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David Randall
Bio: David Randall is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 350 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, Bulent Diken shows that binary urban logics produce more grey than they do black and white, and the notorious favela outside of Rio that is the subject of Meirelles' film is simultaneously included and excluded from all that Rio represents.
Abstract: Well over a millennium and a half ago, Augustine distinguished between two cities: the Heavenly City and the Earthly City. While one was the site of all that was holy and spiritual, the place of faith, the other was foul and wicked, the realm of the flesh. Such dichotomies, expanded into a full‐fledged binary logic, persist in the way that we think about cities today. But as Bulent Diken shows in these reflections on Joao Fernando Meirelles' film—entitled, appropriately enough—City of God, cities today are bound up with the very things they try to exclude: ghettos, slums, and shanty‐towns. Binary urban logics in fact produce more grey than they do black and white. The notorious favela outside of Rio that is the subject of Meirelles' film is simultaneously included and excluded from all that Rio represents. It is at once a dumping ground for the city's byproducts—the (human) waste generated by its own development—and its products. It is a zone beyond the civilized city, which, as the city's inverted, carni...
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TL;DR: Using feminist deconstructive strategies, the authors exposes some of the rhetorical and cultural conditions that have sustained the organizational leadership literature as a seductive game and argues against the closure imposed by organizational research and theory on what can be said to be organizational knowledge.
Abstract: Using feminist deconstructive strategies, this paper exposes some of the rhetorical and cultural conditions that have sustained the organizational leadership literature as a seductive game. The juxtaposition of 'leadership' and 'seduction' functions as the focus of analysis for understanding the cultural limits of know ledge at times when innovations in theory and research are expected, but do not seem to be happening. Through various analytical approaches, the paper creates 'reading effects' that may be unsettling for the community of organizational scholars. This opens different spaces for reflecting upon and arguing against the closure imposed by organizational research and theory on what can be said to be organizational knowledge.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the state of the art of research on management paradoxes and then explain four regularities surfaced in the literature on this topic, and conclude by arguing that taking these regularities as a whole allows them to suggest a new perspective on paradoxes - one with a positive regard for the copresence of opposites but that takes seriously the potential relationship between these.
Abstract: Paradox is gaining more and more pervasiveness in and around organizations, thus increasing the need for an approach to management that allows both researchers and practitioners to address these paradoxes. We attempt to contribute to this project by suggesting a relational approach to paradoxes. To this aim, we first present the state of the art of research on management paradoxes and then explain four regularities surfaced in the literature on this topic. We conclude by arguing that taking these regularities as a whole allows us to suggest a new perspective on paradoxes - one with a positive regard for the co-presence of opposites but that takes seriously the potential relationship between these.
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06 Oct 2010
TL;DR: The authors identify four sets of textual practices that researchers in the field of organization and management theory have used in their attempts to be reflexive, and characterize them as multi-perspective, multi-voicing, positioning and destabilizing.
Abstract: This paper identifies four sets of textual practices that researchers in the field of organization and management theory (OMT) have used in their attempts to be reflexive. We characterize them as multi-perspective, multi-voicing, positioning and destabilizing. We show how each set of practices can help to produce reflexive research, but also how each embodies limitations and paradoxes. Finally, we consider the interplay among these sets of practices to develop ideas for new avenues for reflexive practice by OMT researchers.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the social processes underlying the peer-review process warrant closer scrutiny and that there must be a balancing of the inevitable author-editor-referee tensions operating throughout the editorial process so as to ensure that a clear authorial voice is preserved.
Abstract: Prior research on the peer-review process has almost exclusively focused on its surface features--its impartiality, validity, and reliability What has received relatively less attention is the influence of the social component that shapes the content of the discipline's published record and, in turn, determines its scientific progress As the product of social processes, all knowledge-claims are socially constituted rather than the products of an absolute truth Taking a sociology-of-knowledge perspective, I argue that the social processes underlying the peer-review process warrant closer scrutiny In doing so, I contend that there must be a balancing of the inevitable author-editor-referee tensions operating throughout the editorial process so as to ensure that a clear authorial voice is preserved I offer suggestions for assuring the integrity of the scientific enterprise, while respecting the prerogatives and ethics of authorship
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