Professor Frank Mueller
MA, MSc, DPhil
Professor of Management
Contact details
Tel: +44 (0)1334 462798
Fax: +44 (0)1334 462812
Teaching 2011/2012
- MN3126 International Business [Semester Two]
- MN5425 Master Class in International Business
Biography
MA (first class) Sociology and Philosophy, University of Konstanz, Germany, 1986. MSc 'Management (Industrial Relations)' University of Oxford, 1988. DPhil, University of Oxford, 1991. Research Fellow, London Business School, 1991-92. Lecturer, Aston University Business School, 1992-97. Senior Lecturer then Reader, Royal Holloway University of London, 1997-2000. Professor, University of Leicester, 2000-2004. Joined University of St Andrews in October 2004.
Research Specialisms
- Restructuring Professional Organisations: health and engineering
- Theory and Practice of Human Resource Management and Teamworking
- Micro- and Discourse Analysis of Workplace Change
Publications
I have published over 40 refereed journal articles, 19 of which were published in 4* rated journals (ABS list).
4* [ABS list] Publications 1994-2011
Whittle, A. and Mueller, F. 2012. 'Bankers in the Dock: Moral Storytelling in Action'. Forthcoming in Human Relations (Special Issue on Sensemaking, Organising and Storytelling).
Mueller, F. and Whittle, A. 2011. 'Translating Management Ideas: A Discursive Devices Analysis'. Organization Studies 32(2): 187-210.
Holt, R and Mueller, F. 2011. 'Wittgenstein, Heidegger and drawing lines in organization studies'. Organization Studies 32(1): 67-84.
Whittle, A and Mueller, F. 2011. 'The Language of Interests: The Contribution of Discursive Psychology'. Human Relations 64(3) 415–435
C. Smith, R. Valsecchi, F. Mueller and J. Gabe. 2008. 'Knowledge and the Discourse of Labour Process Transformation: Nurses and the case of NHS Direct for England' Work, Employment and Society 22(4): 581-599
Sillince, J and Mueller, F, 'Switching Strategic Perspective: The Reframing of Accounts of Responsibility', Organization Studies, 2007, 28(2): 155-176
Mueller, F and Carter, C, '"We are all managers now": Managerialism and Professional Engineering in U.K. Electricity Utilities', Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2007, 32(1-2): 181-195 [ Mueller and Carter 2007 (PDF, 289 KB) ]
Mueller, F. & Carter, C., 'The Scripting of Total Quality Management Within its Organizational Biography', Organization Studies , 2005, 26(2): 219-245 [ Mueller and Carter 2005 (PDF, 231 KB) ]
Mueller, F., Sillince, J., Harvey, C. & Howorth, C., '"A Rounded Picture is What We Need": Rhetorical strategies, arguments and the negotiation of change in a U.K. Hospital Trust', Organization Studies [Special Issue on Discourse], 2004, 25 (1): 85-103 [ Mueller et al 2004 (PDF, 92 KB) ]
Mueller, F., Harvey, C. & Howorth, C., 'The Contestation of Archetypes: Negotiating Scripts in a UK Hospital Trust Board', Journal of Management Studies. 2003, 41(8): 1971-1995
Carter, C. and Mueller, F., 'The "Long March" of the Management Modernisers: Ritual, Rhetoric and Rationality', Human Relations, 2002, 55(11): 1325-1354
Mueller, F., S.Procter and D.Buchanan. Teamworking in its Context(s). Human Relations, 2000, 53(11): 1387-1424
Mueller, F. and Dyerson, R. Expert Humans or Expert Organisations? Organization Studies, 20 (2): 225-256, 1999
Dyerson, R. and F.Mueller Learning, Teamwork and Appropriability: Managing Technological Change in the Department of Social Security. Journal of Management Studies, 1999, 36 (5): 629-52
Kamoche, K. and F.Mueller. Human Resource Management: An Appropriation-Learning Perspective. Human Relations, 1998, Vol.51 (8): 1033-1060
Mueller, F. Human Resources As Strategic Assets: An Evolutionary Resource-Based Theory. Journal of Management Studies, 1996, Vol.33 (6): 757-85
Clark, P. & F.Mueller Organisations and Nations: From Universalism to Institutionalism? British Journal of Management, 1996, 7: 125-39
Mueller, F. Organizational Governance And Employee Cooperation: Can We Learn from Economists?" Human Relations, October 1995, Vol.48 (10): 1217-35
Mueller, F. Teams Between Hierarchy and Commitment: Change Strategies and the Internal Environment. Journal of Management Studies, 1994, Vol.31 (3): 383-404
Mueller, F. Societal Effect, Organizational Effect and Globalisation. Organization Studies, 1994, Vol.15 (3): 407-28
2*/3* [ABS list] Publications 1994-2011
Whittle, A and Mueller, F 2010. Strategy, Enrolment and Accounting: The Politics of Strategic Ideas Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal Vol.23(5): 626-646
Special Issue on 'Accounting for Politics: Power/Strategy/Accountability'
Whittle, A / Suhomlinova, O / Mueller, F 2010. Funnel of Interests: The Discursive Translation of Organizational Change Journal of Applied Behavioral Science Vol.46(1): 16-37.
Whittle, A and Mueller, F. 2009. '"I could be dead for two weeks and my boss would never know": Telework and the politics of representation' New Technology, Work and Employment 24 (2): 131-143
Nyberg, D and Mueller, F. 2009. 'Strategic Cultural change and local discourses: the importance of being different' Scandinavian Journal of Management 25(2): 146-156
Whittle, A, Mueller, F. & Mangan, A. 2009. 'Storytelling and "Character": Victims, villains and heroes in a case of technological change' Organization 16(3): 425-442
Whittle, A, Mueller, F. & Mangan, A. 2008. 'In Search of Subtlety: Discursive Devices and Rhetorical Competence' Management Communication Quarterly 22(1): 99-122
Mueller, F, Valsecchi, R, Smith, C, Elston, M A, & Gabe, J. 2008. '"We are nurses, we are supposed to care for people": Professional values among nurses in NHS Direct call centres' New Technology, Work & Employment 23(1-2): 2-17
Whittle, A and Mueller, F. 2008. 'Intra-preneurship and Enrolment: Building Networks of Ideas' Organization 15(3): 445-462
Wise, S., Smith C., Valsecchi, R., Mueller F. & Gabe J. 'Work life borders in the wards and on the line: the case of nurses in the UK' Employee Relations, 2007, 29 (4): 352-366.
Carter, C. and Mueller, F., 'The colonisation of strategy: Financialisation in a post-privatisation context', Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2006, 17(8): 967-985 [ Carter and Mueller 2006 (PDF, 219 KB) ]
Mueller, F and Carter, C, 'The "HRM Project" and Managerialism: Or Why Some Discourses are More Equal Than Others', Journal of Organizational Change Management , 2005, 18(4): 369-382 [ Mueller and Carter 2005a (PDF, 94 KB) ]
Dent, M, C Howorth, F Mueller and C Preuschoft, 'Archetype Transition in the German Health Service? The Attempted Modernisation of Hospitals in a North German State', Public Administration , 2004, 82(3): 727-42 [ Dent et al 2004 (PDF, 105 KB) ]
Howorth, C., Mueller, F. & Harvey, C. The Diffusion of an Organizational Innovation: Adopting Patient Focussed Care in an N.H.S. Hospital Trust. Competition and Change, 2002, 6(2): 213-232
Loveridge, R. & F.Mueller Globalisation In Telecommunications: The Dynamics of Firms, Governments and Technologies Competition and Change, 1999, 4 (3): 61-91
Mueller, F. National Stakeholders in the Global Contest for Corporate Investment" – European Journal of Industrial Relations, 1996, Vol.2 (3): 345-68
Mueller, F. and Loveridge, R. The 'Second Industrial Divide'? - The Role of the Large Firm in the Baden-Württemberg Model. Industrial and Corporate Change, 1995, 4 (3): 499-526
Mueller, F. Understanding Technological Leadership: Observations from the Automobile Industry", Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 1993, Vol. 5 (2): 15-26
Dyerson, R. and Mueller, F. Intervention by Outsiders: A Strategic Management Perspective on Government Industrial Policy. Journal of Public Policy, 1993, Vol.13 (1): 69-88
Mueller, F. & Purcell, J. The Europeanisation of Manufacturing and the Decentralisation of Bargaining: The Case of The Automobile Industry" International Journal of Human Resource Management, 1992, Vol.3 (1): 15-34
Mueller, F. Flexible Working Practices in Engine Plants: Evidence from The European Automobile Industry", Industrial Relations Journal, 1992, Vol. 23 (3): 191-204
Mueller, F. Designing Flexible Teamwork: Comparing German and Japanese Approaches" Employee Relations, 1992, Vol. 14 (1): 5-16
Additional Publications
Mueller additional publications - updated September 2011 (PDF, 189 KB)
Selected Other Information (since start 2001)
- Convenor of a Stream at EGOS 2006 in Bergen
- Member of Editorial Board of Organisation Studies
- Convenor of a Stream at EURAM 2004 in St Andrews