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Introduction (2025)
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The book you are about to read focuses on examining women’s organizational vulnerability both conceptually and empirically, contributing to theory, methods, and cross-disciplinary knowledge. Understanding “vulnerability” is conceptually rich and comp... Read More about Introduction.

Scrutinizing the archetypical relation between vulnerability, organizing and women (2025)
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Vulnerability has become a focal point of ethical, philosophical, social, and environmental debates, with its usage extending across various fields of inquiry to describe both human and non-humans. Often, "vulnerable" is used to refer to others —whet... Read More about Scrutinizing the archetypical relation between vulnerability, organizing and women.

The gendered nature of vulnerability in higher education: The case of Türkiye (2025)
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Vulnerability and exclusion have been explored from a career lens, with concepts such as the glass ceiling (Cotter et al., 2001), glass chains (Arifeen and Gatrell, 2020), glass cliffs (Ryan and Haslam, 2007), sticky floors (Booth et al., 2003), and... Read More about The gendered nature of vulnerability in higher education: The case of Türkiye.

From magical thinking to being ‘pragmagic’: Narratives of wellbeing in health and care in England (2024)
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Accounts of wellbeing are traditionally understood as ‘rooted in social, caring relationships and traditional virtues of compassion, altruism and duty’ (Cieslik, Not smiling but frowning’: Sociology and the ‘problem of happiness’. Sociology, 49(3), 4... Read More about From magical thinking to being ‘pragmagic’: Narratives of wellbeing in health and care in England.

Translating organizing and organizational metaphors: From the universal to the particular (2024)
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This chapter deploys the concept of translation as a “metaphor of metaphor” from which to learn. Thus, the authors explore the relationship between universals and particulars with respect to organizational metaphors and address the contradiction of t... Read More about Translating organizing and organizational metaphors: From the universal to the particular.

Organising and disorganising trust: Corporate governing in Argentina (2023)
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The historical and conceptual evolution of the organizational meaning of governance has been used in this chapter as an axis to explain the similarities and differences of an ignored paradigmatic case: Argentina. The chapter illustrates how the econo... Read More about Organising and disorganising trust: Corporate governing in Argentina.

Learning through uncertainty: Team learning and the development of entrepreneurial mindset (2022)
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This Handbook brings together the latest research on graduate employability into one authoritative volume. Dedicated parts guide readers through topics, key issues and debates relating to delivering, facilitating, achieving and evaluating graduate em... Read More about Learning through uncertainty: Team learning and the development of entrepreneurial mindset.

Deception as a moral project: Covert research and the construction of the ethical-self (2022)
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In this chapter, the author explores the ethical continuum through a reflection on her own “identity work” during her fieldwork, considering how the ethics of doing covert research are always complex, situated and political. She considers how the pow... Read More about Deception as a moral project: Covert research and the construction of the ethical-self.

Too close for comfort? The challenges and unexpected consequences of immersed ethnography (2022)
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This chapter considers the nature of immersed ethnography and its importance to the study of organizations, and also provides some context for the fieldwork. This is followed by an analysis of some of the methodological challenges, emotion work, and... Read More about Too close for comfort? The challenges and unexpected consequences of immersed ethnography.

Outlining a practical, emotional and reflexive approach to organizational ethnography (2022)
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First and foremost we want this book to be a practical guide. We want to show readers the real experiences of ethnographers conducting this type of research, particularly as a vast majority of contemporary texts centred on ethnographic work still pre... Read More about Outlining a practical, emotional and reflexive approach to organizational ethnography.

Removing The Rose-Tinted Glasses. Fear, risk and being uncomfortable in ethnographic fieldwork (2022)
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This chapter draws on the authors experiences of research in prison and the police force to stress the value in analysing the stories ethnographers do not tell: the stories of self that cast us as imperfect, emotional and flawed. We reflect on how do... Read More about Removing The Rose-Tinted Glasses. Fear, risk and being uncomfortable in ethnographic fieldwork.

Narrative practicing of the meaning of work: The gender we think and talk (2022)
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This chapter shows how gender asymmetry is produced through narrative practices. By analyzing the work-life narratives of 14 men and 14 women working in a variety of occupations ranging from personal care to finance, from crafts to health, from creat... Read More about Narrative practicing of the meaning of work: The gender we think and talk.

Is it all in the mindset? Team coaching, psychological capital and the collaborative development of an entrepreneurial mindset (2021)
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The changing nature of work attaches greater significance, by organisations, entrepreneurs and students alike, to the development of entrepreneurial capacities, with growing interest in entrepreneurial mindset and psychological capital (self-efficacy... Read More about Is it all in the mindset? Team coaching, psychological capital and the collaborative development of an entrepreneurial mindset.

Unleadership (2020)
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Introduction: In search of alternative origins of organizing (2018)
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How might we imagine the origins of organizing? We trust that most readers of this volume will agree that this is a thought provoking and challenging question. Are we to anchor the origins of organizing to specific historical events, to particular ph... Read More about Introduction: In search of alternative origins of organizing.

Re-imagining business schools of the future as places of theorizing (2017)
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In this chapter, we argue that one of the reasons of resisting the temptation of teaching what ‘we could do and perhaps should not do’ (Eco, 2014 [1980], 107) in university Business Schools is the emphasis on the application of theories to the exclus... Read More about Re-imagining business schools of the future as places of theorizing.

Of tropes, totems and taboos: Reflections on using Morgan’s images from a cross-cultural perspective (2016)
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The chapter begins by setting up a reflexive social anthropological stance from which to explore the mimetic qualities and possibilities of Morgan’s images. It then proceeds to consider the pedagogical implications of this theoretical reinterpretatio... Read More about Of tropes, totems and taboos: Reflections on using Morgan’s images from a cross-cultural perspective.

Should we teach students to theorize? Classical Greek philosophy and the learning journey (2015)
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In this chapter we reflect on theorizing using Plato’s allegory of the Cave as a mythical representation of the journey to see the eidos, the Forms or Ideas, which Plato considered the most fundamental reality. The philosopher-as-theoros was not taug... Read More about Should we teach students to theorize? Classical Greek philosophy and the learning journey.

Urban as a symbolic organizer of the social (Lo urbano como organizador simbólico de lo social) (2015)
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The city has been one of the most powerful symbolic artifacts to imagine, represent and organize the social. Capel (1975) suggested that "the definition of the urban" exceeds the geography. Economic, sociological, anthropological, linguistic, philoso... Read More about Urban as a symbolic organizer of the social (Lo urbano como organizador simbólico de lo social).

Making sense of global careerism in Argentina: The structure, culture, and context (2013)
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