Nick ButlerUniversitetslektor, docent
Om mig
Nick Butler började på Stockholm Business School 2016. Han har tidigare arbetat vid Lunds universitet som postdoktoral forskare och vid St Andrews University i Skottland som föreläsare. Dessförinnan utbildade han sig vid universiteten i Warwick, Sussex och Leicester i Storbritannien. Nick forskar inom området organisationsstudier, med fokus på arbetssociologi och kritiska perspektiv på management. Han är särskilt intresserad av att kombinera samhällsteori, filosofi, kvalitativa metoder, och interpretivism. Han är medlem i kollektivet för Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization och Associate Editor för Organization.
Nick arbetar för närvarande med ett projekt om algoritmiskt ledarskap, tillsammans med Dr Sverre Spoelstra (Copenhagen Business School) och Dr Emilie Hesselbo (Lunds universitet). Projektet finansieras av Vetenskapsrådet och undersöker utvecklingen och användningen av digitala ledarskapsverktyg i högpresterande organisationer. Nick skriver också om andra ämnen, bland annat spelifiering på arbetsplatsen, forskningsetik, stand-up-komedi och skämtfilosofi.
Undervisning
Kursledarskap
Business, Politics and Culture (BPC) - grundnivå
Management Theory and Analysis (MTA) - masternivå
Leadership and Management in Organizations (LMO) - masternivå
Master's Thesis in Management (EXMAN) - masternivå
Programledarskap
International Business and Politics (IBP) - grundnivå
Forskning
Tidskriftsartiklar
Butler, N. and S. Spoelstra (2024) 'Redemption through Play? Exploring the Ethics of Workplace Gamification', Journal of Business Ethics, online first.
Butler, N. and S. Spoelstra (2024) '"You Just Earned 10 Points!": Gaming and Grinding in Academia', Organization, 31(4).
Butler, N. and S. Spoelstra (2023) 'What is the Point of Method Sections?', Organization, 30(6).
Spoelstra, S., N. Butler and H. Delaney (2021) 'Measures of Faith: Science and Belief in Leadership Studies', Journal of Management Inquiry, 30(3).
Butler, N. and S. Spoelstra (2020) 'Academics at Play: Why the "Publication Game" is More than a Metaphor', Management Learning, 51(4).
Collins, D. and N. Butler (2020) 'Success and Failure in Professional Projects: The Nature, Contours and Limits of Consulting Professionalism', British Journal of Management, 31(3).
Butler, N. and D. Stoyanova Russell (2018) 'No Funny Business: Precarious Work and Emotional Labour in Stand-Up Comedy', Human Relations, 71(12).
Butler, N. (2018) 'Fantasies of Strategy: Žižek, Discourse and Enjoyment', Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 53.
Butler, N., H. Delaney and S. Spoelstra (2018) 'Risky Business: Reflections on Critical Performativity in Practice', Organization, 25(3).
Butler, N., H. Delaney and S. Spoelstra (2017) ‘The Grey Zone: Questionable Research Practices in the Business School’, Academy of Management Learning and Education, 16(1).
Spoelstra, S., N. Butler and H. Delaney (2016) 'Never Let a Good Academic Crisis Go to Waste: Leadership Studies in the Wake of Journal Retractions', Leadership, 12(4).
Butler, N. (2016) ‘Functional Stupidity: A Critique’, Ephemera, 16(2).
Butler, N. and D. Collins (2016) ‘The Failure of Consulting Professionalism? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Institute of Management Consultants’, Management & Organizational History, 11(1).
Butler, N., H. Delaney and S. Spoelstra (2015) ‘Problematizing “Relevance” in the Business School: The Case of Leadership Studies’, British Journal of Management, 26(4).
Butler, N (2015) ‘Joking Aside: Theorizing Laughter in Organizations’, Culture and Organization, 21(1).
Butler, N. and S. Spoelstra (2014) ‘The Regime of Excellence and the Erosion of Ethos in Critical Management Studies’, British Journal of Management, 25(3).
Butler, N. and S. Spoelstra (2012) ‘Your Excellency’, Organization 19(6).
Butler, N. and S. Dunne (2012) ‘Duelling with Dualisms: Descartes, Foucault and the History of Organizational Limits’, Management & Organizational History, 7(1).
Akademiska Monografier
Butler, N. (2024) The Trouble with Jokes. Bristol University Press.
Bokkapitel
Butler, N. and S. Spoelstra (2017) 'How to Become Less Excellent', in T. Huzzard, M. Benner and D. Kärreman (eds.) The Corporatization of the Business School: Minerva Meets the Marketplace. London and New York: Routledge.
Butler, N. (2016) ‘Humour and Organization’, in R. Mir, H. Willmott and M. Greenwood (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies. London and New York: Routledge.
Ledarartiklar i akademiska tidskrifter
Butler, N. and B. Loacker (2022) 'Capitalist Unrealism: Countering the Crisis of Critique and Imagination', Ephemera, 22(2).
Butler, N., H. Delaney, E. Hesselbo and S. Spoelstra (2020) 'Beyond Measure', Ephemera, 20(3).
Butler, N., H. Delaney and M. Sliwa (2017) 'The Labour of Academia', Ephemera, 17(3).
Butler, N., C. Hoedemaekers and D. Stoyanova Russell (2015) ‘The Comic Organization’, Ephemera, 15(3).
Butler, N., E. Jeanes and B. Otto (2014) ‘Diagrammatics of Organization’, Ephemera, 14(2).
Butler, N., S. Chillas and S.L. Muhr (2012) ‘Professions at the Margins’, Ephemera, 12(3).
Butler, N., L. Olaison, M. Sliwa, B.M. Sørensen and S. Spoelstra (2011) ‘Work, Play and Boredom’, Ephemera, 11(4).
Butler, N., C. Land and M. Sliwa (2009) ‘Throwing Shoes’, Ephemera, 9(3).