Prof.dr. Hugo Letiche

Hugo Letiche did his BA in the Committee on General Studies in The Humanities at the University of Chicago; his Drs at Leiden University in Conflict Psychology, and his PhD at the Free University Amsterdam in adult learning. He has lectured at the Polytechnic 'de horst', the MEd of the University of Amsterdam (Nutsseminarium), the Dutch Open University and the Erasmus University. He was first appointed (part-time) Professor at Lancaster University (UK) in 1989 and thereafter at Keele University (UK) in 1995. He lectures 'ethics & organizational meaning' at the Rotterdam School of Management and Durham University (UK). He came to the UvH in 1998-99.

Organizational theory, philosophy and organization and complexity theory are his primary research interests. He is KOS (Critical Organizational Studies) department head and director of the UvH DBA / PhD programme in Critical Organizational Studies. His (MA) course titles: The Management of Organizational Change, Dialogue in Organization(s), Practices of Meaning, HRM/HRD and Practitioner Ethics in Organizations.

Recent publications:
Coherence Emerges; A complexity theory of organization (with Michael Lissack) (book, forthcoming)
"Baudrillard and Organization" and "Lyotard & Organization" (November, 2003) Postmodernism & Organization S Linstead ed, London, Sage.
"Dislogic Information Ecologies" (with Lucie v Mens) Management Learning 2003vol 34, no 3, pp 329-348
Co-editor (with H Hopfl) & Introduction "Documenting the Organization in Film and Videotape", article "Video Fractals: Research as Mass Media" special number of Journal of Organizational Change Management (2002) vol 15 no 1 pp 7 -10.
"Prostitution as a Male Object of Epistemological Pain" (with Lucie v Mens) Gender Work & Organization (2002) vol 9 no 2 pp 167-185.

Current research projects:
Health, complexity & dialogue --- book with research funding from ISCE.
Narrativity & Organizational Practices