Peter Case
James Cook University, Management, Faculty Member
There can be little doubt that Images of Organization (hereafter Images) is one of the most important and iconic contributions to organization theory in recent decades. Several generations of organization studies academics, students and... more
There can be little doubt that Images of Organization (hereafter Images) is one of the most important and iconic contributions to organization theory in recent decades. Several generations of organization studies academics, students and practitioners owe a great debt to Gareth Morgan for the intellectual work presented in Images and it is entirely apposite to take this opportunity, some thirty years after the first edition (Morgan, 1986) to acknowledge and celebrate this volume. As scholars who favour social constructionist and interpretative approaches to the study of organization, the present authors can testify personally to the impact that the emergence of Images had intellectually, pedagogically and practically. Here was a volume that, at once:
• served to consolidate and summarise social scientific thinking about organizations;
• gave due emphasis to the relativity of perspective;
• offered new ways of seeing and interpreting organizational conduct through a series of highly suggestive metaphors;
• enabled new forms of social and organizational critique;
• served as an impressively comprehensive yet accessible and student-friendly teaching resource.
• served to consolidate and summarise social scientific thinking about organizations;
• gave due emphasis to the relativity of perspective;
• offered new ways of seeing and interpreting organizational conduct through a series of highly suggestive metaphors;
• enabled new forms of social and organizational critique;
• served as an impressively comprehensive yet accessible and student-friendly teaching resource.
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Inspiration, aspirations, attitudes, and perception of threats play a pivotal role in the way that individuals associate themselves with natural environments. These sentiments affect how people connect to natural places, including their... more
Inspiration, aspirations, attitudes, and perception of threats play a pivotal role in the way that individuals associate themselves with natural environments. These sentiments affect how people connect to natural places, including their behaviours, perceived responsibility, and the management interventions they support. World Heritage Areas hold an important place in the lives of people who visit, aspire to visit, or derive a sense of security and wellbeing from their existence. Yet, the connection between people and special places is rarely quantified and policymakers find it difficult to incorporate these human dimensions into decision-making processes. Here we describe the personal concern and connection that Australians have with the Great Barrier Reef and discuss how the results may help with its management. We utilise a statistically representative sample of Australian residents (n= 2,002) and show empirically that climate change is perceived to be the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef, and that the Great Barrier Reef inspires Australians, promotes pride, and instills a sense of individual identity and collective responsibility to protect it. An increased understanding of the high levels of personal connection to iconic natural resources may help managers to enhance public support for protecting climate-sensitive systems within Australia and around the world.
Research Interests: Management, Environmental Science, Tourism Studies, Tourism Marketing, Tourism Management, and 11 moreAustralian Studies, Heritage Tourism, Sustainable Development, Organization Studies, Australia, Sustainable Tourism, Environmental Sustainability, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tourism, Great Barrier Reef, and Tourism Sustainability
This article explores the way in which uses or abuses of urban metaphors can inform differing polities and ethics of human organization. From its earliest inception, the city has taken on a metaphorical significance for human communities;... more
This article explores the way in which uses or abuses of urban metaphors can inform differing polities and ethics of human organization. From its earliest inception, the city has taken on a metaphorical significance for human communities; being, at one and the same time, a discursive textual product of culture and, reciprocally, provider of artefacts and architecture that produces culture and meaning. The city can be interpreted as a trope that operates bi-directionally in cultural terms. It is a sign that can be worked to serve the principles of both metonymy and synecdoche. In metonymical or reductive form, the city has the propensity to become weighty and deadening. The work of Michael Porter on competitive strategy is invoked to illustrate this effect. In the guise of synecdoche, on the other hand, the city offers imaginative potential. Drawing inspiration from the literary works of Italo Calvino (in particular, his novel Invisible Cities) the article attempts to reveal the fecundity of the city for interpreting technologically-mediated organizational life. Calvino's emphasis on the principle of 'lightness' provides a link to the social theoretical writing of Boltanski and Chiapello on the 'projective city'. A synthesis of these two stylistically different literatures yields a novel way of critically approaching and understanding the reticular form and emerging ethics of contemporary human organization.
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This paper responds to recent calls in the leadership studies literature for anthropologically-informed empirical research on leadership phenomena in non-Western and non-Anglophone settings. The authors have worked extensively on rural... more
This paper responds to recent calls in the leadership studies literature for anthropologically-informed empirical research on leadership phenomena in non-Western and non-Anglophone settings. The authors have worked extensively on rural development projects in Laos and draw on ethnographic ‘observant-participation’ and interview data to explore how leadership is construed in contexts where traditional language usage is influenced by official government and international development terminologies. A theoretical discussion of linguistic relatively and the socially constitutive nature of language in general is offered as background justification for studying the language of leadership in context. The anthropological distinction between etic and emic operations is also introduced to differentiate between different interpretative positions that can be taken in relation to the fieldwork and data discussed in this paper. The study shows how difficult it can be for native Lao speakers to find words to describe leadership or give designations to ‘leaders’ outside of officially sanctioned semantic and social fields. A key finding of the study is that, viewed from the perspective of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, authority and leadership are coextensive. This social fact is reflected in the linguistic restrictions on what can and cannot be described as leadership in Laos.
Research Interests: Management, Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, Social Anthropology, Development Studies, and 12 moreSoutheast Asian Studies, International Development, Linguistic Anthropology, Leadership, Community Development, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sustainable Development, Human Resource Management, Southeast Asia, Laos (Lao PDR), Rural Development, and International Aid
Leadership is heralded as being critical to addressing the ‘crisis of governance’ facing the Earth’s natural systems. While political, economic and corporate discourses of leadership have been widely and critically interrogated,... more
Leadership is heralded as being critical to addressing the ‘crisis of governance’ facing the Earth’s natural systems. While political, economic and corporate discourses of leadership have been widely and critically interrogated, narratives of environmental leadership remain relatively neglected in the academic literature. The aims of this paper are twofold. Firstly, to highlight the centrality and importance of environmental science’s construction and mobilization of leadership discourse. Secondly, to offer a critical analysis of environmental sciences’ deployment of leadership theory and constructs. The authors build on a review of leadership research in environmental science that reveals how leadership is conceptualised and analysed in this field of study. It is argued that environmental leadership research reflects rather narrow framings of leadership. An analytical typology proposed by Grint is employed to demonstrate how any singular framing of environmental leadership as person, position, process, result or purpose is problematic and needs to be supplanted by a pluralistic view. The paper concludes by highlighting key areas for improvement in environmental leadership research, with emphasis on how a political ecology of environmental crisis narratives contributes to a more critical body of research on leadership in environmental science.
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Economic modeling of decision markets has mainly considered the market scoring rule setup. Literature has made reference to the alternative, joint elicitation type decision market, but no in depth analysis of it appears to have been... more
Economic modeling of decision markets has mainly considered the market scoring rule setup. Literature has made reference to the alternative, joint elicitation type decision market, but no in depth analysis of it appears to have been published. This paper develops a simple decision market model of the joint elicitation type, that provides a specific decision market nomenclature on which to base future analysis.
A generally accepted prediction market model is modified, by introducing two additional concepts: “proper information market” and “relevant information”. Our work then provides original contributions to the theoretical discourse on information markets, including finding the sufficient and necessary condition for convergence to the best possible prediction. It is shown in our new prediction market model that “all agents express relevant information” is a sufficient and necessary condition for convergence to the direct communication equilibrium in a proper information (prediction) market.
Our new prediction market model is used to formulate a simple decision market model of the joint elicitation market type. It is shown that our decision market will select the best decision if a specific selection and payout rule is defined. Importantly, our decision market model does not need to delay payment of any contracts to the observation of the desired outcome. Therefore, when dealing with long-term outcome projects, our decision market does not need to be a long running market.
Future work will test for the statistical significance of relevant information (identified as important in our idealized decision market model) in laboratory and real world settings.
A generally accepted prediction market model is modified, by introducing two additional concepts: “proper information market” and “relevant information”. Our work then provides original contributions to the theoretical discourse on information markets, including finding the sufficient and necessary condition for convergence to the best possible prediction. It is shown in our new prediction market model that “all agents express relevant information” is a sufficient and necessary condition for convergence to the direct communication equilibrium in a proper information (prediction) market.
Our new prediction market model is used to formulate a simple decision market model of the joint elicitation market type. It is shown that our decision market will select the best decision if a specific selection and payout rule is defined. Importantly, our decision market model does not need to delay payment of any contracts to the observation of the desired outcome. Therefore, when dealing with long-term outcome projects, our decision market does not need to be a long running market.
Future work will test for the statistical significance of relevant information (identified as important in our idealized decision market model) in laboratory and real world settings.
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Inspiration, aspirations, attitudes, and perception of threats play a pivotal role in the way that individuals associate themselves with natural environments. These sentiments affect how people connect to natural places, including their... more
Inspiration, aspirations, attitudes, and perception of threats play a pivotal role in the way that individuals associate themselves with natural environments. These sentiments affect how people connect to natural places, including their behaviours, perceived responsibility, and the management interventions they support. World Heritage Areas hold an important place in the lives of people who visit, aspire to visit, or derive a sense of security and wellbeing from their existence. Yet, the connection between people and special places is rarely quantified and policymakers find it difficult to incorporate these human dimensions into decision-making processes. Here we describe the personal concern and connection that Australians have with the Great Barrier Reef and discuss how the results may help with its management. We utilise a statistically representative sample of Australian residents (n= 2,002) and show empirically that climate change is perceived to be the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef, and that the Great Barrier Reef inspires Australians, promotes pride, and instills a sense of individual identity and collective responsibility to protect it. An increased understanding of the high levels of personal connection to iconic natural resources may help managers to enhance public support for protecting climate-sensitive systems within Australia and around the world.
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Leadership is often assumed, intuitively, to be an important driver of sustainable development. To understand how leadership is conceptualised and analysed in the environmental sciences and to discover what this research says about... more
Leadership is often assumed, intuitively, to be an important driver of sustainable development. To understand how leadership is conceptualised and analysed in the environmental sciences and to discover what this research says about leadership outcomes, we conducted a review of environmental leadership research over the last ten years. We find that much of the environmental leadership literature we reviewed focuses on a few key individuals and desirable leadership competencies. It also reports that leadership is one of the most important of a number of factors contributing to effective management. Only a sub-set of the literature highlights interacting sources of leadership, disaggregates leadership outcomes or evaluates leadership processes in detail. We argue that the literature on environmental leadership is highly normative. Leadership is typically depicted as an unequivocal good and its importance is often asserted rather than tested. We trace how leadership studies in the management sciences are evolving and argue that, taking into account the state-of-the-art in environmental leadership research, there is still significant potential to progress more critical approaches to leadership research in environmental science.
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Leadership is heralded as being critical to addressing the ‘crisis of governance’ facing the Earth’s natural systems. While political, economic and corporate discourses of leadership have been widely and critically interrogated,... more
Leadership is heralded as being critical to addressing the ‘crisis of governance’ facing the Earth’s natural systems. While political, economic and corporate discourses of leadership have been widely and critically interrogated, narratives of environmental leadership remain relatively neglected in the academic literature. The aims of this paper are twofold. Firstly, to highlight the centrality and importance of environmental science’s construction and mobilization of leadership discourse. Secondly, to offer a critical analysis of environmental sciences’ deployment of leadership theory and constructs. The authors build on a review of leadership research in environmental science that reveals how leadership is conceptualised and analysed in this field of study. It is argued that environmental leadership research reflects rather narrow framings of leadership. An analytical typology proposed by Grint is employed to demonstrate how any singular framing of environmental leadership as person, position, process, result or purpose is problematic and needs to be supplanted by a pluralistic view. The paper concludes by highlighting key areas for improvement in environmental leadership research, with emphasis on how a political ecology of environmental crisis narratives contributes to a more critical body of research on leadership in environmental science.
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By introducing an intentionally provocative critique of managerialist regimes which typify contemporary UK business school culture, we argue that current business school management practices generate a climate of mistrust and alienation... more
By introducing an intentionally provocative critique of managerialist regimes which typify contemporary UK business school culture, we argue that current business school management practices generate a climate of mistrust and alienation amongst academics. Such a climate is not conducive to a reformative agenda that business schools should be pursuing if they are to improve staff morale and the educational environment. Drawing on Ghoshal’s ‘smell of the place’ metaphor to structure this argument, we court deliberate irony and paradox. Rather than draw on heterodox theory to inform our critique we, instead, turn relatively mainstream management and organization theory against itself. Our argument is that even when examined through orthodox lenses, managerialist practices are found wanting and contradict the precepts of much mainstream normative theory.
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This article explores the way in which uses or abuses of urban metaphors can inform differing polities and ethics of human organization. From its earliest inception, the city has taken on a metaphorical significance for human communities;... more
This article explores the way in which uses or abuses of urban metaphors can inform differing polities and ethics of human organization. From its earliest inception, the city has taken on a metaphorical significance for human communities; being, at one and the same time, a discursive textual product of culture and, reciprocally, provider of artefacts and architecture that produces culture and meaning. The city can be interpreted as a trope that operates bi-directionally in cultural terms. It is a sign that can be worked to serve the principles of both metonymy and synecdoche. In metonymical or reductive form, the city has the propensity to become weighty and deadening. The work of Michael Porter on competitive strategy is invoked to illustrate this effect. In the guise of synecdoche, on the other hand, the city offers imaginative potential. Drawing inspiration from the literary works of Italo Calvino (in particular, his novel Invisible Cities) the article attempts to reveal the fecundity of the city for interpreting technologically-mediated organizational life. Calvino's emphasis on the principle of 'lightness' provides a link to the social theoretical writing of Boltanski and Chiapello on the 'projective city'. A synthesis of these two stylistically different literatures yields a novel way of critically approaching and understanding the reticular form and emerging ethics of contemporary human organization.
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Effective program management is essential for successful elimination of malaria. In this perspective article, evidence surrounding malaria program management is reviewed by management science and malaria experts through a literature... more
Effective program management is essential for successful elimination of malaria. In this perspective article, evidence surrounding malaria program management is reviewed by management science and malaria experts through a literature search of published and unpublished grey documents and key informant interviews. Program management in a malaria elimination setting differs from that in a malaria control setting in a number of ways, although knowledge and understanding of these distinctions are lacking. Several core features of successful health program management are critical to achieve elimination, including effective leadership and supervision at all levels, sustained political and financial commitment, reliable supply and control of physical resources, effective management of data and information, appropriate incentives, and consistent accountability. Adding to the complexity, the requirements of an elimination program may conflict with those of a control regime. Thus, an additional challenge is successfully managing program transitions along the continuum from control to elimination to prevention of reintroduction. This paper identifies potential solutions to these challenges by exploring managerial approaches that are flexible, relevant and sustainable in various cultural and health system contexts.
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Education policies introduced in the past two decades necessitated the adoption of a managerialist discourse in the restructuring, running and inspection of schools. In this paper, we critically review the nature of such discourse and... more
Education policies introduced in the past two decades necessitated the adoption of a managerialist discourse in the restructuring, running and inspection of schools. In this paper, we critically review the nature of such discourse and outline the historical conditions that contributed to the establishment of OFSTED. Having set the scene, we report on the experiential impact of managerialist discourse on the lives of primary school teachers in the period running up to, including, and in the year following OFSTED inspections. Exploring ...
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Effective program management is essential to ensure the elimination and eventual eradication of malaria.1 Malaria elimination, defined as the interruption of local transmission in a specific geographical area,2 is a long-term, focused and... more
Effective program management is essential to ensure the elimination and eventual eradication of malaria.1 Malaria elimination, defined as the interruption of local transmission in a specific geographical area,2 is a long-term, focused and technical process that requires effective management and communication at all levels. There are several core features of successful health program management, all of which are critical to achieve elimination.3 In general, elimination is facilitated by robust health systems, determined leadership, appropriate incentivization, an effective and real-time surveillance system, and regional collaborations. Elimination is hampered by sclerotic or inflexible health systems, a lack of sustained political and financial commitment, ill-equipped managers, unmotivated and untrained staff and external donor constraints. Program management in a malaria elimination setting differs in a number of ways from program management in a malaria control setting, and there ...
Effective program management is essential for successful elimination of malaria. In this perspective article, evidence surrounding malaria program management is reviewed by management science and malaria experts through a literature... more
Effective program management is essential for successful elimination of malaria. In this perspective article, evidence surrounding malaria program management is reviewed by management science and malaria experts through a literature search of published and unpublished gray documents and key informant interviews. Program management in a malaria elimination setting differs from that in a malaria control setting in a number of ways, although knowledge and understanding of these distinctions are lacking. Several core features of successful health program management are critical to achieve elimination, including effective leadership and supervision at all levels, sustained political and financial commitment, reliable supply and control of physical resources, effective management of data and information, appropriate incentives, and consistent accountability. Adding to the complexity, the requirements of an elimination program may conflict with those of a control regimen. Thus, an addition...
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ABSTRACT Please copy the link for access to the full paper (50) and/or abstract: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9tzAEx2fDF93jDMhVunZ/full#.U5-oYo1dUWI Many thanks
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[Extract] The first decade of this century has witnessed a plethora of failures in leadership with varying consequences. Amidst the various scandals and crises, increases in top management and key specialist pay and bonuses have continued... more
[Extract] The first decade of this century has witnessed a plethora of failures in leadership with varying consequences. Amidst the various scandals and crises, increases in top management and key specialist pay and bonuses have continued to rise in ways that, it could be argued, are far from justified by corporate performance1. Such inequities, as well as the apparent offloading of losses onto the taxpayers through bank bailouts, have made organizational and leadership ethics issues of significant public interest.
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... ten Bos wants us to stop using the metaphors of roads and speeds in our work of organizational structuring and analysis. ... Continuing the exploration of the relations between speed and time, for Charlie Gere the question is can we... more
... ten Bos wants us to stop using the metaphors of roads and speeds in our work of organizational structuring and analysis. ... Continuing the exploration of the relations between speed and time, for Charlie Gere the question is can we travel faster than time? ...
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Abstract The influence of astrology and alchemy on organizational conduct has not hitherto attracted much serious social scientific attention. Retro-organizational theory licenses paying closer attention to topics that are systematically... more
Abstract The influence of astrology and alchemy on organizational conduct has not hitherto attracted much serious social scientific attention. Retro-organizational theory licenses paying closer attention to topics that are systematically occluded by modern knowledge regimes and is invoked in this article to examine the manner in which premodern cosmologies underpin certain contemporary organizational practices. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®(MBTI) is presented as a particularly conspicuous example of how the ...
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... http://mlq.sagepub.com/content/33/2/255.citation The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/1350507602332007 2002 33: 255 Management Learning Peter Case and Ken Selvester A Rejoinder to Roberts from the Normally... more
... http://mlq.sagepub.com/content/33/2/255.citation The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/1350507602332007 2002 33: 255 Management Learning Peter Case and Ken Selvester A Rejoinder to Roberts from the Normally Paranoid Published by: ...
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Abstract This article attempts a critical reappraisal of the part played bytrust'in management education. Our main contention is that trust is being perceptibly eroded by a range of factors that find their genesis in a wider... more
Abstract This article attempts a critical reappraisal of the part played bytrust'in management education. Our main contention is that trust is being perceptibly eroded by a range of factors that find their genesis in a wider set of social relations within contemporary capitalism. Accordingly, we set about trying to account for the diminution of trust in social theoretical terms. Having constructed an analytical matrix we then apply our reasoning to specific instances of mistrust in an educational context. Drawing on documented student ...
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There is much to applaud and commend in John Hendry's quietly passionate and polemical evaluation of management education and development practices within the UK higher education system. His condemnation of the tyranny of... more
There is much to applaud and commend in John Hendry's quietly passionate and polemical evaluation of management education and development practices within the UK higher education system. His condemnation of the tyranny of economics and its more pervasive counterpart the 'economic mindset'is most welcome, as is his insistence on the replacement of facile remedies and recipes by knowledge rooted in well-established intellectual traditions of the humanities and interpretative social sciences. Although he does not explicitly ...
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Stop us if you have heard this before, but the topic of leadership looks as if it has secured a dominant place within the contemporary popular imagination. They say history doesn't repeat itself and yet, despite... more
Stop us if you have heard this before, but the topic of leadership looks as if it has secured a dominant place within the contemporary popular imagination. They say history doesn't repeat itself and yet, despite enormous interest in the field, studies of leadership can seem amazingly similar, which is to say repetitive. Much of the debate, both in the mass media and more serious studies of the subject, is characterized by hyperbole and normative assumptions. In most cases, discussion of 'leadership'and 'leaders', besides being ...
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This article offers a theoretical contribution to the current debate on workplace spirituality by: (a) providing a selective critical review of scholarship, research and corporate practices which treat workplace spirituality in... more
This article offers a theoretical contribution to the current debate on workplace spirituality by: (a) providing a selective critical review of scholarship, research and corporate practices which treat workplace spirituality in performative terms, that is, as a resource or means to be manipulated instrumentally and appropriated for economic ends; (b) extending Etzioni’s analysis of complex organizations and proposing a new category, the “spiritual organization”, and;
(c) positing three alternative positions with respect to workplace spirituality that follow from the preceding critique. The spiritual organization can be taken to represent the development of a trajectory of social technologies that have sought, incrementally, to control the bodies, minds, emotions and souls of employees. Alternatively, it might be employed to conceptualize the way in which employees use the workplace as a site for pursuing their own spiritualities (a reverse instrumentalism). Finally, we consider the possible incommensurability of “work organization” and “spirituality” discourses.
(c) positing three alternative positions with respect to workplace spirituality that follow from the preceding critique. The spiritual organization can be taken to represent the development of a trajectory of social technologies that have sought, incrementally, to control the bodies, minds, emotions and souls of employees. Alternatively, it might be employed to conceptualize the way in which employees use the workplace as a site for pursuing their own spiritualities (a reverse instrumentalism). Finally, we consider the possible incommensurability of “work organization” and “spirituality” discourses.
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ABSTRACT This article explores the way in which uses or abuses of urban metaphors can inform differing polities and ethics of human organization. From its earliest inception, the city has taken on a metaphorical significance for human... more
ABSTRACT This article explores the way in which uses or abuses of urban metaphors can inform differing polities and ethics of human organization. From its earliest inception, the city has taken on a metaphorical significance for human communities; being, at one and the same time, a discursive textual product of culture and, reciprocally, a provider of artefacts and architecture that produces culture and meaning. The city can be interpreted as a trope that operates bidirectionally in cultural terms. It is a sign that can be worked to serve the principles of both metonymy and synecdoche. In metonymical or reductive form, the city has the propensity to become weighty and deadening. The work of Michael Porter on competitive strategy is invoked to illustrate this effect. In the guise of synecdoche, on the other hand, the city offers imaginative potential. Drawing inspiration from the literary works of Italo Calvino (in particular, his novel Invisible Cities), the article attempts to reveal the fecundity of the city for interpreting technologically mediated organizational life. Calvino's emphasis on the principle of ‘lightness’ provides a link to the social theoretical writing of Boltanski and Chiapello on the ‘projective city’. A synthesis of these two stylistically different literatures yields a novel way of critically approaching and understanding the reticular form and emerging ethics of contemporary human organization.
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This article is an experiment in organizational narration. The adoption of a novel literary form enables the author to address certain contemporary themes in the reflexive presentation and reporting of organizational research. In pursuit... more
This article is an experiment in organizational narration. The adoption of a novel literary form enables the author to address certain contemporary themes in the reflexive presentation and reporting of organizational research. In pursuit of an alternative mode of expression, the notion of the 'Happening'is found to be a helpful rhetorical device.'Happenings' serve as a vehicle for the theatrical reframing of important epistemological issues concerning the nature of 'organization','research'and 'reporting'. This textual strategy is not, however, an end in ...
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This article is an experiment in organizational narration. The adoption of a novel literary form enables the author to address certain contemporary themes in the reflexive presentation and reporting of organizational research. In pursuit... more
This article is an experiment in organizational narration. The adoption of a novel literary form enables the author to address certain contemporary themes in the reflexive presentation and reporting of organizational research. In pursuit of an alternative mode of expression, the notion of the ‘Happening’ is found to be a helpful rhetorical device. ‘Happenings’ serve as a vehicle for the
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The curatorial staff at BALTIC decided to organise a survey of young artists currently practising in North East England as a follow-up to the British Art Show, 2005. Crisp moved to the region for a Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship in 2000... more
The curatorial staff at BALTIC decided to organise a survey of young artists currently practising in North East England as a follow-up to the British Art Show, 2005. Crisp moved to the region for a Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship in 2000 (see catalogue published by English ...
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[Extract] This book is the first of its kind to bring together non-western, indigenous and eastern perspectives on leadership. Leadership theory has for too long been the exclusive domain of western academics developing leadership... more
[Extract] This book is the first of its kind to bring together non-western, indigenous and eastern perspectives on leadership. Leadership theory has for too long been the exclusive domain of western academics developing leadership theories from the perspective of western institutions. Often these theories remain detached from practical action. We know that much leadership wisdom lies outside this dominant Western academy, but that this wisdom is rarely profiled or published. We believe that this must change. Worldly ...
In the introduction to this volume, it was suggested that one way of differentiating between global and worldly leadership would be to be more appreciative of indigenous leadership constructs and narratives. By way of making a modest... more
In the introduction to this volume, it was suggested that one way of differentiating between global and worldly leadership would be to be more appreciative of indigenous leadership constructs and narratives. By way of making a modest contribution to research and scholarship that engages with worldly leadership in this sense, we report on preliminary findings from an empirical study of indigenous organizations in Pakistan. We attempt to elicit both continuities and discontinuities between Anglo-American forms of organization and ...
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'What can I do? There is absolutely nothing I can change.'This kind of statement will be familiar to anyone who has worked in a complex organisation. It denotes a vague feeling of helplessness brought on by... more
'What can I do? There is absolutely nothing I can change.'This kind of statement will be familiar to anyone who has worked in a complex organisation. It denotes a vague feeling of helplessness brought on by one's perceived inability to influence the organisation or pursue meaningful courses of action in the face of its anonymous 'hierarchy'and powerful bosses. However, the statement takes on a different order of salience and implication when uttered by a top manager. In a concrete case known to one of the authors, this crie de cour came ...
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Management has historically sought to restrict the options for manual workers to rebel by simplifying and limiting their jobs according to Tayloristic principles. The need for their experience and knowledge has been consciously minimized,... more
Management has historically sought to restrict the options for manual workers to rebel by simplifying and limiting their jobs according to Tayloristic principles. The need for their experience and knowledge has been consciously minimized, having been relocated instead to supervisors and middle managers, working routines and machines. In high-tech industries, by contrast, the workers' fundamental contribution to the enterprise is their very knowledge, offering other possibilities for rebellious activities or, at least, for rebellious ...
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This paper looks at recent changes in call centres and finds that software designers, HR experts and trainers are, in their narrative, appropriating the voices of those who actually do the work. At worst call centre operatives remain... more
This paper looks at recent changes in call centres and finds that software designers, HR experts and trainers are, in their narrative, appropriating the voices of those who actually do the work. At worst call centre operatives remain invisible, monitored,'cross-selling', speeded up, outsourced and relocated to all sorts of 'far-flung'places, their own homes included. There may be a warning for all of us in these narratives, as the customer's tale is also being told on our behalf. Apparently, every time we contact a company, we like them to record ...
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This work documents a reflexive study of workplace talk. It attempts to trace the conversational encounters of a management educator whilst engaged in routine academic activities. Concepts drawn from Speech-act theory and Actor-network... more
This work documents a reflexive study of workplace talk. It attempts to trace the conversational encounters of a management educator whilst engaged in routine academic activities. Concepts drawn from Speech-act theory and Actor-network theory are found useful in interpreting transcribed conversational episodes and pursuing performative and translational features of their evolution. Analytical emphasis falls on the dual characteristic of talk's operation in both accomplishing pragmatic ends and facilitating ritual sociability. In ...
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In this paper, we reappraise the phenomenon of business process reengineering through our own recent case study and survey findings, and through developing an interpretivist account of its appeal and content. A preliminary assessment... more
In this paper, we reappraise the phenomenon of business process reengineering through our own recent case study and survey findings, and through developing an interpretivist account of its appeal and content. A preliminary assessment questions what is actually being achieved under the label of BPR and the efficacy of the methodologies and tools available. We then argue that its claims to radicalism and novelty are exaggerated, provide an externalist account for part of its appeal, together with locating BPR as a form ...
We are having lunch with Eve, senior project manager at a well-known IT consultancy. Eve describes herself as 'the kind of woman who likes to work', and goes on to tell us about her professional career. With a master's... more
We are having lunch with Eve, senior project manager at a well-known IT consultancy. Eve describes herself as 'the kind of woman who likes to work', and goes on to tell us about her professional career. With a master's degree in computer science, she was employed as a COBOL ...
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Hugo Gaggiotti is Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England. He is general editor of Ar@cne and coeditor of dia-e-logos and served as general co-editor of Geocritica from... more
Hugo Gaggiotti is Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England. He is general editor of Ar@cne and coeditor of dia-e-logos and served as general co-editor of Geocritica from 1997-2000. His main interest is in organisational ...
... the key example of the multidivisional form is represented by the well-known cases of General Motors, DuPont, Standard Oil, Westinghouse, and Sears and Roebuck, as described ... Reviewed by Theresa A. Domagalski and John M. Jermier,... more
... the key example of the multidivisional form is represented by the well-known cases of General Motors, DuPont, Standard Oil, Westinghouse, and Sears and Roebuck, as described ... Reviewed by Theresa A. Domagalski and John M. Jermier, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL ...
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How do reflexive practices work to transform the subject at work? We invite paper proposals for the sub theme 'Organizing Subjects' of EGOS 2015 on the following topics: • Difference and the possibility of (new) organizational subjects •... more
How do reflexive practices work to transform the subject at work?
We invite paper proposals for the sub theme 'Organizing Subjects' of EGOS 2015 on the following topics:
• Difference and the possibility of (new) organizational subjects
• Disreputable knowledges and organizing subjects
• Postcolonial transformations
• Diversity discourses, reflexivity and subject formation
• Workplace spiritualities and reflexivity
• Histories of subjects at and in work
• Reflexivity and organizational transformation
• Ethics and practices of making (up) organizational subjects
We invite paper proposals for the sub theme 'Organizing Subjects' of EGOS 2015 on the following topics:
• Difference and the possibility of (new) organizational subjects
• Disreputable knowledges and organizing subjects
• Postcolonial transformations
• Diversity discourses, reflexivity and subject formation
• Workplace spiritualities and reflexivity
• Histories of subjects at and in work
• Reflexivity and organizational transformation
• Ethics and practices of making (up) organizational subjects
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Although wisdom might be considered by some sceptics to be a quaint concept in a post-industrialised, instrumental, and secular world, it deserves serious consideration. The article proposes that the concept of wisdom be reintroduced into... more
Although wisdom might be considered by some sceptics to be a quaint concept in a post-industrialised, instrumental, and secular world, it deserves serious consideration. The article proposes that the concept of wisdom be reintroduced into educational and developmental programmes, especially for managers and leaders. Mindful of the potential naiveté of transplanting systems of thinking from one epoch to another, the article examines the relevance of premodern thought to the post-modern condition. Based on Pierre Hadot’s radical reinterpretation of classical Greek texts, the meaning of ‘philosophy’ and wisdom in the ancient world are explored. The concepts of wisdom, virtue, and enacted ethics derived from this reinterpretation are then applied to an ethnographic case study involving a senior executive. This study indicates how Stoical ‘wisdom of the moment’ has potential relevance for understanding contemporary leadership practice.
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This paper seeks to introduce the oeuvre of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem, whose work is argued to carry significance for students of organizational conduct. Singling out his most famous novel, Solaris, for particular... more
This paper seeks to introduce the oeuvre of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem, whose work is argued to carry significance for students of organizational conduct. Singling out his most famous novel, Solaris, for particular attention, a critical interpretation is offered that selectively highlights Lem’s epistemological and ontological preoccupations concerning scientific inquiry and the human condition. These concerns are seen to resonate with contemporary issues in the field of organization studies. In particular the rhetorical role of mimesis, viewed as a synthesis of rational and non-rational human motives, within Solaris is taken to inform a wide range of human conduct. The paper concludes by calling for a realist mode of organizational discourse that explores the dialectical relationship between what it characterises as `solar’ and `lunar’ dimensions of human behaviour. A new challenge to organization studies will be not simply to learn from the substantive concerns of literary genres such as science fiction, but to aspire after the narrative skills of their leading exponents.
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The influence of astrology and alchemy on organizational conduct has not hitherto attracted much serious social scientific attention. Retro-organizational theory licenses paying closer attention to topics that are systematically occluded... more
The influence of astrology and alchemy on organizational conduct has not hitherto attracted much serious social scientific attention. Retro-organizational theory licenses paying closer attention to topics that are systematically occluded by modern knowledge regimes and is invoked in this article to examine the manner in which premodern cosmologies underpin certain contemporary organizational practices. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) is presented as a particularly conspicuous example of how the modern may be suffused by the premodern. An astro-genealogical account of the development of the MBTI® is offered, tracing its Jungian origins and exposing structural debts to Renaissance thinking and earlier forms of symbolism. The article concludes with a consideration of Latour’s claim that `we have never been modern’ and suggests ways in which his hybridisation critique of modernity connects with astrological and alchemical cosmology.
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In a significant sense there is no philosophy of leadership. Such a statement may seem strange as the opening gambit of a chapter that is ostensibly concerned with ‘philosophy of leadership’ but the provocation is not without purpose.... more
In a significant sense there is no philosophy of leadership. Such a statement may seem strange as the opening gambit of a chapter that is ostensibly concerned with ‘philosophy of leadership’ but the provocation is not without purpose. Indeed, the assertion may be defended on a number of counts and from a variety of perspectives. In the first place, it would be foolish to claim there to be but one, singular, philosophy of leadership. Common sense dictates that there are, at the very least, multiple philosophies of leadership populating, and coexisting in, the contemporary organizational world. In a post-modern or post-industrial age characterized by fragmentation and individualism it is perhaps unsurprising that philosophies of leadership proliferate. At the limit, it could be argued that there are as many ‘philosophies’ as there are individuals who think of themselves, or are thought of by others, as ‘leaders’ or as occupying leadership roles. We live in an epoch where there are strong Romantic and heroic imperatives to ‘be one’s own person’, to ‘make one’s mark in one’s job or career’ and thus to give expression to one’s individual ‘philosophy’. Much, of course, depends on the precise (or imprecise) semantic boundaries that one places around the terms ‘philosophy’ and ‘leadership’ and with that in mind we intend to give careful attention to possible meanings of these terms. Accordingly, a consideration of the semantic force that philosophy carries in leadership contexts will be central to our concerns in this chapter. In a related but slightly more normative vein, we shall also be asking what semantic force philosophy should carry in relationship to leadership practice.
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What can be learned about wisdom from non-western and spiritual traditions, philosophies and related practices and what, furthermore, might be the implications for modes of organizing, leadership and organizational engagement? If one... more
What can be learned about wisdom from non-western and spiritual traditions, philosophies and related practices and what, furthermore, might be the implications for modes of organizing, leadership and organizational engagement? If one accepts a degree of universality within the human condition and the premise that aspects of leadership, organization and organizing are both transcultural and transhistorical, then it seems to me that a great deal can be learned from such non-western traditions and philosophies. In this chapter, I shall focus attention exclusively on the conception of wisdom and its practical cultivation as advanced within the Theravada school of Buddhism (Gombrich, 1988; Nārada, 1980). The latter is a branch of Buddhism, dominant in contemporary southeast Asia, whose genealogy can be traced, via its monastic order, directly back to Gotama Buddha some two-and-a-half millennia ago. It is also one of the many traditions hailing from the orient that, through processes of migration, has been taken up by practitioners in the west (Batchelor, 1994). Buddhism is of direct relevance to the theme of this book insofar as the cultivation of wisdom is, arguably, its principal raison d’être. My purpose is to outline the basic forms of wisdom embodied within the formal philosophical teachings of Theravada Buddhism and the course of training set out for those who wish to cultivate them (Nānamoli, 1979, 1984). I base my contribution on twenty-five years of study and training in Buddhist meditation, some of which time was spent as an ordained monk. This chapter thus combines my practical interest in Buddhism with my professional interest in organization and leadership studies.
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This paper explores the transition of the theological and philosophical concept of theoria – contemplation - to the modern notion of theory. Theory derives linguistically from theoria and retains a connection with knowledge. However, it... more
This paper explores the transition of the theological and philosophical concept of theoria – contemplation - to the modern notion of theory. Theory derives linguistically from theoria and retains a connection with knowledge. However, it has lost and, moreover, typically excludes theoria’s focus upon the direct experiential knowledge of the divine. In keeping with the thrust of this Special Issue, we focus on how the secularization of the theological concept of theoria defines in a profound manner the limits and possibilities of thinking and theorizing work and organization. We examine the nature of theoria and the transitions that have led to its metamorphosis. It is suggested that dominant forms of theorizing work and organization are typically performative (Lyotard, 1984). This is illustrated, somewhat ironically, through a review of Spiritual Leadership Theory, which appears to promote spiritual leadership without contemplation.
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The article considers the role of dreams as social, rather than individual, phenomena and suggests that as such they may serve as resources for ‘future imaginings’ with respect to potentially devastating consequences of climate change... more
The article considers the role of dreams as social, rather than individual, phenomena and suggests that as such they may serve as resources for ‘future imaginings’ with respect to potentially devastating consequences of climate change (and other transgressions of planetary boundaries). Adopting a socio-analytical perspective, it contemplates the possibility of a societal level ‘cosmology episode’ caused by catastrophic climate change; a critical point of rupture in the meaning-making process which leaves local rationalities in ruin. Drawing on a ‘representative anecdote’, the article finds allegorical parallels between the cultural collapse of a traditional indigenous culture and the impending threat of ecocrisis currently facing humanity. The possibilities of seeing and imagining offered by collective forms of dreaming are explored alongside development of a non-anthropocentric ethics. Our focus is on ways of sensing, thinking and talking about climate change that are less dependent on a rational conscious subject. The article thus enquires into what cultural means or resources might be available to (post)modern western societies that, like the shamanic dream-vision of certain traditional cultures, might enable them to draw on non-anthropocentric sensibilities and organize responses to an impending cultural crisis. We conclude by offering Gordon Lawrence’s social dreaming matrix as one possible medium through which to imagine and see beyond climate change catastrophe.
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This article explores the way in which uses or abuses of urban metaphors can inform differing polities and ethics of human organization. From its earliest inception, the city has taken on a metaphorical significance for human communities;... more
This article explores the way in which uses or abuses of urban metaphors can inform differing polities and ethics of human organization. From its earliest inception, the city has taken on a metaphorical significance for human communities; being, at one and the same time, a discursive textual product of culture and, reciprocally, provider of artefacts and architecture that produces culture and meaning. The city can be interpreted as a trope that operates bi-directionally in cultural terms. It is a sign that can be worked to serve the principles of both metonymy and synecdoche. In metonymical or reductive form, the city has the propensity to become weighty and deadening. The work of Michael Porter on competitive strategy is invoked to illustrate this effect. In the guise of synecdoche, on the other hand, the city offers imaginative potential. Drawing inspiration from the literary works of Italo Calvino (in particular, his novel Invisible Cities) the article attempts to reveal the fecundity of the city for interpreting technologically-mediated organizational life. Calvino’s emphasis on the principle of ‘lightness’ provides a link to the social theoretical writing of Boltanski and Chiapello on the ‘projective city’. A synthesis of these two stylistically different literatures yields a novel way of critically approaching and understanding the reticular form and emerging ethics of contemporary human organization.
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As suggested in the call for papers for the 13th EBEN UK conference, the location of 'business ethics' can be problematisted in a number of ways. The challenge to business ethics postulated in our proposed paper entails a questioning of... more
As suggested in the call for papers for the 13th EBEN UK conference, the location of 'business ethics' can be problematisted in a number of ways. The challenge to business ethics postulated in our proposed paper entails a questioning of received opinion regarding the temporal, geographical and intellectual predicates on which it is founded as an academic discpline and offered as a putative mode of engagement with the world.
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In recent years, we have witnessed a plethora of failures in ethical corporate leadership with varying consequences.
Over recent years we have witnessed a plethora of failures in ethical corporate leadership with varying consequences.
Abstract In the context of increasing focus on sustainability and climate change issues, we provide a critical analysis of policy assumptions regarding information provision and its links to behaviour change. We identify a number of... more
Abstract In the context of increasing focus on sustainability and climate change issues, we provide a critical analysis of policy assumptions regarding information provision and its links to behaviour change. We identify a number of barriers to effective communication that must be overcome before behaviour change interventions can be implemented.
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Executive Summary This document provides a transdisciplinary response to the Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Our Strategy for Public Health in England White Paper. Due to the complex range of influences on health-related behaviours, a... more
Executive Summary This document provides a transdisciplinary response to the Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Our Strategy for Public Health in England White Paper. Due to the complex range of influences on health-related behaviours, a transdisciplinary approach is recommended to address the challenges facing public health. Accordingly, this report presents an illustrative range of disciplines, concepts and theories that may be relevant to understanding the relative impact of different influences on health-related behaviours.
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Abstract Whereasdistance learning'has often been seen as the poor relation of face-to-face educational encounters, this article suggests that paradoxically, this mode of delivery can offer significant advantages to those aiming to develop... more
Abstract Whereasdistance learning'has often been seen as the poor relation of face-to-face educational encounters, this article suggests that paradoxically, this mode of delivery can offer significant advantages to those aiming to develop highly situated practices, such as leadership capability.
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One of the oldest literary themes presents the hero encountering a riddler: a mighty opponent who demands answers to obscure questions. The most famous of these is the sphinx, described in a Theban myth as a monster eager to devour... more
One of the oldest literary themes presents the hero encountering a riddler: a mighty opponent who demands answers to obscure questions. The most famous of these is the sphinx, described in a Theban myth as a monster eager to devour anybody who could not solve her riddle. She terrorizes the country until Oedipus appears and demonstrates his intellectual prowess; he answers the riddle, driving the sphinx to throw herself off a cliff. The feat requires quick wit and deep knowledge, but they are not enough to win the day.
In anticipation of the 2001 CMS conference, we decided to explore the works of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (D&G) with a view to finding ways of applying their ideas to a critical understanding of management and organisation studies.... more
In anticipation of the 2001 CMS conference, we decided to explore the works of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (D&G) with a view to finding ways of applying their ideas to a critical understanding of management and organisation studies. The proposal we submitted was intended as a kind of manifesto for ourselves; an excuse, if you will, to fill in one our many intellectual blanks by reading D&G and coming to some kind of informed view of their contribution.
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Abstract: This paper offers an analysis of leadership responsibility associated with differing models of the firm. Following a critique of the classical economic and conventional stakeholder theories of the firm, we proposes an... more
Abstract: This paper offers an analysis of leadership responsibility associated with differing models of the firm. Following a critique of the classical economic and conventional stakeholder theories of the firm, we proposes an interactive stakeholder theory that better facilitates the kind of ethical responsibility demanded by twenty-first century challenges. Our analysis also leads us to conclude that leadership education and development is in need of urgent reform.
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Whereas 'distance learning'has often been seen as the poor relation of face-to-face educational encounters, this paper suggests that paradoxically, this mode of delivery can offer significant advantages to those aiming to develop highly... more
Whereas 'distance learning'has often been seen as the poor relation of face-to-face educational encounters, this paper suggests that paradoxically, this mode of delivery can offer significant advantages to those aiming to develop highly situated practices, such as leadership capability.
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Where is business ethics today? And with this, where are business ethics today? Where do we find them? Are there enough? These questions strike us today, and present us with our starting points. First of all in considering how business... more
Where is business ethics today? And with this, where are business ethics today? Where do we find them? Are there enough? These questions strike us today, and present us with our starting points. First of all in considering how business ethics has evolved, and what state it is in. But also, in asking where business and ethics are today and how and where they might be in the future. Starting out with these seemingly innocent questions, we face a set of somewhat more troubling questions about the location of business ethics.
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There is widespread, although not universal, agreement that sustainability and climate change constitute major challenges with real effects (Peattie & Peattie, 2009). Human activity has disrupted ecological systems; continued pursuit of... more
There is widespread, although not universal, agreement that sustainability and climate change constitute major challenges with real effects (Peattie & Peattie, 2009). Human activity has disrupted ecological systems; continued pursuit of economic growth based on exploiting finite resources is unsustainable and'avoiding dangerous climate change will require lifestyle changes'(Gowdy, 2008: 64), yet there is a lack of clarity and clear communication of what action should be taken and by whom.
Embedded within the chapter title is a thinly veiled allusion to Austin's (1976) seminal book on language philosophy, How to Do Things with Words, my explicit intention being to examine the performative nature of organization theory and... more
Embedded within the chapter title is a thinly veiled allusion to Austin's (1976) seminal book on language philosophy, How to Do Things with Words, my explicit intention being to examine the performative nature of organization theory and philosophy. I seek to challenge the presumption that philosophy of organization is some form of adjunct to 'real'philosophical endeavour that, by this implied division of labour, must be being expedited by others in a different time and space.
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The need for individual and population-based behaviour change is evident across a range of sectors. We examine behaviour change strategies, contrasting aspects of health and lifestyle factors with climate change and sustainability issues... more
The need for individual and population-based behaviour change is evident across a range of sectors. We examine behaviour change strategies, contrasting aspects of health and lifestyle factors with climate change and sustainability issues and note that different policy makers favour specific behaviour change tools; some favour'hard'options ie legislation and others' soft'options such as persuasion. Different strategies will be more effective for specific issues and population segments-and combinations of strategies should not be ruled out.
Abstract A tragic paper in two parts, of somewhat unequal length, in which the protagonists resolve to exercise currently accepted academic conventions of writing but who discover, too late, the seductions of digression and all that TAT... more
Abstract A tragic paper in two parts, of somewhat unequal length, in which the protagonists resolve to exercise currently accepted academic conventions of writing but who discover, too late, the seductions of digression and all that TAT resulting in a deleterious situation in which they end up at the beginning-writing florid prefaces in deference to Borges, Lem, Calvino, Pynchon, Eco et al., in the hope of novel 'theory'. Keywords: Management knowledge, motivation, organization/disorganization, necromancy
[Extract] It is impossible to see the bottom of an abyss; its darkness defies even the imagination: a concept projected into its absorbing opacity is lost, just as a stone cast into its depths sends back no sound. Death is, arguably, such... more
[Extract] It is impossible to see the bottom of an abyss; its darkness defies even the imagination: a concept projected into its absorbing opacity is lost, just as a stone cast into its depths sends back no sound. Death is, arguably, such an abyss, at least for the living; most modern approaches to death, based on a one-life view, seek to avert our gaze from its abyss, and to focus instead on a reflexive attentiveness to our own bereavement.
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In this article we explore the relationship between software developers and IT project managers as expressed through narrative exchanges in an on-line discussion forum. We interrogate a naturalistic data set to show how the conflict... more
In this article we explore the relationship between software developers and IT project managers as expressed through narrative exchanges in an on-line discussion forum. We interrogate a naturalistic data set to show how the conflict between IT professionals and their immediate managers (project managers) is manifest through the identity work that they engage in.
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'Business ethics' can be problematized in a number of ways. The challenge to business ethics postulated in this chapter entails a questioning of received opinion regarding the temporal, geographical and intellectual predicates on which it... more
'Business ethics' can be problematized in a number of ways. The challenge to business ethics postulated in this chapter entails a questioning of received opinion regarding the temporal, geographical and intellectual predicates on which it is founded as an academic discpline and offered as a putative mode of engagement with the world.
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Examines the alternative belief systems which contemporary organizational actors live by and through which they seek to find meaning within the dominant (neo) capitalist social order. This volume marks an attempt to move the study of... more
Examines the alternative belief systems which contemporary organizational actors live by and through which they seek to find meaning within the dominant (neo) capitalist social order. This volume marks an attempt to move the study of belief forward within management and organization studies.
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Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between friendship and betrayal. Both are perceived to involve dynamics that can have a major impact in organizations, but both have tended to be under researched.... more
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between friendship and betrayal. Both are perceived to involve dynamics that can have a major impact in organizations, but both have tended to be under researched. Design/methodology/approach–The paper brings together ideas from psychoanalysis (object relations theory), archetypal psychology, and the history of ideas (the friendship tradition). It also uses a case study to explore how the emerging framework applies in reality.
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We are having lunch with Eve, senior project manager at a well-known IT consultancy. Eve describes herself as 'the kind of woman who likes to work', and goes on to tell us about her professional career. With a master's degree in computer... more
We are having lunch with Eve, senior project manager at a well-known IT consultancy. Eve describes herself as 'the kind of woman who likes to work', and goes on to tell us about her professional career. With a master's degree in computer science, she was employed as a COBOL programmer for a large consulting firm for seven and a half years, during which she became increasingly involved in project management. Over time, she found the consulting firm too big, and paradoxically, made a move to an even bigger government authority.
2 Where is the Wisdom we Have Lost in Knowledge? A Stoical Perspective on Personal Knowledge Management Peter Case and Jonathan Gosling Introduction Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?... more
2 Where is the Wisdom we Have Lost in Knowledge? A Stoical Perspective on Personal Knowledge Management Peter Case and Jonathan Gosling Introduction Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? Eliot (1985 [1934], 7) This extract from the chorus of TS Eliot's The Rock captures rather elegantly the problematic that we wish to address in this chapter.
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This book brings together non western, indigenous and eastern perspectives on leadership. Leadership theory has for too long been the exclusive domain of western academics developing leadership theories from the perspective of western... more
This book brings together non western, indigenous and eastern perspectives on leadership. Leadership theory has for too long been the exclusive domain of western academics developing leadership theories from the perspective of western institutions. Worldly leadership calls for pooling of the combined leadership wisdoms from all parts of the globe.
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Management Learning http://mlq.sagepub.com/ Watch Your Back : Reflections on Trust and Mistrust in Management Education Peter Case and Ken Selvester Management Learning 2002 33: 231 DOI: 10.1177/1350507602332005 The online version of this... more
Management Learning http://mlq.sagepub.com/ Watch Your Back : Reflections on Trust and Mistrust in Management Education Peter Case and Ken Selvester Management Learning 2002 33: 231 DOI: 10.1177/1350507602332005 The online version of this article can be found at: http:// ...
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... And what am I supposed to respond to?' Yeah. I know I'm not an easy guy to work with like that but I mean it's not that I'm sharp at all, it's just what else can you... more
... And what am I supposed to respond to?' Yeah. I know I'm not an easy guy to work with like that but I mean it's not that I'm sharp at all, it's just what else can you say? ... Hypertension. Hypertension? Hypertension, yeah. Of Talk and its Representation It has been ...