Robert P. Gephart

TL;DR: This editorial column is encouraging scholars to submit their qualitative research to the Academy of Man and encouraged Bob Gephart to provide a bit of a minitutorial-complete with reference citations and examples of high-quality papers that use particular qualitative approaches-in addition to his observations about qualitative research submitted to AMI

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present and illustrate the textual approach to qualitative research, which is used to observe organizational events and to gain access to related textual or qualitative information, using ethnography.

TL;DR: Gephart et al. as discussed by the authors explored the terrain of modernism and postmodernism in Organization Theory and discussed the coming Crises of Organizational Analysis in the postmodern era.

TL;DR: Turner's (1976) model of the organizational basis of disasters is reviewed in this article, and basic assumptions of the model are made explicit, and the relevance of this model for understanding environmental disasters is noted.

TL;DR: The special issue on organizations and risk in late modernity as discussed by the authors introduces the Special Issue on Organizations and Risk in Late Modernity and provides an overview of important approaches to risk research and organizations.