Nonaka and Takeuchi's highly influential account of tacit-explicit knowledge-conversion in Japan's knowledge-creating companies has been instrumental in Knowledge Management's institutionalisation of Michael Polanyi's distinction between 'tacit knowledge' and 'explicit knowledge'. But tacit...

In contemporary western society, questions of identity concerning "who am I?" and "how should I act?" (Alvesson, 2000: 1105) are now a central concern in people's lives. Indeed, the western, liquidly modern context (Bauman 2000; 2001; 2003; 2005; Bauman & Haugaard 2008; Bauman & Tester 2001) is characterized,...

When public matters go spectacularly wrong an official inquiry often ensues. Such an inquiry, conducted by legal and professional personnel, is an opportunity for learning that carries an obligation to attribute responsibility. The post hoc fixing of responsibility may aid or hinder learning....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the role of power relations in initiating and blocking accounting change that involves increased “responsibilisation” and “incentivisation”, and to understand how institutional entrepreneurship is steered by power strategies....

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to explore inductively the unique paradoxical tensions central to family business (FB) and to analyze how FB's members face these tensions and their implications in the personal and professional realms. Design/methodology/approach: A multiple-case study...

Purpose: Burrell (2020) challenged management and organization studies (MOS) scholars to pay attention to a topic they have mostly ignored: the peasantry, those 2 billion people that work in the rural primary sector. This paper aims to address the topic to expand Burrell’s challenge by...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview from the literature on how best to define megaprojects in contemporary contexts. There is a need for a definition that encompasses a complex matrix of characteristics, inclusive of positive and negative aspects, which are not...