...Sally Riad; Deborah Jones Purpose The authors use the debates instigated by Bernal's Black Athena to rethink the concepts of “race”, “culture” and “diversity” in organization and aim to examine their intersection with academic authority. Design/methodology/approach Drawing...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Upward defiance Voice theory Mutiny Resistance Blair Mountain War Organizations Organizational conflict Although the romantic aspects of mutiny appeal to popular press usage, business research has not explicitly incorporated...

... management. Originality/value This paper is the first to recognize Barnard's unique contribution to contemporary perspectives on IR and HRM disciplines. Barnard (1948) published his view of human relations in the Organization and Management, a selection of his articles that followed his...

... The principal findings show that the underpinnings of mutiny in organizations derive from three foundations: disconnections between authority echelons, modes of addressing member disgruntlement, and the need for management to develop continuous competencies. Originality/value The paper goes beyond reports...

...‐in‐use” research. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the favored “logic‐in‐use” research while investigating the dealing with concept articles in organization studies publications. Design/methodology/approach The methodology of this paper is based on articles referring to 44 identified...

...Robert Cowan; Susan B. Malcolm; Nell Tabor Hartley Purpose Drucker's views about ethics are supported by the philosophical foundations of Aristotle and Confucius with regard to the responsibilities and interdependencies that exist between individuals, organizations, and societies. The purpose...

... and (part of) the US. Second, in the renewed perspective, the concept of institution becomes the active locus of mediation of multiple viewpoints; the institution turns out to be the catalizing and organizing center of knowledge developed in different disciplinary contexts. The paper is organized thus...