Hamid Foroughi

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Associate Professor

Organisation and Work Group

Profile (biography)

Hamid Foroughi is Associate Professor in Responsible Management at Warwick Business School. He currently serves on the editorial board of a) Organization Studies and b) Leadership. He is an expert in managing organizational legacy, collective memory and organizational identity. He has published extensively on these topics in internationally leading journals, such as Academy of Management Annals, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies and Journal of World Business. He also works as a consultant to help organizations utilize the power of storytelling and memorialization to build just, inclusive and sustainable organizations and partnerships.

Research interests

My research delves into the historical turn in Organization Studies, offering insights into the processes of organizing, identities, legitimation, and change across diverse empirical contexts. Currently, my work encompasses three areas:
Managing Organizational Legacy: Organizations often draw upon their legacies to enhance their reputation and find inspiration for new innovations or validate new strategies. However, the complexities of legacy management extend beyond mere celebration. I investigate how legacies can impede or drive change, serving as both a barrier and a catalyst for organizational strategy and change. For instance, my recent work explores the critical importance of addressing historical wrongdoing, commonly referred to as historic CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). This aspect is particularly pertinent in contemporary discourse, as organizations grapple with reconciling past actions with present values.
Collective Memories and Storytelling as Catalysts for Change: Here, I delve into the role of memories and storytelling as symbolic resources for instigating change within organizations. By examining how narratives shape perceptions and influence decision-making processes, I uncover the mechanisms through which storytelling serves as a powerful tool for building a "social purpose" in organizations.
Remembering and technological change in occupations: I work on how collective remembering features in the way occupational and professional communities interact with new technologies. Here, I draw on socio-materiality literature to understand the link between collective remembering, adoption of new technology and occupational dynamics.
I am open to discussing supervision for PhD students and Post-Doctorate researchers interested in any of the above areas or overlapping topics I have currently supervised three PhD projects to successful completion on CSR, memory activism and sustainability actors.

Publications

Latest journal articles

Old skool spinning and syncing: memory, technologies, and occupational membership in a DJ community. Foroughi, H., Eisenman, M. and Parsley, S.. 2024. Journal of Management Studies

Addressing economic inequality through management education : disrupting student attraction to the myth of neoliberal meritocracy. Eisenman, M., Foroughi, H. and Foster, W. M.. 2024. Academy of Management Learning and Education, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 432-450

Ecologies of memories : memory work within and between organizations and communities. Coraiola, D. M., Foster, W. M., Mena, S., Foroughi, H. and Rintamäki, J.. 2023. Academy of Management Annals, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 373-404

Extinction rebellion : green activism and the fantasy of leaderlessness in a decentralized movement.Fotaki, M. and Foroughi, H.. 2022.Leadership, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 224-246

When social movements close institutional voids : triggers, processes, and consequences for multinational enterprises. Preuss, L., Vazquez-Brust, D., Yakovleva, N., Foroughi, H. and Mutti, D.. 2022.Journal of World Business, Vol. 57, No. 1, Article 101283

Collective memories as a vehicle of fantasy and identification : founding stories retold. Foroughi, H.. 2020.Organization Studies, Vol. 41, No. 10, pp. 1347-1367

Organizational memory studies. Foroughi, H., Coraiola, D. M., Rintamäki, J., Mena, S. and Foster, W. M.. 2020.Organization Studies, Vol. 41, No. 12, pp. 1725-1748

Collective forgetting in a changing organization : when memories become unusable and uprooted. Foroughi, H. and Al-Amoudi, I.. 2020.Organization Studies, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 449-470

Leadership in a post-truth era : a new narrative disorder? Foroughi, H., Gabriel, Y. and Fotaki, M.. 2019.Leadership, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 135-151

On becoming irrelevant : an analysis of charity workers’ untold epic stories. Foroughi, H.. 2014. Tamara: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 7-23

Journal items

Editorial : a special forum on the Australian black summer bushfires. Hwang, H., Coslor, E. and Foroughi, H.. 2024.Organization Studies, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 475-478

Media Review : slavery and the bank : a commentary on historic corporate social responsibility. Foroughi, H. and Smith, A.. 2024. Organization Studies, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 913-917

Editorial : virtual books, person-books and new media artefacts : the expanding remit of the Organization Studies review section. Coslor, E., Foroughi, H. and Hwang, H.. 2022.Organization Studies, Vol. 43, No. 11, pp. 1857-1860

Book review

Review of Improvising theory : process and temporality in ethnographic fieldwork. Foroughi, H.. 2014.Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 291-294

Conference item

Framing, resonance, and micro-mobilization : shall we say what we are for, or what we are against? Foroughi, H., Aslani, S. and King, B.. 2013. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2013

Book items

Ethnography meets storytelling : a marriage made in heaven. Foroughi, H.. 2021
pp. 166-177, Edward Elgar

Global North and Global South : frameworks of power in an international development project. Foroughi, H.. 2019. Routledge