Talking About Organizations Podcast

Summary of Episode 25 on a JMS Classic by Porac et al. (1989) 'Competitive Groups as Cognitive Communities'. This Episode featured the wonderful Prof Sarah Kaplan and discussed the importance of human interpretation in the strategy making process, as well as a number of other related issues.

This is a conclusion of our discussion of Porac et al. (1989) with the wonderful Prof Sarah Kaplan. Please join us as we explore such concepts as categories and talk about ontology and epistemology, the process studies perspective and strategy in practice among many other things!

Please join us for Episode 25 as we welcome Prof Sarah Kaplan to discuss another JMS Classic work entitled “Competitive groups as cognitive communities, the case of Scottish knitwear manufacturers”. This paper had a great impact in the field of management and organization in general, and on research in cognition and strategy in particular. As a matter of fact, it has contributed to the vibrant community on managerial cognition which today feeds into many areas of the field. It was also been essential for the development of the growing field of studies on the construction of markets and categories. We are very grateful to Prof Kaplan for joining us for this discussion - she was an amazing guest and a great interlocutor!

This is a summary of our conversation with Bill Starbuck about his Journal of Management Studies Classic - Learning by Knowledge-Intensive Firms. Great Episode for anyone interested in knowledge, information and collective learning!

Join us as we conclude our discussion about the classic JMS article 'Learning by Knowledge-Intensive Firms' with the author, William Starbuck! A fascinating ending to this episode with an amazing guest - so be sure to tune in!

Join us and William Starbuck as we discuss one of management's contemporary classics - Learning by Knowledge-Intensive Firms (1992)! In this work William Starbuck tackles a number of important issues to do with knowledge, knowledge work and information. A truly fascinating researcher, Bill takes us through his thinking and shares lots of insight derived through years of studying knowledge and organizations! This is an amazing conversation, so be sure to tune in to this one!

This is a Summary of our inaugural episode of Season 3 - the Journal of Management Studies Classics - where we were joined by Professor Mike Wright to discuss his work on international business and emerging economies.

Please join us and listen to our first Season 3 discussion on a 2013 work published in Journal of Management Studies, by Hoskisson, Wright, Filatotchev and Peng entitled “Emerging multinationals from mid-range economies: the influence of institutions and factor markets”. This episode also sees the participation of one of the authors of the paper, Mike Wright, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London. Together, we review the key points of the paper, its importance as one of the classics of JMS, and its legacy.

Please join us and listen to our first Season 3 discussion on a 2013 work published in Journal of Management Studies, by Hoskisson, Wright, Filatotchev and Peng entitled “Emerging multinationals from mid-range economies: the influence of institutions and factor markets”. This episode also sees the participation of one of the authors of the paper, Mike Wright, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London. Together, we review the key points of the paper, its importance as one of the classics of JMS, and its legacy.

Please tune in for Episode 22 where we are joined by the fascinating Dr Barton Friedland to discuss Lucy Suchman’s book “Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Action” (2007). In it, she studied the interaction of humans with a state-of-art photocopier. Interestingly, Suchman's studies show that interaction problems are mostly due to the underpinning assumptions about users’ behaviour. More specifically, her work questions the idea that human actions are merely based on the following of plans!

Overall, this is a must-read for anyone interested in technology, humanism and post(trans)-humanism, as well as more practical issues of technology adaptation and dissemination!