Albert J Mills
Biographic Data
| ID | 3939352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert J Mills |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mills |
| SIGNATURE | MILLS A J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Critical sensemaking
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze current literature on critical sensemaking (CSM) to assess its significance and potential for understanding the role of agency in management and organizational studies. Design/methodology/approach The analysis involves an examination of a selection of 51 applied studies that cite, draw on and contribute to CSM, to assess the challenges and potential of utilizing CSM. Findings The paper reveals the r…
A reflexive critique of a critical hermeneutics analysis of Wu Zetian
Purpose Revisiting the critical hermeneutics analysis of Wu Zetian’s case in Peng et al. ’s (2015) paper, the purpose of this paper is to explore the complexity and paradox of Wu Zetian as a historical figure, and to demonstrate the potential of critical hermeneutics as an innovative methodology to study gender, diversity and history. Moreover, the authors attempt to examine some of the potential challenges and limitations of this methodology and…
ANTi-History, relationalism and the historic turn in management and organization studies
Purpose This paper develops and provides insights on how researchers can use ANTi-History with a focus on one of its constitutive facets, relationalism. The purpose of this paper is to, first, develop a central facet of ANTi-History called relationalism and to outline how researchers interested in doing organizational history can use ANTi-History insights to undertake relational histories. Design/methodology/approach The authors propose four phas…
Organization Theory
Collecting Narratives and Writing Stories of Diversity
Drawing on the personal accounts of researchers of diversity, this chapter discusses the praxis of doing qualitative diversity research. First, it discusses how during a process of socialization, researchers are exposed to norms which promote certain research practices important to achieve the status of ‘good academic’. Second, it discusses the ambiguous and unstable power and identity dynamics characterizing qualitative research on diversity. Th…
The Oxford Handbook of Diversity in Organizations
Diversity and its management has become a feature of modern and postmodern organizations. Different practices have spread around the globe focusing on the organizing and management of inclusion and exclusion of persons and identities based on different genders, sexual orientations, racial and ethnic backgrounds, ages, and (dis)abilities, as well as religious beliefs. Different diversity dimensions are identified and different explanations provide…
Reframing Diversity Management
This chapter examines the globalizing trajectory of the concept of diversity management from a decolonial perspective. This decolonial analysis is undertaken by a ‘local’ researcher from an emerging economy in Latin America (more specifically, Brazil) who also takes part into the US-led ‘global’ MOS academy. The basic argument is that diversity management is a controversial concept due to its attachment to Eurocentric narratives of modernity/colo…
The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History
In one of the foundational articles in MOH, Clark and Rowlinson (2004: 331) argue that an ‘historic turn’ in organization studies would imply a greater engagement with historical values of context and process, rather than with the adjacent branch of history. This argument has been reiterated by scholars such as Andrew Popp (2009). By turning towards history as a discipline, historical researchers are seeking a re-connection to the disciplinary ‘m…
Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History
Reflections on the socio-politics of qualitative research
Purpose – A focus on the socio-politics of qualitative research and, given the space available, to raise more questions than answers. In other words, the author wants to be more speculative then definitive. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is grounded in a sociology of knowledge approach known as ANTi-History. Findings – The development of qualitative methods is grounded in the socio-politics of knowle…
Madness in their methods
Making sense of sensemaking
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to revisit the oft cited but as yet not operationalized Weick's sensemaking framework, in order to provide suggested ways forward. Development of a method based on Weick's sensemaking is suggested as a starting point for a heuristic that takes into account missing elements from his original model while operationalizing (critical) sensemaking as an analytical tool for understanding organizational events. Desi…
Gendering organizational analysis
"What impact do gender issues have on organizational structure and performance? Why should gender matter in organizational settings? And, how can we better understand organizations through a recognition of women's roles within them? In Gendering Organizational Analysis, the editors approach these questions from a variety of perspectives--structural and post-structural, social, psychological, interactionist, radical, and post-modernist." "Contribu…
Gendering organizational analysis
"What impact do gender issues have on organizational structure and performance? Why should gender matter in organizational settings? And, how can we better understand organizations through a recognition of women's roles within them? In Gendering Organizational Analysis, the editors approach these questions from a variety of perspectives--structural and post-structural, social, psychological, interactionist, radical, and post-modernist." "Contribu…
Gendering organizational analysis
"What impact do gender issues have on organizational structure and performance? Why should gender matter in organizational settings? And, how can we better understand organizations through a recognition of women's roles within them? In Gendering Organizational Analysis, the editors approach these questions from a variety of perspectives--structural and post-structural, social, psychological, interactionist, radical, and post-modernist." "Contribu…
Making sense of sensemaking
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to revisit the oft cited but as yet not operationalized Weick's sensemaking framework, in order to provide suggested ways forward. Development of a method based on Weick's sensemaking is suggested as a starting point for a heuristic that takes into account missing elements from his original model while operationalizing (critical) sensemaking as an analytical tool for understanding organizational events. Desi…
Madness in their methods
The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History
In one of the foundational articles in MOH, Clark and Rowlinson (2004: 331) argue that an ‘historic turn’ in organization studies would imply a greater engagement with historical values of context and process, rather than with the adjacent branch of history. This argument has been reiterated by scholars such as Andrew Popp (2009). By turning towards history as a discipline, historical researchers are seeking a re-connection to the disciplinary ‘m…
Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History
Reflections on the socio-politics of qualitative research
Purpose – A focus on the socio-politics of qualitative research and, given the space available, to raise more questions than answers. In other words, the author wants to be more speculative then definitive. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is grounded in a sociology of knowledge approach known as ANTi-History. Findings – The development of qualitative methods is grounded in the socio-politics of knowle…
Organization Theory
Collecting Narratives and Writing Stories of Diversity
Drawing on the personal accounts of researchers of diversity, this chapter discusses the praxis of doing qualitative diversity research. First, it discusses how during a process of socialization, researchers are exposed to norms which promote certain research practices important to achieve the status of ‘good academic’. Second, it discusses the ambiguous and unstable power and identity dynamics characterizing qualitative research on diversity. Th…
The Oxford Handbook of Diversity in Organizations
Diversity and its management has become a feature of modern and postmodern organizations. Different practices have spread around the globe focusing on the organizing and management of inclusion and exclusion of persons and identities based on different genders, sexual orientations, racial and ethnic backgrounds, ages, and (dis)abilities, as well as religious beliefs. Different diversity dimensions are identified and different explanations provide…
Reframing Diversity Management
This chapter examines the globalizing trajectory of the concept of diversity management from a decolonial perspective. This decolonial analysis is undertaken by a ‘local’ researcher from an emerging economy in Latin America (more specifically, Brazil) who also takes part into the US-led ‘global’ MOS academy. The basic argument is that diversity management is a controversial concept due to its attachment to Eurocentric narratives of modernity/colo…
ANTi-History, relationalism and the historic turn in management and organization studies
Purpose This paper develops and provides insights on how researchers can use ANTi-History with a focus on one of its constitutive facets, relationalism. The purpose of this paper is to, first, develop a central facet of ANTi-History called relationalism and to outline how researchers interested in doing organizational history can use ANTi-History insights to undertake relational histories. Design/methodology/approach The authors propose four phas…
Critical sensemaking
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze current literature on critical sensemaking (CSM) to assess its significance and potential for understanding the role of agency in management and organizational studies. Design/methodology/approach The analysis involves an examination of a selection of 51 applied studies that cite, draw on and contribute to CSM, to assess the challenges and potential of utilizing CSM. Findings The paper reveals the r…
A reflexive critique of a critical hermeneutics analysis of Wu Zetian
Purpose Revisiting the critical hermeneutics analysis of Wu Zetian’s case in Peng et al. ’s (2015) paper, the purpose of this paper is to explore the complexity and paradox of Wu Zetian as a historical figure, and to demonstrate the potential of critical hermeneutics as an innovative methodology to study gender, diversity and history. Moreover, the authors attempt to examine some of the potential challenges and limitations of this methodology and…
Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)