Responsibilities

Mike is a Research Officer at the Centre for Enterprise. Mike has joined the Centre in January 2008 and his work focuses on the evaluation of research projects, in particular a current ERDF (European Regeneration Development Fund) funded programme carried out by the Centre for Enterprise.

Background

Mike has previously worked in the German banking sector and for Hewlett-Packard and IBM in Germany. He graduated from the University of Pforzheim (Dip.Wirt-Ing FH) and holds an MSC and an MRes degree from Manchester Metropolitan University. He is currently completing his ESRC supported PhD research where he adopts a practice-theoretical perspective on management processes in voluntary organisations.

Research

His research focuses on social practices in organisations. His PhD research applies a practice-theoretical perspective to understanding management processes, taking seriously the commitments of the practice-philosophical literature. This research views social practices as the primary theoretical unit of analysis. It departs from traditional, orthodox perspectives in management research as it portrays individuals as non-entitative beings. Managers are seen to be engaged agents, drawing on a socially mediated, unconscious background which determines which actions are intelligible to perform. Adopting such a perspective affords novel insights into the interrelations of social practices inside and outside organisational ‘frontiers’.

Publications

Book Chapter:

Zundel, M. (2007) Individualism. In R.Thorpe and R. Holt, eds., Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research, London, Sage.

Refereed conferences:

Zundel, M. and Quinn, L. (2007) Identity construction in marketing management practice. The Fifth International Critical Management Studies Conference, 11-13. July 2007, Manchester.

Zundel, M. and Kokkalis, P. (2007) Towards a perspective of co-existing practices. The Third Organization Studies Summer Workshop, 7-9 June 2007, Crete, Greece.

Hines, T. and Zundel, M. (2006) Notions of practice and their implications for strategy research. The case of the Sri Lanka clothing industry. The Second Organization Studies Summer Workshop, 15-16 June 2006, Mykonos, Greece.

Hines, T., Zundel, M., and Quinn, L. (2006) Why worldviews matter - Revisiting the ‘individual’ in marketing research. British Academy of Management Conference, 12-14 September 2006, Belfast. Best paper prize in the Methodology Track.

Hines, T., Quinn, L. and Zundel, M. (2006) In Re-search of Excellence: That’s just so 1980s. Academy of Marketing Conference, 3-7 July 2006, London.