Publications

The outcome of all work supported by the Foundation must be freely accessible to the public. Below please find a list of Working Papers and Next Practice articles generated by Foundation scholars 2001-2006. These papers should be considered preliminary in nature and subject to subsequent revision. However, many of these papers have subsequently been published in international academic journals, including Sloan Management Review, Long-Range Planning, Journal of Management Inquiry, British Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Culture and Organization, Human Relations, Organisation Studies, Social Epistemology, International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, European Management Review, and European Management Journal.

Further down under the section Publications for inspiration you will find a list of publications by scholars once affiliated with the Foundation either as employees or awardees, or which directly builds on research funded by the Foundation. These outputs serve only to inspire prospective applicants for funding, and we do not claim that this list is complete in any sense. 

Working Papers

2006	WP 74 Deep Impact: Boosting Action Learning
	WP 73 Transformative Management Education
	WP 72 On Spontaneity
	WP 71 Practical Wisdom: A Philosophical and Practical Basis for Dealing Ethically with Unexpected Change
	WP 70 Practical Wisdom and Serious Play
2005	WP 69 Developing Practically Wise Leaders through Serious Play
	WP 68 Practical Wisdom and the Normativity of Strategy Practices
	WP 67 Performing Strategy: Analogical Reasoning as a Strategic Practice
	WP 66 Practical Wisdom: Integrating Ethics and Effectiveness in Organizations
	WP 65 Responsible Identity Practices
	WP 64 Kurt Lewin on Re-Education: Foundations for Action Research (This article can be obtained from Journal of Management Inquiry)
	WP 63 Re-framing Strategic Preparedness: An Essay on Practical Wisdom
	WP 62 Strategy as Practical Wisdom
	WP 61 Organizational Identity as a Strategic Practice
	WP 60 Generating Responsible Commitment
	WP 59 Evoking Metis: Questioning the Logics of Change, Responsiveness, Meaning and Action in Organizations (This article can be obtained from the Taylor & Francis Group)
2004	WP 58 Play and the Creative Arts: A Review of Concepts and Techniques in the Psychotherapeutic Tradition
	WP 57 Constructing Shared Understanding: The Role of Embodied Metaphors in Organization Development
	WP 56 Sound from Silence: On Listening in Organizational Learning
	WP 55 Developing Guiding Principles Through Dialogue
	WP 54 Towards a Technology of Foolishness: Developing Scenarios through Serious Play
	WP 53 The Fragile Beauty of Work Well Done
	WP 52 Constructing Organizational Identity
	WP 51 From Metaphor to Practice: In the Crafting of Strategy
	WP 50 Analogical Reasoning as a Practice of Strategy
	WP 49 Créativité et Identité Organisationnnelle
	WP 48 Sparking Strategic Imagination
	WP 47 Decision Making in High Velocity Environments: The Importance of Guiding Principles
	WP 46 Playing Seriously with Science Strategy
	WP 45 Answers for Questions to Come: Reflective Dialogue as an Enabler of Strategic Innovation
	WP 44 I Matter: Remaining the First Person in Strategy Research
	WP 43 Strategy Creation as Serious Play
	WP 42 Playing Seriously with Strategy
	WP 41 The Role of Listening in Organizational Learning
2003	WP 40 Constructing Organizational Identity
	WP 39 The Fragile Beauty of Work Well Done (This working paper has been integrated into WP 53)
	WP 38 Illustrating the Need for Practical Wisdom
	WP 37 Decision Making in High Velocity Environments: The Importance of Guiding Principles (This working paper has been integrated into WP 47)
	WP 36 From Metaphor to Practice (This article can be obtained from Journal of Management Inquiry)
	WP 35 Developing Guiding Principles through Dialogue (This working paper has been integrated into WP 55)
	WP 34 Dealing with the unexpected. Critical incidents in the LEGO Mindstorms team (This article can be obtained from Sage Publications)
	WP 33 Case study: modeling how their business really works prepares managers for sudden change (This article can be obtained from Emerald Insight)
	WP 32 Playing Seriously with Strategy (This working paper has been integrated into WP 42)
	WP 31 Studying Organization Identity Empirically: A Review
	WP 30 Organizational Identity and Strategy (This working paper has been integrated into WP 61)
	WP 29 Organizational Responsiveness Through Dialogue
	WP 28 Ambiguity at Work Scenario Development through Serious Play
	WP 27 Collective Virtuosity: An Aesthetic Experience in Groups
	WP 26 Decision Making in High Velocity Environments: The Importance of Guiding Principles (This working paper has been integrated into WP 34 and WP 47)
	WP 25 Dear Prudence: An Essay on Practical Wisdom in Strategy Making
	WP 24 Framing Strategy Processes as Serious Play (This working paper has been integrated into WP 42)
	WP 23 Active Responsiveness through Adaptive Play: Casting New Light on Strategy Genesis
2002	WP 22 From Metaphor to Practice in the Crafting of Strategy (This working paper has been integrated into WP 36)
	WP 21 Dealing with the Unexpected: Critical Incidents in the LEGO Mindstorms Team (This working paper has been integrated into WP 34)
	WP 20 LEGO Speaks
	WP 19 Images of Strategy (This article can be obtained from Elsevier)
	WP 18 A Place to Play: Innovating the Practice of Strategy Research
	WP 17 Ain’t Misbehavin’: Taking Play Seriously in Organizations
	WP 16 Images of Strategy (This working paper has been integrated into WP 19)
	WP 15 Committing to Strategy
	WP 14 Organizational Identitiy, Imagination and Strategy
	WP 13 Organizational Heuristics: More than Simple Rules
	WP 12 Collective Virtuosity: Reclaiming Aesthetic Experience in Teams (This working paper has been integrated into WP 27)
	WP 11 A Place to Play, Re-defining Strategy Research (This working paper has been integrated into WP 18)
2001	WP 10 Dealing with Surprises: Collaborating in an Alliance Team (This book chapter can be obtained from Elsevier)
	WP 09 From Metaphor to Practice In the Crafting of Strategy
	WP 08 Leadership as Collective Virtuosity
	WP 07 Building Coherence in a Self-Managed Team: The Development of LEGO Mindstorms
	WP 06 Naturally Identifiable: Totemism and Organizational Identity
	WP 05 Managerial Intentionality in Strategy Making
	WP 04 The ‘Self’ in Self-Organization
	WP 03 Glissement: From Gaming to Playing
	WP 02 Play in Organizations
	WP 01 Playing with Strategy (This working paper has been integrated into WP 24)

Next Practice

Volume 4, Number 2, 2005:	Making Sense Through Metaphors
Volume 4, Number 1, 2005:	Becoming More Prepared: The Role of Practical Wisdom
Volume 3, Number 3, 2004:	Facilitating Strategy Execution
Volume 3, Number 2, 2004:	Creating Beautiful Performance
Volume 3, Number 1, 2004:	Seeing Work Practices Through A Cultural Lens
Volume 2, Number 3, 2003:	Ensuring Greater Practical Value for Experiential Learning
Volume 2, Number 2, 2003:	Creating the Context for Dialogue
Volume 2, Number 1, 2003:	Reaching Better Decisions Through Guiding Principles
Volume 1, Number 4, 2002:	Creating the Context for Commitment
Volume 1, Number 3, 2002:	Preparing for the Unexpected
Volume 1, Number 2, 2002:	Building Identity in to Strategy
Volume 1, Number 1, 2002:	Crafting Strategy with Your Hands

Publications for inspiration

• Barry, D. & Meisiek, S. (2015) Discovering the Business Studio. Journal of Management Education, Vol 39, 1: 153-175.
• Barry, D. & Meisiek, S. (2010) Seeing More and Seeing Differently: Sensemaking, Mindfulness and the Workarts, Organization Studies, 31(11): 1505–1530.
• Barry, D. (2020) Looking Back on Organizational Theater. Organizational Aesthetics, 9 (3): 85-92.
• Durand, R. (2014) Organizations, Strategy, and Society – The Orgology of Disorganized Worlds, Routledge
• Jacobs, C., Oliver, D. and Heracleous, L. (2013) Diagnosing organizational identity beliefs by eliciting complex, multimodal metaphors, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 49(4), 482-504.
• Meisiek, S. & Barry, D. (2018) Finding the Sweet Spot between Art and Business in Analogically Mediated Inquiry. Journal of Business Research 85, 476–483.
• Prahalad, D. (2018) How Does Design Create Better Strategy and Social Impact? Social Responsibility, Strategy, June 13.
• Prahalad, D. (2019) Designed to Include, Tata Trusts Horizons. December.
• Prahalad, D. (2010) Five Beliefs that Inhibit Good Design. Harvard Business Review, October 28.
• de Rond, M. & Holeman, I. & J. Howard-Grenville, (2019) Sensemaking from the Body: An Enactive Ethnography of Rowing the Amazon, Academy of Management Journal, 62(6): 1961-1988.
• Statler, M. and Oliver, D. (2016) The moral of the story:  Re-framing ethical codes of conduct as narrative processes, Journal of Business Ethics, 136(1), 89-100.
• Statler, M. and Oliver, D. (2008) “Facilitating serious play”. In Hodgkinson, G. and Starbuck, W. (eds) The Oxford Handbook on Organizational Decision-Making. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 475-494.
• Stein, M. (2011) A culture of mania: a psychoanalytic view of the incubation of the 2008 credit crisis, Organization, 18(2): 173-186.
• Oliver, D., Heracleous, L. and Jacobs, C. (2014) “Balancing divergence and convergence: Stimulating creativity through hybrid thinking”. In Bilton, C. and Cummings, S. (eds) The Handbook of Management and Creativity. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 325-345. Oliver, D. and Jacobs, C. (2007) Developing guiding principles: An organizational learning perspective, Journal of Organizational Change Management, 20(6) 813-828.
• Intellectuals of the World, Please Unite, March 30, 2020, LinkedIn. Republished 2 April by Chartered Association of Business Schools, and European Foundation of Management Development (EFMD); and in Leadership for the Greater Good: Reflections on the 2020 Pandemic series published by the International Leadership Association (ILA).
• Roos, J. and V.O. Nilsson, 2020, ‘Driving Organizational Readiness for Change through Strategic Workshops,’ International Journal of Management and Applied Research, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1-28. https://doi.org/10.18646/2056.71.20-001 .
• Techno-Humanism: If algorithms make all the decisions, who is the leader?, Global Focus, 2019 13(3), pp. 7-11.
• An analogue transformation: reflections from the 3rd international LSP conference, LinkedIn, 31 October 2019.
• LEGO Serious Play and Strategy: An interview with co-inventor Johan Roos, Engage-Innovate, 24 July 2019.
• Unlocking the Power of Innovation through Play, Podcast interview by Emergn, 10, June, 2019
• Roos, J. and B. Victor, 2018, ‘How It All Began: The Origins Of LEGO^® Serious Play^®’, International Journal of Management and Applied Research, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 326-343. https://doi.org/10.18646/2056.54.18-025.
• The times they are a-changin, LinkedIn, 14 November, 2018
• The Tragedy of the Common: An emerging risk to the entrepreneurial society, Drucker Society Europe, 12 October 2016
• The Adjacent Possible in Humanistic Thinking, Vertikals, 12 November 2015
• Build STEM Skills, but Don’t Neglect the Humanities, Harvard Business Review, 24 June 2015
• Roos, J., 2015, ‘Practical Wisdom: Making and teaching the governance case for sustainability.’ Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 140, p. 117-124, DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.10.135.
• Extending Moore’s Law to Claiming Our Humanity, Drucker Society Europe, 8 June 2015
• Lessons Needed to Beat the Computer, Financial Times, 18 June 2014
• Roos, J., 2013, ‘The Benefits and Limitations of Leadership Speeches in Change Initiatives,’ Journal of Management Development, 32(5): 548-559. DOI: 10.1108/02621711311328318.
• Statler, M., Roos, J., and D. Oliver, 2010, ‘A Meta-Ethical Perspective on Organizational Identity,’ Journal of Business Ethics, 94 (3): 427-440. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0274-y.
• Statler, M., Roos, J., and B. Victor, 2009, ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’: Taking Play Seriously in Organizations,’ Journal of Change Management, 9(1): 87-107. DOI: 10.1080/14697010902727252.
• Statler, J., Jacobs, J. and J. Roos, 2008, ‘Performing Strategy: Analogical Reasoning as Strategic Practice’, Scandinavian Journal of Management, 24: 133–144. DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2007.11.006.
• Oliver, D., and J. Roos, 2007, ‘Beyond Text: Constructing Organizational Identity,’ British Journal of Management, 18(4): 342-358. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2007.00516.x.
• Statler, M., Roos, J., and B. Victor, 2007, ‘Dear Prudence,’ Social Epistemology, 21(2): 151 – 167. DOI: 10.1080/02691720701393475.
• Marotto, M., Roos, J., and B. Victor, 2007, ‘Collective Virtuosity,’ Journal of Management Studies, 44(3): 388-413. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2007.00682.x
• Statler, J., and J. Roos, 2006, ‘Reframing strategic preparedness: an essay on practical wisdom,’ International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 2(2): 99-117. DOI: 10.1504/IJMCP.2006.010263.
• Statler, M., Roos, J., and B. Victor, 2006, ‘Illustrating the Need for Practical Wisdom,’ International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 2(1): 1-30.  DOI: 10.1504/IJMCP.2006.009644.
• Oliver, D., and J. Roos, 2006, ‘Créativité et identité organisationnelle,’ Revue Française de Gestion, (in French),  ISSN 0338-4551, 32(161) : 139-153.
• Roos, J., and R. Said, 2005, ‘Generating Managerial Commitment and Responsibility,’ European Management Review, 2: 48 – 58. DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.emr.1500027.
• Oliver, D. and J. Roos, 2005, ‘Decision Making in High Velocity Environments: The Importance of Guiding Principles,’ Organization Studies, 26(6): 889-913. DOI: 10.1177/0170840605054609.
• Bürgi, P., and Jacobs, C., and J. Roos, 2005, ‘From Metaphor to Practice in the Crafting of Strategy,’ Journal of Management Inquiry, 14(1): 78-94. DOI: 10.1177/1056492604270802.
• Roos, J, Victor, B., and M. Statler, 2004, ‘Playing Seriously with Strategy,’ Long-Range Planning, 37(6): 549-568. DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2004.09.005.
• Roos, J., 2004, ‘Sparking Strategic Imagination,’ Sloan Management Review, 2004, 46(1): 96.
• Oliver, D. and J. Roos, 2003, ‘Dealing with the Unexpected,’ Human Relations, 56(9): 1055-1080.
• Bürgi, P., and J. Roos, 2003, ‘Images of Strategy,’ European Management Journal, 2003, 21(1): 69-78.
• Lissack, M., and J. 2001, Roos, ‘Be Coherent, not Visionary,’ Long Range Planning, 34(1): 53-70.
• Roos, J., and B. Victor, 1999, Towards a Model of Strategy Making as Serious Play,’ European Management Journal, 17(4): 348-355.
• Roos, J., and D. Oliver, 1999, ‘From Fitness Landscapes to Knowledge Landscapes’, Systemic Practice and Action Research, 12(3): 279-293.