Albert J. Mills  
Department of Management
albert.mills@smu.ca

 

 

 









 

 

Publications

Books,  Monographs & Edited Collections

Mills, Albert J., Helms Mills, J., Bratton, J., and Forshaw, C. (2006) Organizational Behaviour in a Global Context. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press

Mills, Albert J. (2006) Sex, Strategy and the Stratosphere: the Gendering of Airline Cultures. London: Palgrave MacMillan

Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, J. [Eds.] (2006) Special Issue of Culture and Organization on “Sensation and Organization.” 12:3

Jones, G.R., Mills, Albert J., Helms Mills, J., and Weatherbee, T.G.  (2006) Organizational Theory, Design, and Change. Canadian edition. Toronto: Pearson.

 

Cooke, B., Mills, Albert J., and Kelley, E.S. [Eds] (2006) Special Issue of Human Relations on "Management and the Cold War" Issue 59/5

Mills, Albert J.., Simmons, T., & Helms Mills, J. (2005): Reading Organization Theory: Critical Approaches to the Study of Behaviour and Structure in Organizations (3rd Edn). Toronto: Garamond Press

Mills, Albert J.., and Helms Mills, J. [Eds] (2004) Proceedings of the 22nd Colloquium of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Halifax, NS, July 7-10.

Thomas, R., Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, J. (2004) Identity Politics at Work: Resisting Gender, Gendering
Resistance. London: Routledge.


Aaltio-Marjosola, I., and Mills, Albert J. [Eds.] (2002). Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations. London: Routledge.  

 

Aaltio-Marjosola, I., Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, J. [Eds.] 2002. Special Issue of the journal Culture and Organization on `Exploring Gendered Organizational Cultures’, Issue 8, No. 2

 


Mills, Albert J. and T. Simmons (1999) Reading Organization Theory. A Critical. Second Edition. Toronto: Garamond Press.

 


 Mills, Albert J. (1998) Editor, Special Edition: Organizational Crisis. The Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology, Issue, 35: 3, August.

 


Mills, Albert J. and T. Simmons (1995) Reading Organization Theory. Toronto: Garamond Press.

 


Prasad, P., Mills, Albert J., Elmes, M. and Prasad, A. (1997) Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

 


Mills, Albert J. and P. Tancred (1992) Gendering Organizational Analysis. Newberry Park, CA: Sage.

 


Mills, Albert J. and S. Murgatroyd (1991) Organizational Rules: a framework for understanding organizational action.  Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

 

Mills, Albert J. (1976) Worker Occupations and the North East Experience. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: North East Trade union Information Unit Monograph.


Recent Journal Articles

Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, J. (2006) “Being Sensable about Sensation,” Culture and Organization, 12 (3): 199-206

Mullen, J., Vladi, N., and Mills, Albert J., and (2006) “Making Sense of the Walkerton Crisis,Culture and Organization, 12 (3): 207-220

Mills, Albert J.., and Helms Mills, J. (2006) “Masculinity and the making of Trans-Canada Air Lines, 1937-1940: a feminist poststructuralist account,” Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 23(1): 34-44

Kelley, E. S., Mills, Albert J., and Cooke, B. (2006) “Management as a Cold War phenomenon?” Human Relations, 59 (5): 603-610

Runte, Mary, and Mills, Albert J.. (2006) “Cold War, chilly climate: Exploring the roots of gendered discourse in organization and management theory.” Human Relations, 59(5): 695-720.

Grant, James D., and Mills, Albert J.. (2006) “The Quiet Americans: Formative Context, The Academy of Management Leadership, and the Management Textbook, 1930-1960, Management & Organizational History, 1(2): 201-224

McKee, M. C., Mills, Albert J.., and Weatherbee, T.G. (2005) “Institutional Field of Dreams:Exploring the AACSB and the New Legitimacy of Canadian Business Schools.”  Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 22 (4), 288-301

Dye, K., Mills, Albert J., Weatherbee, T. (2005) Maslow: Man Interrupted – Reading Management Theory in Context, Management Decision, 43, 10: 1375-1395.

Cooke, Bill, Mills, Albert J., and Kelley, Elizabeth S. (2005) “Situating Maslow in Cold War America. A Recontextualization of Management Theory”, Group & Organization Management, 30 (2), pp.129-152.

Runte, M., and Mills, Albert J. (2004) "Paying the Toll: A Feminist Post-structural Critique of the Discourse Bridging Work and Family", Culture and Organization, 10(3): 237-249

Grandy, G., and Mills, Albert J. (2004) Strategy as Simulacra? A reflective look at the discipline and practice of strategy. Journal of Management Studies, 41.7: 1153-1170

O'Connell, C., and Mills, Albert J. (2003) Making Sense of Bad News: The Media, Sensemaking, and Organizational Crisis. Canadian Journal of Communication, 28 (3): 323-339.

Lowe, L., Mills, Albert J., and Mullen, J. (2002) Gendering the Silences: Psychoanalysis, Gender and Organization Studies, Journal of Managerial Psychology, 17 (8):422-434

Mills, Albert J. (2002) `Studying the gendering of organisational culture over time: concerns issues and
strategies'
, Gender Work and Organisation, 9 (3):286-307.

Aaltio-Marjosola, I., Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, J. (2002). Exploring the gendered culture of organization. Culture and Organization, 8(2):77-79

Mills, Albert J., & Ryan, C. (2001) Contesting the Spiritual Space: Patriarchy, Bureaucracy and the Gendering of Women’s Religious Orders, Tamara (Journal of Critical Postmodern Organizational Science), 1(4): 60-79

Wicks, D. and Mills, Albert J. (2000) Deconstructing Harry: A Critical Review of Men, Masculinity and Organization. The Finnish Journal of Business Economics, 3: 327-349.

Chiaramonte, P. and Mills, Albert J. (1998) Organizational analysis goes to the movies: inserting humanities into the management curriculum.  Journal of Management Systems, 10, 3:17-30

Mills, Albert J. (1998) Toward an Agenda of Radical Organizing.   Introduction to the Special Issue.  Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology, 35/3: 281-299.

Mills, Albert J. (1998) Cockpits, Hangars, Boys and Galleys. Corporate Masculinities and the Development of British Airways. Gender, Work and Organization, 5/3, pp.172-188.

Mills, A .J. & Helms Hatfield, J. C. (1998) Air Canada Vs Canadi>n: Competition and Mergers in the Framing of Airline Cultures.  Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies, 4:93-124.

Mills, Albert J. (1997) Practice Makes Perfect: Corporate Practices, Bureaucratization and the Idealized Gendered Self. Hallion Tutkimus (Finnish Journal of Administrative Studies), 4: 272-288.

Mills, Albert J. (1997) Gender, Bureaucracy and the Business Curriculum.   Journal of Management Education, 21/3: 325-342.

Mills, Albert J. (1995) Man/aging Subjectivity, Silencing Diversity: Organizational Imagery in the Airline Industry -- The Case of British Airways.  Organization, 2(2): 243-269.

Recent Chapters in Edited Collections

Mills, Albert J. (2006) “Organizational Rules,” In Encyclopedia of Organisation Studies, edited by S.R. Clegg and J. Barley, London: Sage, in press.

Carroll, W., and Mills, Albert J. (2006) “The Role of Organizational Culture and Gender Identities in Women’s IT Careers.” In Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, pp.34-44, edited by Eileen M. Trauth. Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing

Thurlow, Amy, Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, J. (2006) Feminist Qualitative Research and Workplace Diversity. In A. M. Konrad, P. Prasad, and J. K. Pringle [Eds.] Handbook of Workplace Diversity, pp.217-236. London: Sage

Mills, Albert J. and Helms Mills, J. (2004) `When plausibility fails. Towards a critical sensemaking approach to resistance, in R. Thomas, A. J. Mills, and J. Helms Mills, Identity Politics at Work: Resisting Gender, Gendering Resistance (pp.139-157). London: Routledge.

Thomas, R., Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, J. (2004) `Resisting gender, gendering resistance’. In R. Thomas, A. J. Mills and J. Helms Mills [Eds] Identity Politics at Work: Resisting Gender, Gendering Resistance (pp.1-19). London: Routledge.

Mills, Albert J. (2004) ` Feminist organizational analysis and the business textbook’.  In Damian E. Hodgson and Chris Carter [Eds.] Management Knowledge and the New Employee, pp.30-48. London: Ashgate

Mills, Albert J. (2004). `Organizational Rules Perspective’. In C. Vibert  [Ed.] Theories of Macro-Organizational Behavior: A Handbook of Ideas and Explanations (pp.140-146). New York: M.E. Sharpe.

Gherardi, S., Marshall, J., and Mills, Albert J. (2003) `Theorizing Gender and Organizing’. In R. Westwood and S. R. Clegg [Eds].Debating Organization. Point-Counterpoint in Organization Studies (pp.325-338). Oxford: Blackwell

Aaltio, I., & Mills, Albert J. (2002) `Organizational culture and gendered identities in context’. In Gender, identity and the culture of organizations, edited by Aaltio, I., and Mills, Albert J. (pp.3-18). London: Routledge.

Mills, Albert J. (2002) `History/herstory. An introduction to the problems of studying the gendering of organizational culture over time’. In Aaltio, I., and Mills, Albert J. [Eds.] Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations (pp. 115-136). London: Routledge

Mills, Albert J. (2001) Gendering Organizational Analysis -- A retrospective. In Feminism(s) Challenge the Traditional Disciplines, pp.13-25. McGill University, MCRTW Monograph Series, No.1.

Mills, Albert J. & Wilson, E. (2001) `Personality and Stereotyping'. In E. Wilson (Ed.) Organizational Behaviour Reassessed. The Impact of Gender, pp.36-61.   London: Sage.

Helms Hatfield, J.C.  & Mills, Albert J. (2000). `Rules, Sensemaking, Formative Contexts and Discourse in the Gendering of Organizational Culture'.   In the Handbook on Corporate Culture, pp.55-70, edited by N. Askanasky, C. Wilsholm & M. Peterson.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Mills, Albert J. & Helms Hatfield, J.C. (1999) `From Imperialism to Globalization: Internationalization and the Management Text'.  In Global Management: Universal Theories and Local Realities, edited by S. R. Clegg, E. Ibarra-Colado, and L.Bueno-Rodriquez, pp.37-67.  London: Sage.

Mills, Albert J. & Helms Hatfield, J.C. (1998) Del Imperialismo a la globalizacion: la internacionalizacion y el libro de texto de Administracion.  In Administracion global tensiones entre universalismo teorico y realidades locale, edited by S. R. Clegg, E. Ibarra-Colado, and L.Bueno-Rodriquez, pp.61-112. Mexico: Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana.

Mills, Albert J. (1997) Dueling Discourses -- desexualization versus eroticism in the corporate framing of female sexuality in the British airline industry, 1945-60.  In Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity, pp. 171-198, edited by P. Prasad et al.  Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Prasad, P. & Mills, Albert J. (1997) `Is the Melting Pot Boiling Over? Dilemmas of Divesity in the Workplace.'  In Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity, pp. 3-27, edited by P.Prasad et al.   Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Mills, Albert J. (1996) `Corporate Image, Gendered Subjects and the Company Newsletter -- the Changing Face of British Airways'.  In Constituting Management: Markets, Meanings and Identities, edited by Gill Palmer and Stewart Clegg, pp. 191-211. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Mills, Albert J. (1996) `Strategy, sexuality and the stratosphere: Airlines and the gendering of organization'. In Gender Relations in Public and Private: New Research Perspectives, edited by Stina Lyon & Lydia Morris, pp.77-94.   London: MacMillan.

 

Recent Conference Proceedings

Yue, A., and Mills, Albert J. (2006) `Making Sense Out of Bad Faith: Sartre, Weick and Existential Sensemaking in Organizational Analysis.’ Proceedings of the XXIV International Colloquium of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Nijmegan, 12-15 July (http://www.scos.org/page6/assets/2006%20proceedings.pdf)

Long, B., and Mills, Albert J. (2006) `Globalization, Postcolonial Theory, and Organizational Analysis: Lessons from the Rwanda Genocide.’ Proceedings of the XXIV International Colloquium of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Nijmegan, 12-15 July (http://www.scos.org/page6/assets/2006%20proceedings.pdf)

Dye, Kelly and Mills, Albert J. (2005) “Engaging Acker: Toward an understanding of the gendered organization.” In Proceedings of the 35th annual meeting of the Atlantic Schools of Business, edited by Basu Sharma, Halifax, 29 Sept. – 1 October.

Grant, James D., and Mills, Albert J. (2005) “The Quiet Americans: Formative Context, the Academy of Management Leadership, and the Management Text Book, 1936-1960. In Proceedings of the 4th International Critical Management Studies conference, Cambridge University, July 4-6.

Lecoure, Jason S., and Mills, Albert J. (2005) “Bakhtin and the dialogical self in organizational analysis.” In Proceedings of the 4th International Critical Management Studies conference, Cambridge University, July 4-6.

Weatherbee, T. G., Dye, K., and Mills, Albert J. (2005) “There’s Nothing As Good As A Practical Theory: The Paradox of Management Education.” In Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Management Education Division, edited by P. Bailey and E. Leech, Toronto, May 28-31.

Rudderham-Gaudet, Ellen and Mills, Albert J. (2004) Assessing the Implication of a Gendered Organizational Culture on the Glass Ceiling Phenomenon:  A Study of Rotary International. Proceedings of the 2004 International Applied Business Research Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Grant, J. D., & Mills, Albert J. (2004). The worker who came in from the cold: Cold war ideology and the making of the contemporary "American worker". Proceedings of the 2004 International Applied Business Research Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Wallace, Peggy and Mills, Albert J. (2004) Don Quixote and Windmills: Self-Confrontation, the Male Mid-Life Crisis and Organizational Change – A Feminist Tale. Proceedings of the 22nd Colloquium of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Halifax, NS, July 7-10.

Thurlow, Amy and Mills, Albert J. (2004) The Self-Confrontation Method and Empowerment. Proceedings of the 22nd Colloquium of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Halifax, NS, July 7-10.

Dye, Kelly and Mills, Albert J. (2004). Gender and sensemaking: toward a theory of 'gendermaking'.  Proceeding of the 22nd Colloquium of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Halifax, NS., July 7-10.

Mills, Albert J. , Kelley, E., and Cooke, B. (2003) Management Theory in a Cold War Context: The Case of Abraham Maslow. Paper presented in the Cold War and Management Thought stream: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Critical Management Studies, Lancaster University, July.

Mullen, J., Vladi, N., and Mills A.J. (2003) Water on the Brain: making sense of the Walkerton Crisis. Proceedings of the 21st international conference of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Cambridge University, July.

Runte, M., and Mills, Albert J. (2003) I Love Lucid: Cold War, the Idealization of the American Family, and Management Theory During the Cold War. Paper presented in the Cold War and Management Thought stream; Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Critical Management Studies, Lancaster University, July.

Dye, K., and Mills, Albert J. (2002)`Diversity Management through Self Confrontation'. Proceedings of the Atlantic Schools of Business annual conference, Antigonish (NS), Nov. 7-9.

Bissonnette, A., and Mills, Albert J. (2002)`The Self Confrontation Model at Work'. Proceedings of the Atlantic Schools of Business annual conference, Antigonish (NS), Nov. 7-9.

Weatherbee, T., and Mills, Albert J. (2002) `Here Be Dragons: Psychotherapy and Organizational Change'. Proceedings of the Atlantic Schools of Business annual conference, Antigonish (NS), Nov. 7-9.

MacMillan S., and Mills, Albert J. (2002) `Existentialism, the Individual and Management Theory: Some Preliminary Thoughts'. Proceedings of the Atlantic Schools of Business annual conference, Antigonish (NS), Nov. 7-9.

Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, J. (2002) `Masculinity and the Making of Trans-Canada Air Lines, 1938-1940'.Proceedings of the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management/International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management(ANZAM/IFSAM) conference, Griffith University (Australia), July.

Grandy, G., and Mills, Albert J. (2002) `Strategy as Simulacra? A reflective look at the discipline and practice of strategy’. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Organizational Discourse (London, July).

O’Connell, C., and Mills, Albert J. (2002) `The media, sensemaking and organizational crisis. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Organizational Discourse (London, July).


Runte, M., and Mills, Albert J. (2002) `Time After Time: A Feminist Post-Structuralist Critique of the Discourse of Work-Family Conflict'. Proceedings of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (Budapest, July).

Kelley, E., Mills, Albert J., and Cooke, B. (2002) `Cold War, McCarthyism and the Development of Management Theory". Proceedings of the International Colloquium of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (Budapest, July).

Runte, M., and Mills, Albert J. (2002) `The Discourse of Work-Family Conflict: A Critique'. Proceedings of the Gender, Diversity and Organization Division of the annual meeting of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Winnipeg, May 25-28, edited by G. Miller.

Mills, Albert J., Kelley, E., and Cooke, B. (2002) `Management Theory in Context: Exploring the Influence of the Cold War’. Proceedings of the Business History Division of the Administrative Studies Association of Canada annual meeting in Winnipeg, May 25-28.  

Bercovici, D., Grandy, G. & Mills, Albert J. (2001) `Organizational Culture as a Framework for Organizational Analysis: Renewed Fad or Enduring Heuristic? Proceedings of the Atlantic Schools of Business, annual conference, Halifax, Nov. 15-17, pp. 170-180.

Mills, Albert J. (2000) `Cultural Traces and Traces of Culture: Problems of studying corporate culture over time' Proceedings of the Business History Division of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, annual conference, Montreal, July 8-11.

Helms Mills, J., & Mills, Albert J. (2000) `Sensemaking and the Gendering of Organizational Culture'. Proceedings of the Women in Management Division of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, annual conference, Montreal, July 8-11.

 

 

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