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Towards wise management, 2018

Going through a trove of economics-related articles in a leading Finnish daily, Helsingin Sanomat... more Going through a trove of economics-related articles in a leading Finnish daily, Helsingin Sanomat, this section focuses on the local reception of the emerging financial crisis in the public consciousness and expert opinion during 2007-2009. Media reports consistently downplay the extensiveness and severity of the ensuing crisis that evolves from the problems of the mortgage sector in the USA. Comparing to the available statistical and other objective indicators, the comments of economists, politicians and journalists tend to lag behind the developing trend of a major disruption within the financial markets.

Towards Wise Management, 2018

From: Peltonen, Tuomo (2018). Towards Wise Management: Wisdom and Stupidity in Strategic Decision... more From: Peltonen, Tuomo (2018). Towards Wise Management: Wisdom and Stupidity in Strategic Decision-making. Springer.

Peltonen, T. (2020) The role of religion in cross-cultural management: three perspectives. In: Sz... more Peltonen, T. (2020) The role of religion in cross-cultural management: three perspectives. In: Szkudlarek, B., Romani. L., Caprar, D. & Osland, J. (eds) The Sage Handbook of Contemporary Cross-Cultural Management. London: Sage, pp. (Forthcoming)

Philosophy of Management, 2019

There is an evident lack of rigorous frameworks for making sense of the role and status of spirit... more There is an evident lack of rigorous frameworks for making sense of the role and status of spirituality and religion in organizations and organizing, in particular from the perspective of spiritual philosophies of the social. This paper suggests that the philosophy of Plato and his modern follower, political theorist Eric Voegelin could offer a viable perspective for understanding organizational spirituality in its metaphysical, political and ethical contexts. Essential for such a philosophical reflection is the postulation of the transcendental realm as the ultimate reality that provides the fullest templates for order, knowledge and ethicality. It is argued, in the footsteps of Voegelin, that modern organizations and modern organization theory should seek to re-awaken the lost experiences of the divine Beyond by re-animating religious symbols and myths of transcendence as devices for a spiritually opened consciousness.

Forthcoming in:Handbook of Research on Comparative Human Resource Management. Second Edition, Edi... more Forthcoming in:Handbook of Research on Comparative Human Resource Management. Second Edition, Edited by Chris Brewster, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, and Elaine Farndale

Forthcoming in: Peltonen, T., Gaggiotti, H. & Case, P. (eds) Origins of Organizing. Edward Elgar

Peltonen, T. & Salovaara, P. (2018) (Forthcoming) Lefebvre, Lunch Beat and politics of organizat... more Peltonen, T. & Salovaara, P. (2018) (Forthcoming) Lefebvre, Lunch Beat and politics of organizational space. In: Dale, K., Knigma, S. & Wasserman, V. (eds.) Organizational Space and Beyond. Routledge

In: McLaren, P. G., Mills, A. J., & Weatherbee, T. G. (Eds.). (2015). The Routledge Companion to ... more In: McLaren, P. G., Mills, A. J., & Weatherbee, T. G. (Eds.). (2015). The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History. Routledge.

Expertise has been earlier examined by focussing on norms regulating the professionals' conduct o... more Expertise has been earlier examined by focussing on norms regulating the professionals' conduct or on professional power and monopoly on knowledge. This article approaches expertise as a dimension and outcome in the construction of social reality in organizations. The paper examines the making of authority at the level of interaction by analyzing the talk of four business school graduates in a group interview situation. Participants were able to evoke a shared business. graduate code, despite the individual and structural differences among them. Code was used to produce a common identity as experts as well as to frame others as less competent or less knowledgable. The course of interview was studied in detail by using ethnomethodological conversation analysis. At times participants achieved a version of reality that enforced their professional authority, while at times the meaning of world of work and business obtained was contradictory and disadvantageous. This suggests that the multiplicity of business graduates' code was, depending on the situation, both an elaborate strategic resource and a complicating divergence in the actual making of social reality.

Index Absolute Spirit and human community, dialectics between, 13, 229 Acker,

International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion,

There is a long history of using researcher-generated photography to complement verbal descriptio... more There is a long history of using researcher-generated photography to complement verbal descriptions of culture in ethnographic research. In the recent discussions, photos are no longer treated as authentic or accurate descriptions of the field, but are instead understood as particular representations of organisational life. As manufactured visual artefacts, photos reflect the conditions surrounding their production within ethnographic practice, but at the same time their ethnographicness is contingent on the shifting interpretations and uses of images in scholarly representations. The purpose of this paper is to add to the emerging body of performative visual ethnography by re-reading and narrating a set of photos of university organisation taken originally as a part of another field research project. By presenting the photos depicting the organisation from the viewpoint of a cosmopolitan academic, and complementing the images with critical narratives about some of the personal experiences of living and working under a regime of intensifying control and managerialism, a multi-modal representation of 'how it feels being there' is offered. The challenge of photographic ethnography is to retain the specific sensitivities related to the visual format while at the same time being able to spin an accompanied narrative that enables a creative dialogue between the pictures and the words.

Administrative Studies (in Finnish)

Toward a conceptual history of management in Finland: The language of 1950's textbooks Conceptual... more Toward a conceptual history of management in Finland: The language of 1950's textbooks Conceptual history is a scholarly perspective that investigates the emergence and use of scientific and institutional concepts. Of particular interest in the approach are the ways in which concepts shape and constitute the meaning of various phenomena. The purpose of the present article is to introduce conceptual history to Finnish administrative studies and to apply it to an analysis of Finnish management thought at a specific moment in time. A close reading of key textbooks from the 1950's illustrates the potential of conceptual historical analysis. The Finnish concept johtaminen ('management, managing') was not widely used in the books. Instead, concepts such as hoito ('care, conduct'), johto ('leadership, management') and hallinta ('control, handling') were employed instead to denote the administrative phenomenon. Furthermore, the texts strove to legitimise management mainly in terms of the moral character of managers and the management process. Overall, the paper argues for the necessity of paying closer attention to the role of concepts and their divergent uses in the study of the history of management ideas.

The Academy of …, Jan 1, 2008

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to report a study of architectural development and organiza... more Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to report a study of architectural development and organizational meanings and uses of space in a Finnish university. Design/methodology/approach -The paper draws from actor-network theory and Lefebvre's spatial-social approach to shed light on the organizational assumptions of the various building phases and how current employees use and make sense of the architectural space in the case organization. The methods used include participant observation, interviews of employees and architects, and interpretation of planning documents, architectural statements and administrative representations of the complex. Findings -It took over 30 years to build the campus. The original plans for the university buildings were substantially revised as architectural and organizational paradigms changed over time. However, regardless of the more recently built state-of-the-art facilities, the early architectural design ideas have persisted as material-social forces that participate in the ongoing production and reproduction of organizational space. Originality/value -Despite of the recent surge of writings on organizational space and architecture, there are relatively few empirical studies done on the topic. In particular, analyses investigating the travel of design ideas from architectural planning to actual physical constructions and further to the everyday organizing practices of employees have so far been rare in organizational literature. This paper partially fills this gap.

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to advance the methodological self-understanding of the eme... more Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to advance the methodological self-understanding of the emerging field of organizational space and architecture by employing concepts and frameworks from multi-paradigm and mixed methods research. Design/methodology/approach -The paper presents a methodological re-reading of a recent research process that analyzed the spatial and architectural dynamics in a Finnish university organization.

Towards wise management, 2018

Towards Wise Management, 2018

Philosophy of Management, 2019

Forthcoming in: Peltonen, T., Gaggiotti, H. & Case, P. (eds) Origins of Organizing. Edward Elgar

Index Absolute Spirit and human community, dialectics between, 13, 229 Acker,

International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion,

Administrative Studies (in Finnish)

The Academy of …, Jan 1, 2008

Origins of Organizing, 2018

The origins of organizing are conventionally seen as emerging from the historiographical works o... more The origins of organizing are conventionally seen as emerging from the historiographical works of Western social scientists in the early 20th century. Here, the authors’ shed new light on the aperture in current literature by exploring previously unrecognized or marginalized global origins in both modern and ancient history.

This innovative collection of original research-based work covers a variety of historical epochs and theoretical streams from modern movements in philosophy and the social sciences to evaluate organization by 16th Century Jesuits and Quakers, the Roman Empire and ancient Chinese philosophy. The authors creatively and insightfully engage with the historiography and philosophy of organizing, presenting alternative suggestions to the dominant Western-focused development of organizational theory and practice.

A complementary text for graduate students in the fields of organization theory, management history and critical management studies, Origins of Organizing is significant in expanding the field of organizational theory to incorporate key examples that move away from mainstream and traditional perspectives.

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