From organizational learning to organizational mnemonics: Redrawing the boundaries of the field

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego M Coraiola ◽  
Maria Jose Murcia
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Balanced Approach ◽  
The Future ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

In this article, we advocate for a more balanced approach to the study of the past in management and organization studies. We define organizational mnemonics as a broader field of inquiry focused on theorizing the past as an integral part of organizational life, including three major epistemic communities—that is, functionalist, interpretive, and critical. We contend that much of organizational mnemonics research has been dominated by functionalism, at the expense of other approaches. To remediate this situation, we first characterize organizational mnemonics’ core epistemic communities. Second, we look at the boundary work at the interstices of these communities to explore possibilities of dialogue among them. We argue that the future of the study of the past in organizations should acknowledge different perspectives, the intersections among them, and make a conscientious effort to maintain diversity of scholarship in the field.

Complexity and Organizational Learning

2012 ◽  
pp. 89-117
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Extensive Literature Search

Complexity is omnipresent in all aspects of organizational life, and leadership today and in the future must be achieved in face of such complexity. Leaders are here given an in-depth overview of the causative relevance of the competitive way in which business is conducted today versus the past, and the importance of personal and organizational learning for successfully addressing the classes of problems that typically occur. Insights from an extensive literature search are combined with practical experience to identify the important guidance that theory and practice can provide to a leader in successfully carrying out his/her role, including how to apply content from other chapters. The leadership approach to complexity that is outlined here is founded on learning to achieve results through experimentation, learning, and reflection; a case study is presented that illustrates application of this approach.

scholarly journals The possible as a field of inquiry

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vlad Petre Glăveanu
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Counterfactual Thinking ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Field Of Inquiry ◽  
Made In

In this editorial I introduce the possible as an emerging field of inquiry in psychology and related disciplines. Over the past decades, significant advances have been made in connected areas – counterfactual thinking, anticipation, prospection, imagination and creativity, etc. – and several calls have been formulated in the social sciences to study human beings and societies as systems that are open to possibility and to the future. However, engaging with the possible, in the sense of both becoming aware of it and actively exploring it, represents a subject in need of further theoretical elaboration. In this paper, I review several existing approaches to the possible before briefly outlining a new, sociocultural account. While the former are focused on cognitive processes and uphold the old dichotomy between the possible and the actual or real, the latter grows out of a social ontology grounded in notions of difference, positions, perspectives, reflexivity, and dialogue. In the end, I argue that a better understanding of the possible can help us cultivate it in both mind and society.

De Profundus: Adumbrative Reflections?

Leonardo ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-238
Author(s):  
Richard Kade
Keyword(s):  
Fine Art ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
Flat Sheet ◽  
The Future ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

Leonardo was a man who designed war engines. He also anatomized, stripped The flesh from the body And saw the soul; made perspective From a flat sheet flex Round as a moving limb. Transmuted the past to the future In a credible flying device. He inspired a journal's creation over four centuries later; A journal of fine art that grips The same universe as Leonardo And fills it with vigor. That covers the whole field of inquiry made possible with Modern scientific techniques. The art is new. The journal is Leonardo. Subscription is a solid chunk of man's future.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL UNIVERSALITY OF MEMORY AND OBLIVION CATEGORIES IN LITERATURE

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
Valerii Bren
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Balanced Approach ◽  
The Future ◽  
Individual Memory

This research is devoted to the concepts of memory and oblivion in terms of the universality of these categories for literature, and their interdisciplinary in history, culturology, and sociology. The theoretical basis for analysis in the artistic text is shown on the example of Ukrainian and foreign researchers, specified and illustrated manifestations in the Ukrainian novels by Y. Andrukhovych, O. Zabuzhko, S. Zhadan, O. Irvanetz, etc. Literature is the centre of individual and national cultural memory and a means of creating of it. However, it becomes a platform for social discourse of memory, as well as the preservation of individual memory as a genetic key in the text. Consequently, modern literary studies require a well-balanced approach and analysis of the ways, means, methods, and forms of its functioning in contemporary art. Such approach will enable an understanding of the past experience, as well as assessments of contemporary imprints of events in the future, on a qualitatively new level.

scholarly journals Visibly different from the academic norm

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 476-487
Author(s):  
Patricia Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Joint Work ◽  
Organizational Processes ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Individual

Purpose Professor Ruth Simpson has been a key contributor to the field of gender and organization studies (GOS) over the past 25 years. She has influenced debates on women in management, the gender of management education, masculinity and management and the “doing” of gender in organizational life. In this paper i review our joint work – informed by a poststructuralist feminist perspective – which considers the complex struggles around normativity in relation to management and entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach This review is based on a consideration of four pieces of work completed between 2005 and 2012, including (Simpson and Lewis, 2005, 2007) and (Lewis and Simpson, 2010, 2012). Findings Drawing on the concepts of voice and visibility, the research examines how the ability to exemplify the norm in relation to management and entrepreneurship must be constantly secured and how processes of inclusion and exclusion in relation to the norm are characterised by relentless agitation and turmoil. Originality/value We (Ruth and Patricia) developed the conceptual framework of the (In)visibility vortex as a means of connecting the individual to organizational processes, discourses and cultural norms

Responsible Corporate Behaviors

2018 ◽  
pp. 1348-1367
Author(s):  
Basak Ucanok Tan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

The aim of this chapter is to outline the growing interest on corporate responsibility, how it has evolved and transpired itself in the form of CSR. In this respect the chapter begins by reviewing the definitions of corporate responsibility and emphasizing its difference from related concepts. In the following section major cornerstones in the evolution of corporate responsibility are explained along with a brief outlook of how the modern approaches to corporate responsibility have changed in the past 30 years. The main focus of the chapter is on factors that shape corporate responsibility. In this respect attention is directed to four perspectives used in organization studies; economic, institutional, cultural and cognitive. Theoretical underpinnings, empirical research and examples are provided for the drivers of corporate responsibility. The chapter demonstrates benefits of integrating multiple perspectives and discusses directions for the future of corporate responsibility.

Responsible Corporate Behaviors

2017 ◽  
pp. 17-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Basak Ucanok Tan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

The aim of this chapter is to outline the growing interest on corporate responsibility, how it has evolved and transpired itself in the form of CSR. In this respect the chapter begins by reviewing the definitions of corporate responsibility and emphasizing its difference from related concepts. In the following section major cornerstones in the evolution of corporate responsibility are explained along with a brief outlook of how the modern approaches to corporate responsibility have changed in the past 30 years. The main focus of the chapter is on factors that shape corporate responsibility. In this respect attention is directed to four perspectives used in organization studies; economic, institutional, cultural and cognitive. Theoretical underpinnings, empirical research and examples are provided for the drivers of corporate responsibility. The chapter demonstrates benefits of integrating multiple perspectives and discusses directions for the future of corporate responsibility.

The Learning Organization

2014 ◽  
pp. 183-198
Author(s):  
Deborah Keller
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Learning Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
After Action Review ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level

The practice of using reviews of past events as (often expensive) investments in learning for the future pays off. Why don't all organizations use the practice as a matter of course? The chapter explores how barriers are similar to all other barriers to successful knowledge management and include such obvious elements as high level ownership and a culture of valuing the learning every employee can contribute to the organization's future. A key element is the organizational will to learn from what happened in the past. The After Action Review is used to illustrate a model for organizational learning.

Max Weber Past, Present, and Future

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Edith Hanke ◽  
Lawrence Scaff ◽  
Sam Whimster
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Global Modernity ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

Max Weber is one of the most important social theorists of the past century. His legacy includes a distinctive approach to inquiry and engagement with political and cultural issues. The Weberian perspective can be understood as both a “paradigm” for analyzing social phenomena and a specification of categories defining the field of inquiry, such as economy, power, stratification, religion, law, culture, and science. The handbook presents chapters exploring each of these substantive topics, demonstrating the application of Weberian concepts and ideas to contemporary problems. The future promises a worldwide diffusion of Weber’s ideas, addressed especially to the challenges of global modernity. The introductory chapter concludes with a detailed chronology of Weber’s life.

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