Generative Curiosity Three Years On: Encouraging Expansionist Curiosity

Hannah, David R.

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“…Of course, everyone believes in the importance of a multidisciplinary perspective, except at those moments that matter most in a practical academic career: earning a doctorate, receiving a promotion in rank, and the award of tenure. And yet, we do see signs of hope: recent developments in leading journals are pointing to a broadening of research formats and perspectives (Hannah, 2020; Howard-Grenville, 2021; Tihanyi et al, 2022).…”

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How to Create an Optopia? – Kim Stanley Robinson's “Ministry for the Future” and the Politics of Hope

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Journal of Management Inquiry

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Kim Stanley Robinson—award-winning science fiction writer—has warned us that our current history is a choice between utopia or catastrophe. In this interview and in the following reflections, we explore the implications of this existential choice for the social science disciplines; in particular, economics, finance, accounting, and management. Our goals are to build a provocation and develop some propositions about the direction of capitalism and the purpose of management research in an age of climate crisis. Against the backdrop of dread and greed and the specter of plutocratic capitalism, we offer a politics of hope. We envision a green capitalism in which corporations are held accountable for environmental and social stewardship. Rather than falling back on government or the corporation as an “either/or” choice, we urge a “both/and” approach and call for the active inclusion of communities and citizens in climate response through democratic, polycentric governance structures. Within this agenda, we envision a new role for the academy as “Ministry”; namely, giving voice to future generations and the silent (or silenced) victims of the present and, by embracing pragmatic realism, inspiring a liveable future—an optopia—that we can still forge from where we are.

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How to Create an Optopia? – Kim Stanley Robinson's “Ministry for the Future” and the Politics of Hope

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“…The motivational, positional and attentional elements of adventuresome inquiry anchored in a personal self, as described above, enable theorizing practices that, drawing on Gkeredakis and Constantinides (2019), we conceptualize as phenomenon-driven problematization . Theorizing starts from the researcher’s own experience of the extreme phenomenon, bringing an ‘expansionist curiosity’ as they strive to understand the full nature and nuance of its extremeness (Hannah, 2020, p. 46). At the same time, because the researcher is closely attentive to the extremeness of the context, we suggest that the risky, emergency and disruptive characteristics that are intrinsic to extremeness hit the researcher physically, emotionally and bodily as they gather empirical materials.…”

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Theorizing as Mode of Engagement in and through Extreme Contexts Research

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We explore how management and organization scholars theorize when undertaking research on extreme contexts, which are organizational settings where potential adverse events arise from risks, emergencies and disruptions. We propose that different ‘modes of engagement’ arise as researchers connect different aspects of the self to the extreme context; namely, personal self, professional self, moral self and vulnerable self. Each self-context connection plays out in different modes of engagement in the conduct of empirical research and enables different theorizing practices. We present these self-context connections as four ideal-typical modes of engagement. Adventuresome inquiry connects a personal self to the extreme context and theorizes by phenomenon-driven problematization. Instrumental scholarship expresses a professional self in the extreme context and theorizes by theory elaboration. Ideological improvement galvanizes a moral self in the extreme context and theorizes by change-driven abstraction. Reflexive labor exposes a vulnerable self and theorizes by dialectical interrogation. Our comprehensive framework of theorizing as mode of engagement contributes to extreme context research by elucidating how theorizing in and through such contexts is accomplished by researchers with multiple selves and by offering some guidance on how the four modes can be used dynamically to ensure generative theorizing. We also contribute to the broader literature on theorizing in management and organization studies by highlighting the need to consider the interplay between the researcher and the academic contributions they produce and by proposing a reflexive and dynamic framework of theorizing as modes of engagement.

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“…Many of us know, deep down, what we ought to do. Much has already been written on the need to make our research relevant to practice (Bartunek & Rynes, 2014; Sharma & Bansal, 2020), to orient to societal issues and grand challenges (George, Howard-Grenville, Joshi, & Tihanyi, 2016; Tihanyi, 2020) and to expand our modes of theorizing (Alvesson & Sandberg, 2013; Cornelissen & Höllerer, 2020; Hannah, 2020; Shaw, Bansal, & Gruber, 2017). I am certainly not the first to reflect on these vital matters.…”

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“…I was reminded that, over the years ‘our theories and ideas have done much to strengthen the management practices that we are all now so loudly condemning’ (Ghoshal, 2005, p. 75). More recent reflections put a more optimistic spin on organizational theory and ideas, and outline how organizational scholars can be problem- and phenomenon-oriented, engage pluralism in theorizing, and pursue questions that are consequential to society and generative of further inquiry (Cornelissen, 2017; Etzion & Gehman, 2019; Hannah, 2020; Ployhart & Bartunek, 2019; Tihyani, 2020).…”

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Caring, Courage and Curiosity: Reflections on our roles as scholars in organizing for a sustainable future

Howard‐Grenville

2021

Organization Theory

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The Covid-19 pandemic made important societal issues even more pressing and poignant to organizations. I explore how the pandemic surfaced attention to the vulnerability and resilience of organizations and organizing, and reflect on our responsibility as organizational scholars to think and act differently about our work as a result. I consider how we might do this individually and collectively, arriving at suggestions for how to advance organization theory and its relevance to contemporary organizing through: (1) directing our care to multiple issues that need attention; (2) having the courage to step away from familiar modes of inquiry and styles of theorizing to explore these; and (3) using our curiosity to develop nuanced explanations that match the complex, systemic nature of the issues themselves.

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Generative Curiosity Three Years On: Encouraging Expansionist Curiosity

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

How to Create an Optopia? – Kim Stanley Robinson's “Ministry for the Future” and the Politics of Hope

How to Create an Optopia? – Kim Stanley Robinson's “Ministry for the Future” and the Politics of Hope

Theorizing as Mode of Engagement in and through Extreme Contexts Research

Caring, Courage and Curiosity: Reflections on our roles as scholars in organizing for a sustainable future

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