Publications

Clegg, S 1997, 'Chasing the Dragons: Confucianism, Culture and Capital', Asia Pacific Business Review, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 223-227.
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Clegg, S, Jacoby, SM, Littek, W & Charles, T 1997, 'The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy.', Contemporary Sociology, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 188-188.
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Clegg, SR 1997, 'Book Reviews : Dian-Marie Hosking, H. Peter Dachler, and Kenneth J. Gergen (eds.): Management and Organization: Relational Alternatives to Individualism', Organization Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 339-340.
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George, R & Clegg, SR 1997, 'An inside story: Tales from the field - Doing organizational research in a state of insecurity', ORGANIZATION STUDIES, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 1015-1023.
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Doing successful organizational research is difficult. Doing the same in difficult circumstances proves worthy of discussion. This short paper illustrates the realities experienced by a management researcher while doing doctoral field work in Sri Lanka.

Hardy, C & Clegg, S 1997, 'Relativity Without Relativism: Reflexivity in Post‐Paradigm Organization Studies', British Journal of Management, vol. 8, no. s1, pp. 5-17.
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This paper shows how organization studies controls the subject through its use of representational devices. Different theoretical and methodological approaches may appear to offer epistemological guarantees concerning the validity of data about the research subject but they remain representations, beyond which we can know nothing except through representation. Research is not about wrenching truth from a recalcitrant ‘reality’: the devices it uses to represent its research subject create and control in the way they silence to give voice to aspects of that subject. All data are ‘collaborative products’ created in accordance with ‘the practical procedures and background assumptions of the participating actors’ (Knorr‐Cetina, 1981). Thus the relations between research subject, researcher and the protocols that comprise the research process both embody and obscure power. For this reason, it is important that theory strives for a high degree of reflexivity (Marcus, 1994) in accounting for its own theorizing, as well as whatever it is that it theorizes about.In this paper, we critically examine different research approaches, including those of Aston, to show the dangers that can arise when research is carried out without regard to reflexivity. We offer some criteria for carrying out reflexive research which, we believe, is one of the major challenges facing post‐paradigm organization studies. As we shall see, reflexivity shows us how far we have come in the thirty years since Aston.

Leung, L 1997, 'The making of matriarchy: A comparison of Madonna and Margaret Thatcher', Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 33-42.
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Leung, LT 1997, 'The Making of Matriarchy', Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 33-42.

Wood, S, Clegg, S, Hardy, C & Nord, WR 1997, 'Handbook of Organization Studies', The British Journal of Sociology, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 324-324.
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Miller, N, Leung, T & Kennedy, H 1970, 'Challenging boundaries in adult and higher education through technological innovation', CROSSING BORDERS BREAKING BOUNDARIES, 27th Annual SCUTREA Conference on Crossing Borders Breaking Boundaries - Research in the Education of Adults, UNIV LEEDS, UNIV LONDON, BIRKBECK COLL, LONDON, ENGLAND, pp. 333-337.