Received Wisdom

Author : Daniel J. Svyantek,Kevin T. Mahoney
Publisher : Information Age Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1623961890

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Received Wisdom, Kernels of Truth, and Boundary Conditions in Organizational Studies by Daniel J. Svyantek,Kevin T. Mahoney Pdf

This volume of the Research in Organizational Sciences is entitled "Received Wisdom, Kernels of Truth, and Boundary Conditions in Organizational Studies". Received wisdom is knowledge imparted to people by others and is based on authority and tenacity as sources of human knowledge. Authority refers to the acceptance of knowledge as truth because of the position and credibility of the knowledge source. Tenacity refers to the continued presentation of a particular bit of information by a source until this bit of information is accepted as true by receivers. The problem for organizational studies, however, is that this received wisdom often becomes unquestioned assumptions which guide interpretation of the world and decisions made about the world. Received wisdom, therefore, may lead to organizational practices which provide little or no benefit to the organization and, potentially, negative organizational effects, because this received wisdom is no longer valid. The 14 papers in this volume all, in some way, strive to question received wisdom and present alternatives which expand our understanding of organizational behavior in some way. The chapters in this volume each strive to present new ways of understanding organizational constructs, and in so doing reveal how received wisdom has often led to confirmation bias in organizational science. The knowledge that some perceived truths are actually the products of received wisdom and do not stand up to close scrutiny shakes up things within research areas previously thought settled allowing new perspectives on organizational science to emerge.

Author : Daniel J. Svyantek,Kevin T. Mahoney
Publisher : IAP
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781623965525

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Organizational Processes and Received Wisdom by Daniel J. Svyantek,Kevin T. Mahoney Pdf

This Research in Organizational Sciences volume to explore and question the received wisdom of organizational sciences. The chapters in this volume (and the companion volume) seek to establish boundary conditions for important organizational constructs and processes. They illustrate the importance of context for interpreting the received wisdom of organizational science by showing when constructs must be adapted to changing circumstances. The volume begins with four chapters looking at the construct of leadership. Each of these addresses an important aspect of our understanding of leadership and its practice. The four chapters on leadership are followed by five chapters dealing with other organizational processes including motivation, organizational change, the role of diversity in organizations and organizational citizenship. The last three chapters deal with the issue of knowledge in large systems. Two chapters address how information may be transmitted across organizations and generations of workers. The final chapter deals with the use of information by organizational decision-makers. The 12 papers in this volume all, in some way question received wisdom and present alternatives which expand our understanding of organizational behavior. These chapters each strive to present new ways of understanding organizational constructs, and in so doing reveal how received wisdom does not always lead to best practice in research or application. It is our hope that these chapters illustrate how challenging received wisdom in organizational studies can provide new ways of thinking about organizational processes. These new ways of thinking in turn can provide better understanding of the processes necessary to increase organizational effectiveness.

Author : Daniel J. Svyantek,Kevin T. Mahoney
Publisher : IAP
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781623961916

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Received Wisdom, Kernels of Truth, and Boundary by Daniel J. Svyantek,Kevin T. Mahoney Pdf

This volume of the Research in Organizational Sciences is entitled “Received Wisdom, Kernels of Truth, and Boundary Conditions in Organizational Studies”. Received wisdom is knowledge imparted to people by others and is based on authority and tenacity as sources of human knowledge. Authority refers to the acceptance of knowledge as truth because of the position and credibility of the knowledge source. Tenacity refers to the continued presentation of a particular bit of information by a source until this bit of information is accepted as true by receivers. The problem for organizational studies, however, is that this received wisdom often becomes unquestioned assumptions which guide interpretation of the world and decisions made about the world. Received wisdom, therefore, may lead to organizational practices which provide little or no benefit to the organization and, potentially, negative organizational effects, because this received wisdom is no longer valid. The 14 papers in this volume all, in some way, strive to question received wisdom and present alternatives which expand our understanding of organizational behavior in some way. The chapters in this volume each strive to present new ways of understanding organizational constructs, and in so doing reveal how received wisdom has often led to confirmation bias in organizational science. The knowledge that some perceived truths are actually the products of received wisdom and do not stand up to close scrutiny shakes up things within research areas previously thought settled allowing new perspectives on organizational science to emerge.

Author : Susan McClary
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520232082

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Conventional Wisdom by Susan McClary Pdf

McClary, "offers an analysis of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues."--Jacket.

Author : Study of Academic Instruction for Disadvantaged Students (U.S.),Michael Sturgis Knapp,Brenda J. Turnbull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Education and state
ISBN : STANFORD:36105216518253

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Better schooling for the children of poverty : alternatives to conventional wisdom by Study of Academic Instruction for Disadvantaged Students (U.S.),Michael Sturgis Knapp,Brenda J. Turnbull Pdf

Author : Janet M. Ruane,Karen A. Cerulo
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781412988094

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Second Thoughts: Sociology Challenges Conventional Wisdom by Janet M. Ruane,Karen A. Cerulo Pdf

Do birds of a feather flock together or do opposites attract? Does haste make waste or should you strike while the iron is hot? Adages like these—or conventional wisdoms—shape our social life. This Fifth Edition of Second Thoughts reviews several popular beliefs and notes how such adages cannot be taken at face value. This unique text encourages students to step back and sharpen their analytic focus with 24 essays that use social research to expose the gray areas of commonly held beliefs, revealing the complexity of social reality and sharpening students’ sociological vision.

Author : Paul Mueller
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781527522961

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Why the Conventional Wisdom about the 2008 Financial Crisis is Still Wrong by Paul Mueller Pdf

Much of what has been heard, read, or taught about the 2008 financial crisis is incorrect. It was not caused by free market capitalism run amok. The crisis was not created by deregulatory zeal. It wasn’t primarily due to greed on Wall Street. The crisis was not simply created by people’s “irrational exuberance” or “animal spirits.” Perhaps most importantly, it did not require bailouts and thousands of pages of new regulations to fix. Instead, it came about because of significant market distortions created by government subsidies, misregulation, and perverse incentives. The conventional wisdom blames unbridled markets for mortgage fraud, imprudent risks, and extreme leverage in financial institutions. Policy makers told us that the failure of Lehman Brothers, and the near failure of American International Group and many large banks, would have resulted in catastrophic decline and perhaps another Great Depression. After the crisis, thousands of pages of new regulations were written to limit the types of risk banks can take and the kinds of investments they can make so that a financial crisis of this magnitude can’t happen again. But what if this conventional wisdom was wrong? If the problem wasn’t unregulated, unrestrained markets leading to fraud and excessive risk-taking, if instead it was perverted incentives and distorted market signals due to numerous regulations and mandates in the first place, then the thousands of new pages of regulations haven’t solved the fundamental problem. In fact, they have made it worse. This book shows that it is time to reassess the conventional wisdom. Perhaps there is still time to reverse the faulty solutions based upon it before another financial crisis breaks out.

Author : Shaun Richman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583678589

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Tell the Bosses We're Coming by Shaun Richman Pdf

Lengthening hours, lessening pay, no parental leave, scant job security... Never have so many workers needed so much support. Yet the very labor unions that could garner us protections and help us speak up for ourselves are growing weaker every day. In an age of rampant inequality, of increasing social protest and strikes – and when a majority of workers say they want to be union members – why does union density continue to decline? Shaun Richman offers some answers in his book, Tell the Bosses We're Coming. It’s time to bring unions back from the edge of institutional annihilation, says Richman. But that is no simple proposition. Richman explains how important it is that this book is published now, because the next few years offer a rare opportunity to undo the great damage wrought on labor by decades of corporate union-busting, if only union activists raise our ambitions. Based on deft historical research and legal analysis, as well as his own experience as a union organizing director, Richman lays out an action plan for U.S. workers in the twenty-first century by which we can internalize the concept that workers are equal human beings, entitled to health care, dignity, job security – and definitely, the right to strike. Unafraid to take on some of the labor movement’s sacred cows, this book describes what it would take – some changes that are within activists’ power and some that require meaningful legal reform – to put unions in workplaces across America. As Shaun Richman says, “I look forward to working with you.”

Author : Melissa Leach
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0852554095

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The Lie of the Land by Melissa Leach Pdf

Questions the reasoning behind Western images of the environmental destruction taking place in Africa. This book addresses the issue of how environmental orthodoxies become established, and what the alternative and appropriate approaches for policy-making are. It shows that many of the established orthodoxies are ill-conceived or represent the interests of certain powerful groups. The editors draw together material from 11 key case studies across the continent which use first hand research in different ecological zones. Melissa Leach & RobinMearns are Fellows at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex Published in association with the International African Institute

Author : Robert J. Samuelson
Publisher : AtRandom
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780679647157

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Untruth by Robert J. Samuelson Pdf

In Untruth, Newsweek and Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson explains why our political, economic and cultural debates so routinely traffic in misinformation--popular fads that, like meteors, momentarily burn brightly in public consciousness and then fizzle out. Advocacy groups, politicians and their unwitting allies in the media instinctively create agendas of problems that afflict society and must be "solved".The problems are often exaggerated and oversimplified, and the result is that the public is misled about what is wrong and how easily it can be made right. Untruth is the first collection of Samuelson's insightful assaults on the conventional wisdom. Included are columns arguing that campaign contributions have not corrupted politics, that the "service economy" is not turning America into a nation of hamburger flippers, and that the Internet isn't the most important invention since the printing press.

Author : Jack Stilgoe,Jones, Irwin Stilgoe,Alan Irwin,Kevin Jones,Demos (Organization : London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-12
Category : Evidence, Expert
ISBN : 1841801704

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The Received Wisdom by Jack Stilgoe,Jones, Irwin Stilgoe,Alan Irwin,Kevin Jones,Demos (Organization : London, England) Pdf

Author : James L. Kugel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780743235877

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How to Read the Bible by James L. Kugel Pdf

A reader's companion to the Bible draws on classic interpretations as well as modern scholarship to explain how the Bible may also be a metaphorical reflection of anthropological history.

Author : Al Chung-liang Huang,Jerry Lynch
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-10-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062512505

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Mentoring by Al Chung-liang Huang,Jerry Lynch Pdf

The new model for business and personal relationships based on the simple yet profound principle of mentoring--both giving and receiving knowledge in a creative mutual exchange.

Author : Christian A. Kull
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226461408

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Isle of Fire by Christian A. Kull Pdf

Long considered both best friend and worst enemy to humankind, fire is at once creative and destructive. On the endangered tropical island of Madagascar, these two faces of fire have fueled a century-long conflict between rural farmers and island leaders. Based on detailed fieldwork in Malagasy villages and a thorough archival investigation, Isle of Fire offers a detailed analysis of why Madagascar has always been aflame, why it always will be aflame, and ultimately, as Christian Kull argues, why it should remain aflame.

Author : Virginia Torrie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487534134

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Reinventing Bankruptcy Law by Virginia Torrie Pdf

Reinventing Bankruptcy Law explodes conventional wisdom about the history of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and in its place offers the first historical account of Canada’s premier corporate restructuring statute. The book adopts a novel research approach that combines legal history, socio-legal theory, ideas from political science, and doctrinal legal analysis. Meticulously researched and multi-disciplinary, Reinventing Bankruptcy Law provides a comprehensive and concise history of CCAA law over the course of the twentieth century, framing developments within broader changes in Canadian institutions including federalism, judicial review, and statutory interpretation. Examining the influence of private parties and commercial practices on lawmaking, Virginia Torrie argues that CCAA law was shaped by the commercial needs of powerful creditors to restructure corporate borrowers, providing a compelling thesis about the dynamics of legal change in the context of corporate restructuring. Torrie exposes the errors in recent case law to devastating effect and argues that courts and the legislature have switched roles – leading to the conclusion that contemporary CCAA courts function like a modern day Court of Chancery. This book is essential reading for the Canadian insolvency community as well as those interested in Canadian institutions, legal history, and the dynamics of change.