Blar i BI Open på forfatter "Carlsen, Arne"
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Don’t Pass Them By: Figuring the Sacred in Organizational Values Work
Espedal, Gry; Carlsen, Arne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)How and why could some stories be construed as sacred in organizations, and what functions does the sacred have in organizational values work? Research has shown how values can be made formative of a range of organizational ... -
From ideas of power to the powering of ideas in organizations: Reflections from Follett and Foucault
Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart R.; Pitsis, Tyrone S.; Mortensen, Tord Fagerheim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Research on organizational creativity tends to emphasize fairly static notions of coercive power as positional authority and control over scarce resources. The field remains largely silent about power as a positive and ... -
Ideas are feelings first: epiphanies in everyday workplace creativity
van Iterson, Ad; Clegg, Stewart R.; Carlsen, Arne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper contributes to the literature on workplace creativity by combining insights on epiphanies with theory on the embodied and relational nature of understanding. We explore and develop the concept of epiphany, defined ... -
Interweaving positive and critical perspectives in management learning and teaching
Lavine, Marc; Carlsen, Arne; Spreitzer, Gretchen; Peterson, Tim; Morgan Roberts, Laura (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Management learning is increasingly and rightfully called upon to address societal challenges beyond narrow concerns of economic performance. Within that agenda, we describe the generative aims of a special issue devoted ... -
Inviting Wonder in Organization: Tiger, Sandstone, Horror, Snowball
Carlsen, Arne; Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Zhao, Weitao (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017) -
Når det synger i livsnerven: Motivasjon i organisasjoner fra et narrativt perspektiv
Carlsen, Arne (Chapter, 2016)Hva driver og motiverer personer som skaper ekstraordinære prestasjoner i organisasjoner? Hovedsvaret jeg undersøker her, er en brennende higen etter livsberikelse – en skapende kraft som kommer i mange varianter, og som ... -
Organizational creativity as idea work : Intertextual placing and legitimating imaginings in media development and oil exploration
Coldevin, Grete Håkonsen; Carlsen, Arne; Clegg, Stewart; Pitsis, Tyrone S.; Antonacopoulou, Elena P. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)How do we understand the nature of organizational creativity when dealing with complex, composite ideas rather than singular ones? In response to this question, we problematize assumptions of the linearity of creative ... -
Rings of fire: Training for systems thinking and broadened impact
Dysvik, Anders; Carlsen, Arne; Škerlavaj, Miha (Chapter, 2017)What is the impact of training and development activities at work? In this chapter we argue that such a question should not only be an academic concern but also one that gets is built into all decisions about training. The ... -
Spitting in the Salad: Minor Rebellion as Institutional Agency
Välikangas, Liisa; Carlsen, Arne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)How can a desire for rebellion drive institutional agency, and how is such desire produced? In this paper, we develop a theory of minor rebellion as a form of institutional agency. Drawing from the work of Deleuze and ... -
We Are Projects: Narrative Capital and Meaning Making in Projects
Carlsen, Arne; Pitsis, Tyrone S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Research on projects has to a limited degree taken issue with how projects are chief producers of meaning at work. We develop the concept of narrative capital as a basic mechanism for how people can engender meaning in and ... -
When Stakes are High and Guards are Low: High-Quality Connections in Knowledge Creation
Aarrestad, Martine; Brøndbo, Marthe Turnes; Carlsen, Arne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)We provide a first qualitative empirical investigation of the dynamics of high-quality connections in organizational knowledge creation through a comparative analysis of two organizations involved in management consulting ...