Does Planning Belong to the Politics of the Past? by Barbara Czarniawska

“…The analysis suggests that city politicians may find useful lessons in organization studies, revealing that while planning has a powerful comforting and tranquilizing function, plans, like tools, need to be abandoned when they are obsolete or cumbersome. …”
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A Content Analysis on Management Fashions in Turkish Manufacturing Companies by Özlem Yaşar Uğurlu, Nurettin İbrahimoğlu, Sibel Ayas

“… Recently many scholars have paid attention to the concept of management fashions as a new field in organization studies. This research aims to emphasize the awareness of organizations about management fashions and how strongly organizations adopt new management approaches. …”
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A Content Analysis on Management Fashions in Turkish Manufacturing Companies by Özlem Yaşar Uğurlu, Nurettin İbrahimoğlu, Sibel Ayas

“… Recently many scholars have paid attention to the concept of management fashions as a new field in organization studies. This research aims to emphasize the awareness of organizations about management fashions and how strongly organizations adopt new management approaches. …”
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Dancing Our Way Beyond Work: Playlists and Zines as Teaching Tools to Imagine a World Without Work by Marguerite van den Berg, Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar

“… For a Master’s course in Organization Studies, in which we addressed refusals of work, we asked students to suggest songs for a playlist to be assembled as the basis for the creation of a zine in a workshop setting. …”
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Three Neofunctionalist Conceptual Contributions to the Institutional Theory in Organizations by João Marcelo Crubellate

“…The most recent efforts in institutional theory applied to organization studies search for ways to overcome consequences of traditional dichotomies based on levels of analysis, social structures versus agency as source of practices, and so on. …”
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A Content Analysis on Management Fashions in Turkish Manufacturing Companies by Özlem Yaşar Uğurlu, Nurettin İbrahimoğlu, Sibel Ayas

“…Recently many scholars have paid attention to the concept of management fashions as a new field in organization studies. This research aims to emphasize the awareness of organizations about management fashions and how strongly organizations adopt new management approaches. …”
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Cooperação entre Programas de Pós-Graduação em Administração no Brasil: Evidências Estruturais em Quatro Áreas Temáticas by Luciano Rossoni, Edson Ronaldo Guarido Filho

“…This article analyzes the structures of cooperation among Brazilian business graduate programs in four areas: science and technology, strategy, public administration and organization studies. It departs from the assumption that different relational arrangements indicate various forms of organization, with consequences to the way knowledge is produced. …”
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NEOINSTITUTIONALISM AND THE APPROPRIATION OF BOURDIEU’S WORK: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT by Luis Claudio Mangi

“…This body of work had become a vital intellectual and ideological resource for those who wanted to confront the functionalist dominance in organization studies, such as structuration theory, labour process theory and neoinstitutionalist theory. …”
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Corporate storytelling and the idea of Latin America

“…In a continuation of critical perspectives that challenges the dominance of Anglo-Saxon onto-epistemologies in management and organization studies (MOS), we conducted an empirical study on a multinational airline company whose past successes depended on the North/South, Anglo/Latin American borderlands. …”
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Perseguindo a Maturidade nas Organizações. Dimensões Para o Desenvolvimento Humano Integral by Vitor Hugo Klein Jr

“…Maturity has been little addressed by organization studies. This is, however, a relevant issue, especially when considering the various criticisms against the manager profession on the harmful consequences of it to stakeholders and to society, as exemplified by scandals and systemic crises. …”
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WORKING AT THE CROSSROADS OF STRUCTURATIONIST AND DISCURSIVE APPROACHES: A METHODOLOGICAL TOOL FOR PRACTICE-BASED STUDIES by Marlei Pozzebon, Natalia Aguilar Delgado, Charo Rodriguez

“…In this paper we propose a methodological tool that seeks to contribute to the empirical study of practices in organization studies. There is a need for innovating and improving analytical tactics for theorizing about practice, particularly for helping connect localized social interactions to broader contexts. …”
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Negotiating the self between past and present: narratives of older women moving towards self-employment by Tomlinson, Frances, Colgan, Fiona

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Management, Organizations and Contemporary Social Theory / by Clegg, Stewart, editor, Cunha, Miguel Pina e, editor

A MacIntyrean account of chronic moral injury: Assessing the implications of bad management and marginalized practices at work by Lily M. Abadal, Garrett W. Potts

“…In this article, we engage with a theory of management advanced by MacIntyrean scholars of business ethics and organization studies to develop an account of “chronic moral injury” in the workplace. …”
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Learning from sociability-intensive organizations: An ethnographic study in a coffee organization by Letícia Fantinel, Eduardo Paes Barreto Davel

“…If sociability is broadly theorized and discussed in the Social Sciences, it is indirectly, fragmentally, and diffusely considered in Organization Studies. Our study aims to theorize on the centrality of sociability within organizations by developing the concept of sociability-intensive organization and by discussing its effects in terms of organizing and organizational space. …”
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Reflexivity in teaching and researching organizational studies by Ann L. Cunliffe

“…I believe that reflexivity is becoming an increasingly important resource in organization studies. Defined as questioning taken-for-granted assumptions, practices, policies, and so on, reflexivity offers a way of developing more critical and responsible approaches to our intellectual strategies and to practical activities within the academic and corporate world. …”
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Repensando Redes Estratégicas by Alexandre Faria

“…The political dispute with the field of organization studies (OS) for leadership in research and education in business administration in the US and the proliferation of schools of thought in the 1980s resulted in serious questioning of the relevance of the field of strategy. …”
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Corporate storytelling and the idea of Latin America by Mariana I. Paludi, Jean Helms Mills, Albert J. Mills

“…In a continuation of critical perspectives that challenges the dominance of Anglo-Saxon onto-epistemologies in management and organization studies (MOS), we conducted an empirical study on a multinational airline company whose past successes depended on the North/South, Anglo/Latin American borderlands. …”
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Technology's Invisible Women: Black Geek Girls in Silicon Valley and the Failure of Diversity Initiatives by France Winddance Twine

“…This qualitative study contributes to gender studies, racial studies, organization studies and network theory by providing an empirical case study of Black female technology workers in Silicon Valley. …”
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3D fluorescent in situ hybridization using Arabidopsis leaf cryosections and isolated nuclei by Biot Eric, Andrey Philippe, Tirichine Leïla, Maurin Yves, Gaudin Valérie

“…Indeed, preservation of nuclei 3D structure, which is required for nuclear organization studies, is difficult to fulfill.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We report a rapid protocol for fluorescent <it>in situ </it>hybridization (FISH) performed on 3D isolated nuclei and thin cryosectioned leaves of <it>Arabidopsis thaliana</it>. …”
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