Management Interest Group Research Articles

Collection Analysis Using Different Tools: Report of the Catalog Management Interest Group Meeting, ALA Core Interest Group Week, March 2023

Collection Analysis Using Different Tools: Report of the Catalog Management Interest Group Meeting, ALA Core Interest Group Week, March 2023

Crisis, criticisms, and damaged credibility: A case study of organisational trust repair by a Victorian joint-stock bank

This article uses the organisational trust repair model developed by Gillespie and Dietz to examine how the Royal Bank of Liverpool, which suspended payments during the commercial crisis in 1847, escaped liquidation and resumed business. This case study uses newspaper reports and selected corporate records to explore the narratives of trust between bank management and different interest groups over the course of resuscitating the establishment. There are three important aspects which shaped the dynamics of trust repair in this case: (1) the bank’s appeal to its reputational past in the community to reassert its credibility; (2) the management’s tactful reconciliation of competing expectations from different parties, and (3) the renegotiation of boundaries between directors’ power and stakeholders’ rights. By exploring the professional standpoint, local attributes and moral discourses within which the bank was resuscitated, this article evaluates the firm’s strategies for rebuilding trust and its corporate legitimacy through a contemporary theoretical perspective, thus offering lessons for corporate trust repair in the twenty-first century.

Enabling and Managing Authentic Experiences: The High-Class Escort Sector in the Netherlands

In this paper we explore how potentially authentic experiences are brought forth by experience providers on a managerial and individual employee level. We do so by researching the Dutch market sector of high-class, agency-based, female escorts, in which the Girlfriend Experience is offered to clients. Authenticity in the experience is treated as a criterion variable; it being a possible outcome of multiple specified predictors. The findings offer insights into which individual behaviours and managerial efforts need to be in place in market exchange relations to deliver a “commodified authentic experience,” thereby supporting responsible behaviour in the organization and enhancing our practical understanding of the employment sector. Within the Management, Spirituality, and Religion Interest Group domain, the basic philosophical categories we deploy offer a necessary and strategically useful complement to spiritual and religious terminology for “creating a better world together” in pluralistic societies.

Report of the Core Catalog Management Interest Group Meeting, Core Virtual Interest Group Week, July 2021

Report of the Core Catalog Management Interest Group Meeting, Core Virtual Interest Group Week, July 2021

Bringing the Presidents Back: Content and Discourse of Academy of Management Presidential Addresses

This paper examines the annual addresses of Academy of Management Presidents since 1957 in regard to their approaches to caring and the culture of care in the professional association. In particular, I investigated three areas: 1) How is culture of care addressed in the AOM annual presidential addresses? 2) How does culture of care resonate between the AOM President addresses and the Management, Spirituality and Religion Interest Group? and 3) What underlines the presidential discourse? The research combines content analysis and historical discourse analysis. All available annual addresses were examined; there are 41 in numbers. My inquiry intends to recover past president discourse through study of stated commitments and discourses for academy members and the surrounding society. The Academy Presidential addresses reflect a discourse of aspirational engagement, with this study documenting that fact and looking into the texts to illuminate Academy concerns over time.

Exploring the meaning of work through a transcendental frame

PurposeDespite the advancement, it appears that much has to be done to clarify the understanding of the effects of the meaning of work (MOW) in the lives. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to explore such a theoretical stream by means of the Spiritism Doctrine (SD) tenets. In fact, the spiritual knowledge derived from this religion alludes to aspects worthy of investigation.Design/methodology/approachReligious lens serves as a robust frame to approach the MOW, given that people’s beliefs likely shape their view about work. Toward that end, it examines pivotal aspects of MOW literature and the SD revelations thereof.FindingsThe wise revelations and teachings from the spirits examined throughout this paper suggest that work embraces one of God’s laws. In this regard, the SD tenets deepen this by providing sound explanations, reflections and arguments about the MOW, as well as highlighting that we all must do the best in the work regardless of the profession or activity. In doing so, this paper is serving the neighbors by fulfilling or at least mitigating their needs and consequently engaging in something indefinitely greater than the own desires, that is, the celestial Father’s wish.Practical implicationsThere is no denying that the knowledge brought by the SD, as a source of transcendental epistemology, has deep implications for workers and organizations likewise. Overall, such knowledge enriches the understanding of a very important theme to human beings through an understudied but also insightful lens.Originality/valueTherefore, this essay contributes to the MOW through transcendental epistemology (Maslow, 1993). Rather, it focuses on a very sensitive issue (work) and its corresponding implications to mankind through the knowledge of a spiritual and religious framework. In addition, such endeavor also adds to the field of management, spirituality and religion Interest Group of Academy of Management.

Sustainability Prerequisites and Practices in Textile and Apparel Supply Chains

The proposed study deals with sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) in the textile and apparel (T&A) industry. We analyze prerequisites and practices of supply chain (SC) sustainability in a multiple case study of the German and Ethiopian T&A industry. Our analysis is based on ten semi-structured interviews conducted with the managers of seven companies in the Ethiopian T&A production and the German fair fashion retail industries. The contribution of expert knowledge helps in identifying SC sustainability prerequisites and practices. The chosen cases of production in Ethiopia and retail in Germany highlight the complexity of T&A SCs while representing both the suppliers’ and retailers’ perspectives, which is rare in the related literature. As a major research contribution, the study adapts a framework for SC sustainability in the chemical industry and transfers it to T&A SCs. Moreover, practitioners from the T&A industry find useful insights into relevant practices and their prerequisites, which helps in improving SC sustainability in this sector. The study reveals that management orientation and interest groups such as customers represent the most important prerequisites for sustainability. Manufacturers rely more on internal practices such as monitoring, while retailers focus on external sustainability practices, such as supplier development. In a comparative approach, similarities and differences between T&A SCs and the chemical industry are identified.

Report of the ALCTS Collection Management and Electronic Resources Interest Group (CMERIG) Meeting. American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 2018

Report of the ALCTS Collection Management and Electronic Resources Interest Group (CMERIG) Meeting. American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 2018

Report of the ALCTS catalog management interest group meeting. American library association annual meeting, New Orleans, June 2018

Report of the ALCTS catalog management interest group meeting. American library association annual meeting, New Orleans, June 2018

Andre Delbecq: Spiritual friend and mentor

Andre Delbecq made a major difference to the field of workplace spirituality, not only through his research, his teaching, and his support for the founding of the Management, Spirituality and Religion Interest Group at the Academy of Management, but also through his friendship and mentoring. This article is based on interviews with seven people whose lives were deeply impacted by Andre’s friendship and mentoring, as well as my own personal reflections. The major themes of the interviews included Andre’s qualities, his spirituality, the ways in which he was an exemplar to others, and descriptions of Andre’s presence. More specifically, interviewees spoke about his loving friendship, his wisdom, his invisible guiding hand, his willingness to be personal and vulnerable, and his deep commitment to his Catholic faith while still being incredibly inclusive and knowledgeable about other religious traditions. Many saw him as an exemplar of how they strive to be in the world. .

Report of the ALCTS Collection Management and E-Resources Interest Group Meeting. American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Denver, February 2018

Report of the ALCTS Collection Management and E-Resources Interest Group Meeting. American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Denver, February 2018

Report of the LITA/ALCTS Electronic Resources Management Interest Group Meeting. American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Denver, February 2018

Report of the LITA/ALCTS Electronic Resources Management Interest Group Meeting. American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Denver, February 2018

Report of the ALCTS Collection Management and E-Resources Interest Group Meeting. ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, June 2017

Report of the ALCTS Collection Management and E-Resources Interest Group Meeting. ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, June 2017

Report of the ALCTS Catalog Management Interest Group meeting. American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, June 2017

Report of the ALCTS Catalog Management Interest Group meeting. American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, June 2017

Report of the LITA/ALCTS Electronic Resources Management Interest Group Meeting. American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, June 2017

The Electronic Resources Management Interest Group (ERMIG) convened a discussion panel at the 2017 annual conference of the American Library Association in Chicago on June 25. Featuring four speake...

Jerry Harvey: The Quintessential Life of Sense and Nonsense

The author pays homage to his former professor, the iconic, caring, profane, charming, and piercing Jerry B. Harvey. Harvey may have been the first person to teach a course on spirituality in a school of business. His work predated the establishment of the Management, Spirituality, and Religion interest group in the Academy of Management, dating at least to a talk about OD as a Religious Movement in 1964. The article is a critique of Harvey’s oeuvre in terms of work that was ahead of its time, work that is timely for today, work that is timeless, and work that feels dated at this point of the twenty-first century. In the final section, the author describes how Harvey’s work impacted his career even several decades later.

Jerry Harvey: the quintessential life of sense and nonsense

The author pays homage to his former professor, the iconic, caring, profane, charming, and piercing Jerry B. Harvey. Harvey may have been the first person to teach a course on spirituality in a school of business. His work predated the establishment of the Management, Spirituality, and Religion interest group in the Academy of Management, dating at least to a talk about OD as a Religious Movement in 1964. The article is a critique of Harvey’s œuvre in terms of work that was ahead of its time, work that is timely for today, work that is timeless, and work that feels dated at this point of the twenty-first century. In the final section, the author describes how Harvey’s work impacted his career even several decades later.

Serials Spoken Here: Reports of Conferences, Institutes, and Seminars

ABSTRACTThis quarter's column offers coverage of multiple sessions from the 2016 American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting, held January 8–12, in Boston, Massachusetts. The sessions detailed herein are two from the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC): Program Training and PCC-At-Large; three from the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Continuing Resources Section (CRS): the Cataloging Forum, Standards Forum, and Holdings Information Forum; the ALCTS/Library Information Technology Association (LITA) Electronics Resources Management Interest Group; and the ALCTS Role of the Professional in Technical Services Interest Group.

Distinguished Silicon Valley CEOs Dialog on Spiritual Practice and Organizational Meaning

Two distinguished Silicon Valley CEOs together with a founding member of the Management, Spirituality and Religion Interest Group will discuss how they perceive spirituality as central to the artic...

The politics of multi-scalar action in river basin management: Implementing the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD)

Scholars of environmental governance are increasingly intrigued by issues of scale. Efforts to institutionalise river basin management represent a pertinent exemplar, as they aspire to strengthen hydrological vis-à-vis political–administrative scales of governance. The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) is one of the most ambitious policy initiatives worldwide to reconfigure water management planning around the hydrological scale of river basins. Whilst it is widely assumed that the WFD is rescaling water governance in Europe, few empirical studies have been conducted to ascertain how far this is the case, what scalar strategies and practices are emerging and to what effect. The paper addresses these open issues with a study analysing the multi-scalar actions of water authorities, water management organisations, local authorities and interest groups involved in implementing the WFD. It investigates how stakeholders are acting scalar from the local to the European scale and back to further their interests in the course of WFD implementation, focussing on the Wupper sub-basin in Germany. Drawing for conceptual insight on the human geography debate on the politics of scale and processes of rescaling, we demonstrate how all relevant stakeholders are increasingly working across scales to advance their interests but in very different ways, with different degrees of deliberation and to different effect. A typology of multi-scalar action is developed to interpret this diversity. The paper draws conclusions on how multi-scalar action is altering not only power relations between the actors but also the scalar configurations themselves.