by Philip Boxer PhD Why the interest in stratification? A colleague, Simon Western, referred me recently to Actor-Network Theory and the work of Bruno Latour in the context of a conversation about the behaviour of…
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Title: Defences against innovation: the conservation of vagueness Author: Philip Boxer Category: Submitted for Publication – not to be quoted An individual newly joining an enterprise may experience it as a social defence system to…
Title: Leading organisations without boundaries: ‘quantum’ organisation and the work of making meaning Author: Philip Boxer Category: Published Organisational & Social Dynamics 14(1) 130-153 (2014) Digitalisation and the internet lead every client to expect more…
Title: Betraying the citizen: social defences against innovation Author: Philip Boxer Category: Conference Paper ISPSO Annual Meeting, Santiago, Chile 2014 “Affordable healthcare is a right of each citizen, not a privilege for those who can…
by Philip Boxer How do we engage, describe and work without boundaries? How do we move beyond the familiar BART (boundary, authority, role, task) view of systems? And what does it mean to take up…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD Over a period of three years, 1994 to 1997, I consulted to an organisation providing residential care for men and women with mental health disabilities. This was in the…
Title: The Governance of Quality: The case of the Specialist Care Organization Author: Philip Boxer Category: Conference Paper Publication Year: 2014 Where published: EURAM conference proceedings, if accepted This paper describes a two-year intervention within…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD The blog on Requisite Authority argues that Asymmetric Leadership becomes necessary when competing in the ‘red zone’ – the zone in which the enterprise must be dynamically responsive to…
by Philip Boxer The conditions for triple-loop learning require that the enterprise becomes edge-driven. This places it on dispersive ground. The identifications that need to be supported on dispersive ground are those involving triple-loop learning….
by Philip Boxer The blog on Requisite Authority introduces a diagnostic tool that examines the different possible forms of congruence between role and task, depending on how an enterprise defines its boundaries and its relationships…