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The Production of Managerial Knowledge and Organizational Theory: New Approaches to Writing, Producing and Consuming Theory

ISBN: 978-1-78769-184-1, eISBN: 978-1-78769-183-4

ISSN: 0733-558X

Publication date: 11 April 2019

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(2019), "Index", Zilber, T.B., Amis, J.M. and Mair, J. (Ed.) The Production of Managerial Knowledge and Organizational Theory: New Approaches to Writing, Producing and Consuming Theory (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 59), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 275-281. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000059015

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INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” with numbers indicate notes.

Abduction
, 71, 165

Abductive reasoning
, 72

Academic(s)
, 87

competitive global publishing
, 82–83

impact
, 82, 87–89

prestige
, 82

publishers consolidation
, 84–85

unclear funding model
, 89–90

writing
, 218

Academy of Management (AOM)
, 81, 224, 227, 232n2

Academy of Management Journal (AMJ)
, 105, 202–203

approaches in AMJ interpretive/qualitative articles
, 204

Accountancy
, 223

Actor-centered theory
, 36

Actor-network theory
, 126

Additional value pool
, 145–148

Altmetrics
, 85

academic and external impacts
, 87–89

adapting to new OA environment
, 91–92

authoritativeness of knowledge
, 90–91

implication of OA publishing and
, 87

knowledge consumption
, 91

knowledge production
, 87

Analytical

analytically-oriented visualizations
, 183

flowcharting
, 183

framework
, 33

grand theory
, 34

Anthropological approach
, 211–212

Association of Business Schools (ABS)
, 84

Authorial identity
, 244

Authoritativeness of knowledge
, 90–91

Automated measures of manuscript change
, 107–110

Automated textual analysis
, 105–106, 119

“Auxiliary/support” role to tables
, 207

Behavioral reductionism
, 28–30

Bien pensant story of neoliberalism
, 229

Body-counting research
, 26

Boundary rituals
, 167

Bounded rationality theory
, 46

Bourdieu
, 219–220, 223, 227

British class system
, 206

Budapest Open Access Initiatives (BOAI)
, 86

Bureaucratic phenomenon
, 45

Capitalism
, 22

Career advancement
, 82

Categorizing process
, 174

Causal map
, (see Cognitive maps)

Ceremonialism in organisational life
, 224

Citation

analysis
, 81

counts
, 78

Citizen science initiatives
, 87

Civil regulation
, 31

Class
, 226, 240

Class work
, 242, 249

Classic pragmatism (CP)
, 46, 49, 51–52

Clustering process
, 174

Coding process
, 174

Coercive organizations
, 52

Cognitive mapping
, 178

Coherence
, 69–71, 73

“Common analysis recipe”
, 203

Communication
, 166, 176

challenges of visualization for
, 194

visual artifacts as tools for
, 194–196

Comparative actor-centered research
, 37

Comparative methods
, 36

Comparative orderings
, 83

Complex relational networks
, 130

Computational reasoning
, 66

Conceptual(ization)
, 176

clarity
, 262–264

models
, 187

relevance
, 262

visual artifacts as tools for
, 187–194

“Confessional tales”
, 256

Consequentialism, consequences of
, 52–53

Constitutive logic
, 43–44

Constructed nature of truth
, 239

Contemporary CSR
, 32

Context horizon
, 151–153

Contextualizing multiple discoveries
, 130

building on previous research
, 131–132

inspiration from network of colleagues
, 133–134

variations in field sites
, 130–131

Conventional hypothetico-deductive positivist research
, 67

Conventional visual repertoire
, 176–178

Coordinated market economies (CMEs)
, 34

“Correlational theorizing”
, 65

Cosmopolitans
, 126, 137

Counter-factual reasoning
, 72

Creativity
, 61

Critical self-evaluation
, 239

Criticisms
, 104

CSR
, 22, 25, 30–32, 35

Cuban Missile Crisis
, 243

Cultural Capital of Europe
, 48

Cultural evolution
, 33

Cultural turn
, 132

Data analysis
, 176

visual artifacts as tools for
, 182–187

De-contextualization
, (see also Contextualizing multiple discoveries), 22, 35

De-essentialised professionalism
, 221

Decision making
, 44, 50

pragmatism as style of
, 45

Decision outcome
, 28

Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
, 85

Declassification
, 242

Deconstruction
, 245

Deductive reasoning
, 71

Deontology
, 49

Dialectic conceptualizations
, 189

Dialectical model
, 192

Digital revolution
, 78

Discourse
, 143–144

analysis
, 143

strategy
, 145–149

Discursive epistemology
, 149–153

Discursive perspective on organizing, theorizing and knowledge production
, 142–144

Distancing
, 242

Distinctive College, The, (1970)
, 132

Education myth
, 131

Emerging methodology
, 105–106

Employment relations model of employee voice determinants
, 30

Engaged agent
, 263

Engagement and distance
, 258

Epistemic virtues
, 64–65

“Escalating indecision” process
, 185, 189, 193

Ethic of conviction
, 53

Ethic of responsibility
, 53

Ethical ambiguity
, 264–266

Ethical insecurities
, 265

European Group for Organisational Studies (EGOS)
, 81

Evidence tables
, 206

Evidentiary challenge
, 104

Evolution
, 26

of organizational language
, 130

Experimental spaces
, 177

Explanatory principles
, 69

Exploitation
, 226

“Factor analytical” approaches
, 62

Fair share exchange ratio
, 146–147

Feminist theory
, 230

Field research
, 258

Field researchers approach
, 263

Field sites, variations in
, 130–131

Field theory
, 33

Field-site phenomena
, 263–264

Financial crisis
, 33, 145

Financial Times 50 (FT 50)
, 84

Flow charts
, 178–179

Folk concept
, 220

“Framing contests” study
, 177

‘Gaming’ behaviours
, 82

Gender
, 240

essentialism
, 25–28

‘Gender-based Foundations of Negotiation Theory
, 246

Generalizability
, 37

Gesinnungsethik
, (see Ethic of conviction)

Gioia

approach
, 203, 206–207

data structure
, 202, 203

methodology
, 203

template
, 202

Gioia chart
, (see Gioia—data structure)

Global governance research
, 30

Goal attainment
, 185

Grand challenges
, 158, 229–230

Grand theory
, 22–25

Hegemony
, 226, 246

High-Impact Factor journals
, 83

Hyper-pragmatism
, 49

Hypothetico-deductive positivist research
, 65–66

Hypothetico-deductive quantitative social science
, 65

Identity-congruent artefacts
, 267

Ideology
, 226

Illusio
, 228

Impact Factor
, 78–79, 81, 84

“Individual actor’s frames”, multiplicity of
, 177

Inequality
, 229

Inference to best explanation
, 71–73

Informal knowledge production
, 85

Information

super highway
, 225

technology
, 78

Institutional

innovation
, 132

integrity
, 45

maintenance process
, 206

organizations
, 128–129

rules
, 193

scholars
, 232n5

systems
, 131

theory
, 124, 126, 220, 224–226

Institutional logics
, 25, 33

Institutionalisation
, 230

Institutionalism
, 226

Intellectual

commons
, 96

ideas and projects
, 227

milieu
, 135–136

Interaction rituals
, 242

Interpersonal ethics
, 265–266

Interpretation
, 104, 174, 202, 242

Isomorphism
, 124

Journal Impact Factor
, 78, 85

Journalism
, 222

Kantian deontology
, 265

Knowledge production and consumption
, 81, 92–94, 142, 145, 149–151

altmetrics and OA
, 85–95

consolidation of academic publishers
, 84–85

cumulative academic knowledge
, 96

discursive perspective
, 142–144

gatekeepers of knowledge
, 83–84

Leadership
, 44–45

Leadership in Administration
, 44–45

LGBTQ issues
, 240

Liberal market economics (LME)
, 34

Liminal state
, 266–268

Liminality
, 267

Linguistic constructs
, 262

Linguistic-based scholarship
, 210

Logic of appropriateness
, 52–53

Long data excerpts approach
, 209–211

Macro CSR research
, 31

Macro theories
, 24–25

Management field, altmetrics and OA
, 92

reflections
, 94–95

knowledge production and consumption
, 92–94

Managerial knowledge
, 149–153

Managerial theory
, 84

Manuscript change

automated measures
, 107–110

self-reports and human coded measures
, 110–111

Mapping data
, 176

visual artifacts as tools for
, 178–182

Matrices
, 175

Matthew Effect
, 80

Memoing process
, 174

Meso-level theorizing
, 25, 35

actor-centered theory
, 36

comparative methods
, 36

historical perspective
, 37

phenomenon-driven theory
, 35

Methodological coherence
, 70

Micro theories
, 23

Micro-macro linkage
, 36

Micro-reductionism
, 38n1

Microprocesses
, 263

Mock bureaucracy
, 51

Moral vocation
, 220

Multi-voicing
, 243

Myth

education
, 131

formal structure as
, 128–129

of meritocracy
, 247

Natural language processing (NLP)
, 105–106

Negotiated friendship
, 165

Neo-feudalism
, 22

Neo-institutional theory
, 22, 30–31, 124–125,

Neo-pragmatism (NP)
, 49

Neoliberalism
, 22, 226, 229

Non-merit-based benefit
, 80

Norm-based behavior
, 49

Observation window
, 203

Open access (OA)
, 78

academic and external impacts
, 87–89

and altmetrics in management field
, 92–95

authoritativeness of knowledge
, 90–91

commercial publishers adapting to new OA environment
, 91–92

faster pace of academic production and unclear funding model
, 89–90

and implications
, 85

knowledge consumption
, 91

knowledge production
, 87

publishing
, 86–87

theory
, 135

Organization and management theory
, 22, 218–219, 231

meso-level theorizing
, 35–38

women directors
, 25–28

Organization theory
, 32, 46, 124

consequences of consequentialism for
, 52–53

crisis
, 230–232

Organization(al)
, 145, 246

culture
, 29

discursive perspective on organizing production
, 142–144

practices
, 144

process
, 143

scholars
, 247

Organizational knowledge

case study
, 145–149

context and time
, 144–145

contextualizing multiple discoveries
, 130–134

discursive perspective on organizing, theorizing and knowledge production
, 142–144

methods
, 127

multiple discoveries
, 125–127

myths and wishful thinking as management tools
, 127–128

simultaneous discoveries
, 129–130

spirit of local intellectual milieus
, 136

zeitgeist
, 135

Paradox of embedded agency
, 32

Pearson’s correlation coefficient
, 111–112

Perceived similarity relations
, 70

“Performative” values
, 194

Phenomenon-driven theory
, 35

Philosophical pragmatism
, 46

Plagiarism detection scores based on identical textual sequences
, 107

Pluralistic approach
, 94

Polyphony
, 244

Popperian principle
, 64

Position-based reflexivity
, 245

Positive freedoms
, 231

Positivist social science, rigor limits in
, 65–67

Postmodern theorists
, 245

Postmodernism
, 245

Pragmatism

appropriate and inappropriate
, 47–52

consequences of consequentialism for organization theory
, 52–53

as mobilization of knowledge and as decision making style
, 45–47

as organizational coping
, 43–45

rigidity in organizations, vs.
, 54–56

Primary data type
, 203

Print-centric ecosystem
, 78

“Priority of discovery”
, 136–137

Privilege, logics of
, 240

Problem of demarcation
, 46

Process replication map
, 185, 186

Professionalism
, 220, 221

Professions
, 224

semi-professions
, 221–224

traditional
, 223

Provisional settlement
, 183

Psycho-social dispositions
, 30

Psychodynamics
, 250

Public Library of Science (PLOS)
, 86–87

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
, 36

Qualitative data analysis
, 174

Qualitative research
, 202

presentation approaches
, 202–204

researchers
, 185

typology of approaches for presenting qualitative findings
, 204–212

Qualitative studies
, 188

Quasi-experimental designs
, 29

Race
, 240

Ranking of consequences
, 51–52

Rationalistic models
, 134

Raw data extracts
, 208

Reasoning
, 68–69

rigor in
, 63–65

Recursive multi-level

conceptualizations
, 190

model
, 193

Rediscovery of ideas
, 125

Reductionism
, 22, 23–25

Reflective spaces
, 177

Reflexive research
, 238

Reflexivity
, 219, 238

in choosing research topic
, 241–243

constituting
, 239–247

through destabilizing
, 245–247

drawing on multiple perspectives
, 243–244

navigating liminality through
, 268–270

about one’s positioning
, 244–245

practice
, 238

Regulatory gaps
, 31

Reith Lectures
, 219

Representation tools
, 203

Reproducibility
, 120

Research and personal lifeworlds collision

feeling empowered
, 259–262

feeling exposed
, 256–259

gaining conceptual clarity
, 262–264

navigating liminality through reflexivity
, 268–270

opening up ethical ambiguity
, 264–266

stuck in liminal state
, 266–268

Research Excellence Framework (REF)
, 82

Researcher’s personhood
, 256

Responsible leadership
, 44

“Revise and resubmits”
, 118

Rhetorical devices
, 208

‘Right speech’
, 249

Rigidity in organizations
, 54–55, 56

Rigor
, 60

bases in scientific reasoning
, 67–73

limits in positivist social science
, 65–67

in management research
, 60–63

in reasoning processes
, 63–65

rigorous reasoning
, 70

Role-based coordination in temporary organizations
, 211

Rule-based obedience
, 45

Scalability
, 120

Scandinavian approach
, 133

Scholarly knowledge
, 104

Scholars
, 78, 94–95, 258, 267–268

Scientific reasoning

coherence
, 69–71

inference to best explanation
, 71–73

rigor bases in
, 67–69

Simultaneous discoveries
, 129–130

Snowballing
, 159

Social

class
, 23

interactions
, 260

movement theory
, 30

reflexivity
, 219, 228, 232

sciences
, 218

workers
, 223

Society
, 230

Sociology
, 231

frameworks
, 33

of professions
, 219

of science
, 125

of sociology
, 221

Spirit

of local intellectual milieus
, 136

of time
, 135

Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3)
, 95

Stakeholders
, 86

theory
, 30

Stanford-born theories
, 136

Status
, 80

Sterile sociology
, 232

Strategic decision
, 183

Strategic projects cycle
, 183

Strategizing form
, 142

Strategy discourse

enacting context in
, 148–149

enacting time in
, 145–147

Structural-functional theory
, 24, 124–125, 231

Subjectivism
, 143

Substantive trajectories
, 185

Tabulating process
, 174

Technocratic conception
, 60

Templates
, 202

Temporal

approach
, 203

phase approach
, 208–209

replication of conceptual model
, 185

work
, 183

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
, 44

Theories of voice
, 35

Theorizing process
, 143

Theory building
, 22, 23

comparative methods
, 36

discursive perspective
, 142–144

future
, 30

meso-level
, 25

Theory-based empathy
, 51

TQM
, 243

Traditional variance models
, 177

Transgressions
, 80

Trend mapping
, 185, 187

Unearned benefit
, 80

Unsettling research, lived experience of
, 158

causes
, 159–161

consequences of unsettling fieldwork
, 161–166

coping with fieldwork unsettles
, 166–169

unsettling contexts
, 158–159

Unsettling research, lived experience of
, 158–169

Unusual conceptual models
, 191

Value practices
, 179

performative
, 194

Varieties of capitalism (VoC)
, 34

Vector
, 108–109

Verantwortungsethik
, (see Ethic of responsibility)

“Vignette” approach
, 203, 207–208

Visual(izations)
, 175

displays
, 178

forms
, 182

mapping approach
, 175, 181

representations
, 175–176

templates
, 178

Visual artifacts
, 174

conventional visual repertoire
, 176–178

as tools for analyzing data
, 182–187

as tools for communicating
, 194–196

as tools for conceptualizing
, 187–194

as tools for mapping data
, 178–182

visual methods in literature
, 174–176

Weberian sociology
, 35

Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies (WEIRD societies)
, 29

Women directors
, 25–28

Word Mover’s Distance (WMD)
, 107, 109

World society theory
, 30

Writing
, 212, 218

Zeitgeist
, 126, 135, 229–231

Zen Buddhism
, 248