The purpose of this article is to specify the nature of a critical activity in the field of strategy. While post-procedural researches offered alternatives to conventional strategy, they do not really fit to a critical theory of strategic management. Building on a literature review in critical...

Basé sur le modèle théorique d'Oliver (1991) des réponses stratégiques à la pression de l'environnement institutionnel, cet article discute des stratégies mises en place par les distributeurs de films à l'égard de cette forme particulière de pression institutionnelle que représente la...

В настоящей статье на основе компаративного анализа теоретических концепций и практических моделей мифов всоциогуманитарном знании уточнена структура...

This conceptual-theoretical article revisits the work of Parry and Hansen on the nature of the organizational story as leadership. The present article is written in the autoethnographic style. The original narrative work is re-examined through the lenses of autoethnography, narrative theory,...

This article, derived from my doctoral dissertation (Davidson 2007) examining the emergence of hospital protocols for perinatal bereavement during the last half of the twentieth century in Canada, focuses on the methodological complexities – the draw, the drain, and the delight of doing...

This paper is a summary of a presentation made at the 2010 Annual Conference of the British Accounting Association's Special Interest Group on Accounting Education, held at Dublin City University. This presentation set out a case for a communal scholarship of teaching and learning within...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to critically evaluate sexuality and sexual symbolism within the organisational culture of an accounting firm to explore how it is implicated in processes of gendering identities of employees within the firm. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a...

This paper presents a discussion of my personal experiences of selling a family farm and analyses those experiences using the layered account form of autoethnographic writing. I describe how the cultural influences from family farming led me, a farmer’s son, to also become a farmer, why...

Purpose –This paper aims to consider the accounting academic, the environment in which the academic operates and the challenges they face. Design/methodology/approach –This paper explores a number of issues relating to the accounting academic. The five papers that make up the special issue...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the influence of academics who are members of the profession on academic institutions. Design/methodology/approach – An analytic autoethnography of the influence of accounting academics who are members of the profession on South African universities,...