Institute for Capitalising on Creativity

Recent Publications

Townley, B. and Beech, N. (eds) (2010). Managing Creativity: Exploring the paradox. Cambridge University Press.

Donald, J., Mitchell, L. and Beech, N. (2010) 'Organising creativity in a music festival', pp. 260-280.

Gulledge, E. and Townley, B. (2010) 'What is a creative field?', pp. 321-335.

Townley, B. and Beech, N. (2010) 'The discipline of creativity', pp. 3-22.

McKinlay, A. and Smith, C. (eds) (2009). Creative Labour: Working in the Creative Industries. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

McKinlay, A. and Quinn, B. (2009) 'Making the bits between the adverts: Management, collective bargaining and work in commercial television, 1979-2005'.

Smith, C. and McKinlay, A. (2009) 'Introduction: Labour process analysis and creative industries'.

Smith, C. and McKinlay, A. (2009) 'Creative labour: Contract, content and control'.

Townley, B. (2008). Reason's Neglect: Rationality and Organising. Oxford University Press.

Townley, B. Beech, N. McKinlay, A. & Fairhurst, G. (guest eds.) (2009). Human Relations Special Issue: Managing in the creative industries: Managing the motley crew. Vol 62:7.

McLeod, C., O'Donohoe, S. and Townley, B. (2009) 'The elephant in the room? Class and creative careers in British advertising agencies', pp. 1011-1039.

Townley, B., Beech, N. and McKinlay, A. (2009) 'Managing in the creative industries: managing the motley crew', pp. 939-962.

Journal Articles

Beech, N (forthcoming) ‘Liminality and the practices of identity reconstruction’. Human Relations.

Beech, N. (2008) 'On the Nature of Dialogic Identity Work'. Organization, 15(1): 51-74.

Beech, N., Coupland, C. & MacPhail, S. (2009) ‘Anti-dialogic positioning in change stories: Bank robbers, saviours and peons’, Organization 16(3): 335-352.

Beech, N., MacIntosh, R. & MacLean, D. (forthcoming) ‘Dialogues Between Academics and Practitioners: the role of generative dialogic encounters’. Organization Studies.

MacIntosh, R. and Beech, N. (forthcoming) ‘Strategy, Strategists and Fantasy: a dialogic constructionist perspective’. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal.

McKinlay, A. (2010) "Performativity and the politics of identity: Putting Butler to work". Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 21: 232–242

McKinlay, A. and Quinn, B. (2007) 'Remaking Management, Work and Industrial Relations: British Commercial Television c. 1979-2000'. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 23:4, 155-180.

McLeod, C., O’Donohoe, S. and Townley, B. (forthcoming).‘Pot noodles, placements and peer regard: Creative career trajectories and communities of practice in the British advertising industry.’ British Journal of Management.

Sims, D., Huxham, C. & Beech, N. (2009) ‘On Telling Stories but Hearing Snippets: Sense-taking from Presentations of Practice’, Organization 16(3): 371-388.