Chair in Leadership and Management, Director of Learning and Teaching

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0) 116 252 3984
• Email: ms553@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 604, Level 6, Ken Edwards Building
• Office Hours: By appointment 

Biography

Mark Stein has a First Class BA Honours degree from the University of Warwick; an MSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics; an MPhil from the University of Cambridge; and a PhD from Brunel University. He has also studied psychoanalytic theory and method for many years at the Tavistock Clinic.

Mark has been a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London, a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Brunel University, and a Researcher and Consultant at the Tavistock Institute. He has held visiting or associate posts at the Tavistock Clinic, London Business School and the Helsinki University of Technology, and has been an Adjunct Professor and Visiting Scholar at INSEAD, Fontainebleau. He is currently an advisor to the Centre for Organizational Psychology, Roskilde University, Denmark. He has also received funding from the DTI, the Marine Safety Agency, and the Tavistock Institute for Medical Psychology.

Mark has been an External Doctoral Examiner at HEC Paris, the Tavistock Clinic, and Royal Holloway, University of London; was an external examiner at the University of Oxford between 2009-2011; and is currently an external assessor at the International Global Leadership Centre, INSEAD, Fontainebleau. He reviews papers for numerous journals and is on the international editorial board of ‘Organization Studies’ and ‘Journal of Management Inquiry’. Previously, he spent a decade on the International Editorial Panel of ‘Human Relations’ and was an Associate Editor of ‘Organisational and Social Dynamics’.

His publications include two edited books and numerous journal articles and book chapters. He received an Emerald Citation of Excellence for his paper on ‘critical period of disasters’ (published in Human Relations in 2004).

Mark has also received the Richard Normann Prize, intended to reward ‘outstanding insights into the service economy, value co-production, and business innovation and change’. For his work on toxicity – and based on an abridged version of his paper published in Organization Studies in 2007 – Mark was in fact the only-ever recipient of the prize, held in trust by Templeton College (University of Oxford) during the years 2005-2008.

Research Interests

Mark’s research interests lie in the fields of leadership; groups and teams; organisational learning; the customer-employee interface; human and organisational aspects of risk and disaster; emotions in organisations; emotional intelligence; systems psychodynamics and the psychoanalytic study of organisations. 

PhD Supervision

Musarrat Khan
Richard Pearse 

Teaching

Foundations of Management

Administrative Responsibilities

Director of Learning and Teaching. 

Selected Publications

Petriglieri, G. and Stein, M. (2012 – forthcoming) The Unwanted Self: Projective Identification in Leaders’ Identity Work. Organization Studies.

Stein, M. and Pinto, J. (2011) The Dark Side of Groups: A “Gang at Work” in Enron. Group & Organization Management 36(6), 692-721.

Stein, M. (2011) A Culture of Mania: A Psychoanalytic View of the Incubation of the 2008 Credit Crisis. Organization 18(2), 173-186.

Stein, M. (2011) Toxicity and the Unconscious Experience of the Body at the Employee-Customer Interface. In Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Changing World. Brunning, H. (Ed). Karnac: London.

Stein, M. (2010). Oedipus Rex at Enron: Leadership, Oedipal Struggles, and Organizational Collapse. In Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Turbulent World. Brunning, H. and Perini, M. (Eds). Karnac: London.

Stein, M. (2009) Toxizat und das unbewusste Erleben der Koerpers von Angestellten und Kunden. Freie Assoziation 12(1), 51-72.

Stein, M. (2008) Risk. In Gabriel, Y. (Ed) Organizing Words. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Stein, M. (2007) Toxicity and the Unconscious Experience of the Body at the Employee-Customer Interface. Organization Studies 28(08), 1223-1241.

Stein, M. (2007) Oedipus Rex at Enron:  Leadership, Oedipal Struggles, and Organizational Collapse. Human Relations 60(9), 1387-1410.

Stein, M. (2005) The Othello Conundrum: The Inner Contagion of Leadership. Organization Studies 26(9), 1405-1419.

Stein, M. (2004) The Critical Period of Disasters:  Insights from Sensemaking and Psychoanalytic Theory. Human Relations 57(10), 1243-126.

Gould, L., Stapley, L. and Stein, M (Eds) (2004)  Experiential Learning in Organizations: Applications of the Tavistock Group Relations Approach. London: Karnac.

Stein, M. (2004) Theories of Experiential Learning and the Unconscious. In Gould, L., Stapley, L. and Stein, M (Eds)  Experiential Learning in Organizations: Applications of the Tavistock Group Relations Approach. London: Karnac.

Stein, M. (2003) Unbounded Irrationality:  Risk and Organizational Narcissism at Long Term Capital Management. Human Relations 56(5), 523-540. 

Gould, L., Stapley, L. and Stein, M (Eds) (2001) The Systems Psychodynamics of Organizations: Integrating Group Relations, Psychoanalytic and Open Systems Perspectives. London: Karnac.

Stein, M. (2000) The Risk Taker as Shadow: A Psychoanalytic View of the Collapse of Barings Bank. Journal of Management Studies 37(8), 1215-1229.

Stein, M. (2000) After Eden: Envy and the Defences against Anxiety Paradigm. Human Relations 53 (2), 193-211.

Stein, M. (2000) “Winners” Training and its Troubles. Personnel Review 29 (4), 445-459.

Stein, M. (1998) Projective Identification in Management Education. Journal of Managerial Psychology 13(8), 558-566.

Stein, M. (1997) Envy and Leadership. European Journal of Work and Organisation Psychology 6 (4), 453-465.

Stein, M. (1996) Unconscious Phenomena in Work Groups. In West, M. (Ed) Handbook of Work Group Psychology. Chichester: Wiley.

Dyer-Smith, M. and Stein, M (1993) Human Resourcing in the European Marine Industry. European Review of Applied Psychology 43 (1), 5-10. 

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