This chapter investigates March's concepts of ‘exploration’ and ‘exploitation’ in relation to the graduate labour market (Levinthal & March, 1993; March, 1991). We focus on its use of the imagery of potentiality as key criterion of employability and investigate its dimensions through March's...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the way in which H.G. Wells' 1914 novel The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman might be interpreted as an “essay” illustrating some key aspects in the articulation of the ethos of business and management in the cultural context of early twentieth...

Purpose – This conceptual paper analyses cultural changes in the use of the concept of “play” in managerial ideologies and practices since the 1980s. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses Koselleck's approach to conceptual history in order to map how play is used in new ways by...