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Latest issue

volume 65, number 1, January 2012

CONTENTS


Message from the new Editor-in-Chief
Paul Edwards
Human Relations 2012; 65 (1): 3–4

SPECIAL ISSUE

Sensemaking, organizing and storytelling
Guest editors: Ian Colville, Andrew D Brown, and Annie Pye


Simplexity: Sensemaking, organizing and storytelling for our time
Ian Colville, Andrew D Brown, and Annie Pye
Human Relations 2012; 65 (1): 5–15

Sensemaking, storytelling and the legitimization of elite business careers
Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey, and Robert Chia
Human Relations 2012; 65 (1): 17–40

Sensemaking and sensegiving stories of jazz leadership
Michael Humphreys, Deniz Ucbasaran, and Andy Lockett
Human Relations 2012; 65 (1): 41–62

From hero to villain to hero: Making experience sensible through embodied narrative sensemaking
Ann Cunliffe and Chris Coupland
Human Relations 2012; 64 (12): 63–88

The appropriated language: Dominant stories as a source of organizational inertia
Lovisa Näslund and Frida Pemer
Human Relations 2012; 65 (1): 89–110

Bankers in the dock: Moral storytelling in action
Andrea Whittle and Frank Mueller
Human Relations 2012; 65 (1): 111–139

Organized sensemaking: A commentary on processes of interpretive work
Karl E Weick
Human Relations 2012; 65 (1): 141–153


 

New Editor-in-Chief of Human Relations

Paul Edwards started his term as Editor-in-Chief in January 2012 after Stephen Deery completed his six year term at the end of 2011. View Paul's introductory message.

This month's highlighted free access article

Does social identity theory underlie relational demography? A test of the moderating effects of uncertainty reduction and status enhancement on similarity effects
Caren B Goldberg, Christine Riordan and Bryan S Schaffer
Human Relations 2010; 63 (7): 903–926

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Highlights from the archive

We have selected some of our 'greatest hits' from the archives. Click on the titles below to re-visit these classic papers.

The dual career family: A variant pattern and social change
Rhona Rapoport and Robert N. Rapoport

An experiment in autonomous working in an American underground coal mine
Eric L. Trist, Gerald I. Susman and Grant R. Brown

The intentional distortion of information in organizational communication: A laboratory and field investigation
Charles A O'Reilly III

Network analysis in organizational settings
Noel Tichy and Charles Fombrun

Strategy and the tactics of mediation
Deborah M. Kolb

When cultures collide: The anatomy of a merger
Anthony F. Buono and James L. Bowditch III

The strategic management of corporate change
Dexter Dunphy and Doug Stace

Emotion in the workplace: A reappraisal
Blake E. Ashforth and Ronald H. Humphrey

At the critical moment: Conditions and prospects for critical management studies
Valerie Fournier and Chris Grey

Emotions and leadership: The role of emotional intelligence
Jennifer M. George