Mr Darren McGuire

Lectureship In Organisational Studies

Work, Employment and Organisation

Area of Expertise

Management and organisation with a focus on forced labour and labour exploitation
Work and employment, skills, the frontline service sector
Central Asia, agricultural commodities, and Uzbekistan's cotton sector
Action research, participatory and creative research methods

Alongside Dr Knut Laaser, Darren developed a new analytical framework and alternative to theory focusing on lead firm–supplier relations or global value chains when investigating violations of working conditions. They are currently working on a new approach to organisational legitimacy embedded in moral economy approaches. Darren is affiliated with the Centre for the Political Economy of Labour and recently set up the Strathclyde research cluster on central asia and former soviet states.

Publications

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Publications

Moral sentiments and oppositional practices in branch work : a moral economy approach: Laaser Knut, McGuire Darren; Employee Relations (2025)
Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science : finding Customs in Common?: Perchard Andrew, McGuire Darren, Laaser Knut, Gildart Keith, Kaufman Anya, McMaster Robert, Curtis Ben; Economic and Industrial Democracy (2025); https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X241307418
Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science : a roundtable with Dr Melissa Beresford, Professor Andrew Sayer and Professor Neville Kirk, chaired by Professor Robert McMaster: Beresford Melissa, Sayer Andrew, Kirk Neville, McMaster Robert, McGuire Darren; Economic and Industrial Democracy Vol 46, pp. 14-26 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x241307419
Quality of Life & Work in Mauritius and Covid-19: Sambajee Pratima, Scholarios Dora, McGuire Darren; (2023)
The Information Dissemination Project : Final evaluation | July 2022: Kasem Laila, McGuire Darren, Mawson Suzanne; (2022)
A neglected pool of labour? Frontline service work and hotel recruitment in Glasgow: Bolton Sharon C, Laaser Knut, McGuire Darren, Duncan Ashley; European Management Review Vol 16, pp. 567-578 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12172

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Teaching

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Teaching

Darren teaches on a range of PG and UG modules at Strathlcyde. A key inspiration in Darren's teaching is facilitating learning about the possibilities of theory in management and organisation and its potential to contribite towards societal challenges.

Research

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