Dr Anita Mangan
PhD, MBS, MA, BA
Expertise
Co-operatives and credit unions are the main focus of my research. I am also interested in community activism and volunteering. My work fits under Alternative Forms of Organising and Critical Management Studies.
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies
School of Management - Business School
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Research interests
Research
Anita's research is broadly themed around social justice in organisational studies. The main focus of her research is on co-operatives and credit unions as alternative forms of organising, which offer a counternarrative to austerity, marketisation and the rise of precarious work. Related to this overarching theme of social justice, she also researches non-profit organisations, community activism and volunteering processes. Her work is informed by Foucault and discourse analysis, with an emphasis on issues of identity and subjectivity, power and control.
She is currently working on projects about union co-ops, the history of co-ops in Bristol, Irish credit unions' response to Covid-19 and the development of Bristol co-operatives and community benefit societies.
Postgraduate research:
Anita welcomes queries from PhD students who want to undertake qualitative research related to co-operatives, the social solidarity economy, and alternative forms of organising.
Publications
Recent publications
10/10/2023Cooperative resilience: Toward a heuristic model of collective action in a crisis
Financial Accountability and Management
Editorial
Journal of Co-operative Studies
Editorial for Journal of Co-operative Studies (Volume 6, Issue 2)
Journal of Co-operative Studies
Union-Coops UK: A Manifesto for Decent Work (Revised)
Union-Coops UK: A Manifesto for Decent Work (Revised)
Hidden in plain sight
Journal of Co-operative Studies