Professor Mark Stein
Chair of Leadership and Management, Director of Learning and T
eaching
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.
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 scholarly 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’. He has also received funding from the DTI, the Marine Safety Agency, and the Tavistock Institute for Medical Psychology.
His publications include two edited books and numerous journal articles and book chapters. In 2005 Mark received an Emerald Citation of Excellence for his paper on the ‘critical period of disasters’ (published in ‘Human Relations’ in 2004). Of 15, 000 management publications worldwide that year, the citation is awarded to the top 50.
In 2007 Mark 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.
In June 2012 Mark received the iLab prize for innovative scholarship, co-sponsored by the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and the Swiss-based Imagination Foundation Laboratory. The award – a diploma and 12,000 Swiss Francs – was for his stream of scholarship using psychoanalytic ideas in relation to organizations and for his credit crisis paper (published in ‘Organization’ in 2011) in particular, and was presented at the EURAM Annual Conference in Holland.
In August 2012, together with co-author Jonathan Pinto of Imperial College London, Mark received the ‘Group & Organization Management’ best paper prize for the article ‘A Gang at Work in Enron’. The plaque was presented at the annual Academy of Management Conference in Boston, USA.
Mark’s work has been reported in various newspapers, media and blogs around the world. His work has been translated into French, German and Italian, and he has been interviewed by INSEAD Knowledge, TV3 Malaysia, BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme.
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
Teaching
Foundations of Management
Administrative Responsibilities
Director of Learning and Teaching.
Selected Publications
Stein, M. (2013 - forthcoming) A Culture of Mania: A Psychoanalytic View of the Incubation of the 2008 Credit Crisis. In Psychoanalytic Essays on Power and Vulnerability. Brunning, H. (Ed). Karnac: London.
Stein, M. (2013 - forthcoming) Toxicity and the Unconscious Experience of the Body at the Employee-Customer Interface. In Directions in Critical Marketing Studies. Tadajewski, M. and Cluley, R. (Eds.). Sage: London.
Stein, M. (2013 – forthcoming) Il trauma della guerra nell’eurozona: Come l’ombra della guerra e gli stati-gang hanno condotto alla moneta unica e alla sua crisi. Ariele Journal.
Stein, M. (forthcoming 2013 – published OnlineFirst 18 March 2013) When Does Narcissistic Leadership Become Problematic? Dick Fuld at Lehman Brothers. Journal of Management Inquiry.
Petriglieri, G. and Stein, M. (2012) The Unwanted Self: Projective Identification in Leaders’ Identity Work. Organization Studies 33(9), 1217-1235.
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.
