Professor Yiannis Gabriel is Professor of Organizational Theory at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London, where he also carried out post-graduate studies in industrial sociology. He has a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Gabriel is the author of Freud and Society, Working Lives in Catering (both Routledge), Organizations in Depth (Sage), and Storytelling in Organizations (OUP) and co-author of Organizing and Organizations, The Unmanageable Consumer: Contemporary Consumption and Its Fragmentation and Experiencing Organizations (all Sage). He has recently edited the collection Myths, Stories and Organizations, published by Oxford University Press in April 2004. Other publications include numerous articles and book chapters on illness narratives, computer folklore, organizational nostalgia, chaos and complexity in organizations, fantasies of organizational members about their leaders, organizational insults and research methodology using stories and narratives. He has been Editor of Management Learning and Associate Editor of Human Relations.

His main research interests are in

Leader-follower relations, leader pedagogy and leadership dysfunctions Storytelling, narrative and folklore as means of studying organizational symbolism, culture and politics, Management learning and the nature of management knowledge,The concepts of the unmanaged and the unmanageable in organizational studies, Consumption and consumerism, especially in relation to material artefacts and identity and the organization-customer interface, Psychoanalysis and organizations, notably the exploration  of organizational phenomena through psychoanalytic concepts and theories, including unconscious, narcissism and desire, Emotion and fantasy in organizations