Ranked #1
11: Culture and High Reliability - Bierly and Spender (Part 1)
11: Culture and High Reliability - Bierly and Spender (Part 1)
Join us for Episode 11 as we go into High Reliability Organizing (HRO) with this key 1995 article from the Journal of Ma... Read more
24 May 2016
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1hr 1min
Ranked #2
11: Culture and High Reliability - Bierly and Spender (Part 2)
11: Culture and High Reliability - Bierly and Spender (Part 2)
Continuing on with our discussion of High Reliability Organizing with resident expert Dr Ralph Soule. In the final part ... Read more
31 May 2016
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48mins
Ranked #3
20: High Reliability in Practice - USN Rear Admiral Tom Mercer (Part 1)
20: High Reliability in Practice - USN Rear Admiral Tom Mercer (Part 1)
Based around a classic work by Weick and Roberts (1993) on Collective mind in organizations - where the authors observed... Read more
15 Nov 2016
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50mins
Ranked #4
55: Group Dynamics and Foundations of Organizational Change – Kurt Lewin (Part 1)
55: Group Dynamics and Foundations of Organizational Change – Kurt Lewin (Part 1)
In this episode, we are joined by Prof. Stephen Cummings (New History of Management) to address one of the foundational ... Read more
4 Jun 2019
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48mins
Ranked #5
44: Transaction Costs and Boundaries of the Firm - Williamson and Malone (Part 1)
44: Transaction Costs and Boundaries of the Firm - Williamson and Malone (Part 1)
Following on a theme from the previous episode, we explore an important reading that bridges organization theory with ec... Read more
12 Jun 2018
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45mins
Ranked #6
46: Classics of Management and Organization Theory - AoM 2018 Workshop LIVE
46: Classics of Management and Organization Theory - AoM 2018 Workshop LIVE
What a treat! An exclusive LIVE episode featuring Paul Adler, Silvia Dorado and Marc Ventresca talking about management ... Read more
12 Sep 2018
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55mins
Ranked #7
36: The Human Capital Hoax - Employment in the Gig Economy (Part 1)
36: The Human Capital Hoax - Employment in the Gig Economy (Part 1)
Please join us as the podcasters engage on a timely and relevant article, “The Human Capital Hoax: Work, Debt, and Insec... Read more
31 Oct 2017
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52mins
Ranked #8
16: Contingency Theory - Lawrence and Lorsch
16: Contingency Theory - Lawrence and Lorsch
In this episode, we read the classic article “Differentiation and Integration in Complex Organizations” published in 196... Read more
17 Aug 2016
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1hr 34mins
Ranked #9
51: The Tyranny of Light - Hari Tsoukas (Part 1)
51: The Tyranny of Light - Hari Tsoukas (Part 1)
"The Tyranny of Light" was a bold 1997 article that challenged conventional wisdom about the oncoming information societ... Read more
12 Dec 2018
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33mins
Ranked #10
38: Socialization and Occupational Communities - Van Maanen (Part 1)
38: Socialization and Occupational Communities - Van Maanen (Part 1)
Please join us as TAOP returns in 2018 to open a New Year with a discussion of John Van Maanen's classic work from 1975,... Read more
16 Jan 2018
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30mins
Ranked #11
9: Hawthorne Studies - Elton Mayo (Part 2)
9: Hawthorne Studies - Elton Mayo (Part 2)
In this concluding part of our discussion of The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization - one of the texts compri... Read more
12 Apr 2016
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42mins
Ranked #12
54: Measuring Organizational Cultures - Hofstede (Part 1)
54: Measuring Organizational Cultures - Hofstede (Part 1)
Fresh off a study that identified key factors for comparing national cultures, organizational psychologist Geert Hofsted... Read more
2 May 2019
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51mins
Ranked #13
59: Theory X and Y - Douglas McGregor (Part 1)
59: Theory X and Y - Douglas McGregor (Part 1)
In this episode, we examine Douglas McGregor’s most famous work, The Human Side of Enterprise, that proposed two “theori... Read more
2 Dec 2019
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46mins
Ranked #14
48: Stratified Systems Theory - Elliott Jaques (Part 1)
48: Stratified Systems Theory - Elliott Jaques (Part 1)
As bureaucracies became more prevalent as a feature of organizations post-WWII, questions surfaced as to how they could ... Read more
10 Oct 2018
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38mins
Ranked #15
59: Theory X and Y - Douglas McGregor (Part 2)
59: Theory X and Y - Douglas McGregor (Part 2)
Join us as we conclude talking about one of the most known theories in management and organisational behaviour! Are you ... Read more
13 Dec 2019
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37mins
Ranked #16
49: Engineered Culture and Normative Control – Gideon Kunda (Part 1)
49: Engineered Culture and Normative Control – Gideon Kunda (Part 1)
Originally published in 1992, Gideon Kunda’s ethnographic study of a high-tech corporation altered the discourse on orga... Read more
8 Nov 2018
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32mins
Ranked #17
16: Summary of Episode 16 on Contingency Theory
16: Summary of Episode 16 on Contingency Theory
Another convenient featurette to introduce people to this management classic - contingency theory! Join Ralph as he summ... Read more
30 Aug 2016
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10mins
Ranked #18
42: Carnegie Mellon Series #5 - Organizational Learning (Part 1)
42: Carnegie Mellon Series #5 - Organizational Learning (Part 1)
Please join us for the fifth episode in our Carnegie-Mellon School series as we discuss Barbara Levitt and James G. Marc... Read more
5 Apr 2018
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41mins
Ranked #19
14: Simply Managing, by Henry Mintzberg (Part 1)
14: Simply Managing, by Henry Mintzberg (Part 1)
A very exciting episode featuring Prof Henry Mintzberg! In this conversation we discussed Simply Managing (2013), which ... Read more
19 Jul 2016
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43mins
Ranked #20
17: Tokenism - Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Part 1)
17: Tokenism - Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Part 1)
In this episode we are joined by Dr Deborah Brewis to discuss a classic paper by Rosabeth Moss Kanter on gender in organ... Read more
6 Sep 2016
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51mins