John Austin introduced the formulation 'performative utterance'in his 1962 book How to Do
Things with Words. This term and the related concept of performativity have subsequently …

In this paper, we review the development of critical management studies, point at problems
and explore possible developments. We begin by tracing out two previous waves of critical …

Transparency is an increasingly prominent area of research that offers valuable insights for
organizational studies. However, conceptualizations of transparency are rarely subject to …

This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of
social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society …

This book develops a new paradigm in the field of leadership studies, referred to as the
“leadership-as-practice”(LAP) movement. Its essence is its conception of leadership as …

Do things such as performance indicators, valuation formulas, consumer tests, stock prices
or financial contracts represent an external reality? Or do they rather constitute, in a …

Existing accounts of leadership are underpinned by two dominant approaches: functionalist
studies, which have tried to identify correlations between variables associated with …

How and to what extent practitioners use the scientific results of management studies is of
great concern to management scholars and has given rise to a considerable body of …

Critical diversity studies emerged in the mid-1990s as a reaction to the re-appropriation of
equal opportunities by business through the notion of diversity. They initially took issue with …

In this paper, we suggest a perspective within leadership research that has an analytical
focus on leadership as it is practiced in daily interaction, rather than on individual leaders …