Miriam Green

Miriam Green at the Philosophy of Management Conference at St Anne's College, Oxford, July 2012]]

Miriam Green was Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies in the Department Of Management and Professional Development at London Metropolitan University from 1980 to 2008. She is presently an Internal Associate Member of the Working Lives Research Institute (WLRI) based at London Metropolitan University. She is also a visiting lecturer at ICON College of Management and Technology, London, UK

Qualifications

• BA (History), University of Cape Town
• MA (African Area Studies), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
• Cert. Ed., Garnett College, London (now part of University of Greenwich).

Career

Miriam began her career with an educational journal for school children in Zambia. Her main career has been teaching at what is now London Metropolitan University in the fields of organisation studies, sociology and management. She has had various administrative roles such as course leader for the Higher National Certificate in Business and Management and for the BA (Hons) Management. She has also sat on various committees, the last being the Faculty Academic Quality Committee. Her research interests centre on management theory as represented in textbooks and research papers. Her doctoral research is based on this research and the issues arising from it. She is academic reviewer for Social Responsibility and Philosophy of Management.

Publications

Books

• Crowther, D. & Green, M.(2004) Organisational Theory, London: CIP
• Crowther, D. & Green, M. (2005) Organisational Theory, Mumbai: Jaico Publishing House in arrangement with CIPD

Book chapters

• Crowther, D. & Green, M. 'Re-placing People in Organisational Activity, in Human Values in Management' (forthcoming book chapter)
• Green M., Grieco M. & Holmes L (2002) 'Archiving Social Practice: the management of transport boycotts', in M. Greico, L. Holmes & D.M. Hoskin (eds.) Distributed Technology, Distributed Leadership, Distributed Identity: Organizing in the Information Age. London: Ashgate.

Journal articles

• Green M (2012) "Objectivism in management knowledge: an example of Bourdieu’s ‘mutilation’?" Social Responsibility Journal 8 (4) (forthcoming)
• Green M (2012) "Deconstructing paradigm boundaries as a way of deconstructing a text?" Philosophy of Management formerly Reason in Practice (forthcoming)
• Green M (2009) "Analysis of a text and its representations: univocal truth or a situation of undecidability? " Philosophy of Management formerly Reason in Practice 7(3) 27–42
• Green M (2009) "The embedding of knowledge in the academy: ‘tolerance’, irresponsibility or other imperatives." Social Responsibility Journal 5 (2) 165–177
• Green M, Vandekerckhove W & Bessire D (2008) "Accountability discourses in advanced capitalism: who is now accountable to whom?" Special Issue, Social Responsibility Journal 4 (1 / 2) 198–208
• Green M & Burns T (2006) "Programme Aid Partners in Mozambique: a textual analysis". Social Responsibility Journal 2 (1) 62–68
• Green M. (2005) "Are texts produced by authors or by readers? Representations of a contingency theory in the organisation and management studies literature", Philosophy of Management formerly Reason in Practice, 5 (1) 85–96
• Green M. (2005) "The representation of a contingency theory in organisation management studies: knowledge management in the academy?" Icfaian Journal of Management Research IV (1) 62–73
• Pheiffer G, Holley D, Andrew D & Green M (2005) "How Can We use Learning Styles? An Identity Approach." International Journal of Applied Human Resource Management 6 (1) 101–117
• Holley, D., Andrew, D., Pheiffer, G. & Green, M. 2003 Orienting students to higher education: a Business example, in Investigations in university teaching and learning, 1 (1) spring
• Pheiffer G., Andrew A., Green M. & Holley D. "The Role of Learning Styles in Integrating and Empowering Learning." Investigations in university teaching and learning, 1 (2) winter
• Green, M. (1983) The Salisbury Bus Boycott, 1956, in History in Zambia, no.13.

Working papers

• Crowther, D. and Green, M. (2000) "Postmodern Accounting Theory and the Nature of Accounting Knowledge," MRC Working Paper, no.7.
• Holmes, L. Green, M. and Egan, S.(2000) "Graduates in Smaller Business: a Pilot Study," MRC Working Paper, no. 10.
• Green, M. (2000) "Contingency Theory in Management Accounting: research icon or outworn paradigm?" MRC Working Paper.

Reviews

• Organizational Participation: Myth and Reality, F. Heller, E. Pusic, G. Strauss, B. Wilpert, Journal of Managerial Psychology (2000), vol. 15, nos. 5 and 6, pp 626 – 628.
• N.Jackson & P.Carter (2000) Rethinking Organisational Behaviour, Harlow: Pearson Education Ltd.
• P.Grant (2004) The Law of Escalating Marginal Sacrifice, University Press of America, Inc.

Recent conference papers

2012

• Green M. The Social Construction of organisation/management knowledge: is it sustainable? Dept of Accounting & Finance Seminars 2011–2012, De Montfort University, 26th March 2012
• Green M. Mainstream scholarship in the organisation/management area: is it sustainable? 11th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, Faculty of Business Studies, Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Finland in conjunction with the Social Responsibility Research Network, 8–10 May 2012
• Green M. Incommensurability in organisation/management scholarship: epistemological necessity or social construction? Comparative Organisation and Equality Research Centre, London Metropolitan University, 6 June 2012
• Green M. What counts as knowledge in the organisation/management field: an examination of the legitimation of scholarship through ‘objectivist’, ‘positivist’ and ‘scientific’ approaches. The 8th Philosophy of Management International Conference 2012, St Anne's College, Oxford, 19 – 22 July 2012

2011

• Green M. Is the concept ‘sustainablility’ applicable to scholarship in the organisation/management fields? 1st International Symposium on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development, London Metropolitan Business School in cooperation with ESCEM School of Business and Management, 19–20 April 2011
• Green M. The social construction of incommensurability in the social sciences: some ramifications for organisation/management studies. 1st Organisational Governance Conference, Corporate Governance Crises: Causes, Effects and Solutions, The Centre for Research into Organisational Governance, De Montfort University, 15–16 September 2011
• Green M. Incommensurability in organisation/management scholarship: epistemological necessity or social construction? Management Accounting Research Group Conference in association with the Management Control Association, Aston Business School 17 and 18 November 2011

2010

• Green M. What does it matter what gets represented in the academic literature – people always select information anyway? 3rd Conference of Practical Criticism in the Managerial Social Sciences, University of Leicester, 21st–22nd April 2010
• Green M. What counts as knowledge: representations of research in academic journals and textbooks? Higher Education Research Seminars, London Metropolitan University 9th June 2010
• Green M. Objectivism vs Subjectivism in Academe: an example of Bourdieu’s concept of Mutilation in the Social Sciences? CSR and Global Governance, 9th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia, 16th–18th June 2010