Prof Raymond Caldwell
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Raymond Caldwell is Assistant Dean and Member of the Executive Board of the School of Business, Economics and Informatics. He completed his doctorate at the London School of Economics, followed by a Research Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. After early career stints in Her Majesties Treasury, Philips Industries and nearly a decade in management consultancy, he joined Birkbeck College in 1993. He has served as Chair of a wide range of college committees as well as the elected role of Head of School. Throughout his academic career Raymond has blended theory and practice, working as an academic advisor and consultant in a wide range of industries and he has performed the roles of chairman and non-executive director within limited and listed public companies.
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Research
Research
Research interests
- 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
- Changing nature of the HR function
- New HR roles and issues of professional identity
- HR strategic and leadership roles in the boardroom
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Caldwell, Raymond and Dyer, C. (2020) The performative practices of consultants in a change network: an actor-network practice perspective on organizational change. Journal of Organizational Change Management 33 (5), pp. 941-963. ISSN 0953-4814.
- Caldwell, Raymond (2016) The Weberian legacy: re-reading Reinhard Bendix’s Intellectual Portrait of Max Weber. Journal of Classical Sociology 16 (2), pp. 196-218. ISSN 1468-795X.
- Caldwell, Raymond (2012) Leadership and learning: a critical reexamination of Senge’s learning organization. Systemic Practice and Action Research 25 (1), pp. 39-55. ISSN 1094-429X.
- Caldwell, Raymond (2012) Reclaiming agency, recovering change? an exploration of the practice theory of Theodore Schatzki. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 42 (3), pp. 283-303. ISSN 0021-8308.
- Caldwell, Raymond (2012) Systems thinking, organizational change and agency: a practice theory critique of Senge’s learning organization. Journal of Change Management 12 (2), pp. 145-164. ISSN 1469-7017.
- Caldwell, Raymond (2011) HR directors in UK boardrooms: a search for strategic influence or symbolic capital?. Employee Relations 33 (1), pp. 40-63. ISSN 0142-5455.
- Caldwell, Raymond (2010) Are HR business partner competency models effective?. Applied HRM Research 12 (1), pp. 40-58.
- Caldwell, Raymond (2008) HR business partner competency models: re-contextualising effectiveness. Human Resource Management Journal 18 (3), pp. 275-294. ISSN 0954-5395.
- Caldwell, Raymond (2007) Agency and change: re-evaluating Foucault’s legacy. Organization 14 (6), pp. 769-791. ISSN 1350-5084.
- Caldwell, Raymond (2005) Things fall apart? Discourses on agency and change in organizations. Human Relations 58 (1), pp. 83 -114. ISSN 0018-7267.
- Caldwell, Raymond (2003) Models of change agency: a fourfold classification. British Journal of Management 14 (2), pp. 131-142. ISSN 1045-3172.
- Caldwell, Raymond (2003) The changing roles of personnel managers: old ambiguities, new uncertainties. Journal of Management Studies 40 (4), pp. 983-1004. ISSN 0022-2380.
Book Section
- Caldwell, Raymond (2009) Change from the middle? exploring middle manager strategic and sensemaking agency in public services. In: Todnem, R. and MacLeod, C. (eds.) Managing Organizational Change in Public Services: International Issues, Challenges and Cases. Understanding Organizational Change. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415467599.