Dr Ismael Al-Amoudi
Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour
Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in organisation studies
Email: i.alamoudi@henley.reading.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 118 378 5357
Location: Whiteknights campus
Profile website: http://reading.academia.edu/IsmaelAlAmoudi
Ismael Al-Amoudi is an Associate Professor (senior lecturer) in Organisation Studies at Henley Business School at the University of Reading. He studied at ESCP-Europe, Lancaster and Cambridge. Since 2006 he has taught organisational behaviour, business ethics, business strategy and research methods at BA, MSc and PhD levels. Prior to this, Ismael supervised papers in organisational behaviour and in the philosophy of social sciences at the University of Cambridge. He also worked as a strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in the early 2000s. He is currently on a two years leave as ISRF Senior Research Fellow at the EcolePolytechniqueFdrale de Lausanne (Switzerland). His current research project addresses questions relative to leadership and the constitution of normativity. Ismael is also active with the Occupy Geneva movement that purports to limit the contemporary excesses of capitalism. Ismael has published full papers in the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Organization and Organization Studies.
By area: Critical management studies, Organisation studies, Organisational theory, Philosophy of society, Moral and political philosophy, Business ethics, Poststructuralism, Social Ontology, Foucault, Marx
By industry: Investment banking, Financial trading, Management consultants, Indignados and activists, The homeless and the most vulnerable members of society
By geography: Western Europe, Middle East, India
I am on a research leave for 2011-2.
Al-Amoudi, I. and J. S. Latsis (2010). 'The arbitrariness and normativity of conventions.' Oxford. Mimeo. Currently under preparation for the British Journal of Sociology.
Al-Amoudi, I. (2009). 'Critical management education for would-be managers: engaging beyond circumvention and confrontation.'Journees Approches Critiques. EM-Lyon. Currently under review for an edited volume (Springer)
Al-Amoudi, I. (2009). 'Two potential contributions of Foucault to critical realist studies of organisations.' Warwick Wotnet Seminar. University of Warwick. Under preparation for submission to Organization Studies.
Blanc, S. M.-A. and I. Al-Amoudi (2010). 'Decline of the Welfare State: what moral implications for corporate governance? A Rawlsian perspective.' Oxford. Mimeo. Paper presented at the Society for Business Ethics annual meeting 2010.Currently under preparation for submission to the Business Ethics Quarterly.
Al-Amoudi, I., Per Skalen and R Varman (2010). 'Wallowing in darkness: the persistence of coercive power in an Indian Coca Cola factory' Reading. Mimeo. Currently under preparation for submission to Organization Studies
Journals
Al-Amoudi, I. and H. Willmott (2011) Where Constructionism and Critical Realism Converge: Interrogating the Domain of Epistemological Relativism. Organization Studies January 2011 vol. 32 no. 1 27-46
Al-Amoudi, I. (2010) Immanent non-algorithmic rules: an ontological study of social rules.Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 40 (3).pp. 289-313. ISSN 1468-5914 Item availability restricted.
Al-Amoudi, I. (2007) Redrawing Foucault's social ontology.Organization, 14 (4).pp. 543-563. ISSN 1350-5084 Item availability restricted.
Al-Amoudi, I. (2007).'Revisiting Rules.An Ontological Study of Social Rules'.Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings, Philadelphia.
Al-Amoudi, I. (2008) Relativism. In: Clegg, S. and Bailey, J. R. (eds.) International encyclopedia of organization studies. Sage Publications. ISBN 9781412915151 Item availability restricted.
Al-Amoudi, I. (2007) Constituting rules: the production of legitimacy in two European organizations.PhD thesis, University of Cambridge. Item availability restricted.
Invited talks (2009-10)
British Sociological Association Theory Study Group, University of Warwick, 16th November 2010: roundtable symposium for Margaret Archer.
Critical Realism in Action Seminar, 16th December 2009: 'Where Constructionism and Critical Realism Converge: Interrogating the Domain of Epistemological Relativism'.
Warwick Organization Theory Network, 28th October 2009: 'Realist social theory: the contribution of Michel Foucault'.
Colloques de Cerisy, 'l'Intersubjectif et le normatif', 1-8 September 2009 : La normativite des conventions arbitraires (guest speaker with John Latsis).
British Sociological Association Realism Group, 20th February 2009: What can realists learn from Foucault? (guest speaker).
Conferences (2000-10)
Society for Business Ethics, 8th August 2010: 'Corporate democracy in a declining welfare state: a Rawlsian perspective' (with Sandrine Blanc).
Leeds University, 3rd Workshop of Critical Realism in Action Group, 19th September 2008: Two potential contributions of Foucault to critical realist studies of organisations
Paris-HEC, 18th September 2008: discussant for an institutional theory paper
London - King's College, International Association for Critical Realism Conference: 'Critical Realism's Epistemological Relativism: Lost in Dissemination?' (with Hugh Willmott)
EM Lyon, Journeeapproches critiques, 23 June 2008: Critical Management Education for career conscious students: a case study
Lancaster University, IAS Research Cluster organised by Bob Jessop and Ngai-Ling Sum, Foucault and Critical Realism, 18 June 2008 (guest speaker): A realist reading of Foucault: what implications for critical realists?
Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia: 'Revisiting Rules. An Ontological Study of Social Rules' (August 2007).
International Conference for Critical Realism, Drexel University (Philadelphia): 'Revisiting Rules' (August 2007).
EGOS Conference, Vienna: 'The unwritten score of corporate governance. An ontological study of the production of legitimacy in the game of corporate governance' (July 2007).
Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Atlanta: 'How is Legitimacy Constituted? A Critical Realist Contribution to Institutional Questions' (August 2006).
AOM CMS Workshop, Atlanta: 'Redrawing Foucault's Social Ontology. A Critical Realist Reading of Michel Foucault'.Academy of Management. (August 2006).
Cambridge Realist Workshop, Cambridge: 'Revisiting Rules. An Ontological Study of Social Rules' (2006).
Judge Business School Spring Doctoral Conference, Cambridge: 'How is Legitimacy Constituted? A Critical Realist Contribution to Institutional Questions' (2006).
Philosophy of Social Science workshop. Organised by the department of History and Philosophy of Science. University of Cambridge. Cambridge: 'What is a Social Rule? Engaging an Ontological Study of Social Rules.' (2006).
Cambridge Realist Workshop, Cambridge: 'Realism as an Alluring Discourse'. Paper presented with Hugh Willmott (January 2006).
Judge Business School Winter Doctoral Conference, Cambridge: 'Revisiting Rules - An Ontological Study of Social Rules'. (December 2005).
International Conference for Critical Realism. University of West Sydney (Australia): 'The Constitution of Legitimacy: Engaging Realist Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Legitimacy'. (July 2005).
CORE workshop, Judge Business School, Cambridge: 'Tactics for Conducting Research Interviews about a 'sensitive' topic'. (December 2004)
'Etudier un sujet sociologique « sensible » en entreprise : mission impossible ? ». Seminaire de Sociologie Economique. Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France). January 2004.
Judge Business School PhD workshop, Cambridge: 'The Constitution of Authority. A critical realist study of authority in French and UK organisational settings'. (May 2003).
International Conference for Critical Realism, University of Lancaster: 'Towards a Critical Realist Reading of Michel Foucault'. (August 2000).
I am currently on a research leave that was funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation: http://www.isrf.org/
I am currently participating to the development of a Centre for Social Ontology at the EcolePolytechniqueFederale de Lausanne:
http://cdh.epfl.ch/page-37106-en.html
Mr Hamid Foroughi. Topic: the social construction of organisational memory
I used to work as a strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in Paris 2000-02. Since then, I have decided to leverage my understanding of business and management to help with the cause of the most vulnerable members of society. Hence my current focus on the Occupy Geneva Movement.
I am usually happy to meet journalists. Recent media contributions include
Switzerland (October 2011): 15 minutes intervention on One FM. http://www.onefm.ch/portail/#/Actualite/Article/la-parole-aux-indignes-genevois/738
United Kingdom (27 Aug 2009) Reuters: Bank mega bonuses as much about status as cash by William James. Interview contributing two lengthy quotes to the published article. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2009/08/27/afx6821601.html
France (December 2007) Enjeux Les Echos: Salaris-entreprises : les nouveaux ressorts de l'engagement by Lionel Steinmann. Interview contributing two lengthy quotes to the published article.