Dear colleagues
I am proud to announce the publication of Volume 6 in the series 'Research on Emotion in Organizations,' which is titled "Emotions and Organizational Dynamism"
Volume Editors: Wilfred J. Zerbe , Charmine E. J. Härtel and Neal M. Ashkanasy
Series Editors: Neal M. Ashkanasy, Wilfred J. Zerbe and Charmine E. J. Härtel
ISBN: 9780857241771
E-ISBN: 9780857241788
ISSN: 1746-9791
Pub date: 5 July 2010
Synopsis
The rapidly growing recognition of the importance of emotion in understanding all aspects of organizational life is facilitating the development of focused areas of scholarship. The articles in this volume represent a selection of the best papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life (Fontainebleau, France, July 2008), complemented with invited chapters by leading scholars in the field, The theme of this volume, Emotions and Organizational Dynamism, explores the role that emotion plays in such diverse organizational phenomena as entrepreneurship, change, service failure, and creativity. The study of emotions in organizations is broadening, with new phenomena being considered through the lens of emotions, and deepening, with theoretical approaches being refined and sharpened. The choice of theme of this volume reflects this tension. Organizations are dynamic, they change and they comprise elements that are constantly moving. They are simultaneously ordered and complicated and complex. Emotions help us to understand this dynamism. As the chapters in this volume help us to understand and appreciate, emotions are often an underlying energizing and motivating force. Examination of the role of emotions as precursors or mediators of change or innovation or creativity is therefore essential to being able to effectively manage this dynamism.
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Table of contents
Chapter 1: Corporate Envy and Emotional
Dynamics In the Internal Selection Process of Corporate Venturing Initiatives
Marina G. Biniari
Chapter 2: Group Entrepreneurial Behavior In Established Organizations: The Role of Middle Managers' Emotion Regulation and Group Diversity
Leonidas A. Zampetakis and Konstantinos Kafetsios
Chapter 3: Putting Emotion at the Heart of
Agency: A Relational Perspective onEntrepreneurial Action
David Goss
Chapter 4: Personality, Affect and Organizational Change: A Qualitative Study
Roy K. Smollan, Jonathan A. Matheny and Janet G. Sayers
Chapter 5: The Underlying Structure of Emotions during Organizatonal Change
Christina Kirsch, Warren Parry and Cameron Peake
Chapter 6: Complexity Theory and Affect Structure: A Dynamic Approach to Modeling Emotional Changes in Organizations
Yan Li, Neal M. Ashkanasy and David Ahlstrom
Chapter 7: Building and Sustaining Resilience in Organizational Settings: The Critical Role of Emotion Regulation
Glenda M. Fisk and Angela M. Dionisi
Chapter 8: The Emotions of Change: Merger Sentiments, Pleasure, and Emotional Expression
Stanley G. Harris and Eric B. Gresch
Chapter 9: Service Encounter Needs Theory:
A Dyadic, Psychosocial Approach to Understanding Service Encounters
Graham L. Bradley, Janet R. McColl-Kennedy, Beverley A. Sparks, Nerina L. Jimmieson and Dieter Zapf
Chapter 10: A Laugh a Day Is Sure to Keep the Blues Away: Managers' Use of Humor and the
Construction and Destruction of Employees' Resilience
Nilupama Wijewardena, Charmine E. J. Härtel and Ramanie Samaratunge
Chapter 11: Creativity as Mood Regulation
March L. To, Neal M. Ashkanasy, Cynthia D. Fisher and Patricia A. Rowe
Chapter 12: Affective Climate, Organizational
Creativity, and Knowledge Creation: Case Study of an Automotive Company
Fabrizio Maimone and Marta Sinclair
Chapter 13: Creative Conflict in Digital Imaging Communities
Esther Maier and Oana Branzei
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Kind regards
Neal M. Ashkanasy, PhD
Professor of Management,
Co-Leader, Management Cluster
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Organizational Behavior
Series Co-Editor, Researchon Emotion in Organizations
Associate Editor, Emotion Review
UQ Business School
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia
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