International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior: Volume 12 Issue 3

Super-docility in organizations: an evolutionary model

Davide Secchi, Emanuele Bardone

Herbert Simon introduced the term “docility” to define the tendency of human beings to get information from social channels. In this paper, we enrich this first definition with…

Organization theory and organization behavior: through the lens of psychodynamics

Adrian N. Carr, Cheryl A. Lapp

This paper introduces this special issue and initially provides some contextual background to the field of psychodynamics, its significance to organisational studies and the…

Organization and meaning: A multilevel psychoanalytic treatment of the jayson blair scandal at the new york times

Howard S. Schwartz, Larry Hirschhorn

Cross-level analysis is a problem for mainstream approaches to organizational behavior, but not for psychoanalytic theory. The reason is that psychoanalytic theory is not so much…

Social defense structures in organizations: how A lack of authorization keeps managers from moving to transformational leadership

René van Eeden, Frans Cilliers

The systems psychodynamic perspective was used to explore the functioning of a management team at one of the plants of a South African production company experiencing change. The…