Paul du Gay

Presentation

I came to CBS in late 2008 as a Globaliseringsprofessor at IOA. Prior to that I was Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Warwick Business School, and Professor of Sociology and Organization Studies at the Open University, UK. My research interests have been and continue to be located on the cusp of sociology, politics, history and cultural studies, with a key focus on questions of organization and identity. Currently, my two main research foci concern 1) reviving Organization Theory (OT) as ''a practical science of Organizing'', via an engagement with OT''s own past 2) reviving notions of ''Office'', ''Ethos'', ''Persona'' and practices of casuistical reasoning in the context of public administration and state service more generally. Theese two concerns are, to my mind, intimately linked.

At CBS, I am Co-Director of the School''s Buisness in Society ''Public-Private Platform'',
Director of the collective Velux Research Programme ''What Makes Organization?'', and a member of the School wide appointments and promotion committee (CWAC). I am currently involved in co-supervsing the work of nine Ph.D students.

Primary research areas

• The History and Contemporary Relevance of ''Classic'' Organization Theory
• Bureaucracy and Public Service Ethics
• History and Contemporary Practices  of ''Office'' Holding, their relationship to State Service, and casuistical reasoning
• Identity and Personhood and their organizational constitution
• Public Administration as an institution of government

Courses

I teach on the CBS MPA and MPG, and on five Ph.D courses in te areas of Public Governance; Public Managment and Administration; Organizational Analysis; Work, Organization, and Identity; and the History of Theory. I also guest lecture on a number of teaching programmes troughout the School

Supervision

I am currently involved in co-supervising nine doctoral students. Their areas of interest are quite diverse, ranging from organizational changes in healthcare systems,  to questions of scientififc social responsibility, the constitution of  global professional networks, and the creation of markets for windpower. They all involve detailed empirical field studies, and are united by a set of related conceptual concerns, linking contemporary pragmatist analytics with organization studies, broadly defined.