Professor Daniel Muzio
Professor of Management

Profile

Biography

Daniel Muzio is a Professor of Management. He joined York in 2018 from the University of Newcastle, having previously worked at the Universities of: Manchester, Leeds and Lancaster.  He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, Cass Business School and Luiss Guido Carli in Rome. He is a General Editor of the Journal of Management Studies and a founding editor for the Journal of Professions and Organisation.

Departmental roles

Deputy Director of Research 

Equality, Justice and Ethics Theme Leader

Research

Overview

Daniel's research interests include the organisation and management of Professional Services Firms, the sociology of the professions, organizational and professional wrongdoing and diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity. Daniel has published in several leading management, sociology and law journals, including: Accounting, organization and Society, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Economic Geography, Sociology and the British Journal of Sociology. He has published books with: Cambridge University Press,  Oxford University Press and Palgrave

Publications

Selected publications

Books

Muzio, D., Kirkpatrick, I and Aluack, S. (2020) Professional Occupations and Organizations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Saks, M. and Muzio, D. (eds) (2018) Professionalism and Entrepreneurship. Oxford: Routledge.

Empson L, Muzio, D., Broschak, J., Hinings, B. (eds) (2015). Oxford Handbook of Professional Services Firms. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sommerlad, H., Webley, L., Duff, L., Muzio, D., and Tomlinson, J. (2014) Diversity in the legal profession in England and Wales: A qualitative study of barriers and individual choices. (London: University of Westminster Law Press)

Muzio, D., Ackroyd, S. and Chanlat, J.F. (eds) (2007) Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour: Established Professions and New Expert Occupations (Basingstoke: Palgrave)

Journal articles (ABS 4 and 3 star only)

Post, C, Faems, D, Muzio, D, Sarala, R and Wei, L (2021) Theorizing diversity in management studies: new perspectives and future directions Journal of Management Studies - forthcoming

Muzio, D (2021) ‘ Re-Conceptualizing Management Theory: How do we Move Away from Western-Centred Knowledge?’ Journal of Management Studies – forthcoming

Muzio, D and Doh, J (2021) ‘COVID‐19 and the Future of Management Studies. Insights from Leading Scholars’. Journal of Management Studies – forthcoming

Kirkpatrick, I., Aulakh, S. and Muzio, D. (2021) 'The future of Professionalization: A Decaying or a Vibrant and Evolving Institution?' Work Employment and Society - forthcoming 

Faulconbridge, J and D. Muzio (2020) 'Field partitioning and the emergence, development and consolidation of subfields'. Organization Studies – 42(7): 1053-1083 

Giaztizoglu, A. and D., Muzio (2021) ‘Outsiders on the Inside: How do male recruits from non-privileged socio-economic backgrounds experience their transition to professional careers?’ Gender Work and Organization  - 28(1): 67-84

Sabini, L., Muzio, D. & Alderman, N., (2020) '25 years of ‘sustainable projects’: What we know and what the literature says'. International Journal of Project Management 37(6): 820-838 

Faulconbridge, J and D. Muzio (2019) 'Field partitioning and the emergence, development and consolidation of subfields'. Organization Studies - forthcoming 

Roulet, T. Paolella, L. Gabbioneta, C. and Muzio, D. (2019) 'Inserting professionals and professional organizations in studies of wrongdoing: The nature, antecedents and consequences of professional misconduct'. Research in the Sociology of Organization – in Haak, P at al (eds)  Research in the Sociology of Organizations ‘Micro-foundations of Institutions’ 65a:  251-268

Faulconbridge, J. and Muzio, D. (2020) ‘Karl Polanyi on strategy: the effects of culture, morality and double-movements on embedded strategy ’ Critical Perspectives on Accounting  73(13) 

Currie, G., Gabbioneta, C., Faulconbridge, J. , Muzio, D., And Richmond, J. (2019) ‘Professional Misconduct in Healthcare: Developing a Balanced Research Agenda for Work Sociology’.  Work Employment and Society 33(1)

Gabbioneta, C., Currie, G., Dinovitzer, R. Faulconbridge, J. and Muzio, D. (2018) 'Inserting professionals and professional organizations in studies of wrongdoing: The nature, antecedents and consequences of professional misconduct' Human Relations - forthcoming

Tomlinson, J., Valizade, D., Muzio, D., Charlwood, A., and Aluack. S. (2018) ‘Privileges and Penalties in the Legal Profession: An intersectional analysis of career progression’ British Journal of Sociology - - forthcoming

Faulconbridge, J. and Muzio, D. (2016)  Global professional service firms and the challenge of institutional complexity: ‘field relocation’ as a response strategy. Journal of Management Studies 53(1): 89-124

Carter, C., Muzio, D, and Spence, C. (2015) Scoping an Agenda for Future Research into the Professions. Accounting, Audit and Accountability Journal 28(8) 1198-1216

Hodgson, D., Paton, S. and Muzio, D. (2015) Something Old, Something New? Competing Logics and the Hybrid Nature of New Corporate Professions  British Journal of Management, 26(4) 745-759

Faulconbridge, J. and Muzio, D. (2015) Transnational corporations shaping institutional change: The case of English law firms in Germany. Journal of Economic Geography, 15(6): 1195-1226

Muzio, D., Brock, D. and Suddaby, R. (2013) ‘Professions and Institutional Change: Towards an Institutionalist Sociology of the Professions’   Journal of Management Studies, 50(5): 699-721

Muzio, D. and Faulconbridge, J. (2013) ‘The global professional service firm: ‘one firm’ models versus (Italian) distant institutionalised practices.’ Organization Studies, 34(7): 897-925

Tomlinson, J., Muzio D., Sommerlad, H., Webley, L., and Duff, L. (2013) ‘Structure, agency and the career strategies of women and BME individuals in the legal profession.’ Human Relations, 66(2): 245-269

Paton S, Hodgson D, Muzio D.  (2013) ‘The Price of Corporate Professionalisation: Analysing the corporate capture of professions in the UK and consequences for expert labour.’ New Technology, Work and Employment, 28(3): 227-240

Cook, A., Faulconbridge, J. and Muzio, D (2012) ‘London’s legal elite: Recruitment through cultural capital and the reproduction of exclusivity’ Environment and Planning A, 44(7): 1744-1762

Muzio, D. and Tomlinson, J. (2012) 'Gender, diversity and inclusion in professions and professional organizations: Setting the scene and the agenda for research'. Gender, Work and Organization, 19(5): 455-466.

Faulconbridge, J., Muzio, D. and Cook, A. (2012) 'Learning to be a lawyer in transnational law firms: communities of practice, institutions and identity regulation'. Global Networks, 12(1): 48-70.

Bolton, S., Muzio, D., and Boyd, C. (2011) ‘Making Sense of Modern Medical Careers: The Case of the UK’s National Health Service', Sociology, 45(4): 682-699

Faulconbridge, J. and Muzio, D. (2009) 'Locating Financialization: Situated Financial Practices in English Law Firms' Journal of Economic Geography, 9(5): 641-661

Bolton, S. and Muzio, D. (2008) ‘The Paradoxes of the Feminised Professions: Law, Management and Teaching’. Work, Employment and Society, 22(2): 281-299

Faulconbridge, J. and Muzio, D. (2008) ‘Organizational Professionalism in Global Law Firms’. Work, Employment and Society,  22(1): 7-25

Faulconbridge, J. and Muzio, D. (2007) ‘Re-inserting the Professional in the Study of PSFs’  Global Networks, 7(3): 249-270

Ackroyd, S. and Muzio, D. (2007) ‘The Reconstructed Professional Firm Explaining Change in English Legal Practices’ Organization Studies, 48(5): 1-19.

Bolton, S and Muzio, D. (2007) ‘Can’t Live with ‘Em; Can’t Live Without ‘Em: Gendered Segmentation in the Legal Profession’, Sociology, 41(1): 47-61.

Special Issues

Muzio, D; Doh, J, Saarala, R and Prescott, J. ‘The future of Work’ Journal of Management Studies (under preparation)

Muzio, D., Post, C. and Saarala, R.  ‘Diversity Perspective on Management: Towards more complex conceptualizations of diversity in management studies’ - Journal of Management Studies (under preparation)

Gabbioneta, C., Currie, G., Dinovitzer, R. Faulconbridge, J. and Muzio, D. (2019) ‘Wrongdoing in and by professional organizations’ – Human Relations

Carter, C., Muzio, D. and Spence, C.  (2015) ‘Contemporary Professional Work: Accounting and Beyond’ Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 28(8)

Muzio, D., Brock, D., and Suddaby, R. (2013) ‘Professions and Institutional Change’ Journal of Management Studies 50(5)

Muzio, D. and Tomlinson, J. (2012) 'Gender, diversity and inclusion in professions and professional organizations'. Gender, Work and Organization, 19(5)

Muzio, D. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2011) ‘Reconnecting the Study of Professional Organizations with the Study of Professional Occupations’. Current Sociology, 59(4) 

Reports (externally funded research projects only)

Aluack, S., Charlwood, A., Muzio, D., Tomlinson, J. and Valizade, D. (2017) ‘Mapping advantages and disadvantages: Diversity in the legal profession in England and Wales’ – Solicitor Regulatory Authority funded report

Kirkpatrick, I., Muzio, D., and Aluack, S. (2017) ‘From Practice to Profession; Exploration of the current status, perceptions and future pathways’ – American Society of Association Executives funded report

Sommerlad, H., Webley, L., Duff, L., Muzio, D., and Tomlinson, J. (2010) ‘Diversity in the legal profession in England and Wales: A qualitative study of barriers and individual choices’ Legal Services Board Funded Report

Faulconbridge, J., Muzio, D. and Cook, A. (2010) ‘Professional education, global professional service firms and the cultures of professional work in Europe’. ESRC Grant Report