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Professor Alan McKinlay

Prof of Human Resource Management

Background

I was awarded my DPhil from Nuffield College, Oxford University in 1986.  My thesis was about how management strategies, power and skill played out in Clydeside shipyards and factories between the wars.  The politics of skill remains one of my interests, both historically and in the contemporary world of work.

 

Over the years I have researched and written about historical and contemporary management strategy and practices; unionisation; and new forms of work.  I have examined these issues in many settings, from a Motorola factory making mobile phones to Ford car factories through to television studios.  The Motorola study was published by Routledge in 2014, Foucault, governmentality and organization: Inside 'the Factory of the Future', with Phil Taylor.  In the last five years I have published four articles in Business History: Protestantism and the rise of capitalism; writing gender into business history; competitive capabilities in jute; and management development in Tata after 1947.  I have also published book chapters and articles on governmentality and strategy, accounting and management.

 My most recent book is a political biography,  Jimmy Reid: A Clyde built man which was published by Liverpool University Press in September 2019.

My current research is about management strategy and practices in the BBC and ITV.  This is a project that I'm working on with Chris Carter, Edinburgh University.   We have published 'Strategic change, leadership and accounting: A triptych of organizational reform', with Crawford Spence, in Public Administration, Epub, 2018.  A new project is about the changing definitions and experiences of the career since 1945.  My research on the career focuses on financial services. An early output will tell the story of the making of the marriage bar in British retail banking.

Publications

  • Articles

    • Gibbs E, Mackenzie E, McKinlay A, McNulty D, Phillips J, Procter S. . Management and Organizational History 2024, 20(4), 517-536.
    • McKinlay A, Masrani S, Pezet E. . Business History 2024, 66(6), 1602-1626.
    • Morris J, McKinlay A, Farrell C. . Human Relations 2023, 76(2), 341-361.
    • Mackenzie E, McKinlay A. . Human Relations 2021, 74(11), 1841-1863.
    • Masrani S, Perriton L, McKinlay A. . Business History 2021, 63(1), 127-145.
    • Carter C, Spence C, McKinlay A. . Public Administration 2020, 98(1), 62-91.
    • Masrani S, McKiernan P, McKinlay A. . Business History 2018, 62(6), 960-981.
    • McKinlay A, Pezet E. . Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2018, 53, 57-68.
    • Durepos G, McKinlay A, Taylor S. . Business History 2017, 59(8), 1261-1279.
    • Durepo G, McKinlay A, Taylor S. Narrating Histories of Gender at work: In and out of the archive. Business History 2016. Submitted.
    • McKinlay A, Mutch A. . Business History 2015, 57(2), 241-256.
    • McKinlay A. . Management and Organizational History 2013, 8(2), 137-154.
    • Carter C, McKinlay A. . Business History 2013. In Press.
    • Carter C, McKinlay A. . Business History 2013, 55(7), 1228-1246.
    • McKinlay A. . Business History 2013, 55(3), 431-447.
    • McKinlay A, Carter C, Pezet E. . Management and Organizational History 2012, 7(1), 3-15.
    • McKinlay A, Wilson J. . Management & Organizational History 2012, 7(1), 45-60.
    • McKinlay A, Carter C, Pezet E, Clegg S. . Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 2010, 23(8), 1012-1031.
    • Wilson JM, McKinlay A. . Business History 2010, 52(5), 760-778.
    • Coopey R, McKinlay A. . Labor History 2010, 51(1), 107-125.
    • McKinlay A. . Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2010, 21(3), 232-242.
    • Knox W, McKinlay A. . Labor History 2010, 51(2), 211-229.
    • Knox W, McKinlay A. . Labor History 2010, 51(2), 167-172.
    • McKinlay A, Pezet E. . Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2010, 21(6), 486-495.
    • Lilley S, McKinlay A. . Culture and Organisation 2009, 15(2), 129-133.
    • Townley B, Beech N, McKinlay A. . Human Relations 2009, 62(7), 939-962.
    • McKinlay A. . Culture and Organization 2009, 15(2), 167-184.
    • Findlay P, McKinlay A, Marks A, Thompson P. . Industrial Relations Journal 2009, 40(3), 235-251.
    • McKinlay A, Quinn B. Remaking management, work and industrial relations: British commercial television, c. 1979-2000. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations 2007, 23/24, 155-180.
    • McKinlay A, Wilson RG. 'Small acts of cunning': Bureaucracy, inspection and the career, c. 1890-1914. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2006, 17(5), 657-678.
    • Carter C, McKinlay A, Rowlinson M. . Organization 2002, 9(4), 515-526.
    • Findlay P, McKinlay A, Marks A, Thompson P. . Human Relations 2000, 53(12), 1549-1574.
    • Findlay P, McKinlay A, Marks A, Thompson P. . Employee Relations 2000, 22(5), 485-502.
    • Marks A, Findlay P, Hine J, McKinlay A, Thompson P. . British Journal of Industrial Relations 1998, 36(2), 209-226.

  • Authored Books

    • Knox WWJ, McKinlay A. . Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2019.
    • McKinlay A, Pezet E. . London: Routledge, 2017.
    • McKinlay A, Taylor P. . London: Routledge, 2014.
    • McKinlay A, Taylor P. . London, UK: Routledge, 2014.
    • McKinlay A, Taylor P. . New York: Routledge, 2014.

  • Book Chapters

    • McKinlay A, Pezet E. . In: S. Clegg and M. Pina e Cunha, ed. Management, Organizations and Contemporary Social Theory. London, UK: Routledge, 2019, pp.326.
    • Carter C, McKinlay A. . In: Roslender, R, ed. Routledge Companion to Critical Accounting. London, UK: Routledge, 2018.
    • McKinlay A. . In: McKinlay, A; Pezet, E, ed. Foucault and Managerial Governmentality: Rethinking the Management of Populations, Organizations and Individuals. London: Routledge, 2017.
    • McKinlay A. . In: Foucault and Managerial Governmentality: Rethinking the Management of Populations, Organizations and Individuals. London: Routledge, 2017, pp.197-209.
    • McKinlay A, Pezet E. . In: McKinlay, A; Pezet, E, ed. Foucault and Managerial Governmentality: Rethinking the Management of Populations, Organizations and Individuals. London: Routledge, 2017, pp.3-30.
    • McKinlay A, Taylor S. . In: Foucault and Managerial Governmentality: Rethinking the Management of Populations, Organizations and Individuals. London: Routledge, 2017, pp.159-177.
    • Healey P. . In: Mark Bevir and R.A.W. Rhodes, ed. Routledge Handbook of Interpretive Political Science. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015, pp.397-410.
    • McKinlay A, Pezet E. . In: Routledge Handbook of Interpretive Political Science. Taylor and Francis Inc, 2015, pp.411-424.
    • McKinlay A. . In: Gregor Gall and Tony Dundon, ed. Global Anti-Unionism: Nature, Dynamics, Trajectories and Outcomes. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp.39-62.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • McKinlay A, Philips J, Mackenzie E, Gibbs E, Procter S, McNulty D. . In: The 13th European Regional Congress of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA). 2022, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: International Labour and Employment Relations Association.
    • Mackenzie E, McKinlay A. . In: BSA Annual Conference 2018: Identity, Community and Social Solidarity. 2018, Northumbria University: British Sociological Association.

  • Report

    • Harrison D, Procter S, McKinlay A. . London: Alex Ferry Foundation, 2022.

  • Review

    • Marks A, Findlay P, Hine J, Thompson P, Mckinlay A. . Management Research News 1997, 20(2/3), 21-21.