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Scott, David Gordon and Bell, Emma eds. (2025). Envisioning Abolition: Socialism, Anarchism and Penal Abolitionism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth centuries. Bristol University Press (In Press).

Bell, Emma and Scott, David Gordon (2025). Abolitionism in red and black. In: Scott, David Gordon and Bell, Emma eds. Envisioning Abolition Socialism, Anarchism and Penal Abolitionism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth centuries. Bristol University Press, (In Press).

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Vachhani, Sheena and Bell, Emma (2024). The (academic) chair: Embodied relations of arrival, place, and hospitality. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies (early access).

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Bell, Emma; Sinclair, Amanda and Vachhani, Sheena (2024). A Leadership of Refusal: Remaking the Narrative of the Falling Leader. British Journal of Management (early access).

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Bell, Emma and Cozza, Michela (2024). Avoiding the ‘God trick’: Internationalism and situated knowing in Scandinavian Journal of Management. Scandinavian Journal of Management (Early access).

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Langley, Ann; Bell, Emma; Bliese, Paul; LeBaron, Curtis and Gruber, Marc (2023). Opening up AMJ’s research methods repertoire. Academy of Management Journal, 66(3) pp. 711–719.

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King, Daniel; Griffin, Martyn and Bell, Emma (2023). Inclusion and exclusion in professional management education and learning: A deliberative approach to conferences. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 22(1)

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Bell, Emma and Ruel, Stefanie (2023). [Book Review] Age at Work: Ambiguous Boundaries of Organizations, Organizing and Ageing by Jeff Hearn & Wendy Parkin. Organization Studies, 44(1) pp. 163–166.

Katila, Saija; Meriläinen, Susan and Bell, Emma (2023). Introduction to the handbook of feminist research methodologies in management and organization studies. In: Katila, Saija; Meriläinen, Susan and Bell, Emma eds. Handbook of Feminist Research Methodologies in Management and Organization Studies. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 1–23.

Katila, Saija; Meriläinen, Susan and Bell, Emma eds. (2023). Handbook of Feminist Research Methodologies in Management and Organisation Studies. Research Handbooks in Business and Management series. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd..

Bell, Emma and Sengupta, Sunita Singh (2022). Empowering Methodologies in Organisational and Social Research. In: Bell, Emma and Sengupta, Sunita Singh eds. Empowering Methodologies in Organisational and Social Research. New Delhi, India: Routledge, pp. 1–18.

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Sayers, Janet; Martin, Lydia and Bell, Emma (2022). Posthuman affirmative business ethics: Reimagining human-animal relations through speculative fiction. Journal of Business Ethics, 178 pp. 597–608.

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Bell, Emma (2021). {Book Review] Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy by Richard E Ocejo. [brace not closed] Organization, 28(3) pp. 523–525.

Okkonen, Ida; Takala, Tuomo and Bell, Emma (2021). Practicing care in qualitative organizational research: Moral responsibility and legitimacy in a study of immigration management. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, 16(2) pp. 370–387.

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Bell, Emma; Winchester, Nik and Wray-Bliss, Edward (2021). Enchantment in Business Ethics Research. Journal of Business Ethics, 174 pp. 251–262.

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Bell, Emma; Dacin, M. Tina and Toraldo, Maria Laura (2021). Craft Imaginaries – Past, Present and Future. Organization Theory, 2(1) pp. 1–18.

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Brewis, Deborah N and Bell, Emma (2020). Provocation Essays Editorial: On the importance of moving and being moved. Management Learning, 51(5) pp. 533–536.

Bell, Emma and Vachhani, Sheena J. (2020). Relational Encounters and Vital Materiality in the Practice of Craft Work. Organization Studies, 41(5) pp. 681–701.

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Bell, Emma; Meriläinen, Susan; Tienari, Janne and Taylor, Scott (2020). Dangerous Knowledge? The Political, Personal and Epistemological Promise of Feminist Research in Management and Organization Studies. International Journal of Management Reviews, 22(2) pp. 177–192.

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Bell, Emma and Willmott, Hugh (2020). Ethics, politics and embodied imagination in crafting scientific knowledge. Human Relations, 73(10) pp. 1366–1387.

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Bell, Emma; Panayiotou, Alexia and Sayers, Janet (2019). Reading the TED talk genre: Contradictions and pedagogical pleasures in spreading ideas about management. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 18(4) pp. 547–563.

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Bell, Emma and Bridgman, Todd (2019). [Editorial] Editorship-as-curatorship: Celebrating 50 years of Management Learning. Management Learning, 50(2) pp. 147–151.

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Bell, Emma; Meriläinen, Susan; Taylor, Scott and Tienari, Janne (2019). Time’s up! Feminist theory and activism meets organization studies. Human Relations, 72(1) pp. 4–22.

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Bell, Emma and de Gama, Nadia (2019). Taking a stand: The embodied, enacted and emplaced work of relational critique. Organization, 26(6) pp. 936–947.

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Blundel, Richard; Koomen, Philip and Bell, Emma (2019). Examining Craft Work: Methodological Challenges and Choices. In: 35th EGOS Colloquium, Enlightening the Future: The Challenge for Organizations, 4-6 Jul 2019, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Bartunek, Jean M.; Elsbach, Kimberly D.; Bell, Emma; Markides, Costas; Christianson, Marlys G.; Sutcliffe, Kathleen M.; Pratt, Michael G.; Coyle-Shapiro, Jacqueline A.-M.; Glynn, Mary Ann; Ocasio, William; Burton, M. Diane and Ventresca, Marc J. (2019). Theorizing About an AOM President’s Response to Crisis and the Counter Responses It Evoked. Journal of Management Inquiry, 28(3) pp. 276–282.

Bell, Emma; Mangia, Gianluigi; Taylor, Scott and Toraldo, Maria Laura eds. (2018). The Organization of Craft Work: Identities, Meanings, and Materiality. New York: Routledge.

Bell, Emma; Mangia, Gianluigi; Taylor, Scott and Toraldo, Maria Laura (2018). Introduction. In: Bell, Emma; Mangia, Gianluigi; Taylor, Scott and Toraldo, Maria Laura eds. The Organization of Craft Work: Identities, Meanings, and Materiality. Routledge, pp. 1–19.

Bell, Emma and Leonard, Pauline (2018). Digital Organizational Storytelling on YouTube: Constructing Plausibility Through Network Protocols of Amateurism, Affinity, and Authenticity. Journal of Management Inquiry, 27(3) pp. 339–351.

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Kothiyal, Nivedita; Bell, Emma and Clarke, Caroline (2018). Moving Beyond Mimicry: Developing Hybrid Spaces in Indian Business Schools. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 17(2) pp. 137–154.

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Bell, Emma and Bridgman, Todd (2018). Expecting the unexpected in Management Learning. Management Learning, 49(1) pp. 3–7.

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Bell, Emma; Kothiyal, Nivedita and Willmott, Hugh (2017). Methodology-as-Technique and the Meaning of Rigour in Globalized Management Research. British Journal of Management, 28(3) pp. 534–550.

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Bridgman, Todd and Bell, Emma (2016). Seeing and Being Seen as a Management Learning and Education Scholar: Rejoinder to "Identifying Research Topic Development in Business and Management Education Research Using Legitimation Code Theory". Journal of Management Education, 40(6) pp. 692–699.

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Bell, Emma (2016). The Corporation 10 Years On: An Interview and an Audience With Joel Bakan. Journal of Management Inquiry, 25(3) pp. 344–354.

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Bell, Emma and Sinclair, Amanda (2016). Bodies, sexualities and women leaders in popular culture: from spectacle to metapicture. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 31(5/6) pp. 322–338.

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Cunliffe, Ann and Bell, Emma (2016). Editorial: Management Learning: Legacies and future possibilities. Management Learning, 47(2) pp. 113–116.

Bell, Emma and Taylor, Scott (2016). Vernacular mourning and corporate memorialization in framing the death of Steve Jobs. Organization, 23(1) pp. 114–132.

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Bell, Emma and Taylor, Scott (2015). Spirituality, Religion and Organization. In: Mir, Raza; Wilmott, Hugh and Greenwood, Michelle eds. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 550–558.

Bell, Emma; Meriläinen, Susan; Taylor, Scott and Tienari, Janne (2015). An ethic of care within critical management studies? In: Prasad, Anshuman; Prasad, Pushkala; Mills, Albert J. and Mills, Jean Helms eds. Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies. Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 56–68.

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Kenny, Kate and Bell, Emma (2014). Irony as Discipline: Self-Help and Gender in the Knowledge Economy. Social Politics, 21(4) pp. 562–584.

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Bell, Emma and Shoaib, Haneen (2014). The not-so-dark side of emotions: anger as a resource in research apprenticeship. In: Clarke, Caroline; Broussine, Mike and Watts, Linda eds. Researching with Feeling: The emotional aspects of social and organizational research. Routledge, pp. 66–78.

Bell, Emma and Clarke, D. W. (2014). 'Beasts, burrowers and birds': The enactment of researcher identities in UK business schools. Management Learning, 45(3) pp. 249–266.

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Bell, Emma and Taylor, Scott (2014). Uncertainty in the study of belief: the risks and benefits of methodological agnosticism. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 17(5) pp. 543–557.

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Bell, Emma and Sinclair, Amanda (2014). Reclaiming eroticism in the academy. Organization, 21(2) pp. 268–280.

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Bell, Emma; Tienari, Janne and Hansson, Magnus (2014). Organizational death. Culture and Organization, 20(1) pp. 1–6.

Bell, Emma and Taylor, Scott (2013). Writing history into management research. Management & Organizational History, 8(2) pp. 127–136.

Bell, Emma; Cullen, John and Taylor, Scott (2012). Sustainability and the Spiritual Work Ethic. In: Case, Peter; Höpfl, Heather and Letiche, Hugo eds. Belief and Organization. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 185–203.

Bell, Emma; Taylor, Scott and Driscoll, Cathy (2012). Varieties of organizational soul: The ethics of belief in organizations. Organization, 19(4) pp. 425–439.

Bell, Emma and Davison, Jane (2012). Visual Management Studies: Empirical and Theoretical Approaches. International Journal of Management Reviews, 15(2) pp. 167–184.

Bell, Emma (2012). Ways of seeing organisational death: a critical semiotic analysis of organisational memorialisation. Visual Studies, 27(1) pp. 4–17.

Bell, Emma and Taylor, Scott (2011). Beyond letting go and moving on: New perspectives on organizational death, loss and grief. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 27(1) pp. 1–10.

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Bell, Emma (2010). Managerialism and Management Research: Would Melville Dalton Get a Job Today? In: Cassell, Catherine and Lee, Bill eds. Challenges and Controversies in Management Research. Routledge Advances in management and Business Studies. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 122–137.

Taylor, Scott; Bell, Emma; Grugulis, Irene; Storey, John and Taylor, Lee (2010). Politics and power in training and learning: The rise and fall of the NHS University. Management Learning, 41(1) pp. 87–99.

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Bell, Emma (2010). Organizational Ethnography. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, 5(2) pp. 216–219.

Bell, Emma and King, Daniel (2010). The elephant in the room: Critical management studies conferences as a site of body pedagogics. Management Learning, 41(4) pp. 429–442.

Taylor, Scott; Bell, Emma and Cooke, Bill (2009). Business history and the historiographical operation. Management & Organizational History, 4(2) pp. 151–166.

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Bell, Emma and Bryman, Alan (2007). The Ethics of Management Research: An Exploratory Content Analysis. British Journal of Management, 18(1) pp. 63–77.

Bell, Emma (2007). Disruptive Religion: The Case of the Catholic Worker-Priests (1943–1954). Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, 4(4) pp. 432–442.

Bell, Emma (2006). Whose side are they on? Patterns of religious resource mobilization in British industrial mission. Management & Organizational History, 1(4) pp. 331–347.

Kunter, Aylin and Bell, Emma (2006). The Promise and Potential of Visual Organizational Research. M@n@gement, 9(3) pp. 169–189.

Bell, Emma and Taylor, Scott (2005). Joining the club: the ideology of quality and business school badging. Studies in Higher Education, 30(3) pp. 239–255.

Hoque, Kim; Taylor, Scott and Bell, Emma (2005). Investors in People: Market-led Voluntarism in Vocational Education and Training. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 43(1) pp. 135–153.

Bell, Emma and Taylor, Scott (2004). ‘From outward bound to inward bound’: The prophetic voices and discursive practices of spiritual management development. Human Relations, 57(4) pp. 439–466.

Bell, Emma and Taylor, Scott (2003). The Elevation of Work: Pastoral Power and the New Age Work Ethic. Organization, 10(2) pp. 329–349.

Bell, Emma; Taylor, Scott and Thorpe, Richard (2002). Organizational differentiation through badging: Investors in people and the value of the sign. Journal of Management Studies, 39(8) pp. 1071–1085.

Bell, E.; Taylor, S. and Thorpe, R. (2002). A Step in the Right Direction? Investors in People and the Learning Organization. British Journal of Management, 13(2) pp. 161–171.

Bell, Emma; Taylor, Scott and Thorpe, Richard (2001). Investors in People and the Standardization of Professional Knowledge in Personnel Management. Management Learning, 32(2) pp. 201–219.

Bell, Emma (2001). The Social Time of Organizational Payment Systems. Time & Society, 10(1) pp. 45–62.

Bell, Emma (1999). Changing the 'line of sight' on payment systems: A study of shop-floor workers and managers within the British chemical industry. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 10(5) pp. 924–940.

Bell, Emma (1999). The negotiation of a working role in organizational ethnography. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2(1) pp. 17–37.