Dr Nick Butler
BA (Hons), MA, PhD
Lecturer in Organisation Studies
Contact details
Tel: +44 (0)1334 461975
Fax: +44 (0)1334 462812
Teaching 2011/2012
- MN2001 Organisational Behaviour
- MN3102 Organisation Studies
- MN5002 Contemporary Conceptual Issues in Management
Biography
Nick was trained at the universities of Warwick, Sussex and Leicester before joining the School of Management as a lecturer in 2009. His research interests are in the area of organisation studies, focusing primarily on the relation between expert knowledge and organisational practices. Nick is currently working on three main projects: the politics of excellence and relevance in the business school; the philosophy of humour and the working lives of comedy performers; and the professionalisation of management consultancy in the UK.
Nick is a member of the editorial board of ephemera: theory & politics in organization. He is also a member of the Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy at the School of Management, University of Leicester.
Selected Recent Publications
Butler, N. and S. Dunne (forthcoming) 'Duelling with Dualisms: Descartes, Foucault and the History of Organizational Limits', Management & Organizational History.
Butler, N., L. Olaison, M. Sliwa, B.M. Sørensen, and S. Spoelstra (2011) 'Work, Play and Boredom', ephemera: theory & politics in organization 11(4): 329-335.
Butler, N. (2011) 'Subjectivity and Subjectivation', in M. Tadajewski, P. Maclaran, M. Parsons and M. Parker (eds.) Key Concepts in Critical Management Studies. London: Sage.
Butler, N. (2010) '"Lessons for Managers and Consultants": A Reading of Edgar H. Schein's Process Consultation', in P. Armstrong, S. Lilley, and G. Lightfoot (eds.) 'The Leading Publication in the Field': Unsettling Authority in the Social Sciences of Management. London: MayFlyBooks.
Butler, N., C. Land, and M. Sliwa (2009) 'Editorial: Throwing Shoes...', ephemera: theory and politics in organization 9(3): 195-200.
Butler, N. (2008) 'The Invention of the Business School' (review of Rakesh Khurana's From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession). ephemera: theory and politics in organization 8(3): 348-352.
Butler, N. (2008) 'Critical and Clinical Management Studies', ephemera: theory and politics in organization, 8(1): 7-25.