Professor Jeremy Aroles
Professor in Organization Studies

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Biography

Jeremy Aroles is a Professor in Organisation Studies. He joined the School for Business and Society in December 2021. Previously, he held academic positions at Durham University and at the University of Manchester where he obtained his PhD in 2016. His research currently focuses on the exploration of new ways of working (notably technology-mediated work), the management of cultural institutions, and the relation between memory and organizational practices. His research has notably been published in Organization Science, MIS Quarterly, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies and the European Journal of Information Systems. His sits on the editorial board of various journals and currently serves as Associate Editor at Human Relations and as Editor at Work, Employment and Society. Jeremy became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2018.

Jeremy is keen to supervise doctoral students with an interest in new work practices, the gig economy, occupations and legitimacy as well as qualitative studies of management and organization.

Departmental roles

Deputy Dean for Strategy and Culture

Research

Overview

Jeremy’s research currently gravitates around three different topics:

The emergence of new ways of working (e.g., the future of work, digital nomadism, the disruptive potential of new working practices, the evolving relationship between ‘formal’ organisations and individuals in an increasingly digitized society, the impact of AI on professionalism, etc.)

The management of cultural organisations (e.g., competing institutional logics, values, neoliberalism, professions)

The role of legitimacy, visibility and judgment in organizational outcomes

Conceptually, Jeremy is interested in a wide array of approaches. His works has notably drawn from the material semiotics of the actor-network theory, the work of Gilles Deleuze (and Félix Guattari) and the writings of various phenomenologists (such as Merleau-Ponty or Ricoeur). He is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research. Jeremy’s empirical research is mostly qualitative; he has experience conducting ethnographic research and interviews and using digital methods.

Publications

Selected publications

Books

de Vaujany, F. X., Aroles, J. & Perézts, M. (2023). The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenologies and Organization Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Aroles, J., de Vaujany, F.X. and Dale, K. (2021). Experiencing the new world of work. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Mitev, N., Aroles, J., Stephenson, K. and Malaurent, J. (2021). New world of work: Organisations and Organising in the digital age. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Peer reviewed journal articles

Sergi, V., & Aroles, J. (2026). Revitalisation through expansion: Rethinking the concept of method in qualitative research in management and organization studies. Organization Studies (online first).

Bonneau, C., Estagnasié, C., & Aroles, J. (2026). ‘Work from Anywhere’ as a fashionable organizational trend. Culture & Organization (online first).

Dong, S., Zeng, W., Aroles, J. & Tse, Y.K. (2026). When AI ethics fail and trigger negative spillovers on customer firms: Evidence from event study and fsQCA. International Journal of Operations and Production Management (online first).

Liang, Y., Aroles, J., & Li, Y. (2026). Leveraging AI to capture textual and visual elements: Insights for HRM research and practice. Human Resource Management Journal (online first).

De Vaujany, F.X., Aroles, J., Berthelot, V., Dagorn, M., & Peiro, M. (2026). Fieldwork as inquiry in management research: Dancing with the field. Journal of Management Inquiry (online first).

Peiro, M., Aroles, J., & Granter, E. (2026). Building a local currency: Elaborating, maintaining and rearranging values through tensions. Journal of Cultural Economy, 19(4), 549-572.

Peiro, M., Aroles, J., & Granter, E. (2025). Mapping heterotopia: Enjoyment as practice in two alternative spaces. Organization Studies (online first).

de Vaujany, F. X., Vandelannoitte, A. L., Aroles, J., Introna, L., & Davidson, S. (2025). Rethinking responsibility in the digital age: a narrative approach. MIS Quarterly, 49(4), 1295-1318.

Liang, Y., Li, J., Aroles, J., & Granter, E. (2025). Content creation within the algorithmic environment: A systematic review. Work, Employment and Society, 39(4), 787-813.

Aroles, J. and Morrell, K. (2025). Marketisation and the public good: A typology of responses among museum professionals. Work, Employment and Society, 39(1), 226-247.

Aroles, J., Leclercq-Vandelannoitte, A., Hassard, J., Foster, W. M., & Granter, E. (2025). Won’t Get Fooled Again? Theorizing Discursive Constructions of Novelty in the ‘New’ World of Work. Work, Employment and Society, 39(4), 882-903.

Laasch, O., McLean, C., & Aroles, J. (2025). Responsible Management-as-Process of Smoothing–Striating: Transcending Freedom or Control Contingencies. Journal of Business Ethics, 201(2), 491-516.

Peiro, M., Loup, P., & Aroles, J. (2025). The Fictional Archetypes of AI: For a qualitative-quantitative analysis of representations in films. M@n@gement, 28(3), 1-20.

Book Chapters

de Vaujany, F. X., Aroles, J. & Perézts, M. (2023). Between Being and Becoming: Appearances and Subjectivities of Organizing. In The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenologies and Organization Studies. Oxford University Press.

de Vaujany, F. X., Aroles, J. & Perézts, M. (2023). Introduction: Phenomenologies and Organization Studies: Organising through and beyond appearances. In The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenologies and Organization Studies. Oxford University Press.

Bancou, L., de Vaujany, F. X., Perézts, M. & Aroles, J. (2023). On the Way to Experience with the Phenomenological Venture of Management and Organization: A Literature Review. In The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenologies and Organization Studies. Oxford University Press.

Aroles, J., de Vaujany, F.X. and Dale, K. (2021). Introduction: Experiencing the new world of work. In J. Aroles, F.X. de Vaujany and K. Dale (eds.), Experiencing the new world of work, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-10.

De Vaujany, F.X. and Aroles, J. (2021). Experiencing making: Silence, Atmosphere and Togetherness in two makerspaces. In J. Aroles, F.X. de Vaujany and K. Dale (eds.), Experiencing the new world of work, Cambridge University Press, pp. 84-106.

Bonneau, C. and Aroles, J. (2021). Digital nomads: A new form of leisure class? In J. Aroles, F.X. de Vaujany and K. Dale (eds.), Experiencing the new world of work, Cambridge University Press, pp. 157-177.

Aroles, J., de Vaujany, F.X. and Dale, K. (2021). Conclusion: Experiences of continuity and change in the new world of work. In J. Aroles, F.X. de Vaujany and K. Dale (eds.), Experiencing the new world of work, Cambridge University Press, pp. 253-263.

McLean, C. and Aroles, J. (2016). Critical realism and ANT/Deleuzian thinking: a critical comparison in the area of information systems, technology and organisation studies. In L. Introna, D. Kavanagh, S. Kelly, W. Orlikowski and S. Scott (eds.), Beyond Interpretivism? New encounters with technology and organization, Springer, pp. 58-72.

Aroles, J. and McLean, C. (2015). Becoming, assemblages and intensities: re-exploring rules and routines. In F.X. de Vaujany, N. Mitev, G.F. Lanzara and A. Mukherjee (eds.), Rules, regulations and materiality in management and organization studies, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 177-194.

McLean, C. and Aroles, J. (2014). Making organizational facts, standards and routines: tracing materialities and materialising traces. In F.X. de Vaujany, N. Mitev, P. Laniray. and E. Vaast (eds.), Materiality and Time: Historical Perspectives on Organizations, Artefacts and Practices, Palgrave Macmillan.

Professor Jeremy Aroles Professor in Organization Studies