Into the realm of organizational folly: A poem, a review, and a typology of organizational stupidity
以一首诗开篇,批判性地反思组织中的愚蠢现象,随后综述相关文献并提出三种研究类型(系统机械论、批判社会学、文化功能主义),最后讨论愚蠢对反思性的损害及其在组织中的有用角色,旨在激发更多管理学习研究。
This ‘Provocation essay’ is aimed at triggering reflection and fostering renewed research into organizational stupidity and its intersections with management learning. It opens with a critical poem evoking diverse aspects of our daily encounters with the idiocy, nonsense, and absurdity that pervades organizations. It continues with a more comprehensive review of the still diffuse research literature to reveal a typology of three approaches to studying organizational stupidity (systemic-mechanistic, critical-sociological and cultural-functionalist). It closes with a discussion of how stupidity detracts from reflexivity but can also play useful roles in organizations, which ultimately invites more management learning research on the topic.