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.

I serve as Co-Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Business Ethics with Gazi Islam. Please read our latest editorials here. 

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

Recent projects and publications

Developing a problematizing review method to challenge visual management studies:

Shao, K., Janssens, M., & Greenwood, M. (2024, online) Messing up visual management studies: A problematizing review  Journal of Management Studies https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13162

Attending to the urgent topic of domestic violence and organization:

Kauzlarich L. & Greenwood M. (2024, online) ‘Work-related Intimate Partner Violence: A systematic review and feminist conceptual analysis’ Human Resource Management https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hrm.22257

Karam, C. M., Greenwood, M., Kauzlarich, L., Kelly, A. O. L., & Wilcox, T. (2023). Intimate Partner Violence and Business: Exploring the Boundaries of Ethical Enquiry. Journal of Business Ethics, 187(4), 645-655. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-023-05462-5

Wilcox T., Greenwood M., Pullen A., Jones D., & O’Leary Kelly A. (2020, online) Interfaces of domestic violence and organization: Gendered violence and inequality. Gender Work and Organisation  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gwao.12515

Exploring the experience of moral agency under everyday technologies:

Greenwood, M., & Wolfram Cox, J. (2023). Seduced by technology? How moral agency is mediated by the invisibility of everyday technologies. Organization Studies 44(4), 523-543  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01708406221107455.

Bringing philosophy to management studies:

Mir R. and Greenwood M. (2022)  Philosophy and Management Studies: A Research Overview Abingdon, UK: Routledge https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351030700

Analyzing (pluralist) frames in industrial relations:

Van Buren III, H.J., Greenwood M., Donaghey J., and Reinecke J. (2021) Agonising over industrial relations: Bringing agonism and dissensus to the pluralist frames of reference Journal of Industrial Relations, 63(2), 177-203  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022185620962536

Linking debates in critical management 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

Developing methodology 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