Resources: Main Page | Research Methods (A) | Major Theories (B) | Issues and Contemporary Topics (C) | Professional Education (D)
Note: This page is under construction and most of the resources are not yet built — however, you are more than welcome to peruse what we have in the works for you!
The Talking About Organizations Podcast website is more than just a host for great conversations. It is also a resource for rising scholars of organization theory and management science. There are so many important research topics and subfields that it is easy for newbies to get lost. We are here to help!
The Resources page is a repository for entry-level scholars to learn more about “what’s out there.” What are the major fields of scholarship, tools of the trade, and phenomena of interest to researchers and practitioners alike. The below topics are sorted in multiple ways to reflect the complexity and multitude of perspectives on organizations and the many scholarly communities studying them. Each perspective is organized into aisles like in a Library, and each aisle is further divided into racks and shelves. Some will be stubs that we are working on to fill, others will be robust — your help is greatly appreciated!
The center is organized sort of like a Library — into “Aisles” and “Racks.” We divided the resources into four (4) Aisles — one focused on research and research methods, one on theory, one on current topics (mostly oriented toward contemporary practice), and one on the professional community of organization scholars and associated education.
Within each Aisle is a number of “Racks” divided topically. Each Rack contains a brief essay on a topic, why it is important, a quick introduction to the foundational works in that topic (consider it like an initial “must-read” list), a discussion about key literature streams or subfields within the topic, relevant episodes from the Talking About Organizations Podcast, and a reference list. Because of the natural overlap in perspectives, you will find some of the same resources in multiple locations across the Resource Center (for you WordPress geeks, these are identified by category) — this is because there is no absolute consensus on how organization studies is divided by subtopic or field. In other words, there is no “one best way” to design this Center, so we allowed for a lot of flexibility.
In future, this Resource Center will include educational tools and other capabilities. We will also link every new episode and add pages on topics not covered before!
Aisles in this Resource Center
Aisle A – Research Methods
Aisle B – Major Theoretical Perspectives and Schools
Aisle C – Management Topics
Aisle D – Professional Community
Note: This page was developed through contributions by members of the TAOP cast, Valerio Iannucci, the AoM Organization and Management Theory keywords page, and various ChatGPT queries including “What are the major theories in organization studies?”, “What are the major contemporary research topics and issues in organization studies?”, and “Why are research methods so important to organizational studies?”
Resources: Main Page | Research Methods (A) | Major Theories (B) | Issues and Contemporary Topics (C) | Professional Education (D)