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Dr Caroline Clarke

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Biography

Caroline Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in Management at the Open University Business School.  Caroline previously worked in Bristol Business School, and prior to that she spent five years as a researcher on the Change Management Consortium (previously at Bath and Cranfield University).

Caroline's undergraduate degree was awarded by the Open University and her positive student experience meant that returning to the Open University some years later as an academic was an easy decision to take.  Caroline's main research interests are located in identity and emotion, and she has also written about managers and change, and has presented on auto-ethnography as a methodology.  Caroline is currently collaborating on a study of academics in business schools exploring concepts of identities, insecurities, gender, and career behaviours amid the increasingly performative demands of academia.  Caroline work is qualitative, and is situated within a critical  interpretive framework, with a particular interest and focus on discourse.

Caroline has published in Human Relations, the International Journal of Human Resource Management, and the Scandinavian Journal of Management.  Caroline also undertakes peer reviewing activity for a number of journals. 

Teaching interests

Caroline has a number of years of experience teaching at all levels, particularly with post-graduate management students. Whilst she has taught most topics in organization studies, her favourite topics include power and politics, emotion, and culture.  Caroline is empathetic in terms of experiencing life as a student at the Open University, and is excited about being part of the central academc teaching staff.

Caroline is currently assigned to 'Managing People and Organizations', one of the Units from B716.

Areas of expertise

  • emotions
  • identity
  • managers
  • academics
  • auto-ethnography
  • change

Publications

Journal papers
Kelliher, C, Clarke, C, Hope Hailey, V, Farndale, E  (2012)  'Going global, feeling small: an examination of managers' reactions to global restructuring in a multinational organisation', The International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 23, issue 11, pp. 2163-2179. Abstract
Clarke, C, Knights, D, Jarvis, C  (2012)  'A labour of love? Academics in business schools', Scandinavian Journal of Management, vol. 28, issue 1, pp. 5-15. Abstract
Clarke, CA, Brown, AD, Hope Hailey, V  (2009)  'Working identities? Antagonistic discursive resources and managerial identity', Human Relations, vol. 62, issue 3, pp. 323-353. Abstract
Clarke, C, Hope-Hailey, V, Kelliher, C  (2007)  'Being real or really being someone else?: change, managers and emotion work', European Management Journal, vol. 25, issue 2, pp. 92-103. Abstract
Book chapters
Balogun, J, Clarke, C, Hope Hailey, V  (2008)  'Case Study 2: BCP Aerospace', Exploring Strategic Change, 3rd Edition, Harlow, UK, Financial Times / Prentice Hall, pp. 265-281. Abstract