Brad S. Long
St. Francis Xavier University
8 Papers
24 Citations
Brad S. Long is an academic researcher from St. Francis Xavier University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Workplace spirituality & Sensemaking. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 8 publications.
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Papers
Codes of Ethics and the Pursuit of Organizational Legitimacy: Theoretical and Empirical Contributions
Brad S. Long,Cathy Driscoll +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the literature on how legitimacy is derived from codes of ethics to discover which specific form of legitimacy is gained from their presence in organizations and consider the question of whether a strategic, self-interested rationale lies behind the adoption of a code of ethics.
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Workplace spirituality, contested meaning, and the culture of organization
Brad S. Long,Jean Helms Mills +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use Weick's sensemaking model combined with a critical sensemaking approach to analyze texts in order to show how a spiritual culture may shape the actions of its members by serving as an implicit form of managerial control, and reveal how some texts, such texts, in particular, advocate workplace spirituality as necessary for organizations and the individuals who work in them to prosper.
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A discursive textscape of workplace spirituality
Brad S. Long,Cathy Driscoll +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the historicity of these texts and induce a model to help readers understand how this discourse of workplace spirituality came into being, and perform intertextual analysis to show how authors draw upon concepts available in the broader discursive context, from which the authors produced a textscape of the workplace spirituality discourse to depict these layers of discursive interconnections.
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Globalization, postcolonial theory, and organizational analysis
Brad S. Long,Albert J. Mills +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that so-called global organizational relations are mediated by supranational organizations, such as the United Nations, whose organizational structuring and practices are rooted in imperialist and postcolonial thinking.
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CSR and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in Canada
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight blind spots in the discourse of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and stretch the boundaries of existent CSR frameworks within the particular context of resource extraction and with regard to the particular stakeholder group of Indigenous peoples in Canada.
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