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University of Technology Sydney
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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Business and Management | Organisational Planning And Management | Race and Ethnic Relations | Professional Services (Legal, Management Consulting, Etc.) | Specialist Studies in Education | Organisation and Management Theory | Education Studies Not Elsewhere Classified
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Management | Management | Vocational education and training | Changing work patterns |
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Publications
What are men's roles and responsibilities in the feminist project for gender egalitarianism?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-12-2020
DOI: 10.1111/GWAO.12573
Abstract: The #MeToo and the Time's Up movements have captured the urgency to address systemic manifestations of sexism, patriarchy, and misogyny in all aspects of society. Among the myriad discourses that have been catalyzed by these contemporaneous movements includes one related to the role of men in achieving gender egalitarianism. Men are allocated unearned privilege associated with being a man in a culture that is inherently phallogocentric. This fact alone charges men with the responsibility to account for the discursive and the institutional systems that afford them unearned privilege at certain relational costs that must be borne by women and, concomitantly, the feminine. The #MeToo and the Time's Up movements—which have initiated greater cultural recognition of the problems associated with establishing a society that is predicated on androcentric values—mark a pressing need, one that is much overdue, for men to interrogate the inequitable ways in which gender configures contemporary social relations. As a contribution to this effort, this article draws on reflexive accounts from men academics broadly invested in the study of gender and organizations and who are at different stages of their careers and from dispersed geographical areas, to respond to the question: What are men's roles and responsibilities in the feminist project for gender egalitarianism? In answering this question, these academics, in idually and collectively, identify paths for allyship moving forward.
Management Discourse
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-10-2015
DOI: 10.1002/9781405165518.WBEOSM012.PUB2
Abstract: Management discourse commonly refers to the institutionalized ways in which the management and the organization of work are understood through language. The term “discourse” suggests that the culturally embedded linguistic patterns that people use in order to speak and write about management influence the possibilities for management action and decision‐making. Here words are not seen as being in opposition to action or practice rather it is through language that meaning is constructed, and the possibilities of practice emerge from that meaning. Studies of discourse have examined how management knowledge develops in relation to how it is instantiated through particular uses of language in practice and in relation to how such uses of language are informed by socially available or dominant ways of understanding. Central to this cluster has also been the way in which the subjectivity or identity of people at work is influenced by dominant modes of management discourse.
Agonism and the Possibilities of Ethics for HRM
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-09-2012
‘The Ethics of Managerial Subjectivity’
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-2006
The Limits of Generosity: Lessons on Ethics, Economy, and Reciprocity in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-09-2014
Book Reviews: Chris Argyris and Donald A. Schon (1996): Organizational learning II: Theory, method and practice Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, XXIX + 305 pp, $41.95 ISBN 0-201-62983-6
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-1998
Business Ethics
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Date: 2008
Ethics, Business
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-02-2007
DOI: 10.1002/9781405165518.WBEOSE059
Abstract: The concept of ethics has a long history in western philosophy. Usually, ethics is understood as reflecting on and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior. Following this definition, business ethics is the reflection on the ethical behavior of business organizations.
Presencing identity: organizational change and immaterial labor
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-2005
DOI: 10.1108/09534810510607038
Abstract: To examine Hardt and Negri's discussions of immaterial labor in relation to personal identity and sociality at work in a context of the postmodernization of the global economy. Hardt and Negri's discussions of immaterial labor are reviewed in relation to their implications for social interaction and identity at work. Heidegger's idea of “presencing” is then used to examine the dynamic emergence of identity as an effect of the “affectualization” of work. Global trends towards an informationalized economy have profound implications for identity at work in that the dynamics of identity are foregrounded and managerial and organizational power structures that seek to define an essential worker identity are destabilized. Suggests that research into identity at work should include a focus on the immaterial dimensions of work and should consider the implications of this for the dynamic emergence of identity and for future forms of organization and management. Suggests that the emergence of immaterial labor might provide increasing, albeit complex and contested, opportunities for worker participation this is on what management relies, and what at the same time has the potential of undermining the legitimacy of management. Provides an innovative way of examining the dynamics of identity in contemporary organizations.
The Morality of “new” CEO Activism
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-10-2020
Violence and Workplace Bullying
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2010
A Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 26-08-2016
'It's all about me!': Gendered narcissism and leaders' identity work
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2008
Abstract: This article develops and illustrates a gendered theorization of narcissism as it relates to the self-identity of leaders in organizations. While the value of existing theories of leadership and narcissism are acknowledged, it is noted that they treat narcissism in an implicitly masculine fashion. In so doing they limit narcissistic leadership identity to relatively aggressive, self-oriented, and domineering forms. To develop a more thorough and nuanced appreciation of the implications of narcissism for leaders' identity work, the article articulates a gendered perspective on narcissism that accounts for forms of leadership that are self-focused but not necessarily traditionally masculine. Four types of leadership narcissism are identified and illustrated: the bully, the star performer, the servant, and the victim. While each of these forms is narcissistic in that identity is associated with the defence of a grandiose self-image (ego ideal) through the admiration of others and the love of the self, they achieve this in markedly different, and gendered, ways. The article concludes by arguing how a gendered reading of narcissism and leadership provides a richer understanding of the narcissistic behaviours of men and women in contemporary organizations.
The game of exemplarity: subjectivity, work and the impossible politics of purity
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2003
Ethics, alterity, and organizational justice
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2007
Tapping foreign markets: Construction of legitimacy through market categorization in the internationalizing craft beer industry
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2023
Ethical Praxis and the Business Case for LGBT Diversity: Political Insights from Judith Butler and Emmanuel Levinas
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-01-2017
DOI: 10.1111/GWAO.12168
Abstract: This paper critically reconsiders debates about the business case for workplace ersity as exemplified in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activism. These debates have long suggested that there is an oppositional distinction between justifying ersity on self‐interested business grounds and justifying it on the grounds of ethics, equality and social justice. This has led to an impasse between ethically driven ersity theory and activism, and the dominant business case approach commonly deferred to in managerial practice. As a way of mediating this impasse the contribution of this paper is to demonstrate how ‘ethical praxis’ can be deployed both despite and because of non‐ethically motivated approaches to ethics in business. Drawing on Judith Butler's and Emmanuel Levinas's considerations of the relationship between ethics and the practice of justice, it is argued that critiques of the business case for ersity rely on a pure ethics that does not adequately recognize its connection to lived politics. Conversely, support for the business case evinces a politics that has failed to remember its origin in ethics. The paper positions ethical praxis as a political intervention undertaken in the name of ethics and uses this to suggest that the business case, despite its ethical poverty, holds potential to create real opportunities for justice in organizations.
Repressive Equality Regimes: Theorizing the Disconnections in Organizational Equity Practices
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 08-2022
Noise, Parasites and Translation
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2004
Abstract: Conventional representations of consulting stress the need to predict possible organizational realities associated with improved economic performance. It is conceptualized as a useful tool from which practice might profit if applied properly. In this article we explore theory as a means by which practice may not so much be honed by wellcrafted advice as interrupted and transformed. Further, we propose a parasitical role for the management consultant as a source of ‘noise’ that disrupts established ways of doing and being by introducing interruptive action into the space between organizational order and chaos. What consulting can do is open up these spaces and create concepts that encourage new possible realities and real possibilities. The relation posited between organization theory and practice has the potential to create new forms of situated organization/organizing through disrupting established practice rather than by creating order. Consultants willing to take the risk of working in the productive space between organization and disorganization have a potential that questions the usual auspices of the enterprise.
HDC: An adaptive buffer replacement algorithm for NAND flash memory-based databases
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2014
I have tried, in my way, to be free…sense-ational feminine scriptologies in organization studies
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 08-2018
Writing Responsibly: Narrative Fiction and Organization Studies
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-06-2005
Abstract: In this paper, we reflect on the use of fictional source material and fictional formats in organization studies in order to explore issues of responsibility in the writing of research. We start by examining how research using fictional narrative methods has worked to radically destabilize distinctions between what is real and what is fictional. In relation to this, we ask the question: if a research account can be regarded as fiction, what are the implications of this insight for the responsibilities of authors? Opposing the view that using fiction necessarily leads to an ‘anything goes’ relativism, we argue that a recognition of the fictionality of research texts implies a heightened sense of researcher-author responsibility. We see our main contribution as extending existing discussions of reflexivity in research into a consideration of issues of ethics and responsibility as it relates to the textuality of research writing. To do so, we draw on Derrida’s theorization of responsibility and undecidability as a way of problematizing and discussing the ethics of research in relation to its textuality. We argue that the explicit borrowing from fictional genres evinces the essentially ‘written’ and fictional status of research papers, and highlights the ethical dimensions associated with decisions related to representational strategies and authorial subjectivity.
Language and Communication at Work
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 08-05-2014
Ethics, embodiment and organizations
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-12-2015
Abstract: Noting that ethics and responsibility in business are well established fields of research and practice, we suggest that the limits of dominant approaches lie in their privileging of rationality, penchant for codification, tendency to self-congratulation, predilection to control, affinity to masculinity, blindness to social injustice, and subsumption under corporate goals. We observe that such lines of thought are blind to affectual relations, care, compassion or any forms of feeling experienced pre-reflexively through the body. We argue that this begs the rethinking of ethics in organizations from an embodied perspective. On this basis, and on the basis on the work herein, we retain the hope that our interaction with each other and with the world, might foster ways of organizational life that resist domination and oppression in favour of the enactment of care and respect for difference as it is lived and experienced.
Writing organization/romancing fictocriticism
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-02-2014
The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organizations
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-06-2015
Book Review: Elizabeth Anderson Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about it)
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-07-2018
Critical Management Studies
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Date: 2008
Determining the model order of nonlinear input/output systems
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 1998
The false nearest neighbors algorithm: An overview
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-1997
Parody, subversion and the politics of gender at work: The case of Futurama's 'Raging Bender'
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-06-2013
Abstract: This article extends our understanding of how media culture offers a critique of patriarchal gender relations in organizations. Our attention turns to comedies in media culture, arguing that parody harbours the potential to inform a politics of gender at work through the way that it denaturalizes culturally embedded gendered practices. Drawing on Judith Butler’s discussions of gender performativity, subversive parody and gender undoing we illustrate the critical and transgressive potential of parody in media culture. We do so in relation to a reading of the American animated television programme Futurama (1999–2003) with specific focus on the episode ‘Raging Bender’ (2000)—an episode that explicitly engages in drag-based gender parody. We consider the political salience of this critique and how it relates to the politics of doing and undoing gender in organizations more generally. The article demonstrates how media culture can be a valuable avenue for undertaking politically motivated studies of gender and organizations, and how this politics can be supported by the paradoxical undoing of gender that parody makes possible.
Dirty writing
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2008
Coffee and the Business of Pleasure: The Case of Harbucks vs. Mr. Tweek
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2002
Anxiety and organization
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-12-2018
Politics and popular culture
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 2002
DOI: 10.1075/AIOS.9.08RHO
After Reflexivity: Ethics, Freedom and the Writing of Organization Studies
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2009
Abstract: Building on existing considerations of reflexivity in research writing, this essai seeks to reappraise the concept of responsibility in relation to the ethics of post-representational research methodology in organization studies. Jacques Derrida's discussions of responsibility and undecidability and Emmanuel Lévinas' distinction between the saying and the said are brought to bear on the ethics of the discursive construction of organizational research as a form of representing the Other. The essai argues that responding to reflexivity extends beyond textual practice and self-accounting towards a responsibility for the exercise of academic freedom. This freedom entails a radical openness that is operationalized in an ongoing reinvention that resists the institutionalization of the field of inquiry through a form of transformative knowledge. It is the legacy and promise of reflexivity in organization studies that can invigorate the imagination in research — its poiesis — as an ongoing project of saying the ethical.
Identification of low order manifolds: Validating the algorithm of Maas and Pope
Publisher: AIP Publishing
Date: 03-1999
DOI: 10.1063/1.166398
Abstract: The algorithm of Reference 1992 is presented as a method for identification of invariant reduced-order manifolds for stable systems which exhibit dynamics with a time-scale separation. While this method has been published previously in the literature, theoretical justification for the algorithm was not presented in the original work. Here, it will be shown rigorously that the algorithm correctly identifies the slow manifold. Before the theoretical results are presented, a brief background on the behavior of singularly perturbed systems is presented. The algorithm of Reference 1992 is then introduced. This method will be applied to two different ex les, a distillation column and a two-phase chemical reactor. For each of these ex les, the resulting reduced-order description will be compared to other standard methods of producing reduced-order models. In addition, some preliminary thoughts on how this method can be used to form reduced-order models are presented.
Revealing and Concealing Gender
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2010
Organizational Man
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Date: 2008
Outside the Gates of Eden: Utopia and Work in Rock Music
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-1995
Abstract: This article explores how the relationship between work and utopia has been articulated in rock music. Rock is a cultural discourse that provides insight into the tension between representations of utopian imagination with the often hard realities of the experience of work. The article discusses the value of investigating popular culture in the context of the study of work and organizations and then examines how some s les of rock critically engage with the cultural idealization of work as utopia. Three images of work are delineated in rock music—work as a dystopia to be escaped, the troubled relationship between work and love utopias, and the idea of work as a false, yet culturally potent, utopia.
The Ethics of Organizational Ethics
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-04-2023
DOI: 10.1177/01708406221082055
Abstract: This Perspectives article reviews research on organizational ethics presented in a select group of articles from Organization Studies, each of which draws inspiration, directly or indirectly, from the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. This work is commended for how it has wrestled the locus of ethicality away from organizational authority and instead examined ethics in relation to the actions and interactions of those subject to that authority. Collectively, these articles articulate organizational ethics as an affective, relational and embodied response to the needs of others. Such ethics motivates political engagement in resistance to oppression and domination meted out by organizational authority. Acknowledging the significance of this contribution, the present article examines how the research reviewed is remiss for its latent humanism and the attendant risk of assuming that the actions of in idual ethical subjects are morally superior to organized forms of ethics. The source of this ethical privileging of in idual subjects comes from a failure to distinguish between the practice of ethics in organizations and the originary ethics of ethics. Following Levinas, the latter is understood as the passive and pre-subjective call to responsibility for the other with whom one is organized and that precedes any concrete proposal for an organizational ethics. By acknowledging the ethics of ethics, we see that affective, interpersonal ethics and more formally organized ethics can both be translations of the ethics of ethics, each being necessarily imperfect. The tension between authoritative and interpersonal forms of ethics in organizations is not a problem for ethics, but rather a condition of the possibility of organizational ethics itself.
Dissensus! Radical Democracy and Business Ethics
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-01-2020
Book Review: The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2005
Writing, the feminine and organization
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-02-2015
DOI: 10.1111/GWAO.12084
Critical Business Ethics: From Corporate Self-interest to the Glorification of the Sovereign Pater
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-05-2018
DOI: 10.1111/IJMR.12142
Emmanuel Levinas and the Ethical Quality of Leadership
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-2023
Organization and Mimetic Excess: Magic, Critique, and Style
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2008
Democratic Business Ethics: Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal and the Disruption of Corporate Sovereignty
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-07-2016
Abstract: There is an established body of politically informed scholarly work that offers a sustained critique of how corporate business ethics is a form of organizing that acts as a subterfuge to facilitate the expansion of corporate sovereignty. This paper contributes to that work by using its critique as the basis for theorizing an alternative form of ethics for corporations. Using the case of the 2015 Volkswagen emissions scandal as an illustrative ex le, the paper theorizes an ethics that locates corporations in the democratic sphere so as to defy their professed ability to organize ethics in a self-sufficient and autonomous manner. The Volkswagen scandal shows how established organizational practices of corporate business ethics are no barrier to, and can even serve to enable, the r ant pursuit of business self-interest through well-orchestrated and large-scale conspiracies involving lying, cheating, fraud and lawlessness. The case also shows how society, represented by in iduals and institutions, is able to effectively resist such corporate malfeasance. The ‘democratic business ethics’ that this epitomizes is one where civil society holds corporations to account for their actions, and in so doing disrupts corporate sovereignty. This ethics finds practical purchase in forms of dissent that redirect power away from centres of organized wealth and capital, returning it to its democratically rightful place with the people, with society.
Narrative, organizations and research
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2005
Between the Saying and the Said
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 08-05-2014
Determining Controllable Sets from a Time-Delay Description
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1996
Neo-villeiny and the service sector: the case of hyper flexible and precarious work in fitness centres
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-07-2016
Abstract: This article presents data from a comprehensive study of hyper flexible and precarious work in the service sector. A series of interviews were conducted with self-employed personal trainers along with more than 200 hours of participant observation within fitness centres in the UK. Analysis of the data reveals a new form of hyper flexible and precarious work that is labelled neo-villeiny in this article. Neo-villeiny is characterized by four features: bondage to the organization payment of rent to the organization no guarantee of any income and extensive unpaid and speculative work that is highly beneficial to the organization. The neo-villeiny of the self-employed personal trainer offers the fitness centre all of the benefits associated with hyper flexible work, but also mitigates the detrimental outcomes associated with precarious work. The article considers the potential for adoption of this new form of hyper flexible and precarious work across the broader service sector.
Research and Knowledge at Work
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-09-2002
Ethics, alterity and the rationality of leadership justice
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-07-2012
Abstract: This article provides a critical review and re-evaluation of dominant approaches to leadership justice, arguing that they appropriate justice as a rational means to achieve organizational effectiveness. It is shown that in contemporary management thinking justice is a formal rationality rather than a substantive one. This rationalization of justice belies its masculinization and as a result human values such as love and care are sidelined. The ethical theories of Emmanuel Levinas are drawn on to consider how pre-rational affective relations between people form the basis of ethically informed justice. It is proposed that justice is not a particular variety of leadership behaviour but rather that leadership is the practice of justice. Justice is not here regarded as something to be achieved through particular leadership practices, but is an ongoing condition – an unanswerable question whose response defines the ethical quality of leadership.
Organizational justice
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 06-10-2011
Response to “Comment on ‘Identification of low order manifolds: Validating the algorithm of Maas and Pope'” [Chaos 16, 048101 (2006)]
Publisher: AIP Publishing
Date: 20-10-2006
DOI: 10.1063/1.2357333
Abstract: Flockerzi and Heineken [Chaos 16, 048101 (2006)] present two ex les with the goal of elucidating issues related to the Maas and Pope method for identifying low dimensional “slow” manifolds in systems with a time-scale separation. The goal of their first ex le is to show that the result claimed by Rhodes et al. [Chaos 9, 108-123 (1999)] that the Maas and Pope algorithm identifies the slow invariant manifold in the situation in which there is finite time-scale separation is incorrect. We show that their arguments result from an incomplete understanding of the situation and that, in fact, their ex le supports, and is completely consistent with, the result in Rhodes et al.. Their second ex le claims to be a counterex le to a conjecture in Rhodes et al. that away from the slow manifold the criterion of Maas and Pope [Combust. Flame 88, 239-264 (1992)] will never be fulfilled. While this conjecture may indeed be false, we argue that it is not clear that the ex le presented by Flockerzi and Heineken is indeed a counterex le.
Between cultures: values, training and identity in a manufacturing firm
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 03-2006
DOI: 10.1108/09534810610648924
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to critically scrutinize the use of training interventions as a means of implementing corporate culture change and to assess the implications of such programs for employee identity. The paper uses empirical materials, observations and reflections from a two‐year ethnographic study in a manufacturing firm to discuss the organization's “core values” with specific attention directed to a particular organizational event – the running of a training program designed to educate the firms employees in the company's newly designed culture. The contested interaction between formally articulated corporate culture and the workplace experience of the employees is shown to demonstrate how cultural change programs can work to suppress employee's dissent and dialogue whilst being articulated in a language of inclusiveness and involvement. The paper provides a review of the complex and paradoxical implications of cultural change programs that would be of use to managers, management consultants and human resource development professionals involved in implementing cultural change. The paper examines organizational culture through detailed ethnographic study with a particular focus on the problematics of how training is used as a technology for cultural change.
Triple Trouble: Undecidability, Identity and Organizational Change
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2008
Approaching the precipice? A review of Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2017
Business coaching: challenges for an emerging industry
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-2005
Economic metaphors and working knowledge: enter the 'cogito-economic' subject
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2002
Book Review: Campbell Jones, Martin Parker and René ten Bos: For Business Ethics
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-10-2005
When the Saints Go Marching In
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2004
The Virtual Leader Construct: The Mass Mediatization and Simulation of Transformational Leadership
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2005
Abstract: This article explores what happens when leaders and leadership becomes virtualized through the mass media and proposes the Virtual Leader Construct (VLC) – a non-human image of a leader who is purposefully created by an organization. Using ex les from the fast food industry it is proposed that there are three orders of the VLC: VLC as an imitation of a former flesh-and-blood leader VLC as a creative re-representation of a former leader and VLC as a fabricated leader with no direct relation to an actual person. It is argued that VLCs can and do perform potent transformation leadership functions for organizations – functions that are further enabled the more they are virtualized.
Ethical Vitality: Identity, Responsibility, and Change in an Australian Hospital
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-07-2008
Reading and Writing Organizational Lives
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2000
Abstract: This paper examines the use of multiple reading strategies as a way to conduct research into organizational life. The paper reviews the role of paradigm thinking as being the dominant approach to understanding research methodology in organization studies. It is argued that paradigm ersity has taken a position of meta-theoretical hegemony where students of organizations are compelled to enter into the paradigm discourse in order to do research. Based on the work of Cleo Cherryholmes, it is further argued that a `reading' rather than `researching' based approach is a way of doing organizational enquiry outside the paradigm framework. An account of organizational life in an autobiographical format is presented and is `read' using three different reading strategies-one feminist, one critical and one deconstructive. The implications of these reading strategies for researching organizational life are then discussed.
The leadership of Ronald McDonald: Double narration and stylistic lines of transformation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2006
Foreign workers: On the other side of gendered, racial, political and ethical borders
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-02-2019
Abstract: While political issues related to migration and work have been explored in great detail from the perspective of, inter alia, industrial relations, international business, economics and of course migration studies itself, they have been notably absent from any real consideration at all in organization studies. This appears as an almost wilful omission of one of the most pressing political issues facing the post-globalized world, as well as one in which work organizations are centrally implicated. This article, and the Special Issue which it introduces, explores how what it means to be a ‘foreign’ worker is deeply influenced by and connected to sexuality, gender, politics and ethics. We consider in idual differences, context-specific experiences and dynamic processes through which the sexed, gendered and classed category of the foreign worker is constructed, enacted and resisted. We find that class, race and gender serve to shape a sense of foreignness that is central to the meaning and experience of work. The machinations of power are never far away, as people’s differences come to be used as an axis of actual and potential oppression, coercion and exploitation.
For Management?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2006
Abstract: Over the past decades there have been persistent radical critiques of management. Previously the goal was to apply forms of Marxian analysis to the world of management and organizations, usually seeing it as a sphere of false consciousness, distorted and unreflective practices, and three-dimensional power or hegemony. Surprisingly, even after the Marxist scaffoldings that supported such claims have been deconstructed—both practically and theoretically—there are still current contributions to management thought that seek to resuscitate the same critiques, often under the rubric of Critical Management Studies. These representations seem increasingly bizarre, given the theoretical currents emanating from post-structuralist and postmodern thought that have been emergent in recent years, associated ideas such as polyphony, difference, deconstruction and translation. In this article we draw on these sources to produce a different representation of management—one that we would argue acts as an effective counter-factual to that which provides support to some of the central tendencies manifest in critical approaches to management. Rather than seeing modern management as necessarily a totalitarian practice, one that should necessarily be subject to a negative critique, we would argue that, at its best, it enables polyphony rather than tyranny, and the possibility to be both critical and for management.
On why Uber has not taken over the world
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2019
Forget political corporate social responsibility
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-06-2020
Abstract: We argue that political corporate social responsibility (PCSR), while hailed by many as a solution to societal problems not dealt with by government, reflects both a triumph of neoliberal corporate power and a harbinger of democracy’s demise. Drawing on the remarkably PCSR-like – declarations of BlackRock CEO and billionaire Larry Fink, we demonstrate how scholarly PCSR is suspiciously compatible with corporate deregulation and privatisation of the public sphere. Our article recommends scholars abandon PCSR when critically evaluating corporate domination and democratic alternatives to it in the neoliberal era.
Book Reviews : John Garrick (1998) Informal learning in the workplace: Unmasking human resource development London: Routledge, xi + 212pp
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 1999
“All I want to do is get that check and get drunk”
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 03-07-2009
DOI: 10.1108/09534810910967161
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine the themes of resistance to organizations in Charles Bukowski's novel Factotum in relation to contemporary theory in organization studies, and to consider the ways in which the literary depiction of resistance can be used to extend theoretical debates on the subject. Literary fiction, and the novel in particular, is theorized as an undecidable space between experiential reality and creative/fictional experiment that offers a valuable exposition of and experimentation with, the meaning of work in organizations. The theme of resistance to organizations in Factotum is read in terms of how the experiment of the novel can be articulated with discussions of resistance in organization studies. The paper shows how Bukowski's novel portrays a form of resistance that has elided attention in the organization studies literature – that which is highly in idualistic and disorganized yet extreme and overt. This is a resistance that does not just work against the power structures of one organization, but rather rejects all aspects of capitalist work relations other than those necessary for survival. Theoretically, the paper extends theories of resistance in organizations by using Factotum to explore the meaning of extreme in idualised organizational resistance. Methodologically the paper exemplifies how the reading of novels can provide insight to the paper of organizations not available through more conventional means by testifying to, and experimenting with, the meaning of organizational experience.
Organizational Ethics, Decision Making, Undecidability
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2007
DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-954X.2007.00711.X
Abstract: In this paper we develop a conceptualisation of organizational decision-making as a practice that is, necessarily, ethical. The paper starts with a discussion of the notion of decision-making as it relates to organizational rationality and the relationship between management and control. Drawing on Derrida's discussions of undecidability and responsibility, we suggest that as well as being able to consider organizational decision-making as an instance of (albeit bounded) rationality or calculability, it can also be regarded as a process of choice amongst heterogenous possibilities. On that basis, we follow Derrida in arguing that for a decision to be considered an instance of responsible action it must be made with neither recourse to knowledge of its outcome nor to the application of pre-ordained rules. Illustrating our argument with a discussion of Eichmann's ‘I was just following orders’ defence, we suggest that rules for ethical decision making, rather than ensuring ethical outcomes, can work to insulate organizations from moral responsibility. We conclude with a discussion of ethics and democracy in relation to responsible decision making in organizations.
‘Doing’ knowledge at work
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-07-2000
Learning/Becoming/Organizing
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2005
Abstract: In this paper we rethink and reframe organizational learning in terms of organizational becoming. We see these concepts as two mutually implicating ways of exploring and simultaneously constituting the phenomena of organization. Bearing in mind that the understanding of organization is simultaneously a question of the organization of understanding, we reflect on the complex interrelation between thinking and organizing. In order to connect the processes of learning and becoming, we consider the concept of organization as space in between order and chaos. We propose a perspective that sees learning not as something that is done to organizations, or as something that an organization does rather, learning and organizing are seen as mutually constitutive and unstable, yet pragmatic, constructs that might enable a dynamic appreciation of organizational life. Further, we argue that the becoming that is in organizing implies a permanent non-rational movement such that organization can never be rationally defined.
Academic Freedom in the Corporate University: Squandering Our Inheritance?
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Images of Organizing in Popular Culture
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2008
The Undecided Space of Ethics in Organizational Surveillance
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2010
Abstract: While much contemporary organizational research has highlighted how surveillance and self-surveillance are dominant modes of attempting subjective control in organizations, in this article we consider whether ‘being seen’ harbours the potential to also engender an ethics that motivates care for self and other. This ethics resides in an ‘undecided space’— one where in idual conduct and subjectivity are not decided by surveillance-based discipline but performed by active subjects in interaction with each other in relation to that discipline. We draw on fieldwork conducted in the spinal unit of a major hospital to explore and demonstrate the instability of the association between discipline and surveillance in organizational life. The article provides an account of how a video-based intervention in the hospital led to alternative conducts and outcomes. We consider ex les of in situ practice that show clinicians being dynamically attuned to one another in response to the video study. The contribution of the article is to demonstrate and illustrate how emergent subjectivity and interaction can result from such video ‘surveillance’. We conclude that ‘being seen’ can intensify mutual attentiveness to the point where interaction affords an ethic of care for self and other.
Organizational moral responsibility
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2009
Deconstructive organisational learning: the possibilities for a postmodern epistemology of practice
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-1998
Stephen Edgell, Heidi Gottfried and Edward Granter (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-10-2016
Desperately Seeking Legitimacy: Organizational Identity and Emerging Industries
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2007
Abstract: In this article we examine the process of organizational identity formation in emerging industries. We argue that organizational identity is best understood in terms of the relationship between temporal difference (i.e. the performance of a stable identity over time) and spatial difference (i.e. by locating organizational identity in relation to other firms, both similar and different). It is the relationship between these two forms of difference that enables the construction of a legitimate sense of organizational identity. Our discussion is illustrated using empirical material from a study of the emerging industry of business coaching in Australia.
Love and hope: A rejoinder to Silvia Gherardi, Gina Grandy, and Emmanouela Mandalaki
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-11-2022
Organizations and Popular Culture
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-09-2013
The ethical difference of Organization
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-12-2012
Abstract: Noting that from its very inception Organization laid claim to having a central interest in the ethics and politics of organization, in this article we review contributions to the Journal over the past 20 years in order to consider the ethical thinking that has developed. We suggest that there is a common thread of ethical interest that characterizes much of this work—one that clearly differentiates it from more conventional approaches to business ethics. While business ethics has as its locus of interest the ethicality of organizations themselves, central issues that have emerged in Organization concern how in iduals might (or might not) maintain a valued experience of themselves as ethical subjects despite the behaviour of organizations, and how organizational arrangements might be politically contested in the name of ethics. We explore this in relation to a question that unites much of the study of ethics in Organization: how do we live (and work) together in a world beset by difference? We consider this question in terms of the issue of ethical subjectivity and the relation between an ethics of consensus and an ethics of difference. The article concludes much as the Journal started—with the proposal that ethics remains a pressing challenge for critical scholarship and practice.
Sense-ational organization theory! Practices of democratic scriptology
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-09-2019
Abstract: This article critically reviews the use of non-conventional writing in organization studies from the 1980s to the present day as it relates to the relationship between freedom, politics and theory. Just as research justifies itself through an elaboration of methodology, it is suggested that we can consider ‘scriptology’ – the reflexively aware articulation of the relationship between writing and knowledge – as a means to liberate knowledge production in organization studies from its self-imposed conservatism. While there are numerous actual ex les of non-conventional scriptologies in use, it is argued the most politically radical and emancipatory of them can be found in contemporary feminine and feminist writing. Such writing provides a new textual aesthetic for organization studies that promises a democratic and egalitarian practice where expression seeks to defy the rules that would inhibit it rather than adhere to the ones that would authorize it. Such scriptologies can provide a way that knowledge can try, in its way, to be free.
Gender, Mask and the Face: Towards a Corporeal Ethics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2010
The teaching of the other: Ethical vulnerability and generous reciprocity in the research process
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-02-2018
Abstract: How is it that researchers can engage with those they research ethically? In response to the challenge of this question, we articulate an ethics of research engagement based on vulnerability and generosity. This is explored with a special focus on the practicalities of organization studies research. Building on developments in reflexive methodology, we draw on Emmanuel Levinas’ relational ethics to consider how research can be approached as receiving a ‘teaching of the other’. Such teaching involves a radical openness to other people’s difference such that knowledge arises from being affected by those others rather than claiming to know them in any categorical sense. The possibility that emerges is that of a reflexively ethical position from which to conduct research premised on letting go of the egotistical comforts of one’s own epistemic authority. Self-reflexivity becomes rendered subservient to other-vulnerability in embodied research encounters that are open and generous. The promise for research is a deepening of our corporeal, affective and aesthetic engagement with others and an enlarged sense of the ethical meaning of research.
Determining the model order of nonlinear input/output systems directly from data
Publisher: American Autom Control Council
Date: 1995
Corporeal ethics and the politics of resistance in organizations
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-05-2014
Abstract: This article offers an understanding of organizational ethics as embodied and pre-reflective in origin and socio-political in practice. We explore ethics as being founded in openness and generosity towards the other, and consider the organizational implications of a ‘corporeal ethics’ grounded in the body before the mind. Shifting focus away from how managers might rationally pursue organizational ethics, we elaborate on how corporeal ethics can manifest in practical and political acts that seek to defy the negation of alterity within organizations. This leads us to consider how people’s conduct in organizations might be ethically informed in the context of, and in resistance to, the dominating organizational power relations in which they find themselves. Such an ethics manifests in resisting those forms of organizing that close down difference and enact oppression a practice we refer to as an ethico-politics of resistance.
Changing writing/writing for change
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2021
DOI: 10.1111/GWAO.12644
Popular Culture
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Date: 2008
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 06-11-2015
Ethical subjectivity and politics in organizations: A case of health care tendering
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2011
Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between ethics and politics in organizations with a specific focus on ethical subjectivity—that is, how people at work constitute themselves as subjects in relation to both their conduct and their sense of ethical responsibility to others. To investigate this we consider those ethics that were politically mobilized when five clinical partners tendered to buy out the medical practice in which they worked. We provide a detailed reading of a letter of complaint written by one of the partners and sent to their employer—a letter we consider to be a deliberate, political, ethically motivated and overt act of resistance. Drawing on the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas we argue that the practice of ethics is characterized by a tension where ethical commitments and realpolitik come crashing together. The implication we draw from this is that in organizations the ethical subject is always a political subject the one who takes action in response to the call of the ethical demand. It is answering the call to political action by the ethical subject—a subject prepared to act in response to the experience of injustice while not resting easy on their own ethical righteousness—that provides an affirmative possibility for researching and theorizing ethics within a critical framework.
Humour, Work and Organization
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-2013
Does work have a future? The need for new meanings and new valuings of work
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2023
Changing the World? The Politics of Activism and Impact in the Neoliberal University
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-12-2017
Business Ethics as Practice
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-06-2006
Legitimising knowledge at work
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-07-2000
Ghostwriting Research: Positioning the Researcher in the Interview Text
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2000
DOI: 10.1177/107780040000600406
Abstract: This article reviews the practice of interview-based research through the metaphor of researcher as ghostwriter. What is suggested is that research can be examined as a form of textual practice in which researchers create images of others and also enter those images. In such a practice, research can be understood as a dialogic process where researchers are never neutral in their attempts to write about the lives of other people. This then leads to a need for researchers to account for their textual choices and their role in producing accounts of the experience of others. The article concludes that the ghostwriter metaphor is a way of understanding research that enables researchers to acknowledge their role in the production of textual representations of their research participants.
Modeling and robust control of active noise control systems
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 1996
False-nearest-neighbors algorithm and noise-corrupted time series
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
Date: 05-1997
Book Reviews : Michael Kaye (1996) Myth-Makers and Story-Tellers Sydney: Business and Professional Publishers, xxii + 202 pp, $29.95; ISBN 1 875680 26 8
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 1997
The Cultural Fantasy of Hierarchy: Sovereignty and the Desire for Spiritual Purity
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 2012
Writing Organization
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 21-08-2001
DOI: 10.1075/AIOS.7
The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-02-2012
‘If I Should Fall From Grace…’: Stories of Change and Organizational Ethics
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-06-2009
Radical politics, intersectionality and leadership for diversity in organizations
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 23-12-2020
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore leadership for ersity informed by intersectionality and radical politics. Surfacing the political character of intersectionality, the authors suggest that a leadership for ersity imbued with a commitment to political action is essential for the progress towards equality. Drawing lessons from the grassroots, political organizing of the black and Indigenous activist groups Combahee River Collective and Idle No More, the authors explore how these groups relied on feminist alliances to address social justice issues. Learning from their focus on intersectionality, the authors consider the role of politically engaged leadership in advancing ersity and equality in organizations. The paper finds that leadership for ersity can be developed by shifting towards a more radical and transversal politics that challenges social and political structures that enable intersectionality or interlocking oppressions. This challenge relies on critical alliances negotiated across multiple intellectual, social and political positions and enacted through flexible solidarity to foster a collective ethical responsibility and social change. These forms of alliance-based praxis are important for advancing leadership for ersity. This paper contributes to studies of leadership and critical ersity studies by articulating an alliance-based praxis for leadership underpinned by intersectionality, radical democracy and transversal politics.
The post-bureaucratic parasite: Contrasting narratives of organizational change in local government
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-12-2011
Abstract: This article investigates the relationship between learning, bureaucracy and post-bureaucracy as manifest in a local government council in the Australian state of New South Wales. Empirically, we compare the culturally dominant narrative of the necessity and desirability of post-bureaucracy in public management, the managerial narrative of this particular organization and its restructure, and the local accounts of learning from employees who were immersed in the changing work environment. Our analysis confirms that post-bureaucracy is not an ideal form that exceeds or surpasses bureaucracy, but acts as another marker for the bureaucracy’s ability to survive and adapt. The article’s contribution lies in its exploration of the character of this adaptation. We contend that post-bureaucracy acts a parasite that both relies on and disturbs the practice of bureaucracy while failing to substantively challenge it. Moreover, like a parasite post-bureaucracy requires the ongoing vitality of its host in order to continue to nourish itself.
Project-Based Learning and the Limits of Corporate Knowledge
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2003
Commercial gender: Fracturing masculinity in the case of OzRock
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2012
A community college's performance of ‘organisation’: it's a drag!
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2010
Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-2013
Surveillance, Resistance, Observance: Exploring the Teleo-affective Volatility of Workplace Interaction
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-06-2006
Abstract: Central to the critical study of contemporary management practice has been an understanding of the possibilities for worker subjugation framed in terms of the disciplinary practices of surveillance and responses to it in terms of compliance and resistance. In this paper, we explore how the volatility of everyday interaction also leads to a different response — one we call ‘observance’. We introduce this term to refer to the process of identity ersification at work, and to create an analytical-conceptual space that is not fully circumscribed by compliance and resistance. To give the concept of observance empirical flesh, we present an account of team meetings held as part of a quality improvement programme in a manufacturing workplace in Sydney, Australia. We use this account to show how the interpersonal dynamics among team workers led to ‘emergent’ subject positions and conducts. Capturing the effects of the volatility of everyday workplace interaction, the concept of observance is shown to account for such emergent positioning and reflexivity. Observance enables us to highlight this and also how people exceed the parameters of surveillance, compliance and resistance, especially in relation to participativecommunicative or ‘immaterial’ forms of work.
Disturbing Business Ethics
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 30-07-2019
Neophilia and organization
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2010
Developing people in organizations: working (on) identity
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2004
Organizing Corporeal Ethics A Research Overview
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 10-2022
Values and the American Manager: A Three-Decade Perspective
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-05-2009
The Partial Organization of Networked Corruption
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-05-2018
Abstract: This article uses the concept of partial organization to examine how organizing principles can facilitate the effective operation of networked forms of corruption. We analyze the case study of a corruption network in the South Korean maritime industry in terms of how it operated by selectively appropriating practices normally associated with formal bureaucratic organizations. Our findings show that organizational elements built into the corruption network enabled coordination of corruption activities and served to distort and override practices within member organizations. The network was primarily organized through the hierarchical organization of a bounded and controlled set of members and, to a lesser extent, through processes of monitoring and sanctions. Given its clandestine nature, the network avoided the use of explicit rules to govern behavior, instead relying on habituated routines to ensure consistent and predictable action from members. We find that organizational elements were rescinded when the corruption network was exposed after the sinking of a passenger ferry, the Sewol. By rolling back its hierarchical organization and reverting to core relationships, the corruption network sought to preserve its center. The article illustrates the explanatory value of studying how the activities of corruption networks are enabled and adapt to existential challenges through partial organization.
Utopia in Popular Management Writing and the Music of Bruce Springsteen: Do You Believe in the Promised Land?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2004
Inside the knowledge works
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-07-2000
Affective politics in gendered organizations: Affirmative notes on becoming-woman
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2017
Abstract: Current approaches to the study of affective relations are over-determined in a way that ignores their radicality, yet abstracted to such an extent that the corporeality and differentially lived experience of power and resistance is neglected. To radicalize the potential of everyday affects, this article calls for an intensification of corporeality in affect research. We do this by exploring the affective trajectory of ‘becoming-woman’ introduced by Deleuze and Guattari. Becoming-woman is a process of gendered deterritorialization and a specific variation on becoming-minoritarian. Rather than a reference to empirical women, becoming-woman is a necessary force of critique against the phallogocentric powers that shape and constrain working lives in gendered organizations. While extant research on gendered organizations tends to focus on the overwhelming power of oppressive gender structures, engaging with becoming-woman releases affective flows and possibilities that contest and transgress the increasingly subtle and confusing ways in which gendered organization affects people at work. Through becoming-woman, an affective and affirmative politics capable of resisting the effects of gendered organization becomes possible. This serves to further challenge gendered oppression in organizations and to affirm a life beyond the harsh limits that gender can impose.
Ethical Irony and the Relational Leader: Grappling with the Infinity of Ethics and the Finitude of Practice
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 14-08-2018
DOI: 10.1017/BEQ.2017.7
Abstract: Relational leadership invokes an ethics involving a leader’s affective engagement and genuine concern with the interests of others. This ethics faces practical difficulties given it implies a seemingly limitless responsibility to a set of incommensurable ethical demands. This article contributes to addressing the impasse this creates in three ways. First, it clarifies the nature of the tensions involved by theorising relational leadership as caught in an irreconcilable bind between an infinitely demanding ethics and the finite possibilities of a response to those demands. Second, it examines this ethical challenge in acknowledgement of the hierarchical discourses and power dynamics in which leadership relationships are constrained and enacted. Third, it proposes “ethical irony” as a way leaders can respond to the demand for ethics without resulting in either an escape from ethics, or being crushed by its burden. Three dimensions of ethical irony are examined: ironic perspective, ironic performance, and ironic predilection.
Debating Organization
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2004
SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORK: A LEADERSHIP PROBLEM
Publisher: FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.1590/S0034-759020210207
Abstract: Sexual violence against women in the workplace remains rife and poorly addressed. Sexual harassment is often perpetrated by leaders, managers, or supervisors as the result of abusive power relations. Recognising and addressing the cultural tolerance for sexual violence in organizations and society is one of the steps in addressing this issue. In this paper, we argue that violence is normalised through leadership practices. We suggest that leadership against sexual harassment is essential for organizational redress.
Data-based control trajectory planning for nonlinear systems
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
Date: 09-1997
How Does Performance Management Affect Workers? Beyond Human Resource Management and Its Critique
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2018
DOI: 10.1111/IJMR.12177
Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 21-12-2007
The legitimation of learning in organizational change
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 02-1997
DOI: 10.1108/09534819710159260
Abstract: Explores organizational learning based on the interpretations of actors in the organizational setting. Brings out the major point that events of organizational change are subject to multiple and competing interpretations and that labelling a particular event as “organizational learning” can be seen as an act of power through which a progressive and positive interpretation of organizational events is privileged over other interpretations. Argues that, although the metaphor of “learning” is a useful tool for organizational analysis, focusing only on learning marginalizes the darker themes of people’s organizational experience and leaves us with a more partial appreciation of organizational life.
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