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View article: Atlas Unplugged: Re‐Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society
Atlas Unplugged: Re‐Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society Open
Atlas Shrugged , Ayn Rand’s dystopian work of fiction, became a cornerstone of libertarian philosophy and its influence continues as an articulation of contemporary capitalism. In introducing this Special Issue, we revisit its core assumpt…
View article: Expert Memories: The Professional Construction of the Past and the Mnemonic Making of Occupations
Expert Memories: The Professional Construction of the Past and the Mnemonic Making of Occupations Open
This article introduces the special issue on occupations and memory in organizations. To foster increasing collaboration from scholars from both fields, we offer a general argument connecting memory and occupations on two levels. At the so…
View article: Rediscovering Craft in Organization Studies: Perspectives and pathways
Rediscovering Craft in Organization Studies: Perspectives and pathways Open
While craft has long lived in the margins of organizational research, mostly as a context for advancing more general theories, it has recently become the object of dedicated study and theorization. In this Introduction, we first highlight …
View article: Grand Challenges and the Rhetoric of Collective Action
Grand Challenges and the Rhetoric of Collective Action Open
This Special Issue investigates how rhetoric mobilizes collective action to address grand challenges. While management research has acknowledged the need for collective action in confronting these issues, the role of rhetoric remains under…
View article: What Theory Is, What Theory Was: Whence and Whither Theory
What Theory Is, What Theory Was: Whence and Whither Theory Open
This essay offers a critique of Gabriel Abend’s call for more action and less abstraction in social theory. The critique questions Abend’s insistence on pragmatic presentism—research that can be used tomorrow—and his implicit rejection of …
View article: Articulating scholarship in human resource management: Guidance for researchers
Articulating scholarship in human resource management: Guidance for researchers Open
HRMJ is a business and management journal: we seek to publish excellent work that deals not simply with people and organisations, but with the management of people and the issues and tensions around the latter. As such, the journal is broa…
View article: Issue Information ‐ TOC
Issue Information ‐ TOC Open
Strategic Change was established in 1992 and is an
View article: Issue Information ‐ TOC
Issue Information ‐ TOC Open
Strategic Change was established in 1992 and is an
View article: Multi‐Temporality and the Ghostly: How Communing with Times Past Informs Organizational Futures
Multi‐Temporality and the Ghostly: How Communing with Times Past Informs Organizational Futures Open
Despite growing interest in time, history, and memory, we lack an understanding of the multi‐temporal reality of organizations – how past, present, and future intersect to inform organizational life. In assuming that legacies are bequeathe…
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Issue Information ‐ TOC Open
Change publishes peer reviewed original papers, empirical, conceptual and review, with a spirit to be concise and providing scholarly contributions that advance theory on pressing
View article: Corporate Purpose: A Social Judgement Perspective
Corporate Purpose: A Social Judgement Perspective Open
We apply the lens of social judgement theory to understand the causes and consequences of the growing debate about the purpose of the corporation. Our historical analysis suggests that the debate about corporate purpose is not new and that…
View article: When Time Falls Apart: Re-centring human time in organisations through the lived experience of waiting
When Time Falls Apart: Re-centring human time in organisations through the lived experience of waiting Open
Research on the lived experience of organisational temporalities has thus far overlooked the potential significance of what happens in the interstices that arise between temporal structures. To address this gap, we examined how individuals…
View article: Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities
Media Review: Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities Open
Ronald L. Jepperson and John W. Meyer. Institutional Theory: The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States and Identities. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
View article: Multi-temporality and the Ghostly: Capturing the Spirit of Time Past and Yet to Come?
Multi-temporality and the Ghostly: Capturing the Spirit of Time Past and Yet to Come? Open
Despite growing scholarly interest in time, history, and memory, we lack an understanding of the multi-temporal reality of organizations – how past, present, and future intersect to inform the lived experience of organizing. The lexicon of…
View article: Institutional biography and the institutionalization of a new organizational template: Building the global branded hotel chain
Institutional biography and the institutionalization of a new organizational template: Building the global branded hotel chain Open
This article expands understanding of how institutional biography informs institutional change by examining Conrad Hilton’s role in building the global branded hotel chain (1946–1969). We show how an individual’s institutional biography ca…
View article: Temporal Work: The Strategic Organization of Time
Temporal Work: The Strategic Organization of Time Open
Time and temporality are central to strategy and strategic management. Yet, relatively little attention has been paid to what organizational members do to shape temporal phenomena that are important for strategic outcomes. In this essay, w…
View article: Entrepreneurial Visions as Rhetorical History: A Diegetic Narrative Model of Stakeholder Enrollment
Entrepreneurial Visions as Rhetorical History: A Diegetic Narrative Model of Stakeholder Enrollment Open
Research suggests that entrepreneurs persuade stakeholders to engage in risky projects in an uncertain future through visions, compelling narratives of the future. A unique challenge for entrepreneurs, however, is how entrepreneurs can con…
View article: Configurations of Craft: Alternative Models for Organizing Work
Configurations of Craft: Alternative Models for Organizing Work Open
The concept of craft has long lived in the margins of organizational research and has typically been equated with a primitive form of manufacturing. Craft, however, seems to have had a resurgence as of late, and is now increasingly being a…
View article: Historical organization studies
Historical organization studies Open
His research focuses on the historical processes that inform contemporary business practice, entrepreneurial philanthropy, and the exercise of
View article: Mapping the emerging field of responsible management: domains, spheres, themes, and future research
Mapping the emerging field of responsible management: domains, spheres, themes, and future research Open
Since responsible management originally appeared on the agenda of management researchers in the early twentieth century, the research field of responsible management has gone through an extended period of labor. It has not been, however, u…
View article: What are We Explaining? A Review and Agenda on Initiating, Engaging, Performing, and Contextualizing Entrepreneurship
What are We Explaining? A Review and Agenda on Initiating, Engaging, Performing, and Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Open
Entrepreneurship is multifaceted. The purpose of this review is to acknowledge and critically assess the many and varied dependent variables (DVs) of entrepreneurship over the last 17 years. By focusing exclusively on systematically review…
View article: Objectivity and Truth: The Role of the Essay in Management Scholarship
Objectivity and Truth: The Role of the Essay in Management Scholarship Open
JMS Says was introduced at a symposium of the 2015 Academy of Management. During that session an audience member asked how business-school deans might evaluate the publication of an essay. The implication of the question was clear. Busines…
View article: What We Talk About When We Talk About Inequality: An Introduction to the <i>Journal of Management Studies</i> Special Issue
What We Talk About When We Talk About Inequality: An Introduction to the <i>Journal of Management Studies</i> Special Issue Open
This introduction to the Journal of Management Studies Special Issue on Inequality argues that the way we frame conversations about inequality reveals important information about how poverty and inequality have become institutionalized in …
View article: Organizational Fields as Mnemonic Communities
Organizational Fields as Mnemonic Communities Open
The organizational field has become an influential construct in management theory. Despite its prominence, the construct has defied precise definition. Most definitions emphasize either structural elements of fields (fields as place) or th…
View article: On the Spatiality of Institutions and Knowledge
On the Spatiality of Institutions and Knowledge Open
The relationship between geography and the creation, use, and reproduction of knowledge has been at the core of this book series. The previous twelve volumes have focused, among other topics, on the role that creativity, culture, power, ne…