Power is not a single social phenomenon. It is a socially constructed concept of certain social phenomena. This article presents some different concepts of power derived from empirical studies of organizational behaviour in various political, organizational and cultural contexts. Reference is...

Power as an explanatory notion attracts the attention of many researchers, but the results produced are ambiguous, mainly because of differences in the operational definitions of power. The study reported below explores the uses of power as an experiential concept -- a construct used by...

The role of stories in organizing has traditionally been examined within the context of specific organizations, communities of practice, or social worlds. The study reported here describes the establishment in West Sweden of a centre for developing methods that allow for the recognition of prior...

This paper reviews emplotments of interpretations of the financial crisis of 2007-2010. Whereas popular culture, including the media, has a tendency to insist on strong plots, repeating the same type of explanation, the intellectuals, especially those from humanities, offer atypical plots. Such...

Summary The concept of "discourse communities" has wide use in education and linguistics, but has not yet been incorporated into studies of organizing. We would like to propagate the term in the context of organizing, as it extends the commonly accepted Foucault's insight that discourses tend to...

In most western countries there is a widely held opinion that, facing competition from other knowledge-producers, universities must change their identity from that of state-financed monopolies to self-financed participants in the knowledge-production markets. Together with a demand for...