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Karl Marx once complained how those intellectual skunks, as he liked to call academics, only… Read More »Fast Food Research in the Era of Unplanned Obsolescence

Watch Gail Whiteman’s video abstract: If the Arctic is screaming, it’s hard for management studies… Read More »Poles Apart: The Arctic & Management Studies

The Rana Plaza collapse, which took place in Bangladesh in 2013, killed and injured at… Read More »Rana Plaza Fieldwork and Academic Anxiety: Some Reflections

Watch Boyd Cohen’s video abstract: During this decade we have witnessed the introduction or scaling… Read More »The Rise of Alternative Currencies in Post-Capitalism

My motivation for this essay extends from my three views on the state of international… Read More »The Death and Rebirth (?) of International Business Research

Watch Nicole Woolsey Biggart’s video abstract: Like many of you I came to the study… Read More »Biggart’s Lament, or Getting Out of the Theory Cave

At 6pm on 16 December 2014 while sat at my kitchen table and slowly marking… Read More »‘We’re Sorry to Hear You’ve Been Unwell…’ Personal Reflections on Health and Well-being in the Workplace

The idea that I put forward in this essay is not, in its immediate content,… Read More »Looking Away? Civilized Indifference and the Carnal Relationships of the Contemporary Workplace

In August, 2015, the New York Times published a much-discussed and somewhat controversial article documenting… Read More »Why the Assholes are Winning: Money Trumps All

The essay as a literary genre has, over the centuries, delivered profound insights into a… Read More »The Essay as an Endangered Species: Should We Care?

Essays occupy a distinct position in the intellectual development of human thought. In contrast to… Read More »Introducing JMSSays