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- Title
Into the realm of organizational folly: A poem, a review, and a typology of organizational stupidity.
- Authors
Azevedo, Guilherme
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
ORGANIZATIONAL learning; SOCIOLOGY; STUPIDITY; ABSURD (Philosophy); INTELLECTUAL disabilities
- Publication
Management Learning, 2023, Vol 54, Issue 2, p267
- ISSN
1350-5076
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/13505076211066276