Management and Organisation

The primacy of relations in socially constructing organizational realities, H. Peter Dachler and Dian-Marie Hosking; relational thoery and the discourses of power, Kenneth J. Gergen; constructing power - entitative and relational approaches, Dian-Marie Hosking; the social construction of grievances - organizational conflict as multiple perspectives, Paul Salipante and Rene Bouwen; the social construction of grievances - constructive and constructionist approaches to a relational theory, Mary Gergen; the case of group sado-masochism - a dialogue on relational theory, Kenwyn K. Smith and Mary Gergen; the manager as a practical author - a rhetorical-responsive, social constructionist approach to social-organizational problems, John Shotter; social constructionism and the postmodern turn of management theory, Emil Walter-Busch; social construction and appreciative inquiry - a journey in organizational theory - David Cooperrider, Frank Barrett and Suresh Srivastva; relational knowledge in organizational theory - an exploration into some of its implications, Thomas S. Eberle; reality is the basis of social construction which in turn creates reality, Mario von Cranach.