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  • 1.  Extending the MSR Retreat, yet again

    Posted 09-01-2016 17:00

    Dear MSR members:

    Almost September greetings from Copenhagen! Over the past year, the MSR ExComm members crafted what we've come to call a "Ways and Means" document. Consider it an orientation to MSR research - a bit of encouragement for research notions you may have in mind already for AOM/MSR 2017.

    I have attached the Ways and Means PDF. In the coming weeks, perhaps we might extend the spirit of MSR retreat discussions regarding this text on our listserv, as other topics arose after last year's retreat. We could think to capture this tread for a journal publication on topic: the MSR Ways and Means paper, and MSR listserv discourse.

    The text isn't meant to be exhaustive, nor a review of literature. But if you do read it, does it help clarify thought about MSR? If so, in what way(s)? Are there matters to consider further, in a follow-up text perhaps?

    Best,
    Charlie Tackney

     



  • 2.  Extending the MSR Retreat, yet again

    Posted 09-01-2016 20:16
    Hi Charlie

    Perhaps you have a copy of this but just in case you don't I thought you might be interested. It appears to address some of the matters you are trying to work with in your document. Together with Jing Lin and Rebecca Oxford we just had a book published titled. Toward a Spiritual Research Paradigm: Exploring New Ways 
    Its focus is education. 

    Tom Culham

    On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Greg Gerosa <ggerosa@aom.org> wrote:

    Dear MSR members:

    Almost September greetings from Copenhagen! Over the past year, the MSR ExComm members crafted what we've come to call a "Ways and Means" document. Consider it an orientation to MSR research - a bit of encouragement for research notions you may have in mind already for AOM/MSR 2017.

    I have attached the Ways and Means PDF. In the coming weeks, perhaps we might extend the spirit of MSR retreat discussions regarding this text on our listserv, as other topics arose after last year's retreat. We could think to capture this tread for a journal publication on topic: the MSR Ways and Means paper, and MSR listserv discourse.

    The text isn't meant to be exhaustive, nor a review of literature. But if you do read it, does it help clarify thought about MSR? If so, in what way(s)? Are there matters to consider further, in a follow-up text perhaps?

    Best,
    Charlie Tackney

     




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    Tom Culham, P. Eng, Ph. D.


  • 3.  Extending the MSR Retreat, yet again

    Posted 09-02-2016 04:01

    Colleagues,

     

    I wasn't able to get to the paper presentation of this work in at AOM in Anaheim – it's great that it's been summarised and shared after the retreat. It reads to me as a) a splendid piece of work, thanks to all of the authors and contributors, and b) a really generative manifesto for the Interest Group's existence and future development. At the very least, it provides something for people to think about and work with; it could also surely help to advance the field and restate its importance to the wider management and organization studies community.

     

    I think there are also interesting parallels to the sociology of religion community. As I understand it, that research and education community has struggled to maintain a distinctive identity, while simultaneously speaking to its wider 'host' group of mainstream sociology. It seems to me that is something that MSR as an AOM presence, and also as a group of people, has found some challenges in – I certainly have at an individual level. Finally, speaking as someone mostly involved in the AOM Critical Management Studies division at the moment, there are continuous challenges in constructing an identity that people can easily understand and sign up to, while also maintaining an openness and inclusivity.

     

    But again, super document, and super initiative. All good wishes, scott

     

    Scott Taylor (Dr) – Director of Undergraduate Programmes

    Reader in Leadership & Organization Studies, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

    s.taylor@bham.ac.uk (+44) 0121 414 6703

     

    Carroll, B., Ford, J. & Taylor, S. (eds) (2015) Leadership: Contemporary critical perspectives. London: Sage.

    Recent articles in The Conversation

     

    From: Management, Spirituality & Religion [mailto:MSR@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Greg Gerosa
    Sent: 01 September 2016 22:00
    To: MSR@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Extending the MSR Retreat, yet again

     

    Dear MSR members:

    Almost September greetings from Copenhagen! Over the past year, the MSR ExComm members crafted what we've come to call a "Ways and Means" document. Consider it an orientation to MSR research - a bit of encouragement for research notions you may have in mind already for AOM/MSR 2017.

    I have attached the Ways and Means PDF. In the coming weeks, perhaps we might extend the spirit of MSR retreat discussions regarding this text on our listserv, as other topics arose after last year's retreat. We could think to capture this tread for a journal publication on topic: the MSR Ways and Means paper, and MSR listserv discourse.

    The text isn't meant to be exhaustive, nor a review of literature. But if you do read it, does it help clarify thought about MSR? If so, in what way(s)? Are there matters to consider further, in a follow-up text perhaps?

    Best,
    Charlie Tackney

     



  • 4.  Extending the MSR Retreat, yet again

    Posted 09-02-2016 17:28
    It was suggested that I submit a summary to the MSF listserv of the book Toward a Spiritual Research Paradigm: Exploring New Ways of Knowing,  Researching and Being.  Edited by Jing Lin, Rebecca Oxford and Tom Culham

    I have attached the Introduction to the book which serves as a good overview and summary of the book. 

    Tom Culham

    On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Greg Gerosa <ggerosa@aom.org> wrote:

    Dear MSR members:

    Almost September greetings from Copenhagen! Over the past year, the MSR ExComm members crafted what we've come to call a "Ways and Means" document. Consider it an orientation to MSR research - a bit of encouragement for research notions you may have in mind already for AOM/MSR 2017.

    I have attached the Ways and Means PDF. In the coming weeks, perhaps we might extend the spirit of MSR retreat discussions regarding this text on our listserv, as other topics arose after last year's retreat. We could think to capture this tread for a journal publication on topic: the MSR Ways and Means paper, and MSR listserv discourse.

    The text isn't meant to be exhaustive, nor a review of literature. But if you do read it, does it help clarify thought about MSR? If so, in what way(s)? Are there matters to consider further, in a follow-up text perhaps?

    Best,
    Charlie Tackney

     




    --
    Tom Culham, P. Eng, Ph. D.


  • 5.  Extending the MSR Retreat, yet again

    Posted 09-04-2016 02:35
    Charlie,

    I thank the group for leading the way forward in having clearer and more mindful conversations about the conceptual and philosophical foundations of MSR research.  This can only strengthen our contributions to the Academy. 

    An input, if I may:  I find helpful the critical realist perspective founded by Bhaskar and developed by Archer, Colllier and Porpora in "Transcendence:  Critical Realism and God"

    ( NB: Bhaskar's critical realism is distinct from Lonergan's but there is some convergence as pointed out by Friel here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/heyj.12162/abstract )

    I think that critical realism is a coherent response to the well-known limitations of the positivist perspective and the strong relativism of post-modernism and related subjectivist perspectives.  A recent issue of AMR has a CR paper on entrepreneurship by Ramoglou and Tsang which signals that the perspective is entering the mainstream:  http://amr.aom.org/content/41/3/410.abstract

    Regards to all,

    Ben

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    Professor, Management and Organization Department
    Ramon V. del Rosario College of Business
    De La Salle University -- Manila, Philippines
    T: (+632) 536-0267   M: +639196029981

    On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:59 AM, Greg Gerosa <ggerosa@aom.org> wrote:

    Dear MSR members:

    Almost September greetings from Copenhagen! Over the past year, the MSR ExComm members crafted what we've come to call a "Ways and Means" document. Consider it an orientation to MSR research - a bit of encouragement for research notions you may have in mind already for AOM/MSR 2017.

    I have attached the Ways and Means PDF. In the coming weeks, perhaps we might extend the spirit of MSR retreat discussions regarding this text on our listserv, as other topics arose after last year's retreat. We could think to capture this tread for a journal publication on topic: the MSR Ways and Means paper, and MSR listserv discourse.

    The text isn't meant to be exhaustive, nor a review of literature. But if you do read it, does it help clarify thought about MSR? If so, in what way(s)? Are there matters to consider further, in a follow-up text perhaps?

    Best,
    Charlie Tackney

     





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