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  • 1.  Please Suggest Resources for a PhD Course

    Posted 01-17-2026 09:11

    Dear All,

    I am an early-career faculty member. Currently, I am preparing a course for a PhD on 'how to use organization history to develop theory.' Could you please suggest good papers for this course? I appreciate your help.

    -Ankur



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    Ankur Kushwaha
    Assistant Professor
    FLAME University
    Pune
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  • 2.  RE: Please Suggest Resources for a PhD Course

    Posted 01-18-2026 18:23
    Dear Ankur

    May I suggest that the first book illustrated below, Doing Exemplary Research Projects: A Guide to Practice, may well be useful in a general sense? 


    More specifically, the following resources may be useful as they are specifically focused on the issue that you want to address: 


    • Maclean, M., Harvey, C., Suddaby, R & Clegg, S, R. (eds) (2021), Historical Organization Studies: Theory and Applications. London: Routledge.
    • Clegg, S.R., Cunha, M. P. e, Maclean, M., Da Silva, A. F. (2025) Organising through time: Paradox and history, Business History, DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2025.2461064. (and the papers in the Special Edition).
    • Tureta, C., Américo, B. L., & Clegg, S. (2021). Controversies as method for ANTi-history: An inquiry into public administration practices. Organization, 28(6), 1018-1035.
    • de Vaujnay, F-X., Vaast, E., Clegg, S. R. and Aroles, J. (2020) Organizational Memorialization: Spatial History and Legitimation as Chiasms, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. 10.1108/QROM-01-2020-1887
    • Maclean, M., Harvey, C., and Clegg, S. R (2018) Organization Theory in Business and Management History: Present Status and Future Prospects, Business History Review, 
    • Maclean, M., Harvey, C., & Clegg, S. R. (2016). Conceptualizing historical organization studies. Academy of Management Review, 41(4), 609-632.
    • Clegg, S. R., Cunha, M. P.e., and Berti, M. (2022) Research movements and theorizing dynamics in management and organization studies, Academy of Management Review, 47(3): 382–401
    • Maclean, P. G., Mills, A. J., and Weatherbee, T. J. (eds) The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History, London: Routledge.
    • Clegg, S. R. (2006) 'The Bounds of Rationality: Power/History/Imagination', Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 17(7): 847-863.

    Best wishes

    Stewart

    Professor Stewart Clegg| D. Phil (Umeå) D.Litt (UTS) Ph.D (Bradford) BSc. Hons (Aston)

     

    THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

    John Grill Institute for Project Leadership | School of Project Management | Faculty of Engineering

    K06A Level 2, 21 Ross Street, Forest Lodge, NSW 2037

    E stewart.clegg@sydney.edu.au

    Emeritus Professor University of Technology Sydney

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    Doing Exemplary Research Projects: A Guide to Practice

    Edited by Stewart Clegg and Julien Pollack, School of Project Management, The University of Sydney 
    Publication Date: 2025 ISBN: 978 1 03531 673 1 Extent: 326 pp
    This innovative book compiles accounts of six exemplary research journeys, each revealing the complex realities faced by researchers in their field. Detailing the processes followed and paths to producing research outcomes, candid and compelling insights are provided into the challenges both faced and overcome. These reflections are balanced by commentaries from experts in the field, situating each case study within a broader research contex

    Recent books

    Clegg, S. R. & Pollack, J. (2025) Doing Exemplary Research Projects: A Guide to Practice.

    Rego, A., Cunha, M. P. e, Simpson, A. V., & Clegg, S. R. (2025) Dark Triad in Leaders: A Critical Approach. Elgar.

    Clegg, S. R & Skyttermoen, T. (2025) Organisasjonsforståelse. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.

    Clegg, S. R., Pitsis, T, and Mount, M. (2025) Managing and Organizations: an introduction to theory and practice, Sage, seventh edition

    Clegg, S., M. Grothe-Hammer, and K. Serrano Velarde, eds. (2024) Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald

    Clegg, S. R., Ke, Y., Devkar, G, Mangione, G, Shankar, S. (2024) Handbook on Public-Private Partnerships in International InfrastructureDevelopment: A Critical Perspective. Cheltenham: Elgar.

    Clegg, S. R., Skyttermoen, T. and Vaagaasar, A. L. (2024) Project Management: Creating Sustainable Value.  Sage

    Gaim, M., Clegg, S. R., & Cunha, M. P. e, (2024) Organizational paradoxes, London: Sage

    Simpson, A., Cunha, M. P. e, Clegg, S. R., Rego, A. & Berti, M. (2024) Organizational Compassion. Routledge

    Clegg, S. R. (2023) Frameworks of power (2nd edn.) Sage. 

    Américo, B., Clegg, S. R. & Tureta, S. (2022) Qualitative Management Research in Context: Data Collection, Interpretation and Narrative. Routledge.
    Clegg, S. R., Schweitzer, J., Pitelis, C., and Whittle, A. (2022) Strategy: Theory & Practice. Sage, Fourth Edition.
    Gaim, M., Clegg, S. R., Vunha, M. P. e, & Berti, M. (2022) Organizational Paradox. Cambridge University Press.

    Cunha, M. P. e. Clegg, S. R., Gaim, M & Guistiniano (2022) Designing Organizations. Elgar.

     


    Dark Triad in Leaders: A Critical Approach

    Arménio Rego, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School, Portugal, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Fundação Amélia de Mello Professor of Leadership, Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, Ace V. Simpson, Visiting Professor of Management, O''Malley School of Business, Manhattan University, USA and Stewart R. Clegg, School of Project Management, The University of Sydney, Australia 
    Publication Date: 2025 ISBN: 978 1 03534 397 3 Extent: 210 pp
    Dark Triad in Leaders examines how corporate and political history is filled with 'successful' figures who ultimately caused harm, sowed misery and destroyed organizations. Arménio Rego, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Ace V. Simpson, and Stewart R. Clegg explore the concept, consequences and defences against 'Dark Triad' (DT) leaders, characterized by high levels of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.

     





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