James Reveley has wide-ranging interests in the areas of organisation studies, business and management history, and heterodox economics. He is Secretary of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, a professional association that represents economic and business historians. He is particularly interested in novel applications of qualitative methods within business history. His current research focuses on industry associations in the transport sector, narratological analysis of nineteenth century entrepreneur autobiographies, path dependence in the maritime industries, and methodological issues in the writing of management history. He has published in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Organization, International Small Business Journal, Management and Organizational History, Australian Economic History Review, and Journal of Transport History. His most recent book is an edited volume (with Malcolm Tull) Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2008).
Articles
Management's critical turn: a critique of Adler's "paleo-marxism", Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
Originated by Paul Adler, paleo-Marxism represents the fullest engagement with Marx's work by a management...
Enhancing industry association theory: a comparative business history contribution (with Simon Ville), Journal of Management Studies (2010)
Our comparative business historical examination of industry associations aims to enrich the under-theorized study of...
Social capital in maritime joint ventures: the case of Lyttelton Stevedoring Co., 1977-1989, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2010)
Using autobiographies in business history: a narratological analysis of Jules Joubert's Shavings and Scrapes, Australian Economic History Review: an Asia-Pacific journal of economic, business and social history (2010)
Entrepreneur autobiographies provide business historians with the opportunity to connect storytelling and identity, topics that...
Between narration and interaction: situating first-line supervisor identity work (with Simon Down), Human Relations (2009)
This article examines how frontline managers establish managerial identities. It combines narrational and Goffmanesque conceptions...
Contributions to Books
Stigmatization and self-presentation in Australian entrepreneurial identity formation (with Simon Down), in D. Hjorth & C. Steyaert (Eds.), The Politics and Aesthetics of Entrepreneurship (2009)
Public narratives concerning indigenous economic development are increasingly being colonized by enterprise discourse. As du...
Introduction: Port Reform in the Asia-Pacific Region (with Malcolm Tull), in J. Reveley & M. Tull (Eds.), Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience (2008)
Apart from the temporary check caused by the Asian crisis of 1997, in the last...
Privatisation Postponed: Convergence and Divergence in Australian and New Zealand Port Reform (with Malcolm Tull), in J. Reveley & M. Tull (Eds.), Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience (2008)
Australia and New Zealand are both island nations, sharing political, economic and cultural traditions, although...
Presentations
London calling: continuity and change in the city as financial other (with John Singleton), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2012)
The failure of an important segment of the British banking system in 2007-09 has led...
Upsetting coal miners: managerial concepts of performance appraisal as a strategy for changing miners' work practices (with Peter McLean), European Group of Organization Studies Colloquium (pp. 1-30) (2008)
This paper uses a discourse analytic perspective to examine attempts of a multinational coal mining...
HRM at the coalface: Employee responses to performance appraisal at an underground coalmine (with Peter McLean), Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (2005)
Based on a four year empirical study investigating employee responses to the implementation of a...
Managing spoiled identity through entrepreneurship: An exploratory study of Australian Aboriginal entrepreneurs (with Simon Down), Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (2005)
This paper argues that spoiled identity, which results from stigmatization, is an important spur to...
Rhetorics of division: miners' narrative sense of 'self' and 'other' during performance appraisal at an underground coalmine (with Peter McLean), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2004)
Underground coal mining has long been perceived - both by the public and the people...