High-trust relationships are essential for effective management of highly specialized organizations. Executives who choose involvement in problem-solving with employees and who become vulnerable by exposing their ignorance of employees' unique knowledge, especially tacit know-how acquired by...

Proper financing is often critical for cooperative development, but banks usually avoid providing it. A federation/consorzi of cooperatives that creates a guarantee fund may help to obtain financing in normal periods, but not in turbulent times which require radical, costly changes. Israeli...

The explanation of organizational distrust missed covertly concealed managerial ignorance (hereafter: CCMI), a dark secret veiled on organizations' dark side and facilitated by managers' unknowing of their own ignorance and by unstudied “jumper” managers' coping with gaps in local tacit...

Executives' morality and ethics became major research topics after recent business scandals, but research missed a major explanation of executives' immorality: career advancement by “jumping” between firms that causes gaps of job-essential local know-how, tempting “jumpers” to covertly...

Concealed managerial ignorance (CMI) is a dark secret that protects managerial authority, a terra incognita that evades customary research methods. A longitudinal semi-native ethnography of automatic processing plants and their parent inter-kibbutz cooperatives by a management-educated...

Organizational cultures affect trust levels but findings are contradictory. Fox's theory of high- and low-discretion syndromes and Bourdieu's field, practice, habitus, and capital concepts help explain contradictions by different or changing strategies of superiors, who either trust employees or...

Proper financing is often critical for co-operative development, but banks usually avoid financing co-operatives. A federation/consortia of co-operatives that collects fees and creates guarantee fund may obtain enough financing in normal periods, but not in turbulent times which require radical,...

My desire to solve the basic problems of my own society, kibbutz, led me to engage in a quot;long effort applied to oneself which [has converted]... one's whole view of... the social worldquot; (Bourdieu 1990:16), and this view exposed the true extent of kibbutz misunderstanding by its hundreds...

A major interest and prime right of co-operative members, especially talented, educated, and/or expert ones, is that managers give them fair and just, opportunities to contribute their faculties for co-operative problem-solving, decision-making, and innovating, thus sharing leadership. However,...

Purpose – Organizational research missed managerial ignorance concealment (MIC) and the low-moral careerism (L-MC) it served, leaving a lacuna in managerial stupidity research: MIC serving L-MC was not used to explain this stupidity. The purpose of this paper is to remedy this lacuna....