• Work and play in management studies: a Kleinian analysis 

  Kavanagh, Donncha (University of Leicester; University of Essex, 2011-12)

  This paper takes some of Melanie Klein’s ideas, which Bion (1961/1998) previously used to understand group dynamics, to analyse the discipline of management studies since its ‘birth’ in the United States in the late 19th ...
• Talk and silence: instantiations and articulations 

  Kuhling, Carmen; Keohane, Kieran; Kavanagh, Donncha (University of Leicester, 2003-11)

  This paper considers the desire for unity, reconciliation and consensus underpinning three models of talking – namely, 'the meeting', 'the dyadic love relationship', and 'the psychoanalytic session'. We highlight the three ...
• Talking organization 

  Kavanagh, Donncha (Taylor & Francis, 2014-04-22)
• Restoring phronesis and practice: marketing's forgotten p's 

  Kavanagh, Donncha (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014-01)

  Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution of marketing’s philosophical conversation over the past 120 years, focusing on the emergent meaning of the notion that marketing should become more “scientific”. ...
• Running to stand still: late modernity's acceleration fixation 

  Kavanagh, Donncha; Lightfoot, Geoff; Lilley, Simon (2007)

  That we live in a time of unprecedented and ever-increasing change is both a shibboleth of our age and the more-or-less explicit justification for all manner of “strategic” actions. The seldom, if ever, questioned assumption ...

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