How Empty and Misleading Communication Takes Over Organizations. Organization Theory, 1(2), article number 2631787720929704. doi: 10.1177/2631787720929704

Hartmann, R., Spicer, A. & Krabbe, A. D. (2020). Towards an untrepreneurial economy? The entrepreneurship industry and the rise of the veblenian entrepreneur. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020(1), doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2020.152

Alvesson, M., Hallett, T. & Spicer, A. (2019). Uninhibited Institutionalisms. Journal of Management Inquiry, 28(2), pp. 119-127. doi: 10.1177/1056492618822777

Alvesson, M. & Spicer, A. (2019). Neo-Institutional Theory and Organization Studies: A Mid-Life Crisis?. Organization Studies, 40(2), pp. 199-218. doi: 10.1177/0170840618772610

Fassnidge, C., Ball, D., Kazaz, Z. , Knudsen, S., Spicer, A., Tipple, A. & Freeman, E. D. ORCID: 0000-0001-7234-824Xview all authors (2019). Hearing through your eyes: neural basis of audiovisual cross-activation, revealed by transcranial alternating current stimulation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(6), pp. 922-935. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01395

Frandsen, S., Gotsi, M., Johnston, A. , Whittle, A., Frenkel, S. & Spicer, A.view all authors (2018). Faculty responses to business school branding: a discursive approach. European Journal of Marketing, 52(5/6), pp. 1128-1153. doi: 10.1108/ejm-11-2016-0628

Cederstrom, C. & Spicer, A. (2017). Going public. Organization, 24(5), pp. 708-711. doi: 10.1177/1350508417705006

Reinecke, J., van Bommel, K. & Spicer, A. (2017). When orders of worth clash: Negotiating legitimacy in situations of moral multiplexity. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 52, pp. 33-72. doi: 10.1108/s0733-558x20170000052002

Huault, I., Kärreman, D., Perret, V. & Spicer, A.view all authors (2017). Introduction to the special issue: The evolving debate about critical performativity. Management (France), 20(1), pp. 1-8. doi: 10.3917/mana.201.0001

Willmott, H. C., Djelic, M-L., Spicer, A. , Parker, M., Perrow, C., Pugh, D. S., Spender, J-C., Gond, J-P., ten Bos, R., Beverungen, A., Calas, M. B., Thompson, G. F., Morgan, G., Clegg, S. R., McSweeney, B., Ahonen, P., Hancock, P., Czarniawska, B., Gospel, H., Pitsis, T. S., Taylor, S., Land, C., Shukaitis, S., Simpson, A. V., Keenoy, T., Vachhani, S., Taskin, L., Cheney, G., Bencherki, N., Perret, V., Allard-Poesi, F., Palpacuer, F., Espinosa, J., Jacobs, D. C., Brewis, J., King, D., Wainwright, T., Thanem, T., Jarvis, W., Hoedemaekers, C., Glynos, J., Towers, I., Mansell, S., Cabantous, L., Cooke, B. M., Marens, R., Munro, I., Komlik, O., Weir, K., Lilley, S., Cailluet, L., Chabrak, N., Huzzard, T., Alakavuklar, O. N., Mowles, C., Murphy, J., Le Goff, J., Slater, R., Cambre, M-C., Velez-Castrillon, S., Laouisset, D. E., Schmidt, S. M., Erturk, I., Meyer, A. D., Kuhn, T., Huault, I., Tchalian, H., Clarke, T., Cassiers, I., Chanteau, J-P., Malaurent, J., Cooper, D. J., O'Reilly, D., Pirson, M., Srinivas, N., de Souza Rosa Filho, D., Faria, A., Mir, R., Serrano Archimi, C., Cairns, G., Tennent, K., Doherty, D., Wartzman, R., Liew, P., Hlupic, V., Bourguignon, A., O’Mahoney, J., Riaz, S., Al-Amoudi, I., Montiel, O., McKenna, S., Bosch, H. V. D., Rees, C., Bell, E., Kyriakidou, O., Cathcart, A., Ridley-Duff, R. R., Stevenson, L., Kornelakis, A. & Veldman, J.view all authors (2016). The Modern Corporation Statement on Management. Cass Business School, City, University of London,

Mena, S., Rintamäki, J., Fleming, P. & Spicer, A.view all authors (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. & Spicer, A.view all authors (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. & 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. & Kärreman, D. (2016). Extending critical performativity. Human Relations, 69(2), pp. 225-249. doi: 10.1177/0018726715614073

Berinato, S. & Spicer, A. (2015). Defend your research corporate wellness programs make us unwell. Harvard Business Review, 93(5), pp. 28-29.

Davies, J. S. & 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

Perkmann, M. & 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

Zhang, Z. & 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

Fleming, P. & Spicer, A. (2014). Power in management and organization science. Academy of Management Annals, 8(1), pp. 237-298. doi: 10.1080/19416520.2014.875671

Cederstroem, C. & 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

Huault, I., Perret, V. & 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. doi: 10.3917/mana.165.0653

Alvehus, J. & 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. & 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

Alvesson, M. & Spicer, A. (2012). Critical leadership studies: The case for critical performativity. Human Relations, 65(3), pp. 367-390. doi: 10.1177/0018726711430555

Holmqvist, M. & Spicer, A. (2012). The Ambidextrous Employee: Exploiting and Exploring People's Potential. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 37, pp. 1-23. doi: 10.1108/S0733-558X(2013)0000037004

van Bommel, K. & Spicer, A. (2011). Hail the Snail: Hegemonic Struggles in the Slow Food Movement. Organization Studies, 32(12), pp. 1717-1744. doi: 10.1177/0170840611425722

Frenzel, F., Böhm, S., Quinton, P. , Spicer, A., Sullivan, S. & Young, Z.view all authors (2011). Alternative Media in North and South: The case of IFIWatchNet and Indymedia in Africa. Environment and Planning A, 43(5), pp. 1173-1189. doi: 10.1068/a43539

Sullivan, S., Spicer, A. & 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

Spicer, A. (2011). Guilty Lives: The Failed Search for Authenticity in Contemporary Society. Ephemera, 11(1), pp. 46-52.

Hancock, P. & Spicer, A. (2010). 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. (2010). Extutions: The Other Side of Institutions. Ephemera, 10(1), pp. 25-39.

Spicer, A. & Sewell, G. (2010). From National Service to Global Player: Transforming organizational logics in a public broadcaster. Journal of Management Studies, 47(6), pp. 913-943. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00915.x

Böhm, S., Dinerstein, C. & 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

Perkmann, M. & Spicer, A. (2010). What are Business Models: Towards a Theory of Performative Representations. Research in the Sociology of Organization, 29, pp. 265-275. doi: 10.1108/S0733-558X(2010)0000029020

Spicer, A., Alvesson, M. & Kärreman, D. (2009). Critical Performativity: The unfinished business of critical management studies. Human Relations, 62(4), pp. 537-560. doi: 10.1177/0018726708101984

Perkmann, M. & Spicer, A. (2008). How are management fashions institutionalized? The role of institutional work. Human Relations, 61(6), pp. 811-844. doi: 10.1177/0018726708092406

Fleming, P. & Spicer, A. (2008). Beyond power and resistance - New approaches to organizational politics. Management Communication Quarterly, 21(3), pp. 301-309. doi: 10.1177/0893318907309928

Zhoungyuan, Z., Spicer, A. & Hancock, P. (2008). Ballards Bestiary: Experimental Organizational Space. Organization, 15(6), pp. 889-910. doi: 10.1177/1350508408095819

Whittle, A. & Spicer, A. (2008). Is Actor Network Theory Critique?. Organization Studies, 29(4), pp. 611-629. doi: 10.1177/0170840607082223

Book

Cederstrom, C. & Spicer, A. (2017). Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement. London, UK: OR Books.

Alvesson, M. & Spicer, A. (2016). The Stupidity Paradox The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work. London, UK: Profile Books.

Book Section

Spicer, A. (2017). Introduction. In: Spicer, A. (Ed.), Business Bullshit. (pp. 1-21). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Parmar, I. (2017). Corporate Foundations and Ideology. In: Baars, G. & Spicer, A. (Eds.), The Corporation. (pp. 434-447). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781139681025.031

Baars, G. (2017). Capital, corporate citizenship and legitimacy: The ideological force of ‘corporate crime’ in international law. In: Baars, G. & Spicer, A. (Eds.), The Corporation: A Critical, Multi-Disciplinary Handbook. (pp. 419-433). UK: Cambridge University Press.

Palan, R. & Nesvetailova, A. (2017). Banks as Global Corporations: From Entities to ‘Ecological Habitats’. In: Baars, G. & Spicer, A. (Eds.), The Corporation: A Critical, Multi-Disciplinary Handbook. (pp. 268-279). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Jones, A. (2017). The Corporation in Geography. In: Spicer, A. & Baars, G. (Eds.), The Corporation: A Critical, Multidisciplinary Handbook. (pp. 160-179). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Report

Spicer, A., Lindley, D., Gond, J-P. , Mosonyi, S., Jaser, Z., Marti, E., Petersen, H. & Edwards, A.view all authors (2016). Cultural change in the FCA, PRA & Bank of England: Practising what they preach?. London: New City Agenda/Cass Business School.

Gond, J-P., Spicer, A., Patel, K. , Fleming, P., Mosonyi, S., Benoit, C. & Parker, S.view all authors (2014). A Report on the Culture of British Retail Banking. New City Agenda; Cass Business School (City, University of London).