Michelle Greenwood

I would describe my research area broadly as critical business ethics. In this context I have applied critical and ethical approaches to a number of distinct areas: ethics and HRM (critiquing unitarism in HRM); stakeholder theory (developing critical and relational understandings of stakeholder theory); CSR (developing political CSR approaches to employment and HRM); and corporate accountability (analysing CSR reporting and visual rhetoric in corporate reports). I have an ongoing interest in publication ethics.

Together with Ed Freeman, University of Virginia, I serve as Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Business Ethics. Please read our latest editorial Deepening Ethical Analysis in Business Ethics. 

Recent projects and publications

Please read our chapter linking debates in critical managment studies and stakeholder theory:

Greenwood, M. & Mir, R.A, (forthcoming) Critical Management Studies and Stakeholder Theory: Possibilities for a Critical Stakeholder Theory in Jay B. Barney, R. Edward Freeman, Jeffrey S. Harrison, and Robert A. Phillips, (editors) The Cambridge Handbook of Stakeholder Theory https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3234947

Please see our methodological framework for the visual analysis of organizational communications:

Greenwood, M., Jack, G., & Haylock, B. (2018, online) Toward a Methodology for Analyzing Visual Rhetoric in Corporate Reports. Organizational Research Methods 0 (0): doi:10.1177/1094428118765942

Please read our critique of unitarism in HRM:

Greenwood, M., and Van Buren, H. J. (2017). Ideology in HRM Scholarship: Interrogating the Ideological Performativity of "New Unitarism". Journal of Business Ethics 142 (4): 663-678.

Please read our systematic review of the nexus between CSR and HRM:

Voegtlin, C. and Greenwood M. (2016) Corporate social responsibility and human resource management: A systematic review and conceptual analysis. Human Resource Management Review 26 (3): 181-197.

Please read the introduction to our edited book on philosophy in organization studies:

Mir R., Willmott H., and Greenwood M. (2016). Philosophy in organization studies: Life, knowledge and disruption. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies. R. Mir, H. Willmott and M. Greenwood. Abingdon, UK, Routledge: 1-11.

Please read my article on publication ethics:

Greenwood M. (2016) Approving and improving management journal ethics Journal of Business Ethics 137 (3): 507-520.