Rethinking Misbehavior and Resistance in Organizations

This volume challenges understandings of organizational misbehavior looking beyond traditional conceptions of the nexus between misbehavior and resistance in the workplace. The volume includes a contribution from Stephen Ackroyd and adds to the emerging body of evidence that disturbs assumptions of consensus and conformity in organizations.

Introduction Professor Lucy Taksa and Dr Alison Barnes Chapter 1: Even More Misbehaviour: What Has Happened in the Last Twenty Years ? Emeritus Professor Steve Ackroyd (Lancaster University) Chapter 2: Still 'Staying Loose in a Tightening World'? Revisiting Gerald Mars' Cheats at Work Dr Louise Thornthwaite (Macquarie University) and A/Prof Peter McGraw (Macquarie University) Chapter 3: Naming, condoning and shaming: Interpreting employee assessments of behaviour and misbehaviour in the workplace Professor Lucy Taksa (Macquarie University) Chapter 4: Mr Taylor Goes to Hollywood: Managerialism and Misbehaviour in Film and TV Professor George Lafferty (University of Western Sydney) Chapter 5: On the Cold War Front: Dissent, Misbehaviour, and Discursive Relations at Pan American Airways' Guided Missiles Division Chris Hartt, Albert Mills, Jean Helms Mills (Department of Management, St. Mary's University, Canada) Chapter 6: Incorporating Institutionalism: Reconceptualising the Resistance and Misbehaviour Binaries Dr Diane van denBroek (Sydney University) and Dr Tony Dundon (National University of Ireland) Chapter 7: Customer Service Work and the Aesthetics of Resistance Dr Alison Barnes (Macquarie University) Chapter 8: Customers Behaving Badly! A/Prof Lawrence Ang and Professor Scott Koslow (Macquarie University) Chapter 9: Exploring Entrepreneurship as Misbehaviour Dr Erik Lundmark (Macquarie University) and Professor Alf Westelius (Linkoping University, Sweden) Chapter 10: Misbehaviour and Commitment Dr Gordon Brooks (Macquarie University)