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Talking About Organizations is a conversational podcast where we talk about one book, journal article or idea per episode and try to understand it, its purpose and its impact. By joining us...
In this release, we take a retrospective look at Weber's famous work and our original episode. How has our views about bureaucracy changed o...
This is an edited re-release of our Episode 6, Part 2 on Max Weber's bureaucracy, originally from January 2016. Next week, we will provide a...
We are revisiting an older episode, our Episode 6 on Weber’s bureaucracy. The original episode explored the work objectively, trying to unde...
Coming soon! We will re-examine one of our earlier episodes which deserves another look. Weber’s chapter on the meaning of bureaucracy (Epis...
In Part 2 of our episode on Gieryn’s 1983 article “Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from non-Science,” we review the main points...
We continue our series of discussions on the sociology of science and cover a seminal article that is commonly found as required reading in...
Coming soon! Our next episode features a 1983 article from Thomas Gieryn that discusses how the “boundary work” of scientists and others sci...
In Part 2 of our episode on Charles Perrow’s book Normal Accidents , we carry the framework forward into the 21st century to consider newer...
This month we are discussing Charles Perrow’s book Normal Accidents that addresses the risks associated with complex, tightly coupled high-r...
Coming soon! Our next episode features a 1999 book by Charles Perrow titled Normal Accidents that addresses the risks associated with comple...
In Part 2 of our episode on five works of Henry Mintzberg, we move toward the contemporary environment and ask ourselves how much has change...
This month we return to the works of Henry Mintzberg, whose book Simply Managing we covered way back in Episode 14. This time, we decided to...
Coming soon! We will cover a body of work by Henry Mintzberg. His career as a consultant and management researcher spans decades and has res...
We now release a recording of a professional development workshop (PDW) called Queer Eye For Academics: Skills For Navigating Academic Life,...
This month, we are presenting recordings of two events from the Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2025. The first event was Multimodal Im...
In Part 2 of our episode on Kanter’s Commitment and Community , we examine in depth her conclusions about the distinction between “retreat”...
This month we return to the works of Rosabeth Moss Kanter, whose works on tokenism we explored way back in Episode 17. This time, we will di...
Coming soon! In our next episode, we will discuss Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s famous book Commitment and Community that examines the origins and...
In Part 2 of the episode on Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions, we bring the concepts to the present day. His essay uses examples mo...
For our 10th anniversary episode, we selected a modern classic that greatly informs science and research across many disciplines, including...
Coming soon! For our 10th anniversary episode, we selected a modern classic that greatly informs science and research across many discipline...
10 years ago today, on October 13th, 2015, four rising scholars – Dmitrijs, Pedro, Miranda, and Ralph – launched the Talking About Organizat...
In Part 2 of the episode on the Private SNAFU video series, we recount the various trials and tribulations of developing training modules fo...
Private SNAFU was a series of black-and-white animated shorts of three to five minutes in length recounting various misadventures of the tit...
For this year’s movie episode, we elected to take on a video series used during World War II to help socialize US Army rules and procedures...
In Part 2, we continue exploring the case study of NASA in the 1960s. Having discussed the strategies used by President Kennedy to inspire N...
In this month’s episode, we examine a historical case study about how meaningfulness of work can be shaped by leaders’ actions. One frequent...
Coming soon! We will discuss Drew Carton’s 2018 article “’I’m not mopping the floors, I’m putting a man on the moon’: How NASA leaders enhan...
In Part 2 of the episode on Mark Granovetter's 1985 paper, "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness," we consider...
In this month’s episode, we discuss Mark Granovetter's 1985 paper, Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness. Granov...
Coming soon! We will discuss Mark Granovetter's 1985 paper, "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness." He argued t...
In Part 2 of the episode on Harry Braverman’s book Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century, we consider the...
In this month’s episode, we discuss Harry Braverman’s book Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century. Along wi...
Coming soon! We will examine Harry Braverman’s 1974 book Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century. It is cons...
In Part 2 of our episode on Barley, we conclude the discussion on the relationship that he drew among the institutionalized patterns of beha...
This month we discuss a foundational work by Steven Barley on the introduction of new technologies into established organizations. His study...
Steven Barley’s career has produced considerable scholarship on meaningful work and change in organizations. This month’s episode will cover...
In Part 2 of our episode on Prasad, we shift our attention to his 2003 book chapter titled “The gaze of the other: Postcolonial theory and o...
Anshuman Prasad (1954-2023) was a leading scholar and development of postcolonial theory and bringing it to the domain of management and org...
Coming soon! We will cover the works of Anshuman Prasad and his development of postcolonial theory and its use in organizational analysis. B...
This is Part 2 on our discussion of Fligstein’s 1996 article, “Markets as politics: A political-cultural approach to market institutions." H...
Fligstein’s 1996 article, “Markets as politics: A political-cultural approach to market institutions,” was an important contribution to the...
We will cover the economic sociology of Neil Fligstein, who countered the dominant 1990s-era neoclassical view of economics that failed to e...
We are launching the TAOP Resource Center! The Resource Center is a repository for entry-level scholars to learn more about “what’s out ther...
The Talking About Organizations Podcast website is more than just a host for great conversations. It is also a resource for rising scholars...
In Part 2 on Zbaracki’s “The rhetoric and reality of Total Quality Management,” we look at contemporary examples of rhetoric-reality gaps. N...
This month we explore a renowned multiple-case study commonly assigned as foundational readings in organization studies programs. Mark Zbara...
Coming soon! You might not have heard of Total Quality Management (TQM) but you no doubt have encountered pre-packaged performance improveme...
In Part 2 on DiMaggio & Powell’s “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizations,” we revisi...
In this episode, we discuss “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizations,” a ground break...