Purpose – An earlier researcher, Wood, proposed that cinema is the most appropriate metaphor for interpretation of contemporary life and organizations. The paper adopts the enthusiasm for the cinema metaphor and explores the implications for industrial marketing and business networks, with...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the proposition that culture in international management has been dominated by a “Western dualism to measuring culture” (Capraret al., 2015, p. 1024), which has resulted in severe problems and persistent limitations. The suggestion is that...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to focus on methodological development of research into the influence of culture: the use of cross‐cultural, multidisciplinary and multi‐method techniques. Design/methodology/approach – The paper begins with a review of the interdisciplinary debate in...

Purpose Drawing on sociological theories of Giddens, Bourdieu and Goffman, the purpose of this paper is to explore how different relationships are characterized between actors in interaction and determine whether social theories of practice resonate as being practical to managers....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the interactive processes linking lived embodied experiences, language and cognition (body-talk-mind) and their implications for organizational change. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use an “embodied realism” approach to...