The Grid- A Tool for Academic Writing and Self-Organization

An example of “The Grid.”
ON the suggestion of a friend, I started this Academic writing coaching service.  It is called Academic Ladder.
It is like a mash-up of facebook and a writing group.  SO far, it has been pretty helpful.  I mentioned the grid, something I picked up here from Roger and Mary Lynn Breyfogle, I [...]

Fields in Institutional Theory

Every time I write about fields from an institutional theory perspective, I get hung up on what they mean.   I suppose that means I should write more about them.  Or that there are underlying tensions in how different scholars use them?
Somewhere in the various Virtual Worlds paper drafts that litter my “My Documents” like [...]

Blogging and Democracy of the blog media- 2nd Guardian Column

I think the title for my Guardian Column (they don’t seem to update the site) is “Our Online Selves.”  That can be improved.
Here is the second installment.

“The End of Culture and Truth?”
I am a blogger.  Eight years ago, saying this might have conjured up someone doing something disdainful with their finger and nose, [...]

Amusing Diaper Story

One of the folks over at BPP has this amusing story about trying to use eco diapers and findng that “reality overhwlems the good inetentiosn of the crusade.”
Could sum up my challenges in writing too.  What to do when the reality is you?

Mental Organization

One of the boons of Web 2.0 technologies, like tagging, folksonomies, and social bookmarking, is that it gives a mental pack rat like me an immense feeling of relief and empowerment.  I used to try and clip articles form newspapers and journals I thought were important.  Back in the days before the internets, I mean.  [...]

Why so many drafts…?

Why do  I have so many drafts?  There are 19 on this blog!

The variable jumping-off point: some meta-thoughts on writing theory

From early morning, post-espresso mental house-cleaning…

As younger scholars, we suffer from a limited horizon problem. When we look backwards for cues or jumping off points for theory, we take for granted a particular jumping off point without absorbing or [...]

Update…

Friday. Dreary Rain. Massive archeology of org theory- examining the buried foundations of my worldview.  Time for Radiohead!

Comparing fourth and fifth editions of Organizations by Richard Scott (And Gerry Davis for fifth)

So, a new edition of Organizations:Rational, Natural, and Open Systems by W. Richard Scott is out. Its co-authored by Gerry Davis (Who was a student of Scott’s at Stanford, apparently) and has a newer, more active title (stamp out nouns!). This book was an absolute classic for me doing my PhD at [...]

10, no 15, Commandments of Writing Theory

A conversation with a collaborator about how to write and publish theory led Ted to send me the hot-off-the-press Editor’s comments from the most recent AMR. Got me thinking about some of the other badly needed comments on theory in our field. Distilling them led to the following list. There are many [...]