last updated: February 2024

Ismael Al-Amoudi has been the Director of the Centre of Social Ontology since 2018. He is also a Full Professor of management, ethics and sociology at Grenoble Ecole de Management (France, EU) and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University Business School (Wales, UK). Prof. Al-Amoudi is also an Associate Editor for the journal Organization, an Editorial Review Board member of Organization Studies, and a member of the Independent Social Research Foundation’s Academic Advisory Board.

In addition to the nature of virtual reality, Prof. Al-Amoudi is currently conducting projects on corporate violence, post-human technologies and the moral and political significance of relationality. His research is grounded in the inter-disciplinary tradition of philosophical sociology. Although his thinking is mostly indebted to critical realism, he also draws selectively from other approaches incl. post-structuralism (Foucault), sociology of conventions (Boltanski & Thévenot), actor network theory (Latour) and feminist theorizing (esp. Judith Butler).

Selected Publications

Books

Al-Amoudi, I., & Lazega, E. (Eds.). (2019). Post-human institutions and organizations: Confronting the matrix. Abingdon, UK Routledge.

Al-Amoudi, I., & Morgan, J. (Eds.). (2019). Realist responses to post-human society: Ex machina. Abingdon, UK Routledge.

Full papers in peer-reviewed journals

In reverse chronological order

Al-Amoudi, I. (forthcoming). Ontological unpredictability: What can realists say about unpredictability, contingency, and catastrophe?. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour.

Galazka, A., & Al-Amoudi, I. (forthcoming). Managing stigma together: Relationality in the wound clinic. Organization.

Al-Amoudi, I. (2023). The politics of post-human technologies: Human enhancements, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. Organization, 30(6), 1238–1245.

Varman, R., Al-Amoudi, I., & Skålén, P. (2023). Workplace Humiliation and the Organization of Domestic Work. Organization Studies, 44(11), 1853–1877.

Al-Amoudi, I. (2022). Are post-human technologies dehumanising?. Human enhancements and artificial intelligence in contemporary societies. Journal of Critical Realism, 21(5), 516–538.

Foroughi, H., & Al-Amoudi, I. (2020). Collective forgetting in a changing organization: When memories become unusable and uprooted. Organization Studies, 41(4), 449–470.

Lindebaum, D., Al-Amoudi, I., & Brown, V. (2018). Does leadership development need to care about neuroethics?. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 17(1), 96–109.

Al-Amoudi, I., Edwards, T., O’Mahoney, H., & O’Mahoney, J. (2017). De/humanisation and critical realism. Journal of Critical Realism, 16(4), 349–352.

Al-Amoudi, I., & Latsis, J. (2017). The limits of ontological critique: From judgmental rationality to justification. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 41(5), 1303–1321.

O’Mahoney, J., O’Mahoney, H., & Al-Amoudi, I. (2017). How can the loggerhead sea-turtle survive?. Exploring the journeys of the caretta caretta using ANT and critical realism. Organization, 24(6), 781–799.

Varman, R., & Al-Amoudi, I. (2016). Accumulation through derealization: How corporate violence remains unchecked. Human Relations, 69(10), 1909–1935.

Al-Amoudi, I., & Latsis, J. (2014). The arbitrariness and normativity of social conventions. British Journal of Sociology, 65(2), 358–378.

Blanc, S. M.-A., & Al-Amoudi, I. (2013). Corporate institutions in a declining welfare state: A Rawlsian perspective. Business Ethics Quarterly, 23(4), 497–525.

Al-Amoudi, I., & Willmott, H. (2011). Where constructionism and critical realism converge: Interrogating the domain of epistemological relativism. Organization Studies, 31(1), 27–46.

Al-Amoudi, I. (2010). Immanent non-algorithmic rules: An ontological study of social rules. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 40(3), 289–313.

Al-Amoudi, I. (2007). Redrawing Foucault’s social ontology. Organization, 14(4), 543–563.

Book chapters

In reverse chronological order

Al-Amoudi, I. (2021). Inhuman enhancements? When human enhancements alienate from self, others, society and nature. In M. S. Archer & A. M. Maccarini (Eds.), What is essential to being human? Can AI robots not share it?. Abingdon, UK Routledge.

Al-Amoudi, I., & Islam, G. (2021). Why should enhanced and unenhanced humans care for each other? In M. Carrigan & D. Porpora (Eds.), Post-human futures: Human enhancement, artificial intelligence and social theory. Abingdon, UK Routledge.

Lindebaum, D., Brown, V. L., & Al-Amoudi, I. (2020). ‘Murder they said’: A content analysis and further ethical reflection on the application of neuroscience in management. In J. T. Martineau & E. Racine (Eds.), Organizational neuroethics. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Al-Amoudi, I. (2019). Management and dehumanization in late modernity. In I. Al-Amoudi & J. Morgan (Eds.), Ex machina: Realist responses to posthuman society. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Al-Amoudi, I., & Latsis, J. (2019). Anormative black boxes: Artificial intelligence and health policy. In I. Al-Amoudi & E. Lazega (Eds.), Post-human institutions and organizations: Confronting the matrix. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Al-Amoudi, I., & Lazega, E. (2019). Digital society’s techno-totalitarian matrix. In I. Al-Amoudi & E. Lazega (Eds.), Post-human institutions and organizations: Confronting the matrix. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Al-Amoudi, I., & Morgan, J. (2019). Introduction: Posthumanism in morphogenic societies. In I. Al-Amoudi & J. Morgan (Eds.), Ex machina: Realist responses to posthuman society. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Al-Amoudi, I. (2017). Reflexivity in a just morphogenic society: A sociological contribution to political philosophy. In M. S. Archer (Ed.), Social morphogenesis and human flourishing. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Al-Amoudi, I. (2016). In letter and in spirit: Social morphogenesis and the interpretation of codified rules. In M. S. Archer (Ed.), Morphogenesis & the crisis of normativity. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Al-Amoudi, I., & O’Mahoney, J. (2016). Ontology: Philosophical discussions and implications for organization studies. In R. Mir, M. Greenwood, & H. Willmott (Eds.), The Routledge companion to philosophy in organization studies. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Al-Amoudi, I., & Latsis, J. (2015). Death contested: Morphonecrosis and conflicts of interpretation. In M. S. Archer (Ed.), Generative mechanisms transforming the social order. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Al-Amoudi, I. (2014). Morphogenesis and normativity: Problems the former creates for the latter. In M. S. Archer (Ed.), Late modernity: Trajectories towards morphogenic society. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Al-Amoudi, I. (2013). Authority’s hidden network: Obligations, roles and the morphogenesis of authority. In M. S. Archer (Ed.), Social morphogenesis. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Al-Amoudi, I. (2008). Relativism. In S. Clegg & J. Bailey (Eds.), International encyclopedia of organization studies. London, UK: Sage.

Book reviews

Al-Amoudi, I. (2018). Review of Yuval Noah Harari’s book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Organization Studies, 39(7), 995–998.