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View article: “Gambling products are designed to be addictive”: An experimental comparison of counter-industry gambling harm prevention messages
“Gambling products are designed to be addictive”: An experimental comparison of counter-industry gambling harm prevention messages Open
The gambling industry tends to frame gambling harms as a matter of personal responsibility, which is implicit in their messages like “gamble responsibly” or “take time to think”. Jurisdictions such as Australia and the UK are replacing ind…
View article: “Quitting gambling can help you with the relationships that matter the most to you”: An experimental comparison of positive emotional harm prevention (safer) gambling messages
“Quitting gambling can help you with the relationships that matter the most to you”: An experimental comparison of positive emotional harm prevention (safer) gambling messages Open
Objective: Australia was the first jurisdiction to replace gambling industry slogans such as “gamble responsibly” with independently-designed messages. One of the seven current Australian messages is a positive emotional message, intended …
View article: Critical Management Studies: From One‐Dimensional Critique to Three‐Dimensional Scepticism
Critical Management Studies: From One‐Dimensional Critique to Three‐Dimensional Scepticism Open
Critical Management Studies (CMS) has largely relied on one‐dimensional critique which focus on the negation of a dominant social order. This strong focus has made the field increasingly stale and preoccupied with standard objects for crit…
View article: Silent Steering: How Public Actors Indirectly Influence Private Stakeholder Engagement
Silent Steering: How Public Actors Indirectly Influence Private Stakeholder Engagement Open
Our understanding of how public actors directly influence stakeholder engagement through mechanisms such as regulation and licensing has been steadily improving. However, the indirect influence of public governance measures on stakeholder …
View article: Institutional Parasites
Institutional Parasites Open
In this paper, we conceptualize the “institutional parasite” and examine its role in institutional change and maintenance. Institutional parasites are a widespread group of illegitimate actors that undermine the institution their livelihoo…
View article: Critical Management Studies: A Critical Review
Critical Management Studies: A Critical Review Open
In this paper, we review the development of critical management studies, point at problems and explore possible developments. We begin by tracing out two previous waves of critical management studies. We then focus on more recent work in c…
View article: Introduction to the special issue The evolving debate about critical performativity
Introduction to the special issue The evolving debate about critical performativity Open
The notion of “performativity” (and the idea of the “performative”) has recently gained traction in the organizational studies field (Cabantous & Gond, 2011; Callon, 2007; Huault & Rainelli, 2009). Some authors have even talked about a “pe…
View article: Reining in Reviewer Two: How to Uphold Epistemic Respect in Academia
Reining in Reviewer Two: How to Uphold Epistemic Respect in Academia Open
Journals and scholarly communities seek to uphold standards of professional conduct. They regularly issue guideposts for how to do a good peer review, which highlight its tone should not be overly harsh. However, this guidance is frequentl…
View article: From Values to Value: The Commensuration of Sustainability Reporting and the Crowding Out of Morality
From Values to Value: The Commensuration of Sustainability Reporting and the Crowding Out of Morality Open
Drawing on extensive case study evidence, this study unpacks sustainability reporting’s evolution from a moral values–based practice toward a financialized value–based one. We argue that this transition can be seen as a commensuration proj…
View article: Organizational Culture and COVID‐19
Organizational Culture and COVID‐19 Open
COVID-19 and the large scale social and economic shock which it bought has already profoundly transformed organisational cultures. Well known symbols of organisational life such as open plan workplaces filled with people wearing suits have…
View article: Playing the Bullshit Game: How Empty and Misleading Communication Takes Over Organizations
Playing the Bullshit Game: How Empty and Misleading Communication Takes Over Organizations Open
Why is bullshit so common in some organizations? Existing explanations focus on the characteristics of bullshitters, the nature of the audience, and social structural factors which encourage bullshitting. In this paper, I offer an alternat…
View article: Uninhibited Institutionalisms
Uninhibited Institutionalisms Open
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 …
View article: Neo-Institutional Theory and Organization Studies: A Mid-Life Crisis?
Neo-Institutional Theory and Organization Studies: A Mid-Life Crisis? Open
We trace the development of neo-institutional theory in Organization Studies from a marginal topic to the dominant theory. We show how it has evolved from infancy, through adolescence and early adulthood to being a fully mature theory, whi…
View article: Faculty responses to business school branding: a discursive approach
Faculty responses to business school branding: a discursive approach Open
Purpose The branding of universities is increasingly recognized to present a different set of challenges than in corporate, for-profit sectors. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how faculty make sense of branding in the context o…
View article: When Orders of Worth Clash: Negotiating Legitimacy in Situations of Moral Multiplexity
When Orders of Worth Clash: Negotiating Legitimacy in Situations of Moral Multiplexity Open
How is moral legitimacy established in pluralist contexts where multiple moral frameworks co-exist and compete? Situations of moral multiplexity complicate not only whether an organization or practice is legitimate but also which criteria …
View article: Conflict and collaboration in the 1998 Melbourne port labour dispute: the role of discourses in domain evolution
Conflict and collaboration in the 1998 Melbourne port labour dispute: the role of discourses in domain evolution Open
In this paper we examine how discourses are mobilised and deployed by actors in a domain during a critical incident. In particular we examine the changes and the continuities in the way that the major parties in the Melbourne port dispute …
View article: <i>Introduction to the special issue :</i> The evolving debate about critical performativity
<i>Introduction to the special issue :</i> The evolving debate about critical performativity Open
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View article: Brexit is on: Britain votes to leave the EU – experts respond
Brexit is on: Britain votes to leave the EU – experts respond Open
First paragraph: The United Kingdom has voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. It is a result which will have dramatic implications for the future of the global economy, international relations and the European contin…