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Absconding vociferously: Rumours about the disturbing disappearance of organizations
Jens Aderhold and Ralf Wetzel
Understanding the future by looking at the past: Search of management wisdom as therapeutic autocommunication
Ari Ahonen and Tomi J. Kallio
Is small beautiful when it comes to the management of older workers?
Linda Alker
Linux communities‘ voice versus mainstream discourse on information and communication technology
Rozi Bako
University culture(s) as a determinant/moderator of innovative assessment practice
Stephen Barr
Genealogy, critique and the government of public servants
Edward Barratt
The advent or badvent of small business decline: The case of the newsagent and the monopoly newspaper distributor
Lynne Baxter
The economy of exchange
Thomas Bay and Martin Fuglsang
The dreams of reason produces monsters
John Bergin
Pictures and rugs, cartoons and mugs: Using artefacts to create stable individual spaces in changing organizational times
Jan Betts
Marx, Volée
Armin Beverungen
Improbable spaces: Signs of the future city in a university project
Timon Beyes, Christoph Michels and Sabine Poralla
Rejoice! We are haunted. Towards a Deleuzian understanding of accounting standard setting process
Frederic Bill and Lena Olaison
In the name of love! - Let’s remember desire
Anders Bojesen and Sara Louise Muhr
Poetry as organization of creativity: Lessons from ‘the Jack Kerouac school of disembodied poetics’
Janet Borgerson
Temporality and templarity in an advertising agency
François Bouchetoux and Gavin Jack
Temporal co-ordination and time tensions in a university business school: The non-academic staff's account
Brandon E. Brown and Reva Berman Brown
Ethno-national discourse, employee identity and public sector organisation in Northern Ireland
Gary Brown, Mark McGovern, Dominic Elliott and Frank Worthington
Performativity and experience in the inter-active service economy (IASE) – Call-centres and boutique night life
Gary Brown and Terry Wallace
Managing director Mr. Sisyphus – Romanian industry leaders facing the absurdities of a state-socialist economy
Dirk Bunzel and Mihaela Kelemen
‘Truth is in the future’: Foucault and the history of management consultancy
Nick Butler
Signs of the spirit: Critical reflections on the instrumentality of workplace spirituality
Peter Case and Jonathan Gosling
The past – precious asset, sweet burden or a curse?
Sylwia Ciuk
Creating identity dynamics: How the major music labels failed to make sense of future insights while new entrants set the pace
Carsten Claus
Future proofing nature – a how to guide
Denise Conroy and Christina Lee
Desperately seeking summerland: The abyss-mal present and the perfect future in spiritualism, surrealism, and the spirituality at work movement
Martin Corbett
Sensegiving as mise-en-sens - the case of wind power development
Hervé Corvellec and Annette Risberg
At war with oneself: Self-alienation at work
Jana Costas
Archaeologies of the future - the desire called utopia and other science fictions: A review essay
Christian De Cock
Organizational discontinuity: Evolutionary, revolutionary and re-evolutionary change
Juergen Deeg
Academic Competence and the RAE
Stephen Dunne and Stefano Harney
Modern consulting between messianism, foolism and medialism
Sigrid Duschek and Ralf Wetzel
Klassicism, Kitsch, Kraus and Katastrophe
James Fairhead
Becoming a manager: How newly appointed managers are shaped by and shape the future
Elisabeth Fellbom
The protean self: Career self-management between the dream of autonomy and the dystopia of disposability
Isleide Arruda Fontenelle
Cosmopolitan utopias and the global corporation
Robert Halsall
Employment tribunal decisions: Do panels get persuaded?
Peter Hamilton
The problem with demands
David Harvie and Keir Milburn
Back to the future for diversity: A manifesto for less modesty, more bravado!
Susan Harwood
The interrupted promise of the One: work, subjectivity and the metonymy of desire
Casper Hoedemaekers
The manager – a suitable case for treatment
Norman Jackson and Pippa Carter
“… and this is where the flying cars were supposed to land.” Spaces and events in the making and celebrating of a Garden City
Marjana Johansson
From communicating to others to communicating to self: Doctoral thesis writing as therapy
Tomi Kallio and Johan Sandström
The step forward
Eleni Karamali
It used to be so nice... Organizations and the myth of the origins
Ruud Kaulingfreks and René ten Bos
Futures’ past: A genealogy of the futures
Donncha Kavanagh, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley
Autonomy and tacit cruelties: Judith Butler’s politics of identification
Kate Kenny
Promises of the past, promises for the future: On utopianism and commercial space
Nina Kivinen and Anna-Maria Murtola
Measures of life: Performance management, commitment and work life balance
Anders Raastrup Kristensen
Social Design
Jan Lachenmeyer and Claas Wenzlik
Guattari, organisation and future potential
Scott Lawley
The war on corruption: Envisaging a bright future?
Thomas Lennerfors
The undivine comedy: The question of happiness and success (or whatever) after German philosophy
Ming Lim
"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" - Critical and dialectical meontology, desire, and the cultishness of organization studies
Stephen Linstead
Messianism and Decisionism
Matteo Mandarini
Dreaming of space, imagining membership
Zara Mirmalek
Bakhtin's theory of speech as social praxis
Branta Mraovic
Control challenged: Why homogenetic structures may fail in radically changing environments
William C. Murray, Anthony R. Yue, Gabrielle Durepos and Albert J. Mills
Just coasting/terminal man in flight at airport-organization
Damian O’Doherty
In the face of hierarchy and patriarchy: Struggling for the egalitarian workplace in five worker cooperatives in buenos aires
Collette Oseen
Restricted access to the promised land: An action-based aesthetic investigation into leading values-based masters programmes
Margaret Page and Ann Rippin
The Passion of Bauer
Michael Pedersen and Rasmus Johnson
Risk as present futures
Peter Pelzer
Megadebacleopolis: Living in the future office
Luc Peters
The Sine of the end of all things: Reflecting on the future of organisations from an analysis of Grendel, Poko-poko Te-Herehere-A-Taniwha and J.M Coetzee’s magistrate as reflection and repetition.
Wayne Pihema
The future of diversity: Tolerance or respect?
Elvio Corrêa Porto and Hélio Arthur Reis Irigaray
Mythic leadership and the reality of conflict: Shakespeare’s Henry V and Coriolanus
Chris Poulson
Trust and the future: How to build trust in the future?
Frank Pruvost
“I guess I don’t know what I’m doing” – the implications of IT support and training on the worker and the organization
Hannah Rasmussen and Nicole Haggerty
After Organization, Apocalypse
Alf Rehn
The mobility work of men managers careers
Cristina Reis
“All I want to do is get that check and get drunk”: Work, catastrophe and subversion in Charles Bukowski’s Factotum
Carl Rhodes
Over the hill or under the table? Organizing age identities at work
Kathleen Riach
A club of socializers: The future of the economic discipline
Juliane Riese
Domestication of global capital
Aapo Riihimäki
Is there another way but a utopian one?
Rudi Rozman
A more fulfilling life: Critical analysis of discourses on spirituality and work
Cécile Rozuel
How to manage imagination and reason turning it a “good utopia”: Is such a thing possible (and desirable)?
Adriana Salinas, Oswaldo Melo Souza Filho and Mirivaldo Rosim
The compression of time: Virilio, info-war and the drug test
Charlotte Sanderson
Mourning the dead: Memory, culture and family snapshot photography
Janet Sayers
Stories of diversity
Christina Schwabenland and Frances Tomlinson
Foresight as structured communication and learning processes: Preparing for the future
Jan Oliver Schwarz
Veils, ceilings and identity: Interpretations of the hijab
Sudi Sharifi and Chris Rees
Aestheticization of the heavy trucks industry — but who will cater for it?
David Sköld
What’s wrong with authentic transformational leadership?
Sverre Spoelstra
The foreshortened future and climate change
Mescal Stephens
Fragmented identity: A sign of the future?
David Stiles
Sustainable regional development and employment: a role for organized labour?
Graham Symon and Jonathan Crawshaw
The resources of future – On ownership, immateriality and copyright
Saara Taalas
“Vanity of vanities! All is vanity!”
Deirdre Tedmanson
Managing in messianic time/s: The manager as messiah
Edward Trezise
Zigmanagement
Wayne Tyson
Bodies of the future: Embodied labour and lived difference
Sheena Vachhani
Future imagining as a social practice: SETI, aliens, and other other
David Valentine
Feeding the genetic faith: Genetic determinism in Dutch information on genetic technology
Jan van Baren
Placidity: the real spiritual infrastructure for leadership
Frits van Engeldorp
Water futures: how do scattered sovereignties and infrastructure markets articulate?
Katie Vann
Making sense of job loss: Experiences of Indian managers
Viji Vijayalakshmi
Bean counters or bright young things?: A visual study of identity construction among newly qualified professional accountants
Sam Warren
Utopian Demands
Kathi Weeks
The event’s the thing: Brief encounters with the leaderful moment
Martin Wood and Donna Ladkin
A cacophony of voices: Postcolonialist sensemaking and Hurricane Katrina
Anthony R. Yue and Jean Helms Mills