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Attention walter benjamin fans
New Left Review has published Benjamin’s last report on the French literary scene right before WWII. Worth the read for Critical Theory heads. … more »
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attention walter benjamin fans
fabiorojas wrote 1 hour ago: New Left Review has published Benjamin’s last report on the French literary scene right befor … more »
aesthetics of social reality
Teppo wrote 2 days ago: Simmelian ideas have appeared frequently here at orgtheory. I recently read an interesting 1973 S … more »
organizational life-stages
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brayden wrote 3 weeks ago: One source of organizational heterogeneity that is often overlooked in our theories is life-stage va … more »
varieties of coercive experience
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fabiorojas wrote 1 month ago: We got into a good discussion about coercive processes in organization theory, based on Michael … more »
popper and the platypus
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fabiorojas wrote 1 month ago: Yesterday, I wrote about the importance of case studies and general therories, and how they are real … more »
orgtheory summer reading list
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brayden wrote 2 months ago: A friend recommended that we should write a post listing articles/book chapters that grad students s … more »
predecessor selection in organizational theory
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Omar wrote 2 months ago: One of my favorite papers ever is Camic’s (1992), “Reputation and Predecessor Selection: … more »
babies: symbolic interactionists or goffmanian chain ritualists?
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fabiorojas wrote 2 months ago: Ok, I got this smiley baby and I start wondering - why exactly is lil’ Merlyn smiling at me? … more »
rules of theory-building
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Teppo wrote 2 months ago: I like systematic approaches to theory building. While theorizing undoubtedly can be a messy proces … more »
pre-attended meetings
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fabiorojas wrote 2 months ago: If you are like me, you treat meetings like dentist visits - you’re happy to go if you have to … more »
garbage can model of organizational theorizing
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Teppo wrote 2 months ago: I’ve noted a seemingly popular model of organizational theorizing of late: the garbage can mod … more »
where are the phenomena?
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Omar wrote 3 months ago: More often than not, one is liable to hear that there is a “crisis” in organizational th … more »
black studies - 9% institutionalized?
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fabiorojas wrote 3 months ago: Last week’s post on black studies, institutional theory, and social movement theory resulted … more »
French conventionalist economics
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Omar wrote 3 months ago: Over at my favorite obscure journal, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour [sic] there is a rec … more »
design science
brayden wrote 3 months ago: The latest issue of Organization Studies features articles dealing with organizational design. The … more »
wolfe on weber
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brayden wrote 3 months ago: It turns out Tom Wolfe, the realist American novelist most famous for his Bonfire of the Vanities, i … more »
neither the really young nor really old
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brayden wrote 4 months ago: There seems to be a tendency that the big theoretical breakthroughs (the classics of the disciplines … more »
theory fetish
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Teppo wrote 4 months ago: Teppo This is one post that is perfect for our hotly contested ”just theory” category. … more »
the general and the specific
Teppo wrote 4 months ago: Teppo This quote, by Polya, sounds like many of the papers that I really like: The principle is s … more »
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