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Papers by J. Jermier
The Leadership Quarterly, 1991
The Leadership Quarterly, 1993
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2014
Firms issue environmental reports, build green buildings, create new job titles, develop green te... more Firms issue environmental reports, build green buildings, create new job titles, develop green technologies, adopt environmental policies or participate in government green schemes as signals of their environmental responsiveness. Some of this symbolic activity gives managers, consumers, investors, regulators and other stakeholders valuable information about firms’ environmental quality, enabling them to make more efficient decisions. However, many of these symbols are greenwash, that is, deliberate or selective attempts to communicate positive environmental information not matched by improved environmental impacts (Delmas & Burbano 2011; Marquis & Toffel 2012) or superficial corporate environmentalism that is all style and no substance (Forbes & Jermier 2012). Understanding the drivers, dynamics and consequences of symbolic corporate environmentalism is a pressing research challenge. In this panel symposium, we will convene an interactive discussion on new directions for the theory and practice of symbol...
Organization, 2020
The fundamental assumption we base this Special Issue on is that narrow concepts of growth have b... more The fundamental assumption we base this Special Issue on is that narrow concepts of growth have become the ruling ideas of this age, entrenched both in everyday life and to a considerable extent in the theoretical thinking and traditions of research conducted by organization and management studies scholars. We explain how tacit (or overt) endorsement of unbridled economic growth (the growth imperative) has pernicious practical effects and how it tends to restrict the intellectual base of the field. We argue that notions of degrowth present scholars with challenges as well as opportunities to reframe core assumptions and develop new directions in theory and research. Envisioning a post-COVID 19 world where societies and organizations can flourish without growth is one of the most difficult tasks facing theorists. We approach this challenge first by discussing the hegemonic properties of growth ideology and second by sketching an alternative political economy as a context for reimagin...
Academy of Management Proceedings, 1991
... their antecedents and consequences (Meyer & Allen, 1984; McGee & Ford... more ... their antecedents and consequences (Meyer & Allen, 1984; McGee & Ford, 1987; Penley & Gould, 1988; Meyer et al., 1989; Randall et al., 1990; Allen & Meyer, 1990). Second, analysis of the commitment-turnover relationship has not benefitted from the evaluation of alternative ...
The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies
The new corporate environmentalism and green politics. John M Jermier, Linda C Forbes,Suzanne Ben... more The new corporate environmentalism and green politics. John M Jermier, Linda C Forbes,Suzanne Benn, Renato J Orsato The Sage handbook of organization studies, 618-650, 2006.
Organization & Environment, 2000
L'A. presente l'ouvrage de Margaret Fuller Summer on the Lakes publie en 1843. Celle-ci a... more L'A. presente l'ouvrage de Margaret Fuller Summer on the Lakes publie en 1843. Celle-ci apparait comme une des premieres representantes du courant ecologiste feministe americain. Il retrace sa vie et sa carriere de journaliste et d'ecrivain. Il souligne que Fuller defendait une conception philosophique resolument optimiste. Elle considerait que Dieu demeurait present dans la nature et chez les hommes. Summer on the Lakes decrit le profond emerveillement devant le spectacle de la nature offert par la region des Grands Lacs
Organization & Environment, 2000
... To elaborate: What once was the family farm is now agribusiness, or factory farming ... anima... more ... To elaborate: What once was the family farm is now agribusiness, or factory farming ... animals are kept in oppressively cramped conditions; injected with growth hormones, antibiotics, and other chemicals; and slaughtered to provide us with filet mignon, veal marsala, and chicken ...
Organization & Environment, 1998
Organization & Environment, 2011
This article is the first part of a Citation Classics and Foundational Works feature focused on m... more This article is the first part of a Citation Classics and Foundational Works feature focused on metaphor and organizational studies. The second part of the feature is a personal reflection by Gareth Morgan on the genesis and impact of his pathbreaking book, Images of Organization (IO). In this article, we summarize the nature of the contributions made by IO, sketch ways in which the book has prompted and served as a touchstone for new research on metaphor and organization, and discuss the application of contemporary metaphorical analysis to the problems of theory development, research methods, and puzzle solving facing scholars interested in sustainability studies and research on organizations and the natural environment (ONE). We illustrate how early research that fostered ONE scholarship is marked by the use of particularly powerful metaphorical language and attention to poetic technique as well as rigorous science. We suggest how ONE research (and organizational studies in general) can benefit from studying IO and related literature on metaphorical analysis.
The Leadership Quarterly, 1990
The Leadership Quarterly, 1991
Journal of Management Education, 1986
Journal of Management, 1985
This is a short story about the two minds of Mike Armstrong, Dialectical Marxist Theory's rom... more This is a short story about the two minds of Mike Armstrong, Dialectical Marxist Theory's romantic "everyman " and Critical Theory's "anti-hero." The story contrasts day and night versions of Armstrong's worklife as a skilled operator in the control room of a large phosphate plant located in Tampa, Florida. The two versions are presented to illustrate theoretical descriptions of psychic processes engaged when human actors confront an alien world and make sense of it. Alternative forms of subjective alienation, relied consciousness (drawn from Critical Theory), and reflective militancy (drawn from Dialectical Marxism) are developed as deep psychic states through which meaning is constructed in the world. It is proposed that subjective alienation is shaped by mythical forces in the broader symbolic environment and that it profoundly conditions actions and attitudes. Its importance in understanding organizational behavior and the practice of humanistic m...
Academy of Management Review, 1978
Academy of Management Journal, 2005
Academy of Management Journal, 1993
Academy of Management Journal, 1983
... Fourth, there is empirical evidence suggesting that departmental membership is a critical fac... more ... Fourth, there is empirical evidence suggesting that departmental membership is a critical factor in understanding the source and intensity of stressors in the work place ... 6. Task motivating potential 15 113.4 54.0 .80 ... 12. Emotional exhaustion: Frequency 9 18.4 12.1 .90 ...
Administrative Science Quarterly, 1996
Administrative Science Quarterly, 1988
The Leadership Quarterly, 1991
The Leadership Quarterly, 1993
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2014
Firms issue environmental reports, build green buildings, create new job titles, develop green te... more Firms issue environmental reports, build green buildings, create new job titles, develop green technologies, adopt environmental policies or participate in government green schemes as signals of their environmental responsiveness. Some of this symbolic activity gives managers, consumers, investors, regulators and other stakeholders valuable information about firms’ environmental quality, enabling them to make more efficient decisions. However, many of these symbols are greenwash, that is, deliberate or selective attempts to communicate positive environmental information not matched by improved environmental impacts (Delmas & Burbano 2011; Marquis & Toffel 2012) or superficial corporate environmentalism that is all style and no substance (Forbes & Jermier 2012). Understanding the drivers, dynamics and consequences of symbolic corporate environmentalism is a pressing research challenge. In this panel symposium, we will convene an interactive discussion on new directions for the theory and practice of symbol...
Organization, 2020
The fundamental assumption we base this Special Issue on is that narrow concepts of growth have b... more The fundamental assumption we base this Special Issue on is that narrow concepts of growth have become the ruling ideas of this age, entrenched both in everyday life and to a considerable extent in the theoretical thinking and traditions of research conducted by organization and management studies scholars. We explain how tacit (or overt) endorsement of unbridled economic growth (the growth imperative) has pernicious practical effects and how it tends to restrict the intellectual base of the field. We argue that notions of degrowth present scholars with challenges as well as opportunities to reframe core assumptions and develop new directions in theory and research. Envisioning a post-COVID 19 world where societies and organizations can flourish without growth is one of the most difficult tasks facing theorists. We approach this challenge first by discussing the hegemonic properties of growth ideology and second by sketching an alternative political economy as a context for reimagin...
Academy of Management Proceedings, 1991
... their antecedents and consequences (Meyer & Allen, 1984; McGee & Ford... more ... their antecedents and consequences (Meyer & Allen, 1984; McGee & Ford, 1987; Penley & Gould, 1988; Meyer et al., 1989; Randall et al., 1990; Allen & Meyer, 1990). Second, analysis of the commitment-turnover relationship has not benefitted from the evaluation of alternative ...
The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies
The new corporate environmentalism and green politics. John M Jermier, Linda C Forbes,Suzanne Ben... more The new corporate environmentalism and green politics. John M Jermier, Linda C Forbes,Suzanne Benn, Renato J Orsato The Sage handbook of organization studies, 618-650, 2006.
Organization & Environment, 2000
L'A. presente l'ouvrage de Margaret Fuller Summer on the Lakes publie en 1843. Celle-ci a... more L'A. presente l'ouvrage de Margaret Fuller Summer on the Lakes publie en 1843. Celle-ci apparait comme une des premieres representantes du courant ecologiste feministe americain. Il retrace sa vie et sa carriere de journaliste et d'ecrivain. Il souligne que Fuller defendait une conception philosophique resolument optimiste. Elle considerait que Dieu demeurait present dans la nature et chez les hommes. Summer on the Lakes decrit le profond emerveillement devant le spectacle de la nature offert par la region des Grands Lacs
Organization & Environment, 2000
... To elaborate: What once was the family farm is now agribusiness, or factory farming ... anima... more ... To elaborate: What once was the family farm is now agribusiness, or factory farming ... animals are kept in oppressively cramped conditions; injected with growth hormones, antibiotics, and other chemicals; and slaughtered to provide us with filet mignon, veal marsala, and chicken ...
Organization & Environment, 1998
Organization & Environment, 2011
This article is the first part of a Citation Classics and Foundational Works feature focused on m... more This article is the first part of a Citation Classics and Foundational Works feature focused on metaphor and organizational studies. The second part of the feature is a personal reflection by Gareth Morgan on the genesis and impact of his pathbreaking book, Images of Organization (IO). In this article, we summarize the nature of the contributions made by IO, sketch ways in which the book has prompted and served as a touchstone for new research on metaphor and organization, and discuss the application of contemporary metaphorical analysis to the problems of theory development, research methods, and puzzle solving facing scholars interested in sustainability studies and research on organizations and the natural environment (ONE). We illustrate how early research that fostered ONE scholarship is marked by the use of particularly powerful metaphorical language and attention to poetic technique as well as rigorous science. We suggest how ONE research (and organizational studies in general) can benefit from studying IO and related literature on metaphorical analysis.
The Leadership Quarterly, 1990
The Leadership Quarterly, 1991
Journal of Management Education, 1986
Journal of Management, 1985
This is a short story about the two minds of Mike Armstrong, Dialectical Marxist Theory's rom... more This is a short story about the two minds of Mike Armstrong, Dialectical Marxist Theory's romantic "everyman " and Critical Theory's "anti-hero." The story contrasts day and night versions of Armstrong's worklife as a skilled operator in the control room of a large phosphate plant located in Tampa, Florida. The two versions are presented to illustrate theoretical descriptions of psychic processes engaged when human actors confront an alien world and make sense of it. Alternative forms of subjective alienation, relied consciousness (drawn from Critical Theory), and reflective militancy (drawn from Dialectical Marxism) are developed as deep psychic states through which meaning is constructed in the world. It is proposed that subjective alienation is shaped by mythical forces in the broader symbolic environment and that it profoundly conditions actions and attitudes. Its importance in understanding organizational behavior and the practice of humanistic m...
Academy of Management Review, 1978
Academy of Management Journal, 2005
Academy of Management Journal, 1993
Academy of Management Journal, 1983
... Fourth, there is empirical evidence suggesting that departmental membership is a critical fac... more ... Fourth, there is empirical evidence suggesting that departmental membership is a critical factor in understanding the source and intensity of stressors in the work place ... 6. Task motivating potential 15 113.4 54.0 .80 ... 12. Emotional exhaustion: Frequency 9 18.4 12.1 .90 ...
Administrative Science Quarterly, 1996
Administrative Science Quarterly, 1988