Profile
Dr Dean Pierides
Senior Lecturer in Management and Organisations
- Email: dean.pierides@ncl.ac.uk
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- Address: 5 Barrack Road
Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Business School
Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Upon Tyne NE1 4SE
United Kingdom
Profile
Dean Pierides is Senior Lecturer in Management and Organisations at Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Business School.
Prior to this he was Lecturer in Organisations and Society at the University of Manchester, Visiting Scholar at Copenhagen Business School, Lecturer in Business and Management at the University of Stirling, Research Fellow in Organisations, Society and Markets at the University of Melbourne, Konrad Boehmer Research Fellow also at the University of Melbourne.
Roles and responsibilities
- PhD Convenor for Leadership, Work and Organisation subject group
Qualifications and certificates
- PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia
- MEd, University of Melbourne, Australia
- DipEd, University of Melbourne, Australia
- BA, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Memberships
- Executive board member for the
Current work
My research is primarily about how organisations and institutions deal with uncertainty. This is relevant for all areas of management and organisation but I am particularly interested in 'surprises' - events that defy our expectations because they are wholly unanticipated.
Main expertise
My research has focused on
- government agencies and other organisations that are related to emergencies, disasters and crises, whether natural, industrial, financial or otherwise
- the contribution of new technologies to the financialisation of organisations that are not primarily finance organisations - e.g. algorithms in healthcare organisations such as the UK National Health Service (NHS) and the organisation of cities
- the use of statistical and probabilistic knowledge in research and social scientific reasoning
Other expertise
My fieldwork is primarily ethnographic but I am interested in a broad range of qualitative methods as well as the sociology, history, and philosophy of quantitative methods, especially their relationship to ethics.
Ongoing research
I am currently also researching
- the organisation and organisational communication of value in alternative organisations, especially building societies
- how diagnostic reasoning takes shape in different professions
- changes in the organisational purpose of government agencies, charities and social enterprises
Availability for postgraduate supervision
I am currently available to supervise research students in all areas related to my research
PhD supervisions (current and ongoing)
- Jingyao Hou - How do universities govern the affordances of generative-AI in the academic labour process of business school researchers? A multi-case study of 10 UK universities (co-supervisors: Professor Abigail Marks, Dr Yin Liang)
- Reem Albalwi - Exploring workplace conflict management in the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Labour (co-supervisor: Dr Martí Lopez Andreu)
- Abdulah Aldosari - Managing mass pilgrimage crowds: Interorganisational coordination and safety during the Hajj (co-supervisor: Professor Charles Harvey, previously: Professor Alan McKinlay)
- Naif Alshehri - Professionalising emergency management in Saudi Arabia: Bureaucracy, the ethics of office, and Vision 2030 reform (co-supervisor: Professor Charles Harvey, previously: Professor Alan McKinlay)
- Rakan Aldayel - How do cities manage the resilience cycle? Risk ownership and the Samood Index in the organisation of Riyadh (co-supervisor: Professor Tracy Scurry)
PhD supervisions (successfully completed)
- Uri Ansenberg - (co-supervisors: , at the University of Manchester)
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
Advanced International Business Management Dissertation (Dual Award with University of Groningen)
Master of Business Administration
Doctoral
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Articles
- Ansenberg U, Gore O, Pierides D. . Journal of Cultural Economy 2026, epub ahead of print.
- Bailey S, Lenglet M, Lord G, Pierides D, Tischer D. . New Technology, Work & Employment 2023, 38(1), 41-58.
- Lenglet M, Pierides D, Taupin B. . Organization 2023, 31(8), 1237-1261.
- Zyphur MJ, Hamaker EL, Tay L, Voelkle M, Preacher KJ, Zhang Z, Allison PD, Pierides DC, Koval P, Diener EF. . Frontiers in Psychology 2021, 12(112), 612251.
- Zyphur M, Pierides D. . Journal of Business Ethics 2020, 167(1), 1-18.
- Zyphur M, Pierides D. . Journal of Business Ethics 2020, 167(1), 49–62.
- Zyphur MJ, Voelkle M, Tay L, Allison P, Preacher K, Zhang Z, Hamaker E, Shamsollahi A, Pierides D, Koval P, Diener E. . Organizational Research Methods 2020, 23(4), 688-716.
- Zyphur MJ, Allison PD, Tay L, Voelkle MC, Preacher KJ, Zhang Z, Hamaker EL, Shamsollahi A, Pierides DC, Koval P, Diener E. . Organizational Research Methods 2020, 23(4), 651-687.
- Bailey S, Pierides D, Brisley A, Weisshaar C, Blakeman T. . Current Sociology 2020, 68(4), 546-571.
- Clegg SR, Pierides D. . Studi di Sociologia 2019, 1, 93-104.
- Bailey S, Pierides D, Brisley A, Weisshaar C, Blakeman T. . Sociology of Health and Illness 2019, 41(5), 882-899.
- Bailey S, Checkland K, Hodgson D, McBride A, Elvey R, Parkin S, Rothwell K, Pierides D. . Social Science and Medicine 2017, 179, 210-217.
- Zyphur MJ, Pierides D. . Journal of Business Ethics 2017, 143(1), 1-16.
- Pierides D, Woodman D. Object-oriented sociology and organizing in the face of emergency: Bruno Latour, Graham Harman and the material turn. British Journal of Sociology 2012, 63(4), 662-679.
- Pierides D. Multi-sited ethnography and the field of educational research. Critical Studies in Education 2010, 51(2), 179-195.
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Book Chapters
- Casler C, Pierides D. . In: McCann, L; Bozkurt, Ö; Finn, R; Granter, E; Hunter, C; Kivinen, N; Kumar, A; Wierman, B, ed. Elgar Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2025, pp.409-412.
- Casler C, Pierides D. . In: McCann, L; Bozkurt, Ö; Finn, R; Granter, E; Hunter, C; Kivinen, N; Kumar, A; Wierman, B, ed. Elgar Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2025, pp.36-41.
- Pierides D, Clegg S, Cunha MP. . In: Bednarek, R; Cunha, M.P.; Schad, J.; Smith, W.K, ed. Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox: Investigating Social Structures and Human Expression, Part B. Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2021, pp.65-85.
- Pierides D, Sewell G. . In: Clegg S; Cunha MP, ed. Management, Organizations and Contemporary Social Theory. London: Routledge, 2019, pp.135-157.
- Zyphur MJ, Pierides D, Roffe J. . In: Mir R; Willmott H; Greenwood M, ed. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies. London: Routledge, 2015, pp.474-482.
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Reviews
- Lord G, Pierides D. . Academy of Management Learning & Education 2019, 18(3), 521-525.
- Pierides D. . Journal of Cultural Economy 2014, 7(3), 371-377.