Grey, Christopher and Sturdy, Andrew. (2007) Friendship and organizational analysis: toward a research agenda. Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol.16 (No.2). pp. 157-172. ISSN 1056-4926

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Abstract

Recent developments in organizational analysis have done much to fill out the dry, textbook image of rational,formal structures, Yet on one of the commonest kinds of organizational experience-friendship-organizational analysis has remained virtually silent. By contrast, within the wider social science literature some writers have recently accorded greater importance to friendship as a social phenomenon. This article suggests that organizational analysis would be well served by doing the same. To this end, the article explores what this might entail and identifies some of the issues that it could illuminate, both empirically and theoretically. In particular, it presents friendship as a folk concept, which recognizes the situational variability of its form, experience, and connectedness with other forms of relationship. In doing so, the article will help define and open lip a focus for future research into friendship and organizational analysis.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Management Inquiry
Publisher:	Sage Publications, Inc.
ISSN:	1056-4926
Date:	June 2007
Volume:	Vol.16
Number:	No.2
Number of Pages:	16
Page Range:	pp. 157-172
Identification Number:	10.1177/1056492606295500
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/31713

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