ORGANISATIONAL ROMANCE: THEORISING AND RESEARCHING AN UNDEREXPLORED PHENOMENON

Kathleen Riach and Fiona Wilson
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Kathleen Riach: University of Essex, UK
Fiona Wilson: University of Glasgow, UK

Chapter 1 in Advances in Doctoral Research in Management, 2008, pp 3-17 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractDespite organisational romance being heralded as an important managerial issue 30 years ago by Quinn (1977) there remains a lack of academic research exploring non-platonic workplace relationships. In light of this discrepancy, this chapter seeks to move organisational romance away from the managerialist rhetoric which adopts a rationalist, prescriptive approach, and towards the sexuality and organisation literature. Workplace romance can be thus viewed as an integral workplace dynamic, imbued with issues of power and politics at both a macro and local level. To explore how this may be played out in practice, data from 48 interviews were subjected to a number of narrative analysis techniques to demonstrate how organisational romance is discussed, negotiated, and played out in a workplace.

Keywords: Doctoral; Research; Management Methodology; Data; Analysis; Paradigm; Modeling; International; Management Theory; Statistics; Market Survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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