I joined Utrecht University, School of Governance in July 2019 from Massey University, Massey Business School (Aotearoa New Zealand). With my research, I attempt to access, support and work with/for activist communities that address the most urgent and current issues of our contemporary society concerning unsustainable practices and socio-ecological crises. In particular, I study activist (postcapitalist) organisational practices as the main drivers of bottom-up social change that potentially transform institutions. Drawing arguments from critical political economy, I problematize hegemonic power relations leading to economic inequalities and social exclusion at the organizational and societal levels, and focus on theories of postcapitalism to offer ecologically sustainable and socially just alternatives. 

I defend the alignment of teaching, research and community service roles with the purpose of social change as 'critical praxis'. As a part of this agenda, I initiated the ‘Social movements, resistance and social change conference’ in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2014, which was held in a row until 2020 and acted as a bridge between academics and activists. In our school, as the Organization Studies Chair, we have just launched a new Master's program 'Organising Social Impact' that offers an innovative approach on theory and practice integration. 

I held visiting scholar and visiting PhD student positions at Massey University Business School (2019-2021) and the University of Leicester School of Management (2009-2010), respectively. I am a member of the editorial collective of ephemera: theory and politics in organization, an advisory board member for Counterfutures, editorial board member of Organization and a former team member of CMS InTouch. I also held the book review editor role for Labour & Industry between 2018-2020. With Professor Alison Pullen, I am the Division (co)chair (2022-2023) of the Academy of Management (AoM) Critical Management Studies (CMS) Division. 

My research, usually a product of collegial and collective scholarship, was published in ephemera, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Business Ethics, Gender, Work and Organization, Culture and Organization, Industrial Relations Journal and Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations.

I was awarded the ‘Early Career Award for Distinction in Research’ by Massey Business School in 2019 and ‘Best Paper in Critical Business Ethics: Chicago 2018’ by the AoM CMS division for our co-authored study with Dr Fahreen Alamgir.  

I co-supervised two PhD students upon completion

Omer Nazir: Critical insights into modern slavery: Case of debt bonded labour in Indian brick kilns (2021, Massey University, School of Management, NZ)

Steve Scott: Running Amok - The Diary of the Hysteric: business education, the Self, & other oxymorons (2021, Massey University, School of Management, NZ)