Research:

I have a long-standing interest in the role of the arts, literature, and social theory in management theory and management development. My research has focused on organizational creativity; the interface of organization theory with literary theory and art history (modernism in particular); and the examination of 21st century capitalism in its various guises (most recently finance capitalism). As to the general thrust, interconnections and future directions of my research, I could not put it any better than Doris Lessing: “Mine is not a systematic study, but the other kind where, knowing that you must have affinities with a subject or theme because of the way it keeps appearing in your life, but always differently aspected... You wait for things to happen: a book you didn't know existed found on a library shelf; a chance meeting… This way of studying means you may be unaware of facts known to even apprentice researchers, but if you keep facts and possibilities floating about in your head, they can combine in unexpected ways”.

Administration:
Chair of the School Research Committee
Head of Human Resources, Organizations and Entrepreneurship Group 

External Activity:
2007 - to date: External Examiner University of Leicester (MSc in Management)
2008 - to date: External Examiner Copenhagen Business School/Danish University of Education (Master in Leadership and Innovation in Complex Systems)
2008 - to date:  External Examiner University of Warwick (MBA – all variants)
2008 - to date: University of Wales Moderator at GSBA, Zurich (MBA and MSc)
2003 – to date: member editorial board Journal of Management Studies
2004 – to date: member editorial board Creativity and Innovation Management
2009 – to date: member editorial board Culture & Organization
2009 – to date: member editorial board Organization

Selected publications: Journal Articles (2005 - to date): 

• De Cock, C. (2009).  ‘Jumpstarting the Future with Fredric Jameson: Reflections on Capitalism, Science Fiction and Utopia’, Journal of Organizational Change Management, 22 (4), 437-449. [doi:10.1108/09534810910967198]
• De Cock, C., Fitchett, J. & Volkmann, C (2009). ‘Myths of a Near Past: Envisioning Finance Capitalism anno 2007’, ephemera: theory & politics in organization, 9 (1), 8-25. [http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/9-1/9-1decocketal.pdf]
• De Cock, C. (2009) ‘What I read about the Global Financial Crisis in 2007 and 2008’, ephemera: theory & politics in organization, 9 (1), 61-72.[http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/9-1/9-1decock.pdf]
• De Cock, C. (2008). ‘Adventures in Financeland’ (review essay), Organization, 15 (6), 946-956 [doi:10.1177/1350508408096184]
• Slutskaya, N. & De Cock, C. (2008). ‘The Body Dances: The Organization of Carnival Dance’, Organization, 15 (6), 851-868. [doi:10.1177/1350508408095817]
• De Cock, C. & Sharp, R. (2007) ‘Process Theory and Research: Exploring the Dialectic Tension’, Scandinavian Journal of Management, 23 (3), 233-250. [doi:10.1016/j.scaman.2006.05.003]
• Volkmann C. R. & De Cock, C. (2007) ’The Bauhaus and the Business School: Exploring Analogies, Resisting Imitation’, Management Learning, 38 (4), 389-403. [doi:10.1177/1350507607080570]
• De Cock, C. & Böhm, S. (2007). 'Liberalist Fantasies: Žižek and the Impossibility of the Open Society', Organization, 14 (6),  [doi:10.1177/1350508407082264]
• De Cock, C., Fleming, P. & Rehn, A. (2007). 'Organizing Revolution?' (editorial), Management & Organizational History, 2 (2), 107-114. [doi:10.1177/1744935907078722]
• De Cock, C. & Land, C. (2006). 'Organization/Literature: Exploring the Seam', Organization Studies, 27 (4), 517-535. [doi:10.1177/0170840605058234]
• Volkmann, C. R. & De Cock, C. (2006) 'Consuming the Bauhaus', Consumption, Markets and Culture, 9 (2), 129-136. [doi:10.1080/10253860600633689]
• De Cock, C. & Rehn, A. (2006). 'On Novelty and Being Novel' (editorial), Creativity and Innovation Management, 15 (2), 123-126. [doi:10.1111/j.1467-8691.2006.00387.x]
• De Cock, C. & Jeanes, E. L. (2006). 'Questioning Consensus, Cultivating Conflict', Journal of Management Inquiry, 15 (1), 18-30. [doi:10.1177/1056492605276848]
• De Cock, C. & Jeanes, E. L. (2006). 'Chasing Shadows?' (reply article), Journal of Management Inquiry, 15 (1), 33-34. [doi:10.1177/1056492605280241]
• Böhm, S. & De Cock, C. (2005). 'Everything you wanted to know about Organization Theory… but were afraid to ask Slavoj Žižek', Sociological Review, 53 (S1), p. 279-291. [doi:10.1111/j.1467-954X.2005.00555.x]
• De Cock, C., Fitchett, J. & Volkmann, C (2005). 'Constructing the New Economy: A Discursive Perspective', British Journal of Management, 16 (1), p.37-49. [doi:10.1111/j.1467-8551.2005.00431.x]

Book Chapters (2005 - to date):

• Volkmann, C.R. & De Cock, C. (forthcoming 2010). ‘Four close readings on introducing the literary in organizational research’ in P.Amstrong, G. Lightfoot and S.Lilley (eds.), The Leading Publication in the Field: Unsettling Authority in the Social Sciences of Management. London: Mayfly.
• Rehn, A. & De Cock, C. (2009). ‘Deconstructing Creativity’ in T. Rickards, M. Runco & S. Moger (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Creativity. Oxford: Routledge. p.222-231.
• Rickards, T. & De Cock, C. (2009). ‘Understanding Organizational Creativity: Toward a Multiparadigmatic Approach’. in M. Runco (ed.), The Creativity Research Handbook Vol. 2. Creskill (NJ): Hampton Press. p.1-31.
• De Cock, C. (2008). ‘Creativity’. in J.Gosling & A. Marturano (eds.), Leadership, the Key Concepts. London: Routledge. p.30-32.
• Sharp, R. & De Cock, C. (2005). ‘Process’. in D. O’Doherty & C. Jones,  Organize! Manifestos for the Business School of Tomorrow. Stockholm: Dvalin. p.114-121. [http://www.alfrehn.com/dvalin/Products/Manifestos%20eBook.pdf]

Professional Magazines (2005 – to date):

• Volkmann, C.R. & De Cock, C. (2007). ‘Financial Advertising: Envisioning in Action’, Business Guide to Switzerland (print-run of 40,000 copies), Issue 5 (September/ October), p.108-110. [www.businessguide.ch]
• De Cock, C. (2007).  ‘The Rise and Rise of Private Equity’, Chartered Secretary (print-run of 21,000 copies), February, p.34.