Although there is wide recognition of the importance of entrepreneurship for generating
societal impact, entrepreneurial activities alone rarely achieve a positive impact without the …

Rhetorical history has emerged as a useful theoretical construct that bridges the long
recognized gap between historical and organizational scholarship. Despite its growing …

In this essay, we discuss how tables can be used to ensure—and reassure about—
trustworthiness in qualitative research. We posit that in qualitative research, tables help not …

Researchers can expect to perform analytic actions repeatedly; that this iteration is required
is a common observation. Yet, how researchers engage in iteration to progress their …

This article, together with a companion video, provides a synthesized summary of a
Showcase Symposium held at the 2016 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in which …

Sensemaking is the process through which people work to understand issues or events that
are novel, ambiguous, confusing, or in some other way violate expectations. As an activity …

'Sensemaking'is an extraordinarily influential perspective with a substantial following among
management and organization scholars interested in how people appropriate and enact …

The concept of authenticity informs a number of central topics in management studies. On
the surface, it might seem that a consensus exists about its meaning; there is indeed …

In this paper I argue that, rather than theory development aim at simplifying complex
organizational phenomena, it should aim at complexifying theories–theoretical complexity is …

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 …