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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The terms social constructionism and (social) constructivism are employed in the context of
different problematics and different philosophical assumptions. This article presents ‘…

This chapter begins by noting calls for paradigm diversity in the leadership field and proposes
a post-modern discourse of leadership as process. The second section outlines a view of …

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 …

‘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 (…