Dr John Desmond

Honorary Reader

Researcher profile

Email

jd26@st-andrews.ac.uk

Biography

Prior to taking up his honorary post with the University of St Andrews School of Management in 2015, John Desmond was Reader in Management with the School. He taught the following modules:

• MN2001 Management and Society: Marketing
• MN4224 Consuming Culture
• MN5406 Consumer Behaviour and Marketing Research.

Research areas

John Desmond is interested in contributing new insights to marketing theory. Continuing preoccupations include the development of new understandings of relations between consumers and marketers and of morality and marketing. Currently he is exploring the history of marketing, the construction of marketing knowledge and relations between marketing practitioners and academics.

Selected publications

• Democracy and worker representation in the management of change: Lessons from Kurt Lewin and the Harwood Studies

  Desmond, J. F. & Wilson, F., 1 Nov 2019, In : Human Relations. 72, 11, p. 1805-1830

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Why psychoanalysis now?

  Cluley, R. & Desmond, J., 15 Mar 2015, In : Marketing Theory. 15, 1, p. 3-8 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Editorial

• Loyal now, but not forever! A study of narcissism and male consumer-brand relationships

  Lambert, A. & Desmond, J., 2013, In : Psychology & Marketing. 30, 8, p. 690-706 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Organization of dreams: the dream of organization ? dreaming organization

  Desmond, J., 2013, In : Journal of Organizational Change Management. 26, 4, p. 654 - 669

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Psychoanalytic accounts of Consuming Desire: Hearts of darkness

  Desmond, J., 28 Nov 2012, Macmillan Publishers ( incl. Palgrave, Picador). 312 p.

  Research output: Book/Report ? Book

• Freud

  Desmond, J., 2011, Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. Southerton, D. (ed.). London: Sage

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Other contribution

• A summons to the consuming animal

  Desmond, J., Jul 2010, In : Business Ethics: A European Review. 19, 3, p. 238-252

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Implications of the new Darwinism for consumer theory and research in relation to the human face

  Desmond, J., 2010, European Advances in Consumer Research. Vol. 9. p. 1-7

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Conference contribution

• Figuring knowledge and desire in critical marketing: Lacan?s four discourses

  Desmond, J., Sep 2009, In : Journal of Marketing Management. 25, 7-8, p. 849-854

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Morality and the Consequences of Marketing Action

  Desmond, J. & Crane, A., Nov 2004, In : Journal of Business Research. 57, 11, p. 1222-1230 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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