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Talking About Organizations Podcast

Talking About Organizations

Talking About Organizations is a conversational podcast where we talk about one book, journal article or idea per episode and try to understand it, its purpose and its impact. By joining us as we collectively tackle classic readings on organization theory, management science, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, organizational learning, culture, climate, leadership, public administration, and so many more! Subscribe to our feed and begin Talking About Organizations as we take on great

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27: Context and Action in the Transformation of the...

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2017/04/11

Join us for this episode as we sit down (literally, this time!) with Professor Andrew Pettigrew to discuss his discipline-shaping work on context and action in organizations. There is so much in this work! Not only is the article we are discussing a product of a very long-term study conducted in ethnographic tradition, but it is also one of the key sparks that ignited the engine of organizational studies that is the process-based view!

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26: Enacted Sensemaking in Crisis Situations (Part 2)

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2017/03/27

Conclusion of our conversation with Dr Thomas Roulet about Karl Weick's Journal of Management Studies Classic article - Enacted Sensemaking in Crisis Situations. A really fun and interesting episode where we touch upon a number of key concepts in management and organization studies!

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26: Enacted Sensemaking in Crisis Situations (Part 1)

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2017/03/21

Karl Weick's enacted sensemaking is a key concept in management theory, as well as a fundamental idea behind high reliability organizing. Join us as we welcome Dr Thomas Roulet of King's College London to discuss our fourth Journal of Management Studies classic paper - Enacted Sensemaking in Crisis Situations (1988)!

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25: Summary of Episode 25 on Cognitive Communities...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2017/03/14

Summary of Episode 25 on a JMS Classic by Porac et al. (1989) 'Competitive Groups as Cognitive Communities'. This Episode featured the wonderful Prof Sarah Kaplan and discussed the importance of human interpretation in the strategy making process, as well as a number of other related issues.

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25: Competitive Groups as Cognitive Communities (Part 2)

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2017/03/08

This is a conclusion of our discussion of Porac et al. (1989) with the wonderful Prof Sarah Kaplan. Please join us as we explore such concepts as categories and talk about ontology and epistemology, the process studies perspective and strategy in practice among many other things!

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25: Competitive Groups as Cognitive Communities (Part 1)

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2017/02/28

Please join us for Episode 25 as we welcome Prof Sarah Kaplan to discuss another JMS Classic work entitled “Competitive groups as cognitive communities, the case of Scottish knitwear manufacturers”. This paper had a great impact in the field of management and organization in general, and on research in cognition and strategy in particular. As a matter of fact, it has contributed to the vibrant community on managerial cognition which today feeds into many areas of the field. It was also been

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24: Summary of Episode 24 with William Starbuck

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2017/02/21

This is a summary of our conversation with Bill Starbuck about his Journal of Management Studies Classic - Learning by Knowledge-Intensive Firms. Great Episode for anyone interested in knowledge, information and collective learning!

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24: Learning by Knowledge-Intensive Firms (Part 2)

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2017/02/14

Join us as we conclude our discussion about the classic JMS article 'Learning by Knowledge-Intensive Firms' with the author, William Starbuck! A fascinating ending to this episode with an amazing guest - so be sure to tune in!

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24: Learning by Knowledge-Intensive Firms (Part 1)

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2017/02/07

Join us and William Starbuck as we discuss one of management's contemporary classics - Learning by Knowledge-Intensive Firms (1992)! In this work William Starbuck tackles a number of important issues to do with knowledge, knowledge work and information. A truly fascinating researcher, Bill takes us through his thinking and shares lots of insight derived through years of studying knowledge and organizations! This is an amazing conversation, so be sure to tune in to this one!

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23: Summary of Episode 23 with Mike Wright

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2017/02/02

This is a Summary of our inaugural episode of Season 3 - the Journal of Management Studies Classics - where we were joined by Professor Mike Wright to discuss his work on international business and emerging economies.

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23: Influence of Institutions and Factor Markets

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2017/01/25

Please join us and listen to our first Season 3 discussion on a 2013 work published in Journal of Management Studies, by Hoskisson, Wright, Filatotchev and Peng entitled “Emerging multinationals from mid-range economies: the influence of institutions and factor markets”. This episode also sees the participation of one of the authors of the paper, Mike Wright, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London. Together, we review the key points of the paper, its importance as one of the

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22: Human-Machine Reconfigurations - Lucy Suchman

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2017/01/17

Please tune in for Episode 22 where we are joined by the fascinating Dr Barton Friedland to discuss Lucy Suchman’s book “Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Action” (2007). In it, she studied the interaction of humans with a state-of-art photocopier. Interestingly, Suchman's studies show that interaction problems are mostly due to the underpinning assumptions about users’ behaviour. More specifically, her work questions the idea that human actions are merely based on the following of

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21: Small Research, Big Issues with Brian Pentland...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2016/12/18

The slightly belated, yet highly anticipated discussion from after the Connections in Action event is here! Join Pedro, Katharina and Brian as they reflect on what they have learned during their time at the workshop/conference. A really fascinating discussion about methodology, fundamental issues to do with actions and practices, and a bit of philosophy!

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21: Small Research, Big Issues with Brian Pentland...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2016/12/08

What a treat! Joining us for this Special Episode from the fascinating 'Connections in Action' workshop at the University of Warwick are Katharina Dittrich and Brian Pentland (aka Doctor Decade)! To our great delight, Doctor Decade provided the live intro music for this episode and even performed one of his songs (Ruts in the Road)!

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20: Summary of Episode 20 on High Reliability in...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2016/11/30

This is a summary of Episode 20, where we held two discussions broadly grouped under the umbrella title of High Reliability in practice. Broadly focused on the 1993 classic research by Karl Weick and Karlene Roberts which asked how do complex, high risk organizations manage to work safely and reliably, our discussion in Episode 20 featured an appearance by a very special guest! Basically, Weick and Roberts went aboard a US Navy Nimitz class aircraft carrier to collect data and observe how the flight

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20: High Reliability in Practice - USN Rear Admiral...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2016/11/23

In Part 2 we delve deeper into the article itself (Weick and Roberts, 1993) in order to understand how a high reliability way of organizing can be implemented, what are the steps, and how rigid the rules and procedures have to be. Join us for a detailed and rich in examples discussion of these very key, yet academically under-explored aspects of organization studies.

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20: High Reliability in Practice - USN Rear Admiral...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2016/11/15

Based around a classic work by Weick and Roberts (1993) on Collective mind in organizations - where the authors observed and analyzed the way people on the deck of an aircraft carrier function in a collective manner - this episode brings you a discussion of how concepts of High Reliability (see also Episode 11) flesh out in real life! Joining us for this episode is a very special guest - Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier on which Weick and Roberts performed their study, Read Admiral

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19: Summary of Episode 19 on Exploration and...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2016/11/08

Join Miranda and Ralph as they summarise our discussion of Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning by James March. This is an excellent little segment to introduce new people to the ideas developed in this classic text, as well as to help add structure to our discussion in the main episode. As a bonus, you will also get a special emphasis from Miranda on socialisation, and some useful tips from Ralph on employee learning!

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19: Carnegie Mellon Series #2 - Exploration and...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2016/11/01

In the second half of our discussion we carry on with the examination of March's model of knowledge exploration and exploitation. Expect more up-close analysis as well as some implications of this way of looking at organizational learning.

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19: Carnegie Mellon Series #2 - Exploration and...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2016/10/25

For this episode, we read the widely cited article, “Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning,” published in 1991 in the journal Organization Science. In the paper, James March considered the relationships between exploration of new ways of doing things and the exploitation of accepted, standard practices for organizational learning. He did so in order to show that learning in organizations is still possible even in the presence of causal ambiguity. While the paper has been criticized

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