Theory as method: introduction to supertheoretical options for organization and management research Available to Purchase

Steffen Roth is Full Professor of Management at the La Rochelle Business School, France, and Visiting Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany. He holds the title of Professor of Social Sciences at the Kazimieras Simonavičius University; the title of Adjunct Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Turku; a Habilitation in Economic and Environmental Sociology awarded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research; a PhD in Sociology from the University of Geneva; and a PhD in Economics and Management from the Chemnitz University of Technology. He is the field editor for social systems theory of Systems Research and Behavioral Science. The journals his research has been published in include Journal of Business Ethics, Ecological Economics, Administration and Society, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, European Management Journal, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Futures.

Albert Mills is a Professor Emeritus of Management at the Sobey School of Business, NS, Canada, and a 0.2 Professor of Management Innovation at the University of Eastern Finland. He is the Co-Chair of the International Critical Management Studies association and former Co-Chair of the Critical Management Studies Division of the Academy of Management. He is the Co-Editor of the journal Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, serves as an Associate Editor of Organization; the International Journal of Work Innovation; and Gender, Work and Organization; and he is a member of several editorial boards, including the Academy of Management Learning and Education; the Journal of Management History; the Journal of Management Education and several others. Albert has also co-edited several special issues of scholarly journals, including Human Relations and Culture and Organization. His publications include 48 books, monographs and special issues; 109 chapters in edited collections; and 136 journal articles.

Bill Lee is a Full Professor of Accounting at the Sheffield University, UK. He has helped establish academic communities interested in research methods and was the inaugural secretary – and subsequent convenor and chair – of the Research Methodology special interest group of the British Academy of Management (BAM) and the inaugural chair of the Research Methods and Research Practice strategic interest group of the European Academy of Management (EURAM). He co-edits the Mastering Business Research Methods book series for Sage Publications. He is an associate editor of the European Management Review and Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management and a member of the editorial advisory board of three other journals. He has published widely across journals in the accounting and management fields and cognate disciplines, including in Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Omega, Organization Studies and Work, Employment and Society.

Dariusz Jemielniak is a Full Professor of Management at the Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland, where he heads the MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies) department. Most recently, he authored of Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia (2014, Stanford University Press, winner of Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture in 2015, and the Chair of the Polish Academy of Sciences academia award in 2016), as well as Collaborative Society (2019, MIT Press, co-authored by A. Przegalinska), and Big Thick Data: Doing Digital Social Sciences (forthcoming at Oxford University Press). In 2015 he joined Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. He had extended appointments at Cornell University (2004–2005), Harvard University (2007, 2011–2012, 2015–2018), University of California Berkeley (2008), MIT (2015–2016).