
Kirstie’s research interests focus on the use of employee surveillance techniques in and around organizations, and surveillance in society at large. In particular she is interested in subjectivity and the experience of surveillance, as well as the organizational forms surrounding pervasive employee monitoring. Beyond empirical work she also has a theoretical interest in surveillance drawing on organization theory, the sociology of the body, science and technology studies, and psychoanalytic sociology.
Journal articlesBall, KS (2009) 'Exposure: exploring the subject of surveillance', Information, Communication and Society, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 639-657. Ball, KS, and Haggerty, K (2005) 'Doing surveillance studies: editorial surveillance and society', Surveillance and Society, vol. 3, no. 4. Ball, KS (2005) 'Organization, surveillance and the body: towards a politics of resistance', Organization, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 89-108. Searle, R, and Ball, KS (2004) 'The development of trust and distrust in a merger', Journal of Managerial Psychology, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 708-721. Ball, KS (2003) 'The labours of surveillance', Surveillance and Society, vol. 1, no. 2. Searle, R, and Ball, KS (2003) 'Supporting innovation through HR policy: evidence from the UK', Journal of Creativity and Innovation, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 50-62. Ball, KS, and Wicks, D (2002) 'Editorial: Power, representation and voice: history, culture and family in the study of gender in organizations', Gender, Work and Organization, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 239-243. Ball, KS (2002) 'Elements of surveillance: a new framework and future directions', Information, Communication and Society, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 573-590. Ball, KS (2002) 'Power, Representation and Voice: history, culture and family in the study of gender in organizations', Gender, Work and Organization, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 239-243. Ball, KS, and Carter, C (2002) 'The charismatic gaze', Management Decision, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 552-565. Ball, KS (2001) 'Little brothers are watching you: a review of David Lyon's "Surveillance Society"', Information Technology and People, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 406-419. Ball, KS (2001) 'Situating workplace surveillance: ethics and computer based performance monitoring', Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 209-221. Ball, KS (2001) 'The use of human resource information systems: a survey', Personnel Review, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 677-693. Ball, KS, and Wilson, D (2000) 'Power, control and computer based performance monitoring: a subjectivist approach to repertoires and resistance', Organization Studies, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 539-565. Edited booksBall, KS, and Webster, F (eds) (2003) 'The Intensification of Surveillance: crime, terrorism and warfare in the information era', London, Pluto Press. Book chaptersBall, KS, Daniel, EM, Dibb, S, and Meadows, M (2009) 'Democracy, surveillance and 'knowing what's good for you': the private sector origins of profiling and the birth of 'citizen relationship management'', In: Samatas, M and Haggerty, K (eds) Surveillance and Democracy, London, Routledge. Ball, KS (2007) 'Call centres', In: Clegg, S and Bailey J (eds) International Encyclopaedia of Organization Studies, London, Sage. Ball, KS (2006) 'Organization, surveillance and the body', In: Lyon, D (ed.) Theorising Surveillance, Collumpton, Willan. Ball, KS (2004) 'Gendering new managerialism', In: Thomas, R, Mills, A, and Helms-Mills, J (eds) Gender, Organization and the Micropolitics of Resistance, London, Routledge, pp. 85-104. Ball, KS, and Carter, C (2004) 'He came, he saw, he re-engineered: new managerialism and the legitimation of modern management practice', In: Hodgson, DE and Carter, C (eds) Manufacturing the New Employee, London, Ashgate. Ball, KS, and Hodgson, D (2004) 'Problematizing discourse analysis: can we talk about management knowledge?', In: Hodgson, DE and Carter, C (eds) Manufacturing the New Employee, London, Ashgate, pp. 56-57. Ball, KS, and Webster, F (2003) 'The intensification of surveillance', In: Ball, K and Webster, F (eds) The Intensification of Surveillance: crime, terrorism and warfare in the information era, London, Pluto Press, pp. 1-15. Wood, D, Konvitz, E, and Ball, KS (2003) 'The constant state of emergency', In: Ball, K and Webster, F (eds) The Intensification of Surveillance: crime, terrorism and warfare in the information era, London, Pluto Press, pp. 137-150. Ball, KS (2002) 'Categorizing the workers: electronic surveillance and social ordering in the call centre', In: Lyon, D (ed.) Surveillance as Social Sorting, London, Routledge, pp. 201-225. Ball, KS, and Baber, C (1994) 'Approaches to group working in two UK manufacturing firms: a comparative study', In: Kidd, PT and Karwowski W (eds) Advances in Agile Manufacturing, IOS press, pp. 600-604. ReportsBall, KS, Lyon, D, Murakami Wood, D, Norris, C, and Raab, C (2006) 'A Report on the Surveillance Society', Surveillance Studies Network. Conference papersBall, KS, Daniel, EM, Dibb, S, and Meadows, M (2008) 'Democracy, paternalism and knowing what's good for you: the private sector origins of profiling and the birth of 'Citizen Relationship Management'', Surveillance and Democracy: An International Workshop, The University of Rethymnon, Crete. Ball, KS (2007) 'Layers of control', Technologies of Insecurity, The University of Oslo, Norway 20-21 April. Ball, KS (2006) 'Dynamics of data flows in the offshore, outsourced call centre', Globalisation of Personal Data Workshop, Kingston, Canada, 2-4 February. Ball, KS (2006) 'Exposure: theorising the surveilled subject', Crime Justice and Surveillance, Sheffield, 4-6 April. Ball, KS (2006) 'They give us tools to do it: enterprising selves in the offshort, outsourced call centre', EGOS Colloquium, Bergen, 29 June-1 July. Ball, KS, and Searle, R (2002) 'The institutionalisation of human resource management ideas in a UK manufacturing firm: ideas, policy and process', 18th EGOS colloquium, Barcelona, July. Ball, KS (2001) 'Embodied knowledge in the supply and use of human resource information systems', 2nd Conference on Managing Knowledge, Leicester University, April. Ball, KS, and Hodgson, D (2001) 'Knowing your limits: organization studies and discourse analytic technologies', 2nd Critical Management Studies conference, UMIST, July. Ball, KS (2001) 'Organizations, computer based performance monitoring and the classificatory impulse: the question of ethics', Surveillance Categories, Risk and Social Ordering, Queens University, Ontario, Canada, May. Ball, KS (2001) 'Potent and troubled selves: positioning suppliers and users in the journey to HRIS supplier and userhood', 17th EGOS colloquium, Lyon, July. Seltsikas, P, Pouloudi, A, Ball, KS, and Forrester, R (2001) 'Simulating skills for human resource development: technology meets organization', Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems, Boston, July. Ball, KS (2000) 'Situating surveillance: representation, meaning, movement and manipulation', Surveillance in Society, Hull University, September. Ball, KS (2000) 'Situating surveillance: representation, meaning, movement and manipulation', Society for the Social Study of Science, University of Vienna, September. Carter, C, Ball, KS, Crowther, D, Hodgson, D, and Hogan, J (2000) 'The strange death of the professional engineer: interpreting the case of coast electric', 18th Annual Labour Process Conference, Strathclyde University, April. Ball, KS (1998) 'Gendering new managerialism', 1st International Conference on Discourse and the Social Order, Aston University, July. Ball, KS, and Carter, C (1998) 'The charismatic gaze', Organizational Discourse: subtext, pretext, context, Kings College, London, July. Ball, KS, and Wilson, D (1997) 'Employee monitoring and the electronic panopticon: A review of the debate and some new evidence from the UK', 13th EGOS Colloquium, Budapest University of Economic Sciences, July. Ball, KS, and Carter, C (1997) 'He came, he saw, he re-engineered', Labour Process Conference, Edinburgh University, March. Ball, KS (1996) 'Organizational discourses: beyond ‘traditional’ conceptions of organizational culture', British Academy of Management conference, Aston Business School, September. OtherBall, KS (2006) Who's watching you work? Surveillance in business [online], Open2net article for the BBC's Money Programme, Available from: URL (http://www.open2.net/blogs/money/index.php/2006/05/01/surveillance?blog=5 ), (1 May). |