Affect holds the promise of destabilizing and unsettling us, as organizational subjects, into
new states of being. It can shed light on many aspects of work and organization, with …

In an unusually direct style of address, the article moves toward a novel critical practice
stimulated by affect theory: inhabited criticism. This more-than-representational approach …

Not since the 1930s has so much attention focused on the study of moods and emotions in
organizations. Unlike the research in the 1930s, current efforts are expected to result in a …

A new research paradigm is emerging within organizational behavior (OB), in both theory
and empiricism, based on the increasing recognition of the importance of affect to …

Silence on feelings in organizational theory is deemed a twentieth century aberra tion, at
odds with earlier assumptions and also with the deeper thrust of Max Weber's interpretative …

Executive Overview Interest in and research about affect in organizations have expanded
dramatically in recent years. This article reviews what we know about affect in organizations …

Writers on organizations have been slow to incorporate emotions into their thinking. A scan
of the indexes of mainstream textbooks on organizational behaviour and organizational …

Purpose Affect is relevant for organization studies mainly for its potential to reveal the
intensities and forces of everyday organizational experiences that may pass unnoticed or …

Over the last 15 years or so, the study of emotions in organizations has come a long way.
For a subject that was in near obscurity in the early 1990s, we now witness a veritable …

Scholars have studied emotions and affect in organizational settings for over twenty years,
providing numerous insights into how organizations and the people who work in them …