A Matter of Life or Death: How Extreme Context Research Matters for Management and Organization Studies
Markus Hällgren, Linda Rouleau, Mark de Rond, Alexandra Rheinhardt Beer, Amnah Ameen, Dhvani Badwaik, Monique Domingo, Nora Madjar, Ricardo Coelho Da Silva, Leid Zejnilović, Marco Berti, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Pedro Oliveira, Christi Lockwood, Jean-François Soublière, Joel Gehman, António Cunha Meneses Abrantes, Miguel Pina Cunha, Stewart Clegg, Sandra Pereira, Sebastian Raetze, Anne Steputat-Raetze, Helene Mueller, M. Travis Maynard, Jan B. Schmutz, Madeleine Rauch, Paula Jarzabkowski, Jane K. Lê, David Seidl, Eero Vaara, Ilídio Barreto, Jason R. Pierce, Gorgi Krlev, Tim Hannigan, André Spicer, Michael G. Pratt, Luke N. Hedden, Hamza Khan, Gabriel Sala, Shannon Sciarappa, Jori Pascal Kalkman, Ewald Kibler, Bernadetta A. Ginting-Szczesny, Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright, Giulia Cappellaro, Amelia Compagni, David A. Buchanan, Stephen Brammer, Layla Branicki, Martina K. Linnenluecke, Cynthia Hardy, Steve Maguire, Michael Power, Haridimos Tsoukas, Steffen Farny, Simon Down, Trenton A. Williams, Daniel A. Gruber, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, Dean A. Shepherd, Eric Yanfei Zhao, Patricia Genoe McLaren, Gabrielle AT Durepos, Kijan Vakilzadeh, Mirko Antino, Zhike Lei, Peter Eberl, Hamid Roodbari, Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, Hossein Olya, Sanaz Vatankhah, Luciano Barin Cruz, Natalia Aguilar Delgado, Bernard Leca
Academy of Management Annals · 2018 · Volume 12 · Issue 1
Abstract
Organization scholarship has seen an escalation of interest in research into extremes. Comprising several interconnected domains, this growing body of research is decidedly fragmented. This fragmentation risks limiting its potential for advancing management and organization studies. Drawing on 138 articles published in top-tier journals between 1980 and 2015, the purpose of this review is to resolve some of this fragmentation by sharpening definitions and by developing a context-specific typology to help differentiate between contributions from research into risky contexts, emergency contexts, and disrupted contexts. Doing so allows us to let the various literatures speak to each other and to outline ways to enhance the cumulative potential of extreme context research.
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