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Department of Organization
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I came to CBS in late 2008 as a Globaliseringsprofessor at IOA. Prior to that I was Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Warwick Business School, and Professor of Sociology and Organization Studies at the Open University, UK. My research interests have been and continue to be located on the cusp of sociology, politics, history and cultural studies, with a key focus on questions of organization and identity. Currently, my two main research foci concern 1) reviving Organization Theory (OT) as 'a practical science of Organizing', via an engagement with OT's own past 2) reviving notions of 'Office', 'Ethos', 'Persona' and practices of casuistical reasoning in the context of public administration and state service more generally. Theese two concerns are, to my mind, intimately linked.
At CBS, I am Co-Director of the School's Buisness in Society 'Public-Private Platform',
Director of the collective Velux Research Programme 'What Makes Organization?', and a member of the School wide appointments and promotion committee (CWAC). I am currently involved in co-supervsing the work of nine Ph.D students.
- The History and Contemporary Relevance of 'Classic' Organization Theory
- Bureaucracy and Public Service Ethics
- History and Contemporary Practices of 'Office' Holding, their relationship to State Service, and casuistical reasoning
- Identity and Personhood and their organizational constitution
- Public Administration as an institution of government
I teach on the CBS MPA and MPG, and on five Ph.D courses in te areas of Public Governance; Public Managment and Administration; Organizational Analysis; Work, Organization, and Identity; and the History of Theory. I also guest lecture on a number of teaching programmes troughout the School
I am currently involved in co-supervising nine doctoral students. Their areas of interest are quite diverse, ranging from organizational changes in healthcare systems, to questions of scientififc social responsibility, the constitution of global professional networks, and the creation of markets for windpower. They all involve detailed empirical field studies, and are united by a set of related conceptual concerns, linking contemporary pragmatist analytics with organization studies, broadly defined.
I am involved in organizing a Denmark wide Public sector Reading Group for Ph.D Fellows, hosted by CBS's Public-Private Platform, and also host a workshop on Publishing Internationally for early career researchers and Ph.D Fellows. I also organize a Public Lecture Series on the theme of 'Organizing Uncertainty', whose aim is to bring to the School internationall renowmed scholars in the human and social sceinces whose work has had a profound impact on contemporary studies of organizaing. Speakers in the series have included Marilyn Strathern, Bruno Latour, David Stark, Karin Knorr, Mike Power, Donald Mackenzie, and Charles Perrow.
du Gay, P. & Morgan, G. (eds.) 2013 New Spirits of Capitalism? Crises, Justifications & Dynamics Oxford: Oxford University Press
du Gay, P., Hall, S., Janesd, L., Koed Madsen, A., MacKey, H. & Negus, K. 2013 Doing Cultural Studies: the story of the Sony Walkman (2nd edition) London: Sage
du Gay, P. & S. Vikkelsø, S (2013). Exploitation, exploration, and exaltation: notes on a metaphysical (re)turn to 'one best way of organising. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vol.37.No.1.
du Gay, P., Millo, Y.& Tuck P. (2013). Making government liquid: shifts in governance using financialisation as a political device. Environment & Planning C: Government and Policy
du Gay, P. (2012) 'Leviathan Calling: some notes on sociological anti-statism and its consequences', Journal of Sociology, 48.4
In: Organization Theory, Vol. 5, No. 1, 3.2024
In: Organization Studies, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2.2023, p. 343-346
Paper presented at XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, 2023
In: Industrial and Corporate Change, 22.2.2022
Abingdon : Routledge 2022, 183 p. (CRESC. Culture, Economy and the Social)
In: Business & Society, Vol. 61, No. 4, 4.2022, p. 833-838
In: Organising Care in a Time of Covid-19: Implications for Leadership, Governance and Policy. . ed. /Justin Waring; Jean-Louis Denis; Anne Reff Pedersen; Tim Tenbensel. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan 2021, p. 99-120 (Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare)
In: Current Sociology, Vol. 68, No. 4, 2020, 8 p., p. 411-418
In: Current Sociology, Vol. 68, No. 4, 7.2020, p. 459-479
In: Discretion and the Quest for Controlled Freedom. ed. /Tony Evans; Peter Hupe. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan 2020, p. 221-236
In: Organization, Vol. 27, No. 3, 5.2020, p. 441-453
In: New Formations, Vol. 100, No. Summer, 6.2020, p. 77-96
In: Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2.2019, p. 36-53
Paper presented at 35th EGOS Colloquium 2019, 2019
In: Studi di Sociologia, Vol. 57, No. 1, 2019, p. 69-80
In: Organization, Vol. 25, No. 6, 11.2018, p. 841-844
Abstract from XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology 2018, 2018
In: Sociologica, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2018, p. 155-159
In: Sociologica, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2018, p. 117-124
In: Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 11, No. 6, 2018, p. 602-607
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe. ed. /Edoardo Ongaro; Sandra Van Thiel. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan 2018, p. 991-1009
In: The Sociology of Speed: Digital, Organizational, and Social Temporalities. . ed. /Judy Wajcman; Nigel Dodd. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2017, p. 86-101
Paper presented at The 33rd EGOS Colloquium 2017, 2017
Oxford : Oxford University Press 2017, 224 p.
In: European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology , Vol. 4, No. 2, 2017, p. 156-165
In: European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology , Vol. 3, No. 1, 2016, p. 6-40
In: Reclaiming the Public: Working Papers in the Human Rights and Public Life Program. . ed. /Anna Yeatman. Sydney : Whitlam Institute. Western Sydney University 2016, p. 57-85 (Working Papers in the Human Rights and Public Life Program, Vol. 3)
In: Neo-Liberalism and the Crisis of Public Institutions: Working Papers in the Human Rights and Public Life. . ed. /Anna Yeatman. Rydalmere : Whitlam Institute. Western Sydney University 2015, p. 36-55 (Working Papers in the Human Rights and Public Life Program, Vol. 2)
In: Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2015, p. 399-417
Paper presented at Reclaiming the Public, 2015
In: Klassisk og moderne organisationsteori. ed. /Signe Vikkelsø; Peter Kjær. København : Hans Reitzels Forlag 2014, p. 23-46
Abstract from The Second Workshop on the Analysis of Bureaucracy in Society, 2014
In: Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents . . ed. /Paul S. Adler; Paul du Gay; Glenn Morgan; Michael Reed. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2014, p. 1-8
Oxford : Oxford University Press 2014, 796 p.
In: Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents . . ed. /Paul S. Adler; Paul du Gay; Glenn Morgan; Michael Reed. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2014, p. 736-758
2.ed.London : SAGE Publications 2013, 175 p. (Culture, Media and Identities series )
In: Managing ‘Human Resources’ by Exploiting and Exploring People’s Potentials. ed. /Mikael Holmqvist; André Spicer. Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing 2013, p. 249 - 279 (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 37)
Oxford : Oxford University Press 2013, 352 p.
In: New Spirits of Capitalism: Crises, Justifications, and Dynamics. . ed. /Paul du Gay; Glenn Morgan. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2013, p. 274-293
In: New Spirits of Capitalism: Crises, Justifications, and Dynamics. . ed. /Paul du Gay; Glenn Morgan. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2013, p. 82-97
In: New Spirits of Capitalism: Crises, Justifications, and Dynamics. . ed. /Paul du Gay; Glenn Morgan. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2013, p. 1-41
In: Reinventing Hierarchy and Bureaucracy : From the Bureau to Network Organizations. . ed. /Thomas Diefenbach; Rune Todnem. Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing 2012, p. 85-109 (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 35)
Madrid : Siglo XXI Editores 2012, 270 p.
Abstract from The 4S/EASST Joint Conference 2012, 2012
In: Journal of Sociology, Vol. 48, No. 4, 2012, p. 397-409
In: Environment and Planning C: Government & Policy, Vol. 30, No. 6, 2012, p. 1083-1099
In: Journal of Change Management, Vol. 12, No. 2, 29.5.2012, p. 121-143
In: Revue Francaise de Sociologie, Vol. 52, No. 3, 2011, p. 537-557
Frederiksberg : Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School 2011, 40 p.
In: Sociologica, No. 2, 2010, p. 1-14
In: Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2010, p. 171 - 179
In: Sociologica, No. 2, 2010, p. 1-23
In: Managing Modernity: The End of Bureaucracy?. . ed. /Stewart Clegg; Martin Harris; Harro Höpfl. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2010, p. 11-29
In: Identity in Question. ed. /Paul du Gay; Anthony Elliot. London : SAGE Publications 2009, p. xi-xxi
London : SAGE Publications 2009, 220 p.
In: Sociological Objects: Reconfigurations of Social Theory. . ed. /Geoff Cooper; Andrew King; Ruth Rettie. Farnham : Ashgate 2009, p. 177-190
In: Management & Organizational History, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2009, p. 359-384
In: The Oxford handbook of sociology and organization studies: Classical foundations. . ed. /Paul S. Adler. : Oxford University Press 2009, p. 146-173
In: Identity in Question. ed. /Paul du Gay; Anthony Elliot. : SAGE Publications 2009, p. 98-119
In: Conduct: Sociology and Social Worlds. . ed. /Liz McFall; Paul du Gay; Simon Carter. Milton Keynes : Manchester University Press 2008, p. 183-191
Milton Keynes : Manchester University Press 2008, 201 p.
In: Conduct: Sociology and Social Worlds. . ed. /Liz McFall; Paul du Gay; Simon Carter. Milton Keynes : Manchester University Press 2008, p. 2-19
In: Remembering Elites. ed. /M. Savage; K. Williams. : Blackwell Publishing 2008, p. 80-102
In: Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2008, p. 129 - 144
In: Conduct: Sociology and Social Worlds. . ed. /Liz McFall; Paul du Gay; Simon Carter. Milton Keynes : Manchester University Press 2008, p. 22-53
In: Organization, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2008, p. 335-353
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