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Critical learning and tempered radicalism: An exploration of the roles and development of early career academics (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Robinson, S., Bristow, A., & Ratle, O. (2015, August). Critical learning and tempered radicalism: An exploration of the roles and development of early career academics. Paper presented at 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2015, Vancouver, Canada

Drawing on a study of 30 CMS Early Career Academics (ECAs) this paper explores how they learn to practice according to their own CMS motivations and maintain such endeavours within environments and evaluation systems which increasingly require high l... Read More about Critical learning and tempered radicalism: An exploration of the roles and development of early career academics.

Resistance as institutional entrepreneurship in unsettled times: The case of early-career academics in critical management studies (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bristow, A., Ratle, O., & Robinson, S. (2014, July). Resistance as institutional entrepreneurship in unsettled times: The case of early-career academics in critical management studies. Paper presented at EGOS 30th Colloquium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

In this paper we respond to the subtheme’s call by presenting an empirical study of one important group of university stakeholders, namely early career academics (ECAs), the future of the profession. The purpose of this paper is to explore how this g... Read More about Resistance as institutional entrepreneurship in unsettled times: The case of early-career academics in critical management studies.

The shifting boundaries of organisation theory across time: A demarcation perspective (2013)
Presentation / Conference
A demarcation perspective. Paper presented at 29th EGOS Colloquium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

What happen to organization theory when it travels from one context to another? This paper takes a science-demarcation perspective to analyse over time contests over the legitimate realm of organization theory. By looking at the rhetorical commonplac... Read More about The shifting boundaries of organisation theory across time: A demarcation perspective.

The ambivalent relationship between management studies and the natural sciences: A longitudinal rhetorical analysis (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Ratle, O. (2011, March). The ambivalent relationship between management studies and the natural sciences: A longitudinal rhetorical analysis. Paper presented at 4th conference on Rhetoric and Narratives in Management Research, Barcelona, Spain

For constructivist analysts of science, maps that define what constitutes legitimate science are variable, changeable and relatively inconsistent. Gieryn (1999) invites us to see the signifier ‘science’ as a cultural space that has no essential or un... Read More about The ambivalent relationship between management studies and the natural sciences: A longitudinal rhetorical analysis.

The never-ending ‘paradigm debate’ in Organisation Studies: Rhetorical practices that sustain scientific controversies (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Rhetorical practices that sustain scientific controversies. Paper presented at 2nd conference on Rhetoric and Narratives in Management Research, Barcelona, Spain

Many commentators within organisation studies have noted how difficult it is in this field to bring closure to controversies. This paper uses a rhetorical perspective to reflect on the character of one of the most important debate within the field, w... Read More about The never-ending ‘paradigm debate’ in Organisation Studies: Rhetorical practices that sustain scientific controversies.