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  1. Elite MBAs in the Making of Top Business Careers

    Article • Academy of Management Learning and Education, March 2026, The Academy of Management

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  2. Open strategy as institutional work

    Article • Planning Review, February 2026, Emerald

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey

  3. Bridging paradigms? A historical organisation studies approach to project-oriented agency and regeneration

    Article • December 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  4. Multiplicities of time in management and organizational research

    Article • Management & Organizational History, November 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  5. Expert Memories: The Professional Construction of the Past and the Mnemonic Making of Occupations

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, November 2025, Wiley

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  6. Between resistance and complicity: Women’s tactical agency within NGOization in Palestine

    Article • Organization Studies, October 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  7. Leadership Development in Saudi Arabia

    Article • May 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  8. The power elite

    Article • April 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  9. On the dynamics of intersectional (in)visibility: Women early career researchers negotiating authenticity at work

    Article • Human Relations, March 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Dr David Sarpong

  10. Organising through time: Paradox and history

    Article • Business History, February 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  11. History in management learning: A multi-temporal reflexive approach

    Article • Management Learning, January 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  12. Social entrepreneurship and the social economy of Victorian and Edwardian Britain

    Article • Business History, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  13. Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School and The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?

    Article • Academy of Management Learning and Education, September 2024, The Academy of Management

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  14. Demanding a Voice? Worker Participation in the British Interwar Management Movement

    Article • Work Employment and Society, December 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  15. Multi‐Temporality and the Ghostly: How Communing with Times Past Informs Organizational Futures

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, November 2023, Wiley

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  16. Strategic sensemaking by social entrepreneurs: creating strategies for social innovation

    Article • International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, September 2023, Emerald

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  17. Historical organization studies

    Article • July 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  18. Elite Solidarity, Social Responsibility, and the Contested Origins of Britain’s First Business Schools

    Article • Academy of Management Learning and Education, June 2023, The Academy of Management

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  19. On the consequences of scarcity mindset: How ‘having too little’ means so much for ethnic venture failure

    Article • European Management Journal, April 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Dr David Sarpong

  20. Philanthropy and Socio-economic Development: The Role of Large Indigenous Voluntary Organizations in Bridging Social Divides in Pakistan

    Article • VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  21. Relational interdependencies and the intra-EU mobility of African European Citizens

    Article • Human Relations, January 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Dr David Sarpong

  22. Webs of oppression: An intersectional analysis of inequalities facing women activists in Palestine

    Article • Human Relations, January 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  23. A Notsie narrative perspective on turnover in the UK financial services industry

    Article • Africa Journal of Management, August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Dr David Sarpong

  24. Philanthropy and the sustaining of global elite university domination

    Article • Organization, August 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  25. Multi-temporality and the Ghostly: Capturing the Spirit of Time Past and Yet to Come?

    Article • Academy of Management Proceedings, August 2022, The Academy of Management

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  26. Institutional biography and the institutionalization of a new organizational template: Building the global branded hotel chain

    Article • Business History, February 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  27. Business as service? Human Relations and the British interwar management movement

    Article • Human Relations, January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  28. Methodological Openness in Business History Research: Looking Afresh at the British Interwar Management Movement

    Article • The Business History Review, January 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  29. ‘Capital Breeds Capital’

    Article • August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  30. Knowledge Management

    Article • July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  31. Elite philanthropy in the United States and United Kingdom in the new age of inequalities

    Article • International Journal of Management Reviews, February 2021, Wiley

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  32. The Role of Mediators in Diffusing the Community Foundation Model of Philanthropy

    Article • Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, February 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  33. HISTÓRIA, MEMÓRIA E PASSADO EM ESTUDOS ORGANIZACIONAIS E DE GESTÃO

    Article • Revista de Administração de Empresas, February 2021, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  34. Historical Organization Studies

    Article • November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  35. Business in the Creative Life of William Morris

    Article • October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  36. Bourdieu, strategy and the field of power

    Article • Critical Perspectives on Accounting, June 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  37. Seebohm Rowntree and the British interwar management movement

    Article • April 2020, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  38. The Ethics of Entrepreneurial Philanthropy

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  39. Ethical considerations and challenges for using digital ethnography to research vulnerable populations

    Article • Journal of Business Research, March 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  40. The role of innovation narratives in accomplishing organizational ambidexterity

    Article • Strategic Organization, January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  41. Historical reflections at the intersection of past and future: Celebrating 50 years of Management Learning

    Article • Management Learning, October 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  42. Management Learning in Historical Perspective: Rediscovering Rowntree and the British Interwar Management Movement

    Article • Academy of Management Learning and Education, July 2019, The Academy of Management

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  43. Executive remuneration and the limits of disclosure as an instrument of corporate governance

    Article • Critical Perspectives on Accounting, July 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  44. Moving on up? Exploring the career journeys of skilled migrants in the professions

    Article • The International Journal of Human Resource Management, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Dr David Sarpong, Mairi Maclean

  45. Pierre Bourdieu and elites

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  46. Historical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy

    Article • The Business History Review, January 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  47. The Business Community and the Election

    Article • December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  48. Cross-state mobility of European naturalised third-country nationals

    Article • European Urban and Regional Studies, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Dr David Sarpong

  49. Intertextuality, Rhetorical History and the Uses of the Past in Organizational Transition

    Article • Organization Studies, July 2018, SAGE Publications

    Mairi Maclean, Professor Mairi Maclean

  50. From Cadbury to Kay: discourse, intertextuality and the evolution of UK corporate governance

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability, June 2018, Emerald

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  51. Political ideology and the discursive construction of the multinational hotel industry

    Article • Human Relations, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Mairi Maclean, Professor Roy Suddaby, Kevin O'Gorman, Professor Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey

  52. Social class still counts in getting to the top

    Article • Theory Culture & Society, July 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  53. Politics and the professions in a time of crisis

    Article • Journal of Professions and Organization, March 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mairi Maclean, Professor Mairi Maclean

  54. Organization Theory in Business and Management History: Present Status and Future Prospects

    Article • The Business History Review, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Mairi Maclean, Professor Mairi Maclean

  55. Narrative, metaphor and the subjective understanding of historic identity transition

    Article • Business History, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  56. Cultivating strategic foresight in practise: A relational perspective

    Article • Journal of Business Research, August 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Dr David Sarpong, Mairi Maclean

  57. Service nepotism in cosmopolitan transient social spaces

    Article • Work Employment and Society, May 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean, Dr David Sarpong

  58. Establishing Causal Order in Longitudinal Studies Combining Binary and Continuous Dependent Variables

    Article • Organizational Research Methods, November 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gerhard Kling, Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  59. ‘Give It Back, George’: Network Dynamics in the Philanthropic Field

    Article • Organization Studies, November 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  60. Beyond segments in movement: a “small” agenda for research in the professions

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability, October 2015, Emerald

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  61. Conceptualizing Historical Organization Studies

    Article • Academy of Management Review, July 2015, The Academy of Management

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  62. Identity, storytelling and the philanthropic journey

    Article • Human Relations, April 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  63. Service nepotism in the multi-ethnic marketplace: mentalities and motivations

    Article • International Marketing Review, April 2015, Emerald

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Dr David Sarpong, Mairi Maclean

  64. From four to zero? The social mechanisms of symbolic domination in the UK accounting field

    Article • Critical Perspectives on Accounting, March 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  65. Business Elites and the Field of Power in France

    Article • February 2015, Emerald

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  66. Puppets of necessity? Celebritisation in structured reality television

    Article • Journal of Marketing Management, December 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  67. Elite connectivity and concerted action in French organization

    Article • Organizational Analysis, October 2014, Emerald

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey

  68. Rhetoric of stability and change: The organizational identity work of institutional leadership

    Article • Human Relations, July 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  69. Living up to the past? Ideological sensemaking in organizational transition

    Article • Organization, June 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  70. ‘Space of Possibles’? Legitimacy, Industry Maturity, and Organizational Foresight

    Article • Strategic Change, May 2014, Wiley

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  71. Unpacking strategic foresight: A practice approach

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Management, March 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Dr David Sarpong, Mairi Maclean

  72. Pathways to Power: Class, Hyper-Agency and the French Corporate Elite

    Article • Organization Studies, January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  73. A matter of foresight: How practices enable (or impede) organizational foresightfulness

    Article • European Management Journal, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Dr David Sarpong, Mairi Maclean

  74. Organizing strategic foresight: A contextual practice of ‘way finding’

    Article • Futures, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Dr David Sarpong, Mairi Maclean

  75. Conceptualizing taste: Food, culture and celebrities

    Article • Tourism Management, August 2013, Elsevier

    Kevin O'Gorman, Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  76. Apostasy versus legitimacy: Relational dynamics and routes to resource acquisition in entrepreneurial ventures

    Article • International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship, January 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  77. Relational Pluralism: Organizational Foresight in Practice

    Article • Academy of Management Proceedings, January 2013, The Academy of Management

    Dr David Sarpong, Professor Mairi Maclean

  78. Mobilising differential visions for new product innovation

    Article • Technovation, December 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Dr David Sarpong, Mairi Maclean

  79. Co-evolution, opportunity seeking and institutional change: Entrepreneurship and the Indian telecommunications industry, 1923–2009

    Article • Business History, August 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  80. Reflexive practice and the making of elite business careers

    Article • Management Learning, June 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  81. Social innovation, social entrepreneurship and the practice of contemporary entrepreneurial philanthropy

    Article • International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship, April 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  82. Sensemaking, storytelling and the legitimization of elite business careers

    Article • Human Relations, January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  83. Scenario thinking: A practice-based approach for the identification of opportunities for innovation

    Article • Futures, December 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Dr David Sarpong, Mairi Maclean

  84. Exploring contemporary entrepreneurial philanthropy

    Article • International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship, December 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  85. Andrew Carnegie and the foundations of contemporary entrepreneurial philanthropy

    Article • Business History, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  86. William Morris, Cultural Leadership, and the Dynamics of Taste

    Article • The Business History Review, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  87. Dominant Corporate Agents and the Power Elite in France and Britain

    Article • Organization Studies, March 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  88. What we need is an “entrepreneurial society”

    Article • Journal of Strategy and Management, February 2009, Emerald

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  89. What makes good governance?

    Article • Journal of Strategy and Management, November 2008, Emerald

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  90. New rules – old games? Social capital and privatisation in France, 1986–1998

    Article • Business History, November 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  91. Leadership on an industrial journey

    Article • Journal of Strategy and Management, August 2008, Emerald

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  92. Capital Theory and the Dynamics of Elite Business Networks in Britain and France

    Article • The Sociological Review, May 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  93. France on the World Stage

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  94. Transition and organizational dissonance in Serbia

    Article • Human Relations, October 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  95. Managerialism and the Post-war evolution of the French national business system

    Article • Business History, July 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  96. Entrepreneurship, corporate governance, and Indian business elites

    Article • International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, January 2007, Inderscience Publishers

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  97. Business Elites and Corporate Governance in France and the UK

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  98. Michel Tournier, Past and Present: An Interview with the Author

    Article • Forum for Modern Language Studies, July 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Mairi Maclean

  99. Economic Management and French Business

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  100. Good Luck or Fine Judgement? The Growth and Development of the Japanese Electronics Industry, 1945-95

    Article • Asia Pacific Business Review, October 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  101. France and Globalisation

    Article • Modern & Contemporary France, August 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  102. Elites, ownership and the internationalisation of French business

    Article • Modern & Contemporary France, August 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  103. Towards a European model? A comparative evaluation of recent corporate governance initiatives in France and the UK

    Article • Journal of European Area Studies, November 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  104. Corporate Governance in France and the UK: Long-Term Perspectives on Contemporary Institutional Arrangements

    Article • Business History, January 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  105. Privatisation,dirigismeand the global economy: An end to French exceptionalism?

    Article • Modern & Contemporary France, May 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  106. Privatisation in France 1993–94: New departures, or a case ofplus ça change?

    Article • West European Politics, April 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  107. La moralisation de la vie économique en France:Global imperatives and cultural impediments

    Article • Modern & Contemporary France, January 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Mairi Maclean, Professor Mairi Maclean

  108. France, Europe and the GATT: Realpolitik oblige?

    Article • Journal of Area Studies, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  109. FRENCH COMPETITIVENESS AND EUROPE: FIT FOR THE FIGHT?

    Article • Contemporary French Civilization, April 1993, Liverpool University Press

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  110. Dirty dealing: Business and scandal in contemporary France

    Article • Modern & Contemporary France, January 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  111. PRIVATISATION AND PEOPLE'S CAPITALISM IN FRANCE: OLD HABITS IN NEW GUISES?

    Article • Contemporary French Civilization, April 1989, Liverpool University Press

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  112. Michel Tournier as Misogynist (Or Not?): An Assessment of the Author's View of Femininity

    Article • The Modern Language Review, April 1988, JSTOR

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  113. HUMAN RELATIONS IN THE NOVELS OF TOURNIER: POLARITY AND TRANSCENDENCE

    Article • Forum for Modern Language Studies, January 1987, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  114. Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: The French Perspective

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  115. Transnational boards and governance regimes: a Franco-British comparison

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  116. Reaching distant parts? The internationalization of brewing and local organizational embeddedness

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  117. Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance and Indian Business Elites

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean

  118. Contesting social space in the Balkan region: the social dimensions of a “red” joint venture

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Mairi Maclean, Mairi Maclean