Xenophon’s Oeconomicus — Talking About Organizations Podcast feat. Peter Adamson
Continuing on with the theme of Ancient Greece from the previous episode of the Managing Around podcast, we invite you to join the cast of TAOP and Professor Peter Adamson (of the LMU in Munich and th...
8 Feb 20212h 2min
Xenophon’s Oeconomicus — Managing Around
A brief introduction to Xenophon's Oeconomicus - quite possibly the first text on management and administrative theory out there! Join Maik Arnold as he talks about this text, about how it brings toge...
27 Jan 20219min
Competitive Advantage - Reflections on Management, with Tom Galvin
Competitive advantage is one of those terms that I have puzzled over. It is used so often that I know people believe it means something, but it is rarely defined in practice. Scholars have attempted t...
25 Jan 202119min
Social Entrepreneurship and Higher Education - Managing Around
The number of business start-ups in Germany – measured in terms of business registrations, and thus also the number of entrepreneurs – has fallen steadily in absolute terms over the last decade. But t...
22 Jan 20219min
When Leaders Fall from Grace - Reflections on Management, with Tom Galvin
Many of us have worked around (occasionally for) leaders who fall from grace, either due to personal misconduct, embarrassing the organization, or something else above and beyond mere poor performance...
18 Jan 202112min
Banana Time - Donald Roy - Talking About Organizations Podcast
To continue with the theme of ethnography, we turn back to Episode 13 of the Talking About Organizations Podcast on Donald Roy's 1959 work entitled 'Banana Time: Job Satisfaction and Informal Interact...
15 Jan 20211h 31min
Team Ethnography - Susan Silbey - Ethnography Atelier Podcast
In this episode, Professor Susan Silbey from M.I.T talks about a team approach to ethnography. Ethnography is a qualitative approach originated in anthropology that is widely used today in many acade...
13 Jan 202123min
