A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Organizations

About Chris Grey

Chris Grey is Emeritus Professor of Organization Studies at the School of Business and Management at Royal Holloway University of London. Before that he held Professorships at the Universities of Warwick and Cambridge. He is also Visiting Research Fellow at Cambridge and has been Velux Foundation Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School Denmark Visiting Professor at the Université Paris-Dauphine France and a Visiting Fellow at the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research Sweden. Between 2010 and 2012 he was a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow. For six years he was Editor-in-Chief of Management Learning and is currently an Associate Editor of Organization and a European Co-editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry. Apart from publishing numerous articles in academic journals he co-edited Rethinking Management Education (Sage 1996) Essential Readings in Management Learning (Sage 2004) and Critical Management Studies: A Reader (Oxford University Press 2005) co-authored Making Up Accountants (Gower Ashgate 1998) and is the author of Decoding Organization. Bletchley Park Codebreaking and Organization Studies (Cambridge University Press 2012). He currently has an eclectic mix of research interests including the organization of intelligence and security agen­cies but his real passion is detective novels and he will one day write the definitive contribution to that genre. He was born in Croydon (Britains New Manhattan!) in 1964 and may very well be one of the leading organizational theorists that town has produced.