This paper suggests how the 'grey literature', the diverse and heterogeneous body of
material that is made public outside, and not subject to, traditional academic peer‐review …

Field theory was central to K urt L ewin's work yet, after his death, interest in it declined
significantly until the 1990s when a variant, force field analysis, became widely used. This …

Authors are experiencing increasing competition for their articles to be published. One way
of ensuring their work is given the best chance of being published is to underpin their …

Recent estimates suggest that although a majority of funds in organizational training
budgets tend to be allocated to leadership training (Ho, 2016; O'Leonard, 2014), only a …

Organizations are increasingly relying on service robots to improve efficiency, but these
robots often make mistakes, which can aggravate customers and negatively affect …

For many post-graduate students undertaking a research project for the first time is a
daunting prospect. Gaining the knowledge and skills needed to do research typically has to …

In this essay we challenge standard approaches to the academic–practitioner gap that
essentially pit sides against each other, treating them as dichotomous. Instead, we identify …

Critical realism is emerging as a viable philosophical paradigm for conducting social
science research, and has been proposed as an alternative to the more prevalent …

abstract In this paper we question the one‐sided thesis that contemporary organizations rely
on the mobilization of cognitive capacities. We suggest that severe restrictions on these …

There is an increasing concern that management theories are not relevant to practice. In this
article we contend that the overall problem is that most management theories are unable to …