In this article, I describe some of the topics intellectual autobiographies might include, summarize some of what I and others have said in intellectual autobiographies published in Organization Studies, and invite readers to begin the process of constructing their own. To this end, I suggest some questions and a process readers might use.
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(2003).
A life full of learning
. Organization Studies, 24,
1178-1192
.
2.
Armstrong, K.
(1983). Beginning the world.
New York : St Martin's
.
3.
Armstrong, K.
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New York: Knopf
.
4.
Armstrong, K.
(2004). The spiral staircase: My climb out of darkness .
New York: Knopf
.
5.
Bartunek, J.M.
(2003).
A dream for the academy: 2002 presidential address
. Academy of Management Review, 28,
198-203
.
6.
Bartunek, J.M.
(2006).
The Christmas gift: A story of dialectics
. Organizational Studies, 27,
1875-1894
.
7.
Clegg, S.
(2005).
A life in part
. Organization Studies , 26,
291-309
.
8.
Donaldson, L.
(2005).
Following the scientific method: How I became a committed functionalist and positivist
. Organization Studies , 26,
1071-1088
.
9.
Mangham, I.
(2005).
The drama of organizational life
. Organization Studies, 26,
941-958
.
10.
Schein, E.H.
(2006).
From brainwashing to organizational therapy: A conceptual and empirical journey in search of “systemic” health and a general model of change dynamics. A drama in five acts
. Organization Studies, 27,
287-302
.
11.
Seo, M.
,
Putnam, L.
, &
Bartunek, J.
(2004). Dualities and tensions of planned organizational change. In
M. S. Poole
&
A. H. Van de Ven
(Eds.), Handbook of organizational change and innovation (pp. 73-109).
New York: Oxford University Press
.
12.
Starbuck, W.
(2004).
Why I stopped trying to understand the real world
. Organization Studies, 25,
1233-1254
.
13.
Weick, K.
(2004).
Mundane poetics: Searching for wisdom in organization studies
. Organization Studies, 25,
653-668
.
