Speaking truth to power: The academic as jester stimulating management learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 135050762110380
Author(s):  
Stewart Clegg ◽  
Miguel Pina e Cunha ◽  
Arménio Rego ◽  
Marco Berti
Keyword(s):  
Academic Work ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Speaking Truth To Power

The jester embodies an ancient social institution, which serves a paradoxical purpose: to mitigate the excesses of power, while serving and supporting the ruler through a license to jest. The metaphor of the jester, used constructively, offers a unique window on the contradictions of organizational studies and their paradoxical role in relation to corporate practices. We explore how jesting may inform academic work through using humour and laughter to deconstruct organizational taboos and convey truth to power. We suggest that academic jesting constitute a wise and undervalued way in which management learning can occur.

scholarly journals Developing historical consciousness in management learners

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin D Tennent ◽  
Alex G Gillett ◽  
William M Foster
Keyword(s):  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Critical Management ◽  
Management Students

This article argues and advocates strategies for the development of historical consciousness to stimulate both first- and second-order critical reflexivity in management students with the goal of creating critical management learners. The historic turn in management and organizational studies has demonstrated that history is not the same as the past. This understanding has had implications for many areas of investigation but has not been felt as significantly as it might be in management learning and education. To make our argument, we discuss how archives can be used to stimulate the process of historical consciousness in management learners and we provide an illustrative example of how this can be done, together with a checklist to aid instructors in facilitating student use of archival material.

scholarly journals Minding less: Exploring mindfulness and mindlessness in organizations through Skillful Means

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 578-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mai Chi Vu ◽  
Rachel Wolfgramm ◽  
Chellie Spiller
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Level ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Balanced Approach ◽  
Emotional Display ◽  
Mindfulness Practices ◽  
Important Notion ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Skillful Means

Mindfulness has received increased attention in organizational studies. Yet we ask, is mindfulness necessary, indeed achievable, in every “moment” and every context? Mindfulness as co-opted by organizations is often considered a positive and helpful state, while little attention is paid to the important notion of mindlessness. Our comprehensive exploratory review of mindfulness and mindlessness highlights theoretical debates and responds to calls for a more balanced approach to mindlessness and mindfulness. In addition, it highlights practical implications to management learning by introducing Eastern Buddhist principles of non-attachment, practiced through the key concept of Skillful Means. A distinctive contribution of this article is a Five-Fold Framework detailing five aspects of a skillful mindful and mindless approach: context-flexibility, managerial emotional display, managerial learning under complex situations and dilemmas, transferring mindfulness practices from individual to organizational level, and context-sensitive research.

scholarly journals Non-naïve organizational positivity through a generative paradox pedagogy

2021 ◽  
pp. 135050762110452
Author(s):  
Miguel Pina e Cunha ◽  
Ace Volkmann Simpson ◽  
Arménio Rego ◽  
Stewart Clegg
Keyword(s):  
Positive Organizational Scholarship ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Organizational Processes ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Organizational Paradox ◽  
Organizational Scholarship

Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS), with positivity as a core conceptual component, is a major innovation in recent decades in management and organizational studies. Just as organization is an inherently paradox laden process, so too, we argue, is positivity. Yet in classrooms and in practice, POS is mostly taught in a manner that accepts only one side of the paradox, that which, at first glance, appears positive. Against such linear approaches we propose another possibility: teaching positivity through a pedagogy of generative paradoxes emergent from creatively harmonizing the energy of competing and interdependent positive and negative tensions. In the process we extend the notion of generative paradox as discussed in paradox literature by embracing the notion of generativity as discussed in POS theorizing where it is associated with organizational processes that facilitate outcomes of collective flourishing, abundance, wellbeing, and virtue. Our proposed three-part generative paradox pedagogy contributes to the literature on POS, organizational paradox, and management learning.

I. The Historiographical Issues

1987 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Keyword(s):  
Academic Work ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Literature And Society ◽  
Single Person ◽  
The World ◽  
Value Judgements ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Moment

The sheer quantity of academic work since the war concerning itself with slavery in the Greek and Roman world reflects the subject’s continuing fascination. It makes it impossible for any single person to be aware of all the particular trends in research around the world at the moment, and it makes it necessary for this survey to be very selective in its references to recent studies of particular aspects of the subject.Many scholars have considered slavery the key to an understanding of what life in the ancient world was like. Needless to say, they have approached it from the standpoint of their own most fundamental preconceptions and value-judgements; and since these basic ‘ideological’ concerns differ from scholar to scholar, their application to as major a social institution as slavery has made this more controversial a subject than any other in the study of ancient literature and society.

From Craft to Institution: Accounting in Italy from the Middle ages to the Early Modern Period

2012 ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Volkova
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Medieval Italy ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Professional Field

The article describes the evolution of accounting from the simple registration technique to economic and social institution in medieval Italy. We used methods of institutional analysis and historical research. It is shown that the institutionalization of accounting had been completed by the XIV century, when it became a system of codified technical standards, scholar discipline and a professional field. We examine the interrelations of this process with business environment, political, social, economic and cultural factors of Italy by the XII—XVI centuries. Stages of institutionalization are outlined.

Due To Sell Off Power Of Legal Documents Are Made In Making Act Commerce Land And Buildings By Notary

Jurnal Akta ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 777
Author(s):  
Paulus Meldif Dika Pratama ◽  
Gunarto Gunarto
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Justice Theory ◽  
Certificate Authority ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Legal Consequences ◽  
Made In

The purpose of this study was to analyze the legal consequences of the agreement of power sell off made in the manufacture of an agreement of sale by Notary. Legal theory used in this study, among others: justice theory, the theory of authority and responsibility theory. The approach used in this study is primarily sociological juridical approach. Sociological juridical approach is to identify and conceptualize law as a social institution that is real and functional in a real life system. The results of this study finally provides the answer that the certificate authority to sell off which made the authorizer to the Proxy should still be subject to and required for payment of taxes from the sale of land and / or buildings that have been sold such, it thus obliged Notary socialize at the time the parties face because it is concerned responsibility by agreement authorized to sell he made in the manufacture of an agreement of sale in accordance with the provisions stipulated in the Indonesian Government Regulation No. 36 of 2016 regarding Income Tax on Income From the Transfer of Rights to Land and / or Buildings, And Agreements sale and purchase Land And / Or Building Along with its amendment.Keywords: Certificate Authority To Sell; Agreement Of Sale; Notary.

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