“My intention is to explore what happens when an organization’s bathroom becomes the locus of heated debate and cynical resignation. In contrast to viewing this rarely studied space as irrelevant to culture and identity, I argue that addressing such a space as culturally important has strong implications for understanding how authorship is constituted in organizations.“ […]
Tag: management
The benefits of management short sightedness [new study]
High-level decision-makers within a company often behave in a short-sighted way – with a pronounced lack of concern for what might happen in the future. In other words, they’re managerially myopic. You might think that such behaviour could damage a firm’s performance. And you’d be right. [See, for example, Blockholder Trading, Market Efficiency, and Managerial […]
The Logic of Absurdity – and the puzzle of leadership irrelevance
“Leaders are often thought to be instrumental to the performance of the organizations they lead. However, considerable research suggests that their influence over organizational performance might actually be minimal. These claims of leader irrelevance pose a puzzle: If leaders are relatively insignificant, why would someone commit to leading?” Taking steps towards explaining the puzzle, Daniel […]
Unlearning – a broader picture (new study)
The concept of ‘Unlearning’ (from an organisational point of view) was first formally described by Hedberg, Nystrom & Starbuck (we believe) more than 30 years ago in their paper ‘Camping on See-saws: Prescriptions for a Self-designing Organization’, for Administrative Science Quarterly, 21(1): 41–6. [* see note below] However, scroll forward to 2016 for an update […]