Talking About Organizations Podcast
Kanaal Besonderhede
Talking About Organizations Podcast
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...
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130: Structure of Scientific Revolutions -- Thomas Kuhn (Part 2)
In Part 2 of the episode on Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions, we bring the concepts to the present day. His essay uses examples mostly from...
130: Structure of Scientific Revolutions -- Thomas Kuhn (Part 1)
For our 10th anniversary episode, we selected a modern classic that greatly informs science and research across many disciplines, including organizati...
130: Structure of Scientific Revolutions -- Thomas Kuhn (Summary of Episode)
Coming soon! For our 10th anniversary episode, we selected a modern classic that greatly informs science and research across many disciplines, includi...
130A: Our 10th Anniversary Episode!
10 years ago today, on October 13th, 2015, four rising scholars – Dmitrijs, Pedro, Miranda, and Ralph – launched the Talking About Organization Podcas...
129: Socialization and Training -- The Private SNAFU Series (Part 2)
In Part 2 of the episode on the Private SNAFU video series, we recount the various trials and tribulations of developing training modules for organiza...
129: Socialization and Training -- The Private SNAFU Series (Part 1)
Private SNAFU was a series of black-and-white animated shorts of three to five minutes in length recounting various misadventures of the title charact...
129: Socialization and Training -- The Private SNAFU Series (Summary of Episode)
For this year’s movie episode, we elected to take on a video series used during World War II to help socialize US Army rules and procedures among forc...
128: Meaningfulness of Work -- Andrew Carton (Part 2)
In Part 2, we continue exploring the case study of NASA in the 1960s. Having discussed the strategies used by President Kennedy to inspire NASA’s memb...
128: Meaningfulness of Work -- Andrew Carton (Part 1)
In this month’s episode, we examine a historical case study about how meaningfulness of work can be shaped by leaders’ actions. One frequently cited e...
128: Meaningfulness of Work -- Andrew Carton (summary of episode)
Coming soon! We will discuss Drew Carton’s 2018 article “’I’m not mopping the floors, I’m putting a man on the moon’: How NASA leaders enhanced the me...
127: The Problem of Embeddedness -- Mark Granovetter (Part 2)
In Part 2 of the episode on Mark Granovetter's 1985 paper, "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness," we consider the meanin...
127: The Problem of Embeddedness -- Mark Granovetter (Part 1)
In this month’s episode, we discuss Mark Granovetter's 1985 paper, Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness. Granovetter's wo...
127: The Problem of Embeddedness -- Mark Granovetter (summary of episode)
Coming soon! We will discuss Mark Granovetter's 1985 paper, "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness." He argued that econom...
126: Labor and Monopoly Capital -- Harry Braverman (Part 2)
In Part 2 of the episode on Harry Braverman’s book Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century, we consider the half-centu...
126: Labor and Monopoly Capital -- Harry Braverman (Part 1)
In this month’s episode, we discuss Harry Braverman’s book Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century. Along with his cri...
126: Labor and Monopoly Capital -- Harry Braverman (Summary of Episode)
Coming soon! We will examine Harry Braverman’s 1974 book Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century. It is considered a f...
125: Institution and Action -- Steven Barley (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our episode on Barley, we conclude the discussion on the relationship that he drew among the institutionalized patterns of behavior in th...
125: Institution and Action -- Steven Barley (Part 1)
This month we discuss a foundational work by Steven Barley on the introduction of new technologies into established organizations. His study of the fi...
125: Institution and Action -- Steven Barley (Summary of Episode)
Steven Barley’s career has produced considerable scholarship on meaningful work and change in organizations. This month’s episode will cover one of hi...
124: Postcolonial Theory -- Anshuman Prasad (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our episode on Prasad, we shift our attention to his 2003 book chapter titled “The gaze of the other: Postcolonial theory and organizatio...
124: Postcolonial Theory -- Anshuman Prasad (Part 1)
Anshuman Prasad (1954-2023) was a leading scholar and development of postcolonial theory and bringing it to the domain of management and organization...
124: Postcolonial Theory -- Anshuman Prasad (Summary of Episode)
Coming soon! We will cover the works of Anshuman Prasad and his development of postcolonial theory and its use in organizational analysis. By examinin...
123: Markets as Politics -- Neil Fligstein (Part 2)
This is Part 2 on our discussion of Fligstein’s 1996 article, “Markets as politics: A political-cultural approach to market institutions." Here we wor...
123: Markets as Politics -- Neil Fligstein (Part 1)
Fligstein’s 1996 article, “Markets as politics: A political-cultural approach to market institutions,” was an important contribution to the field of e...
123: Markets as Politics -- Neil Fligstein (Summary of Episode)
We will cover the economic sociology of Neil Fligstein, who countered the dominant 1990s-era neoclassical view of economics that failed to explain wel...
122: Cultivation and Curation of Professional Knowledge (Part 2)
We are launching the TAOP Resource Center! The Resource Center is a repository for entry-level scholars to learn more about “what’s out there.” What a...
122: Cultivation and Curation of Professional Knowledge (Part 1)
The Talking About Organizations Podcast website is more than just a host for great conversations. It is also a resource for rising scholars of organiz...
121: Rhetoric vs. Reality -- Mark Zbaracki (Part 2)
In Part 2 on Zbaracki’s “The rhetoric and reality of Total Quality Management,” we look at contemporary examples of rhetoric-reality gaps. Not being c...
121: Rhetoric vs. Reality -- Mark Zbaracki (Part 1)
This month we explore a renowned multiple-case study commonly assigned as foundational readings in organization studies programs. Mark Zbaracki’s “The...
121: Rhetoric vs. Reality -- Mark Zbaracki (Summary of Episode)
Coming soon! You might not have heard of Total Quality Management (TQM) but you no doubt have encountered pre-packaged performance improvement program...
120: Institutional Isomorphism -- DiMaggio & Powell (Part 2)
In Part 2 on DiMaggio & Powell’s “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizations,” we revisit the revi...
120: Institutional Isomorphism -- DiMaggio & Powell (Part 1)
In this episode, we discuss “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizations,” a ground breaking articl...
120: Institutional Isomorphism -- DiMaggio & Powell (Summary of Episode)
Coming soon! We will tackle “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizations,” a ground breaking articl...
119: Management & the Worker -- Roethlisberger & Dickson (Part 2)
The episode on Roethlisberger and Dickson concludes with a discussion of the contemporary meanings and importance of the Hawthorne studies. The author...
119: Management & the Worker -- Roethlisberger & Dickson (Part 1)
We return for another look at the Hawthorne Studies through Fritz Roethlisberger and William Dickson’s 1939 book Management and the Worker. The work c...
119: Management & the Worker -- Roethlisberger & Dickson (Summary of Episode)
We return for another look at the Hawthorne Studies through Fritz Roethlisberger and William Dickson’s 1939 book Management and the Worker. The work c...
118: Organizational Structures & Digital Technologies -- AoM 2024 Symposium (Part 2)
This is the second half of our presentation of a
symposium titled “Design Choices: Examining the Interplay of Organizational
Structure and...
118: Organizational Structures & Digital Technologies – AoM 2024 Symposium (Part 1)
This month we present a recording of a symposium titled “Design Choices: Examining the Interplay of Organizational Structure and Digital Technologies”...
118: Organizational Structures & Digital Technologies – AoM 2024 Symposium (Summary of Episode)
This month we present a recording of a symposium
titled “Design Choices: Examining the Interplay of Organizational Structure and Digital Technol...
117: Economic Sociology & Valuation -- Marion Fourcade (Part 2)
We conclude our episode on economic sociology and valuation by looking at the impact work has had on contemporary research. Societies continue to wres...