Most recent publications
Organisational Change Publications: Selective List
- Organizational change theory and change agency
- Critical examination of the meaning, scope and limitations of ‘agency’ and ‘leadership’ in organizational theory
- Practice theories of agency and change
2012 "Reclaiming Agency, Recovering Change: An Exploration of the Practice Theory of Theodore Schatzki", Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, (forthcoming)
2012 "Systems Thinking, Organizational Change and Agency: A Practice Theory Critique of Senge's Leaning Organization", Journal of Change Management, (forthcoming). (Click here for PDF of the author’s version).
2012 "Leadership and Learning; A Critical Re-examination of Senge’s Learning Organization", Systemic Practice and Action Research, Vol 25,No.1:39-55. Available online (Click here for PDF of the author’s version).
2011 ‘HR Directors in UK Boardrooms: In Search of Strategic Influence or Symbolic Capital’? Employee Relations, Vol.33, No.1: 40-63. (Click here for PDF of the author’s version)
2010 "Are HR Business Partner Competency Models Effective"? Applied HRM Research, Vol.12 No.1: 40:58.(Click here for PDF of the author’s version).
2009 “Change From the Middle: Exploring Strategic and Sensemaking Agency in Organizations”, in Rune Todnem By and Calum Macleod (editors), Managing Change in Public Services, (London: Routledge). (Click here for PDF of the draft)
2008 “HR Business Partner Competency Models: Recontextualising Effectiveness” Human Resource Management Journal, Vol.18, No.3:275-294. (Click here for PDF)
2007 “Agency and Change: Re-evaluating Foucault’s Legacy”, Organization, Interdisciplinary Journal of Organization, Theory and Society, Vol.14, No.6: 769-791.
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2007 “Leadership Transmission: A Muddled Metaphor?” Journal of Health Organization and Management, Vol.21.No.3: 246-258. (co-authors David Buchanan, Julienne Meyer, John Storey and Charles Wainwright).
2006 Agency and Change: Rethinking Change Agency in Organizations. (London: Routledge). E-book viewing access at Agency and change: rethinking change ... - Google Books E-book preview, Introduction to the book as PDF proof)
2005 “Things Fall Apart? Discourses on Agency and Change in Organizations”, Human Relations, Vol.58, No.1: 83-114. (Click here for PDF of proof)
2003. “Models of Change Agency: A Fourfold Classification”, British Journal of Management, Vol.13, No.1: 131-142. Available here
2003 “Leading and Managing Change: Different or Complementary?” Journal of Leadership and Organizational Development, Vol. 24, No 5:285-293.
Human Resource Management Publications: Selective List
- Changing nature of the HR function
- New HR roles and issues of professional identity
- HR strategic and leadership roles in the boardroom
2011 ‘HR Directors in UK Boardrooms: In Search of Strategic Influence or Symbolic Capital’? Employee Relations Vol.33, No1: 40-63 (click here to view article online).
2008 “HR Business Partner Competency Models: Re-contextualising Effectiveness”, Human Resource Management Journal, Vol.18, No.3: 275-294.
2007 “The HR Function: Integration or Fragmentation?” (co-author John Storey) Chapter 2 in John Storey (ed) Human Resource Management: A Critical Text. (3rd Edition) ISBN-10: 1844806154. Information on book available at Human Resource Management: A ... - Google Books (Click here for PDF of Chapter 2 proof)
2004 Business Partnering: A New Direction for HR. Brown, D., Caldwell, R., White, K., Atkinson, K., Goodge, P. and Emmott, M. (London: CIPD Publications). Available at http://www.cipd.co.uk/guides
2004 “Rhetoric, Facts and Self-fulfilling Prophecies: Exploring Practitioners’ Perceptions of Progress in Implementing HRM”. Industrial Relations Journal, Vol.35, No.3: 196-215. (Click here for PDF of proof)
2003 “The Changing Roles of Personnel Managers: Old Ambiguities, New Uncertainties”, Journal of Management Studies, Vol.40, No.4: 983-1004. Available at Birkbeck e-prints http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/52/1/caldwell2003.pdf.
2002 “A Change of Name or A Change of Identity? Do Job Titles Influence People Management Professionals’ Perceptions of their Role in Managing Change?” Personnel Review, Vol.31, No.6: 693-709.
2001 “Champions, Adapters, Consultants and Synergists: New Change Agents in HRM?” Human Resource Management Journal, Vol.11, No.3: 39-53. Special Issue.
Editorial Board Membership
Member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Change Management, published by Taylor & Francis Group. Member of the Editorial Board of The Open Management Journal, an on-line, open-access, peer reviewed journal by Bentham Science Journals (USA), which publishes 79 on-line academic journals, mainly in the natural sciences.
Grants and awards
CIPD, Royal Bank of Scotland and Kingfisher plc.
Programme Development
Over the last decade Raymond has created a wide range of successful new management awards at Birkbeck. He is currently Programme Director for the MSc in Management Consultancy and Organisational Change.
