Browsing BI Open by Author "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 ... -
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 ... -
Inviting Wonder in Organization: Tiger, Sandstone, Horror, Snowball
Carlsen, Arne; Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Zhao, Weitao (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017) -
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 ... -
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 ...