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View article: The Wicked World of Marketing Management
The Wicked World of Marketing Management Open
This paper reports some of the central findings of an extensive ethnographic study of a team of senior marketing managers in the UK subsidiary of a major multi-national supplier of branded consumer goods. It responds to repeated calls for …
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: Enacting emotional labour in consultancy work: Playing with liminality and navigating power dynamics
Enacting emotional labour in consultancy work: Playing with liminality and navigating power dynamics Open
While theoretical understanding of professional emotional labour has developed in recent years, methodological issues with capturing its practice mean that understanding of how professional emotional labour is enacted remains relatively li…
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 …