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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
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Honorable Surrender : On the Erosion of Resistance in a University Setting
- 2021
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In: Journal of Management Inquiry. - : SAGE Publications. - 1056-4926 .- 1552-6542. ; 30:4, s. 407-420
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article addresses the temporality of resistance in the work context. We focus on the challenge of increasingly diminishing professional autonomy in higher education institutions as well as the vulnerability of staff subjected to academic managerialism. A case where a lecturer is exposed to the requirements to revise grading by senior administration is investigated. Power is understood from the “target’s” perspective and viewed as the erosion of resistance. We introduce the concepts honorable surrender and smoothers to capture the process of giving up of resistance. We argue that these concepts are of special significance in autonomy-espousing work contexts where multiplicity of power resources are employed to subordinate employees and influence their professional identities. We contend that de-subjectification is key in understanding the erosion of resistance.
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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
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Intellectual Failure and Ideological Success in Organization Studies : The Case of Transformational Leadership
- 2016
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In: Journal of Management Inquiry. - : SAGE Publications. - 1056-4926 .- 1552-6542. ; 25:2, s. 139-152
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article discusses the current self-confidence and apparent success—at least by market/popularity measures—of leadership studies (LS) in general and transformational leadership (TFL) in particular. An alternative interpretation is offered, suggesting that it is the ideological character of these approaches that account for their “success,” at least in quantitative terms. Their wide appeal needs to be understood against the background of the fragmentation in the field before the entrance of these much more popularly appealing, but theoretically questionable ideas which lack credible empirical support. The article concludes that the currently popular streams are strongly structured by ideology—drawing on hero and religious mythologies—and suggests some ways to reduce the ideological overtone and the resulting tendency to produce tautologies and biased results.
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- Alvesson, Mats
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Leadership : Convergence and Divergence in Leadership Relations
- 2019
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In: Journal of Management Inquiry. - : SAGE Publications. - 1056-4926 .- 1552-6542. ; 28:3, s. 319-334
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The article argues for theorizing and studying the significance of how so-called leaders and followers converge or diverge in their views and understandings of the leadership/followership relations they may be part of. Divergence or misfits may be common yet missed by the researcher who takes only one party’s view of leadership into account and/or assumes that people involved define the relationship in a similar way. The article identifies and illustrates four typical forms of shared/diverse meanings regarding leadership: high-alignment leadership (shared meanings), value misfit (diverse assessment), construction misfit (different views of what goes on), and multiple breakdowns (high level of confusion of what goes on and how to assess it). Given variations in views of leadership, this article makes a case for considering “divergent relationalities”—in some opposition to common ideas about “smooth” leadership/followership relations based on convergent meanings.
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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
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Uninhibited Institutionalisms
- 2019
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In: Journal of Management Inquiry. - : SAGE Publications. - 1056-4926 .- 1552-6542. ; 28:2, s. 119-127
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Institutional theory (IT) is a very influential set of approaches in organization studies. There is increasing critique that the set is becoming uninhibited: too broad, dispersed, and confusing. Efforts to rejuvinate the field(s) have led to all-embracing definitions and efforts to account for too much, which makes it difficult to identify what is distinct about the assembly of research. This article discusses critically the state of IT and suggests some reconceptualizations of institution and institutional theory and points at some alternative lines of development.
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- Bürgi, P. T., et al.
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From metaphor to practice in the crafting of strategy
- 2005
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In: Journal of management inquiry. - : SAGE Publications. - 1056-4926 .- 1552-6542. ; 14:1, s. 78-94
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article explores how the link between the hand and the mind might be exploited in the making of strategy. Using Mintzberg's image of a potter undergoing iterative and recursive learning and knowledge-building processes as a point of departure, the authors develop a three-level theoretical schema, progressing from the physiological to the psychological to the social to trace the consequences of the hand-mind link. To illustrate their theoretical schema, the authors present an illustration case of managers from a large telecommunications firm experimenting with a process for strategy making in which they actively use their hands to construct representations of their organization and its environment. The authors conclude that new and potent forms of strategy making might be attained if the fundamental human experience of using one's hands is put in the service of all kinds of organizational learning. © 2005 Sage Publications.
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- Czarniawska, Barbara, 1948
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The quiet European?
- 2006
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In: JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INQUIRY. - : SAGE Publications. - 1056-4926 .- 1552-6542. ; 15:3, s. 332-334
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- Einola, Katja, et al.
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Behind the Numbers : Questioning Questionnaires
- 2021
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In: Journal of Management Inquiry. - : SAGE Publications. - 1056-4926 .- 1552-6542. ; 30:1, s. 102-114
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Is complex, ambiguous, and fluctuating social reality measurable? Sometimes yes, perhaps, but often not. At least not in the fairly straightforward way assumed by many researchers. This study is an ethnographic inquiry into data collection during a survey research project. Based on our observations of participants’ spontaneous thoughts and confusions as they filled in questionnaires on “leadership” and “teamwork”, we draw attention to hidden problems in much organizational research. Many respondents found measures ambiguous, irrelevant, or misleading. We (a) underline the inherently interpretative nature of research into complex organizational phenomena, (b) warn against lack of reflexivity and overreliance on existing survey instruments when we study complex social aspects of organizations, (c) identify five categories of possible problems, and (d) suggest paths towards better informed research that take context seriously.
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- Essén, Anna, et al.
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How Materiality Enables and Constrains Framing Practices: Affordances of a Rheumatology E-Service
- 2019
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In: Journal of Management Inquiry. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1056-4926 .- 1552-6542. ; 28:4, s. 458-471
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Framing has been presented as a way for micro-level actors to change and diffuse innovations. However, most framing studies have given primacy to language, whereas the role of material artifacts has been largely ignored. The aim of this study is to conceptualize and illustrate how the materiality of technology enables and constrains framing practices. We use empirical data about the development and diffusion of an e-service in the Swedish rheumatology setting from 2000 to 2014. Our results show how three different material features of the technology (data content, user rights, and system integration) initially afforded two different framings of the technology: normalizing and radicalizing framings. The material features, however, lost their ability to afford radicalizing framings over time, along with changes in the collective-action frames governing the field studied.
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- Gabriel, Yiannis
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Case Studies as Narratives: Reflections Prompted by the Case of Victor, the Wild Child of Aveyron
- 2019
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In: Journal of Management Inquiry. - : SAGE Publications. - 1056-4926 .- 1552-6542. ; 28:4, s. 403-408
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Drawing on a celebrated case study of a feral child in France, the author argues that there are similarities between stories and case studies as types of narrative and that they are both capable of acting as insightful tools of management inquiry. Both case studies and stories call for narrative imagination to develop meaningful narratives. Serendipity, the accidental discovery of meaning or purpose in what seems random and purposeless, is an important part of narrative imagination. As meaningful narratives, both case studies and stories follow a structure of interwoven actions and events with beginnings, middles, and ends. However, where storytellers enjoy poetic license to distort facts for effect, case study researchers are more constrained by factual accuracy. The beginnings and ends of case studies are not as clearly defined as those of stories and fictional narratives.
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