Management learning and the unsettled humanities: Introduction to the special issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-143
Author(s):  
Rasmus Johnsen ◽  
Annika Skoglund ◽  
Matt Statler ◽  
William M Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Critical Inquiry ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Privileged Access ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Theoretical Issues

This special issue engages with the unsettling of the humanities to further explore its relevance for management learning and education. It explores how themes traditionally belonging to the humanities have spurred critical inquiry and raised theoretical issues within other disciplines, following the crisis of the classical humanist ideal as ‘the measure of all things’. It focuses on how the tensions resulting from this crisis can be constructively thematized in the field of management and organization studies, and how the unsettling of the humanities’ privileged access to studying the ‘especially human’ can be taken into the classroom. In this manner, the special issue engages with questions related to the Anthropocene, posthumanism and transhumanism, and raises issues concerning the human possibilities for knowing, learning and living in entangled ways. Additionally, it helps us understand the critical role of the humanities in making sense of the reciprocities between imagination, information and the human crafting of meaningful knowledge.

Life of a Nation's Text: The Travels and Travails of the Indian Constitution

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 707-718
Author(s):  
Ronojoy Sen
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Indian Constitution ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Landmark Study

This review essay briefly discusses Granville Austin's landmark study of the working of the Indian Constitution and its critics, reviews three recent books on that Constitution, and evaluates the extent to which these new works have been able to take constitutional studies in new directions. All three books shine a light on the critical role of the Constitution and the courts in Indian democracy. While the authors are well aware of contemporary challenges to constitutionalism and have written on them elsewhere, this does not fully come through in their books. Despite this shortcoming, these recent studies are indispensable in making sense of the Constitution and its role in Indian democracy.

INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE: DYNAMIC MACROECONOMIC THEORY

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
HENRIK JENSEN ◽  
PETER NORMAN SØRENSEN ◽  
HANS JØRGEN WHITTA-JACOBSEN
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Business Cycles ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Macroeconomic Theory ◽  
Monetary Stability ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Hard Constraints ◽  
Theoretical Issues

This issue collects 11 articles at the frontier of the field of Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory.A majority of the articles discuss theoretical issues related to monetary policy. Many rich economies have now enjoyed a long period of stable monetary conditions, but many researchers remain puzzled as to what are the main mechanisms driving monetary stability. The field is of great importance to policymakers, and this issue's dynamic approaches will advance the debate. The other articles touch on other, equally inherently dynamic issues of macroeconomics, relating to growth, business cycles, and the role of credit. In light of the hard constraints we imposed on the length of the contributed articles, we will let the articles speak for themselves, and hope that the reader will enjoy this research sample as much as we do.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Understanding the Direct Support Workforce in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-191
Author(s):  
Carol B. Laws ◽  
Amy S. Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Full Inclusion ◽  
Direct Support ◽  
Direct Support Professionals ◽  
Increasing Demand

Abstract This special issue on the direct support workforce highlights the critical role of the direct support workforce in the quality of life of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in the United States. Although there is increasing demand for this workforce, challenges in the recruitment, training, and retention of direct support professionals (DSPs) threatens the safety, health, and full inclusion of people with IDD living in the community. This special issue brings to the forefront current research to understand this workforce and their importance and to consider strategies to address the complex challenges facing DSPs so that people with disabilities can live and thrive in their communities.

scholarly journals Seeing and sensing the railways: A phenomenological view on practice-based learning

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thijs Willems
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
Control Room ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Phenomenological View ◽  
Knowledge In Practice

This article explores the role of embodied, sensible knowledge in practice-based learning. Despite recent efforts to conceptualize how practitioners become skillful through corporeal and sensible learning, it still seems under-theorized and hard to understand what this exactly entails. The aim of this article is to account for the inherently embodied and sensible nature of knowledge by drawing on a 2-year ethnographic study of train dispatchers in a railway control room. Embodied and sensible knowledge is developed through the work of Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, as phenomenology is a way to theorize the body beyond being an object to, instead, account for embodiment as lived and experienced. The data show that such knowledge can be understood as a matter of ‘attunement’: dispatchers become progressively skillful in bringing their bodies and senses in tune with practical situations and perturbations in the environment. The article contributes to a richer understanding of embodiment, especially in the relation between knowledge and practices, in organization studies and management learning.

Leadership in Counseling Psychology: Introduction to the Special Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 742-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth E. Fassinger ◽  
Lydia P. Buki ◽  
Sandra L. Shullman
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Future Work ◽  
And Training ◽  
Scholarly Inquiry ◽  
Training Practice

In this article, we introduce a special two-part issue of The Counseling Psychologist focused on leadership in counseling psychology. Despite the critical role of leadership in the field’s development, current status, and future possibilities, the topic has received little attention as a focus of scholarly inquiry within counseling psychology. We first present a context and rationale for the creation of this special issue, noting the timeliness of this topic within psychology and in society more broadly. Next, we introduce the articles that comprise this two-part special issue as well as two closely related articles contained in the August issue. A brief concluding article at the end this two-part special issue will (a) review the scholarship presented, (b) discuss its relevance, and (c) consider implications and directions for future work in the areas of research, education and training, practice, advocacy, and social justice.

Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Making Sense of Organizing: in Honor of Karl Weick’

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 1573-1578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe ◽  
Andrew D. Brown ◽  
Linda L. Putnam
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Karl Weick ◽  
Final Essay

This collection of essays arose from a call for papers issued by Organization Studies in 2004 to celebrate and critically engage the scholarship of Karl Weick; to carry forward his thinking into new contexts and take stock of recent developments in the themes, issues and theories that have preoccupied Weick in his more than 40 years of scholarship. The first seven papers included here accomplish these objectives. In the final essay, in response to our request, Weick himself reflects on continuing themes in his work and major influences on his scholarship.

scholarly journals The Security Council in practice: Haiti, cholera, and the elected members of the United Nations Security Council

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Freedman ◽  
Nicolas Lemay-Hébert
Keyword(s):  
Security Council ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cholera Outbreak ◽  
Privileged Access ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do The Right Thing

AbstractWhile the cholera outbreak in Haiti still claims victims every month, it is also the backdrop of one of the biggest legal battles the UN has been engaged in – one for the recognition of harm caused and for reparations for victims of cholera. Having used its immunity to disengage from the issue, the UN finally changed its stance in December 2016 and apologized for the organization’s role in the cholera outbreak. This article analyses the role of the elected members of the Security Council – alongside other key stakeholders – in contributing to the UN’s change of policy. Based on privileged access to a number of actors in this politico-legal fight, this article argues that elected members of the Security Council have played a crucial role in pushing the UN to ‘do the right thing’. This article, along with other contributions to this special issue, sheds a different light on the practices inside the Security Council, demonstrating that elected members are far from being powerless, as most of the literature on the subject tends to assume. They can successfully play a significant role inside the organization when the right conditions permit them to play this role.

History as Organizing: Uses of the Past in Organization Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (12) ◽  
pp. 1663-1683 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Daniel Wadhwani ◽  
Roy Suddaby ◽  
Mads Mordhorst ◽  
Andrew Popp
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Temporal Form ◽  
Intellectual Origins ◽  
Rational Knowledge ◽  
Research Frontiers

Research on the “uses of the past” in organizations and organizing is flourishing. This introduction reviews this approach to integrating history into organization studies and explores its paths forward. We begin by examining the intellectual origins of the approach and by defining why and how it matters to the study of management and organizations. Specifically, we emphasize the performative role of history in making and unmaking organizational orders. Next, we elaborate on how the articles in the special issue demonstrate the uses of the past in shaping organizational identity, strategy, and power. We also highlight how this work contributes to our understanding of the socially embedded character of history in organizations by accounting for the role of materiality, intertextuality, competing narratives, practices, and audiences in how the past is used. We conclude by considering four research frontiers particularly worthy of further exploration—the influence of temporal form, the role of non-rational knowledge, the range of methods, and the integration of ethics—in studies of the uses of the past in organizations.

scholarly journals Politicization and political contests in and around contemporary multinational corporations: An introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 745-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Clegg ◽  
Mike Geppert ◽  
Graham Hollinshead
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
International Business ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Political Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Corporate Social

This article looks at core arguments in international business, organization studies and surrounding academic fields that focus on the study of politicization and political contests in and around multinational corporations (MNCs). Two evident streams of debate are identified. Equally evident is that these streams hardly connect. One stream is mainly interested in studying politicization from the outside, whereas the other is mainly interested in politicization from within. As a way of connecting both streams, we introduce the circuits of power framework. Next, we introduce the contributions of our Special Issue, followed by concluding comments which distinguish five emergent themes. First, we show how the application of the circuits of power framework sheds new light on the study of political contests of MNCs. Second, we highlight that the role of nation states has not lost its significance as, for example, political corporate social responsibility (CSR) approaches would have us believe. Third, dominant ideologies play an important role in establishing and controlling circuits of power in and around MNCs. Fourth, it is vital to take labour issues into account in this field of study. Fifth, there is increasing evidence that asymmetric and hierarchical forms of organizing do not disappear in new MNC network forms.

scholarly journals Research From the Global South: The important role of context in international research activities

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-235
Author(s):  
Katie Bryant
Keyword(s):  
International Research ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
African Continent ◽  
African Region ◽  
The Past ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Global North ◽  
North And South

Researchers from various disciplines have become interested in the supposedly extreme differences in rates of research between academics situated in the Global North and South, specifically those on the African continent. Yet, having worked as a researcher and a writing coach in the context of one university in the southern African region for the past three years, I cannot identify with many of the explanations given for these differences in rates. So, by reflecting on two instances emerging from my own experiences as a researcher in this particular context, this Note from the Field discusses the important and critical role context needs to have in making sense of this phenomenon.

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