Field theory was central to K urt L ewin's work yet, after his death, interest in it declined
significantly until the 1990s when a variant, force field analysis, became widely used. This …

The field of visual research in management studies is developing rapidly and has reached a
point of maturity where it is useful to bring together and evaluate existing work in this area …

Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period, Critical
Discourse Analysis represents a comprehensive and important contribution to the …

Hybrid organizations combine institutional logics in their efforts to generate innovative
solutions to complex problems. They face unintended consequences of that institutional …

Theory and research concerning organizational identity (“who we are as an organization”) is
a burgeoning domain within organization study. A great deal of conceptual and empirical …

Process studies focus attention on how and why things emerge, develop, grow, or terminate
over time. We identify various ontological assumptions underlying process research, explore …

As we demonstrate in this book, there is a widely felt shortage of interesting and novel ideas
in social science. Much contemporary research is perceived to lack imagination and to offer …

Various bodies of literature attest to how crises significantly damage the way people relate
with one another—damage that lasts long past the cessation of those crises. Such relational …

Organizational interventions are often recommended when organizations want to improve
employee psychological health and well-being. Research, however, has revealed …

Drawing on symbolic interactionism, we propose a process model for the creation and
recreation of routines. Our model extends the performative perspective by exploring how …