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Talking About Organizations Podcast

Talking About Organizations Podcast

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363

Latest episode

Jul 2026

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EN-US

About the show

Talking About Organizations is a conversational podcast where we talk about one book, journal article or idea per episode and try to understand it, its purpose and its impact. By joining us as we collectively tackle classic readings on organization theory, management science, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, organizational learning, culture, climate, leadership, public administration, and so many more! Subscribe to our feed and begin Talking About Organizations as we take on great management thinkers of past and present!

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September 29, 202643 min

139: Disruptive Technology and the War of the Currents (Part 1)

This is Part 1 of our latest "movie" episode. The film we watched is from 2017 The Current War , directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, and distribution by 101 Studios. It dramatized the so-named War of the Currents that was a real competition between two important industrial figures – Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse – over which type of power would become the dominant standard for distributing electricity across the United States.

September 28, 20264 min

139: Disruptive Technology and the War of the Currents

Coming soon! We will explore the famous War of the Currents as part of our occasional "movie" episode, this time the 2017 film "The Current War" that dramatized the dispute between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over which form of electrical current -- AC or DC -- would become the de facto standard across the USA and subsequently the world.

July 21, 202639 min

138: Relational Work Perspective -- Zelizer & Bandelj (Part 2)

In Part 2, we further contrast the relational work perspective of Zelizer and Bandelj with the dominant embeddedness perspective promoted by Granovetter and other early economic sociologists a few decades ago. The embeddedness perspective remains “embedded” in the field despite the relational work perspective providing more robust and interesting scholarly research. Are we seeing the emergence of a new paradigm shift as described in our episode on Thomas Kuhn’s scientific revolutions?

July 14, 202646 min

138: Relational Work Perspective -- Zelizer & Bandelj (Part 1)

This month we examine three pieces from the relational work perspective in economic sociology, one by Viviana Zelizer and two by her former student Nina Bandelj. The relational work perspective examines how ordinary economic transactions and social relationships work together to establish meaning behind each movement of money. Initially describing decisions in household budgets and other microeconomic moves, this perspective is now finding traction in the study of whole organizations and its programming and budgeting actions.

July 7, 20264 min

138: Relational Work Perspective -- Zelizer & Bandelj (Summary of Episode)

Coming soon! We will examine a contemporary stream in economic sociology, the relational work perspective, championed by Viviana Zelizer and furthered by some of her students such as Nina Bandelj and others. How does this perspective compare with the more economics-driven models of before, and why is the relational work perspective gaining traction? Tune in and find out.

June 9, 202644 min

137: Science as a Vocation -- Max Weber (Part 2)

In Part 2, we bring Max Weber’s speech about Science as a Vocation to the present day and show that many of the same themes and concerns Weber express are still relevant. Modern technologies such as artificial intelligence may have changed academia in compelling ways, but the worthiness of scientific pursuit remains a valid concern.

June 2, 202648 min

E137: Science as a Vocation -- Max Weber (Part 1)

We return once more to Max Weber and look at one of his most important and noteworthy speeches, “Science as a Vocation.” The speech includes a number of major themes such as what is the worth of science, what are the roles of junior academics as they establish themselves as scientists, and what constitutes proper teaching. Controversial in its day, but required reading for many graduate programs today.

May 26, 20263 min

E137: Science as a Vocation -- Max Weber (Summary of Episode)

Coming soon! We return once more to Max Weber and look at one of his most important and noteworthy speeches, “Science as a Vocation,” delivered in 1918 at Munich University. This speech may be seen as a text assigned to rising graduate students in many fields, owing to its exhortations to go beyond researching and writing about important knowledge and consider the ethical and moral implications of that research.

May 5, 202626 min

136: Bureaucracy (revisited) -- Max Weber (Part 4)

This is an expanded version of the supplement from the original Episode 6 on Max Weber's Bureaucracy. This release includes both the original supplement from Dmitrijs along with an extended commentary from Tom to cover contemporary views on bureaucracy since the original episode's January 2016 release.

April 28, 202646 min

136: Bureaucracy (revisited) -- Max Weber (Part 3)

In this release, we take a retrospective look at Weber's famous work and our original episode. How has our views about bureaucracy changed over the past decade (2016-when the original Weber episode was released) or century (1918-when the speech was delivered).

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