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Organisational Romance: Theorising And Researching An Underexplored Phenomenon

In: Advances In Doctoral Research In Management

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  • Kathleen Riach

    (University of Essex, UK)

  • Fiona Wilson

    (University of Glasgow, UK)

Abstract

Despite organisational romance being heralded as an important managerial issue 30 years ago by Quinn (1977) there remains a lack of academic research exploring non-platonic workplace relationships. In light of this discrepancy, this chapter seeks to move organisational romance away from the managerialist rhetoric which adopts a rationalist, prescriptive approach, and towards the sexuality and organisation literature. Workplace romance can be thus viewed as an integral workplace dynamic, imbued with issues of power and politics at both a macro and local level. To explore how this may be played out in practice, data from 48 interviews were subjected to a number of narrative analysis techniques to demonstrate how organisational romance is discussed, negotiated, and played out in a workplace.

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  • Kathleen Riach & Fiona Wilson, 2008. "Organisational Romance: Theorising And Researching An Underexplored Phenomenon," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Luiz Moutinho & Kun-Huang Huarng (ed.), Advances In Doctoral Research In Management, chapter 1, pages 3-17, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    1. Anand, Amitabh & Doll, Jessica L. & Centobelli, Piera & Singh, Sanjay Kumar & Cerchione, Roberto, 2023. "Struck by a cupid’s arrow: The conjuring bliss and sinister shades of employee workplace romance," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 154(C).

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    Doctoral; Research; Management Methodology; Data; Analysis; Paradigm; Modeling; International; Management Theory; Statistics; Market Survey;
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    • F1 - International Economics - - Trade

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