Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Bringing Theories into Conversation to Strategize for a Better World
In this article, Ann Langley, Rikkie Albertsen, Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari, Katrin Heucher, Marc Krautzberger, Pauline Reinecke, Natalie Slawinski, and Eero Vaara reflect on the inspiration behind their research article, “Strategizing Together for a Better World: Institutional, Paradox and Practice Theories in Conversation,” found in the Journal of Management Inquiry.
Uncharted Waters: Researching Bereavement in the Workplace
To me, one of the most surprising things about bereavement is its complexity and that it can last far longer than expected. This is challenging to navigate at work where, unless it was a coworker’s death, no one else’s world has changed.
Organized Creativity: Creative Processes and Constraints
Creativity is often associated with freedom, but creatives like songwriters must work within constraints as well. Sociologist and musician Tobias Theel discusses constraints and the creative process in his reflection on “Organizing Creativity With Constraints—Insights From Popular Music Songwriting Teams,” which was written with Jörg Sydow and recently published in the Journal of Management Inquiry (JMI).
‘Optopia’ and the Politics of Hope
Having read Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry for the Future” and reflected on it in the context of the managerial literature around the climate crisis, we set out to imagine a middle ground between utopia and dystopia; an optimum scenario which can still leave us with a livable future.
Pushing the Boundaries: Studying the Boundaryless Creative Careers of Film Directors
Creative careers can differ quite a bit from the average 9-to-5 desk job, but only some go so far as to defy […]
This Year in Review: The Top 5 Management INK Posts from 2015
As the year comes to an end, we’d like to celebrate by taking a look back at some of the most popular […]
The January 2016 Issue of Journal of Management Inquiry is Now Online!
The January 2016 issue of Journal of Management Inquiry is now available and free to read for the next 30 days. This […]
An Interview With the Internationally Acclaimed Film Director Shekhar Kapur
We’re pleased to feature Journal of Management Inquiry‘s “Meet the Person.” Sonal Minocha, George Stonehouse and Martin Reynolds interviewed film director Shekhar […]
