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Constructive and Destructive Deviance in Organizations

The Academy of Management Review, 2003
There are two streams of research on deviance in the management literature, one on its positive effects and one on its negative effects. Although the underlying behavior is the same—a departure from norms—these two research streams remain separate.
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STATUS AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF WORKPLACE DEVIANCE.

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2006
The article discusses the issue of workplace deviance and how its perception has transformed over time.
HANNAH RILEY BOWLES, MICHELE J. GELFAND
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Sexual Spanking, the Self, and the Construction of Deviance

Journal of Homosexuality, 2006
Using interview and observation data from a group of consensual, heterosexual adults interested in sexual spanking, I describe members' sexual stories and stigma neutralization techniques. Sexual stories are situated within broader cultural contexts that help individuals construct meaning and identities.
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Toward the Construct Definition of Positive Deviance

American Behavioral Scientist, 2004
In this article, the authors develop a definition of positive deviance, a foundational construct in positive organizational scholarship. They offer a normative definition of positive deviance: intentional behaviors that depart from the norms of a referent group in honorable ways.
Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Scott Sonenshein
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The Social Construction of Deviance: Experts on Battered Women

Social Problems, 1984
Contemporary experts on battered women have concentrated on asking why women stay with mates who beat them. This paper looks at how this question, and the way experts answer it, has created a new category of deviance and, by implication, a new clientele for the services of experts.
Donileen R. Loseke, Spencer E. Cahill
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Constructive Deviance

2018
This chapter defines do-it-yourself urban design in detail. It does so first in contrast to existing social science perspectives (in sociology, criminology, art criticism, psychology, and critical theory) on unauthorized urban space interventions more generally: place-based direct actions that challenge normative uses of particular urban spaces.
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Sick Doctors: The Social Construction of Professional Deviance

Social Problems, 1982
It has only been in the past decade that organized medicine has open acknowledged the extent to which drug addiction, alcoholism, and psychiatric disorders among doctors affect professional performance. The conceptualization of substandard performance as a medical rather than a legal, moral, or educational problem has led to the development of programs
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Can Workplace Deviance Be Constructive?

2003
Workplace deviance and misbehaviour are becoming an increasingly important issue for organizations. The prevalence of destructive and harmful behaviours is surprisingly common in the workplace. Approximately 70 per cent of employees have engaged in some form of deviant behaviour, such as losing their temper at work (Bennett and Robinson, 2000 ...
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Constructive Deviance, Destructive Deviance and Personality: How do they interrelate? [PDF]

, 2009
In recent years deviant behavior in organizations has drawn increasing attention. However, surprisingly little research has focused on constructive rather than destructive deviance. In an attempt to bridge this gap, the present study investigated both constructive and destructive deviance at work and their relationship to employee personality. Using 89
Moran Bodankin, Aharon Tziner
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Political trials and the social construction of deviance

Qualitative Sociology, 1984
In the 1960s and early 1970s deviance research, especially in the labeling perspective, was concerned with the question of how individuals or groups become defined as deviant. Since then, the political analysis of deviance has come to ask the more fundamental question of how deviance becomes constructed through political processes. A political trial is
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