John Austin introduced the formulation 'performative utterance'in his 1962 book How to Do
Things with Words. This term and the related concept of performativity have subsequently …

In this editorial, the co‐editors‐in‐chief undertake a number of tasks related to International
Journal of Management Reviews (IJMR). They begin by reviewing the objectives set out by …

Developing and evaluating scientific knowledge and its value requires a clear–or at least not
too unclear–understanding of what 'theory'means. We argue that common definitions of …

Purpose Traditional approaches in qualitative research have adopted one research
paradigm linked to an established typology. This paper addresses the unconventional …

Despite the proliferation of strategy process and practice research, we lack understanding of
the historical embeddedness of strategic processes and practices. In this article we present …

Existing narratives about how we should organize are built upon, and reinforce, a concept
of'good management'derived from what is assumed to be a fundamental need to increase …

In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of 'critical performativity', a concept
designed to debate relationships between theory and practice and encourage practical …

As flexibility has become a sine qua non of the contemporary workplace, we performed a
critical review of its different uses and understandings in business and management …

As a synthesis of organization theory and historiography, the field of organizational history is
mature enough to contribute to wider theoretical and historiographical debates and is …

This paper aims to review how different approaches to social inquiry (eg positivist,
postpositivist, interpretive, postmodernist and critical theory) have been used in strategy …