Outputs (49)

A visual inquiry into ethics and change (2012)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the practices and findings of a visual inquiry developed by the co-authors with students in a Business School in the south west of England. The authors are interested in how students engaged with the visual a... Read More about A visual inquiry into ethics and change.

The rhetoric of synergy in a global corporation: Visual and oral narratives of mimesis and similarity (2012)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to expand understanding about the rhetoric of synergy and how it is manifested in a global corporation, Tubworld (name changed), during a period of mergers and acquisitions. Design/methodology/approach: The metho... Read More about The rhetoric of synergy in a global corporation: Visual and oral narratives of mimesis and similarity.

Narrating expatriation and making sense of globalization experience impressions from the fieldwork (2011)
Book Chapter

Culturalistic models and corporate discourse: An ethnographic analysis of managers training in a Spanish corporation (2011)
Journal Article

Official chronicles of corporate globalization and unofficial stories of international mobility: Resisting patronage of meaning? (2010)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse contradictions, similarities, and differences between official corporate chronicles and individual stories of international managers of a multinational company. Design/methodology/approach: The analysi... Read More about Official chronicles of corporate globalization and unofficial stories of international mobility: Resisting patronage of meaning?.

Who cares about project deadlines? A processual relational perspective on problems with information sharing in project environments (2009)
Journal Article

The paper draws on a study of a manufacturing company which delivers engineering solutions, through projects, to customers in the international oil and gas industry. It focuses on the problem of persistent project delays and failure to meet promised... Read More about Who cares about project deadlines? A processual relational perspective on problems with information sharing in project environments.

Virtual academic organizations: ten years of changes (2008)
Journal Article

Un lugar en su sitio : narrativas y organización cultural urbana en el espacio latinoamericano (2006)
Book

How a city organised? What does a group of people to define and begin their urban cultural practices? Why do places become symbols, by whom or from whom do some places occupy a "space" while others remain in an apparent lack of definition? "A place o... Read More about Un lugar en su sitio : narrativas y organización cultural urbana en el espacio latinoamericano.

Origins of Organizing
Book

Despite of the accumulating body of research on the birth of organizations and organizing, there have been astonishingly few contributions that challenge the established consensus of the social and philosophical programs marking the origin of organiz... Read More about Origins of Organizing.