Purpose: The official history of an organization is usually found on the organization’s website and in brochures. The purpose of this paper is to explore the narrative of an institution’s official history, the autobiography, as compared to the biography constructed by researchers....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to offer a theoretical framework of whistleblowing that gives due recognition to the emotional and reflexive processes that underpin it. Modes of anger are integrated into the model based on a reading of Geddes and Callister (2007), and developed by...

Purpose: While organizational access is central to much qualitative research, little is known about how researchers secure it. The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic assessment of this critical methodological step. Design/methodology/approach: A systematic review was conducted to...

Purpose: Several studies have recently documented projects of organizational transformation and modernization which, commonly clustered under the umbrella term “New Ways of Working” (NWoW), simultaneously entail material, technological, cultural and managerial dimensions. Academic...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to critique the metaphor of “shadow organizing” in relation to researchers’ allegedly ontological commitment to processual metaphysics. Design/methodology/approach: The paper focuses on the association of “shadow organizing” with...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to synthesize a body of research addressing changes in academic identity brought on by neo-liberal university management while proposing a new interpretation based on the institutional work theory and a relational approach to agency....

Purpose: Responding to calls to examine trust beyond the scope of the objectivist paradigm, the purpose of this paper is to qualitatively examine the trust relationship between leaders and followers in virtual work settings. Based on results, trust was operationalized based on extant theory...

Covers -- Editorial advisory board -- Editorial -- Killing ourselves with laughter … mapping the interplay of organizational teasing and workplace bullying in hospital work life -- Playing with power -- Abuse on online labour markets : targets' coping, power and control -- Workplace bullying...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze how physicians and nurses strategically employ the managerial logic. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative case study incorporating interviews and observations. Findings: Neither physicians nor nurses were prone to strategically...