The Bossless Team: Lessons in Distributed Leadership
Relates findings from a field study of self-managed teams. First appeared in Organizational Dynamics.
Making the Invisible Visible: Using Analogically-based Methods to Surface Unconscious Processes in Organizations
This article relates the use of an organization-wide sculpting process, which resulted in major transformations. Published in the Organization Development Journal. Click here for HTML version.
Exploring Managerial Agendas (with Catherine Cramton and Stephen Carroll)
This paper, published in the Academy of Management Executive, relates the findings of a two year grounded theory study of managerial agendas.
Strategy Retold (with Michael Elmes)
An often cited article on what strategy might look like if we took a narrative perspective. Published in the Academy of Management Review.
Artful Inquiry: A Symbolic Constructionist Framework for Social Science Research
Summarises many of the arts-based methods I've used over time and provides a detailed example of how they might be applied. Published in Qualitative Inquiry. Click here for the HTML version.
Telling Changes: From Narrative Family Therapy to Organizational Change and Development
This article deals with how the narrative therapy methods developed by David Epston and Michael White might by applied to organisations. Published in the Journal of Organizational Change Management.
Deliverance, Denial, and the Death Zone: A Study of Narcissism and Regression in the May 1996 Everest Climbing Disaster (with Michael Elmes)
This article, published in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, has probably received more attention than all my other writings combined! The London Observer interviewed Michael (the lead author) about the research, and the story jumped around the world.
To Text or Context: Endotextual, Exotextual, and Multitextual Considerations in Narrative and Discursive Research (with Brigid Carroll and Hans Hansen)
Published in Organization Studies, this article introduces a new way of thinking about and conducting narrative organizational studies.
Going Mobile: Aesthetic Design Considerations from Calder and the Constructivists (with Claus Rerup)
Published in Organization Science. This paper applies the work of Alexander Calder (particularly his mobiles) and the work of other constructivist artists to the field of Organization Design. In particular, we consider how to make organizations more flexible and adaptive.
UNPUBLISHED WORKS
Serious Questions About Serious Play: Problems and Prospects in Mediated Innovation (with Elaine Palmer)
This is a review paper on our research into mediates (prototypes, models, simulations, and other 'go-betweens'). It brings together literatures from many far-flung sources and attempts to lay out a research agenda for work in this area.
The Work of Poems, the Poems of Work: The Poetic Representation of Discourse in Organizational Studies (with May Ireland)
This paper takes the poetic methods first developed by Catherine Riessman for organisational studies, and significantly extends them. Several examples are given of how concepts like cesurae, stepping, repetition, and stem structure can be used to infer emotional patterns within interview transcripts.
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