The Emerald Handbook of Management and Organization Inquiry - Hardcover

This book provides new and innovative insights into the field of management and organization inquiry through theory, method, and research. It provides extensive coverage of the 7S structure that has been so transformational for the field: Storytelling, System, Sustainability, Science, Spirit, Spirals, and Sociomateriality, showing how they evolved, how they interact, and possible futures for this discipline. These themes emerged during the 25 years of the Standing Conference for Management and Organizational Inquiry (Sc'Moi). We realized that we have to make space and time to get off the path of `business-as-usual' ways of working. We know how to make organizations more efficient, but we cannot steer them away from a short-term, quarterly return mindset. It takes a long temporal horizon to understand how we are depleting the resources that future generations will need to survive. The Emerald Handbook of Management and Organization Inquiry shines a light on a brighter way of working for the future: one that accommodates living and working within the limits of the world's resources.

David M. Boje is a Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, and a visiting Professor at Cabrini University, USA. He is also Emeritus Professor and a Regents' Professor at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, USA. He has published over 120 journal articles and 24 books, and he is the founder of the Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry. Mabel Sanchez is a PhD student at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, USA. Mabel has worked in the government and private sector, including the World Trade Center El Paso/Juarez, the New Mexico Border Authority, and the Dallas Independent School District. Her research interests include diversity, gender and organization, organizational change, feminist theory, and qualitative research.