University of Bath School of Management

Professor Yiannis Gabriel

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Prof. Yiannis Gabriel

Publications

Books
Refereed Journal Papers
Book Chapters
Publications of Interest

BSc(Eng), MSc (Imperial), DIC, PhD (Berkeley)

Job Title:

Chair in Organisation Studies

Subject Group:

Organisational Studies

Key Research Interests:

Leader-follower relations, leader pedagogy and leadership dysfunctions - Storytelling, narrative and folklore as means of studying organizational symbolism, culture and politics - Management learning and the nature of management knowledge - Consumption and consumerism, especially in relation to material artefacts and identity and the organization-customer interface - Psychoanalysis and organizations, notably the exploration of organizational phenomena through psychoanalytic concepts and theories, including unconscious, narcissism and desire - Emotion and fantasy in organizations

Research Interests

I have long been fascinated by stories and storytelling and have used them extensively in my organizational and social research. By eliciting, collecting, listening to and analysing stories, I have explored diverse phenomena such as leader-follower relations, experiences of job loss and unemployment, group politics, dynamics and fantasies, organizational nostalgia, insults and apologies. I am co-founder and co-ordinator of the Organizational Storytelling Seminar series, now in its ninth year. More recently, I have carried out a series of studies of leadership and management. I was part of a team engaged in a four-year field study of leadership and patient-care in the hospital sector, in which storytelling was used as a major part of the methodology. I have also recently carried out research into the experiences of unemployed managers and professionals in the current economic recession. As a committed teacher, I have written a number of textbooks, and have carried our research into the experiences of students in the classroom and have explored the nature of management and professional knowledge and its dissemination.

My current research includes work on the importance of an ethic of care in health and education, the dark side of certain organizations captured in the concept of miasma, the relation between image and narrative and the exploration of the ways in which clinicians defend themselves against work-related anxieties.

PhD Supervision

I welcome PhD applications from prospective students interested in the following areas:

Leader-follower relations and, more generally, leadership, especially from a psychoanalytic or narrative perspective
Emotions and fantasies at the workplace
The culture, ethics and sustainability of contemporary consumption
Management learning and the production and dissemination of knowledge in organizations
Organizations in times of trouble and crisis
Most topics in organizational studies approached through a narrative or storytelling methodology
Most topics in organizational studies approached from a psychoanalytic perspective

Publications

Books

Gabriel, Y. 2008. Organizing Words: A Thesaurus for Social and Organizational Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gabriel, Y, & Lang, T. 2006. The Unmanageable Consumer. London: Sage

Fineman, S., Gabriel, Y. & Sims, D. 2009. Organizing and organizations (Fourth ed.). London: Sage.

Refereed journal papers

Gabriel Y (2012) Organizations in a state of darkness: Towards a theory of organizational miasma. Organization Studies 33(9):1137-1152

Gabriel Y (2010). Organization Studies: A Space for Ideas, Identities and Agonies. Organization Studies, 31(6):757-775. DOI:10.1177/0170840610372574

Gabriel Y & Connell NAD (2010). Co-creating stories: Collaborative experiments in storytelling. Management Learning, 41(5):507-523. DOI:10.1177/1350507609358158

Gabriel Y, Gray, DE & Goregaokar H (2010). Temporary Derailment or the End of the Line? Managers Coping with Unemployment at 50. Organization Studies, 31(12): 1687-1712. DOI:10.1177/0170840610387237

Stokes P & Gabriel Y (2010). Engaging with genocide: the challenge for organization and management studies. Organization, 17(4):461-480. DOI:10.1177/1350508409353198

Gabriel Y & Griffiths DS (2008) International Learning groups: Synergies and dysfunctions Management & Learning. 39(5):503-518). DOI:10.1177/1350507697282002

Gabriel Y (2009). Stories and storytelling in organizations. Geschichten und geschichtenerzδhlen in organisationen, 34(1):26-29.

Brown AD, Gabriel Y & Gherardi S (2009). Storytelling and Change: An Unfolding Story. Organization, 16(3):323-333 DOI:10.1177/1350508409102298

Gabriel Y (2009). Reconciling and Ethic of Care with Critical Management Pedagogy. Management Learning, 40(4):379-385. DOI:10.1177/1350507609352716

Gabriel Y & Lang T (2008). New faces and new masks of today's consumer. Journal of Consumer Culture. 8(3):321-340.
DOI:10.1177/1469540508095266

Gabriel Y (2008). Spectacles of resistance and resistance of spectacles. Management Communication Quarterly. 21(3):310-327. DOI:10.1177/0893318907309931

Gabriel Y (2008). Seduced by the text: The desire to be deceived in story, memoir and drama. Tamara Journal. 7(2):149-162.

Gabriel Y (2008). Against the tyranny of PowerPoint - Technology-in-use and technology abuse. Organization Studies. 29(2):255-276.
DOI:10.1177/0170840607079536

Mano R, & Gabriel Y (2006). Workplace romances in cold and hot organizational climates: The experience of Israel and Taiwan. Human Relations. 59(1):7-37. DOI:10.1177/0018726706062739

Griffiths DS, Winstanley D & Gabriel Y (2005). Learning shock: The trauma of return to formal learning. Management Learning. 36(3):275-297. DOI:10.1177/1350507605055347

Gabriel Y (2005). MBA and the education of leaders: The new playing fields of Eton? Leadership. 1(2):147-163
DOI:10.1177/1742715005051856

Gabriel Y (2005). Glass cages and glass palaces: Images of organizations in image-conscious times. Organization. 12(1):9-27
DOI:10.1177/1350508405048574

Gabriel Y & Willman P (2004). The journal strap line: Boundaries or integration? Human Relations. 57(1):7-8 DOI:10.117/0018726704042711

Book Chapters

Fineman, Stephen, & Gabriel, Yiannis. 2010. Apologies and Remorse in Organizations: Saying sorry -- and meaning it? In C. Steyaert, & B. V. Looy (Eds.), Relational Practices, participative organizing: 103-120. Bingley: Emerald.

Gabriel Y. 2008. Oedipus in the Land of Organizational Darkness: Preliminary considerations on organizational miasma. In Kostera M. (Ed.) Organizational Epics and Sagas: Tales of Organizations. 51-65. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Gabriel Y. 2008. Latte capitalism and late capitalism: Reflections on fantasy and care as part of the service triangle. In MacDonald C. & Korczynski M. (Eds.) Service work: Critical perspectives. London: Routledge.

► older publications

Gabriel Y., Griffiths, Dorothy S. 2004. Stories in organizational research. In C. Cassell C., Symon G. (Eds.) Essential guide to qualitative methods in organizational research. 114-126. London: Sage.

Gabriel Y. 2004. The voice of experience and the voice of the expert: Can they speak to each other? In Hurwitz B., Greenhalgh T. & Skultans V. (Eds.) Narrative research in health and illness. 168-186. Oxford: Blackwell.

Gabriel Y. 2004. The glass cage: Flexible work, fragmented consumption, fragile selves. In J. C. Alexander J.C., Marx G.T. & Williams C.L. (Eds.) Self, social structure and beliefs. 57-76. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Gabriel Y. 2004. The narrative veil: Truth and untruths in storytelling. In Gabriel Y. (Ed.) Myths, Stories and Organizations: Premodern narratives for our times 17-31. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gabriel Y. 2004. Narratives, stories, texts. In Grant D., Hardy C., Oswick C. & Putnam L.L. (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Organizational Discourse. 61-79. London: Sage.