abstract Organizational research has long focused on the instrumental sphere with its
questions of efficiency and effectiveness and in recent decades there has been interest in …

Recent management research imports rhetorical scholarship into the study of organizations.
Although this cross-disciplinarity is heuristically promising, it presents significant challenges …

Most attempts to model the process of organizational learning (OL) are based on large
organizations. This article represents an attempt to better understand the unique learning …

Cet article fait un tour d'horizon de la littérature anglo-saxonne des dernières décennies
traitant de l'analyse narrative des organisations. Les diverses contributions y sont …

Scenario planning has become a widely used strategic management approach for
understanding future environmental uncertainty. Despite its increasing popularity in …

ABSTRACT A key attribute of reflective practice is its capacity for on-going purposeful
learning in relation to changing and demanding professional work. The teaching of reflective …

This paper examines how management researchers rhetorically construct the theoretical
purpose and contribution of qualitative studies. By means of a rhetorical analysis of …

This study looks at a large Australian university at a time of reform in the higher education
sector to examine how the identities of individuals working within the university, as well as …

In today's rapidly changing world, new social and human service problems emerge
constantly, and in order to make good use of resources that are often limited, social service …

Extended narrative sensemaking consists of (a) agents generating actionable stories when
faced with unexpected situations to which they need to respond in real time, and (b) …