Adrian N Carr
Biographic Data
| ID | 5790522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrian N Carr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrian N |
| FAMILY NAME | Carr |
| SIGNATURE | CARR A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Critical reflections on the good, the bad and the ugly of organisation leadership
This paper explores the impacts Wal‐Mart's operations have on community culture. However, through the application of the psychodynamics of mirroring and a thorough version of dialectical analysis, we can see that community culture turns on itself to mirror what Wal‐Mart wants that culture to be. As such, community culture has little or no power or even desire to counter Wal‐Mart's negative affects and the result is an unfinished dialectic. The un…
Paradigmapping Studies of Culture and Organization
This article argues that cross cultural management research is in a crisis of its own making. It is a captive of the delusion that nomothetic theory is progressing towards convergence of an ideal view. Within the context of this fallacy are competing perspectives and paradigms that appear incommensurable. The battle appears to be which paradigm will win. It is our contention that the battle is futile and unnecessary. We reveal how `paradigmapping…
Cyberspace Romance
This book focuses on online relationships and specifically cyber-flirting; the authors examine how flirting offline can be transferred to an Internet setting, through their own empirical and theoretical research
What it means to be “critical” in relation to international business
Purpose The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the usage of the word critical in the social sciences, to review how being critical is a process through which criticism is a positive act, and to highlight the relevance of such a perspective in relation to international business. Design/methodology/approach International business is viewed through the critical optic of the work of a group of scholars, collectively known as the Fra…
In the constructive tradition of being critical
Purpose The special issue aims to look into what it means to be critical in relation to international business. Design/methodology/approach Gives an overview of articles submitted by experts in the field. Findings Finds that old practices of international trade are out of touch in the modern world and that new practices need to be agreed in order to make international trade work for all. Originality/value Collectively, these papers provide a resp…
Global business beyond modernity
Purpose This paper sets out to provide global business managers and researchers with perspectives, concepts, and some tools to deal with emergent late modern conditions. Design/methodology/approach Analytical discourse is employed to outline the post‐enlightenment rise of modernity and rational economics. The paper critiques the nature of business institutions and practices under modernity, and points to the new conditions of waning and late mode…
Re‐evaluation of underlying assumptions and refocusing of objectives in criticisms of international business
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to address the question of what it means to be critical in relationship to international business
Critical challenges in the emerging global managerial order
Purpose The purpose of this article is to contribute to the discussion on criticality in international business by proposing an interconnection between organizational managerialism and the construction of a global managerial order. Design/methodology/approach Explores the theoretical divide within critical management studies and the challenge provided to theory by internationalization/globalization. Using the case study of the World Bank, examine…
International business and management studies as an orientalist discourse
Purpose This paper seeks to interrogate the international business and management studies (IBMS) discourse via postcolonial theory. It demonstrates the value of applying postcolonial theory as a critical practice with respect to that substantive domain. Design/methodology/approach The approach is to draw on the critical and intellectual resources of postcolonial theory and apply them in an interrogation of IBMS. Findings The paper shows the value…
The `Separation Thesis' of Self and Other
It is often assumed that we are first created as an individual and later form relationships with others. This view has been termed the `separation thesis' and seems to be pervasive in Western thinking. Additionally it is also often commonly assumed that in the intersubjective system of self and other, self must necessarily be privileged over other. Examined through the optic of dialectics, this paper puts forward a different and dissenting view: …
Cyberspace as Potential Space
This article compares traditional offline flirting with cyber-flirting. We begin by providing a definition of offline flirting, which we follow up with our own elaboration of cyber-flirting. The article then draws from psychoanalytic theory, in particular Winnicott's object-relations theory, to propose that cyber-flirting can be a form of play. While this is not an empirical study, we do attempt to present a theoretical framework for the concepti…
The Emergence of a Surrealist Movement and its Vital `Estrangement-Effect' in Organization Studies
Beginning as a subversive and anti-establishment movement in France in the 1920s, surrealism was primarily a movement whose `voice' came through the written word. Later the movement extended into the visual arts, with which it is more generally associated. Surrealism was always intended as a way of thinking, a way of feeling and, indeed, a philosophy of life. This way of thinking now appears to have permeated the discourse of organization theory …
The "Emotional Fallout" of the New Efficiency Movement in Public Administration in Australia
Public enterprises are coming under increasing pressure to provide solutions to broader social and economic issues such as unemployment and income distribution. The public school system in Australia has been under just such pressure, the consequences of which include a restructuring of the system of schooling with a vocational and efficiency emphasis. A new efficiency movement has arrived in Australia. Privatization looms in the background as the…
International business and management studies as an orientalist discourse
Purpose This paper seeks to interrogate the international business and management studies (IBMS) discourse via postcolonial theory. It demonstrates the value of applying postcolonial theory as a critical practice with respect to that substantive domain. Design/methodology/approach The approach is to draw on the critical and intellectual resources of postcolonial theory and apply them in an interrogation of IBMS. Findings The paper shows the value…
Cyberspace as Potential Space
This article compares traditional offline flirting with cyber-flirting. We begin by providing a definition of offline flirting, which we follow up with our own elaboration of cyber-flirting. The article then draws from psychoanalytic theory, in particular Winnicott's object-relations theory, to propose that cyber-flirting can be a form of play. While this is not an empirical study, we do attempt to present a theoretical framework for the concepti…
Paradigmapping Studies of Culture and Organization
This article argues that cross cultural management research is in a crisis of its own making. It is a captive of the delusion that nomothetic theory is progressing towards convergence of an ideal view. Within the context of this fallacy are competing perspectives and paradigms that appear incommensurable. The battle appears to be which paradigm will win. It is our contention that the battle is futile and unnecessary. We reveal how `paradigmapping…
Critical reflections on the good, the bad and the ugly of organisation leadership
This paper explores the impacts Wal‐Mart's operations have on community culture. However, through the application of the psychodynamics of mirroring and a thorough version of dialectical analysis, we can see that community culture turns on itself to mirror what Wal‐Mart wants that culture to be. As such, community culture has little or no power or even desire to counter Wal‐Mart's negative affects and the result is an unfinished dialectic. The un…
The Emergence of a Surrealist Movement and its Vital `Estrangement-Effect' in Organization Studies
Beginning as a subversive and anti-establishment movement in France in the 1920s, surrealism was primarily a movement whose `voice' came through the written word. Later the movement extended into the visual arts, with which it is more generally associated. Surrealism was always intended as a way of thinking, a way of feeling and, indeed, a philosophy of life. This way of thinking now appears to have permeated the discourse of organization theory …
The "Emotional Fallout" of the New Efficiency Movement in Public Administration in Australia
Public enterprises are coming under increasing pressure to provide solutions to broader social and economic issues such as unemployment and income distribution. The public school system in Australia has been under just such pressure, the consequences of which include a restructuring of the system of schooling with a vocational and efficiency emphasis. A new efficiency movement has arrived in Australia. Privatization looms in the background as the…
The "Emotional Fallout" of the New Efficiency Movement in Public Administration in Australia
Public enterprises are coming under increasing pressure to provide solutions to broader social and economic issues such as unemployment and income distribution. The public school system in Australia has been under just such pressure, the consequences of which include a restructuring of the system of schooling with a vocational and efficiency emphasis. A new efficiency movement has arrived in Australia. Privatization looms in the background as the…
The Emergence of a Surrealist Movement and its Vital `Estrangement-Effect' in Organization Studies
Beginning as a subversive and anti-establishment movement in France in the 1920s, surrealism was primarily a movement whose `voice' came through the written word. Later the movement extended into the visual arts, with which it is more generally associated. Surrealism was always intended as a way of thinking, a way of feeling and, indeed, a philosophy of life. This way of thinking now appears to have permeated the discourse of organization theory …
The `Separation Thesis' of Self and Other
It is often assumed that we are first created as an individual and later form relationships with others. This view has been termed the `separation thesis' and seems to be pervasive in Western thinking. Additionally it is also often commonly assumed that in the intersubjective system of self and other, self must necessarily be privileged over other. Examined through the optic of dialectics, this paper puts forward a different and dissenting view: …
Cyberspace as Potential Space
This article compares traditional offline flirting with cyber-flirting. We begin by providing a definition of offline flirting, which we follow up with our own elaboration of cyber-flirting. The article then draws from psychoanalytic theory, in particular Winnicott's object-relations theory, to propose that cyber-flirting can be a form of play. While this is not an empirical study, we do attempt to present a theoretical framework for the concepti…
Cyberspace Romance
This book focuses on online relationships and specifically cyber-flirting; the authors examine how flirting offline can be transferred to an Internet setting, through their own empirical and theoretical research
What it means to be “critical” in relation to international business
Purpose The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the usage of the word critical in the social sciences, to review how being critical is a process through which criticism is a positive act, and to highlight the relevance of such a perspective in relation to international business. Design/methodology/approach International business is viewed through the critical optic of the work of a group of scholars, collectively known as the Fra…
In the constructive tradition of being critical
Purpose The special issue aims to look into what it means to be critical in relation to international business. Design/methodology/approach Gives an overview of articles submitted by experts in the field. Findings Finds that old practices of international trade are out of touch in the modern world and that new practices need to be agreed in order to make international trade work for all. Originality/value Collectively, these papers provide a resp…
Global business beyond modernity
Purpose This paper sets out to provide global business managers and researchers with perspectives, concepts, and some tools to deal with emergent late modern conditions. Design/methodology/approach Analytical discourse is employed to outline the post‐enlightenment rise of modernity and rational economics. The paper critiques the nature of business institutions and practices under modernity, and points to the new conditions of waning and late mode…
Re‐evaluation of underlying assumptions and refocusing of objectives in criticisms of international business
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to address the question of what it means to be critical in relationship to international business
Critical challenges in the emerging global managerial order
Purpose The purpose of this article is to contribute to the discussion on criticality in international business by proposing an interconnection between organizational managerialism and the construction of a global managerial order. Design/methodology/approach Explores the theoretical divide within critical management studies and the challenge provided to theory by internationalization/globalization. Using the case study of the World Bank, examine…
International business and management studies as an orientalist discourse
Purpose This paper seeks to interrogate the international business and management studies (IBMS) discourse via postcolonial theory. It demonstrates the value of applying postcolonial theory as a critical practice with respect to that substantive domain. Design/methodology/approach The approach is to draw on the critical and intellectual resources of postcolonial theory and apply them in an interrogation of IBMS. Findings The paper shows the value…
Paradigmapping Studies of Culture and Organization
This article argues that cross cultural management research is in a crisis of its own making. It is a captive of the delusion that nomothetic theory is progressing towards convergence of an ideal view. Within the context of this fallacy are competing perspectives and paradigms that appear incommensurable. The battle appears to be which paradigm will win. It is our contention that the battle is futile and unnecessary. We reveal how `paradigmapping…
Critical reflections on the good, the bad and the ugly of organisation leadership
This paper explores the impacts Wal‐Mart's operations have on community culture. However, through the application of the psychodynamics of mirroring and a thorough version of dialectical analysis, we can see that community culture turns on itself to mirror what Wal‐Mart wants that culture to be. As such, community culture has little or no power or even desire to counter Wal‐Mart's negative affects and the result is an unfinished dialectic. The un…
Sociology (11 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · International business (4 works)