This volume presents a critical analysis of sociological theorizing and power which enables
the reader to grasp fully the nature of power, rule and domination in organizational life. By …

Established methodologies of leadership research have placed unnecessary constraints
upon our capacity to examine creatively actual leadership practices and to generate fresh …

INTRODUCTION of equality, freedom and altruism deriving from the new French Republic.
At the same time technology was developing and the way that people produced things for …

This paper outlines some problems which emerged when I began to apply speech act theory
to the analysis of natural discourse. The sociolinguistic orientation of the research seeks to …

The term 'phenomenology'has become almost as over-used and emptied of meaning as that
other word from Continental Philosophy, namely 'existentialism'. Yet Husserl, who first put …

Examines recent developments in organization theory and considerstheir relevance for
personnel practitioners. Suggests that an importantcontribution of these developments has …

Dogma is an ever-present danger to reason and rationality. In times of climate emergency
and the dawn of a new geological era known as the Anthropocene, dogma becomes …

This Perspectives article delves into the archives of Organization Studies covering the
period 1986–2010 to advance and develop our thinking of politics and political thinking in …

This is a work of social theory and philosophy which seeks to make the constitution of social
theory a 'social'activity. It is essentially a collaborative text, by five authors, committed to a re …

It is generally acknowledged among today's semioticians that Canada has become over the
last decade one of the main centers of semiotic research in the world. The existence of a …