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Can management ever be responsible? Alternative organizing and the three irresponsibilities of management (2020)
Book Chapter
Langmead, K., Land, C., & King, D. (2020). Can management ever be responsible? Alternative organizing and the three irresponsibilities of management. In O. Laasch, R. Suddaby, R. E. Freeman, & D. Jamali (Eds.), Research Handbook of Responsible Management (40-55). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788971966.00007

This chapter argues that management should be understood as a concrete set of institutionally embedded practices, rather than an abstract verb for ‘getting things done’. Management, as a discourse, a social group, and a practice cannot become respons... Read More about Can management ever be responsible? Alternative organizing and the three irresponsibilities of management.

Realizing the critical performative potential of responsible organizational research through participant action research (2020)
Book Chapter
Langmead, K., & King, D. (2020). Realizing the critical performative potential of responsible organizational research through participant action research. In O. Laasch, R. Suddaby, R. Freeman, & D. Jamali (Eds.), Research Handbook of Responsible Management (700-714). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788971966.00058

Management research, particularly critical management research, has long been criticised for making little impact on practice. One response to this critique has been Critical Performativity; an attempt to make critical scholarship actively involved i... Read More about Realizing the critical performative potential of responsible organizational research through participant action research.