Despite a rich extant literature, it is unclear what business models are. We assess three dominant conceptions of business models in the academic literature: as transactional structures, value extracting devices, and mechanisms for structuring the organization. To overcome the shortcomings of...

We explore how transitory management fashions become institutionalized. Based on the concepts of institutional entrepreneurship and institutional work, we postulate that fashionable management practices acquire permanence when they are anchored within field-wide institutions. The building of...

The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion of salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class of managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards of large and complex corporations, and not principally or exclusively as...

This article analyses the evolving cultural political economy of climate change by developing the concept of ‘climate imaginaries'. These are shared socio-semiotic systems that structure a field around a set of shared understandings of the climate. Climate imaginaries imply a particular mode...

This article takes stock of the discourse on ‘political CSR' (PCSR), reconsiders some of its assumptions, and suggests new directions for what we call ‘PCSR 2.0'. We start with a definition of PCSR, focusing on firms' contribution to public goods. We then discuss historical antecedents to...

Why are some serious cases of corporate irresponsibility collectively forgotten? Drawing on social memory studies, we examine how this collective forgetting process can occur. We propose that a major instance of corporate irresponsibility leads to the emergence of a stakeholder mnemonic...

We examine how discourses are mobilized and deployed by actors in an inter-organizational domain during a critical industrial relations event. We identify the ways that business interests and union interests in the Melbourne Port industrial dispute of 1997-98 related to each other. We weave...

1. Introduction / Mats Alvesson and Andre Spicer -- 2. Theories of leadership / Mats Alvesson and Andre Spicer -- 3. Metaphors for leadership / Andre Spicer and Mats Alvesson -- 4. Leaders as saints : leadership through moral peak performance / Mats Alvesson -- 5. Leaders as gardeners :...

Doubt is an important, yet largely overlooked part of organisational life. In recent years, a small but fragmented literature on the topic has appeared. It treats doubt something largely negative which inhibits action or something positive and ‘generative’. These approaches often overlook...