User:Ben D Busse/Abigail Marks (organisational theorist)

Dr Abigail Marks is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at Heriot-Watt University, who has extended the important and significant Theory of Organisational Identity.

Her current research centres on employee identity and the gap between theory and practice in training and development. Recent publications include: "Biting the hand that feeds: Social identity and resistance in restaurant teams"; "Team Resistance to Discontinuity in Management Style: If God Did Not Intend Leeds to Play a Long Ball Game Why Did She Create Three Dimensions?"; and "The Failure of Participative Incentive Structures to Influence Behaviour: I Have Given You a Biscuit, So Why Are You Still Whining?".

Dr Marks developed her theoretical insights over many years. Particularly pivotal was her time at what is now the Business School at the University of Edinburgh. Here she worked with Dr Patricia Findlay, Dr James Hine and Professor Paul Thompson producing seminal research on teamworking, based upon ethnographic studies of the Scottish spirits industry. Since then she has worked developed her own significant research programme into employee identity.