Adrian Madden

Datos Biográficos

ID4002242
NOMBREAdrian Madden
NOMBRESAdrian
APELLIDOMadden
FIRMAMADDEN A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Greenwich
ORCID0000-0002-3193-5808
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS38
TOTAL DE CITAS72
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR29
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2010
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H3

  • Women’s entrepreneurship in the informal economy

    Open AccessMirela Xheneti, Adrian MaddenARTICLEHuman Relations2025Citada por: 1Referencias: 88

    What role does ‘space’ play in shaping entrepreneurial choices? Much of the western-centric evidence offers abstract models of spatial dynamics, reflecting socio-cultural assumptions about entrepreneurship and the need to fix ‘women’s deficits’, within formal representations of space. We problematize these views by focusing on the everyday realities of women involved in (informal) entrepreneurial activities in a developing country context, explor…

  • Experiencing meaningful work through worthwhile contributions

    Open AccessCatherine Bailey, Adrian Madden et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations2025Citada por: 3Referencias: 78

    Why do individuals find their work meaningful and what is the role of worthwhile contributions in this experience? We undertake an analysis of accounts related by individuals working as nurses, creative artists and lawyers in which they explain why they find their work meaningful. Drawing on the traditions of critical discourse and narrative analysis, and informed by French pragmatic sociology, we move beyond a focus on what is said to consider h…

  • To Formalize or Not to Formalize

    Open AccessShova Thapa Karki, Mirela Xheneti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business Ethics2021

    Despite the depiction of decisions to formalize informal firms as rational and ethical, many entrepreneurs in developing countries continue to operate informally regardless of its perceived illicit status. While existing research on why entrepreneurs choose informality emphasizes the economic costs and benefits of such decisions, this often overlooks the realities of the informal economy and the constraints which marginal populations—particularly…

  • Meaning in Life and in Work

    Michael F Steger, Ruth Yeoman et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    Work has powerful potential to enrich our lives by providing them with meaning. The idea of meaning in life (MIL) is crucial to almost every measure of human well-being or flourishing, yet there is much less consensus over the idea of meaningful work (MW). Although the two ideas are often used interchangeably, this chapter reviews different conceptualizations of these ideas to see how they are related and takes a “theoretical turn” to consider so…

  • Dignity and Meaningful Work

    Norman E Bowie, Ruth Yeoman et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    The central importance of dignity for meaningful work justifies an obligation to provide meaningful work. This is because people have intrinsic worth as “dignity beyond price” and also because, through meaningful work, people experience themselves as dignified persons. In the Kantian formulation, people have dignity because they have the capacity for autonomy and self-government, and therefore can be held to be responsible. This chapter takes dig…

  • Meaningful Work and Family

    Evgenia I Lysova, Ruth Yeoman et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    Experiencing one’s work as meaningful is often assumed to benefit the individual, yet some scholars suggest that meaningful work can also be a very challenging experience, requiring individual sacrifice. These sacrifices may be borne by the family of the individual. The chapter reviews and integrates research on meaningful work, calling, and work–family interplay to better understand how the pursuit of meaningful work impacts one’s family. In so …

  • Callings

    Ryan D Duffy, Jessica W England et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    This chapter connects the literatures on callings and meaningful work. It examines the meaningful nature of calling by separating the idea of perceiving a calling from actually living one. It is argued that callings, whether prompted from within the person or externally, underpin meaningful engagement with work at the social or personal level because they provide people with purpose. Those who pursue a calling are shown to experience more meaning…

  • Self-transcendence and Meaningful Work

    Ruth Yeoman, Catherine Bailey et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    Self-transcendence is a concept often evoked in different approaches to meaningful work, but which lacks clarity. This chapter considers how the subjective experience of meaningful work, centering on significance and purpose, gives rise to the idea of meaningfulness as the realization of human potential, by connecting the inner and the outer life along spiritual and social dimensions. It points to a conceptualization of self-transcendence that pl…

  • Accounting for Meaningful Work

    Matthew Hall, Ruth Yeoman et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    Although the concept of meaningful work has not been addressed in accounting research, accounting scholars and practitioners have long grappled with how to reflect the value of employees and human capital in organizational accounts. This chapter examines how the features of a typical accounting system are likely to impact the treatment of meaningful work in organizations, including consideration of only its potential financial value, the exclusio…

  • Fostering the Human Spirit

    Douglas R May, Jiatian Chen et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    This chapter introduces a positive ethical framework for supporting the experience of meaningfulness at work. Three specific virtues are conceptually linked to meaningfulness (humanity, courage, and transcendence) and a number of character strengths that these encompass (such as morality, gratitude, and spirituality). It is argued that experiencing meaningfulness is more likely to result in the experience of positive emotions, contributing to a p…

  • Direct Participation and Meaningful Work

    Duncan Gallie, Ruth Yeoman et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    In this chapter, two aspects of the meaningful work context are considered: task discretion and organizational participation. It argues that these provide opportunities for values associated with meaningful work to be realized at both an intrinsic and instrumental level. Drawing on both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence, the chapter explores the extent to which meaningful work values are realized in both domains. Two types of direct pa…

  • Work Through a Gender Lens

    Heather Hofmeister, Ruth Yeoman et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    This chapter argues that the definition of work, and its meaningfulness potential, broaden when using a gender perspective. The historical legacy of gender differentiation in work results in blindness to activities that are “work” and to gender inequality within kinds of work. An inclusive definition of “work” would be activities or thoughts that affirm life and growth, imagine or create the future, or abate or delay death and decay. At least nin…

  • Does Corporate Social Responsibility Enhance Meaningful Work?

    Marjolein Lips‐wiersma, Marjolein Lips-Wiersma et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    This chapter examines the argument that corporate social responsibility (CSR) creates opportunities for meaningful work. The chapter develops a conceptual framework that integrates five different perspectives: personal responsibility; meaningful job characteristics; dignity and freedom; worthy work; and strong sustainability. However, while these conditions are necessary they are not sufficient, in themselves, to create more opportunities for mea…

  • Leadership and Meaningful Work

    Dennis Tourish, Ruth Yeoman et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    This chapter adopts a critical stance towards meaningful work and leadership theory and asks whether it is feasible or desirable for leaders to be positioned as architects of purpose and meaning. Work is, for many, a dissatisfying experience with little opportunity for voice and agency, rather than constituting a source of fulfillment and meaning. Leadership theories fail to account for leaders’ lack of authority over meaning-making for their fol…

  • Cultural, National,and Individual Diversity and their Relationship to the Experience of Meaningful Work

    Sebastiaan Rothmann, Laura Wei et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    This chapter explores cultural, national, and individual diversity, and their relationships with meaningful work. Most studies relevant to meaningful work have originated in Western cultures and developed countries. Few studies have focused on the relationship between cultural and national diversity and meaningful work. The study of relationships between meaningful work, values, and organizational practices on individual, organizational, and nati…

  • Do We Have to Do Meaningful Work?

    Christopher Michaelson, Ruth Yeoman et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    Not enough people have decent work in the world today. Fewer still have work that they consider to be meaningful. Even among those people who have the power to choose their work, the absence of work that they consider to be meaningful adversely impacts their physical and emotional well-being—and a considerable portion of most adults’ waking hours are spent at work. Accordingly, work is a primary means by which most of us can experience meaningful…

  • Bringing Political Economy Back In

    Ruth Yeoman, Catherine Bailey et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    This chapter argues that the current literature on meaningful work underplays and mostly overlooks the importance of institutional arrangements in structuring opportunities for meaningful work. It sets out different theories of comparative institutionalism (rational choice, historical, sociological, and constructivist) and explores their implications for future research on meaningful work. Three pathways are identified for promoting meaningful wo…

  • Meanings and Dirty Work

    Ruth Simpson, Natasha Slutskaya et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    This chapter examines the provocative nature of “dirty” or “tainted work” as a source of meaningful work. It considers different sources of meaningful work, including work characterized by intersubjective, self-actualized, or stigmatized dimensions. To explore this further, it draws on Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus (predispositions), hexus (character), and doxa (beliefs) to propose a scheme of meaning-making in which tainted work serves as a sou…

  • The Meaningful City

    Ruth Yeoman, Catherine Bailey et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    This chapter applies the value of meaningfulness to a philosophy of the city. It argues that philosophies of the city can supply smart and sustainable city initiatives with human values and attention to the common good which they currently lack. By bringing the value of meaningfulness into a description of city-making, the chapter shows how city people have responsibilities to make the city when the activities of social cooperation associated wit…

  • Does My Engagement Matter?

    Brad Shuck, Ruth Yeoman et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    This chapter articulates the link between employee engagement and meaningful work, acknowledging the complexity of this task against a backdrop of confusion over the precise meaning of engagement, which remains a contested and potentially exploitative construct. The chapter highlights the limitations of the predominant conceptualization of engagement as a positive, active, work-related psychological state, arguing that this encourages a focus on …

  • Work, Meaning, and Virtue

    Ron Beadle, Ruth Yeoman et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    The priority that we should attach to meaningful work has been contested in both rights-based/liberal and welfare/socialist traditions. To make the case for meaningful work in these traditions is first to overcome objections from within these traditions themselves concerning the conceptual validity of meaningful work, and the impact its prioritization might have on other valued goods. For virtue traditions, however, no such obstacles obtain. Unde…

  • Identity and Meaningful/Meaningless Work

    Nancy Harding, Nancy H Harding et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    This chapter draws on labor process theory to argue that the discourse of meaningfulness in the context of neoliberal capitalism may represent a means for organizations to control and manipulate individual identities. A “politics of meaningful work” is proposed that demonstrates how individuals move between abject alienation on the one hand and the proud identity associated with meaningful work on the other. Drawing on Marx’s notions of the alien…

  • Exploring work Orientations and Cultural Accounts of Work

    Laura Boova, Michael G Pratt et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    Work orientations and cultural accounts of work are important dimensions of the meaningful work literature. This chapter addresses the question of what makes work worth doing, arguing that accounts of meaningfulness should be more closely based in societal culture and the dominant work orientations manifest in varying cultural settings. It differentiates between a “realization” perspective on meaningful work which emphasizes need fulfillment, and…

  • The Moral Conditions of Work

    Joanne B Cuilla, Ruth Yeoman et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    The characterization of meaningful work as objective or subjective is subject to considerable disagreement. While broadly agreeing that meaningfulness has both objective and subjective aspects, this chapter seeks to transcend this debate by separating the moral conditions of work from the concept of meaningful work. Workplace ethics are important pathways for experiencing meaningfulness in work and in life. The chapter argues that most of the obj…

  • “Belonging” and its Relationship to the Experience of Meaningful Work

    Tatjana Schnell, Thomas Höge et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Meaningful Work2019

    This chapter explores the connections between belonging, meaningful work, and the ability of people to fulfill their potential. Drawing on the nexus of two core human qualities, the social and the productive, it is proposed that meaningful work constitutes an arena of practice where this sense of belonging is evoked. Although psychological studies have not focused extensively on the construct of belonging, research has examined similar notions su…