Understanding Management, Trade, and Society Through Fiction: Lessons from The WireThe Wire, produced by Blown Deadline Productions and Home Box Office, 2002–2008.

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Academy of Management ReviewVol. 39, No. 4 Book Reviews: What the Academy is ReadingUnderstanding Management, Trade, and Society Through Fiction: Lessons from The WireRobin Holt and Mike ZundelRobin HoltUniversity of Liverpool and Mike ZundelUniversity of LiverpoolPublished Online:8 Oct 2014https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2014.0087AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsDownload CitationsAdd to favoritesTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail View articleREFERENCES Alvarez R. 2009. The Wire: Truth be told (revised ed.). Edinburgh: Cannongate. Google Scholar BBC. 2009. The culture show. Interview with The Wire's David Simon. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEkfSx8hujw. Google Scholar Bolaño R. 2009. (First published in 2004.) 2666. London: Picador. Google Scholar Camus A. 1970. Lecture given in Athens on the future of tragedy. In Thody P. (Ed. & Trans.), Selected essays and notebooks: 192–203. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin. Google Scholar Eagleton T. 2002. Sweet violence: The idea of the tragic. London: Wiley-Blackwell. Google Scholar Gadamer H. G. 2004. Truth and method (2nd ed.). (Translated by Weinsheimer J.Marshall D. G..) London: Continuum. Google Scholar James W. 1907. Pragmatism: A new name for some old ways of thinking. New York: Longmans. Google Scholar Lemann N. 2010. Charm City USA. New York Review of Books, September 30: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/sep/30/charm-city-usa/. Google Scholar Love C. 2010. Greek gods in Baltimore: Greek tragedy and The Wire. Criticism, 52: 487–507. Google Scholar March J. 2006. Rationality, foolishness, and adaptive intelligence. Strategic Management Journal, 27: 201–214. Google Scholar Musil R. 1952. Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften [The man without qualities]. Hamburg: Rowohlt. Google Scholar Newcomb H. , Hirsch P. M. 1983. Television as a cultural forum. Quarterly Review of Film Studies, 8(3): 45–55. Google Scholar Park R. 1928. Human migration and the marginal man. American Journal of Sociology, 33: 881–893. Google Scholar Ronell A. 1992. Crack wars: Literature, addiction, mania. Lincoln: University of Nebraska. Google Scholar Searle J. 1975. The logical status of fictional discourse. New Literary History, 6: 319–332. Google Scholar Sennett R. 2006. The culture of new capitalism. London: Yale University Press. Google Scholar Simmel G. 1971. (First published in 1908.) The stranger. In Levine D. (Ed.), On individuality and social forms: 143–149. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Google Scholar Simon D. 1992. Homicide: A year on the killing streets. New York: Ballantine Books. Google Scholar Simon D. 2013. The audacity of despair. http://davidsimon.com/the-koch-brothers-and-the-baltimore-sun/. Google Scholar Simon D. , Burns E. 2009. (First published in 1997.) The corner: A year in the life of an inner-city neighborhood. New York: Random House. Google Scholar Townley B. , Cooper D. J. , Oakes L. 2003. Performance measures and the rationalization of organizations. Organization Studies, 24: 1045–1071. Google Scholar Tsoukas H. , Chia R. 2002. On organizational becoming. Organization Science, 13: 567–582. Google Scholar Van Maanen J. 1979. The fact of fiction in organizational ethnography. Administrative Science Quarterly, 24: 539–552. Google Scholar Von Wright G. H. 1971. Explanation and understanding. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Google Scholar Whitehead A. N. 1926. Science and the modern world. New York: Free Press. Google Scholar Whitehead A. N. 1938. Modes of thought. New York: Macmillan. Google Scholar Williams R. 1966. Modern tragedy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Google Scholar Zuckerman E. W. 1999. The categorical imperative: Securities analysts and the illegitimacy discount. American Journal of Sociology, 104: 1398–1438. Google ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited ByThe Leviathan of Rationality: Using Film to Develop Creativity and Imagination in Management Learning and EducationDamian O’Doherty26 October 2020 | Academy of Management Learning & Education, Vol. 19, No. 3Organizational Readiness: Culturally Mediated Learning Through Disney AnimationMartyn Griffin, Mark Learmonth and Nick Piper15 February 2018 | Academy of Management Learning & Education, Vol. 17, No. 1 Vol. 39, No. 4 Permissions Metrics Downloaded 10 times in the past 12 months History Published online 8 October 2014 Published in print 1 October 2014 Information© Academy of Management ReviewWe thank Chris Quinn Trank for her helpful and encouraging feedback.PDF download