Staff Profile
Dean Pierides is Senior Lecturer in Management and Organisations at Newcastle University Business School.
Prior to this he was Lecturer in Organisations and Society at the University of Manchester, Visiting Scholar at Copenhagen Business School, Lecturer in Business and Management at the University of Stirling, Research Fellow in Organisations, Society and Markets at the University of Melbourne, Konrad Boehmer Research Fellow also at the University of Melbourne.
Dean has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a Graduate Diploma in Education, Master of Education and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Melbourne.
My research is primarily about how organisations and institutions deal with uncertainty. This is relevant for all areas of management and organisation studies but I am particularly interested in 'surprises' - events that defy our expectations because they are wholly unanticipated.
My research has focused on: (1) government agencies and other organisations that are related to emergencies, disasters and crises, whether natural, industrial, financial or otherwise; (2) financialization and the introduction of financially-oriented algorithms to organisations that are not primarily finance organisations - e.g. healthcare organisations such as the UK National Health Service; and, (3) the use of statistical and probabilistic knowledge in research and reasoning.
My fieldwork is primarily ethnographic but I am interested in a broad range of qualitative methods and I study the sociology, history, and philosophy of quantitative methods, especially their relationship to ethics.
- Pierides D, Clegg S, Cunha MP. The historical embeddedness of organizational paradoxes: Risk-related rituals and realities in emergency management. In: Bednarek, R; Cunha, M.P.; Schad, J.; Smith, W.K, ed. Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox: Investigating Social Structures and Human Expression, Part B. Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2021, pp.65-85.
- Bailey S, Pierides D, Brisley A, Weisshaar C, Blakeman T. Dismembering organisation: The coordination of algorithmic work in healthcare. Current Sociology 2020, 68(4), 546-571.
- Zyphur M, Pierides D. Statistics and probability have always been value-laden: An historical ontology of quantitative research methods. Journal of Business Ethics 2020, 167(1), 1-18.
- Zyphur M, Pierides D. Making quantitative research work: From positivist dogma to actual social scientific inquiry. Journal of Business Ethics 2020, 167(1), 49–62.
- Bailey S, Pierides D, Brisley A, Weisshaar C, Blakeman T. Financialising acute kidney injury: From the practices of care to the numbers of improvement. Sociology of Health and Illness 2019, 41(5), 882-899.
- Lord G, Pierides D. A new history of management. Academy of Management Learning & Education 2019, 18(3), 521-525.
- Pierides D, Sewell G. Mary Douglas and Institutions. In: Clegg S; Cunha MP, ed. Management, Organizations and Contemporary Social Theory. London: Routledge, 2019, pp.135-157.
- Clegg SR, Pierides D. Sociology of organisation, honourable and deferential. Studi di Sociologia 2019, 1, 93-104.
- Zyphur MJ, Pierides D. Is Quantitative Research Ethical? Tools for Ethically Practicing, Evaluating, and Using Quantitative Research. Journal of Business Ethics 2017, 143(1), 1-16.
- Bailey S, Checkland K, Hodgson D, McBride A, Elvey R, Parkin S, Rothwell K, Pierides D. The policy work of piloting: Mobilising and managing conflict and ambiguity in the English NHS. Social Science and Medicine 2017, 179, 210-217.
- Zyphur MJ, Pierides D, Roffe J. Measurement and statistics in ‘organization science’: Philosophical, sociological and historical perspectives. In: Mir R; Willmott H; Greenwood M, ed. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies. London: Routledge, 2015, pp.474-482.
- Pierides D. Political economies of security for some time to come. Journal of Cultural Economy 2014, 7(3), 371-377.
- Pierides D, Woodman D. Object-oriented sociology and organizing in the face of emergency: Bruno Latour, Graham Harman and the material turn. British Journal of Sociology 2012, 63(4), 662-679.
- Pierides D. Multi-sited ethnography and the field of educational research. Critical Studies in Education 2010, 51(2), 179-195.