Member - Nanette Monin

Nanette Monin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management and International Business, at Massey University 's Albany Campus, Auckland New Zealand . She holds degrees in English Literature from the University of Otago , and a PhD in Management from the University of Auckland . She has published papers on metaphor theory, dramatism, and the deconstruction of management theory in the Journal of Management Studies, Organization and the Journal of Organizational Change Management , and on narratives and science fiction as chapters in books on organizational theory.

She is the author of Management Theory: A Critical & Reflexive Reading (Routledge, 2004) and is the co-editor of two books: Narratives of Business & Society: Differing New Zealand Voices (Longmans, 1999) and The Global Garage: Home-based business in New Zealand (Thomson Learning, April, 2005)

She teaches an undergraduate class, Professional and E-Business Writing, and Graduate papers based on critical approaches to management theory. She is supervising PhD theses on: logology and the management of knowledge; ordinary share-holders' values and investment decision-making; and critical studies of financial theory.

She is a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management Studies, and an ad hoc reviewer for the Academy of Management Review , Organization Studies, and the Journal of Organizational Change Management.

Contact Details:

email: n.monin@massey.ac.nz

Department of Management & International Business
Massey University, Albany Campus
Private Bag 102 904, North Shore MSC
Auckland
New Zealand

Tel: +64 9 414 0800 Ext 9574
Fax: +64 9 441 8109
Mobile: +64 21 520001

Publications & Papers:

Selected Publications

Monin, N. & Monin, D.J. (In Press). Does genre matter? Management Theory as a fairy tale. Organization, 12 , 4.

Sayers, J. & Monin, N. (Eds). (April, 2005). The global garage: Home-based Business in New Zealand . Melbourne : Thomson Learning/Dunmore Press.

Monin, N. (2004). Management theory: A critical & reflexive reading. London & New York : Routledge.

Chiu, P & Monin, N. (2004). Corporate social responsibility: the silent owners' perspective. In D. Crowther and K.T. Caliyurt (Eds.) Stakeholders and Social Responsibility (184-197). Penang , Malaysia : Ansted University Press.

Chiu, P. & Monin, N. (2004). Holding values, holding shares: The chemistry of shareholder buying decisions. Social Responsibility: An International Journal , 1 ,1/2.

Monin, N & Monin, D.J. (2004). Magic and the Homeopathic Construction of Organizations: A Rhetorical Inquiry. 20 th Colloquium, European Group for Organizational Studies, Philosophy of Management Theme, Ljubljana , July 1-3, 2004 .

Sayers, J. & Monin, N. (2004). Comedy, pain and nonsense at the Red Moon Café: The Little Tramp's death by service work in 'Modern Times'. Humour and Organization Theme, 2 nd Art of Management and Organization Conference , Paris 7 th -10 th Sept.

Monin N., Sayers, J. & Monin, D.J. (2004). QBL or quibble? Aesthetically responsible business & another bottom line. The Art of Oppression theme, 2 nd Art of Management and Organization Conference , Paris 7 th -10 th Sept.

Monin, N., Barry, D., & Monin, D.J. (March, 2003). Toggling with Taylor : A different approach to reading a management theory text. Journal of Management Studies, 40 , 2, 377-401.

Monin, N. & Monin, D.J. (2003). Re-navigating management theory: Steering by the star of Mary Follett. In Barbara Czarniawska and P. Gagliardi. (Eds.) Narratives we organize by (pp.57-74) . Amsterdam : John Benjamins.

Monin, N. (2003). David Holman & Richard Thorpe, 'Management & language: The manager as practical author' - A review. Management Learning , 34 , 4, 490-493.

Monin, N. (December, 2002). Douglas Ezzy, 'Narrating unemployment': A review. Journal of Industrial Relations, 44 , 4, 590-592.

Teo, G. & Monin, N. (2002). The 'Guru of Gurus': Peter Drucker, logology and the ultimate leader. Presented at the (EIASM) Workshop on Leadership Research , University of Oxford , December 16-17, 2002 .

Walker, R. & Monin, N. (2001). The purpose of the picnic: Using Burke's dramatistic pentad to analyse a company event. Journal of Organizational Change Management 14, 3, 266-279.

Monin, J. & Monin, N. (2001). The rape of the machine metaphor. In W. Smith, M. Higgins, M. Parker & G. Lightfoot (Eds.) Science Fiction and Organization (pp.61-72). London : Routledge.

Monin, N., Monin, D.J. & Walker, R. (Eds.). (1999). Narratives of Business & Society in New Zealand : Differing Voices. Auckland : Longman.

Monin, N. (1999). The sky is not the limit: Stakeholders and the New Zealand environment. In Monin, N., Monin, D.J. & Walker, R. (Eds.). Narratives of Business & Society in New Zealand : Differing Voices. Auckland : Longman. pp.222-238.

Monin N. & Monin, J. (July, 1999). The Case of the Koru: Who owns our national symbols? 17 th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Taking Liberties , Edinburgh , July 7-10.

Monin D.J. & Monin, N. (1998). The magic of two master tropes in organizations: Metonymy and synecdoche. In Combes, C., Grant, D., Keenoy, T. and Oswick, C. (Eds.). Organizational Discourse: Pretexts, Subtexts and Contexts. London : KMPC.

Monin, N. & Monin D. J. (1997). Rhetoric and action: When a literary drama tells the organization's story - . Journal of Organizational Change Management , 10 , 1, 47-60.

Monin, N. (1993). Gilding the Ethical Pill: A Literary Approach to Business Ethics. Occasional Papers Series. Palmerston North: Department of Management Systems, Massey University .