DEVELOPING THE MANAGEMENT STUDIES COMMUNITY – CALL FOR FUNDING APPLICATIONS
SAMS (The Society for the Advancement of Management Studies) invites applications twice yearly in January and July for funding to support events or activities that benefit the management studies community …
Author Archive | Margaret Turner
The Scope and Scale of MNE Strategies: In Commemoration of Alan Rugman’s Contribution to International Business Research
Biggart’s Lament, or Getting Out of the Theory Cave
Watch Nicole Woolsey Biggart’s video abstract:
Like many of you I came to the study of organizations because of experiences that intrigued me and about which I wanted to learn more. In my case I had improbably landed an internship…
‘We’re Sorry to Hear You’ve Been Unwell…’ Personal Reflections on Health and Well-being in the Workplace
At 6pm on 16 December 2014 while sat at my kitchen table and slowly marking 500+ exams I received a call from my cardiologist. As expected, the various tests I had completed all proved to be normal. However, a cardiac
Special Issue Call for Papers: ‘Managing in the Age of Disruptions’
Guest Editors:
Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari, University of Cambridge, UK
Raghu Garud, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Arun Kumaraswamy, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Submission Deadline:
15th December 2016
Background to the
…Looking Away? Civilized Indifference and the Carnal Relationships of the Contemporary Workplace
The idea that I put forward in this essay is not, in its immediate content, a happy one. The three-year old Aylan Kurdi, lying face down in the sand, on a Turkish beach; the immobile figure of a police officer…
Why the Assholes are Winning: Money Trumps All
In August, 2015, the New York Times published a much-discussed and somewhat controversial article documenting the harsh working conditions facing white-collar employees at Amazon.com (Kantor and Streitfeld, 2015), a description that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and some other ‘Amazonians’ claimed…
JMS Says
The Essay as an Endangered Species: Should We Care?
The essay as a literary genre has, over the centuries, delivered profound insights into a wide range of topics and even contributed to social and political change. As part of academic apprenticeship, the essay has served to develop students’ intellectual…
Introducing JMSSays
Essays occupy a distinct position in the intellectual development of human thought. In contrast to purely theoretical arguments, which synthesize and extend existing empirical work, the essay adopts a uniquely normative epistemological position. Instead of describing the empirical world as…