School of Management

Prof. Simon Lilley

Professor of Information and Organisation
Director of PG Programmes
Deputy Director of the CPPE

Telephone: +44 (0) 116 223 1261
Fax: +44 (0) 116 252 5515
Email: s.lilley@le.ac.uk

Office: Room 529E, Ken Edwards Building.
Office Hours: Mondays 11.30-12.30 & 14.30-15.30

Brief Biography

Simon studied for his first degree, in psychology, at University College London. His PhD, which considers the impact of computerisation on the management of oil refineries, was awarded by Edinburgh University, being funded by the ESRC as part of their Programme on Information and Communication Technologies. Simon has taught previously at the Universities of Keele, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Lancaster, at the International Business School, Budapest and at the Manchester School of Management, UMIST.

Simon is an editor of the journal Culture and Organization.

Research Interests

Research interests turn around the relationships between (human) agency, technology and performance, particularly the ways in which such relationships can be understood through post-structural approaches to organisation. These concerns are reflected in a continuing focus upon the use of information technologies and strategic models in organisations and he is currently pursuing these themes through investigation of the regulation and conduct of financial and commodity derivatives trading.

Recent Publications

Linstead, S., Fulop, L., Lilley, S. and Associates (2009) Management and Organization: A Critical Text, 2nd Edition, London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Armstrong, P. and Lilley, S. (2008) 'Practical Criticism and the Social Sciences', ephemera: theory and politics in organization, vol.8, no. 4, pp. 353-370.

Lilley, S. (2008) 'Pre-Paring Philanthropy: The Mimesis of Business and the Counterfactual Construction of Care', ephemera: theory and politics in organization, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 157-175.

Lightfoot, G. and Lilley, S. (2007) 'The Ideology of Markets and the Practice of Policy: Objectivity, Control and the Objectionable', International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, vol. 27, no. 11/12, pp. 494 -499.

Lightfoot, G. and Lilley, S. (2007) 'The Glass Beads Of Global War: Dealing, Death And The Policy Analysis Market', Critical Perspectives on International Business, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 83-100.

Kavanagh, D., Lightfoot, G. and Lilley, S. (2007) 'Running to Standstill: Late Modernity's Acceleration Fixation', Cultural Politics, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 95-122.

Lilley, S. (2007) 'Humanism' in S. Clegg and J. Bailey (eds) International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, London: Sage.

Case, P. Lilley, S. and Owens, T. (eds) (2006) The Speed of Organization, Copenhagen: Liber, Copenhagen Business School Press.

Lilley, S., Lightfoot, G., O'Donovan, P. and Kaulingfreks, R. (2006) 'A Parable of Parodies: Margins, Markets and Darwin's Garden', Culture and Organization, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 281-291.

Lilley, S., Lightfoot, G. and Kavanagh, D. (2006) 'The End of the Shock of the New', Creativity and Innovation Management, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 157-163.

Lilley, S. and Lightfoot, G. (2006) 'Trading Narratives', Organization, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 369-391.

Case, P., Lilley, S. and Owens, T. (2004) 'Organising Speed', Culture and Organization, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 3-5.

Ezzamel, M., Lilley, S. and Willmott, H. (2004) 'Accounting Representation and the Road to Commercial Salvation', Accounting, Organizations and Society, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 783-813.

Lilley, S., Lightfoot, G., and Amaral M. N., P (2004) Representing Organization: Knowledge, Management and the Information Age, Oxford: Oxford University Press.