Resources for Students and Faculty of Organization Studies
Since 2019, Talking About Organizations has been collaborating with the Management Learning Journal to present topical reading lists for students of organization theory and management science, focusing on organizations and learning. This is part of our broader mission to become a go-to resource for students learning about organizations!
We are especially honored with the tremendous support and sponsorship that Management Learning has provided us over the years. They make it possible for us to continue our program and encourage us to continue talking about organizations!
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Special thanks to Jarryd Daymond, Deborah Brewis, and Cara Reed for curating these collections on behalf of TAOP and Management Learning respectively!
Available Reading Lists:
Care - Reading list in collaboration with Management Learning about "care" and the study of ways and means of responsibly tending to people's needs. Resources in this curated list include studies on the showing of concern as an organizational competence, the ethics of care, and how showing care and concern can become entrapping and stressful. Continue Reading
Emotions - Curated reading list on matters of emotions, emotional labor, coping capacity and strategies, and research on the ontology of emotions in organization studies. This collection consists of articles from the Management Learning journal and several Talking About Orgnanizations episodes. Continue Reading
Gender and Feminism - Gender has been a significant topic in organization studies for a long time. We featured the groundbreaking work of Rosabeth Moss Kanter on "tokenism" from 1977 and covered the third wave of feminism in a review of Joan Acker's theory of gendering in organizations. Meanwhile, Management Learning frequently covers gender issues and feminism in its pages. This is yet another curated reading list from TAOP and Management Learning. Continue Reading
Group Relations - Group relations research examines how behavior are influenced not only by a person's own traits but also by their needs or desires to conform to social demands and expectations. It addresses questions about how groups are defined or define themselves, how the welcome or remove members, how they are structured, and how they collectively deal with internal conflict and external threats. This is yet another curated reading list from TAOP and Management Learning. Continue Reading
Historical approaches - There is much we can learn about management, leadership, and context through the use of historical case studies -- through traditional scholarly studies, fictional works based on history, or historical documents re-read through an organizational lens. The curated list from Management Learning and the Talking About Organizations Podcast covers numerous historically significant cases, some of which could easily be overlooked . Continue Reading
Learning in Organizations - How do organizations learn -- and what does "learning" mean in an organizational context, anyway? The below curated collection consists of articles from the Management Learning journal and Talking About Organizations episodes that explore both classical and contemporary research into the meaning, methods, and importance of learning in organizations. Continue Reading
Sociomateriality - Sociomateriality is a field of organization studies that looks at the integration and synthesis of technology, work, and organizing. How does the advances of technology influence (or tear at) the social fabric of the organization? Numerous Management Learning articles and TAOP episodes look at these issues from both classic and contemporary perspectives. This is a curated reading list between TAOP and Management Learning. Continue Reading