The Local and the Grandiose : Method, Micro and Macro in Comparative Studies of Culture and Organizations

Professionalism and politics in management consultancy work

Beyond body-counting : A discussion of the social construction of gender

Critical Organization Theory

Interpretive unpacking : moderately destabilizing identities and images in organization studies

The paper reviews some basic themes in postmodernism and argues for a moderate incorporation of these themes in organization studies and methodology. This approach, named interpretive unpacking, takes issues of multiple and fluid meanings, ambiguities and fragmentation seriously without the a priori privileging of these qualities over assumptions of stable meanings and coherence in social phenomen

Organizational culture and discourse

Post-bureaucracy?

Bureaucracy at work: misunderstandings and mixed blessings

The future of critical management studies

Critical perspectives on strategic HRM

Understanding Ethical Closure in Organizational Settings – The Case of Media Organizations

Critical Methodology in Management and Organization Research

At-home ethnography: struggling with closeness and closure

Reflexivity

'Meritocracy' versus 'Sociocracy': Personnel Concepts and HR Themes in Two IT/Management Consulting Firms

Leaders as Saints : Leadership through Moral Peak Performance

Leadership and organizational culture

Identity work in consultancy projects: ambiguity and distribution of credit and blame

The consultancy industry — broadly defined — has boomed significantly over recent decades. A large and increasing proportion of the welleducated parts of the workforce are employed as management, IT and engineering consultants, communication advisors, etc. Large accounting firms employing hundred of thousands of employees also work with advice-giving on a consultancy (or consultancy-like) basis. S

Interviews

Does leadership create stupidity?