Nelson Phillips
Biographic Data
| ID | 3610173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nelson Phillips |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nelson |
| FAMILY NAME | Phillips |
| SIGNATURE | PHILLIPS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6863-2758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Language, Cognition and Institutions: Studying Institutionalization Using Linguistic Methods
Religion and Organization Theory
Taking religion seriously in the study of organizations
The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management
This handbook offers a number of perspectives on innovation management as an emerging field of study, along with explanatory theories, recurrent challenges, and its application to innovation processes. It discusses some of the core stylized facts of innovation studies, focusing on the sources of new products, processes and solutions in the economic system. It also considers design as a source of innovation, the management of research and developm…
Taking religion seriously in the study of organizations
Despite its central importance in nearly all societies, religion has been largely neglected in the study of organizations and management. In this introduction to the volume on religion and organization theory, we argue that such neglect limits unnecessarily the relevance and scope of organization and management theory (OMT) and that there is therefore great value in connecting organizational research with a deeper appreciation and concern for rel…
Religion and Organization Theory
Despite the profound influence that religious organizations exert, religion occupies a curiously marginal place in organization theory. This volume aims to make available in one place existing knowledge on religion and organizations, encouraging more organization theorists to include religion as part of their research activities and agenda
Organizing Innovation
Bridging Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Creation of New Organizational Forms: A Multilevel Model
The question of how new organizational forms are created remains an unsolved problem in new institutional theory. We argue that one important way that new organizational forms emerge is through a process of bridging institutional entrepreneurship, which involves an institutional entrepreneur combining aspects of established institutional logics to create a new type of organization underpinned by a new, hybrid logic. Building on an in-depth case s…
Strategy
Power and Organizations
International audience
Power and Organizations (Foundations for Organizational Science)
The Birth of the 'Kodak Moment': Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Adoption of New Technologies
In this paper, we adopt a discourse analytic methodology to explore the role of institutional entrepreneurs in the process of institutional change that coincides with the adoption of a radically new technology. More specifically, we examine how Kodak managed to transform photography from a highly specialized activity to one that became an integral part of everyday life. Based on this case, we develop an initial typology of the strategies availabl…
Discourse and Institutions
In this paper, we argue that the processes underlying institutionalization have not been adequately investigated and that discourse analysis provides a coherent framework for such investigation.Accordingly, we develop a discursive model of institutionalization that highlights the relationship between texts, discourse, institutions and action.Our model begins with the relationship between action and discourse, and argues that action primarily affe…
From Moby Dick to Free Willy: Macro-Cultural Discourse and Institutional Entrepreneurship in Emerging Institutional Fields
In this paper, we draw on a case study of the development of commercial whale-watching on Canada’s west coast to explore the role of macro-cultural discourse and local actors in the structuration of new institutional fields. We argue that the development of the commercial whale-watching industry in the area was made possible by broad macrocultural changes in the conceptualization of whales in North America. At the same time, however, the characte…
Discourse Analysis
Institutional Effects of Interorganizational Collaboration: The Emergence of Proto-Institutions.
Institutional Effects of Inter-organizational Collaboration:The Case of Mre et Enfant (Palestine)In this paper, we explore the institutional effects of interorganizational collaboration.We argue that collaboration can act as a source of change in institutional fields through the generation of proto-institutions: new practices, rules and technologies that transcend the particular collaborative relationship and may become new institutions if they d…
Understanding Cultural Industries
In this article, the authors argue for more theoretical discussion and empirical research into the organizational and managerial dynamics of commercial cultural production. Their concern grows out of their observation that management research is neglecting cultural production as a serious object of investigation despite its economic, social, and political significance. Moreover, even when management researchers have studied cultural production, t…
Reflexivity in Organization and Management Theory: A Study of the Production of the Research `Subject
In this article, we draw on actor-network theory (ANT) to reflexively investigate the role of the researcher and the research community in the production of a research subject. We review our earlier work, which explores how the dynamics of refugee systems help to produce the research subject - in this case, the refugee. We then use ideas from ANT to move beyond the more conventional institutional and discursive analyses that are used in these art…
Discourse as a Strategic Resource
In this article, we outline a model of how discourse can be mobilized as a strategic resource. The model consists of three circuits. First, in circuits of activity, individuals attempt to introduce new discursive statements, through the use of symbols, narratives, metaphors, etc. aimed at evoking concepts to create particular objects. These activities must intersect with circuits of performativity. This occurs when, for example, concepts are cont…
No Joking Matter: Discursive Struggle in the Canadian Refugee System
Organizations often engage in discursive struggle as they attempt to shape and manage the institutional field of which they are a part. This struggle is influenced by broader discourses at the societal level that enable and constrain discursive activity within the institutional field. We investigate this relationship by combining a study of political cartoons, as indicators of the broader societal discourse around immigration, with a case study o…
Learning from Foundation: Asimov's Psychohistory and the Limits of Organization Theory
In this article, we use Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy as a case study, analyzing the events that occur in the novels in order to reflect on metanarratives and their applicability to organizational realities. We argue that metanarratives, while perhaps attractive from a legitimacy perspective, are neither epistemologically defensible nor desirable for the development of organization studies. We conclude by arguing that narrative fiction in gen…
Strategies of Engagement: Lessons from the Critical Examination of Collaboration and Conflict in an Interorganizational Domain
Many writers advocate interorganizational collaboration as a solution to a range of organizational and intersectoral problems. Accordingly, they often concentrate on its functional aspects. We argue that collaboration deserves a more critical examination, particularly when the interests of stakeholders conflict and the balance of power between them is unequal. Using examples from a study of the UK refugee system, we argue that collaboration is on…
Building the Tower of Babel: Communities of Practice and Paradigmatic Pluralism in Organization Studies
In this paper, we argue that the work of Thomas Kuhn lends itself to two conflicting interpretations of the nature of scientific work, and that these have very different implications for debates on paradigmatic pluralism within organization studies. We begin by framing two ideal typical interpretations (a reductionist interpretation and an irreductionist interpretation) of the allegory of the Tower of Babel. We then explore in more depth the irre…
Bringing the organization back in: A comment on conceptualizations of power in upward influence research
Managing legitimacy in ecotourism
Discourse as a Strategic Resource
In this article, we outline a model of how discourse can be mobilized as a strategic resource. The model consists of three circuits. First, in circuits of activity, individuals attempt to introduce new discursive statements, through the use of symbols, narratives, metaphors, etc. aimed at evoking concepts to create particular objects. These activities must intersect with circuits of performativity. This occurs when, for example, concepts are cont…
Managing Multiple Identities: Discourse, Legitimacy and Resources in the UK Refugee System
In this article, we examine how the concept of a `refugee' is discursively constituted within the UK refugee system. We examine the actions and interactions of four organizations in particular: the British government, the Refugee Legal Centre, the British Refugee Council and the Refugee Forum, as they struggle to establish an understanding of `refugee' conducive to their goals and interests. Within this institutional field, the social constructio…
Reflexivity in Organization and Management Theory: A Study of the Production of the Research `Subject
In this article, we draw on actor-network theory (ANT) to reflexively investigate the role of the researcher and the research community in the production of a research subject. We review our earlier work, which explores how the dynamics of refugee systems help to produce the research subject - in this case, the refugee. We then use ideas from ANT to move beyond the more conventional institutional and discursive analyses that are used in these art…
Sun, sand, and hard currency
Managing legitimacy in ecotourism
Edmund Burke and the County Movement, 1779–1780
Edmund Burke and the County Movement, 1779–1780 Get access N. C. PHILLIPS N. C. PHILLIPS University of CanterburyChristchurch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVI, Issue CCXCIX, April 1961, Pages 254–278, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVI.CCXCIX.254 Published: 01 April 1961
The British General Election of 1780: A Vortex of Politics
Notes1 This paper was originally read, in slightly extended form, to the Historical Association (Canterbury). Since this paper was written, the 1780 election has been described in great detail and with the full panoply of the Namierite technique in Ian R. Christie, The End of North’s Ministry, 1780–1782 (1958), pp. 4-163. Though Mr. Christie leaves little to be said from the point of view of electoral analysis, my standpoint is somewhat different…
Edmund Burke and the County Movement, 1779–1780
Edmund Burke and the County Movement, 1779–1780 Get access N. C. PHILLIPS N. C. PHILLIPS University of CanterburyChristchurch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVI, Issue CCXCIX, April 1961, Pages 254–278, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVI.CCXCIX.254 Published: 01 April 1961
Telling Organizational Tales: On the Role of Narrative Fiction in the Study of Organizations
In this article, I argue for the benefits of encouraging the use of novels, short stories, plays, songs, poems, and films as legitimate approaches to the study of management and organization. In particular, I argue that these forms of narrative fiction provide a useful addition to our ways of thinking about organ izations and an indispensable approach to strengthening the connection between organizational analysis as an academic discipline and th…
Bringing the organization back in: A comment on conceptualizations of power in upward influence research
Managing legitimacy in ecotourism
Sun, sand, and hard currency
Managing Multiple Identities: Discourse, Legitimacy and Resources in the UK Refugee System
In this article, we examine how the concept of a `refugee' is discursively constituted within the UK refugee system. We examine the actions and interactions of four organizations in particular: the British government, the Refugee Legal Centre, the British Refugee Council and the Refugee Forum, as they struggle to establish an understanding of `refugee' conducive to their goals and interests. Within this institutional field, the social constructio…
Strategies of Engagement: Lessons from the Critical Examination of Collaboration and Conflict in an Interorganizational Domain
Many writers advocate interorganizational collaboration as a solution to a range of organizational and intersectoral problems. Accordingly, they often concentrate on its functional aspects. We argue that collaboration deserves a more critical examination, particularly when the interests of stakeholders conflict and the balance of power between them is unequal. Using examples from a study of the UK refugee system, we argue that collaboration is on…
Building the Tower of Babel: Communities of Practice and Paradigmatic Pluralism in Organization Studies
In this paper, we argue that the work of Thomas Kuhn lends itself to two conflicting interpretations of the nature of scientific work, and that these have very different implications for debates on paradigmatic pluralism within organization studies. We begin by framing two ideal typical interpretations (a reductionist interpretation and an irreductionist interpretation) of the allegory of the Tower of Babel. We then explore in more depth the irre…
No Joking Matter: Discursive Struggle in the Canadian Refugee System
Organizations often engage in discursive struggle as they attempt to shape and manage the institutional field of which they are a part. This struggle is influenced by broader discourses at the societal level that enable and constrain discursive activity within the institutional field. We investigate this relationship by combining a study of political cartoons, as indicators of the broader societal discourse around immigration, with a case study o…
Learning from Foundation: Asimov's Psychohistory and the Limits of Organization Theory
In this article, we use Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy as a case study, analyzing the events that occur in the novels in order to reflect on metanarratives and their applicability to organizational realities. We argue that metanarratives, while perhaps attractive from a legitimacy perspective, are neither epistemologically defensible nor desirable for the development of organization studies. We conclude by arguing that narrative fiction in gen…
Discourse as a Strategic Resource
In this article, we outline a model of how discourse can be mobilized as a strategic resource. The model consists of three circuits. First, in circuits of activity, individuals attempt to introduce new discursive statements, through the use of symbols, narratives, metaphors, etc. aimed at evoking concepts to create particular objects. These activities must intersect with circuits of performativity. This occurs when, for example, concepts are cont…
Reflexivity in Organization and Management Theory: A Study of the Production of the Research `Subject
In this article, we draw on actor-network theory (ANT) to reflexively investigate the role of the researcher and the research community in the production of a research subject. We review our earlier work, which explores how the dynamics of refugee systems help to produce the research subject - in this case, the refugee. We then use ideas from ANT to move beyond the more conventional institutional and discursive analyses that are used in these art…
Discourse Analysis
Institutional Effects of Interorganizational Collaboration: The Emergence of Proto-Institutions.
Institutional Effects of Inter-organizational Collaboration:The Case of Mre et Enfant (Palestine)In this paper, we explore the institutional effects of interorganizational collaboration.We argue that collaboration can act as a source of change in institutional fields through the generation of proto-institutions: new practices, rules and technologies that transcend the particular collaborative relationship and may become new institutions if they d…
Understanding Cultural Industries
In this article, the authors argue for more theoretical discussion and empirical research into the organizational and managerial dynamics of commercial cultural production. Their concern grows out of their observation that management research is neglecting cultural production as a serious object of investigation despite its economic, social, and political significance. Moreover, even when management researchers have studied cultural production, t…
Discourse and Institutions
In this paper, we argue that the processes underlying institutionalization have not been adequately investigated and that discourse analysis provides a coherent framework for such investigation.Accordingly, we develop a discursive model of institutionalization that highlights the relationship between texts, discourse, institutions and action.Our model begins with the relationship between action and discourse, and argues that action primarily affe…
From Moby Dick to Free Willy: Macro-Cultural Discourse and Institutional Entrepreneurship in Emerging Institutional Fields
In this paper, we draw on a case study of the development of commercial whale-watching on Canada’s west coast to explore the role of macro-cultural discourse and local actors in the structuration of new institutional fields. We argue that the development of the commercial whale-watching industry in the area was made possible by broad macrocultural changes in the conceptualization of whales in North America. At the same time, however, the characte…
The Birth of the 'Kodak Moment': Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Adoption of New Technologies
In this paper, we adopt a discourse analytic methodology to explore the role of institutional entrepreneurs in the process of institutional change that coincides with the adoption of a radically new technology. More specifically, we examine how Kodak managed to transform photography from a highly specialized activity to one that became an integral part of everyday life. Based on this case, we develop an initial typology of the strategies availabl…
Power and Organizations
International audience
Power and Organizations (Foundations for Organizational Science)
Strategy
Bridging Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Creation of New Organizational Forms: A Multilevel Model
The question of how new organizational forms are created remains an unsolved problem in new institutional theory. We argue that one important way that new organizational forms emerge is through a process of bridging institutional entrepreneurship, which involves an institutional entrepreneur combining aspects of established institutional logics to create a new type of organization underpinned by a new, hybrid logic. Building on an in-depth case s…
Organizing Innovation
Religion and Organization Theory
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (16 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works)