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 Methods in Business Ethics and previous editorials Focusing on Ethics and Broadening our Intellectual Base and Deepening Ethical Analysis in Business Ethics. 

Current special issues

Special Issue Human Relations deadline June 1, 2020

Freedom, work and organizations in the 21st century – Freedom for whom and for whose purpose? 

Recent projects and publications

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

Greenwood, M. & Mir, R.A, (2019) 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. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press pp. 35-52 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. (2019) Toward a Methodology for Analyzing Visual Rhetoric in Corporate Reports. Organizational Research Methods 22 (3): 798-827 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 pp. 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.