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View article: A Good Bloke and a Good Man to Do Business With: How Men Use Symbolic Masculinity to Network Through Golf
A Good Bloke and a Good Man to Do Business With: How Men Use Symbolic Masculinity to Network Through Golf Open
Business networks are known to be gendered. However, few studies have delved into precisely how gender relates to networking practices . This study focuses on the gendered symbolic practices used by men when they play golf for the purposes…
View article: Making Knowledge Claims from Qualitative Interviews: A Typology of Epistemological Modes
Making Knowledge Claims from Qualitative Interviews: A Typology of Epistemological Modes Open
Qualitative interviewing is the most common qualitative research method in management studies. However, researchers using this method tend to use a distinct ‘packages’ of practices, each of which is underpinned by a distinct onto‐epistemol…
View article: Reconstituting the centrality of power in management and organization studies
Reconstituting the centrality of power in management and organization studies Open
This Dialogue engages in some reflection on the role of power in Organization and Management Research, prompted by the publication of the second edition of Frameworks of Power, by Stewart R. Clegg (2023). The Dialogue includes contribution…
View article: The role of cunning misrepresentations in entrepreneurial impression management
The role of cunning misrepresentations in entrepreneurial impression management Open
This paper develops a dramaturgical theory of cunning misrepresentations, an important but previously unexplored aspect of entrepreneurial impression management. By cunning misrepresentations, we refer not to illegal activities such as fra…
View article: <i>‘Just relax and ram it in’</i> : Dimensions of power in workplace sexual humour
<i>‘Just relax and ram it in’</i> : Dimensions of power in workplace sexual humour Open
Sexual humour has been observed in organisations where it is actively encouraged and in organisations where it is officially proscribed. In this paper, we use Interactional Sociolinguistics to analyse fifteen ‘live’ recordings of walkie-ta…
View article: Accounting for the “harms” of social media firms: dialogic accountability and discursive contestation in public hearings
Accounting for the “harms” of social media firms: dialogic accountability and discursive contestation in public hearings Open
Purpose Existing literature has begun to identify the agonistic and contested aspects of the ongoing development of accountability systems. These “contests” are particularly important during periods of change when an accountability “defici…
View article: The Role of Language in Organizational Sensemaking: An Integrative Theoretical Framework and an Agenda for Future Research
The Role of Language in Organizational Sensemaking: An Integrative Theoretical Framework and an Agenda for Future Research Open
Despite the rapid growth of research on organizational sensemaking and an acknowledgment of the critical role of language in the sensemaking process, the literature on sensemaking and language is fragmented. In particular, there is no syst…
View article: The (army) hero with a thousand faces: A discourse-mythological approach to theorising archetypal blending in contemporary advertising
The (army) hero with a thousand faces: A discourse-mythological approach to theorising archetypal blending in contemporary advertising Open
This manuscript theorises the use of heroism in marketing by analysing selected representations of the army hero in contemporary advertising. Adopting the discourse-mythological approach to analyse Jungian archetypes, we focus on three US …
View article: Official truth, applied deconstruction and post-inquiry sensemaking in the Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash
Official truth, applied deconstruction and post-inquiry sensemaking in the Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash Open
On 2 June 1994, an RAF Chinook helicopter crashed into the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, killing all crew members and intelligence personnel on board. In this article, we analyse the 17-year campaign to set aside the finding of gross negligen…
View article: Authenticity and political leadership
Authenticity and political leadership Open
Authenticity has become a key battleground in contemporary politics.Authenticity is typically defined as the property of being genuine or true.However, the term means different things in different contexts.Art experts judge whether a paint…
View article: Making sense of the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn: Towards an ambiguity-centred perspective on authentic leadership
Making sense of the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn: Towards an ambiguity-centred perspective on authentic leadership Open
When Jeremy Corbyn was first elected as leader of the Labour party in 2015, he was framed in the media as a new type of authentic political leader. Corbyn seemed to represent everything that a typical politician was not: honest, straight t…
View article: The art of stage-craft: A dramaturgical perspective on strategic change
The art of stage-craft: A dramaturgical perspective on strategic change Open
This article contributes to our understanding of how organisations change the set of practices and practitioners involved in strategising, what we term the ‘strategy arrangement’. Drawing on insights from a qualitative study of the introdu…
View article: Writing impact case studies: a comparative study of high-scoring and low-scoring case studies from REF2014
Writing impact case studies: a comparative study of high-scoring and low-scoring case studies from REF2014 Open
This paper reports on two studies that used qualitative thematic and quantitative linguistic analysis, respectively, to assess the content and language of the largest ever sample of graded research impact case studies, from the UK Research…
View article: The discursive construction of authenticity: The case of Jeremy Corbyn
The discursive construction of authenticity: The case of Jeremy Corbyn Open
In recent years there has been a yearning for a new, more authentic type of political leader: one who is more ‘true’, ‘real’ and ‘honest’. In this paper, we analyse the discourse through which Jeremy Corbyn was framed as an ‘authentic’ lea…
View article: Harold Garfinkel and ethnomethodology
Harold Garfinkel and ethnomethodology Open
This chapter explores the influence of Harold Garfinkel and the approach to studying social action known as ethnomethodology. The chapter explores the distinct approach to studying organizing ‘as it happens’ developed by ethnomethodologist…
View article: Accounting for the banking crisis: repertoires of agency and structure
Accounting for the banking crisis: repertoires of agency and structure Open
In this article, we conduct a discourse analysis of the testimony of the leaders of British banks during a UK public inquiry into the financial crisis. We examine the discursive devices that were used to handle the accountability of bankin…
View article: Metaphor, morality and legitimacy: A critical discourse analysis of the media framing of the payday loan industry
Metaphor, morality and legitimacy: A critical discourse analysis of the media framing of the payday loan industry Open
This study examines the metaphors used in the British press to characterize the payday loan industry in order to develop our understanding of organizational delegitimation. Drawing on critical discourse analysis and theories of moral panic…
View article: Payday loans in the press: a discourse-mythological analysis of British newspaper coverage of the payday loan industry
Payday loans in the press: a discourse-mythological analysis of British newspaper coverage of the payday loan industry Open
This paper analyses media coverage of payday loans in order to understand how a moral case for state intervention and regulation was constructed through forms of mythological storytelling. By analysing the archetypal qualities of media dis…
View article: The ‘Corbyn Phenomenon’: Media Representations of Authentic Leadership and the Discourse of Ethics Versus Effectiveness
The ‘Corbyn Phenomenon’: Media Representations of Authentic Leadership and the Discourse of Ethics Versus Effectiveness Open
Whilst the academic literature on leadership has identified authenticity as an important leadership attribute, few studies have examined how authentic leadership is evaluated in naturally occurring discourse. This article explores how auth…
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: Sensemaking, Sense-Censoring and Strategic Inaction: The Discursive Enactment of Power and Politics in a Multinational Corporation
Sensemaking, Sense-Censoring and Strategic Inaction: The Discursive Enactment of Power and Politics in a Multinational Corporation Open
In this paper we contribute to knowledge of power and politics in international business by developing the understanding of the role of discourse and sensemaking in the subsidiary–headquarters relationship. Based on an ethnographic action …
View article: The ‘Big Four’ in the spotlight: Accountability and professional legitimacy in the UK audit market: Table 1.
The ‘Big Four’ in the spotlight: Accountability and professional legitimacy in the UK audit market: Table 1. Open
This paper seeks to understand how professions are scrutinized, and attempt to justify themselves, in the light of apparent failure. We analyse the interaction between the heads of the Big Four—the four largest accounting firms—and the Hou…