Professor Yiannis Gabriel
Former Professor of Organisational Theory (left 2009)

•  Research Groups
  • Organisation Studies and HR Management
•   Teaching Groups
  • Organisation Studies and HR Management

Research Interests

• Leader-follower relations, leader pedagogy and leadership dysfunctions
• Storytelling, narrative and folklore as means of studying organizational symbolism, culture and politics
• Management learning and the nature of management knowledge
• The concepts of the unmanaged and the unmanageable in organizational studies
• Consumption and consumerism, especially in relation to material artefacts and identity and the organization-customer interface
• Psychoanalysis and organizations, notably the exploration of organizational phenomena through psychoanalytic concepts and theories, including unconscious, narcissism and desire
• Emotion and fantasy in organizations