Albert J. Mills, PhD
Saint Mary’s UniversitySobey School of Business, 903 Robie Street, [City], [State] [Postal Code]
Phone: [902-420-5778]  Fax: [902-420-5119]  E-Mail: [Your E-Mail]
Home Page: http://smu-ca.academia.edu/AlbertMills
PhD Website: http://www.smu.ca/academic/sobey/programs/phd-mgmt/welcome/html
Education
Ph.D.
Industrial Sociology, University of Durham
[Dec. 1982]
M.Sc
Educational Administration, University of Southern California
[Dec. 1984]
MA
Occupational Psychology, University of Sheffield
[May, 1978]
B.A.
Sociology, University of Durham
[July, 1972]
Dip. Soc Stud. Social Studies, Oxford University
[July, 1969]
Ed. Cert.
[Aug. 1978]
Teaching, UK Department of Education and Science
Academic Positions
• Professor, Management, Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s
University
[1995-]
• Professor (02), University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio.
[2013-2015]
• Associate Professor, Management, Faculty of Commerce, Saint
Mary’s University
[1993-1995]
• Associate Professor, Organizational Behaviour, Faculty of
Administrative Studies, Athabasca University
[1986-1993]
• Senior Lecturer, Organization Theory, Bradford and Ilkley College
[1981-1986]
• Lecturer II, Organization Theory, Bradford and Ilkley College
[1978-1981]
Administrative Positions
• Director, Ph.D. Business Administration (Management), Saint
Mary’s University
[2003-current]
• Associate Dean, Frank H. Sobey Faculty of Commerce, Saint Mary’s
University
[1994-1996]
• Associate Dean, Faculty of Administrative Studies, Athabasca
University
[1987-1989]
Publications (Books, Monographs and Edited Collections) [37]
• Bridges, Donna, Neal-Smith, Sarah Jane, Mills, A. J. [eds.] (2014)
Absent Aviators: Gender Issues in Aviation (London: Ashgate).
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• Aaltio, I., Helms Mills, J., and Mills, A. J. (2014) Special Issue on:
"Disruptive Demographics: Ageing, Socio-Economic Change,
Challenges and Potentialities," International Journal of Work
Innovation.
• Bendl, R., Bleijenbergh, I., Henttonen, E., and Mills, A. J. [Eds.]
(2014) The Oxford Handbook of Diversity in Organizations: Oxford,
Oxford University Press.
• Genoe McLaren, P., Mills, A. J., and Weatherbee, T. G. (2014)
[Eds.]The Routledge Companion to Management & Organizational
History, London: Routledge.
• Brewis, J., Mills, A. J., Tyler, M. (2014) Special Issue of
Organization: Sex and Organizational Analysis: 30 Year On, 21(3)
• Rowlinson, M., Casey, A., Hansen, P. H., and Mills, A. J. (2014)
Special Issue of Organization: Narratives and Memory in
Organizations, 21(4)
• Prasad, P., Prasad, A., Mills, A. J., and Helms Mills, J. (2014)
[Eds.]The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies.
London: Routledge.
• Fatien, P., Raufflet, E., and Mills, A J. [Eds.] (2013) The Dark Side
II: Critical Cases on the Dark Side of Business. Sheffield: Greenleaf
Publishing.
• Mills, A. J. & Durepos, Gabrielle (2013) [Eds.]Case Methods in
Business Research (4 vols.). London: Sage.
• Mills, A. J., Helms Mills, J., Durepos, G., and Weatherbee, T.G.
(2012) [Eds.] Special Issue of Management & Organizational
History: Theorizing the Past, Issue 7(3).
• Durepos, G. and Mills, A. J. (2012) ANTi-History: Theorizing the
Past, History, and Historiography in Management and Organizational
Studies. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
• Benschop, Y., Mills, A. J., Helms Mills, J., and Tienari, J. [Eds.]
(2012) Special Issue of Gender, Work and Organization on
“Gendering Change: The Next Step,” Vol.19, Issue 1.
• Bryman, A., Bell, E., Mills, A. J, and Yue, A. R. (2011) Business
Research Methods. First Canadian Edition. Toronto: Oxford
University Press.
• Hope, A., Case, P., Eriksen, M., and Mills, A. J. [Eds.] (2011)
Special Issue of the Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion
on `The Role of the Contemplative in Workplace Organization:
Exploring Spiritualities, Theologies, Philosophies, and Ethics.’
• Prasad, A. and Mills, A. J. [Eds.] (2010) Special Issue of the Journal
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of Business Ethics on `Critical Management Studies and Business
Ethics: Challenging Paradigms,’ Volume 94, Supplement 2
• Mills, A. J., Helms Mills, J., and Miller, G. E. [Eds.] (2010) Special
Issue of the Canadian Journal of Administrative Studies on `Gender
and Diversity at Work II – Making Sense of 21st Century
Workplace Initiatives, ‘ 27(3).i
• Mills, A. J., Durepos, G., and Wiebe, E. [Eds.] (2010) Encyclopedia
of Case Study Research, Volumes I and II. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage.ii
• Raufflet, E., and Mills, A. J. [Eds.] (2009) The Dark Side: Critical
Cases on the Dark Side of Business. Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing.iii
• Helms Mills, J., Miller, G. E., and Mills, A. J. [Eds.] (2009) Special
Issue of the Canadian Journal of Administrative Studies on `Gender
and Diversity at Work I – Changing Theories, Changing
Organizations,’ 26(3)iv
• Helms Mills, J., Dye, K. E., and Mills, A. J. (2008) Understanding
Organizational Change. London: Routledge.v
• Mills, A. J., Helms Mills, J., Bratton, J. and Foreshaw, C. (2007)
Organizational Behaviour in a Global Context. Peterborough,
Ontario: Broadview/University of Toronto Press.vi
• Mills, A. J. and Helms Mills, J. [Eds.] (2006) Special Issue of Culture
and Organization on `Sensation and Organization,’ 12 (3)
• Mills, A. J. (2006) Sex, Strategy and the Stratosphere: the gendering of
airline cultures. London: Palgrave/MacMillan.vii
• Jones, Gareth R., Mills, A. J., Terrance G., and Helms Mills, Jean
(2006) Organizational Theory, Design, and Change. Canadian
Edition. Toronto: Pearson
• Cooke, B, Mills, A. J., and Kelley, E. [Eds.] (2005) Special issue of
Human Relations on `The Cold War and Management’, 59 (5).
• Mills, Albert J., Simmons, T., and Helms Mills, J. (2005) Reading
Organization Theory: Critical Approaches to the Study of Behaviour
and Structure in Organizations (3rd. Edition). Toronto: Garamond
Press/University of Toronto Press
• Mills, A. J. and Helms Mills, J. [Eds.] (2004) Proceedings of the 22nd
Colloquium of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 7-10.
• Thomas, Robyn, Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, Jean [Eds.]
(2004) Identity Politics at Work: Resisting Gender, Gendered
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Resistance. London: Routledge.viii
• Aaltio-Marjosola, Iiris and Mills, Albert J. [Eds.] (2002) Gender,
Identity and the Culture of Organizations. London: Routledge.ix
• Aaltio-Marjosola, Iiris, Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, Jean
[Eds.] (2002) Special Issue of Culture and Organization on
`Exploring Gendered Organizational Culture,’ 8(2)x
• Mills, Albert J., and Simmons, Tony (1999) Reading Organization
Theory: Critical Approaches to the Study of Behaviour and Structure in
Organizations, (2nd Edition). Toronto: Garamond Press.xi
• Mills, Albert J. [Ed.] (1998) Special Issue of the Canadian Review of
Sociology & Anthropology on `Organizational Crisis,’ 35 (3)
• Prasad, Pushkala, Mills, Albert J., Elmes, Michael, and Prasad, A.
[Eds.] (1997) Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas
of Workplace Diversity. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.xii
• Mills, Albert J. and Simmons, Tony (1995) Reading Organization
Theory. Toronto: Garamond Press.xiii
• Mills, Albert J. and Tancred, Peta [Eds.] (1992) Gendering
Organizational Analysis. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.xiv
• Mills, Albert J. and Murgatroyd, Stephen J. (1991) Organizational
Rules: a framework for understanding organizational action.xv
• Mills, Albert J. (1976) Worker Occupations and the North East
Experience. Monograph commissioned and published by the
North-East Trade Union Studies Unit, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.xvi
Refereed Journal Articles [86]

Foster, Jason and Mills, Albert J. (in press)”Construction Work:
Evolving Discourses of the “Worker” in Management Textbooks,
1920s to the First Decade of the 21st Century,” Journal of
Workplace Rights
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Foster, Jason, Helms Mills, Jean and Mills, Albert J. (2014)
“Shades of Red: Cold War Influences on Canadian and U.S.
Business Textbooks,” Journal of Management Education,
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Hartt, Christopher M., Helms Mills, Jean, Mills, Albert J. and
Corrigan, Lawrence T., (in press) "Sensemaking and ActorNetworks: The Non-Corporeal Actant and The Making of an Air
Canada History," Management & Organizational History
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Hilde, Rosalie and Mills, Albert J. (in press) "Making Critical
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Sense of Discriminatory Practices in the Canadian Workplace: A
Case Study of Hong Kong Chinese Professional immigrants’
experiences, voice and reflection," Critical Perspectives on
International Business, in press.
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Rowlinson, M., Casey, A., Hansen, P.H., and Mills, A.J. (2014)
Editorial: Narratives and Memory in Organizations, Organization,
21 (4), pp.441-446xvii
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Brewis, Jo., Tyler, Melissa, and Mills, Albert J. (2014) “Sexuality
and organizational analysis--30 years on: Editorial introduction,”
Organization, 21 (3), pp. 305-311.xviii
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Lips-Wiersma, Marjolein and Mills, Albert J. (2014)
`Understanding the Basic Assumptions About Human Nature in
Workplace Spirituality: Beyond the Critical Versus Positive
Divide,’ Journal of Management Inquiry, 23, pp.137-147
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Foster, Jason, Mills, Albert J., Weatherbee, Terrance G. (2014)
`History, field definition and management studies: The Case of the
New Deal,’ Journal of Management History, 20 (2), pp.179-189.
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Mills, Albert J., Weatherbee, Terrance G., and Durepos, Gabrielle
(2014) "Reassembling Weber to reveal the-past-as-history in
Management and Organization Studies," Organization, 21 (2),
225-243.xix
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Myrick, Kim, Helms Mills, Jean, and Mills, Albert J. (2014)
History-Making and the Academy of Management: An AntiHistory Perspective (in press). Management & Organizational
Historyxx
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Genoe McLaren, P. and Mills, A. J. (2013) "Internal Cohesion in
Response to Institutional Plurality: The Administrative Sciences
Association of Canada," Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences,
30(1): pp.40-55
• Golnaraghi, Golnaz and Mills, Albert J. (2013) `Unveiling the Myth
of the Muslim Woman: A Postcolonial Critique,’ Equity, Diversity
and Inclusion, an International Journal, 32 (2), pp.157-172.
• Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, J. (2013) `CMS: A Satirical
Critique of Three Narrative Histories,’ Organization, 20 (1),
pp.117-129.
• Case, Peter, Eriksen, Matthew, Mills, Albert J., & Hope, Angela.
(2012). Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of Management,
Spirituality & Religion, 9(1), 1-7.
• Fitzgerald, Catherine and Mills, Albert J. (2012) `Human Resource
Management a Function of the Past: A Content Analysis of the
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First Edition Canadian Introductory Human Resource
Management Textbooks,’ Research and Practice in Human Resource
Management, 20(1), 13-27.
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Parsons, Donna Boone and Mills, Albert J. (2012) `I’ve got a Gal
in Kalamazoo: Rotary International, change and the outsourcing
of gender,’ Scandinavian Journal of Management, 28(4), pp.311-320.
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MacMillan, Scott, Yue, Anthony R., and Mills, Albert J. (2012)
`Both how and why: Considering Existentialism as a Philosophy
of work and Management,’ Philosophy of Management, 11 (3), 2746.
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Corrigan, Lawrence T. and Mills, Albert J. (2012) `Men on Board:
Can actor-network theory critique the persistence of gender
inequity?’ Management & Organizational History, 7(3), pp.251265xxi
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Durepos, G., A. J. Mills, and T. G. Weatherbee. (2012),
"Theorizing the Past: Realism, Relativism, Relationalism & the
Reassembly of Weber," Management & Organizational History,
7(3), pp.267-281xxii
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Weatherbee, T. G., Durepos, G., Mills, A. J., and Helms Mills, J.
(2012), "Theorizing the Past: Critical Engagements” in
Management and Organization Studies", Management &
Organizational History, 7(3), pp193-202.xxiii
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Barragan, Salvador, Mills, Albert J., and Runté, Mary (2012) `The
Mexican Glass Ceiling and the Construction of Equal
Opportunities: Narratives of Women Managers,’ Journal of
Workplace Rights, Vol.15 (3-4), pp.255-277.
• Hartt, Christopher M., Mills, Albert J., Helms Mills, Jean, and
Durepos, Gabie (2012) `Markets, Organizations, Institutions and
National Identity: Pan American Airways, Postcoloniality and
Latin America,’ Critical Perspectives in International Business, 8, 1,
pp.14-36xxiv
• Durepos, Gabie, and Mills, Albert J. (2012) `Actor Network Theory,
ANTi-History, and Critical Organizational Historiography,’
Organization, 19/6, pp.703-721 xxv
• Hartt, Christopher M., Helms Mills, Jean & Mills, Albert J. (2012)
`Reading Between the Lines: gender, work, and history: the case
of the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union,’ Journal of Management
History, 18/1, pp.82-95.xxvi
• Benschop, Yvonne, Helms Mills, Jean, Mills, Albert J., and Tienari,
Janne (2012). `Editorial: Gendering Change. The Next Step,’
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Gender, Work and Organization, 19/1, pp.1-9.
• Dye, K, and Mills, A. J. (2012) `Pleading the Fifth: Refocussing
Acker's Gendered Substructure through the Lens of
Organizational Logic.’ Equality, Diversity, Inclusion: An International
Journal, 31/3, pp.278-297.xxvii
• Parsons, D.B., Sanderson, K., Helms Mills, J., and Mills, A.J. (2012)
`Organizing Women and Organizational Logic – Stewardesses for
Women’s Rights.’ Equality, Diversity, Inclusion: An International
Journal, 31/3, pp.266-277
• Myrden, Susan, Mills, A. J., & Helms-Mills, J. (2011) `The
gendering of Air Canada: A critical hermeneutic approach.’
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 28/4, pp.440-452.xxviii
• Bell Crawford, Janet and Mills, Albert J. (2011) `The Formative
Context of Organizational Hierarchies and Discourse: Implication
for Organizational Change and Gender Relations,’ Gender, Work
and Organization, 18/S1, e88-e109.
• Mills, Albert J. (2011) `Madness in their Methods: Gender
Blindness as Discursive Effect,’ Qualitative Research in
Organizations and Management, 6/1, pp.91-100.xxix
• Dye, Kelly E., and Mills, Albert J. (2011) `Dueling Discourses at
Work: Upsetting the Gender Order,’ Canadian Journal of
Administrative Sciences, 28/4, pp.427-439.xxx
• Prasad, Ajnesh & Mills, Albert J. (2010) `Fertilizing the Ground for
Social Change: Some Promising Ideas into Critically Approaching
Business Ethics,’ Journal of Business Ethics, 94/2, pp.223-225
• Prasad, Ajnesh & Mills, Albert J. (2010) `Critical Management
Studies and Business Ethics: Challenging Paradigms, Changing
Paradigms,’ Journal of Business Ethics, 94/2, pp.227-237.
• Mills, Albert J., Helms Mills, Jean, and Miller, Gloria (2010)
`Introduction: Gender and Diversity at Work II -- Making Sense
of 21st Century Workplace Initiatives.’ Canadian Journal of
Administrative Sciences, 27 (3): 204-209.xxxi
• Helms Mills, Jean, Thurlow, Amy, & Mills, Albert J. (2010)
"Making Sense of Sense Making: The Critical Sensemaking
Method," Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, 5
(2): 182-195.xxxii
• Sanderson, K., Parsons, D.B., Helms Mills, J., and Mills, A.J. (2010)
`Riding the Second Wave: Organizing Feminism and
Organizational discourse – Stewardesses for Women’s Rights.’
Management & Organizational History, 5 (3-4): 360-377.xxxiii
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• Miller, G. E., Mills, A.J. & J. Helms Mills. 2009. `Introduction:
Gender and Diversity at Work -- Changing Theories, Changing
Organizations.’ Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 26(3):
173-175.
• Genoe McLaren, P., Durepos, G., & Mills, A. J. (2009).
`Disseminating Drucker: Knowledge, Tropes and the North
American management textbook.’ Journal of Management History,
15(4): 388-403.xxxiv
• Hartt, Chris M., Mills, Albert J., Helms Mills, J., and Durepos, G.
(2009) `Guiding the Space Age From the Ground Up: Pan Am,
Cold War and Guided Missiles,’ Management & Organizational
History, 4(3), pp. 1-17.xxxv
• Weatherbee, T.G., Dye, K. E., Bissonnette, A., and Mills, A. J.
(2009) `Valuation Theory and Organizational Change: Towards a
Socio-Psychological Method of Intervention,’ Journal of Change
Management, 9 (2), pp.195-213.
• Genoe McLaren, Patricia and Mills, Albert J. (2008) `"I'd Like to
Thank the Academy": An Analysis of the Awards Discourse at the
Atlantic Schools of Business Conference’, Canadian Journal of
Administrative Studies, 24 (4): 307-316.xxxvi
• Long, Brad & Mills, Albert J. (2008) `Globalization, Postcolonial
Theory, and Organizational Analysis: Lessons from the Rwanda
Genocide,’ Critical Perspectives on International Business, 4 (4),
pp.389-409.xxxvii
• LeCoure, Jason S. & Mills, Albert J. (2008) `Dialogical aspects of the
technologies of the self in organizational analysis,’ Tamara Journal
for Critical Organization Inquiry, 7:7.1, pp.6-19.
• Yue, A., & Mills, Albert J. (2008) `Making Sense out of Bad Faith:
Sartre, Weick and Existential Sensemaking in Organizational
Analysis.’ Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 7:7.1,
pp.66-80.xxxviii
• Durepos, G., Helms Mills, J., & Mills, A. J. (2008) `Flights of Fancy:
Myth, Monopoly and the Making of Pan American Airways,’
Journal of Management History, 14 (2), 116-127.xxxix
• Genoe McLaren, Patricia & Mills, Albert J. (2008) `A product of
`his’ time? Exploring the Construct of the Ideal Manager in the
Cold War Era.’ Journal of Management History, 14:4, pp.386-403.xl
• Carroll, W.R., Helms Mills, J., and Mills, A.J. (2008) `Managing
identity and resistance: Making critical sense of call centre
management,’ Gestion (Belgian Journal of Management), 25:6,
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pp.57-82.xli
• Cooke, Bill and Mills, Albert J. (2008) `The Right To Be Human
and Human Rights: Maslow, McCarthyism and the Death of
Humanist Theories of Management,’ Management &
Organizational History, 3 (1): 27-47.xlii
• Weatherbee, T. G., Dye, K., and Mills, Albert J. (2008) `There’s
Nothing As Good As A Practical Theory: The Paradox of
Management Education,’ Management & Organizational History, 3
(2): 147-159.xliii
• Durepos, G., Mills, A. J., & Helms Mills, J. (2008) `Tales in the
Manufacture of Knowledge: Writing a Business History of Pan
American Airlines,’ Management & Organizational History, 3 (1):
63-80.xliv
• Mills, A. J., and Helms Mills, J. (2006) `Being Sensable about
Sensation,’ Culture and Organization, 12 (3): 199-206.
• Mullen, J., Vladi, N., and Mills, A. J., and (2006) `Making Sense of
the Walkerton Crisis,’ Culture and Organization, 12 (3): 207-220.xlv
• Mills, A. 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.xlvi
• Kelley, E. S., Mills, A. J., and Cooke, B. (2006) `Management as a
Cold War phenomenon?’ Human Relations, 59 (5): 603-610.xlvii
• Runte, M., and Mills, A. J. (2006) `Cold War, chilly climate:
Exploring the roots of gendered discourse in organization and
management theory,’ Human Relations, 59(5): 695-720.xlviii
• Grant, J. D., and Mills, A. J. (2006) `The Quiet Americans:
Formative Context, The Academy of Management Leadership,
and the Management Textbook, 1930-1960,’ Management &
Organizational History, 1(2): 201-224xlix
• McKee, M. C., Mills, A. 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.l
• Dye, K., Mills, A.J., Weatherbee, T. (2005) `Maslow: Man
Interrupted – Reading Management Theory in Context,’
Management Decision, 43, 10: 1375-1395.li
• Cooke, Bill, Mills, A. J., and Kelley, Elizabeth S. (2005) `Situating
Maslow in Cold War America. A Recontextualization of
Management Theory,’ Group & Organization Management, 30 (2),
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pp.129-152.lii
• Runte, M., and Mills, A. J. (2004) `Paying the Toll: A Feminist
Post-structural Critique of the Discourse Bridging Work and
Family,’ Culture and Organization, 10(3): 237-249.liii
• Grandy, G., and Mills, A. J. (2004) `Strategy as Simulacra? A
reflective look at the discipline and practice of strategy.’ Journal of
Management Studies, 41, 7: 1153-1170.liv
• O’Connell, C. and Mills, A. J. (2003) `Making sense of bad news:
The media, sensemaking and organizational crisis,’ Canadian
Journal of Communication, 28/3:323-339.lv
• Lowe, L., Mullen, J., and Mills, A. J. (2002) `Gendering the Silences:
Psychoanalysis, Gender and Organization Studies,’ Journal of
Management Psychology, vol. 17 (5): 422-434.lvi
• Aaltio, I., Mills, A. J. and Helms Mills, J. (2002) `Exploring
gendered organizational cultures,' Culture and Organization, 8: 2:
77-79.lvii
• Mills, A. J. (2002) `Studying the Gendering of Organizational
Culture Over Time: Concerns, Issues and Strategies,' Gender,
Work & Organization, 9: 3, 286-307.lviii
• Mills, A. J. and Ryan, C. (2001) `Contesting the Spiritual Space:
Patriarchy, Bureaucracy, and the Gendering of Women's
Religious Orders,' Tamara (Journal of Critical Postmodern
Organization Science), Vol. 1 (4): 60-79.lix
• Wicks, D. and Mills, A.J. (2000) `Deconstructing Harry: A Critical
Review of Men, Masculinity and Organization.’ The Finnish
Journal of Economics, 3/2000:327-349.lx
• Chiaramonte, P. and Mills, A. J. (1998) `Organizational analysis
goes to the movies: inserting humanities into the management
curriculum,’ Journal of Management Systems, 10(3):17-30.
• Mills, A.J. (1998) `Toward an Agenda of Radical Organizing.
Introduction to the Special Issue,’ Canadian Review of Sociology and
Anthropology, 35/3: 281-299.lxi
• Mills, A.J. (1998) `Cockpits, Hangars, Boys and Galleys: Corporate
masculinities and the development of British Airways,' Gender,
Work and Organizations, 5/3: 172-188.lxii
• Mills, A.J. and J. C. Helms Hatfield (1998) `Air Canada Vs
Canadi>n: Competition and Merger in the Framing of Airline
Cultures,’ Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies, 4/1: 93124.lxiii
• Mills, A.J. (1997) `Practice Makes Perfect: Corporate Practices,
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Bureaucratization and the Idealized Gendered Self,’ Hallinon
Tutkimus (Finnish journal of Administrative Studies), 4: 272288.lxiv
• Mills, A.J. (1997) `Gender, Bureaucracy and The Business
Curriculum,’ Journal of Management Education, 21/3: 325-342.lxv
• Mills, A.J. (1995) `Man/aging Subjectivity, Silencing Diversity:
Organizational Imagery in the Airline Industry - The Case of
British Airways,’ Organization, 2(2): 243-269.lxvi
• Chiaramonte, P., and A. J. Mills (1993) `Counselling Self Reflection
as an Instrument in Organizational Learning,’ British Journal of
Guidance and Counselling, 21(2) 145-155.lxvii
• Mills, A.J., and P. Chiaramonte (1991) `Organization as Gendered
Communication Act,’ Canadian Journal of Communications, vol.16:
381-398.lxviii
• Khan, A., & Mills, Albert J. (1990). Sexual Harassment. Solicitors
Journal, 134(3), 66-69.
• Khan, A., & Mills, Albert J. (1989). Discrimination: a decision on
damages. Solicitors Journal, 133(31), 988-990.
• Mills, A.J., and S.T. Molloy (1989) `Experiencing the Experienced The Impact of Non-Standard Entrants Upon a Program of Higher
Education,’ Studies in Higher Education, 14 (1), pp.41-54.lxix
• Khan, A., & Mills, Albert J. (1988). Retirement and Sex
Discrimination. Solicitors Journal, 132(22), 805-808.
• Mills, A.J. (1988) `Organization, Gender and Culture,’ Organization
Studies, 9/3, pp.351-369.lxx
• Molloy, S.T., & Mills, Albert J. (1985). The Bradford Dip.HE - Into
the Second Decade. A.C.I.D. Journal, 17(October).
• Mills, A.J. (1983) ` “Open Entry” Policy and Assessment: A case
study of the Bradford College Diploma in Higher Education
Course,’ Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, vol. 8, no.3,
pp.218-233.
• Mills, A.J. (1976) `Worker sit-ins’. Review article. Personnel Review,
vol.5, no.4, Autumn, pp.46-50.
• Mills, Albert J. (1974). Factory Work-ins New Society, August, 26
Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings [66]
 Mercer, D., Krysa, I., Helms Mills, J. Mills, J (2014) “Absent Versus
Human Hearted Leaders: Understanding Stereotypes in Canadian
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and International Students”, submitted to 30th EGOS Colloquium
'Reimagining, Rethinking, Reshaping: Organizational Scholarship
in Unsettled Times, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus
University, July 305, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
 Barragan, Salvador and Mills, Albert J. (2013) `Top women
managers navigating the hybrid gender order in Mexico.’ Paper
presented in the Diversity Sub-theme of the European Group for
Organization Studies (EGOS), Montreal, July.
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Barragan, Salvador & Mills, Albert J. (2013) `Equality and Gender
Change Strategies in Mexico: Top Women Managers as Change
Agent.’ Paper presented and in proceedings of the annual meeting
of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Calgary.
BEST PAPER, GDO DIVISION.

Murray, Robert, & Mills, Albert J. (2013). Goal Setting Theory in
Management Textbooks: Should there be warning labels? Paper
presented at the annual conference of the Administrative Sciences
Association of Canada, Calgary, June.
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Hartt, Christopher M., Mills, Albert J., Helms Mills, J., &
Corrigan, Lawrence T. (2013). Sensemaking, Actor-networks and
Memes: The non-corporeal actant and the making of an Air
Canada history. Paper presented at the Management History
Research Group Conference, Lancaster, UK.
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McNamara, J., & Mills, Albert J. (2013). Border Differences: The
Vanishing Labour Union in Management Studies in United States
and Canadian Texts. Paper presented at the 8th International
CMS Conference, Manchester.
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Coller, K. E., McNally, C., & Mills, A. J. (2013). The Inner Circle:
Key Canadian Contributors to New Institution Theory. Paper
presented at the Academy of Management (Management History
division), Orlando, FL.
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Paludi, Mariana. I., Mercer, Danielle. M., Helms Mills, Jean, &
Mills, Albert. J. (2013). Intersectionality at the intersection:
paradigms, methods and applications - review. Presented at the
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Conference in Athens, Greece.
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Paludi, Mariana, & Mills, Albert J. (2013). WebSite Story:
homogeneity, globalization and otherness. Paper presented at the
8th International CMS conference, Manchester, UK, July.
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Foster, Jason, & Mills, Albert J. (2013). Construction Work:
Evolving Discourses of the ‘Worker’ in Management Textbooks,
1920s to 2000s. Paper presented at the 8th International CMS
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conference, Manchester, UK, July.
• Krysa, Isabella, Kien, Trung Le , Helms Mills, Jean, & Mills, Albert
J. (2013). Postcoloniality in Action: RAND during the Vietnam
War. Paper presented at the 8th International CMS conference,
Manchester, UK, July.
• Foster, Jason, Mills, Albert J., & Helms Mills, J. (2013). Shades of
Red: Cold War Influences on Canadian and U.S. Business
Textbooks. Paper presented at the annual conference of the
Administrative Sciences of Canada. June
• Corrigan, L. T. and Mills, A. J. (2012) `War remembrance, protest
and politics: a dramaturgical analysis of interterritoriality,’
proceedings of the Standing Conference on Organizational
Symbolism, Barcelona, July.
• McNamara, John, Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, Jean (2012)
`Gendering of the Pan Am Flight Crew: Effects of Actor and
Network,’ proceedings of the Standing Conference on
Organizational Symbolism, Barcelona, July.
• Krysa, Isabella and Mills, Albert J. (2012) `9/11, management
theory and distancing socio-political values – a Canadian case
study,’ proceedings of the Standing Conference on Organizational
Symbolism, Barcelona, July.
• LeTrung, Kien, Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, Jean (2012) `Good
Mourning Vietnam: Rand, Research, and Resistance during the
Vietnam War,’ proceedings of the Standing Conference on
Organizational Symbolism, Barcelona, July.
• MacNeil, Ryan and Mills, Albert J. (2012) `Visualizing the ASB
Actor-Network: A Management Scholar Training Camp.’
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Atlantic Schools of
Business, Dalhousie University, Sept 28-30, Halifax.
• Myrick, Kim, Helms Mills, Jean, and Mills, Albert J. (2012) `Actor
Network Theory, Historiography, and the Early History of the
Academy of Management (1936-195).’ Proceedings of the
Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, annual meeting,
St. John’s Nfld, June.
• Golnaraghi, Golnaz (2011) and Mills, Albert J. ‘“Unveilling”
Quebec’s Bill 94 and implications for Muslim Women – A
Postcolonial Critique,’ Proceedings of the Seventh International
Conference of Critical Management Studies, Naples, July.
• Corrigan, Larry and Mills, Albert J. (2011) `Men on Board. Can
actor network theory critique gender persistence?’ Proceedings of
the Seventh International Conference of Critical Management
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Studies, Naples, July.
• Fitzgerald, Cathy and Mills, Albert J. (2011) `Human Resource
Management A Function of the Past,’ Proceedings of the Seventh
International Conference of Critical Management Studies, Naples,
July.
• Durepos, Gabie, Mills, Albert J., and Weatherbee, Terrance G.
(2011) `Theorizing the Past: Realism, Relativism, Relationalism,
and the Reassembly of Weber’ Proceedings of the Seventh
International Conference of Critical Management Studies, Naples,
July.
• Barragan, Salvador and Mills, Albert J. (2010) `Written Narratives
of Four Women Managers in Mexico: gendered managerial
identities,’ in Proceedings of the 40th Atlantic Schools of Business
Annual Conference, Halifax, Oct. 1-3.
• Sanderson, Kathy and Mills, Albert J. (2010) `The Gendered
Substructure of the Atlantic Schools of Business,’ in Proceedings
of the 40th Atlantic Schools of Business Annual Conference,
Halifax, Oct. 1-3.
• Durepos, G., and Mills, A.J. (2009) `Founding Out: An ANTiHistory account of history and the establishment of Pan American
Airways (PAA). Proceedings of the Sixth International Critical
Management Studies Conference, University of Warwick, July 1315.
• Sanderson, K., Parsons, D.B., Helms Mills, J., and Mills, A.J. (2009)
`Riding the second wave: Organizing feminism and organizational
discourse – Stewardesses for Women’s Rights.’ Proceedings of the
25th EGOS Colloquium, Barcelona, July 2-4.
• MacAulay, D., Mills, A.J., and Durepos, G. (2008) `Resembling the
Atlantic Schools of Business: Disruption, Construction and the
Black-Boxing of an Annual Conference – An Actor Network
Account.’ Proceedings of the 34th Atlantic Schools of Business
Conference, St. John’s, NF, October.
• Haddon, Arlene and Mills, Albert J. (2008) `Recapturing the Lost
History of the Atlantic Schools of Business (ASB): Stories From
the Early Years.’ Proceedings of the 34th Atlantic Schools of
Business Conference, St. John’s, NF, October.
• Parsons, Donna Boone and Mills, Albert J. (2008) `Atlantic Schools
of Business (ASB): A History of an Organization that Should not
Exist.’ Proceedings of the 34th Atlantic Schools of Business
Conference, St.John’s, NF, October.
• Barragan, Salvador and Mills, Albert J. (2008) `Narrating the ASB
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Conference: How the Conference is Socially Constructed through
Time.’ Proceedings of the 34th Atlantic Schools of Business
Conference, St. John’s, NF, October.
• Dye, K., and Mills, Albert J. (2008) `Dueling Discourses at Work:
Upsetting the Gender Order.’ Proceedings of the 24th Colloquium
of the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS),
Amsterdam, July 10-12.
• Parsons, Donna Boone and Mills, Albert J. (2008) `“It's in the
paper!" Gendered order, change, and the role of the in-house
magazine: Rotary International, 1987–2007.’ Proceedings of the
24th Colloquium of the European Group for Organization Studies
(EGOS), Amsterdam, July 10-12.
• Murray, W., Yue, A.R., Duepos, G., and Mills, A. J. (2007) “Control
challenged: Why homogenetic structures may fail in radically
changing environments.” Proceedings of the Standing Conference
on Organizational Symbolism.” Ljubljana, July.
• Durepos, G., Helms Mills, J., and Mills, A. J. (2007) `Flights of
Fancy: Myth, Monopoly and the Making of Pan American
Airways.’ Proceedings of 2007 Critical Management Studies
Conference: CMS5, Manchester, July 11-13.
• Rostis, A., and Mills, A.J. (2007) `Avec frontières: exploring the
boundaries of postcolonial management in humanitarian
assistance organizations.’ Proceedings of 2007 Critical
Management Studies Conference: CMS5, Manchester, July 11-13.
• Campbell, S. and Mills, A. J. (2007) `Mind the gap: Labour process
meets sensemaking in the re/creation of identity at work.’
Proceedings of 2007 Critical Management Studies Conference:
CMS5, Manchester, July 11-13.
• Yue, A. R., Durepos, G., McLeod, E., and Mills, A. J. (2007)
`Realizing where we have been: Critical reflections on making
history and the Atlantic Schools of Business.’ Proceedings of 2007
Critical Management Studies Conference: CMS5, Manchester,
July 11-13.
• Yue, A., and Mills, A.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
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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, A. 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, A. 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, A. 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 Colloqium of
the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Halifax,
NS, July 7-10.
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• Dye, Kelly and Mills, Albert (2004) `Gender and sensemaking:
toward a theory of 'gendermaking'.’ Proceedings of the 22nd
Colloquium of the Standing Conference on Organizational
Symbolism, Halifax, NS., July 7-10.
• Mills, A. 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, A. 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.
• Weatherbee, Terrance G. and Mills, Albert J. (2002). `Here be
Dragons: Psychotherapy and Organizational Change.’
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Atlantic Schools of Business
Conference (pp.173-183). St. Francis Xavier University,
Antigonish, NS, Nov.7-9th
• Dye, Kelly E. and Mills, Albert J. (2002). `Diversity Management
Through Self-Confrontation.’ Proceedings of the 32nd Annual
Atlantic Schools of Business Conference, St. Francis Xavier
University, Antigonish, NS, Nov.7-9th, 265-274
• Bissonnette, Angela and Mills, Albert J. (2002) `The Self
Confrontation Method at Work.’ Proceedings of the 32nd Annual
Atlantic Schools of Business Conference, St. Francis Xavier
University, Antigonish, NS, Nov.7-9th. 256-264
• Macmillan, Scott and Mills, Albert J. (2002) `Existentialism, The
Individual, and Management Theory: Some Preliminary
Thoughts.’ Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Atlantic Schools of
Business Conference (pp. 153-161),,St. Francis Xavier University,
Antigonish, NS, Nov.7-9th.
• Runte, M., and Mills, A. 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.
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• Mills, A. 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,
July. Best Paper, Organizational Theory Division
• Runté, M. and Mills, A. 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, edited by Gloria
Miller, Winnipeg, May 25-28.lxxi
• Mills, A. 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, 2002.lxxii
• Bercovici, D., Grandy, G., & Mills, A. J. (2001) `Organizational
Culture As A Framework for Organizational Analysis: Renewed
Fad or Enduring Heuristic?’ Proceedings of the 31st Annual
Atlantic Schools of Business Conference, Halifax, NS, Nov. 15-17,
pp.170-180.
• Mills, A.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, edited by Robert
Sexty, Montreal, July 8-11.
• Helms Mills, J., & Mills, A.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, pp. 12-21, edited by
David Wicks, Montreal, July 8-11.lxxiii
• Hatfield, J.C. H. and Mills, A.J. (1997) `Guiding Lights and Power
Sources: Change and the Management of Meaning in a Canadian
Electrical Utility.’ Proceedings of the 15th International
Colloquium of the European Group for Organization Studies
(EGOS), Budapest, Hungary, 3-5 July
• Mills, A.J. (1997) `Business as Gendered Discourse.’ Proceedings of
the Women in Management Division of the Administrative
Sciences Association of Canada, annual meeting, St. John's, Nfld.,
edited by Dallas Cullen, pp.22-32.
• Mills, A.J. (1994) `No Sex Please, We’re British Airways:
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Uncovering the symbols of gender in British Airways’ culture,
1919-1991.’ Proceeding of the 12th International Standing
Conference of the Organizational Symbolism Colloquium (SCOS),
Calgary, July 8-14lxxiv.
• Mills, A.J. (1994) `The Gendering of Organizational Culture: Social
and Organizational Discourses in the Making of British Airways.’
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Administrative
Sciences Association of Canada, Women in Management Division,
edited by M. DesRosiers, pp.11-20lxxv.
Chapters in Edited Collections [53]
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Bridges, Donna, Neal-Smith, Jane and Mills, Albert J. (2014)
Introduction, In D. Bridges, S. J. Neal-Smith & A. J. Mills (Eds.),
Absent Aviators: Gender Issues in Aviation (pp.1-12). London:
Ashgate.
Mills, Albert J , Bridges, Donna, and Neal-Smith, Jan (2014)
Conclusion, In D. Bridges, S. J. Neal-Smith & A. J. Mills (Eds.),
Absent Aviators: Gender Issues in Aviation (pp.333-339). London:
Ashgate.
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Weigand, Heidi, Webb, Shannon, Mills, Albert J., & Helms Mills,
Jean. (2014). The Junctures of Intersectionality: Race, Gender,
Class and Nationality and the Making of Pan American Airways,
1929-1989. In D. Bridges, S. J. Neal-Smith & A. J. Mills (Eds.),
Absent Aviators: Gender Issues in Aviation (pp.15-42). London:
Ashgate.
Mercer, D., Paludi, M., Mills, A.J. and Helms Mills, J. (in
`press) `Intersectionality at the intersection: Paradigms,
Methods, and Application – A Review’ in Bendl, R., Bleijenbergh,
I., Henttonen, E., and Mills, A. J. (eds.), Oxford Handbook on
Diversity in Organizations,’ Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Suddaby, R., Foster, William, and Mills, A. J. (2014) `History and
Institutions,’ in Bucheli, M. and Wadhwani, D. (eds.)
Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods’ (pp.100-123)
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Paludi, M., Mills, A. J., and Helms Mills, J. (2014) `Disturbing
thoughts and gendered practices: A discursive review of feminist
organizational analysis,’ in S. Kumra, R. Simpson and R. Burke
(eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Organizations (pp.53-75).
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Mills, Albert J., & Helms Mills, J. (2013). Reflections on the
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Theory-Action Debate. In V. Malin, J. Murphy & M. Siltaoja
(Eds.), Getting Things Done. Dialogues in Critical Management
Studies (Vol. 2, pp. 303-309). Bingley: Emerald.
• Mills, A.J., and Durepos, G.(2013) `Editor’s Introduction: Case
Study Methods in Business Research,’ in Mills, A. J. & Durepos,
Gabrielle [Eds.]Case Methods in Business Research (pp.xxi-xxii),
Vol.1. London: Sage.
• Mills, A. J., and Durepos, G. (2013) `Introduction: Developments
and Debates in Case Study Research in Business,’ in Mills, A. J. &
Durepos, Gabrielle [Eds.]Case Methods in Business Research (pp.
xxix-xxxiii), Vol.1. London: Sage.
• Durepos, G., and Mills, A.J. (2013) `Introduction: Positivist Case
Study Research in Business,’ in Mills, A. J. & Durepos, Gabrielle
[Eds.]Case Methods in Business Research (pp.vii-xviii), Vol.2.
London: Sage.
• Mills, A.J., and Durepos, G. (2013) `Introduction: Interpretivist and
Critical Case Study Research in Business,’ in Mills, A. J. &
Durepos, Gabrielle [Eds.]Case Methods in Business Research (pp.viiix), Vol.3. London: Sage.
• Durepos, G., and Mills, A.J. (2013) `Introduction: Case Study
Research from the Traditions of the Post and Beyond’ in Mills, A.
J. & Durepos, Gabrielle [Eds.]Case Methods in Business Research
(pp.vii-xvii), Vol.4. London: Sage.
• Mills, A. J. and Helms Mills, J. (2013) `Digging Archeology:
Discourse, Hermeneutics, Junctures and Archival Research in
Case Study Development,’ in Mills, A. J. & Durepos, Gabrielle
[Eds.]Case Methods in Business Research (pp.323-340), Vol.1.
London: Sage.
• Long, Brad & Mills, Albert J. (2013) `Globalization, Postcolonial
Theory, and Organizational Analysis: Lessons from the Rwanda
Genocide,’ in Mills, A. J. & Durepos, Gabrielle [Eds.]Case Methods
in Business Research (pp.237-260), Vol.4. London: Sage.
• Hartt, C. M., Mills, A. J., and Helms Mills, J. (2013) `On the Cold
War Front: Dissent, Misbehaviour, and Discursive Relations at
Pan American Airways’ Guided Missiles Division’ (pp.111-140), in
A. Barnes and L. Taksa (eds.) Rethinking Misbehaviour and
Resistance in Organizations. London: Emerald.
• Mills, A.J., Sanderson, K., and Helms Mills, J. (2012) `Making sense
of gender and organizational change: a feminist review of selected
articles’, in D. Boje, B. Burnes, and J. Hassard (eds.), pp.492-505,
Routledge Companion to Organizational Change. Routledge: London
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• Mills, A. J. `Sexuality’ (2011), in Key Concepts in Critical Management
Studies, edited by Mark Tadajewski, Martin Parker and Liz
Parsons, pp.206-210. London: Sage.
• Mills, A. J. and Helms Mills, J. (2011) `Digging Archeology:
Discourse, Hermeneutics, Junctures and Archival Research in
Case Study Development,’ in Rethinking the Case Study in
International Business Research, pp. 342-360, edited by Rebecca
Piekkari and Catherine Welch, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar
Publishing.lxxvi
• Mills, A. J. (2010) `Ten Things You Need to Know About
Organizational Culture: Reflections on twenty years of research’
in Leadership Through the Gender Lens. Women and Men in
Organizations, Liisa Husu, Jeff Hearn, Anna-Maija Lämskä, and
Sinikka Vanhala [Eds.], Helsinki: Hanken School of Economics.
• Mills, A. J. and Helms Mills, J. (2010) `Making Sense of Gender:
Self Reflections on the Creation of Plausible Accounts,’ in Katila,
S., Meriläinen, S. & Tienari, J. [Eds.] Working for Inclusion:
Positive Experiences from Academics Across the World, pp.244-273.
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Mills, A. J. and Durepos, G. (2010) `ANTi-History,’ in Mills, A. J.,
Durepos, G., and Wiebe, E. Sage Encyclopedia of Case Study
Research, Volume I, pp.26-29. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.lxxvii
• Mills, A. J. (2010) `Junctures,’ in Mills, A. J., Durepos, G., and
Wiebe, E. Sage Encyclopedia of Case Study Research, Volume I,
pp.509-511. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Helms Mills, J., and Mills, A. J. (2009) `Critical Sensemaking and
Workplace Inequities.’ In M. Ozbilgin (Ed.) Equality, Diversity and
Inclusion at Work: A Research Companion, pp.171-178. Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar Press.
• Helms Mills, J., and Mills, A. J. (2008) `Rules, Sensemaking,
Formative Contexts, and Discourse in the Gendering of
Organizational Culture,’ in Managerial Psychology Volume III.
Organizational and Macro Level Perspectives, edited by Yochanan
Altman, Frank Bournois, and David Boje (pp.25-45). London:
Sage.
• Mills, A. J. (2008) `Getting Critical About Sensemaking.’ In D.
Barry and H. Hansen (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of New Approaches
to Organization Studies, pp.29-30. London: Sage
• Durepos, G., & Mills, A. J. (2008) `Morality in Context: Reflections
on Voice and Exclusion.’ In D. Boje (Ed.), Critical Theory in
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Business Ethics (pp.279-293): Charlotte, NC: Information Age
Publications.
• Durepos, G., Helms Mills, J., and Mills, A. J. (2008) `The Pan
American Dream and the Myth of the Pioneer.’ In M. Kostera
[Ed], Organizational Epics and Sagas: Tales of Organizations
(pp.156-168). London: Palgrave.
• Mills, A. J. (2008) `Organizational Rules.’ In Encyclopedia of
Organisation Studies, edited by S.R. Clegg and J. Barley, London:
Sage.
• Carroll, W., and Mills, A. 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, A. 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: Sagelxxviii
• Mills, A. 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 [Eds.] Identity Politics at
Work: Resisting Gender, Gendering Resistance (pp.139-157). London:
Routledge.
• Thomas, R., Mills, A. 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, A. 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.lxxix
• Mills, A. 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, A. 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: Blackwelllxxx
• Aaltio, I., & Mills, A. J. (2002) `Organizational culture and gendered
identities in context.’ In Gender, identity and the culture of
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organizations, edited by Aaltio, I., and Mills, A. J. (pp.3-18).
London: Routledge.lxxxi
• Mills, A. J. (2002) `History/herstory: an introduction to the
problems of studying the gendering of organizational culture over
time.’ In Gender, identity and the culture of organizations, edited by
Aaltio, I., and Mills, A. J. (pp.115-136). London: Routledge.lxxxii
• Mills, A. J. (2001) `Gendering Organizational Analysis -- A
retrospective.’ In Feminism(s) Challenge the Traditional Disciplines,
pp.13-25. McGill University, MCRTW Monograph Series,
No.1.lxxxiii
• Mills, A.J. and Wilson, E. (2001) `Perception and Stereotyping.’ In
Organizational Behaviour Re-assessed. The Impact of Gender, pp.3759, edited by E. Wilson. London: Sage.lxxxiv
• Helms Mills, J. C. and A.J. Mills (2000) `Rules, Sensemaking,
Formative Contexts and Discourse in the Gendering of
Organizational Culture.’ In Handbook of Organizational Culture &
Climate, edited by N. Askanasky, C. Wilsholm, and Mark
Peterson, pp.55-70. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.lxxxv
• Mills, A.J. and 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.3767 London: Sage.lxxxvi
• Mills, A. J., & Hatfield, J. C. (1998) `Del imperialismo a la
globalización: la internacionalización y el libro de texto de
Administración.’ In S. R. Clegg, E. Ibarra, & L. Bueno (Eds.),
Administratación global tensiones entre universalismo teórico y
realidades locales . (pp. 61-112). Mexico: Universidad Autonoma
Metropolitana.lxxxvii
• Mills, A.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.lxxxviii
• Prasad, P. and Mills, A.J. (1997) `Is the Melting Pot Boiling Over?
Dilemmas of Diversity in the Workplace.' In Managing the
Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity (pp.327), edited by P. Prasad et al. Newbury Park, CA.: Sage.lxxxix
• Mills, A.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
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Gill Palmer and Stewart Clegg, pp.191-211. Berlin: de Gruyter.xc
• Mills, A.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 and
Lydia Morris, pp.77-94. London: MacMillan.xci
• Mills, A.J. (1996) `Organizational Sexuality.' In Women and Work: A
Handbook, edited by P. Dubeck & K. Borman, pp.323-325. New
York: Garland Publishing Inc.
• Mills, A.J. (1996) `Organizational Culture.' In Women and Work: A
Handbook, edited by P. Dubeck & K. Borman, pp.321-323. New
York: Garland Publishing Incxcii.
• Mills, A.J. (1993) `Organizational Discourse and the Gendering of
Identity.’ In Postmodernism and Organizations, edited by Martin
Parker & John Hassard, pp.132-147. London: Sage.xciii
• Mills, A.J. (1992) `Organization, Gender and Culture.’ In Gendering
Organizational Analysis, edited by A.J. Mills & P. Tancred Sheriff,
pp.93-111. Newbury Park, CA.: Sage.xciv
• Mills, A.J. (1989) `Gender, Sexuality and Organization Theory.’ In
Sexuality and the Organization, edited by J.Hearn, D.Sheppard,
P.Tancred-Sheriff, and G.Burrell. London: Sage, pp.29-44.xcv
• Mills, A.J. (1988) `Organizational Acculturation and Gender
Discrimination.’ In Women and the Workplace. Canadian Issues,
Volume X, No.1., edited by P.K.Kresl. Montreal: The Association
of Canadian Studies, pp.1-21.xcvi
• Mills, A.J. (1987) `In conference: Among the BSA and ASA.’ In
Enter the Sociologist, edited by N. McKeganey & S. CunninghamBurley, pp.23-34. London: Gower.
Cases [9]
• Weigand, Heidi and Mills, A. J. (2013) `The Olivieri Case: The Relationship between Clinical
Research and Corporate Sponsorship - A Tale of Ethics, Greed and Organizational Conflict’ (pp.
223-237 ) in Fatien, Pauline, Raufflet, Emmanuel, and Mills, Albert J. [Eds.] `The Dark Side 2:
Critical Cases on the Downside of Business,’ Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing Inc.
• Weigand, Heidi and Mills, A. J. (2011) `The Olivieri Case: The Relationship between Clinical
Research and Corporate Sponsorship - A Tale of Ethics, Greed and Organizational Conflict,’
International Journal of Case Studies in Management, 9/4, pp.1-11.
• Weigand, Heidi and Mills, A. J. (2010) `The Olivieri Case: The Relationship between Clinical
Research and Corporate Sponsorship - A Tale of Ethics, Greed and Organizational Conflict’ -- Case
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Presented at the Dark Side Case Competition, annual meeting of the Academy of Management,
Montreal
• Long, Brad, Grant, J.D., Mills, A. J., Rudderham-Gaudet, E., and Warren, A. (2009) `Genocide in
Rwanda: Leadership, Ethics, and Organizational “Failure” in a Postcolonial Context,’ in Raufflet, E.,
and Mills, A. J. (Eds.) The Dark Side: Critical Cases on the Downside of Business, pp.268-289. Sheffield:
Greenleaf Publishing.
• O’Connell, C., and Mills, A. J. (2009) `The Westray Mine Explosion,’ in Raufflet, E., and Mills, A. J.
(eds.) The Dark Side: Critical Cases on the Downside of Business, pp.162-178. Sheffield: Greenleaf
Publishing.
• Long, Brad, Grant, J.D., Mills, A. J., Rudderham-Gaudet, E., and Warren, A. (2006) `Genocide in
Rwanda: Leadership, Ethics, and Organizational “Failure” in a Postcolonial Context,’ in
Organizational Behaviour in a Global Context, edited by A. J. Mills, J. Helms Mills, J. Bratton & C.
Forshaw. Peterborough, ONT: Broadview Press.
• O’Connell, C., and Mills, A. J. (2006) `The Westray Mine Explosion: A teaching case,’ in Mills, A. J.,
Simmons, T., and Helms Mills, J., Reading Organization Theory. Toronto: Garamond.
• O’Connell, C., and Mills, A. J. (2006) `The Westray Mine Explosion: A teaching case,’ in Jones, G.,
Mills, A. J., Weatherbee, T., and Helms Mills, J., Organizational Theory, Design and Change. Toronto:
Pearson.
• O’Connell, C., and Mills, A. J. (2003) `The Westray Mine Explosion: A teaching case,’ in S. McShane,
Organizational Behaviour (5th Edition). Toronto: McGraw-Hill.
Other Publications [10]
• Mills, A. J. (2005) `Making your workplace gender-friendly’, The Chronicle Herald newspaper, Halifax,
(Thurs, 3 February edition, pp.C1, 3.).
• Mills, A. J., and Helms Mills, J. (2004) `Pressure to change can cost management’, The Chronicle
Herald newspaper, Halifax, (Thurs, 29th July edn.).
• Mills, A.J. (1992-94) A series of (over 20) articles on entrepreneurship and small business, and
interviews with entrepreneurs in the bi-weekly Macedonian business magazine -- Ekopres.
• Mills, A.J. (1989) `Lisa Kautz: An Interview of Sales Success’. Aurora, Spring Issue, Athabasca
University.
• Mills, A.J. (1988) `Women, Bureaucracy and Organizations’. The Link, vol.1, no.2, Public
Administration Studies newsletter, Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta.
• Mills, A.J. (1988) `Feminism and Organizational Analysis’, contribution to the Canadian Association
of University Teachers’ (CAUT) Bulletin, Special Supplement on Feminist Research.
• Chiaramonte, P., and A.J.Mills (1988) `Unsung heroes of the north’, Athabasca Advertiser, Monday,
Mar.14 edition.
• Chiaramonte, P., and A.J.Mills (1988) `Canada’s Sky Explorer’. Athabasca Advocate, February 8
edition.
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• Mills, A.J. (1987) `Gareth Morgan: An Interview’. Aurora, vol.11, no.2, Winter Issuexcvii.
• Mills, A.J. (1972) `A.S.T.M.S. Organises Post-Graduates’. Times Higher Education Supplement,
November.
Working Papers [2]
• Mills, A.J. (1987) `Organizational Acculturation and Gender Discrimination’. Athabasca University,
Faculty of Administrative Studies, Working Paper No.1.xcviii
• Mills, A.J., and G. D. M. Ursell (1978) `Union Democracy: A Critique’. Sheffield University,
MRC/SAPU Working Paper.
Book Reviews [4]
• Mills, A. J. (2009) Review of “Working The Skies. The Fast-Paced, Disorienting World of the Flight
Attendant” by Drew Whitelegg, New York: New York University Press, 2007, in Labor History, 50
(3), pp. 374-375
(http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a912883683&fulltext=713240928)
• Mills, A. J. (2002). Review of “Perspectives on Organizational Communication”, edited by Corman,
S.R., and Poole, M.S. New York: Guildford Press, 2000, in The Canadian Journal of Sociology, 27:4,
pp. 590-592.
• Mills, A.J. (1999). Review of “Life on the line in contemporary manufacturing. The workplace
experience of lean production and the `Japanese’ model”, by Rick Delbridge. Organization Studies,
21(3):647-649
• Mills, A.J. (1986). Review of “Industrial Relations and the Law in the 1980s. Issues & Future
Trends. P. Fosh & C. R. Littler (Eds.)”. Sociology, Vol.20, No.1, February.
Refereed Conference Presentations/Invited Talks [127]
 Mills, A.J. (2014) Symposium: Rewriting History/Reimagining (Critical) Mangement Studies. Paper
presented on Rethinking History: An ANTi-History Perspective, at the Academy of Management,
CMS and Management History Divisions, Philadelphia, August 5.
 Mills, A.J., Weatherbee, T.G., Foster, J., and Helms Mills, J. (2014) The New Deal for Management
and Organization Studies: Lessons, Insights and Reflections, paper presented at the Academy of
Management, Management History Division, Philadelphia, August 4.
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Bruce, K., Durepos, G., Rowlinson, M., Carraher, S. M., Coraiola, D. M., Decker, S., Foster, W.M.,
Hassard, J., Mills, Albert J., and Wadhwani, D. (2014) PDW: Historic Turns in Organization and
Management Theory, Academy of Management, CMS, OMT and MH Divisions, Philadelphia,
August 2.
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Cooke, B., Ipiranga, A.S. R., Alcadipani, R, Banerjee, A., de Barross, A. R., Coller, K. E., Kumar, A.,
Faria, A., Marens, R., Willmott, H. C., and Mills, Albert J. (2014) PDW: The Problem of the United
States of America and USAM for Management Scholarship: A Witness Seminar, Academy of
Management, CMS Division, Philadelphia, August 1.

Jammulamadaka, N., Poonamallee, L., Gilmore, S. E., Durepos, G., Murphy, J., Peredo, A., Mills,
Albert J., Ozkazanc-Pan, B., Jack, G., Scully, M., Osorio, A.E., Helms Mills, J., Dar, S., Delbridge, R.,
Derry, R., Jacques, R.S., and Voronov, M. (2014) PDW: Doctoral and New Scholar Consortium,
Academy of Management, CMS Division, Philadelphia, August 1.

Mills, Albert J. (2014) Discussant – Dark Side Case Writing Competition, Academy of
Management, CMS Division, Philadelphia, August 5.

Mills, Albert J. (2014) "Sustaining `Canada:’ Management Theory, History and `Canadian
Sensibilities.’ Invited talk (Business History, OT and GWO Divisional Speaker), Admin Science Ass
of Canada, annual conference, Muskoka, Ont., June.

Mercer, D., Paludi, M., Mills, A.J., and Helms Mills, J. (2014) “Images of the `Other’: Pan American
Air Ways, Americanism and the Idea of Latin America,” paper presented at the LAEMOS
conference, Havana, April.

Bettin, Caterina and Mills, Albert J. Mills (2014) “Blurred Dangerous Subjects. A Feminist
Existentialist Tale of the Inessential Individual in Organizations,” paper presented at the LAEMOS
conference, Havana, April.

Dever, Rhonda and Mills, Albert J. (2014) “Are We Still Telling Female Students They Can’t Lead.
A Content Analysis of Leadership Writings and Representations in Organizational Behaviour Texts
-1960-2000, “paper presented at the annual meeting of the Administrative Sciences Association of
Canada, Muskoka, Ontario, June.

Coller, Kristene and Mills, Albert J. (2014) “Untold History: Identifying the influence of
Management Scholars on Canadian Management Theory,” paper presented at the annual meeting of
the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Muskoka, Ontario, June.
•
Krsya, Isabella, Kien Trung Le, Helms Mills, J., and Mills, Albert J. (2014) `Capturing
Postcoloniality in Action: RAND, Rationality, and Subaltern Encounters during the `Vietnam War.’
Paper presented at the International Workshop on Business Ethics and Sustainable Leadership,
Jyvaskyla University, Finland, January 23.
• Mills, Albert J. (2013) Presenter at the Gender and Diversity Workshop (conveners: Bendl, R. and
Henttonen, E.) EGOS, Montreal, July.
• Mills, Albert J. (2013) `Historical studies in doctoral programs.’ Invited talk to the workshop on
`Using Historical Methods in Organizational Research’ workshop, EGOS, Montreal, July.
• Kien Trung Le, Jean Helms Mills and Albert J. Mills (2013) Un-bracketing “Wings of Freedom”
through R&R trips Pam Am, carrier or mediator of the war in Vietnam’ Paper presented at the
annual Atlantic Schools of Business conference, Antigonish, NS, Sept.
• Bell, E., Lund Dean, K., Fry, J., Giacolone, R., Helms Mills, J., Sheep, M., Mills, A. J., (2012)
`Symposium: Raising Our Game: Legitimacy and Reflexivity in the Management, Spirituality and
Religion Community,’ annual meeting, Academy of Management, Boston, August.
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• Prasad, P., Prasad, A., Mills, A. J., Ashcraft, K. L., Scully, M. (2012) `Symposium: CMS Unbound’
annual meeting, Academy of Management, Boston, August.
• McNamara, J., Mills, A. J., and Helms Mills, J. (2012)`Gendering of the Pan Am Flight Crew: Effects
of Actor and Network,’ paper presented at the SCOS conference, Barcelona, July
• Paludi, M., Mills, A. J., and Helms Mills, Jean (2012) `Disturbing thoughts and gendered practices: A
discursive review of feminist organizational analysis,’ paper presented at the EGOS conference,
Helsinki, July. Sentile, Ikiene, and Mills, Albert J. (2012) `Infinitude and the Non-Essential
Individual in Organization Studies,’ paper presented at the Standing Conference for Management
and Organizational Inquiry, Philadelphia, April.
• Sentile, Ikiene, and Mills, Albert J. (2012) `Infinitude and the Non-Essential Individual in
Organization Studies,’ paper presented at the Standing Conference for Management and
Organizational Inquiry, Philadelphia, April.
• Kien Trung Le, Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, Jean (2012) `Good Mourning Vietnam: Rand,
Research, and Resistance during the Vietnam War,’ paper presented at the SCOS conference,
Barcelona, July
• Corrigan, Larry and Mills, Albert J. (2012) `War remembrance, protest and politics: a dramaturgical
analysis of territoriality,’ paper presented at the SCOS conference, Barcelona, July.
• Hartt, Christopher M., Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, Jean (2012) `Labour Action or Communist
Sabotage? paper presented at the EGOS conference, Helsinki, July.
• Foster, Jason, Mills, Albert J., and Weatherbee, Terrance G. (2012) `The New Deal, History, and
Management & Organization Studies II: Constructing Disciplinary Actors and Theories,’ paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, August 3-7.
• Weatherbee, Terrance G., Durepos, Gabrielle, Mills, Albert J., and Hartt, Christopher M. (2012)
`Strawmen and Stereotypes: Haystacks, History, and Weber in Management Historiography,’ paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, August 3-7.
• Krysa, Isabella and Mills, Albert J. (2012) `9/11, Management Theory and distancing socio-political
values- A Canadian Case Study,’ paper presented at the SCOS conference, Barcelona, July
• Myrick, Kim, Helms Mills, J., and Mills, Albert J. (2012) `Actor Network Theory, Historiography,
and the Early History of the Academy of Management (1936-1950), paper presented at the Annual
conference of ASAC, St. John’s, June
• Heidi Weigand and Albert J. Mills (2012). “‘A Picture is Worth 1000 Words’: Analysis of the Role of
Sport in the Management Textbook, A Study of Sports Images in OB Textbooks from 1992 to
2011,” paper presented at the Annual meeting of ASAC, St. John’s, June.
• Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, Jean (2012) CMS: A Satirical Critique of Three Narratives, Cardiff
University, Cardiff Organization Research Group, April 4, 2012
• Hilde, Rosalie and Mills, Albert J. (2011) `Studying Immigrant Culture in the Canadian Workplace
Critically’, paper presented at the annual conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of
Canada, Montreal, July.
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• Weigand, Heidi, Webb, Shannon, R., Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, Jean (2011) `The Junctures of
Intersectionality: Race, gender, class, and nationality in the making of Pan American Airways, 19271991,’ Paper presented at the 27th EGOS Colloquium, Goteburg, 6-9 July.
• Mills, Albert J., Suddaby, Roy, and Foster, William M. (2011) `History and the Dynamics of
Institutions,’ Paper presented at the 27th EGOS Colloquium, Goteburg, 6-9 July.
• Mills, Albert J. Weatherbee, Terrance G., and Durepos, Gabie (2011) `Resembling Weber: the pastas-history in Management and Organization Studies,’ Paper presented at the 27th EGOS
Colloquium, Goteburg, 6-9 July.
• Warren, Amy, E. K. Kelloway, and Albert J. Mills (2010). Retirement Timing Decisions and the
Abolishment of Mandatory Retirement: Rethinking Notions of Diversity. Paper presented at the
International Federation of Scholarly Association of Management (IFSAM) conference, Paris, July.

Hartt, Christopher M., Helms Mills, Jean, Mills, Albert J., and Durepos, G. (2010) `Performing the
Past: ANTi-History, Gendered Spaces and Feminist Practice,’ Paper presented at the annual conference
of the European Group for Organization Studies, Barcelona, July.

Mills, Albert J. (2010) The Past, History, and Historiography in Management and Organizational
Studies, Invited talk to faculty and students of the York University, Atkinson College, PhD in Human
Resources Management.
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Hartt, Christopher M., Helms Mills, Jean & Mills, Albert J. (2010) Writing the men out of the story:
1933 Secession of The Halifax Men from the NS Teachers Union, paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal
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Hartt, Christopher M., Mills, Albert J., Helms Mills, Jean, and Durepos, G. (2010) Markets,
Organizations, Institutions and National Identity: Pan American Airways, Postcoloniality and Latin
America, paper presented at 3rd LAEMOS conference, Buenos Aires, March

Lips-Wiersma, Marjo & Mills, Albert J. (2010) Theorizing ‘The Whole Person’ An empirical study
on the nature of ‘being’ in organisations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of
Management, Montreal.
• Durepos, G., & Mills, Albert J. (2010) Actor Network Theory, ANTi-History, and Critical
Organizational Historiography. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management,
Montreal.
• Myrden, Susan, Mills, Albert J., and Helms Mills, Jean (2009) `The Gendering of Air Canada: A
Critical Hermeneutic Approach.’ Paper presented at the N.A.S.T.A. International Conference on
Leadership through the Gender Lens, Oct. 22-23, Hanken University, Helsinki.
• Sanderson, Kathy, Helms Mills, Jean and Mills, Albert J. (2009) `Making Sense of Gender and
Change.’ Paper presented at the N.A.S.T.A. International Conference on Leadership through the Gender
Lens, Oct. 22-23, Hanken University, Helsinki.
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• Mills, Albert J. (2009) `Ten Things You Need to Know About Organizational Culture’ – Key Note
Speaker -- N.A.S.T.A. International Conference on Leadership through the Gender Lens, Oct. 22-23,
Hanken University, Helsinki.
• Durepos, G, & Mills, A. J. (2008) “Was there ever a plot? Towards an ANTi-History,” paper
presented in the Critical Management Studies Division at the annual meeting of the Academy of
Management, Anaheim, August 8-13.
• Mills, A.J., Helms Mills, J., Durepos, G., and Weatherbee, T. G. (2008) “Organizing History:
Post-Positivist Accounts of Management and Organization in Context,” Symposium, Business History
and Gender and Diversity in Organizations Divisions, Annual Meeting of the Administrative Sciences
Association of Canada, Halifax, May 24-27.
• Dye, K., and Mills, A.J. (2007) “Outside In. Inside Out: The intersections between organizational and
popular culture in the making of gendered imagery.” Paper presented at the biennial Gender, Work, and
Organization conference, Keele University, June.
• Pyper, R., and Mills, A. J. (2007) “Risky Business: gambling for the status quo.” Paper presented at the
biennial Gender, Work, and Organization conference, Keele University, June.
• Mills, A.J., Helms Mills, J., and Clegg, S. (2007) “The Challenges of Being Critical.” Panel Session,
CMS Doctoral Consortium, Academy of Management annual conference, Philadelphia, Aug 3-10.
• Prasad, P., Konrad, A., Prasad, A. Ely, R., Helms Mills, J., and Mills, A.J. (2007) “Arriving at (Un)
Common Grounds: Researching Workplace Diversity.” Symposium, CMS Division PDW Sessions,
Academy of Management annual conference, Philadelphia, Aug 3-10.
• Dye, K., and Mills, A. J. (2007) “Pleading the Fifth: Refocusing Acker's Gendered Substructure
through the Lens of Organizational Logic.” Paper presented at the GDO Division of the Academy of
Management annual conference, Philadelphia, Aug 3-10.xcix
• McLaren, P. G., and Mills, A. J. (2007) ”A Product of `His’ Time? Exploring the construct of the ideal
manager in the Cold War era.” Paper presented at the Management History Division of the Academy of
Management annual conference, Philadelphia, Aug 3-10.
• Shengelia, K., and Mills, A. J. (2006) “History on the Web? Constructing a sense of ASB from internet
fragments – challenges and limitation.” Paper presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Atlantic
Schools of Business, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB.
• Bell Crawford, J., and Mills, A. J. (2006) “Atlantic Schools of Business: A Gendered History.” Paper
presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Atlantic Schools of Business, Mount Allison University,
Sackville, NB.
• Benschop, Y., Calas, M., Fletcher, J.K., Forray, J.M., Helms Mills, J., Stager Jacques, R., Krefting,
L.A., Martin, J., Mills, A. J., Smircich, L., and Tienari, J. (2006) `Symposium: The Uneasy Marriage
Between Feminism and CMS.’ Critical Management Studies Interest Group of the Academy of Management,
annual meeting, Atlanta, August 15.
• Dye, K., and Mills, A.J. (2006) `Acker’s Gendering Processes: An Unfinished Tapestry.’ Paper presented
at the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division of the Academy of Management, annual meeting,
Atlanta, August 15.
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• Carroll, W., Mills, A.J., and Helms Mills, J. (2006) `Managing Power and Resistance: Making Critical
Sense of Call Centre management’. Paper presented at the Critical Management Studies Interest Group of
the Academy of Management, annual meeting, Atlanta, August 15.c
• Durepos, G., Mills, A.J., and Helms Mills, J. (2006) `Tales in the Manufacture of Knowledge: Writing
a Business History of Pan American Airways’. Paper presented at the Management History Division of
the Academy of Management, annual meeting, Atlanta, August 15.
• Long, B., Grant, J.D., Mills, A. J., Rudderham-Gaudet, E., and Warren, A. (2006) “Genocide in
Rwanda: Leadership, Ethics, and Organizational “Failure” in a Postcolonial Context.” Paper presented
in the Dark Side V Case Writing Competition, Academy of Management annual conference, Atlanta, Ge.,
August 5-11.
• Bell-Crawford, J., and Mills, A.J. (2006) `Formative Context of Organizational Hierarchy and
Discourse: Implications for Organizational Change and Gender Relations’. Paper presented at the 7th
International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Identity, Ideology and Idiosyncrasy, Amsterdam, July
26-28.
• Jacques, R., Mills, A.J., Ashcraft, K. L., Bell, E., Bourne, K.A., Forray, J. M., Jones, D., Kark, R., Kolb,
D. M., Kornberger, M., Putnam, L. L., Ross-Smith, A.E., Sardy, R., and Taylor, S. (2005) “Feminist
Theorising: New Vision of Gender for the 21st Century or Passing Fad of the 20th? Symosium –
annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Honolulu, August 5-10.
• Mills, Albert J., and Cooke, B. (2005) “The Right to Be Human and Human Rights: Maslow,
McCarthyism and the Death of Humanist Theories of Management.” Paper presented at the
Counterfactual History and Business conference, Warwick University, December 15-16.
• Bean, Connie, and Mills, Albert J. (2005) “Space to Earth: Reconstructed Critical Theory and the
Spirit-at-Work Debate.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Standing Conference on
Organizational Symbolism, Stockholm, July.
• Wallace, Peggy and Mills, Albert J. (2005) “Space - The Last Frontier or Endangered Species?
A Critical Look at the Diminishing Personal Space in the Lives of Workers.” Paper presented at the
annual conference of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Stockholm, July.
• Carroll, W., and Mills, Albert J. (2005) “Foucault, Bakhtin and Agency in Organization Studies:
Towards A Non-Essentialist Theory. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of
Management, Honolulu, August 5-10.
• Thun, B. and Mills, Albert J. (2005) “Dying to Succeed: Mortality, Ego, Identity, and the Executive.”
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the European Group for Organization Studies, Berlin, July.
• Warren, Amy M., and Mills, Albert J. (2005) “Death at Work: Towards a more authentically safe
workplace.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada,
Toronto, May, 28-31
• Rowlinson, M., Cooke, B., Proctor, S., Rippin, A., Helms Mills, J., Kurowshi, L. L., Bell, E., Hassard, J.,
Mills, A.J., Wilson, J. F., and Marens, R. (2004). Symposium: Management and Organizational History
– The Future of the Past. Academy of Management meeting, New Orleans, August 6-11.
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• Bissonnette, A., Dye, K., Mills, A. J., Thurlow, A., and Wallace, P. (2004) The Self Confrontation
Method and Organizational Change: Changing Organizational Realities. Symposium presented at the
3rd International Conference on the Dialogical Self, Warsaw, Aug.26-29.
• Grandy, G., and Mills, A. J. (2004) `The Multi-dimensionality of Career Development for Self
Employed Exotic Dancers.’ Paper presented at Sub-theme 9. Careers: Relating the Individual to the
Context of The 20th European Group for Organizational Studies Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia,
July 1 – 3.
• Weatherbee, T., McKee, M., and Mills, A.J. (2004) `You Say Tomato I Say Tomahto: Business School
Change and the Unpacking of Constituent Institutional Legitimacies’. Paper presented at Sub Theme
40: Changing Institutions, Instituting Change: Heterogeneity in Institutional Theories of Organization, of the
20th European Group for Organizational Studies Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 1 – 3.
• McKee, M., Weatherbee, T., and Mills, A.J. (2004) `The AACSB and Legitimacy: Creating Canadian
Business School Wannabes’. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Administrative Sciences
Association of Canada’, Quebec City, June 5-8.
• Dye, Kelly and Mills, A. J. (2004) Psychoanalysis and Sex Discrimination at Work: The SelfConfrontation Method as Actionable Knowledge. Interactive Paper Presentation, Gender and Diversity
Division of the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, New Orleans, 5-11 August.
• Grant, Jim and Mills, Albert J. (2004) L’Employee, the Meaning of Work, and Management Thought
in the Cold War. Paper presented at the 22nd Colloquium of the Standing Conference on Organizational
Symbolism, Halifax, NS, July 7-10.
• Weatherbee, T., Dye, K., Bissonnette, A., and Mills, A. J. (2003) Valuation Theory and Multi-Level
Organizational Change. Paper presented at the Organizational Change Division of the Academy of
Management Annual Meeting, Seattle, August.
• Kelley, E., Mills, A.J., and Cooke, B. (2003) The Contextual Genesis of Modern Management
Thought: Maslow, McGregor and the Cold War. Interactive paper, presented at the Management History
Division of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Seattle, August.
• O’Connell, C., and Mills, A.J. (2003) The Westray Mine Explosion. Academy of Management Critical
Management Studies and Management Education Divisions, “Dark Side” case competition.
[Competition winner]
• Lowe, L., Mullen, J., and Mills, A. J. (2002) `Gendering the Silences: Psychoanalysis, Gender and
Organization Studies'. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Denver,
August.
• Grandy, G., and Mills, A. 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, A. J. (2002) `The media, sensemaking and organizational crisis’. Presentation
at the 5th International Conference on Organizational Discourse (London, July)
• Mills, A. J., Helms Mills, J. C., and Grandy, G. (2001) Flying in the face of reality: Gender Rules in
Trans-Canada Air Lines and the British Overseas Airways Corporation, 1937-1947. Paper presented
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at the International Colloquium of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS), Dublin,
June 30-July 4.
• Aaltio-Marjosola, I. & Mills, A.J. (2000) The Organizational Culture Debate and the Gendered
Understanding of Organizational Realities. Paper presented at the Women in Management Division of
the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Montreal, July 8-11.
• Mills, A. J. & Helms Mills, J. (2000) Gendered Representation in the Culture of Air Canada, 19371999: Identifying Junctures. Paper presented at the International Colloquium of the Standing Conference
of Organizational Symbolism, Athens, Greece.
• Mills, A. J. (1999) Gendering Organizational Analysis: A retrospective. Paper presented at
Feminism(s) Challenge the Traditional Disciplines: A Colloquium in Honour of Peta Tancred,
Montreal: McGill University, Sept.ci
• Hatfield, J. C. & Mills, A.J. (1999) Rules, Sensemaking, Formative Contexts and Discourse in the
Gendering of Organizational Culture. Presentation to the First International conference on Critical
Approaches to Management, UMIST, Manchester, UK, July 14-16.
• Mills, A. J. (1999) Symposium [with Sylvia Gherardi, David Collinson and Judi Marshall] on the
future of gender and organizations research, Gender & Management Stream, 14th International
Colloquium of the European Group for Organisation Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, July
4-6. cii
•
Mills, A. J. (1999) British Airways Over Time -- A Problem With History: Corporate History and the
study of Gender, Race and Organizational Culture. Paper presented at the 14th international colloquium
of the European Group for Organization Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK July 4-6.
• Mills, A.J. and Wicks, D. (1998) Deconstructing Harry: Men, Masculinity and Organization -- A
critical review. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, San Diego,
California, August, 7-12.
• Helms Hatfield, J., and A.J. Mills (1998) A shock to the system: Re-engineering the Culture. A case
study of BPR in a Canadian Utility Company. Paper presented at the 13th Colloquium of the European
Group for Organisation Studies (EGOS), Maastricht, the Netherlands, July 9-11.
• Mills, A.J. & Novkovik, S. (1998) The Impact of Employee Ownership on Organizational Control and
Decision-Making in a Competitive Market Economy: A Gender Sensitive Comparative-Perspective.
Paper presented at the 16th International Conference of the Standing Conference on Organizational
Symbolism, Guaruja, Brazil, July 2-5.
• Mills, A. J. (1997) Invited speaker -- at the invitation of the Helsinki School of Economics -- to lecture
on gender and organizations, Helsinki, August 25-30.
• Mills, A. J. (1997) Symposium presentation, Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity: Between Platitudes &
Critique -- Lessons for the classroom, Women in Management division, Academy of Management
annual meeting, Boston, MA. August 8-13.
• Rosile, G. A. & Mills, A.J. (1997) Symposium presentation, Sexual Harassment, Same Old Story,
Women in Management and Human Resources Management divisions, Academy of Management
annual meeting, Boston, MA. August 8-13.
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• Ryan, C. and Mills, A.J. (1997) Contesting the Spiritual Space: Patriarchy, Bureaucracy and the
Gendering of Women’s Religious Orders. Paper presented at the 13th International Colloquium of the
Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS), Warsaw, Poland, 8-12 July.
• Mills, A. J. (1996) `Discourse is not for women: gender and the business curriculum.’ Invited speaker to
conference on `Break-Throughs, Break-Ins and Break-ups. The Impact of Gender on the Disciplines',
Institute for Gender Research, University of Calgary, September 19-21
• Chiaramonte, P. , and Mills, A.J. (1996) Organizational analysis goes to the movies: inserting
humanities into the management curriculum. Paper presented at the Innovation in Teaching track,
Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, annual meeting, Montreal, May. Best paper award
• Mills, A.J. (1996) Invited participant to the `Gender and Organizational Change' conference, La
Sapiniére, Quebec, April.
• Mills, A.J. and Helms Hatfield, J.C. (1995) From Imperialism to Globalization: Internationalization
and the Management Text - A Review of Selected US Texts. Paper presented at the 6th APROS
(Asian-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies) International Colloquium, Cuernavaca, Mexico,
December 11-14ciii.
• Mills, A.J. (1995) Practice Makes Perfect: Corporate Practices, Bureaucratization and the Idealized
Gendered Self. Paper presented at the 13th International Standing Conference on Organizational
Symbolism (SCOS), Turku, Finland, June 29-July 1.
• Mills, A.J. and J.C. Helms Hatfield (1994) Air Canada Vs Canadi>n: Competition and Merger in the
Framing of Airline Cultures. Paper presented at The Metaphors in Organizational Theory & Behaviour
Conference, King's College. London, July 28th-30th July. Organized by Cliff Oswick and David Grant.
• McDonald, M., Fitzgerald, P., Mills, A.J. and McKeene, C. (1994) Panel Discussion: `Teaching
Women in Management', Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, annual meeting, Halifax,
June.
• Mills, A.J. (1994) Sexuality and the Business Curriculum. All-Academy Symposium, Academy of
Management Annual Meeting, August 12-16, Dallas.
• Mills, A.J. (1994) Gendering Organizational Culture: From Theory To Analysis - Identifying
Discriminatory Discourses In The Making Of British Airways. Paper presented at the Business History
Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, annual meeting, Halifax, June.
• Mills, A.J. (1994) Duelling discourses - desexualization versus eroticism in the corporate framing of
female sexuality: Images of British Airways, 1945-60. Paper presented at the British Sociological
Association annual conference, Preston, March 28-31civ.
• Mills, A. J. (1993) Corporate Image, Gendered Subjects and the Company Newsletter - The Changing
Faces of British Airways. Paper presented at the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS)
conference, Paris, July 6-8thcv.
• Mills, A.J. (1993) The Gendering of Organizations: Images of Women and Men in the Development
of British Airways. Invited seminar for the Centre for Women’s Studies in the Social Sciences, University of
Copenhagen, May 18th.
• Mills, A. J. (1993) The Gendering of Organizational Knowledge. Invited paper given at the Centre for
Women’s Studies in the Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen, May 17th.
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• Mills, A.J. (1993) Man/aging Subjectivity, Silencing Diversity: Organizational Imagery in the
Airlines Industry. Paper presented as part of the Symposium on `Is The Melting Pot Boiling Over?
Dilemmas of Diversity in the Workplace’, chaired by P. Prasad, Eastern Academy of Management
annual meeting, Providence, RI, May 5-8thcvi.
• Mills, A.J. (1993) Sexuality, Strategy & the Stratosphere: Airlines and the Gendering of the
Organization. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the British Sociological Association, University of
Essex, Colchester, England, April 5-8.
• Putti, J. M., and Mills, A. J (1992) Work Related Values of Female Employees in the Asia-Pacific
Region. Paper presented to the Women in Management Division, Academy of Management annual meeting,
Las Vegas, August 12-15.
• Mills, A.J. (1992) Gendering Organizational Knowledge: Neglect, Developments, Issues. Invited
presentation to the Pre-conference workshop of the Women in Management Division, Academy of
Management annual meeting, Las Vegas, August 12-15.
• Mills, A.J. (1992) Sexuality, Strategy and the Stratosphere. Paper presented to the business Faculty,
Netherlands International Institute for Management, July 31.
• Mills, A.J. (1992) The Gendering of Organizational Culture :Towards a model of analysis. Paper
presented at the Critical Approaches To Organization session of the Annual Meeting of the
C.S.A.A., Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, May.
• Mills, A. J. (1992) Sexuality and the Airline Industry: The Making of an Organizational Culture.
Paper presented to the Management Dept, University of Nijenrode, Holland, January 22nd. cvii
• Mills, A.J. (1991) Invited participant, National Center for Management Research & Development
(NCMRD) conference on `Current Canadian Research on Women in Management’, Winnipeg,
Man., May 5-7th.
• Mills, A.J. (1991) `Organizational Discourse and the Gendering of Identity’. Paper presented at the
“New Theories of Organization” conference, Keele University, April 3-5cviii.
• Chiaramonte, P., and A. J. Mills (1991) Coaching Self Reflection in Organizations. Paper presented at
the Gestalt and Confluent Education Conference, Los Angeles, California, April.
• Mills, A.J. (1991) `Gender, power, and organizational realities’. Invited colloquium speaker,
University of Western Ontario, School of Business Administration, March. 22nd.
• Mills, A.J. (1991) Invited participant, `Gender, Science and Ethics in Management II’, US National
Science Foundation (NSF)-funded workshop, Amherst, MA., February.
• Mills, A.J., & P. Chiaramonte (1990) `Organization as Gendered Communication Act’. Paper
presented at the `Critical Perspectives II’ session of the CSAA annual meeting, University of
Victoria, May.
• Mills, A.J. & P. Chiaramonte (1990) `Organization as Gendered Act of Communication’. Paper copresented to Athabasca University Research Workshop.
• Mills, A.J. (1989) Invited participant, NCMRD workshop on `Current Research on Women in
Management’, Kingston, Ont., Sept.24-26.
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• Mills, A.J. (1989) Invited participant, `Gender, Science and Ethics in Management I’. NSF-funded
workshop, Utah, Oct.19-23.1
• Mills, A.J. (1989) `Reversal Theory and Organizational Analysis - A Critique’. Paper presented at the
4th International Conference on the Theory of Psychological Reversals, Athabasca University, Alberta,
Canada, June 20-23.
• Mills, A.J. (1988) `Leadership & Power’. Keynote lecture to Queen Elizabeth II Hospital (Grand
Prairie, Alberta) Introduction to Supervision course.
• Mills, A.J. (1988) `Research as Problematic: The Case of the Small University’. Presentation to
Canadian Federation of Deans of Management and Administrative Sciences (CFDMAS) Annual
Meeting, Halifax, NS., June 8th.
• Mills, A.J. (1988) Invited participant to International Symposium on The Psychological Theory of
Reversals and Organizational Analysis, Athabasca University, February 22-26.
• Mills, A.J. (1987) `Stop: Women Working. How To Improve Your Organizational Culture’. Address
to the Alberta Provincial Registrars Association, N.A.I.T., Edmonton, 22nd Oct.
• Mills, A.J. (1987) `Organizational Acculturation and Gender Discrimination’. Paper presented at a
joint CSAA & International Canadian Studies Council (ICSC) session, The Learneds Society, Hamilton,
Ont., June.cix
• Mills, A.J., J. Wynne, and S. T. Molloy (1986) ` “Educating Rita?” Or manning the barriers to
women’s education. Paper presented at the British Sociological Association (BSA) annual meeting,
University of Loughborough, April.
• Mills, A.J., and S. T. Molloy (1985) `Experiencing the Experienced: the impact of non-standard
entrants upon a course of higher education. Paper presented at the Society for Research into Higher
Education (S.H.R.E.) conference on “Continuing Education”, University of London, December.
Unpublished Research
• Mills, Albert J. (1973) `The History of the North Road Railwaymen’s Struggle, 1962-66’.
•
Mills, A.J. (1983) `A Comparison of the Academic Ability and Success of Unqualified with Qualified
Higher Education Students in Britain’. [MSc Thesis. Graduate Studies in Education, University of
Southern California].2
•
Mills, A.J. (1978) `Factors of Change in Union Member Involvement’. [MA thesis. University of
Sheffield, MRC/Social & Applied Psychology Unit, England].3
1 Of the 34 participants the nine invited male organizational scholars, included Roy Jacques, Mark Meier, Gareth Morgan,
Gary Powell, Karl Weick, David Whetton, Alan Wilkins, Paul Shavristar and myself.
2 Parts of this thesis have been reproduced in Mills, 1983; Mills & Molloy, 1985a, 1985b; Molloy & Mills, 1985; Mills, Wynne,
and Molloy, 1986; Mills & Molloy, 1989; and Singh, 1990.
3 Parts of this thesis have been reproduced in Mills & Ursell (1978).
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•
Mills, A.J. (1982) `Worker Occupations, 1971-75: A socio-historical analysis of the development and
spread of sit-ins, work-ins and worker co-operatives in Britain’ [Ph.D. thesis. Department of
Sociology, University of Durham, England]4
Academic Service
• Mills, Albert J., Helms Mills, Jean, Durepos, Gabie and Weatherbee, T. (2011) Convenors SubTheme: Theorizing the Past, 7th International Critical Management Studies conference, Naples,
July.
• Mills, A.J. (2008) Workshop on Critical Discourse Analysis. 34th Atlantic Schools of Business
Conference, St.John’s, NF, October.
• Mills, A. J. (2008-09) Co-Divisional Chair, Critical Management Studies Division, Academy of
Management, Chicago, Il., August 7-12.
• Mills, A. J. (2007-08) Co-Interest Group Chair Elect, Critical Management Studies Interest group,
Academy of Management, Anaheim, Ca., August 8-13.
• Mills, A. J. (2006-07) Co-Program Chair, Critical Management Studies Interest group, Academy of
Management, Philadelphia, PA., August 3-8.
• Mills, A. J. (2005-06) Co-PDW Chair, Critical Management Studies Interest group, Academy of
Management, Atlanta, Ga., August 11-16.
• Mills, A. J. (2005) Organizer of the Critical Management Studies Interest group/Management
Education Division Dark Side IV Case Writing Competition, Academy of Management annual
meeting, Honolulu.
• Mills, A. J. (2005-06) Co-organizer Professional Development Workshops, Critical Management
Studies Interest Group of the Academy of Management, annual meeting Atlanta.
• Co-organizer of the 35th Annual Conference of the Atlantic Schools of Business, Halifax, Sept.30-Nov.
1 (2005)
• Co-editor, Special Issue of Culture and Organization, on `Sensing Organization’ (2006)
• Co-editor, Special Issue of Human Relations, on `Management and the Cold War’(2006)
• Mills, A. J. (2004) Organizer of the Critical Management Studies Interest group/Management
Education Division Dark Side III Case Writing Competition, Academy of Management annual
meeting, New Orleans, August 6-13
• Mills, A. J., (with J. Helms Mills) (2004) Co-organizer of the 22nd Standing Conference on
Organizational Symbolism, Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 7-10.
• Mills, A. J. (2003) Conference Chair, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada annual
conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Mills, A. J. (with J. Helms Mills) (2001) Gender Stream organizers, Critical Management Studies II
Conference, Manchester, UK, July 9-13.
4 Parts of this thesis have been reproduced in Mills, 1974; Mills, 1976a, 1976b; Mills & Murgatroyd, 1991.
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• Mills, A. J. (1999) Gender-stream coordinator for the international conference on Critical Approaches
to Management, UMIST, Manchester, UK, July 14-16.
• Mills, A.J. (with A. Kondra) (1998) Division and Program Co-Chair of the OB/HRM/IR division for
the Atlantic Schools of Business (ASB) annual meeting at Acadia University, Oct.30-Nov. 1.
• Mills, A.J. (1998) Chair -- session on “The Rhetoric of Competition”. 16th International Conference of
the Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism, Guaruja, Brazil, July 2-5.
• Mills, A. J. (with Hurst, D.) (1998) co-organizer & chair of session on Critical Approaches to
Organization, at the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association,
Ottawa, May 31- Jun. 3.
• Benschop, Y. and Mills, A.J. (1997) Organizers - Symposium on Critical Reflections on Diversity,
Academy of Management annual meeting, Women in Management Division, Boston, MA, August
8-13.
• Mills, A.J. (1997) Co-organizer (with D. Hurst), chair and discussant, C.S.A.A. Session `Critical
Approaches to Organizations’, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, June 7-10. Mills, A.
J. (1996) Workshop facilitator. Women-in-Management Division, Academy of Management, Preconference session on Feminist Research Methods.
• Mills, A.J. (1996) Co-organizer (with D. Hurst) and discussant, C.S.A.A. Session `Critical Approaches
to Organizations’, Brock University, Ontario, Canada, June 1-5.
• Mills, A.J. (1995) Chair, Session - Values and Ideals, 13th International Conference of the Standing
Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Turku, Finland, June 28-July 1.
•
Mills, A.J. (1994) Chair, Session - Management and Metaphors, Metaphors in Organizational Theory
And Behaviour Conference, King's College, London, 28-30 July.
• Mills, A.J. (1994) Co-organizer (with P. Tancred) and discussant, C.S.A.A. Session `Critical
Approaches to Organizations I: Issues of Sexuality’, University of Calgary, Canada, June 10-13.
• Mills, A.J. (1994) Co-organizer (with P. Tancred) and chair, C.S.A.A. Session, `Critical Approaches to
Organizations II: Structure, Culture and Organizing', University of Calgary, Canada, June 10-13.
• Mills, A.J. (1992) Co-organizer (with P. Tancred). C.S.A.A. Session `Critical Approaches to
Organizations’, University of PEI, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, May.
• Mills, A.J. (1991) Co-organizer (with P. Tancred)/Chair. Canadian Sociology & Anthropology
Association (C.S.A.A.) sessions, `Critical Perspectives on Organizations I: Issues of Gender, Race
and Class,’ and `Critical Perspectives on Organizations II: Gender at Work’. Queens University,
Kingston, Ont., June 1-4.
• Mills, A.J. (1990) Co-organizer(with P. Tancred) /Chair. CSAA conference sessions, `Critical
Perspectives on Organizations, I: Women and Organizations’, and `Critical Perspectives on
Organizations, II: Organizations as Impediments to Humanism’, University of Victoria, May.
• Mills, A.J., [with P. Tancred-Sherrif, and D. Sheppard] (1989) co-organizer/chair, CSAA sessions,
`Critical Perspectives on Organizations, I’ and `Critical Perspectives on Organizations, II’ ,
University of Laval, Quebec City, PQ, June 4-6.
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• Mills, A.J., [with P. Tancred-Sherrif, and D. Sheppard] (1988) co-organizer/chair, CSAA sessions,
`Critical Perspectives on Organizations, I’ and `Critical Perspectives on Organizations, II’ ,
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ont., June 4-6.
Editorial and Review Activities
• Co-Chair, International Board of Critical Management Studies (2013-current)
• International Member, International Board of Critical Management Studies (2012-current).
• Vice-President (Communications) – Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Executive, 19992002; 2007-2009
• President-elect/Conference Chair - Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Executive, 20022003
• President - Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Executive, 2003-2004.
• Past President - Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Executive, 2004-2005.
• Member at Large - Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Executive, 2005-2006.
• Vice-President Liaison/Executive Member, Atlantic Schools of Business Executive, 2004-current.
• Editorial Board, Equal Opportunities International (2006- )
• Editorial Board, Tamara, the journal of postmodern organizational science (2002-current).
• Editorial Board, Leadership (2005-current)
• Editorial Board, Organization (2004-current)
• Editorial Board, Management & Organizational History (2005-current)
• Editorial Board, Management Decision (2014• Editor, Workplace Review (2004-current)
• Associate Editor, Organization (2011-2014)
• Associate Editor, Gender, Work, and Organization (2005-current)
• Associate Editor, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management (2008-current)
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Work Innovation (2012-current)
• Editorial Board, Journal of Workplace Rights, (2007-current)
• CMS Divisional Editor, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, (2007-2011).
• Guest Editor (with I. Aaltio and J. Helms Mills) special issue of the Journal of Work Innovation on
"Disruptive Demographics: Ageing, Socio-Economic Change, Challenges and
Potentialities," (2013)
• Guest Editor (with J. Helms Mills & G. Miller) special issue of the Canadian Journal of Administrative
Sciences on `Gender and Diversity at Work II: (2010)
• Guest Editor (with J. Helms Mills & G. Miller) special issue of the Canadian Journal of Administrative
Sciences on `Gender and Diversity at Work: Changing Theories. Changing Organizations’ (2009)
• Guest Editor (with B. Cooke and E. Kelley) special issue on the Cold War and management, Human
Relations (2006)
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• Guest Editor (with I. Aaltio and J. Helms Mills) special issue on `Exploring Gender and the Culture
of Organizations,’ Culture and Organization. (2002)
• North America Representative on the international board of the Standing Conference on
Organizational Symbolism, 2000-2002; 2009-2012.
• Editor, ASAC Electronic Bulletin (Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, information
bulletin), 1999-2002. Developed and managed the site – http://www.asac.ca
• Guest Editor, Special Edition on `Organizational Crisis', The Canadian Review of Sociology and
Anthropology (Fall, 1998 edition).
• Associate Editor, The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (June 1996-98).
• Editorial Board, The International Journal of Work, Organization and Emotion (2009-2012)
• Special Editorial Board Member, Administrative Science Quarterly - Issue on Critical Perspective on
Organizational Control, 1995-6.
• Guest Editor, Aurora, Special Management Issue, Spring 1989, Athabasca University.
• Occasional Reviewer, for a number of journals including Studies in Technological Innovation and Human
Resources , Academy of Management Review , Group & Organization Studies , Journal of Management
Studies , Organization Studies , Organization.
Research Funding5
• Hearn, J. (Lead Investigator), Mills, A.J. Advisory Board Member “Age, Generation, and
Changing Work-Life Balance and Boundaries: An Intersectional and Interactive
Ethnographic Study” (2013-15), The Academy of Finland, 480, 000 Euros ($ 672,000)
• Mills, A.J. (PI, with Jean Helms Mills, Gabie Durepos, Trish McLaren, Amy Thurlow, and Terrance
Weatherbee (2013-2018) “Reassembling Canadian Management Knowledge: Dispersion,
Equity, Identity and History,” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada)
(SSHRC) General Research Grant, $182,000.
• Helms Mills, J. (PI, with Albert Mills, CI) (2013-2018) “Intersectionality at Work: Time, Location,
and Socio-political context -- case study of four international airlines, Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council (Canada) (SSHRC) General Research Grant, $158,000.
• Mills, A. J. (2012) A4 Funding to Further Develop SSHRC Grant on Sociology of Management
Knowledge, Faculty of Graduate Studies, $5,000.
• Mills, A. J. (2012) “Management Theory and the New Deal”, Faculty of Graduate Studies, $1,800.
• Mills, A.J. (2009) “Business in History: the social construction of business in the annals of the
American Historical Association.’ Faculty of Graduate Studies, Saint Mary’s University, $1800
5 Since 1985 I have received approximately $640,000 in research grants.
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• Mills, A. J. (2008) “The Ideal Typical Employee and the Cold War,” Faculty of Graduate Studies,
Saint Mary’s University, $1900.
• Mills, A. J. (2007) “Feminism, Management Theory and the Cold War,” Faculty of Graduate Studies,
Saint Mary’s University, $2000.
• Mills, A. J. (with J. Helms Mills, M. Runte, E. Kelley & R. Runte) (2007-2010) “Management Theory
in Context: the Cold War and the development of management theory in North America.” Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) (SSHRC) General Research Grant, (20072010), $103,000 .
• Mills, A.J. (2006) `The Atlantic Schools of Business: A History’, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Saint
Mary’s University, $1900.
• Mills, A. J. (with J. Helms Mills) (2004) The gendering of organizational culture over time: Case
studies of selected US airlines, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) (SSHRC)
General Research Grant, (2004-2007), $84,600
• Mills, A. J. (with J. Helms Mills) (2004) The Gendering of Organizational Culture over Time: A Case
Study of Pan Am Saint Mary's University Senate Research Committee grant, $2,200
• Mills, A. J. (2003) Management Thought and the Cold War: The Academy of Management during the
McCarthy Era. Saint Mary's University Senate Research Committee grant, $2,000
• Mills, A. J. (with J. C. Hatfield) (1999) Gender and change in the Canadian airline industry: a
comparative study of Air Canada and Canadi>n over time. Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council (Canada) (SSHRC) General Research Grant, (1999-2002), $58,000.
• Mills, A. J. (1997) Organizational Change. Saint Mary's University Senate Research Committee grant,
$2,200
• Mills, A. J. (1996) The impact of monastic order on the development and effectiveness of selected
women's religious orders. Saint Mary's University Senate Research Committee grant, $1,450.
• Mills, A.J. (1995) Women and the Making of British Airways: A History of the Employment and Role
of Women in the development of British Airways, 1919-94. Saint Mary's University Senate
Research Committee grant, $2,314
• Mills. A.J. and J.C. Helms Hatfield (1994) `Air Safety: A preliminary investigation into the
behavioural aspects of airline crashes'. Saint Mary's University Senate Research Committee grant,
$1,140.
• Mills, A.J. (1991) `The Gendering of Organizational Culture: A Socio-historical Analysis of Selected
UK., and North American Airlines’. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada)
(SSHRC) General Research Grant #92-0476, (1991-94). $64,000.
• Mills, A.J. (1991) `The Self-Confrontation Counseling Method and Organizational Development:
Toward a model’. SSHRC small grants award, $2200.
• Mills, A.J. (1990) ` Breaking the Code: Maintaining cultural cohesion in the face of external change the case of the Communist Party of Gt. Britain’. SSHRC small grants award, $3200.
• Mills, A.J., and P. Chiaramonte (1988) `From Bush League to Big League: A study of Max Ward and
the Development of Wardair’. Alberta Heritage Historical Resources Foundation grant, $7800.
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• Mills, A.J. (1988) `When Women Enter - The Impact of Female Member on a Previously Male-Only
Organization’. SSHRC small grants award, $3500.
• Chiaramonte, P., and A. J. Mills (1988) `Personality and Organizational Structure’. SSHRC small
grants award (continuation funding), $1200.
• Chiaramonte, P., and A. J. Mills (1987) `Personality and Organizational Structure’. SSHRC small
grants award, $1600.
• Mills, A.J. (1987) `The Non-Standard Entrant in Higher Education in Britain’. SSHRC small grants
award, $2700
• Mills, A.J. (1986) `Organizational practices and gender identity - a preliminary investigation’. SSHRC
small grants award, $4000.
• Mills, A.J., and S. T. Molloy (1985) `Non-Standard entrants into higher education’. Bradford & Ilkley
College, seed funding, $1500 (£750)
Part Time, Visiting and Adjunct Positions
• Professor (02), Business School, University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio), 2013-2015
• Senior Research Fellow Visiting, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, 2008, 2009 (March), 2009
(Sept-Dec), 2011(Feb-April), 2013 (September-November).
• Distinguished Research Visitor, Queen Mary University of London, Oct-Nov, 2012.
• Visiting professor, Caucuses School of Business, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2006, 2007.
• Adjunct professor, Netherlands International Institute for Management, Maastricht, The
Netherlands, 1993-97.
• Adjunct professor, International Public Enterprises Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1993-5.
• Visiting Professor and Consultant, Organizational Behaviour. Netherlands International Institute for
Management, (RVB), 1991-93.
• Instructor, Management. University of Alberta, Faculty of Extension, Certificate in Public
Administration. (Fall, 1989; Winter 1991).
• Instructor, Organizational Conflict Management, University of Alberta, Management Citation
Program, 1988-91.
• Instructor, Organization Theory. University of Alberta, Faculty of Extension, Public Management
Citation Programme, 1988-91; Certificate in Public Administration, Spring 1988.
• Visiting Professor, Management. University of Lethbridge, Summer School, 1989.
• Preceptor, Health Services Administration. University of Minnesota, 1988-89.
• Faculty Exchange Professor, Organization Theory. Lesley College, Cambridge, MA (USA), Jan-Mar.,
1986; Jan-April, 1980.
• Temporary Lecturer, Organizational Analysis. Bradford University (England), Oct.1 - Dec.31, 1985.
• Faculty Exchange Professor, Organization Theory. UMASS, Amherst (USA), March-April, 1979.
• Faculty Exchange Professor, Organization Theory. Keene State College, NH (USA), Mar-Apr., 1978.
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• Part-time lecturer, Business Studies. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic (England), 1973-75.
• Part-time lecturer, Industrial Sociology. University of Durham (England), 1972-73.
Teaching and Research Awards
• 2008: Recipient of the Saint Mary’s University President’s Award for Excellence in Research.
• 2006: Named one of ten `popular professors’ by McLean’s Magazine
• 2005: Named one of ten `popular professors’ by McLean’s Magazine
• 2004: Named one of ten `popular professors’ by McLean’s Magazine
• 2003: Named one of ten `popular professors’ by McLean’s Magazine
• 2003: Case Competition winner (with C. O’Connell), Critical Management Studies and Management
Education joint competition, Academy of Management annual meeting, Seattle, August.
• 2002: Named one of ten `popular professors’ by McLean’s Magazine
• 2002: Best Paper Award (with J. Helms Mills) Organization Theory Track, IFSAM Conference, Gold
Coast, Australia, July.
• 2001: Honorable Mention Award (with E. Kelley and B. Cooke) Business History Division,
Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, annual meeting, London (Ont), June.
• 1996: Best Paper Award (with P. Chiaramonte), Innovation in Teaching Track, Administrative
Sciences Association of Canada, annual meeting, Montreal, May.
• 1996: Saint Mary's University, MBA Students' Association - `Professor of the Year' award.
• 1994: Honorable Mention Award, Women in Management Division, Administrative Sciences
Association of Canada, annual meeting, Halifax, June.
Courses/Subject Areas Taught
• Organizational Behaviour (undergraduate/MBA)
• Organization Theory (undergraduate/DBA/PhD)
• Management Thought (PhD)
• Qualitative Research Methods (PhD)
• Critical Management Studies (PhD)
International Teaching Experience
• Qualitative Research Methods (PhD course) University of Eastern Finland, 2013, 2014
• Organizational Culture and Change (University of Helsinki, Viiki Campus - Finland) – class for
undergraduate degree in communications – 2011
• Critical Sensemaking (Invited Talk, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio) – 2011, 2012
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• Gender; Critical Sensemaking; and Critical Management Studies (National PhD Workshop – Kataja),
held at Helsinki School of Economics, 1995; the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, 2009, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013
• Organizational Culture and Gender Aspects of Management -- Lappeenranta University of
Technology, Finland (1 week, 2 credit program) – 1997, 1998,1999; 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.
• Organizational Culture/Qualitative Research Methods – (3 day faculty workshops) – National
Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam – 2010, 2011, 2013.
• Critical Management Studies -- PhD course, Hanken University, Helsinki, Finland (developed and
taught the course) – 2009
• Quality in Research/Qualitative Research Methods/Gender and Management (PhD and MBA course
modules), Hanken University, Helsinki, Finland, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012.
• Organizational Behaviour (MBA Course) -- Caucuses Business School, Tbilisi, Georgia – 2006, 2007.
• Strategic Management (4 day course module for public officials and private entrepreneurs) – Hanoi,
Vietnam – 1995
• Management (4 week programme for Heads of Department), Kuwait City, Kuwait. – 1994
• Management Education (sections of a 3-week program for Czech business educators), taught at Saint
Mary’s University, 1994.
• Management (Organized, coordinated and taught 10 -ay management programme for Jordanian
managers), at Saint Mary’s University, 1994.
• Management (Coordinated and taught sections of 3-week programme of management education for
Slovakian business educators), Saint Mary's University, 1993
• Organizational Behaviour (1 week MBA course module), the International Public Enterprises
Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 1993
• Organizational Behaviour (Executive MBA course), the Agricultural University of Debrecen,
Hungary (for consortium that included RVB, Holland; Agricultural University, Debrecen, Hungary;
Wageningen Agricultural University, Holland; and University College, Dublin, Ireland). 1991, 1992
• Management (1 week diploma course in management for Political & Sociological Institute, Skopje,
Macedonia (in conjunction with the RVB, Holland). 1991, 1992.
• Entrepreneurship and Organizational Behaviour, (diploma and MBA courses), the Netherlands
International Institute for Management (RVB), Holland. 1991-1993.
• Organizational Behaviour (Taught certificate, and degree-level courses at 4 Canadian Universities -A [Athabasca University; University of Alberta; University of Lethbridge; Saint Mary’s
University], 1986-1993
• Industrial Relations/Organization Studies (Taught degree-level courses as visiting professor at 3
Universities in the USA – University of Massachusetts, Keene State College (NH), and Lesley
College (MA) – 1978, 80; 86.
• Organization Studies (Taught certificate, diploma, and degree courses at 2 Universities, 1 Polytechnic,
1 College of Higher Education, and one adult education institution in Britain – including Newcastle
University, Durham University, Newcastle Polytechnic, and Bradford & Ilkley College), 1972-86
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Thesis Supervision
Doctoral Level [15, incl. 11 graduates]
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Rosalie Hilde Athabasca University, DBA `Workplace (In)Equality: Making Critical Sense of Hong
Kong Chinese Immigrant Experiences in the Canadian Workplace’ (2011-2013): Successfully
defended, March, 2013.
Salvador Barragan Sobey PhD Thesis: `Top Women Managers Navigating the Hybrid Gender
Order in Mexico: Subjective Resistance between Local/Global Divides.’ Successfully defended,
August 2013
Doreen MacAullay Mellon Sobey PhD Thesis: `The Modernized Public Servant: A Poststructuralist perspective on the ‘modernization’ of the Canadian Public Service,’ successfully
defended May, 2013.
Janet Marie Porter Athabasca University, DBA `The Hegemonies and Antagonisms of Gender
Equity Discourse in the Engineering Profession’ (2011-2013): Successfully defended, February 13,
2013.
Adam Rostis. Sobey PhD Thesis: `Problematizing Crisis: Re-reading Humanitarianism as
Postcolonial Organizing’ – Successfully defended, February, 11, 2011. [Winner: Best Dissertation
Award, 2011 – Critical Management Studies Division, Academy of Management].
Gabrielle Durepos [Assistant Professor, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia] Sobey PhD
Thesis: “ANTi-History: Toward an Historiographical Approach to (Re)assembling Knowledge of
the Past” – successfully defended, September, 2009. [Winner: Best Dissertation Award, 2010 –
Critical Management Studies Division, Academy of Management]
Scott MacMillan [Assistant Professor, Mount Saint Vincent University, NS] Sobey PhD
“Understanding the Pieces of a Life: An Existential Approach to the Meaning of Work” –
successfully defended, June, 2009
Peggy Wallace [Associate Professor, Trent University, Ontario] Sobey PhD Thesis: “Stories
within stories: The Career Stories of Women Chartered Accountants A Multi-layered Analysis of
Career Choice, using Beauvoir’s Feminist Existentialism as the Lens” – successfully defended, May,
2007. [Winner: Outstanding Paper, 2009 – Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management
journal]
Kelly Dye [Full Professor, Acadia University] Sobey PhD Thesis “Acker Through the Looking
Glass: Exploring Gendered Sub-Structures as a Method for Understanding the Gendering of
Organizations” – successfully defended, November 2006.
Mary Runte [Associate Professor, U. Lethbridge] Sobey PhD Thesis: “Labour and Birth Stories. A
Feminist Poststructural Reading of the Discourse of Work-Family Interaction” – successfully
defended, October 2005.
Gina Grandy [Associate Professor, Mount Allison University] Thesis on the interrelationship
between culture, socialization, and organizational outcomes. Saint Mary’s University, 2000-2005
[Transferred to/completed at Northumbria University, UK].
Donna Parsons [PhD Candidate], `Gender and Succession in Family Business,’ Sobey PhD, 2009current.
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Kathy Sanderson [PhD Candidate] Organizational Structuring and Feminist Organization, Sobey
PhD, 2008-current
Golnaz Golnaraghi Athabasca University, DBA `Women Immigrants in Canada’ (2011-)
Stefanie Ruel Athabasca University, DBA `Gender Discrimination in the Canadian Space Agency’
(2013-)
Masters Level [20]
• Ryder, Lawrence. MBA, MRP Thesis: ”The Effects of Downsizing on Survivors’ Attitudes and
Behaviour Towards Work. A Study of the Canadian Military”, Saint Mary’s University, Department
of Management, 1999.
• Hedgecoe, Greg. MBA, MRP Thesis: “In Search of Clarity: An investigation into change and change
resistance. Saint Mary’s University, Department of Management, 1999.
• Silver, Janice. MBA, MRP Thesis: "Site-Based Planning: A Case Study of the Halifax School Board".
Saint Mary's University, Department of Management, 1999.
• Caron, J.M. MBA, MRP Thesis: “A study of the predisposition to organizational change in a defence
research establishment workforce”, Saint Mary’s University, Department of Management,1999.
• Burt, Vaughn. MBA, MRP Thesis: “An investigation of possible factors affecting the attitudes of
white males towards employment equity programs”, Saint Mary’s University, Department of
Management,1999.
• Duarte, Melisa de Azevado. MBA, MRP Thesis: “Examining shifting attitudes toward gender
management and leadership styles in the 1990s”,Saint Mary’s University, Department of
Management,1999.
• Chan, Juli. MBA, MRP Thesis: “Effective Recruitment Methods for International Assignments. Saint
Mary’s University, Department of Management, Saint Mary’s University, Department of
Management, 1998.
• Maher, Kelly. MBA, MRP Thesis: "Strategic Planning and Educational Outcomes". Saint Mary's
University, Department of Management, 1996 (Still in progress).
• McAdam, Tracy. MBA, MRP Thesis: “A study of the degree of work/family conflict in male
management in the Atlantic Canada Region”. Saint Mary’s University, Department of Management,
1997.
• Imai, Ray. EMBA, EMRP Thesis: “Post-Gutenberg: Strategic Uses of Information In Small Law
Firms, Executive M.B.A. Programme, Saint Mary’s University, 1998.
• Chisholm, Roderick. MBA, MRP Thesis: “A study of political correctness and its effect on business
thinking and imagery”. Saint Mary’s University, Department of Management, 1998.
• Bridgeo, Gregory T. MBA, MRP Thesis: "Organizational Values & Peformance -- a Relationship
Model”. Saint Mary's University, Department of Management, 1997.
• Page, Lewis. MBA, MRP Thesis:"The Participative Development of a Tissue Bank Service Quality
Evaluation Tool". Saint Mary's University, Department of Management, 1997.
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• LaRusic, Helen. MBA, MRP Thesis: "Facets of Educational Leadership". Saint Mary's University,
Department of Management, 1996.
• Carmichael, David. MBA, MRP Thesis: "Educational Leadership in a Regional School Board”, Saint
Mary's University, Department of Management, 1997.
• Chamberland, Jacques. EMBA Thesis: "Air Traffic Control Training Effectiveness". Saint Mary's
University, Department of Management, 1995.
• Skinner, Ron. MBA Thesis: "The Transfer Dilemma: A Needs Based Approach To Employee
Transfers". Saint Mary's University, Department of Management, 1994.
• Ujhelyi, Maria. MBA Thesis: “The Development of Curriculum, Course Content and Methods for
Teaching of Business Courses at the University of Debrecen”. Netherlands International Institute
for Management/Debrecen Agricultural University (Hungary), 1993
• Erdi, Sandor. MBA Thesis: “Human Resource Initiatives in the Region of South Limburg (NL): Some
Lessons for Debrecen”. Netherlands International Institute for Management/Debrecen Agricultural
University (Hungary), 1993.
• Maphosa, Genuis. MBA Thesis: “Employee Motivation in Zisco (An Analysis of Factors at Play)”.
Netherlands International Institute for Management, 1992
PhD Dissertation Committees [8]
• Ajnesh Prasad [Schulich School of Business, York University `Dangerous Liaisons in the Global
Economy of Human (In)Security: Conceptualizing the Institutional Nexus of Social Conflict’ (2008current) – successfully defended 2012.
• Brad Long [Associate Professor, StFx University] Sobey School of Business Thesis. “In The
Beginning Was The Word: The Discursive Construction Of Spiritual Work And Spiritual
Workers” – successfully defended April, 2011
• Natalie Vladi [Snr. Manager] Sobey PhD `An investigation into the individual and organizational
correlates of expatriate success, satisfaction and organizational commitment’ – successfully
defended, March 2008.
• Amy Thurlow [Associate Professor, Mount Saint Vincent University] Sobey PhD Thesis:
`Meaningful Change: Making sense of the discourse of the language of change’ – successfully
defended May, 2007.
• Anthony Yue [Assistant Professor, Mount Saint Vincent University] Sobey School of Business
Thesis “Talking About Gossip at Work:” (2008-2013). Successfully defended in August, 2013.
• Chris Hartt [Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University] Sobey School of Business Thesis `The NonCorporeal Actant as a Link between Actor-Network Theory and Critical Sensemaking: A Case
Study of Air Canada’, Successfully defended in April 2013.
• William Murray [Sobey School of Business]
• Marcelle Allen [Sobey School of Business]
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PhD External Examiner [10]
• Jonna Louvier (2013) “Diversity, Difference and Diversity Management: A Contextual and Interview
Study of Managers and Ethnic Minority Employees in Finland and France,” PhD Thesis,
Department of Management and Organization, Hanken University, Finland.
• Cagri Topal (2011) “Risk Construction at a Public Hearing: An Application of Socio-cultural
Theories into Organizational Risk,” PhD Thesis, Department of Strategic Management and
Organization, University of Alberta
• Yolanda Coppolino (2008) “Surviving in a Male-Dominated Organizational Culture. A Feminist
Perspective. A Case Study,” PhD Thesis, Sociology of Education and Equity Studies, Ontario
institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
• Pamela Lowen (2006) “Identity Construction Through Interorganizational Relations,” PhD Thesis,
Business PhD Program, University of Alberta
• Petri Koistinen (2003) “Development and Use of Organizational Memory in Close and Long-Term
Cooperation Between Organizations”, PhD Thesis, Lappeenranta University of Technology,
Lappeenranta, Finland.
• Christa Sharpe (2003) “Projected ideal and Presented Reality: What a Foucauldian Perspective on
Appearance in the Workplace Tells Us About Corporate Discrimination,” PhD Thesis, Faculty of
Management, University of Calgary
• Rosemary McGowan (2002) “Organizational Discourses: Sounds of Silence”, PhD. Thesis, Schulich
School of Business, York University.
• Liisa Husu (2000) “Sexism, Support and Survival in Academia” PhD Thesis, Faculty of Social
Sciences, University of Helsinki.
• George, Ranjan Michael Jeyadas (1999) “Job Satisfaction, Gendered Work-Lives and Orientations
to Work”, Ph.D. Thesis, Management Studies, University of Western Sydney Macarthur,
Australia.
• Miller, Gloria E. (1998) “The Frontier `Cowboy’ Myth and Entrepreneurialism in the Culture of the
Alberta Oil Industry: Professional Women’s Coping Strategies: An Interpretive Study of Women’s
Experience”, Ph.D. Thesis, Faculty of Management, University of Calgary.
Administrative Experience and Background
Leadership/Management
• International CMS Board Co-Chair (2013-2016)
• Past President, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, 2004-05
• President/Past President/Vice President (Communications)/Conference Chair (2003) Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, 1999-2010.
• Divisional Chair/Past Chair/Chair Elect/Program Chair/Professional Development Chair – Critical
Management Studies Division, Academy of Management, 2005-2010.
• Vice President (External Affairs)/Executive Director/Conference Chair (2005) – Atlantic Schools of
Business, 2005-2011.
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Committee Membership
• I have served on a variety of Internal and External University Bodies at all levels of university life -including the Social Sciences Federation of Canada (1990-1992); the Alberta Universities
Coordinating Council, 1988-91; the Management Education Coordinating Council (Alberta), 198789; SSHRC National Doctoral Committee, 2010-2013.
• At Saint Mary's University I have served as the Sexual Harassment (Male) Alternate (1995-2005);
member of the Sexual Harassment Advisory Committee (1995-2005); the University Review
Committee, and the Joint Committee on Technologically Mediated Course Offerings.
• Currently I am on the PhD Council and PhD Admissions Committee (2003-current), the Faculty
Executive of the Sobey School of Business (2003-current), and the Faculty of Graduate Studies
Awards Committee (2006-current).
Consultancy
• Review of Memorial University of Newfoundland’s MBA Programme, October 2012.
• Review of Nipissing University’s BComm, 2010
• Consultancy work in Kuwait for the International Language Institute (Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada)/Shuwaikh Consulting Agency, Kuwait (1994).
• Consultancy for the Netherlands International Institute for Management (1991-93)
• Consultancy for Dutch Civil Service Group (1976)
Other Service on Professional Bodies
• Academy of Management (incl. OB/OT/WIM-GDO, and CMS sections; Executive Committee
Member, Women in Management Division, (1996-97); Case Writing Competition Organizer, CMS
Interest Group/Division (2005-2010)
• Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (University Representative, 1987-92; Editor of `The
Bulletin,’ 1999-2001.
• Association of Colleges Implementing Diploma in Higher Education Courses (National Committee
Member, 1983-84).
• Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (Associate Editor of the Canadian Review of
Sociology and Anthropology, 1996-98)
• International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) – Board Member, 20012007.
• Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism – North America Representative on the Board,
2000-2007; 2009-2012.
Industrial Work Experience
Occupation/Organization [Dates]
• Railway Guard; Driver/London Transport (1965-67).
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• Warehouseman/Supermarket (1965)
• Window Cleaner/Self Employed (1965)
• Auxiliary Electrician/British Relay Television (1964-65)
• Machine Operator/Wilson’s Rope Factory (1963-64)
• Trainee Estimator/British Insulated Calendar Cables (1962-63)
• Trainee Butcher/West Ltd (1962)
• Office Clerk/Gaskell & Chambers (1961-62)
Trade Union Position [Various lay positions held over the period 1963-75, at branch, town, district
and national level.]
• Branch - National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); National Union of General & Municipal Workers
(NUGMW); Electrical Trades Union (ETU); Association of Scientific, Technical, and Managerial
Staffs (ASTMS)
• Town – Crook Trades Council delegate.
• District - N.U.R., London District Committee delegate.
• National - ASTMS National Advisory Committee member
Personal Details
• Nationality: Canadian
• Date of Birth: 22nd November 1945.
• Birthplace: London, England
Appendix 1: Selected Book Reviews
• Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity:
Eastman (Academy of Management Review, April 1998) “Managing the Organizational Melting Pot is a
thoughtful, internally diverse, leftist take on organizational diversity issues that should make many of
its readers uncomfortable . . .Both defenders and critics of the diversity mainstream have needed a welledited, reflective book that takes issue with that mainstream. In Melting Pot they have such a book”.
• Gendering Organizational Analysis:
Ramsay, Studies on Women Abstracts, 11(5), 1993: "Together, this collection of writing shows that
gender makes an overwhelming difference to organizational reality"
Jacques (Academy of Management Review, Oct.1993): “... a useful collection for educating the
organization theorist who still believes it is possible not to do gender research”.
Blum (Contemporary Sociology, 3/93): “I will use this book to teach undergraduates in organizational
studies, who often seem more receptive to critical feminist than class-based approaches. It would also be
a useful addition to courses emphasizing the interdisciplinary contributions of gender and feminist
studies.”
Long Range Planning, Vol.26, April 1993:”This is a useful starting point...”
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• Organizational Rules:
Marshall (Journal of Management Studies, Vol.30, No.3, May 1993): "an ambitious project [that] lives
up to much of its promise... [This is] a very strong text to use with students. It is wide ranging in its
inclusion of contemporary theoretical perspectives, challenging for its juxtaposition of sources."
Curran, J. (1997) (Reviewing Sociology, Vol. 10, No. 1): "The importance of rules in organisations is, of
course, not a new idea, but Mills and Murgatroyd explore the notion in considerable depth, clearly
analyzing various meanings and usages using a wide range of source materials. They are very well
read, good at making cross links between paradigms they believe should be made and meticulous in
sourcing their accounts. The bibliography is excellent. The examples used to illustrate their analysis
are often highly contemporary and not all from business organisations. They are well worked with
solid, well-referenced underpinnings which take them well beyond mere decoration inserted to retain
the readers' interest.”
Appendix 2: Selected Acknowledgements
• Segercranitz, Beata (2011) `The Walls Fell Down . . .” Hanken University, PhD Thesis “Your courses
have helped me tremendously to understand different `styles of thinking’ (p.ii).
• Niemisto, Charlotta (2012) Work/Family Reconciliation, Hanken University:
“I would like to thanks Professor Albert Mills and Professor Jean Helms Mills for developing my
interest in different epistemological positions and post-positivist research” (p.ii)
• Cook, W. (2002) PhD Thesis (University of Manchester)
• Das, H. (2002) Performance Management
• Marsden, R. (1999) The Nature of Capital: Marx After Foucault. London: Routledge.
• Das, H. (1998) Strategic Organizational Design. Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice-Hall.
• Alvesson, M. & Y. Due Billing (1997) Understanding Gender and Organizations. London: Sage.
• Cheng, C. (1997) Masculinities and Management. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Carson, A.S. (1997) Drug Testing and Privacy: Why Contract Arguments Do Not Work. Business &
Professional Ethics Journal, Vol.14, No.4, pp.1-22.
• Jacques, R. (1996) Manufacturing the Employee. London: Sage.
• Clegg, S. (1996) in P.J.Frost and S. Taylor, Rhythms of Academic Life. London: Sage
• Wilson, F.M. (1995) Organizational Behaviour & Gender. London: McGraw-Hill.
• Tancred, P. (1995) `Women's Work: A Challenge to the Sociology of Work'. Gender, Work and
Organization, 2 (1):11-20.
• Due Billing, Y., and Alvesson, M. (1994) Gender, Managers and Organizations. Berlin: de Gruyter.
• Chiaramonte, P., and M.Adria (1994) Face-to-Face. Interpersonal Communication in the Workplace.
Toronto: Prentice-Hall.
• Alvesson, M., and Y.D.Billing (1992) `Gender and Organization Theory: Towards a Differentiated
Understanding’. Organization Studies,
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• Davies, S. (1990) `Inserting Gender in Burawoy’s Theory of the Labour Process’. Work, Employment
& Society, 4/3, pp.391-406.
• Morgan, G. (1990) Organizations in Society. London: Macmillan.
Appendix 3: Selected Citations
Current total: Google scholar November, 15 2013 = 2382; h-index = 21; i10-index = 45
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Total number of citations = 18.
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Total number of citations = 21.
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Total number of citations = 13.
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Total number of citations = 56
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Total number of citations = 6
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Total number of citations = 2.
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Total number of citations = 105.
xiii
Total number of citations = 64.
xiv
Total number of citations = 297.
xv
Total number of citations = 122.
Total number of citations = 2.
4th most read (August, 2014
34th most read (April, 2014)
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8th most read, February 2014
4th most read, August 2014
5th most read, September 2012
The most read, Aug, 2014
Listed as 3rd “most read” and 3rd “most cited” article in CPIB, January 2012
Listed as 11th “most read” article in Organization, December, 2012
Listed as 6th “most read” in JMH, January 2012.
Listed as 3rd most read and 9th most cited in EDI, June 2012
Listed as the 3rd “most read” and 21st “most cited” article in CJAS, January, 2012.
Listed as the 10th most read article in QROM, July 2012
Listed as 9th most read article in CJAS, March, 2013
Listed as 31st most cited in CJAS, March 2013
Listed as the 1st “most cited” and the 6th “most read” article in QROM, March 2013 and January 2012 respectively
Listed as the 11th “most read” M&OH article, January 2011.
Listed as the 21st “mist cited” paper in JMH, January 2012
Total number of citations = 2
Total number of citations = 3. Listed as the 9th “most read” article in CJAS, January 2012.
Total number of citations = 3. Listed as 20th “most read” article in CPIB, January 2012.
Total number of citations = 5.
Total number of citations = 9.
Total number of citations = 4. Listed as the 45th “most cited” article in JMH, January 2012.
Total number of citations = 4
Listed as the 2nd “most read” M&OH article, January 2011; 16th most cited M&OH article, Feb 2014
Listed as the 11th “most read” article in M&OH, July, 2011; 12th most cited Feb. 2014
Total number of citations = 12. Listed as 3rd most cited (Sage) Aug, 2014
Total number of citations = 12.
Total number of citations = 12.
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Total number of citations = 20.
Total number of citations = 13. Listed as 3rd “most cited” M&OH article, May 2014, and 36th “most read” April, 2011.
Total number of citations = 15. Listed as the 7th “most cited” article in CJAS, January 2012.
Total number of citations = 24.
Total number of citations = 34.
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Total number of citations = 63.
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Total number of citations = 32.
Total number of citations = 9.
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Total number of citations = 238.
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Total number of citations = 10.
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Total number of citations = 1.
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Total number of citations = 11.
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Total number of citations = 5.
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Total number of citations = 11
Total number of citations = 3.
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Total number of citations = 47.
Total number of citations = 58.
Total number of citations = 4
Total number of citations = 18.
Total number of citations = 119.
Total number of citations = 10.
Total number of citations = 8.
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Total number of citations = 82.
Total number of citations = 12.
Total number of citations = 3
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Total number of citations = 12.
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Total number of citations = 3
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ciii.
civ.
cviii.
cix