Biography

Education / Qualifications: BE, MSc (University of Missouri), CEng, PhD (Lancaster)

Research Interests

history of management thought, sociology of knowledge and technology, organization studies.

Published Journal Articles

• Kavanagh, Donncha and Naughton, Ed (2009) 'Innovation and Project Management - Exploring the Links', PMWorld Today, XI(IV). (e-journal available at: http://www.pmworldtoday.net/featured_papers/2009/apr/Innovation_Project_Management.html
• Lawlor, Jim and Kavanagh, Donncha (2009) 'The Relationship Between New Technologies and Strategic Activities', Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 21(5), 587 — 598. 
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2009) 'Institutional Heterogeneity and Change: The University as Fool', Organization, 16(4): 575-595.
• Kavanagh, Donncha, Carmen Kuhling and Kieran Keohane (2008) 'Dance-work: Images of Organization in Irish Dance', Organization, 15(5): 725–742.
• Kavanagh, Donncha, Geoff Lightfoot, and Simon Lilley (2007), "Running To Stand Still:Late Modernity’s Acceleration Fixation," Cultural Politics, 3 (1), 95-122.
• Lightfoot, Geoff, Simon Lilley, and Donncha Kavanagh (2006), "The End of the Shock of the New," Creativity and Innovation Management, 15 (2 (June)), 157-63.
• Kuhling, Carmen, Donncha Kavanagh and Kieran Keohane (2006), "The Creative Scene of Riverdance:Artrepreneurship and the Celtic Tiger," Taighde: The Research Journal of the Faculty of Commerce, UCC, 1 (2), 56-76.
• Veil, Cornelia, Shirley Saunders, Andrew Hunt, Mark Van Onna, and Donncha Kavanagh (2004), 'Breaking the spell of the uninvited godmother: facilitating project implementation through Electronic Meeting Support,' International Journal of Project Management, 22 (3): 235-243.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2004), 'Ocularcentrism and its Others: A Framework for Metatheoretical Analysis', Organization Studies. 25(3): 445-464.
• Kuhling, Carmen, Keohane, Kieran, and Kavanagh Donncha. (2003), 'Talk and Silence: Instantiations and Articulations', Ephemera. 3(4): 288-305.
• Cusack, Maurice, Jack, Gavin, and Kavanagh, Donncha, (2003) "The Organization of Stigma and the Stigma of Organizing", Culture and Organization 9(4): 295-310.
• Desmond, John and Kavanagh, Donncha, (2003) 'Organisation as Containment of Acquisitive Mimetic Rivalry: The Contribution of René Girard', Culture and Organisation. 9(4): 239-251.
• Kavanagh, Donncha, O'Brien, Clodagh, and Linnane, Maurice, (2002) "Art, Work and Art Work", Creativity and Innovation Management 11(4) pp. 277-286.
• Kavanagh, Donncha and Kelly, Seamus (2002). "Space, Sensemaking and Situated Communities in (Con)temporary Networks." Journal of Business Research 55(2002), pp. 583-594.
• Byrne, Kevin and Kavanagh, Donncha (1996), "Strategic Environmental Management in the Irish Chemical/Pharmaceutical Industry", Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 5(2), pp. 106-114.
• Kavanagh, Donncha and Araujo, Luis (1995), "Chronigami: Folding and Unfolding Time", Accounting, Management and Information Technologies, Vol. 5(2), pp. 103-121.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (1994), "Hunt v Anderson : Round 16", European Journal of Marketing, Vol. 28(3), pp. 26-41.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (1985), "SIREN: A Repetitive Network Simulation Model,' Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Vol. 111(3), pp. 308-323

Book Chapters

• Kavanagh, Donncha, Kuhling, Carmen and Keohane, Kieran (2009) 'Dance-work: Images of Organization in Irish Dance', in S. R. Clegg (ed.) SAGE Directions in Organization Studies. London: Sage.
• Kavanagh, Donncha and Don O'Sullivan (2006), "Advertising and the Organizational Production of Humour," in Humour, Organization and Work, Robert Westwood and Carl Rhodes, Eds. London: Routledge.
• Linehan, Carol and Donncha Kavanagh (2006), "From project ontologies to communities of virtue," in Making Projects Critical, Damian Hodgson and Svetlana Cicmil, Eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
• Kavanagh, Donncha, Carmen Kuhling, and Kieran Keohane (2005), "The Odyssey of Instrumental Rationality:Confronting the Englightenment's Interior Other," in Thinking Organization, Stephen Linstead and Alison Linstead, Eds. London: Routledge. pp. 157-180. (ISBN: 0415333644)
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2000), "Management's Heritage in Heritage Management", in N. Buttimer (ed.), Irish Heritage Management, Cork University Press, Cork. pp. 584-592.
• Kavanagh, Donncha and O'Leary, Majella (2004) 'The Legend of Cú Chulainn: Exploring Organisation Theory's Heroic Odyssey' in Y. Gabriel (ed) Myths, Stories and Organizations:   Premodern Narratives for Our Times. Oxford, Oxford University Press. pp. 116-130. (Chapter 7, ISBN: 0199264481)
• Kavanagh, Donncha, Keohane, Kieran, and Kuhling, Carmen (2001), "Reading Star Trek: Imagining, Theorizing, and Reflecting on Organizational Discourse and Practice", in W. Smith, et al. (ed.), Science Fiction and Organization, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 125-142.
• O'Sullivan, Don and Kavanagh, Donncha (1999), "Marketing: You must be Joking", in S. Brown and A. Patterson (ed.), Marketing Paradiso Retreat, University of Ulster, School of Commerce and International Business Studies, St. Clement's, Belfast, pp. 126-138.
• Buttimer, Cornelius G. and Kavanagh, Donncha (1996), "Markets, Exchange and the Extreme", in S. Brown, et al. (ed.), Marketing Apocalypse: Eschatology, Escapology and the Illusion of the End, Routledge, London, pp. 145-170.
• Buttimer, Cornelius G. and Kavanagh, Donncha (1995), "Markets and Madness", in S. Brown, et al. (ed.), Proceedings of the Marketing Eschatology Retreat, University of Ulster, Belfast, pp. 60-71.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (1993), "Hunt v Anderson: Round 16", in D. Brownlie, et al. (ed.), Rethinking Marketing, Warwick Business School Research Bureau, Warwick, pp. 36-49.

Refereed Conference Papers

• Kavanagh, Donncha, Naughton, Ed, Corkery, Elaine and O'Sullivan, Kathleen (2009) 'Management Technologies - Are they worth it?  A normative study of ISO 9001 and Project Management'. in N. Harvey (ed.) Irish Academy of Management Annual Conference. Galway.
• Kavanagh, Donncha, Keohane, Kieran and Kuhling, Carmen (2009) 'Children and Organisation'. in D. O'Doherty, C. de Cock and A. Rehn (eds.) EGOS Colloquium: Sub-theme 44, New sites/sights in organization: Changing orientations in organization studies. Barcleona.
• Kavanagh, Donncha and Naughton, Ed (2008) 'Project Management and the Celtic Tiger' in 22nd International Project Management Association (IPMA) World Congress. Rome, November, IPMA, http://www.ipmaroma2008.it.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2008) 'The University as Fool'. in S. Ybema, K. Boersma, H. Dahles, T. Elfring and F. d. Hond (eds.) 24th EGOS Colloquium.  Sub-theme 24: Comic Intrusions. Amsterdam, Vrije University Amsterdam.
• Kavanagh, Donncha, Lightfoot, Geoff and Lilley, Simon (2007) 'Futures’ Past: A (partial but maybe, just, plausible) genealogy of the futures'. in C. Jones (ed.) SCOS 2007: 25th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism Ljubljana, Department of Management, Lancaster University.
• Kuhling, Carmen, Kieran Keohane, and Donncha Kavanagh (2006), "The Creative Scene of Riverdance:Artrepreneurship and the Celtic Tiger," in 22nd EGOS Colloquium: Sub-theme 16: Interweaving of Organizations and Organizing in Creative Industries, Haldor Byrkjeflot (Ed.). Bergen, Norway.
• Kuhling, Carmen, Kieran Keohane, and Donncha Kavanagh (2005), "Learning to live with the Lack: Pedagogy of the Beguiled," in European Group of Organization Studies, Georg Schreyögg and Sigrid Quack and Hedwig Rudolph and Jörg Sydow (Eds.). Berlin.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2005), "Practice makes perfect:Towards the University of Virtue," in Critical Management Studies Conference, Hugh Willmott (Ed.). Cambridge.
• Kavanagh, Donncha, Geoff Lightfoot, and Simon Lilley (2005), "Running To Stand Still:Late Modernity’s Acceleration Fixation," in The Dromocratic Condition: Contemporary Cultures of Acceleration, Paul Crosthwaite (Ed.). School of English, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• Kavanagh, Donncha, O'Leary, Majella, and Ó Giolláin, Diarmuid. (2003), 'Stories of the Subaltern', in XXI Annual Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS), Cambridge, UK.
• Kuhling, Carmen, Keohane, Kieran, and Kavanagh Donncha. (2003), 'Talk and Silence: Instantiations and Articulations', in 3 rd Critical Management Studies Conference, Lancaster, England.
• Griffin, Quincy and Kavanagh, Donncha (2003), 'Understanding the Work of the City Manager' in 19th EGOS Colloquium: Copenhagen.
• Linehan, Carol and Kavanagh, Donncha (2003), 'Creating contexts for knowing: Contrasting project ontologies' in 19th EGOS Colloquium: Subtheme 12: Project organizations, embeddedness, and repositories of knowledge. Copenhagen.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2002), 'Ocularcentrism and its Others: A Framework for Metatheoretical Analysis', in Irish Academy of Management, Annual Conference, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford.
• Kavanagh, Donncha, Lightfoot, Geoff, and Lilley, Simon. (2002), 'Running to Standstill: The Consumption of Speed by Acceleration', in XXth Annual SCOS Conference on Speed: Research and Representation in the Age of Instantaneous Organization, Budapest, Hungary.
• Kavanagh, Donncha, O'Leary, Majella, and Ó Giolláin, Diarmuid. (2002), 'Stories of the Subaltern', in Subaltern Storytelling Seminar, Department of Management & Marketing, University College Cork, Cork.
• Kuhling, Carmen, Keohane, Kieran, and Kavanagh Donncha. (2002), 'Talk and the Fantasy of Reconciliation: Silence, Madness and the Unnameable as Organisational Resources', in 18th EGOS Colloquium: Sub Theme 20: Silence is (not) Sexy, Barcelona.
• Cusack, Maurice and Kavanagh, Donncha (2001), "The Organisation of Stigma and the Stigma of Organising", in The 19th International Conference of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, University of Wolverhampton, Dublin.
• Desmond, John and Kavanagh, Donncha (2001), "Organisation as Containment of Acquisitive Mimetic Rivalry: The Contribution of René Girard", in The 19th International Conference of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, University of Wolverhampton, Dublin.
• Kavanagh, Donncha, Kuhling, Carmen, and Keohane, Kieran (2001), "The Odyssey of Instrumental Rationality: Confronting the Enlightenment's Interior Other", in 17th Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies, E.M. Lyon, Lyon.
• Kavanagh, Donncha, O'Brien, Clodagh, and Linnane, Maurice (2001), "Art, Work and Art Work", in Second Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester School of Management, UMIST, Manchester.
• O'Leary, Majella and Kavanagh, Donncha (2001), "Destructive, Cynical and Deceptive Knowledge in Organisations", in The 19th International Conference of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, University of Wolverhampton, Dublin.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2001a) 'Can the Celt Speak? Voices from Beyond the Pale', paper presented at the Second Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester.
• Keohane, Kieran, Kavanagh, Donncha and Kuhling, Carmen (1999), "Reading Star Trek as an Expressive Good: A Resource for Management Knowledge", in Willmott, H. (ed.), Critical Management Studies Conference, UMIST.
• O'Leary, Majella and Kavanagh, Donncha (1999), "Testimony & Morality in Organizations: A Critique of the Constructivist Approach to Knowledge", in H. Willmott (ed.), Critical Management Studies Conference, UMIST.
• Kavanagh, Donncha and Kelly, Séamas (1999), "Organising Space for Sensemaking in Industrial Networks", in D. McLoughlin and C. Horan (ed.), 15th Annual IMP (International Marketing and Purchasing) Conference, University College Dublin, Graduate School of Business, Dublin.
• Beard, Charles, Brownlie, Douglas, Desmond, John and Kavanagh, Donncha (1995), "Simcult Dreaming", in British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Sheffield.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (1993), "Metatheoretical Frameworks in Management Research", in British Academy of Management Annual Conference, British Academy of Management, Milton Keynes.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (1993), "The Metaphysics of Industrial Networks", in 9th IMP Annual Conference, School of Management, University of Bath, Bath.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (1992), "Supply Chain Management in a Project Environment", in Seventh International Conference of the Operations Management Association, UMIST.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (1992), "Towards a Theory of Construction Project Organisations", in 8th IMP Conference, Institut de Recherche de l'Entreprise, Groupe ESC Lyon, Lyon - France.

Other Papers

• Kavanagh, Donncha (2008) 'Profaning the Sacred in Consumer Behaviour:  Odyssey on the Theodicy' paper presented at the International Political Anthropology Symposium. Department of Sociology, University College Cork.
• Kuhling, Carmen; Kavanagh, Donncha, and Keohane, Kieran. (2006) “The Creative Scene of Riverdance:  Artrepreneurship and the Celtic Tiger.” Taighde: The Research Journal of the Faculty of Commerce, UCC 1 (2)  56-76.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2005), "The Inertia Movement", paper presented at the Interpretive Political Social Analysis Conference, Department of Sociology, University College Cork, Allihies, Cork, Ireland.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2005), "Accelerating to Inertia," in B4STEPs – Invited Speaker Series 2005. University of Limerick: Computer Science Department.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2005), "After the Postmodern:Towards the University of Virtue," paper presented at the 3rd Annual Cork Roundtable in Philosophy: The Practice of Ethics, Joseph Biele (Ed.). University College Cork: Department of Philosophy, University College Cork.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2005), "The Inertia Movement," paper presented at the Interpretive Political Social Analysis Conference. Allihies, Cork: Department of Sociology, University College Cork.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2004), "Late Modernity's Acceleration Fixation." invited paper presented to the Science Studies Program, University of California San-Diego
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2004), "Ocularcentrism and its Others: A Framework for Metatheoretical Analysis." invited paper presented to the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, University of California San-Diego.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2004), "Running to standstill:Modernity’s acceleration fixation." invited paper presented to the Centre for Research on Information Technology in Organizations, University of California - Irvine.
• Linehan, Carol and Donncha Kavanagh (2004), "From project ontologies to communities of virtue," invited keynote presentation to 2^nd International Workshop ‘Making Projects Critical’, Damian Hodgson and Svetlana Cicmil (Eds.). Bristol.
• Kavanagh, Donncha and O'Kane, Philip (2000) 'Poles of Engineering Design', paper presented at the Engineering Design in an Academic Environment, Special Conference of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2001), 'Exploring Ethnography's Enigmas', paper presented at the 2nd Annual Doctoral Colloquium, University College Cork, Cork.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2000), "Celtic Modes of Organising", in Interpretive Political Social Analysis Conference, Department of Sociology, University College Cork, Allihies, Cork, Ireland.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (2000), 'The Research Question', paper presented at the 1st Annual Doctoral Colloquium, University College Cork.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (1999), "Seeing Things: Vision, Romanticism and the Radical Political Imaginary", in K. Keohane, L. Ashworth and C. Kuhling (ed.), Interpretive Political Social Analysis Conference, Department of Sociology, University College Cork, Allihies, Cork, Ireland.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (1998), "Managing on the Edge", paper presented at Interpretive Political Social Analysis Conference, Department of Sociology, University College Cork, Allihies, West Cork.
• Kavanagh, Donncha (1997), "ANT: The Wizard of OS", in Actor-Network and After Conference, CSST, Keele University, Keele.
• Kavanagh, Donncha and Brownlie, Douglas (1992), "Strategy and Structure in Hybrid Organisations - Chandler Revisited", in Annual Conference of the Irish Economic History Society, Cork.

Professional Memberships

Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, European Group of Organization Studies. I am a member of the editorial review board of Organization Management Journal, a journal sponsored by the (US) Eastern Academy of Management and I am also a Member of the Editorial Board of the Irish Journal of Management.

Awards

Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2004 to do research in the University of California at San Diego