JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INQUIRY – July 2022
Please enjoy free access to the July 2022 issue articles through August 15 by clicking on the URL for each article.
CURATED
A Curated Debate: On Using "Templates" in Qualitative Research
Denny Gioia, Kevin Corley, Kathleen Eisenhardt, Martha Feldman, Ann Langley, Jane Lê, Karen Golden-Biddle, Karen Locke, Jacqueline Mees-Buss, Rebecca Piekkari, Davide Ravasi, Claus Rerup, Torsten Schmid, David Silverman and Catherine Welch
https://doi.org/10.1177/10564926221098955
Abstract
One of the raging debates in organization study concerns the use of "templates" in qualitative research. This curated debate brings together many of the players in that debate, who make statements of position relative to the issues involved and trade accusations and counter-accusations about statements they have made that in their view have been misinterpreted or misconstrued. Overall, it is quite a lively debate that reveals positions, points of tension and grounds for disagreement. Denny Gioia wrote the triggering essay that prompted other players to weigh in with their personal and professional views.
Keywords: qualitative methods, templates, Gioia method
ESSAYS
Illuminating the Dark Side of Values: A Framework for Institutional Research
David Risi, Emilio Marti
https://doi.org/10.1177/10564926221091521
Abstract
Values are pivotal to institutions. Although prior research has mostly highlighted their positive effects, values also have a "dark" side, which we illuminate by looking at cases in which values perpetuate societal grand challenges, such as corruption or climate change. Societal deliberation plays an important role in efforts to change such values. In this essay, we explore how institutional scholars can produce insights that support societal deliberation on values that perpetuate grand challenges. We develop a framework on how institutional scholars can support such deliberation by analyzing (1) which alternative values are attainable and (2) how dominant values create trade-offs. By using this framework, institutional researchers can take a middle position between activist research on values, which jeopardizes the independence of research, and detached research on values, which loses the connection to practical concerns.
Keywords: alternative values, deliberation, dominant values, grand challenges, institutional theory
EMPIRICAL
Confronting the Business Models of Modern Slavery
Andrew Crane, Genevieve LeBaron, Kam Phung, Laya Behbahani, Jean Allain
https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492621994904
Abstract
Despite growing attention from companies and regulators looking to eradicate modern slavery, we know little about how slavery works from a business perspective. We address this gap by empirically examining innovations in the business models of modern slavery, focusing on how the business models of slavery in advanced economies have evolved since slavery was legally abolished. While continuities exist, novel business models have emerged based on new actors, activities, and linkages. We categorize these as four innovative models per actors involved (producer/intermediary) and how value is created and captured (revenue generation/cost reduction), and discuss implications for research, policy, and practice.
Keywords: business models, business model innovation, modern slavery, forced labor
Resignifying Corporate Responsibility in Performative Documentaries
Martin Fougère
https://doi.org/10.1177/10564926211005030
Abstract
Critical scholars of Corporate Responsibility (CR) argue that one way to make CR good for society would be to demand its full realization in subversive interventions, in line with the critical performativity objective of subversion of managerial discourses and practices. This paper studies CR-oriented performative documentary films, in which the main protagonists problematize business impacts on society through various interventions aimed to have effects on: (1) themselves; (2) the corporations they target; (3) the surrounding society; and (4) the viewers of the films. 23 documentary films that target corporate responsibilities through a range of interventions are studied, and eight different kinds of effects they have are analyzed. The documentaries are found to be enactments of critical performativity that resignify CR, through subversive interventions involving: (1) staged embodiments of subject positions; (2) the staging of felicitous conditions; (3) effective roles, genres and tropes; and (4) the use of 'enlightened failed performatives'.
Keywords: artistic interventions, business & society, corporate social responsibility
Sounds of Silence: The Reflexivity, Self-decentralization, and Transformation Dimensions of Silence at Work
Mai Chi Vu, Ziyun Fan
https://doi.org/10.1177/10564926211007942
Abstract
This article explores silence as a phenomenon and practice in the workplace through a Buddhist-enacted lens where silence is intentionally encouraged. It brings forward a reconsideration of the roles of silence in organizations by proposing emancipatory dimensions of silence-reflexivity, self-decentralization, and transformation. Based on 54 interviews with employees and managers in a Vietnamese telecommunications organization, we discuss the dynamic nature of silence, and the possible coexistence of the constructive and the oppressive aspects of silence in a workplace spirituality context. Instead of studying silence as one-dimensional, we call for an integrated view and argue that studying silence requires consideration of the multiplicity of its interconnected dimensions. By considering silence as a relational and emerging processes constructed around its vagueness and uncertainties, our study reveals the many possible ways silence is organized and organizes and sheds light on silence as a marker of the complexities and paradoxes of organizational life.
Keywords: qualitative research, organizational behavior, communication
GENERATIVE CURIOSITY
The Tip of the Iceberg: A Roadmap for Management Research on Tipping
Simon Pek
https://doi.org/10.1177/10564926221088729
Abstract
Tipping is a complex phenomenon with wide-ranging impacts on workers and organizations. Prior research has made important contributions to our understanding of why tipping happens and what its impacts are. Yet, we still have much to learn about these topics, particularly when it comes to the emergence, evolution, and diffusion of tipping norms, how organizations approach their decision-making about tipping practices, and the broader individual, organizational, and societal impacts of tipping. Despite management researchers' limited attention to tipping to date, I argue that they have much to contribute to our understanding of these questions through their conceptual tools and lenses.
Keywords: business & society, well-being, work life, tipping, management or quality
PROVOCATIONS & PROVOCATEURS
Making Sense of the New PhD Student Experience: Adapting to the First Year of Doctoral Studies Program
Gabriela Rivera
https://doi.org/10.1177/10564926221092343
Keywords: essay, PhD experience, student experience, sensemaking
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University of San Francisco
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