In this regular feature, we will ask individuals to make connexions between theory and practice, between the international political and economic order and organizational analysis, between action and disinterested observation.
Here Sue Jones makes connexions which are important to her between Las Vegas, Somalia, organization studies and the content of a journal named Organization.
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