Faculty, Research & Staff

Michael B. Elmes

Publications

Peer-Reviewed (Refereed) Journal Articles

“Into hot air: Discourse, myth, and spectacle in accounting for Everest” (M. Elmes and B. Frame), Forthcoming Human Relations, 2008.
“Technological embeddedness and organizational change” (O. Volkoff, D. Strong and M. Elmes). Organization Science, Vol. 18(5), September-October 2007, 832-848.
"Maintaining discipline in the performance of academic expertise: A dialogue" (with Mario Moussa), Tamara: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science, In Press.
“Music at work: An introduction” (C. Prichard, M. Korczynski and M. Elmes), Group and Organization Management, Special Issue on Music at Work, 32(1), 2007, 4-21.
“Power, double binds and transcendence in the mentoring relationship: A transpersonal perspective” (M. Elmes and C. Smith), International Journal of Learning and Change, Vol. 1(4), 2006, 484-498. (Published in 2007).
“In the name of the practical: Unearthing the hegemony of ‘pragmatism’ in the discourse of environmental management” (P. Prasad and M. Elmes), Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 42(4), June 2005, 845-867.
"Understanding Enterprise Systems-enabled integration” (with D. Strong, O. Volkoff, and M. Elmes), European Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 14(2), 2005, 110-120.
“Panoptic empowerment and reflective conformity in Enterprise Systems-enabled organizations" (M. Elmes, O. Volkoff, and D. Strong), Information and Organization, 15, December 2004, 1-37.
“Enterprise Systems, knowledge transfer, and power users” (O. Volkoff, D. Strong, and M. Elmes), Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Vol. 13(4), 2004, 279-304.
“From Gut Knowing: Every Silver Cloud Has a Black Lining or Blinds that Tie – Actor Reflections on ‘Ties that Bind’”, Management Communication Quarterly, 2003.
"Leading Change: Insights from Jungian interpretations of the Book of Job" (with Charles Smith), Journal of Organization Change Management, Vol. 15(5), 2002, 448-460.
"Moved by the spirit: Contextualizing workplace empowerment in American spiritual ideals" (with Charles Smith), The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, March 2001, 35-50.
"Deliverance, denial, and the death zone: A study of narcissism and regression in the May 1996 Everest climbing disaster" (with David Barry), The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 35(2), June 1999, 163-188.
"Strategy retold: Towards a narrative view of strategic discourse" (with David Barry), Academy of Management Review, 22(2), April 1997, 429-452.
"Knowledge workers and organizational learning: Narratives from biotechnology," (with Chickery Kasouf), Management Learning, Special Issue on "Talk at Work" (Iain Mangham, ed.), 26(4), 1995, 403-422.
"Paradox and pedagogy in the charismatic organizational behavior classroom." Journal of Management Education, 18(1), February 1994, 7-20. (Finalist for the Roethlisberger Award).
"Mirror, mask, and shadow: Psychodynamic aspects of intergroup relations" (with Gary Gemmill). Journal of Management Inquiry,, Vol. 2(1), March 1993, 43-51.
"Mystification and social drama: The hidden side of communication skills training" (with Melinda Costello). Human Relations, Vol. 45(5), 1992, 427-445.

Conference Publications/Proceedings, Reviewed

“From chaos to tempered radicalism: The form and content of organizational resistance” (M. Elmes and S. Taylor), Selected out of 357 submissions as Best Paper in the OMT Division, Proceedings of the Academy of Management Meeting, Honolulu Hawaii, August 2005.
"Between a rock and a hard place: Boundary spanners in an ERP implementation", (O. Volkoff, D. Strong, M. Elmes). Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 9-11, 2002, Dallas, TX.
"Practically dangerous: Unearthing the hegemony of 'pragmatism' in the discourse of environmental management (with P. Prasad), Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 2001.
"ERP Systems, Task Structure, and Workarounds in Organizations" (with Diane Strong and Olga Volkoff), Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 2-5, 2001, Boston, MA, pp. 1049-1051.
"ERP systems and changes in power: a Foucaultian perspective" (with D. Strong and O.Volkoff), Oasis - Organisations and Society in Information Systems 2000 Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, December 2000.
"Moved by the spirit: Contextualizing workplace empowerment in American spiritual practices and beliefs" (with Charles Smith), Published in the Proceedings of the Eastern Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Danvers, MA, May 2000.
"Strategy-as-story: A narrative account of strategic discourse" (with David Barry), Organization and Management Theory Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, August 1996. Published in conference computer proceedings.
"Wiring the 'new organization': Integrating collaborative technologies and team-based work" (with Karen Ruhleder and Brigitte Jordan), Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, August 1996. Winner of Best Paper Award, OCIS Division, and published in the conference computer proceedings.

Book Chapters

"Wiring the 'new organization': Integrating collaborative strategies and team-based work" (with K. Ruhleder & B. Jordan) in Managerie: Systemisches Denken und Handeln im Management, v. 5 (Managerie: Systems Thinking and Action in Management, Volume 5), C. Schmitz, B. Heitger, and P.W. Gester (Eds.), Heidelberg: Carl Auer Press, 1999.
"Issues in the management of workplace diversity" (with Anshuman Prasad), in Managing the Organizational Melting Pot, Spring 1997.
"Dreams of diversity and the realities of intergroup relations in organizations" (with Debra Connelley), in Managing the Organizational Melting Pot, Spring 1997.

Books (including edited volumes and textbooks)

Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity, (with Albert Mills, Pushkala Prasad, and Anshuman Prasad). Book of edited readings published by Sage Publications on the challenges and dilemmas of workforce diversity, Spring 1997.

Presentations

Conference Presentations

“Talking Biotechnology…Reflecting on Science in Society”, Keynote Speaker, December 1, 2005. Victoria University, Wellington, NZ.
“'Nature' in the discourse of sustainable development and biotechnology in New Zealand: A North American View” (M. Elmes) in Competing claims: Critical perspectives on ‘sustainability’ and biotechnology (M. Elmes and S. Davenport, Chairs), Showcase Symposium in Organization and the Natural Environment, Critical Management Studies, and Social Issues in Management), Honolulu, Hawaii, August, 2005.
“From chaos to tempered radicalism: The form and content of organizational resistance” (M. Elmes and S. Taylor), Organization and Management Theory Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, August, 2005.
“GMOs in the context of New Zealand myth: Early thoughts”, June 10, 2005, Victoria University, Victoria Management School, Wellington, NZ.
“Call me, we’ll do lunch: Form and content in everyday resistance and provocation in organizations” (M. Elmes and S. Taylor), Art of Management and Organization Conference, Paris, France, September 2004.
“Forms of resistance in the academic iron cage” (M. Elmes) in Degrees of freedom: Institutional constraints and personal agency in academic knowledge production(P. Prasad, Chair). Symposium in Research Methods, Organization and Management Theory, and Critical Management Studies), Academy of Management Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, August 2004.
“A garden in the machine: Rationalizing modern food technology in the American recovery narrative” (M. Elmes) in We eat what we are: A critical perspective on the discourses of food and food production technology (M. Elmes, Chair), Showcase Symposium in Research Methods, Organization and the Natural Environment, and Critical Management Studies), Academy of Management Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, August 2004.
“Enterprise systems, knowledge transfer and power users” (O. Volkoff, M. Elmes, and D. Strong), Organizations and Society in Information Systems (OASIS) Workshop, Seattle, WA, December 2003.
“ERP systems and the dialectics of visibility and control” (M. Elmes, O. Volkoff, and D. Strong), Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, August 2003.
“The Aesthetic Aspects of Everyday Resistance and Provocation in Organizations” (M. Elmes and N. Nissley), in Through the looking glass: Using the lens of art and aesthetics to reinterpret organization and management (Pedro Perez, Chair). Symposium in the Research Methods and Organization Development and Change, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, August 2003.
“Resisting in high places: A study of First Nation Mohawk ironworkers” (M. Elmes, P. Prasad, and A. Prasad), Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, August 2003.
“Identity, work, and resistance in high places: A study of First Nation Mohawk ironworkers” (M. Elmes, P. Prasad, and A. Prasad), Critical Management Studies Conference, Lancaster, UK, July 2003.
“Finding ourselves in the Other: An inquiry into power, consumption, and the search for wholeness” (M. Elmes), Organization Behavior Teaching Conference, Springfield, MA, June 2003.
"Explaining unanticipated consequences: An historical analysis of high altitude mountaineering (with P. Carlile), Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, August 2002.
"Missing nature in the discourse of spirituality in business", Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, August 2002.
"Explaining Disaster from a Structuralist Perspective: The Case of High Altitude Mountaineering" (with Paul Carlile), EGOS (European Group on Organizational Studies), Helsinki, Finland, July 2000.
"Passionate inquiry: Time, unity, and the embrace of 'The Ten Thousand Things'" (with Charles Smith), International Society of Systems Sciences Conference, Toronto, Ca, July 2000.
"Moved by the spirit: Contextualizing workplace empowerment in American spiritual practices and beliefs" (with Charles Smith), Eastern Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Danvers, MA, May 2000.
"Blurry at the top: An exercise in ambition and disaster" (with Jeff Thomas), Organization Behavior Teaching Conference, Las Cruces, NM, June 1999.
"Lost in cyberspace: Teaching our students to use Internet resources critically" (with Dafna Eylon), Organization Behavior Teaching Conference, Las Cruces, NM, June 1999.
"Losing ground to middle ground? Pragmatic limits to compromise and collaboration in environmental management" (with Pushkala Prasad), Social Issues Track, Eastern Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA, May 1999.
"Narcissism in the death zone: Everest, disaster and self-centered organization (with David Barry), Managerial and Organizational Cognition Interest Group, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, August 1998.
"What comes next: Inquiry into 'Post-Experiential' OB" (with Melinda Costello), Organization Behavior Teaching Conference, Cleveland, OH, June 1997.
"Wiring the 'new organization': Integrating collaborative technologies and team-based work" (with Karen Ruhleder and Brigitte Jordan), Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, August 1996. Winner of Best Paper Award, OCIS Division, and published in the computer proceedings.
"Strategy-as-story: A narrative account of strategic discourse" (with David Barry), Organization and Management Theory Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, August 1996. Published in the computer proceedings.
"Exploring teacher-student authority dynamics in the 'empowered' organization behavior classroom" (with Melinda Costello), Organization Behavior Teaching Conference, Keene, NH, June 1996.

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