Critical management studies (CMS) offers a range of alternatives to mainstream
management theory with a view to radically transforming management practice. The …

Sensemaking is tested to the extreme when people encounter an event whose occurrence is
so implausible that they hesitate to report it for fear they will not be believed. In essence …

Sensemaking involves turning circumstances into a situation that is comprehended explicitly
in words and that serves as a springboard into action. In this paper we take the position that …

Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the
previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional …

Discourse Analysis: Investigating Processes of Social Construction is the first book to
provide a concise, straightforward guide for students and researchers who are interested in …

It is increasingly recognized that what makes a theory interesting and influential is that it
challenges our assumptions in some significant way. However, established ways for arriving …

We examine the growing disconnect between the process‐oriented conception of
entrepreneurship taught in the classroom and theorized about in premier journals and the …

1970s and beginning of the 1980s (for example, Benson 1977; Burrell and Morgan 1979;
Frost 1980; Deetz and Kersten 1983; Fischer and Sirianni 1984) and postmodernism …

Without question, the study of leadership has a long and rich history within the
organizational sciences despite varying attitudes toward the topic. 1 For example …

Organization studies has recently been captured by a cultural, linguistic, poststructural or
postmodern turn, the impetus for which has come from the ontological turn from a (naive) …