Talking About Organizations Podcast
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Talking About Organizations Podcast
Talking About Organizations is a conversational podcast where we talk about one book, journal article or idea per episode and try to understand it, its purpose and its impact. By joining us as we collectively tackle classic readings on organization theory, management science, organizational behavior...
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137: Science as a Vocation -- Max Weber (Part 2)
In Part 2, we bring Max Weber’s speech about Science as a Vocation to the present day and show that many of the same themes and concerns Weber express...
E137: Science as a Vocation -- Max Weber (Part 1)
We return once more to Max Weber and look at one of his most important and noteworthy speeches, “Science as a Vocation.” The speech includes a number...
E137: Science as a Vocation -- Max Weber (Summary of Episode)
Coming soon! We return once more to Max Weber and look at one of his most important and noteworthy speeches, “Science as a Vocation,” delivered in 191...
136: Bureaucracy (revisited) -- Max Weber (Part 4)
This is an expanded version of the supplement from the original Episode 6 on Max Weber's Bureaucracy. This release includes both the original suppleme...
136: Bureaucracy (revisited) -- Max Weber (Part 3)
In this release, we take a retrospective look at Weber's famous work and our original episode. How has our views about bureaucracy changed over the pa...
136: Bureaucracy (revisited) -- Max Weber (Part 2)
This is an edited re-release of our Episode 6, Part 2 on Max Weber's bureaucracy, originally from January 2016. Next week, we will provide an addition...
136: Bureaucracy (revisited) -- Max Weber (Part 1)
We are revisiting an older episode, our Episode 6 on Weber’s bureaucracy. The original episode explored the work objectively, trying to understand how...
136: Bureaucracy (revisited) -- Max Weber (summary of episode)
Coming soon! We will re-examine one of our earlier episodes which deserves another look. Weber’s chapter on the meaning of bureaucracy (Episode 6) rem...
135: Boundary Work in Science -- Thomas Gieryn (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our episode on Gieryn’s 1983 article “Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from non-Science,” we review the main points in the co...
135: Boundary Work in Science -- Thomas Gieryn (Part 1)
We continue our series of discussions on the sociology of science and cover a seminal article that is commonly found as required reading in doctoral p...
135: Boundary Work in Science -- Thomas Gieryn (Summary of Episode)
Coming soon! Our next episode features a 1983 article from Thomas Gieryn that discusses how the “boundary work” of scientists and others science contr...
134: Normal Accidents -- Charles Perrow (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our episode on Charles Perrow’s book Normal Accidents, we carry the framework forward into the 21st century to consider newer technologic...
134: Normal Accidents -- Charles Perrow (Part 1)
This month we are discussing Charles Perrow’s book Normal Accidents that addresses the risks associated with complex, tightly coupled high-risk techno...
E134: Normal Accidents -- Charles Perrow (Summary of Episode)
Coming soon! Our next episode features a 1999 book by Charles Perrow titled Normal Accidents that addresses the risks associated with complex, tightly...
133: Strategic Planning & Design -- Henry Mintzberg (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our episode on five works of Henry Mintzberg, we move toward the contemporary environment and ask ourselves how much has changed since th...
133: Strategic Planning & Design -- Henry Mintzberg (Part 1)
This month we return to the works of Henry Mintzberg, whose book Simply Managing we covered way back in Episode 14. This time, we decided to cover a n...
133: Strategic Planning & Design -- Henry Mintzberg (Summary of Episode)
Coming soon! We will cover a body of work by Henry Mintzberg. His career as a consultant and management researcher spans decades and has resulted in n...
132: AoM Special (Part 2) -- Queer Eye for Academics: Skills for Navigating Academic Life
We now release a recording of a professional development workshop (PDW) called Queer Eye For Academics: Skills For Navigating Academic Life, held at t...
132: AoM Special (Part 1) -- Multimodal Impact: Translating Academic Knowledge via Contextual, Collaborative, and Collectivist Modes
This month, we are presenting recordings of two events from the Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2025. The first event was Multimodal Impact: Tran...
131: Commitment and Community -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our episode on Kanter’s Commitment and Community, we examine in depth her conclusions about the distinction between “retreat” and “servic...
131: Commitment and Community -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Part 1)
This month we return to the works of Rosabeth Moss Kanter, whose works on tokenism we explored way back in Episode 17. This time, we will discuss one...
131: Commitment and Community -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter (summary of episode)
Coming soon! In our next episode, we will discuss Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s famous book Commitment and Community that examines the origins and life cycle...
130: Structure of Scientific Revolutions -- Thomas Kuhn (Part 2)
In Part 2 of the episode on Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions, we bring the concepts to the present day. His essay uses examples mostly from...
130: Structure of Scientific Revolutions -- Thomas Kuhn (Part 1)
For our 10th anniversary episode, we selected a modern classic that greatly informs science and research across many disciplines, including organizati...
130: Structure of Scientific Revolutions -- Thomas Kuhn (Summary of Episode)
Coming soon! For our 10th anniversary episode, we selected a modern classic that greatly informs science and research across many disciplines, includi...
130A: Our 10th Anniversary Episode!
10 years ago today, on October 13th, 2015, four rising scholars – Dmitrijs, Pedro, Miranda, and Ralph – launched the Talking About Organization Podcas...
129: Socialization and Training -- The Private SNAFU Series (Part 2)
In Part 2 of the episode on the Private SNAFU video series, we recount the various trials and tribulations of developing training modules for organiza...
129: Socialization and Training -- The Private SNAFU Series (Part 1)
Private SNAFU was a series of black-and-white animated shorts of three to five minutes in length recounting various misadventures of the title charact...
129: Socialization and Training -- The Private SNAFU Series (Summary of Episode)
For this year’s movie episode, we elected to take on a video series used during World War II to help socialize US Army rules and procedures among forc...
128: Meaningfulness of Work -- Andrew Carton (Part 2)
In Part 2, we continue exploring the case study of NASA in the 1960s. Having discussed the strategies used by President Kennedy to inspire NASA’s memb...
128: Meaningfulness of Work -- Andrew Carton (Part 1)
In this month’s episode, we examine a historical case study about how meaningfulness of work can be shaped by leaders’ actions. One frequently cited e...
128: Meaningfulness of Work -- Andrew Carton (summary of episode)
Coming soon! We will discuss Drew Carton’s 2018 article “’I’m not mopping the floors, I’m putting a man on the moon’: How NASA leaders enhanced the me...
127: The Problem of Embeddedness -- Mark Granovetter (Part 2)
In Part 2 of the episode on Mark Granovetter's 1985 paper, "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness," we consider the meanin...
127: The Problem of Embeddedness -- Mark Granovetter (Part 1)
In this month’s episode, we discuss Mark Granovetter's 1985 paper, Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness. Granovetter's wo...
127: The Problem of Embeddedness -- Mark Granovetter (summary of episode)
Coming soon! We will discuss Mark Granovetter's 1985 paper, "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness." He argued that econom...
126: Labor and Monopoly Capital -- Harry Braverman (Part 2)
In Part 2 of the episode on Harry Braverman’s book Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century, we consider the half-centu...
126: Labor and Monopoly Capital -- Harry Braverman (Part 1)
In this month’s episode, we discuss Harry Braverman’s book Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century. Along with his cri...
126: Labor and Monopoly Capital -- Harry Braverman (Summary of Episode)
Coming soon! We will examine Harry Braverman’s 1974 book Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century. It is considered a f...
125: Institution and Action -- Steven Barley (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our episode on Barley, we conclude the discussion on the relationship that he drew among the institutionalized patterns of behavior in th...
125: Institution and Action -- Steven Barley (Part 1)
This month we discuss a foundational work by Steven Barley on the introduction of new technologies into established organizations. His study of the fi...