Gibson Burrell (born 1948) is a British sociologist and

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, Professor of Organisation Theory at

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, Honorary Professor at the

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, and formerly the

University of Leicester The University of Leicester ( ) is a public university, public research university based in Leicester, England. The main campus is south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park, Leicester, Victoria Park. The university's predecessor, Univ ...

. He became known as writer of the 1979 book ''Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis'' with Gareth Morgan,

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(2003) ''Fifty key figures in management''. p.232-239 and is recognized for introducing the ''critical'' ''management'' project to the University of Leicester.

Life and work

Burrell studied sociology at the

, where in 1974 he also completed his M.Phil. In 1980 he received his PhD at the

. Burrell started his academic career as researcher at the

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. In the late 1970s he was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Behaviour in Organizations at the

University of Lancaster Lancaster University (officially The University of Lancaster) is a collegiate public university, public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several new univer ...

. In the mid-1980s he was appointed Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the

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. In 2002 he was appointed Professor of Organisation Theory at University of Leicester, where he headed its School of Management from 2002 to 2007. According to the Carter / Mueller Dean index, Burrell ranks as the best Dean in the UK over the last two decades. Burrell is founding co-editor of the international, interdisciplinary journal ''Organization'', together with

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, Marta Calàs, and Mike Reed.The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory
At Home from Mars to Somalia: ''Recounting Organization Studies'' (Marta B. Calás, Linda Smircich) In 2005 Burrell was elected an Academician for the Social Sciences (AcSS), and in 2014, with Gareth Morgan, he was awarded the Academy of Management Trailblazer Award for his contributions to organization and management theory. In 2021, he was awarded the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award from the

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. In 2021, Burrell was announced as one of the 16 staff made redundant at the University of Leicester. "The stated purpose of the reorganization is a proposed disinvestment from ‘critical management studies and political economy’ in order to refocus research expertise on data analytics, entrepreneurship, innovation, operations and logistics, with 6 new appointments to be made in these areas, by those using, we are told, only quantitative skills."Letter to all staff from Simon Lilley and Gibson Burrell, 11 February 2021)
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Publications, a selection

* Gibson Burrell and Gareth Morgan (1979) ''Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis'', London and Exeter: NH. Heinemann.Also available in Japanese translation. (now published by Ashgate Publishing London and Brookfield VT) * Burrell, Gibson, and Jeff Hearn. ''The sexuality of organization.'' (1989). * Burrell, Gibson. ''Pandemonium: Towards a retro-organization theory.'' Sage, 1997. * Dale, Karen, and Gibson Burrell. ''The spaces of organisation and the organisation of space: Power, identity and materiality at work.'' Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. ;Articles, a selection * Burrell, Gibson. "Sex and organizational analysis." ''Organization Studies'' 5.2 (1984): 97–118. * Cooper, Robert, and Gibson Burrell. "Modernism, postmodernism and organizational analysis: An introduction." ''Organization studies'' 9.1 (1988): 91–112. * Burrell, Gibson. "Modernism, post modernism and organizational analysis 2: The contribution of Michel Foucault." ''Organization studies'' 9.2 (1988): 221–235. * Burrell, Gibson. "Back to the future: time and organization." ''Rethinking Organization. New Directions in Organization Theory and Analysis'' (1992). * Burrell, Gibson. "Discourses and Genealogies of Analysis." ''Studying organization: Theory and method'' (1999): 388.

References

External links

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