Michael Elmes (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is Professor of Management in the Department of Management at WPI in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has been at WPI since 1990 and, prior to that, was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Syracuse University's School of Management. In the spring of 1997, he was a Visiting Scholar at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

His research interests include workplace resistance and ideological control, critical perspectives on spirituality-in-the-workplace, the implementation of IT in organizations, organizations in the natural environment, narrative and aesthetic perspectives on organizational phenomena, and the psychodynamics of group and intergroup behavior. His research has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Management Learning, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Journal of Management Inquiry, and Small Group Research. He is also a co-editor of Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity (Sage Publications, 1997).

Professor Elmes is visiting New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship: “Helping to Understand Biotechnology's Social and Cultural Impact”. For more information visit http://www.mgt.wpi.edu/News/elmes.html

Socially & Culturally Sustainable Biotechnology research projects:

Sustainability and Biotechnology
Public Understandings of Biotechnology

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Victoria University of Wellington

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