Organizational Soundscapes and the Sonicity of Voices: The Power of the ‘Sounds’ that Carry ‘Words’
Abstract Organizations are soundscapes – they resonate with sounds and particularly the sounds of voices. Somehow however voice sonics, that is the sounds of voices and not the words carried on those sounds, have escaped attention in management studies. This absence of analysis is peculiar given voice sonics' undoubted influence on management (they may
Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford
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Using cultural historical activity theory to understand how post-graduate residents perform discharge planning at a medical center in Taiwan. [PDF]
Liaw FY, Chang YW, Tsai PF.
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Intentionality and Attentionality Dynamics in an Institutional Change Process
Abstract In this article, we explore how actors' intentionality emerges, develops, and co‐evolves with institutional change. Although intentions are essential in shaping institutional change agents' motivations and actions, our understanding of their dynamics is limited and biased by the assumption that intentions are usually identifiable prior to ...
Sofiane Baba, Taïeb Hafsi, Omar Hemissi
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Co-development of client involvement in health and social care services: examining modes of interaction. [PDF]
Kurki AL +4 more
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A Theory of Leadership Meta‐Talk and the Talking‐Doing Gap
Abstract We identify managers' meta‐level talk about the positive purpose, meaning, and significance of their actions as an overlooked type of leadership behaviour and call it leadership meta‐talk. We outline why leadership meta‐talk is not necessarily truthful or deceptive, but selective and loosely coupled with leadership practice.
Thomas Fischer, Mats Alvesson
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Urban green space and mental well-being of older adults: participatory action research in Hong Kong. [PDF]
Lu S, Chui C, Li L, Wang W.
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The Inclusionary Effects of Performing Work: A Practice‐Theoretical Study of Airport Security Work
Abstract In contrast to inclusion research that often treats work as a neutral, passive background, this study theorizes the active role of work in producing an inclusive organization. We adopt a practice‐theoretical approach that examines the accomplishment of work activities through their discourses, embodiment, and material arrangements, critically ...
Laura Dobusch +3 more
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Features of Mobile Health Apps for Tobacco Cessation That Appeal to Black Adults Who Use Tobacco Products: Focus Group Study. [PDF]
Clark SA +4 more
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Abstract Emotions are a catalyst for actions. They are therefore important for developing an understanding of organizational routines as generative patterns of interdependent actions. To investigate how the performances and action patterns of routines are impacted by emotion changes brought about by alterations in the context of routine enactment, we ...
Emre Karali +3 more
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