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Positive Deviance for a Sustainable World: Linking Sustainability and Positive Organizational Scholarship
(2010-04)
This chapter examines the linkages between the positive organizational scholarship (POS) and the sustainability research domains, examining ways in which each domain can enrich the other, their mutual research agendas, and ...
Excavating the Paths of Meaning, Renewal, and Empowerment
(Sage Publications, 1995)
Although myths have been comprehensively examined at a cultural or macro level in organizational studies, they have received little attention at an individual level of analysis. This article uses Campbell's "hero's journey" ...
Empowering Middle Managers to be Transformational Leaders
(Sage Publications, 1996)
The article describes a field study of a large-scale management development program designed to stimulate middle managerial change. The development of a change typology suggests that middle managers are capable of making ...
Exploring the relationships between organizational virtuousness and performance.
(2004)
The importance of virtuousness in organizations has recently been acknowledged in the organizational sciences, but research remains scarce. This paper defines virtuousness and connects it to scholarly literature in ...
Explaining Compassion Organizing Competence
(2005)
In this article we develop a theory to explain how individual compassion becomes socially organized and how the organizing process gains collective competence in its ability to alleviate suffering. The theory is built from ...
Hybrid Organizations as Agents of Positive Social Change: Bridging the For-profit & Non-profit Divide
(2010-10)
This chapter explores the distinctive characteristics of hybrid organizations; a new organizational form that expands our existing categories of organizations by bridging the for-profit and non-profit domains. In particular, ...
Organizational and leadership virtues and the role of forgiveness
(2003)
The investigation of virtues in organizational life has been neglected. Systematic studies of the development and demonstration of virtue have been all but absent in the organizational sciences. This article highlights ...