Christopher Wright is Professor of Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School where he teaches and researches organisational change, management innovation, sustainability and critical understandings of capitalism and political economy. He has published extensively on the history of management, management consultancy, the labour process and the changing nature of human resource management.

Research interests

Christopher Wright’s research focuses on critical understandings of corporate capitalism with a particular focus on the role of large business corporations and their societal and environmental impact. He has researched and published extensively on issues of organisational and technological change, the labour process, management innovation, management consultancy, sustainability and the changing nature of human resource management. He utilises qualitative methods to explore these issues including case studies, interviews, critical discourse analysis and organizational history.

Professor Wright’s current research is centred on business and climate change, with a particular focus on how managers and corporations interpret and respond to the climate crisis. As one of the most critical issues facing humanity, climate change poses major challenges for business organisations in terms of regulatory, market, reputational and physical risk. Professor Wright’s research in this area has explored critical understandings of corporate environmentalism, business sustainability, corporate citizenship, risk, political myth, managerial identity and the role of emotions in climate change responses. A recent article in the top-tierAcademy of Management Journal(with Professor Daniel Nyberg of Newcastle University) develops this research by analysing the limits of business engagement with ‘grand challenges’ such as climate change. This research is further developed in his recent bookClimate Change, Capitalism and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-destruction(Cambridge University Press, 2015) written with Professor Nyberg.

Professor Wright has led various research projects in the area of climate change and corporate responses to energy transition. These have included: Australian Research Council funded Discovery projects; journal special issues on the topics of climate futures, and the Anthropocene and organizing; and international conference streams on climate change and business. He is also a Chief Investigator on a current ARC-funded Discovery project investigating energy security in Australia (with Associate Professor Jane Lê).

Most recently, Professor Wright organised the visit to Australia by world-renowned climate scientist Professor Michael Mann from Pennsylvania State University. Professor Mann’s visit resulted in a symposium of academics and industry and environmental leaders on the future of climate change responses, a large public lecture on climate change denial, and numerous media interviews on the current state of climate politics.

Professor Wright is a regular contributor to the media on business responses to climate change, corporate environmentalism and sustainability.

Teaching and supervision

SUST5006 Sustainability, Society and Change

WORK6033 Organisational Sustainability

WORK6111 Management Consulting

Current research students

Project title	Research student
The implications of spatial and temporal justice for identities and future imaginaries of coal mining communities in the Hunter Valley	Caitlin GARDNER

Selected publications

Organising Responses to Climate Change: The Politics of Mitigation, Adaptation and Suffering

(Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction

(Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Management as Consultancy: Neo-bureaucracy and the Consultant Manager

(Cambridge University Press, 2015)

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Books

Nyberg, D., Wright, C., Bowden, V. (2022). Organising Responses to Climate Change: The Politics of Mitigation, Adaptation and Suffering. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2015). Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Sturdy, A., Wright, C., Wylie, N. (2015). Management as Consultancy: Neo-bureaucracy and the Consultant Manager. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]

Book Chapters

Wright, C., Nyberg, D., Bowden, V. (2024). Climate Change and Corporate Strategies. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science, (pp. 1-23). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2022). Planetary challenges: The fossil fuel industry, climate change, and the disruption of the world. In M. Kipping, T. Kurosawa, E. Westney (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Industry Dynamics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2021). How Organizations Translate Climate Change into Business as Usual. In J. W. Dash (Eds.), World Scientific Encyclopedia of Climate Change: Case Studies of Climate Risk, Action, and Opportunity, (pp. 179-185). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2021). The Mobilisation of Extractivism: The Social and Political Influence of the Fossil Fuel Industry. In S. Bohm, S. Sullivan (Eds.), Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis, (pp. 113-125). Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2020). Feeling the Heat: What Future for Organisations and Work on a Climate-Changed World? In R.D. Lansbury, A. Johnson & D. van den Broek (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Work and Organisations: Actors and Institutions, (pp. 73-87). London: Routledge. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2020). Politics and Securitization: The Political Economy of the Climate Crisis in the Pacific. In A. Costi, J. Renwick (Eds.), In the Eye of the Storm: Reflections from the Second Pacific Climate Change Conference, (pp. 83-96). Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2019). Climate change and social innovation. In G. George, T. Baker, P. Tracey and H. Joshi (Eds.), Handbook of Inclusive Innovation: The Role of Organizations, Markets and Communities in Social Innovation, (pp. 47-60). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2019). Feeling the heat: What future for organisations and work on a climate-changed world? In R.D. Lansbury, A. Johnson & D. van den Broek (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Work and Organisations: Actors and Institutions, (pp. 73-87). London: Routledge.
Wright, C. (2019). Thought Leaders and Followers: the impact of consultants and advisers on management ideas. In A. Sturdy, S. Heusinkveld, T. Reay, D. Strang (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas, (pp. 141-158). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2018). Corporate Environmental Responsibility. In N. Castree, M. Hulme, J.D. Proctor (Eds.), Companion to Environmental Studies, (pp. 163-168). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2018). Global Trade in an Era of Neoliberal Capitalism: Origins, Context and Implications. In Joy Murray, Arunima Malik, Arne Geschke (Eds.), The Social Effects of Global Trade, (pp. 3-17). Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing. [More Information]
Klein, N., Wright, C. (2017). An Interview with Naomi Klein: Capitalism Versus the Climate. In Benedetta Brevini, Graham Murdock (Eds.), Carbon Capitalism and Communication: Confronting Climate Crisis, (pp. 31-38). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Sturdy, A., Wright, C., Wylie, N. (2017). Management and consultancy: Ambivalence, complexity and change. In Adrian Wilkinson, Steven J. Armstrong, Michael Lounsbury (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Management, (pp. 518-537). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2016). Engaging with the contradictions of capitalism: Teaching "sustainability" in the business school. In Chris Steyaert, Timon Beyes, Martin Parker (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education, (pp. 468-481). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2014). Human resource management in Australia:historical development and contemporary tensions. In Bruce E Kaufman (Eds.), The Development of Human Resource Management Across Nations: Unity and Diversity, (pp. 46-65). Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Kipping, M., Wright, C. (2012). Consultants In Context: Global Dominance, Societal Effect and the Capitalist System. In Matthias Kipping and Timothy Clark (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting, (pp. 165-185). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Wright, C., Kipping, M. (2012). The Engineering Origins of the Consulting Industry and It's Long Shadow. In Matthias Kipping and Timothy Clark (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting, (pp. 29-49). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Lund, J., Wright, C. (2006). Integrating the Supply Chain: Industrial Relations Implications in US Grocery Distribution. In Rhodes, E., Warren, J., Carter, R. (Eds.), Supply Chains and Total Product Systems: A Reader, (pp. 97-114). Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishers.
Wright, C. (2002). Promoting Demand, Gaining Legitimacy and Broadening Expertise: The Evolution of Consultancy-Client Relationships in Australia. In Kipping, M. & Engwall, L. (Eds.), Management Consulting: Emergence and Dynamics of a Knowledge Industry, (pp. 184-202). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

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Journals

André, R., Bradbury, H., Grant, D., Hastings, B., Hoffman, A., Jennings, P., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2025). Climate Action Research: What's Holding Us Back? Journal of Management Inquiry, Published online: 30 January 2025. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2024). Corporations and climate change: An overview. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 15(6), e919. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2024). Defending hegemony: From climate change mitigation to adaptation on the Great Barrier Reef. Organization, 31(2), 247-268. [More Information]
Thomsen, B., Vassallo, J., Wright, C., Chen, S., Thomsen, J., Villar, D., Gosler, A., Best, T., Deshwal, A., Coose, S., Hincapié, M., et al (2024). Reimagining entrepreneurship in the Anthropocene through a multispecies relations approach. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 22, e00507. [More Information]
Kirk, J., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2023). Divided yet united: Balancing convergence and divergence in environmental movement mobilization. Environmental Politics, 32(1), 1-20. [More Information]
Wright, C., Irwin, R., Nyberg, D., Bowden, V. (2022). 'We're in the coal business': Maintaining fossil fuel hegemony in the face of climate change. Journal of Industrial Relations, 64(4), 544-563. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2022). Challenging Disciplinary Norms: A Response. The Academy of Management Perspectives, 36(3), 962-967. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Ferns, G., Vachhani, S., Wright, C. (2022). Climate Change, Business, and Society: Building Relevance in Time and Space. Business & Society, 61(5), 1322-1352. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2022). Climate-proofing management research. The Academy of Management Perspectives, 36(2), 713-728. [More Information]
Irwin, R., Bowden, V., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2022). Making green extreme: defending fossil fuel hegemony through citizen exclusion. Citizenship Studies, 26(1), 73-89. [More Information]
Wenger, S., D'Alessandro, D., Wright, C. (2022). Maximizing Global Cooling Potential in Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Procurements: A Proposal for Tonne-Year Pricing. Frontiers in Climate, 4, 927408. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2022). The Roles of Celebrities in Public Disputes: Climate Change and the Great Barrier Reef. Journal of Management Studies, 59(7), 1788-1816. [More Information]
Bowden, V., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2021). "I don't think anybody really knows": Constructing reflexive ignorance in climate change adaptation. British Journal of Sociology, 72(2), 397-411. [More Information]
Bowden, V., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2021). "We're Going Under": The Role of Local News Media in Dislocating Climate Change Adaptation. Environmental Communication, 15(6), 649-658. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D., Bowden, V. (2021). Beyond the discourse of denial: The reproduction of fossil fuel hegemony in Australia. Energy Research & Social Science, 77, 102094. [More Information]
De Cock, C., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2021). Disrupting climate change futures: Conceptual tools for lost histories. Organization, 28(3), 468-482. [More Information]
Bowden, V., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2021). Truth and power: deliberation and emotions in climate adaptation processes. Environmental Politics, 30(5), 708-726. [More Information]
Bowden, V., Gond, J., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2021). Turning Back the Rising Sea: Theory performativity in the shift from climate science to popular authority. Organization Studies, 42(12), 1909-1931. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C., Kirk, J. (2020). Fracking the Future: The Temporal Portability of Frames in Political Contests. Organization Studies, 41(2), 175-196. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2019). A Climate of Denial: Coral Bleaching, Political Obfuscation, and the Climate Crisis. Anthroposphere: The Oxford Climate Review, (4). [More Information]
Bowden, V., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2019). Planning for the past: Local temporality and the construction of denial in climate change adaptation. Global Environmental Change, 57, 1-9. [More Information]
Rhodes, C., Wright, C., Pullen, A. (2018). Changing the World? The Politics of Activism and Impact in the Neoliberal University. Organization, 25(1), 139-147. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C., Kirk, J. (2018). Dash for Gas: Climate Change, Hegemony and the Scalar Politics of Fracking in the UK. British Journal of Management, 29(2), 235-251. [More Information]
Jones, S., Wright, C. (2018). Fashion or Future: Does Creating Shared Value Pay? Accounting and Finance, 58(4), 1111-1139. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D., Rickards, L., Freund, J. (2018). Organizing in the Anthropocene. Organization, 25(4), 455-471. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2017). An Inconvenient Truth: How Organizations Translate Climate Change into Business As Usual. Academy of Management Journal, 60(5), 1633-1661. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C., Kirk, J. (2017). Re-producing a neoliberal political regime: Competing justifications and dominance in disputing fracking. Research in the Sociology of Organisations, 52, 143-171. [More Information]
Sturdy, A., Wright, C., Wylie, N. (2016). Managers as consultants: The hybridity and tensions of neo-bureaucratic management. Organization, 23(2), 184-205. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2016). Performative and political: Corporate constructions of climate change risk. Organization, 23(5), 617-638. [More Information]
Wylie, N., Sturdy, A., Wright, C. (2014). Change agency in occupational context: Lessons for HRM. Human Resource Management Journal, 24(1), 95-110. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2014). Creative self-destruction: corporate responses to climate change as political myths. Environmental Politics, 23(2), 205-223. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D., De Cock, C., Whiteman, G. (2013). Commentary: Voices from the front lines of the climate wars. Organization, 20(5), 743-744. [More Information]
O'Mahoney, J., Heusinkveld, S., Wright, C. (2013). Commodifying the Commodifiers: The Impact of Procurement on Management Knowledge. Journal of Management Studies, 50(2), 204-235. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2013). Corporate corruption of the environment: Sustainability as a process of compromise. British Journal of Sociology, 64(3), 405-424. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D., De Cock, C., Whiteman, G. (2013). Future imaginings: organizing in response to climate change. Organization, 20(5), 647-658. [More Information]
Wright, C., Gilding, P. (2013). Imagining the climate crisis and the great disruption: an interview with Paul Gilding. Organization, 20(5), 757-766. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Spicer, A., Wright, C. (2013). Incorporating citizens: corporate political engagement with climate change in Australia. Organization, 20(3), 433-453. [More Information]
Sturdy, A., Wylie, N., Wright, C. (2013). Management Consultancy and Organizational Uncertainty. International Studies of Management and Organisation, 43(3), 58-73. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D., Grant, D. (2012). "Hippies on the Third Floor": Climate Change, Narrative Identity and the Micro-Politics of Corporate Environmentalism. Organization Studies, 33(11), 1451-1475. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2012). Justifying Business Responses to Climate Change: Discursive Strategies of Similarity and Difference. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 44(8), 1819-1835. [More Information]
Wright, C., Sturdy, A., Wylie, N. (2012). Management Innovation Through Standardization: Consultants as Standardizers of Organizational Practice. Research Policy, 41(3), 652-662. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2012). Working With Passion: Emotionology, Corporate Environmentalism and Climate Change. Human Relations, 65(12), 1561-1587. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2011). Historical Interpretations of the Labour Process: Retrospect and Future Research Directions. Labour History, 100(May 2011), 19-32. [More Information]
Sturdy, A., Wright, C. (2011). The Active Client: The Boundary-spanning Roles of Internal Consultants as Gatekeepers, Brokers and Partners of their External Counterparts. Management Learning, 42(5), 485-503. [More Information]
Lund, J., Wright, C. (2009). Enabling 'Managed Activism': The Adoption Of Call Centres In Australian, British And US Trade Unions. New Technology Work and Employment, 24(1), 43-59. [More Information]
Wright, C., Suh, C., Leggett, C. (2009). If At First You Don't Succeed: globalized production and organizational Learning at the Hyundai Motor Company. Asia Pacific Business Review, 15(2), 163-180. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2009). Inside Out? Organizational Membership, Ambiguity and the Ambivalent Identity of the Internal Consultant. British Journal of Management, 20(3), 309-322. [More Information]
Sturdy, A., Wright, C. (2008). A Consulting Diaspora? Enterprising Selves as Agents of Enterprise. Organization, 15(3), 427-444. [More Information]
Puck, J., Kittler, M., Wright, C. (2008). Does It Really Work? Re-Assessing the Impact of Pre-Departure Cross-Cultural Training on Expatriate Adjustment. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 19(12), 2182-2197. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2008). Reinventing Human Resource Management: Business Partners, Internal Consultants and the Limits to Professionalization. Human Relations, 61(8), 1063-1086. [More Information]
Kitay, J., Wright, C. (2007). From prophets to profits: The occupational rhetoric of management consultants. Human Relations, 60(11), 1613-1640. [More Information]
Wright, C., Kwon, S. (2006). Business Crisis and Management Fashion: Korean Companies, Restructuring and Consulting Advice. Asia Pacific Business Review, 12(3), 355-373. [More Information]
Grant, D., Harley, B., Wright, C. (2006). Editorial Introduction: The Work and Organisational Implications of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. New Technology Work and Employment, 21(3), 196-198. [More Information]
Harley, B., Wright, C., Hall, R., Dery, K. (2006). Management Reactions to Technological Change: The Example of Enterprise Resource Planning. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 42(1), 58-75. [More Information]
Grant, D., Hall, R., Wailes, N., Wright, C. (2006). The false promise of technological determinism: the case of enterprise resource planning systems. New Technology Work and Employment, 21(1), 2-15. [More Information]
Wright, C., Lund, J. (2006). Variations on a Lean Theme: Work Restructuring in Retail Distribution. New Technology Work and Employment, 21(1), 59-74. [More Information]
Dery, K., Grant, D., Harley, B., Wright, C. (2006). Work, organisation and Enterprise Resource Planning systems: an alternative research agenda. New Technology Work and Employment, 21(3), 199-214. [More Information]
McIvor, A., Wright, C. (2005). Managing Labour: UK and Australian Employers in Comparative Perspective, 1900-1950. Labour History, 88(May 2005), 45-62.
Wright, C. (2004). Book Review: Downey, G. (2002) Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and Geography, 1850-1950. New York: Routledge. Enterprise and Society, 5(1), 149-151.
Lund, J., Wright, C. (2004). More Pain, Less Gain: New Compensation Systems for Grocery Truck Drivers. Labor Studies Journal, 29(2), 1-20. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2004). Snaford M. Jacoby, Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in the 20thCentury, Revised Edition. Labour History, 87, 284-286.
Wright, C., Kitay, J. (2004). Spreading The Word - Gurus, Consultants And The Diffusion Of The Employee Relations Paradigm In Australia. Management Learning, 35(3), 271-286. [More Information]
Kitay, J., Wright, C. (2004). Take The Money And Run? Organisational Boundaries And Consultants' Roles. Service Industries Journal, 24(3), 1-18. [More Information]
Lund, J., Wright, C. (2003). Building Union Power Through the Supply Chain: Mapping Opportunities and Jurisdictional Boundaries in Grocery Distribution. Labor Studies Journal, 27(4), 59-75. [More Information]
Kitay, J., Wright, C. (2003). Expertise and Organizational Boundaries: The Varying Roles of Australian Management Consultants. Asia Pacific Business Review, 9(3), 21-40. [More Information]
Lund, J., Wright, C. (2003). Integrating the Supply Chain: Industrial Relations Implications in US Grocery Distribution. New Technology Work and Employment, 18(2), 101-114. [More Information]
Wright, C., Lund, J. (2003). Supply Chain Rationalisation: Retailer Dominance and Labour Flexibility in the Australian Food and Grocery Industry. Work, Employment and Society, 17(1), 137-157. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2002). Book Review: Clark, T. & Fincham, R. (eds.) (2002) Critical Consulting: New Perspectives on the Management Advice Industry. Journal of Management Studies, 42(2), 467-470.
Wright, C., Kitay, J. (2002). But Does It Work? Perceptions of the Impact of Management Consulting. Briefings in Entrepreneurial Finance (Strategic Change), 11(5), 271-278.
Wright, C. (2002). Retooling the Class Factory: Response 4, Labour History, Work and the Role of Capital. Labour History, 82(1), 134-136.
Wright, C. (2001). Book Review: Conlon, R. & Perkins, J. (2001) Wheels and Deals: The Automotive Industry in Twentieth-Century Australia, Aldershot, Ashgate. Journal of Transport History, 23(2), 201-203.
Lund, J., Wright, C. (2001). State Regulation and the New Taylorism: The Case of Australian Grocery Warehousing. Relations Industrielles-Industrial Relations, 56(4), 747-769.

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Conferences

Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2019). Making Climate Change Fit for Capitalism: The Corporate Translation of Climate Adaptation. 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) 2019, Boston, United States: Academy of Management. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2018). Coral not coal: Enlisting the worlds of fame and celebrity in climate change politics. 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM 2018), Chicago, USA: Academy of Management. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C., Kirk, J. (2017). Fracking the future: Temporality, framing and the politics of unconventional fossil fuels. 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM 2017), Atlanta: Academy of Management. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2016). Market fundamentalism and the climate crisis: How corporations shape the governance of climate change. AAG Annual Meeting, USA: American Association of Geographers.
Nyberg, D., Wright, C., Kirk, J. (2015). Re-producing a neoliberal political regime: Competing justifications and dominance in the public debate over UK fracking. 31st EGOS Colloquium: Examined Life - Reason, Reflexivity and Responsibility, Athens, Greece: European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS).
Nyberg, D., Wright, C., Kirk, J. (2015). Unconventional fossil fuels and the climate crisis: Temporal framings in UK fracking. 31st EGOS Colloquium: Examined Life - Reason, Reflexivity and Responsibility, Athens, Greece: European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS).
Wylie, N., Sturdy, A., Wright, C. (2010). The Organization of Internal Management Consultancy: Dynamics, Dimensions and Dilemmas. Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2010 - Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research, United States: Academy of Management.
Wang, Y., Wright, C. (2008). How Management Consultancies Strategize Knowledge in Emerging Markets: The Case of China. 22nd Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference ANZAM 2008, Auckland, New Zealand: Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM).
Wright, C. (2007). A Consultant to the Business: Professionalising the Human Resource Function? 5th International Critical Management Studies Conference CMS 2007, New Zealand: Informit e-Library, RMIT Publishing.
Nippa, M., Wright, C. (2007). Pay for Performance Based Consulting: A Contingency Approach. Academy of Management Management Consulting Division Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
Wright, C., Sturdy, A. (2006). A Consulting Diaspora? The Transition of Management Consultants into Organisational Roles. 22nd EGOS Colloquium, Bergen, Norway: 22nd EGOS Colloquium.
Wright, C. (2005). Advocating Modern Management: The State and the Diffusion of Personnel Practice in Post-War Australia. 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences. History in Global Perspective, The University Of New South Wales, Sydney: University of Sydney.
Grant, D., Harley, B., Wright, C. (2005). Critical Insights into the Organizational Implications of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2005, Glassboro, NJ, USA: Academy of Management.
Wright, C. (2005). Inside Out? Identity and Ambiguities of the Internal Consultant. Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2005, Glassboro, NJ, USA: Academy of Management.
Suh, C., Leggett, C., Wright, C. (2005). Strengthening Competitiveness through Globalised Production: The Case of Hyundai Motor Company. Academy of International Business Southeast Asia Regional Conference (2005), Manila, Philippines: Academy of International Business Southeast Asia.
Wright, C., Kwon, S. (2004). Business Crisis And Management Fashion: Korean Companies, Restructuring And Consulting Advice. Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden: Academy of International Business.
Wright, C. (2004). Researching Management Consultants: Overview of an Interview-Based Research Project. Qualitative Research Network, University of New South Wales: Faculty of Commerce & Economics, University of New South Wales.
Wright, C. (2004). The More Things Changeâ€¦: Reassessing the Transformation of Work From a Historical Perspective. Taking Care of Business? Historical Perspectives of Management Practice in the Twentieth Century Conference, Womenâ€™s College, University of Sydney: Historical Perspectives of Management Practice in the Twentieth Century Conference.
Wright, C. (2003). How To Get the Most Out of Consultants. Newcastle Branch of the Industrial Relations Society of NSW, Newcastle: Newcastle Branch of the Industrial Relations Society of NSW.
Wright, C. (2003). Innovation, Continuity and Conservatism: Australian Employers and Changes in Labour Management, 1900-1950. Anglo-Australia Labour History Conference (2003), Manchester-Metropolitan University, UK: Anglo-Australia Labour History Conference.
Grant, D., Hall, R., Wailes, N., Wright, C. (2003). The false promise of technological determinism: the case of enterprise resource planning systems. 3rd International Critical Management Studies Conference CMS3 2003, United Kingdom: AMS Systems & Rebyte.
Wright, C., Lund, J. (2003). Workplace Convergence: The Diffusion of Lean Logistics in Grocery Retailing. 1st ANZAM Operations Management Symposium, University of Sydney: University of Sydney.
Wright, C., Lund, J. (2002). Supply Chain Rationalisation: Management Strategy and Union Adaptation in the Australian Food and Grocery Sector. International Industrial Relations Association/Canadian Industrial Relations Association 4th Regional Congress of the Americas, Toronto, Canada: International Industrial Relations Association/Canadian Industrial Relations Association 4th Regional Congress of the Americas.
Wright, C. (2001). Employee Participation and Involvement: Changing Employer Initiatives Since World War Two. Workplace Democracy and the Future of the Labour Movement Conference, University of Sydney: Workplace Democracy and the Future of the Labour Movement Conference.
Kitay, J., Wright, C. (2001). From Prophets to Profits: The Occupational Imagery of Management Consultants. 17th EGOS Colloquium, The Odyssey of Bureaucracy Stream, Lyon, France: 17th EGOS Colloquium.
Wright, C. (2001). Perspectives on U.S. Labour History, Professor Elizabeth Faue. Work and Organisational Studies Symposium, The University of Sydney: Work and Organisational Studies Symposium.

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Magazine / Newspaper Articles

Floris, M., Wright, C. (2012). Carbon tax: not everyone's worse off. Australian Financial Review.

Report

Floris, M., Wright, C. (2012). Submission to the Inquiry into Barriers to Effective Climate Change Adaptation.
Buchanan, J., Briggs, C., Wright, C. (2002). A Critique of the Productivity Commission's Review of Automotive Assistance.

Other

Wright, C., Mann, M. (2013), Future imaginings and the battle over climate science: an interview with Michael Mann. [More Information]
Kitay, J., Wright, C. (2007), Expertise and Organisational Boundaries: A Typology of Consulting Roles.

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2025

André, R., Bradbury, H., Grant, D., Hastings, B., Hoffman, A., Jennings, P., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2025). Climate Action Research: What's Holding Us Back? Journal of Management Inquiry, Published online: 30 January 2025. [More Information]

2024

Wright, C., Nyberg, D., Bowden, V. (2024). Climate Change and Corporate Strategies. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science, (pp. 1-23). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2024). Corporations and climate change: An overview. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 15(6), e919. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2024). Defending hegemony: From climate change mitigation to adaptation on the Great Barrier Reef. Organization, 31(2), 247-268. [More Information]
Thomsen, B., Vassallo, J., Wright, C., Chen, S., Thomsen, J., Villar, D., Gosler, A., Best, T., Deshwal, A., Coose, S., Hincapié, M., et al (2024). Reimagining entrepreneurship in the Anthropocene through a multispecies relations approach. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 22, e00507. [More Information]

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2023

Kirk, J., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2023). Divided yet united: Balancing convergence and divergence in environmental movement mobilization. Environmental Politics, 32(1), 1-20. [More Information]

2022

Wright, C., Irwin, R., Nyberg, D., Bowden, V. (2022). 'We're in the coal business': Maintaining fossil fuel hegemony in the face of climate change. Journal of Industrial Relations, 64(4), 544-563. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2022). Challenging Disciplinary Norms: A Response. The Academy of Management Perspectives, 36(3), 962-967. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Ferns, G., Vachhani, S., Wright, C. (2022). Climate Change, Business, and Society: Building Relevance in Time and Space. Business & Society, 61(5), 1322-1352. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2022). Climate-proofing management research. The Academy of Management Perspectives, 36(2), 713-728. [More Information]
Irwin, R., Bowden, V., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2022). Making green extreme: defending fossil fuel hegemony through citizen exclusion. Citizenship Studies, 26(1), 73-89. [More Information]
Wenger, S., D'Alessandro, D., Wright, C. (2022). Maximizing Global Cooling Potential in Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Procurements: A Proposal for Tonne-Year Pricing. Frontiers in Climate, 4, 927408. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C., Bowden, V. (2022). Organising Responses to Climate Change: The Politics of Mitigation, Adaptation and Suffering. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2022). Planetary challenges: The fossil fuel industry, climate change, and the disruption of the world. In M. Kipping, T. Kurosawa, E. Westney (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Industry Dynamics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2022). The Roles of Celebrities in Public Disputes: Climate Change and the Great Barrier Reef. Journal of Management Studies, 59(7), 1788-1816. [More Information]

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2021

Bowden, V., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2021). "I don't think anybody really knows": Constructing reflexive ignorance in climate change adaptation. British Journal of Sociology, 72(2), 397-411. [More Information]
Bowden, V., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2021). "We're Going Under": The Role of Local News Media in Dislocating Climate Change Adaptation. Environmental Communication, 15(6), 649-658. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D., Bowden, V. (2021). Beyond the discourse of denial: The reproduction of fossil fuel hegemony in Australia. Energy Research & Social Science, 77, 102094. [More Information]
De Cock, C., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2021). Disrupting climate change futures: Conceptual tools for lost histories. Organization, 28(3), 468-482. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2021). How Organizations Translate Climate Change into Business as Usual. In J. W. Dash (Eds.), World Scientific Encyclopedia of Climate Change: Case Studies of Climate Risk, Action, and Opportunity, (pp. 179-185). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2021). The Mobilisation of Extractivism: The Social and Political Influence of the Fossil Fuel Industry. In S. Bohm, S. Sullivan (Eds.), Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis, (pp. 113-125). Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. [More Information]
Bowden, V., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2021). Truth and power: deliberation and emotions in climate adaptation processes. Environmental Politics, 30(5), 708-726. [More Information]
Bowden, V., Gond, J., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2021). Turning Back the Rising Sea: Theory performativity in the shift from climate science to popular authority. Organization Studies, 42(12), 1909-1931. [More Information]

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2020

Wright, C. (2020). Feeling the Heat: What Future for Organisations and Work on a Climate-Changed World? In R.D. Lansbury, A. Johnson & D. van den Broek (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Work and Organisations: Actors and Institutions, (pp. 73-87). London: Routledge. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C., Kirk, J. (2020). Fracking the Future: The Temporal Portability of Frames in Political Contests. Organization Studies, 41(2), 175-196. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2020). Politics and Securitization: The Political Economy of the Climate Crisis in the Pacific. In A. Costi, J. Renwick (Eds.), In the Eye of the Storm: Reflections from the Second Pacific Climate Change Conference, (pp. 83-96). Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. [More Information]

2019

Wright, C. (2019). A Climate of Denial: Coral Bleaching, Political Obfuscation, and the Climate Crisis. Anthroposphere: The Oxford Climate Review, (4). [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2019). Climate change and social innovation. In G. George, T. Baker, P. Tracey and H. Joshi (Eds.), Handbook of Inclusive Innovation: The Role of Organizations, Markets and Communities in Social Innovation, (pp. 47-60). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2019). Feeling the heat: What future for organisations and work on a climate-changed world? In R.D. Lansbury, A. Johnson & D. van den Broek (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Work and Organisations: Actors and Institutions, (pp. 73-87). London: Routledge.
Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2019). Making Climate Change Fit for Capitalism: The Corporate Translation of Climate Adaptation. 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) 2019, Boston, United States: Academy of Management. [More Information]
Bowden, V., Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2019). Planning for the past: Local temporality and the construction of denial in climate change adaptation. Global Environmental Change, 57, 1-9. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2019). Thought Leaders and Followers: the impact of consultants and advisers on management ideas. In A. Sturdy, S. Heusinkveld, T. Reay, D. Strang (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas, (pp. 141-158). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]

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2018

Rhodes, C., Wright, C., Pullen, A. (2018). Changing the World? The Politics of Activism and Impact in the Neoliberal University. Organization, 25(1), 139-147. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2018). Coral not coal: Enlisting the worlds of fame and celebrity in climate change politics. 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM 2018), Chicago, USA: Academy of Management. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2018). Corporate Environmental Responsibility. In N. Castree, M. Hulme, J.D. Proctor (Eds.), Companion to Environmental Studies, (pp. 163-168). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C., Kirk, J. (2018). Dash for Gas: Climate Change, Hegemony and the Scalar Politics of Fracking in the UK. British Journal of Management, 29(2), 235-251. [More Information]
Jones, S., Wright, C. (2018). Fashion or Future: Does Creating Shared Value Pay? Accounting and Finance, 58(4), 1111-1139. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2018). Global Trade in an Era of Neoliberal Capitalism: Origins, Context and Implications. In Joy Murray, Arunima Malik, Arne Geschke (Eds.), The Social Effects of Global Trade, (pp. 3-17). Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D., Rickards, L., Freund, J. (2018). Organizing in the Anthropocene. Organization, 25(4), 455-471. [More Information]

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2017

Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2017). An Inconvenient Truth: How Organizations Translate Climate Change into Business As Usual. Academy of Management Journal, 60(5), 1633-1661. [More Information]
Klein, N., Wright, C. (2017). An Interview with Naomi Klein: Capitalism Versus the Climate. In Benedetta Brevini, Graham Murdock (Eds.), Carbon Capitalism and Communication: Confronting Climate Crisis, (pp. 31-38). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C., Kirk, J. (2017). Fracking the future: Temporality, framing and the politics of unconventional fossil fuels. 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM 2017), Atlanta: Academy of Management. [More Information]
Sturdy, A., Wright, C., Wylie, N. (2017). Management and consultancy: Ambivalence, complexity and change. In Adrian Wilkinson, Steven J. Armstrong, Michael Lounsbury (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Management, (pp. 518-537). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C., Kirk, J. (2017). Re-producing a neoliberal political regime: Competing justifications and dominance in disputing fracking. Research in the Sociology of Organisations, 52, 143-171. [More Information]

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2016

Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2016). Engaging with the contradictions of capitalism: Teaching "sustainability" in the business school. In Chris Steyaert, Timon Beyes, Martin Parker (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education, (pp. 468-481). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Sturdy, A., Wright, C., Wylie, N. (2016). Managers as consultants: The hybridity and tensions of neo-bureaucratic management. Organization, 23(2), 184-205. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2016). Market fundamentalism and the climate crisis: How corporations shape the governance of climate change. AAG Annual Meeting, USA: American Association of Geographers.
Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2016). Performative and political: Corporate constructions of climate change risk. Organization, 23(5), 617-638. [More Information]

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2015

Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2015). Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Sturdy, A., Wright, C., Wylie, N. (2015). Management as Consultancy: Neo-bureaucracy and the Consultant Manager. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C., Kirk, J. (2015). Re-producing a neoliberal political regime: Competing justifications and dominance in the public debate over UK fracking. 31st EGOS Colloquium: Examined Life - Reason, Reflexivity and Responsibility, Athens, Greece: European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS).
Nyberg, D., Wright, C., Kirk, J. (2015). Unconventional fossil fuels and the climate crisis: Temporal framings in UK fracking. 31st EGOS Colloquium: Examined Life - Reason, Reflexivity and Responsibility, Athens, Greece: European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS).

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2014

Wylie, N., Sturdy, A., Wright, C. (2014). Change agency in occupational context: Lessons for HRM. Human Resource Management Journal, 24(1), 95-110. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2014). Creative self-destruction: corporate responses to climate change as political myths. Environmental Politics, 23(2), 205-223. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2014). Human resource management in Australia:historical development and contemporary tensions. In Bruce E Kaufman (Eds.), The Development of Human Resource Management Across Nations: Unity and Diversity, (pp. 46-65). Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]

2013

Wright, C., Nyberg, D., De Cock, C., Whiteman, G. (2013). Commentary: Voices from the front lines of the climate wars. Organization, 20(5), 743-744. [More Information]
O'Mahoney, J., Heusinkveld, S., Wright, C. (2013). Commodifying the Commodifiers: The Impact of Procurement on Management Knowledge. Journal of Management Studies, 50(2), 204-235. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2013). Corporate corruption of the environment: Sustainability as a process of compromise. British Journal of Sociology, 64(3), 405-424. [More Information]
Wright, C., Mann, M. (2013), Future imaginings and the battle over climate science: an interview with Michael Mann. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D., De Cock, C., Whiteman, G. (2013). Future imaginings: organizing in response to climate change. Organization, 20(5), 647-658. [More Information]
Wright, C., Gilding, P. (2013). Imagining the climate crisis and the great disruption: an interview with Paul Gilding. Organization, 20(5), 757-766. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Spicer, A., Wright, C. (2013). Incorporating citizens: corporate political engagement with climate change in Australia. Organization, 20(3), 433-453. [More Information]
Sturdy, A., Wylie, N., Wright, C. (2013). Management Consultancy and Organizational Uncertainty. International Studies of Management and Organisation, 43(3), 58-73. [More Information]

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2012

Wright, C., Nyberg, D., Grant, D. (2012). "Hippies on the Third Floor": Climate Change, Narrative Identity and the Micro-Politics of Corporate Environmentalism. Organization Studies, 33(11), 1451-1475. [More Information]
Floris, M., Wright, C. (2012). Carbon tax: not everyone's worse off. Australian Financial Review.
Kipping, M., Wright, C. (2012). Consultants In Context: Global Dominance, Societal Effect and the Capitalist System. In Matthias Kipping and Timothy Clark (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting, (pp. 165-185). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Nyberg, D., Wright, C. (2012). Justifying Business Responses to Climate Change: Discursive Strategies of Similarity and Difference. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 44(8), 1819-1835. [More Information]
Wright, C., Sturdy, A., Wylie, N. (2012). Management Innovation Through Standardization: Consultants as Standardizers of Organizational Practice. Research Policy, 41(3), 652-662. [More Information]
Floris, M., Wright, C. (2012). Submission to the Inquiry into Barriers to Effective Climate Change Adaptation.
Wright, C., Kipping, M. (2012). The Engineering Origins of the Consulting Industry and It's Long Shadow. In Matthias Kipping and Timothy Clark (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting, (pp. 29-49). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Wright, C., Nyberg, D. (2012). Working With Passion: Emotionology, Corporate Environmentalism and Climate Change. Human Relations, 65(12), 1561-1587. [More Information]

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2011

Wright, C. (2011). Historical Interpretations of the Labour Process: Retrospect and Future Research Directions. Labour History, 100(May 2011), 19-32. [More Information]
Sturdy, A., Wright, C. (2011). The Active Client: The Boundary-spanning Roles of Internal Consultants as Gatekeepers, Brokers and Partners of their External Counterparts. Management Learning, 42(5), 485-503. [More Information]

2010

Wylie, N., Sturdy, A., Wright, C. (2010). The Organization of Internal Management Consultancy: Dynamics, Dimensions and Dilemmas. Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2010 - Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research, United States: Academy of Management.

2009

Lund, J., Wright, C. (2009). Enabling 'Managed Activism': The Adoption Of Call Centres In Australian, British And US Trade Unions. New Technology Work and Employment, 24(1), 43-59. [More Information]
Wright, C., Suh, C., Leggett, C. (2009). If At First You Don't Succeed: globalized production and organizational Learning at the Hyundai Motor Company. Asia Pacific Business Review, 15(2), 163-180. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2009). Inside Out? Organizational Membership, Ambiguity and the Ambivalent Identity of the Internal Consultant. British Journal of Management, 20(3), 309-322. [More Information]

2008

Sturdy, A., Wright, C. (2008). A Consulting Diaspora? Enterprising Selves as Agents of Enterprise. Organization, 15(3), 427-444. [More Information]
Puck, J., Kittler, M., Wright, C. (2008). Does It Really Work? Re-Assessing the Impact of Pre-Departure Cross-Cultural Training on Expatriate Adjustment. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 19(12), 2182-2197. [More Information]
Wang, Y., Wright, C. (2008). How Management Consultancies Strategize Knowledge in Emerging Markets: The Case of China. 22nd Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference ANZAM 2008, Auckland, New Zealand: Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM).
Wright, C. (2008). Reinventing Human Resource Management: Business Partners, Internal Consultants and the Limits to Professionalization. Human Relations, 61(8), 1063-1086. [More Information]

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2007

Wright, C. (2007). A Consultant to the Business: Professionalising the Human Resource Function? 5th International Critical Management Studies Conference CMS 2007, New Zealand: Informit e-Library, RMIT Publishing.
Kitay, J., Wright, C. (2007), Expertise and Organisational Boundaries: A Typology of Consulting Roles.
Kitay, J., Wright, C. (2007). From prophets to profits: The occupational rhetoric of management consultants. Human Relations, 60(11), 1613-1640. [More Information]
Nippa, M., Wright, C. (2007). Pay for Performance Based Consulting: A Contingency Approach. Academy of Management Management Consulting Division Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

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2006

Wright, C., Sturdy, A. (2006). A Consulting Diaspora? The Transition of Management Consultants into Organisational Roles. 22nd EGOS Colloquium, Bergen, Norway: 22nd EGOS Colloquium.
Wright, C., Kwon, S. (2006). Business Crisis and Management Fashion: Korean Companies, Restructuring and Consulting Advice. Asia Pacific Business Review, 12(3), 355-373. [More Information]
Grant, D., Harley, B., Wright, C. (2006). Editorial Introduction: The Work and Organisational Implications of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. New Technology Work and Employment, 21(3), 196-198. [More Information]
Lund, J., Wright, C. (2006). Integrating the Supply Chain: Industrial Relations Implications in US Grocery Distribution. In Rhodes, E., Warren, J., Carter, R. (Eds.), Supply Chains and Total Product Systems: A Reader, (pp. 97-114). Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishers.
Harley, B., Wright, C., Hall, R., Dery, K. (2006). Management Reactions to Technological Change: The Example of Enterprise Resource Planning. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 42(1), 58-75. [More Information]
Grant, D., Hall, R., Wailes, N., Wright, C. (2006). The false promise of technological determinism: the case of enterprise resource planning systems. New Technology Work and Employment, 21(1), 2-15. [More Information]
Wright, C., Lund, J. (2006). Variations on a Lean Theme: Work Restructuring in Retail Distribution. New Technology Work and Employment, 21(1), 59-74. [More Information]
Dery, K., Grant, D., Harley, B., Wright, C. (2006). Work, organisation and Enterprise Resource Planning systems: an alternative research agenda. New Technology Work and Employment, 21(3), 199-214. [More Information]

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2005

Wright, C. (2005). Advocating Modern Management: The State and the Diffusion of Personnel Practice in Post-War Australia. 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences. History in Global Perspective, The University Of New South Wales, Sydney: University of Sydney.
Grant, D., Harley, B., Wright, C. (2005). Critical Insights into the Organizational Implications of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2005, Glassboro, NJ, USA: Academy of Management.
Wright, C. (2005). Inside Out? Identity and Ambiguities of the Internal Consultant. Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2005, Glassboro, NJ, USA: Academy of Management.
McIvor, A., Wright, C. (2005). Managing Labour: UK and Australian Employers in Comparative Perspective, 1900-1950. Labour History, 88(May 2005), 45-62.
Suh, C., Leggett, C., Wright, C. (2005). Strengthening Competitiveness through Globalised Production: The Case of Hyundai Motor Company. Academy of International Business Southeast Asia Regional Conference (2005), Manila, Philippines: Academy of International Business Southeast Asia.

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2004

Wright, C. (2004). Book Review: Downey, G. (2002) Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and Geography, 1850-1950. New York: Routledge. Enterprise and Society, 5(1), 149-151.
Wright, C., Kwon, S. (2004). Business Crisis And Management Fashion: Korean Companies, Restructuring And Consulting Advice. Academy of International Business Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden: Academy of International Business.
Lund, J., Wright, C. (2004). More Pain, Less Gain: New Compensation Systems for Grocery Truck Drivers. Labor Studies Journal, 29(2), 1-20. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2004). Researching Management Consultants: Overview of an Interview-Based Research Project. Qualitative Research Network, University of New South Wales: Faculty of Commerce & Economics, University of New South Wales.
Wright, C. (2004). Snaford M. Jacoby, Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in the 20thCentury, Revised Edition. Labour History, 87, 284-286.
Wright, C., Kitay, J. (2004). Spreading The Word - Gurus, Consultants And The Diffusion Of The Employee Relations Paradigm In Australia. Management Learning, 35(3), 271-286. [More Information]
Kitay, J., Wright, C. (2004). Take The Money And Run? Organisational Boundaries And Consultants' Roles. Service Industries Journal, 24(3), 1-18. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2004). The More Things Changeâ€¦: Reassessing the Transformation of Work From a Historical Perspective. Taking Care of Business? Historical Perspectives of Management Practice in the Twentieth Century Conference, Womenâ€™s College, University of Sydney: Historical Perspectives of Management Practice in the Twentieth Century Conference.

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2003

Lund, J., Wright, C. (2003). Building Union Power Through the Supply Chain: Mapping Opportunities and Jurisdictional Boundaries in Grocery Distribution. Labor Studies Journal, 27(4), 59-75. [More Information]
Kitay, J., Wright, C. (2003). Expertise and Organizational Boundaries: The Varying Roles of Australian Management Consultants. Asia Pacific Business Review, 9(3), 21-40. [More Information]
Wright, C. (2003). How To Get the Most Out of Consultants. Newcastle Branch of the Industrial Relations Society of NSW, Newcastle: Newcastle Branch of the Industrial Relations Society of NSW.
Wright, C. (2003). Innovation, Continuity and Conservatism: Australian Employers and Changes in Labour Management, 1900-1950. Anglo-Australia Labour History Conference (2003), Manchester-Metropolitan University, UK: Anglo-Australia Labour History Conference.
Lund, J., Wright, C. (2003). Integrating the Supply Chain: Industrial Relations Implications in US Grocery Distribution. New Technology Work and Employment, 18(2), 101-114. [More Information]
Wright, C., Lund, J. (2003). Supply Chain Rationalisation: Retailer Dominance and Labour Flexibility in the Australian Food and Grocery Industry. Work, Employment and Society, 17(1), 137-157. [More Information]
Grant, D., Hall, R., Wailes, N., Wright, C. (2003). The false promise of technological determinism: the case of enterprise resource planning systems. 3rd International Critical Management Studies Conference CMS3 2003, United Kingdom: AMS Systems & Rebyte.
Wright, C., Lund, J. (2003). Workplace Convergence: The Diffusion of Lean Logistics in Grocery Retailing. 1st ANZAM Operations Management Symposium, University of Sydney: University of Sydney.

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2002

Buchanan, J., Briggs, C., Wright, C. (2002). A Critique of the Productivity Commission's Review of Automotive Assistance.
Wright, C. (2002). Book Review: Clark, T. & Fincham, R. (eds.) (2002) Critical Consulting: New Perspectives on the Management Advice Industry. Journal of Management Studies, 42(2), 467-470.
Wright, C., Kitay, J. (2002). But Does It Work? Perceptions of the Impact of Management Consulting. Briefings in Entrepreneurial Finance (Strategic Change), 11(5), 271-278.
Wright, C. (2002). Promoting Demand, Gaining Legitimacy and Broadening Expertise: The Evolution of Consultancy-Client Relationships in Australia. In Kipping, M. & Engwall, L. (Eds.), Management Consulting: Emergence and Dynamics of a Knowledge Industry, (pp. 184-202). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Wright, C. (2002). Retooling the Class Factory: Response 4, Labour History, Work and the Role of Capital. Labour History, 82(1), 134-136.
Wright, C., Lund, J. (2002). Supply Chain Rationalisation: Management Strategy and Union Adaptation in the Australian Food and Grocery Sector. International Industrial Relations Association/Canadian Industrial Relations Association 4th Regional Congress of the Americas, Toronto, Canada: International Industrial Relations Association/Canadian Industrial Relations Association 4th Regional Congress of the Americas.

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2001

Wright, C. (2001). Book Review: Conlon, R. & Perkins, J. (2001) Wheels and Deals: The Automotive Industry in Twentieth-Century Australia, Aldershot, Ashgate. Journal of Transport History, 23(2), 201-203.
Wright, C. (2001). Employee Participation and Involvement: Changing Employer Initiatives Since World War Two. Workplace Democracy and the Future of the Labour Movement Conference, University of Sydney: Workplace Democracy and the Future of the Labour Movement Conference.
Kitay, J., Wright, C. (2001). From Prophets to Profits: The Occupational Imagery of Management Consultants. 17th EGOS Colloquium, The Odyssey of Bureaucracy Stream, Lyon, France: 17th EGOS Colloquium.
Wright, C. (2001). Perspectives on U.S. Labour History, Professor Elizabeth Faue. Work and Organisational Studies Symposium, The University of Sydney: Work and Organisational Studies Symposium.
Lund, J., Wright, C. (2001). State Regulation and the New Taylorism: The Case of Australian Grocery Warehousing. Relations Industrielles-Industrial Relations, 56(4), 747-769.

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Selected Grants

2023

Direct Air Capture and the initiation of a national alliance on carbon drawdown, D'Alessandro D, Moore K, Schlosberg D, Tattersall A, Wenger S, Wright C, University of Sydney/Industry Collaboration Program

2021

About time: Climate change adaptation in Australian industries, Wright C, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2017

Low carbon transition in the Australian energy sector, Nyberg B, Wright C, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2016

The human side of energy security, Wright C, Le (nee Matthiesen) J, Jarzabkowski P, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2011

The Sydney Network on Climate Change and Society, McCalman I, Schlosberg D, Bashford A, Probyn E, Allon F, Giles P, Smith V, Marks P, Celermajer D, Mikler J, Chester L, Gurran N, Shrestha K, Lyster R, McManus P, Pritchard W, Neilson J, Byrne M, Wright C, de Berigny C, DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS)
Sustainable organisational change: Australian business responses to climate change, Wright C, Grant D, Nyberg D, Dunford R, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2002

Strategy and Structure of the Korean Chaebol: Changes after the 1997 economic crisis and implications to Australia, Suh C, Tcha M, Leggett C, Wright C, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2001

Industrial Relations Implications of Supply Chain Integration Within the Australian Grocery Industry, Wright C, UNSW Research Support Program/Research Support

1999

For continuing research into the influence, practices and careers of Australian management consultants, Wright C, University of New South Wales (UNSW)/Faculty of Commerce and Economics- Special Research Award

In the media

Right to disconnect laws: Huge change coming to Australian workplaces [26 Aug 2024]
The Daily Telegraph
Professor Chris Wright has been quoted in an article on the changing workplace laws.
Work-from-home warning for all Aussies as employee exposes dismal 'financial burden' [13 Aug 2024]
Yahoo
Professor Chris Wright has been quoted in an article on NSW has ordered all public servants back into the office and other employers could soon follow suit.
Can tech giants solve climate change and social inequality? [16 Apr 2024]
Asia News
A study co-led by Professor Christopher Wright found that “despite the need for dramatic economic and political change, corporate capitalism continues to rely on the maintenance of ‘business as usual.'”
Can tech giants solve climate change, inequality? [13 Apr 2024]
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Professor Christopher Wright's research was quoted in an article about how tech giants can solve climate change.
[Andrew Sheng] Tech giants and social inequality [09 Apr 2024]
Naver
Professor Christopher Wright and Professor Daniel Nyberg were quoted in an article regarding tech giants and social inequality.
'We want you’: Accounting firms reveal the perfect graduate [29 Mar 2024]
The Daily Telegraph
Professor Christopher Wright was quoted in an article regarding graduates being courted by the major professional services firms. Wright said consulting was attractive because it gave graduates exposure to variable client situations and the ability to network and mix with large corporations.
PwC: A corporate giant on the brink and the ‘best graduate job going’ that’s now on the nose [16 Mar 2024]
news.com.au
Professor Christopher Wright was quoted in an article about the big four spending so much time, money and effort on running months-long recruitment. Wright said the major firms operate on a variation of an “up-or-out model”.
The Age interviewed Professor Christopher Wright [13 Feb 2023]
The Age
The Age interviewed Professor Christopher Wright from the Business School about the challenge for airlines to become sustainable.
How small businesses are overcoming the challenge of going green [29 Jan 2023]
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald interviewed Professor Christopher Wright from the Business School about greenwashing and sectors needing to improve their environmental initiatives.
A technologically advanced society is destroying itself. It’s fascinating and horrifying to watch [07 Nov 2022]
Renew Economy
Renew Economy published an article by Professor Christopher Wright from the Business School about how a technologically advanced society is destroying itself.
A technologically advanced society is choosing to destroy itself. It’s both fascinating and horrifying to watch [07 Nov 2022]
The Conversation
The Conversation published an article by Professor Christopher Wright from the Business School about how a technologically advanced society is destroying itself.
Big changes could be coming for workers and employers. Here's what you need to know [28 Oct 2022]
SBS News
SBS News interviewed Associate Professor Chris Wright from the Business School about the new workplace laws.
Radio National interviewed Professor Christopher Wright [27 Oct 2022]
Radio National
Radio National interviewed Professor Christopher Wright about multiemployer bargaining.
The problem with corporate pledges to protect abortion access and the climate [21 Aug 2022]
Salon
Salon interviewed (syndicated) Professor Christopher Wright from the Business School about corporate companies in the United States offering abortion access to their employees.
Australia has been dragged kicking and screaming to a net zero plan before Glasgow, but we still trail the pack [01 Nov 2021]
The Guardian
The Guardian published an op-ed co-authored by Christopher Wright about the Coalition’s belated climate commitment.
‘From denial to delay’: a forehead-slapping week in Australian climate policy [20 Jun 2021]
The Guardian
The Guardian quoted Christopher Wright in an article about Australia’s fossil fuel industry.
Restaurateurs better served improving conditions than complaining [11 Dec 2020]
Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald published an oped by Associate Professor Angela Knox and Professor Christopher Wright from the Business School about how poor job quality and poor working conditions are the key reasons why employers have such trouble attracting and retaining workers. Their article draws on research conducted for Susan Belardi's Master of Philosophy completed at the University of Sydney.
Has the Government prioritised Australian workers through the migration program as Alan Tudge says? [03 Jun 2020]
ABC News
ABC News online quoted Professor Christopher Wright from the Business School about changes to Australia’s immigration policy framework in recent years.
Mining companies try to handle the heat from Australia’s bushfires [10 Feb 2020]
Crikey
Crikey quoted Professor Christopher Wright from the Business School about the charitable strategies of big mining companies in the wake of Australia’s bushfires.
Experts: Companies must tighten the climate screw [23 Oct 2019]
Børsen
Børsen (Denmark) quoted Professor Christopher Wright from the Business School and Sydney Environment Institute about the percentage of Danish companies that have climate change targets.
Water may soon lap at the door, but still some homeowners don’t want to rock the boat [23 Oct 2019]
The Conversation
The Conversation published an article co-authored by Professor Wright about coastal homeowners being unwilling to act against climate change despite rising sea levels.
Why universities need to declare an ecological and climate emergency [27 Sep 2019]
Times Higher Education
Times Higher Education published an article co-authored by Professor Christopher Wright from the Business School on why universities need to declare an ecological and climate emergency.
US and Brazil agree to Amazon development [14 Sep 2019]
BBC Sounds
BBC World Service interviewed Professor Christopher Wright from the Business School about the US and Brazil announcing it has agreed to promote private-sector development in the Amazon.
Companies expect climate change to cost them $1 trillion in 5 years [04 Jun 2019]
Wired
Wired quoted Professor Christopher Wright from the Business School about how business deal with climate change.
Drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight would be disastrous for marine life and the local community [14 May 2019]
The Conversation
The Conversation published an article co-authored by Professor Christopher Wright about the negative impact of oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight.
Appointments, achievements [16 Apr 2019]
Campus Morning Mail
Campus Morning Mail reported the Australian Business Deans Council has announced panels for its 2019 journal review. The review involves several Business School academics including Professor Christopher Wright as a member of the management, commercial services, transport and logistics panel.
Australia is closer than you think to breaching 1.5 degrees Celcius [10 Jan 2019]
ABC Radio PM
ABC Radio PM interviewed Professor Chris Wright from the Business School about the latest report from the Bureau of Meteorology showing Australia had its third hottest year on record in 2018.

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