Dr Mary Phillips
Senior Lecturer
Director of Graduate Studies for the School of EFM
Contact details
Tele: +44 (0) 117 33 17911Email: Mary.Phillips@bristol.ac.uk
Office Hours: email for an appointment
Room: 2C9
Teaching Units
MGRCM1401: The Context of Strategic Management (MSc Strategic Management)MGRCM2014: Business Ethics CSR (MSc Management)
MGRCM2403: Business Ethics CSR (MSc Strategic Management)
Research Interests
Mary has been a member of the Department of Management since 2000 and prior to that completed her PhD (in literary studies) and taught at the University of Reading.
Her current research interests are eclectic though fall into 3 main areas:
- The application of critical and cultural theory in organisation studies. She is particularly interested in post-structural feminist theory such as the work of Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler and Helene Cixous and the ways it can illuminate aspects of organization, organizing and organizers in a variety of contexts.
- Management history and in particular the unregarded histories of women in organisation. Together with Anne Rippin, she is developing a research stream in this area, bringing together scholars from the social sciences and humanities.
- Social and 'green' enterprise and entrepreneurs. Issues around growth, identity and gender are areas of special interest.
Mary's research area webpage
Recent Publications
- Phillips, M.E. & Knowles, D. (forthcoming) 'Performance and performativity: Undoing fictions of women business owners', Gender, Work & Organization.
- Phillips, M.E. & Rippin, A.J. (2010) 'Howard and the mermaid: abjection and the starbucks' foundation memoir', Organization, 17:4, 481-499.
- Phillips, M.E. (2010) 'A tale of a dog: medieval women organizing through myth and ritual', Management & Organizational History, 5, 296-313.
- Phillips, M.E. (2010) 'From The Waste Land to Past-present Fuschia: The re-development of the Broadmead Shopping Centre', Culture and Organization, 16, 259-282.
Professional Memberships
Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism
Management History Research Group
European Group of Organization Studies
Member of the Cabot Institute