Dr Dean Pierides

Lecturer in Business & Management

Management, Work and Organisation University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Contact details

Email d.c.pierides@stir.ac.uk
Telephone+44 (0)1786 467315

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About me

I joined the University of Stirling in January 2018 as Lecturer in Business and Management and I am the Programme Director for the Master of Research (MRes) in Business and Management. I am an executive board member of the Research Committee for the Sociology of Organization at the International Sociological Association and a member of the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance & Privacy (CRISP).

Prior to this I was Lecturer in Organisations and Society at the University of Manchester, Visiting Scholar at Copenhagen Business School, Research Fellow in Organisations, Society and Markets at the University of Melbourne, and Konrad Boehmer Research Fellow also at the University of Melbourne.

Education

I hold a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a Graduate Diploma in Education, Master of Education and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Melbourne.

Supervision

I am currently available and interested in supervising research students (MRes/PhD) and supporting postdoctoral research projects across a broad range of topics in the field of Management and Organisation Studies. If you are thinking about doing a research degree email me with your CV and your research proposal in the first instance. If you are considering applying for external studentships or fellowships please contact me well in advance of the application deadlines.

Research

My research is primarily about how organisations and institutions deal with uncertainty. This is relevant for all areas of management and organisation studies but I am particularly interested in 'surprises' - events that defy our expectations because they are wholly unanticipated.

I am currently focusing on: (1) government agencies and other organisations that are related to emergencies, disasters and crises, whether natural, industrial, financial or otherwise; (2) financialization and the introduction of financially-oriented algorithms to organisations that are not primarily finance organisations - e.g. healthcare organisations such as the UK National Health Service; and, (3) the use of statistical and probabilistic knowledge in research and reasoning.

My fieldwork is primarily ethnographic but I am interested in a broad range of qualitative methods and I have a critical sociological interest in quantitative methods, especially their relationship to ethics.

I have a long-standing interest in researching other areas, including but not exclusively limited to the music industry, craft manufacturing (e.g. food, beer, coffee, fabrics, etc.), public administration, schools and higher education, management learning and education, architecture and design.

Outputs

Article

Dismembering organisation: The coordination of algorithmic work in healthcare

Bailey S, Pierides D, Brisley A, Weisshaar C & Blakeman T (2019) Dismembering organisation: The coordination of algorithmic work in healthcare. Current Sociology.

Article

Financialising acute kidney injury: From the practices of care to the numbers of improvement

Bailey S, Pierides D, Brisley A, Weisshaar C & Blakeman T (2019) Financialising acute kidney injury: From the practices of care to the numbers of improvement. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41 (5), pp. 882-899. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12868

Book Chapter

Mary Douglas and Institutions

Pierides D & Sewell G (2019) Mary Douglas and Institutions. In: Clegg S & Pina e Cunha M (eds.) Management, Organizations and Contemporary Social Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 135-157. https://www.routledge.com/Management-Organizations-and-Contemporary-Social-Theory-1st-Edition/Clegg-Cunha/p/book/9780367233778

Article

Making quantitative research work: From positivist dogma to actual social scientific inquiry

Zyphur M & Pierides D (2019) Making quantitative research work: From positivist dogma to actual social scientific inquiry. Journal of Business Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04189-6

Article

Statistics and probability have always been value-laden: An historical ontology of quantitative research methods

Zyphur M & Pierides D (2019) Statistics and probability have always been value-laden: An historical ontology of quantitative research methods. Journal of Business Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04187-8

Article

From Data to Causes II: Comparing Approaches to Panel Data Analysis

Zyphur M, Voelkle M, Tay L, Allison P, Preacher K, Zhang Z, Hamaker E, Shamsollahi A, Pierides D, Koval P & Diener E (2019) From Data to Causes II: Comparing Approaches to Panel Data Analysis. Organizational Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428119847280

Article

From Data to Causes I: Building A General Cross-Lagged Panel Model (GCLM)

Zyphur MJ, Allison PD, Tay L, Voelkle MC, Preacher KJ, Zhang Z, Hamaker EL, Shamsollahi A, Pierides DC, Koval P & Diener E (2019) From Data to Causes I: Building A General Cross-Lagged Panel Model (GCLM). Organizational Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428119847278

Article

Sociology of organisation, honourable and deferential

Pierides D & Clegg SR (2019) Sociology of organisation, honourable and deferential. Studi di Sociologia, 2019 (1), pp. 93-104. https://doi.org/10.26350/000309_000054

Book Review

Book Review: A New History of Management

Lord G & Pierides D (2018) Book Review: A New History of Management. Review of: A New History of Management. By Stephen Cummings, Todd Bridgman, John Hassard and Michael Rowlinson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 380 pages, ISBN 9781316481202. Academy of Management Learning & Education. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2018.0280

Article

Is Quantitative Research Ethical? Tools for Ethically Practicing, Evaluating, and Using Quantitative Research

Zyphur MJ & Pierides DC (2017) Is Quantitative Research Ethical? Tools for Ethically Practicing, Evaluating, and Using Quantitative Research. Journal of Business Ethics, 143 (1), pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3549-8

Article

The policy work of piloting: Mobilising and managing conflict and ambiguity in the English NHS

Bailey S, Checkland K, Hodgson D, McBride A, Elvey R, Parkin S, Rothwell K & Pierides D (2017) The policy work of piloting: Mobilising and managing conflict and ambiguity in the English NHS. Social Science and Medicine, 179, pp. 210-217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.02.002

Book Chapter

Measurement and statistics in ‘organization science’: Philosophical, sociological and historical perspectives

Zyphur MJ, Pierides DC & Roffe J (2015) Measurement and statistics in ‘organization science’: Philosophical, sociological and historical perspectives. In: Mir R, Willmott H & Greenwood M (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies. Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 474-482. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203795248

Book Review

Political economies of security for some time to come

Pierides D (2014) Political economies of security for some time to come. Review of: Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Insuring Security, Routledge, New York, 2011, 178pp., ISBN 978- 0-415-52285-4. Insuring War, Routledge, New York, 2012, 176pp., 978-0-415-61772-7. Journal of Cultural Economy, 7 (3), pp. 371-377. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2013.796291

Article

Object-oriented sociology and organizing in the face of emergency: Bruno Latour, Graham Harman and the material turn

Pierides D & Woodman D (2012) Object-oriented sociology and organizing in the face of emergency: Bruno Latour, Graham Harman and the material turn. British Journal of Sociology, 63 (4), pp. 662-679. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2012.01431.x

Article

Multi-sited ethnography and the field of educational research

Pierides D (2010) Multi-sited ethnography and the field of educational research. Critical Studies in Education, 51 (2), pp. 179-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508481003731059

Teaching

I teach a second-year undergraduate module titled "The organisation of business" and a postgraduate research module titled "The evolution of management and organisational research".

BUSU9OB: The organisation of business

There has been a worldwide expansion of organisation since the industrial era. It is almost impossible now to do anything without relying on, or at least interacting with, an organisation. Try to think about how many different organisations have entered your day-to-day activities just today and how many of them were necessary for you to get something done. This makes the study of organisation more important than ever. In this module we will be looking into the world of organisations, scrutinising it with questions that matter for the people who inhabit organisations as well as those who are affected by the consequences of their activities. What are the different ways by which business can be organised and is business the only, or best, way to organise? From the early days of the railroads to the recent rise of new technologies of automation, we will be challenging the mistaken assumption that everything organisational is ultimately about profit. The Organisation of Business therefore provides students with a starting point for making informed and responsible judgements when managing people and technologies in contemporary work organisations.

MRMP006: Advanced Organisation and Management Theory

This module introduces students to the main themes in business and management by exploring the history of their development into various sub-disciplinary and topic-based areas across the business school. Students are supported to develop a literature review for their proposed research topic by building on this knowledge.

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