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Appendix_1 – Supplemental material for Managing Impressions Rather Than Emissions: Volkswagen and the false mastery of paradox
No full textSupplemental material, Appendix_1 for Managing Impressions Rather Than Emissions: Volkswagen and the false mastery of paradox by Medhanie Gaim, Stewart Clegg and Miguel Pina e Cunha in Organization Studies</p
Zemblanity and the sinking of the Costa Concordia: How organizations actively construct bad luck
No full textIf Serendip is considered both the place and the metaphoric space in which fortuitous events occur, Zembla is its opposite (Boyd, 1998). Moving from the concept of managerial serendipity (Cunha et al., 2015), we posit that the world-known sinking of the sinking of Costa Concordia is a case of managerial zemblanity, in which an excess of self-confidence, an absence of generative doubt, the presence of (delusional) managerial control, a vicious dynamic of organizational legitimacy and an insufficiency of organization design (Heeks & Bhatnagar, 2001) explain a catastrophic outcome (organizational performance).
There is an abundant literature that implies the need for research into a lack (or absence) of organizational “wisdom” (e.g. ten Bos, 2007) or “smartness” (e.g. Alvesson & Spicer, 2012). In this paper we will theorize the under-researched process of zemblanity in order to understand how organizations sometimes create disasters that were avoidable, accidents that in systems regarded as “high reliability” should not have occurred.
The Costa Concordia provides a case of organizational zemblanity in which both active and passive behaviours by the Captain created a vicious circle of bad decisions (Masuch, 1985), complemented by structural elements found both in the individual behaviours of others (mainly, the vessel’s first line of command) and the lack of other effective organizational controls, in terms of structures and routines
sj-docx-1-oss-10.1177_01708406231161998 – Supplemental material for A Figure is Worth a Thousand Words: The Role of Visualization in Paradox Theorizing
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-oss-10.1177_01708406231161998 for A Figure is Worth a Thousand Words: The Role of Visualization in Paradox Theorizing by Camille Pradies, Marco Berti, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Arménio Rego, Andrea Tunarosa and Stewart Clegg in Organization Studies</p
Managing for Compliance and Integrity in Practice (book chapter pre-print)
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Business Ethics as Practice: Representation, Reflexivity and Performance. ed. / Chris Carter; Stewart Clegg; Martin Kornberger; Stephan Laske; Martin Messner. Northhampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, Incorporated, 2007. p. 107-127
Being social in organizational studies: the early works of Stewart Clegg
Full text linkRoutledge Revivals, an initiative that aims to reissue out of print works by distin- guished academics, has republished six early publications (co-)authored or edited over an 11-year period between 1975 and 1986 by Stewart Clegg. These are works by Clegg as an early career researcher, not yet established in either sociology or management but hovering in between the two disciplines. Clegg’s (2005) ‘Vita Contemplative’ indicates that he wrote the first of these books as a lonely sociologist in a Management Center. The second was also produced therein, but in the context of involvement in the nascent stages of the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS), whose founding meeting was held in 1974. The third was written in the setting of an avant-garde School of Humanities at Griffith University, where Clegg teamed up with Geoff Dow, a politi- cal economist, and his friend Paul Boreham (from the University of Queensland), an industrial sociologist. The other books were published when Clegg was Head of the Sociology Department at the University of New England. There was no Business School within Queensland’s universities at the time of his early appointment. These books laid the foundations for Clegg’s subsequent work by emphasizing the social, particularly power relations, within management and organizational studies, leading to his becoming the acclaimed organization and management scholar of today. In broad terms, the six early books by Clegg concern both organizations and sociology, with differing emphases in each volume. The following is a chronological review of these early texts, concluding with some observations on the value they might contribute to contemporary scholarship
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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