Substantial literature is to be found onleadership',organization', and to a lesser extent, social
skill. This literature is almost entirely independent, ie the central concepts are not integrated…

A long history is attached to the view that socially constructed and that knowledge is in some
sense relational. This position has been discussed, and in varying degrees adopted, in …

First published in 1992. Organisational change and innovation has been at the centre of much
management literature, which has been informed by debates in organizational behaviour …

This book bridges scholarly forms of inquiry and practitioners’ daily activities. It introduces
inquiry as a process of relational construction, offering resources to practitioners who want to …

‘It was my first murder’–was how my colleague Maurice Punch began his ethnography of
police work. Since I had no dramatic introduction I borrowed his. My first leadership handbook (…

Appreciative inquiry (AI) has become increasingly popular as a social constructionist approach
to organizational change and development. Many claims are made about its status and …

My purpose in this chapter is to set out a number of interrelated “lines of distinction” that
together create a critical constructionist “discourse”(Deetz, 1996). In this context, I am using the …

The topic of organizational learning has received a great deal of attention in recent years.
For this and other reasons, the present special issue is not intended to provide yet another …

This paper adopts a social psychological perspective to the study of social organization
analyzed in terms of the skills of organizing. The arguments are intended to be general but …

This article distinguishes three discourses of reflexivity in relation to human inquiry. One of
these arises from a post-modern, relational constructionist perspective which radically re-…