Staff Details

Email: p.dawson@abdn.ac.uk
Tel: 01224 273236
Fax: 01224 273843
Room: EW S05

Professor of Management, part time

Professor Dawson holds a B.Soc.Sc. (Hons) and a Ph.D. in Industrial Sociology from the University of Southampton. He is a member of the Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management, British Academy of Management, British Sociological Association, and the European Group for Organizational Studies.

Professor Dawson has held positions at the University of Southampton, University of Surrey, University of Edinburgh, University of Wollongong and the University of Adelaide. During 1999 he was Guest Research Professor on the Working Environment and Technological Development Programme in Denmark (Technical University of Denmark, Aalborg University, and Roskilde University).

Professor Dawson has published over 50 refereed journal articles and book chapters. His has a long research history in the area of organizational change where he has published a number of books including: Organizational Change, London: Paul Chapman Publishing, 1994. More recently, he has co-authored a number of journal articles including Dawson, P. and Buchanan, D. (2005) ‘The way it really happened: competing narratives in the political process of technological change’, Human Relations, 58(7): 845-865. He also has an interest in technology and has co-edited a four volume series of books on Technology and Organisations: Critical Perspectives on Business Management, London: Routledge, 2000.

CENT

Management of Change, New Technology at Work, Cellular manufacturing.

• (Skordoulis,R., and Dawson, P.), Reflective decisions: the use of Socratic dialogue in managing organizational change, Management Decision, Vol.45 (6), pp. 991-1007, 2007
• (Mahdi, O., and Dawson, P.), The introduction of information technology in the commercial banking sector of developing countries: voices from Sudan, Information Technology & People, Vol. 20 (2), pp. 184-204, 2007
• (Buchanan, D. and Dawson, P.), Discourse and audience: organizational change as multi-story process, Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 44 (5), pp. 669-686, 2007
• (Farmer, J., Dawson, P., Martin, E. and Tucker, J.), Rurality, remoteness and the change process: evidence from a study of maternity services in the North of Scotland, Health Services Management Research, Vol. 20 (1), pp., 59-68, 2007
• (Dawson, P.), Change Management, The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Sociology, Malden, MA, 2006
• (Mahdi, O., and Dawson, P.), Technology policy and change in developing economies: advancing a banking strategy for world developments, International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management, Vol. 6 (3), pp. 256-273, 2006
• (Dawson, P., Buchanan, D.), The way it really happened: competing narratives in the political process of technological change, Human Relations, Vol 58 (7), pp. 845-865, 2005
• (Dawson, P.), Changing manufacturing practices: an appraisal of the processual approach, Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing, Vol. 15(4), pp. 385-402, 2005
• (Dawson, P.), Managing change: communication and political process, Key Issues in Organizational Communication, pp. 60-73, 2004
• (Dawson, P.), Understanding Organizational Change: The Contemporary Experience of People at Work, London: Sage, 2003
• (Dawson, P.), Reshaping Change: A Processual Perspective, London, 2003
• (Dawson, P.), Organizational Change stories and Management Research: facts or fiction, Journal of Australian and New Zealand Academcy of Management, 9(2): 37-49, 2003
• (Dawson, P., and Huang, J.), Reconfiguration in the context of BPR, , International Journel of Internet and Enterprise Management, 1(4): 373-388,, 2003
• (Dawson,P., McLoughlin, I., and Preece, D.), From Essex to cyberspace: virtual organizational reality and real organizational reality, Labour and Industry, 14(1): 73-89 , 2003
• (Badham, R. et al, Dawson, P.), Designer deviance: enterprise and deviance in culture change programmes, Organization, 10(4): 707-730, 2003
• (McLoughlin, I., Dawson, P.), The mutual shaping of technology and organisation: between cinema and a hard place, Tehcnological Change and Organizational Action, pp. 20-36, 2003
• (Dawson, P.), Changing supervisory relations at work: behind the success stories of Quality Management, Understanding, Managing and Implementing Quality: Frameworks, Techniques and Cases, pp.211-226, 2002
• (Dawson, P. and Gunson, N.), Technology and the politics of change at work: the case of Dalebake Bakeries, New Technology, Work and Employment, 17:1: 35-45, 2002
• (Dawson, P.), Contextual shaping in the origination, implementation and uptake of manufacturing cells, Integrated Manufacturing Systems, 12(4): 296-305, 2001
• (Panteli, A. and Dawson, P.), Video conferencing systems: changing patterns of business communication, New Technology, Work and Employment, 16(2): 88-99, 2001
• (Atkins, M. and Dawson, P.), The virtual organization: emerging forms of ICT-based work arrangements, Journal of General Management, 26(3): 41-52, 2001
• (Dawson, P. and Jensen, P. L.), Working environment and technological development: the Danish experience, Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing, Spring, 11(2): 81-7, 2001
• (Dawson, P.), Organizational change, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2001
• (Dawson, P.), Organisational change, Management and Organizational Behaviour: Challenges and Future Directions, pp.211-223, 2001

• (Dawson, P.), Multiple voices and the orchestration of a rational narrative in the pursuit of , Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 12(1): 39-58, 2000
• (Atkins, M., Dawson, P., Drinkwater R. & Gunson, N.), Computer-Mediated Communication and The Virtual Workplace: The Social and Political Processes of Change, Labour & Industry, Vol 10, No 3, April, 2000
• (Dawson, P), In at the deep end: conducting processual research on organisational , Scandinavian Journal of Management, 13(4): 389-405, 1997
• (Dawson, P.), Technology and Quality: Change in the Workplace, 1996

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