(Last updated 12/2006)

1. Patent nonsense: Evidence tells of an industry out of social control, Canadian Medical Association Journal (August 2006; complete version)—tracking an industry out of control (patent-dependent pharmaceuticals) across the stages of research, development, manufacture, and promotion

2. Developing Leaders? Developing Countries? Development in Practice (February 2006)—do we do either? A visit to Ghana raises the question

3. Juxtaposing Doers and Helpers in Development (with Nidhi Srinivas: submitted for publication)—mapping the interplay of the key players in economic development

4. Leadership and Communityship (published as “Community-ship is the answer”) Financial Times (23 October, 2006)—time to recognize the importance of community in organizations

5. Between Two Manifestos (with Antonia Maroni, submitted for publication)—about the future for economic development in Quebec.

6. Developing Theory about the Development of Theory, Oxford Handbook of Management Theory (Michael Hitt and Ken Smith, editors, 2005)—asked to write about how I developed theory, I ended up doing that about how I was doing that in this paper

7. Time for Design (with Jeanne Liedtka) Design Management Journal (Spring, 2006)—formulaic, visionary, conversational, and evolving approaches to designing; also the tensions of designers, designing, and designs (available through ProQuest and FindArticles [html format]))

8. Et tu, Corporate America (submitted for publication)—about the great depression that began in 2007

9. Management Education as if Both Matter (with Jonathan Gosling) Management Learning (December, 2006)—lessons from our management development programs (available through ProQuest)

10. Global or Worldly? (with Karl Moore) World Business (April, 2006)—we favor worldly

11. The Magic Number Seven—plus or minus a couple of managers Academy of Management Learning and Education Executive (June, 2005)—response to seven reviews of my book Managers not MBAs (also available through EBSCO)

12. Enough Leadership Harvard Business Review commentary (November 2004)—time for less leadership, quieter management

13. Reflect yourself (with Jonathan Gosling) HR Magazine (September 2004)—on the role of reflection in managerial work (available through EBSCO and FindArticles [html format])

14. The Invisible World of Association (with Rick Molz, Emmanuel Raufflet, Pamela Sloan, Chahrazed Abdallah, Rick Bercuvitz, and Cheng HUa Tzeng) Leader to Leader (Spring 2005)—an effort to clarify the labeling of the social sector and categorize the types of associations found there (mutual, benefit, activist, and protection)

15. The Education of Practicing Managers (with Jonathan Gosling) Sloan Management Review (Summer 2004)—on our new approach to management education

16. Analysis: Framing and Frame Breaking (with Kunal Basu) Mindsets for Managers (web book, 2004)—about the McGill module of the IMPM program

17. Third Generation Management Development Training and Development (March 2004)—first was lectures and cases, second was action learning and Work-Out, third is learning from own experience

18. The Five Minds of a Managers (with Jonathan Gosling), Harvard Business Review (November 2003)— on the framework used in our programs for practicing managers: reflective, analytic, worldly, collaborative, action (available through ProQuest)

19. Strategic Management Upside Down: A Study of McGill University from 1829 to 1980 (with Janet Rose), Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences (December 2003)—strategic management looks very different in this place of knowledge workers (available through EBSCO, ProQuest, and FindArticles [html format]) (winner of the Journal’s best paper award in strategy for 2003)

20. The Rhythm of Change (with Quy Huy) Sloan Management Review (summer, 2003)—another perspective on the change process

21. Beyond Selfishness (with Robert Simons and Kunal Basu) Sloan Management Review (Fall, 2002): shorter version appeared as “Memo to CEO” in Fast Company (June, 2002)—questioning the house of cars that is economic man, shareholder value, heroic leadership, lean and mean organization, and the rising tide of prosperity

22. The Economist Who Never Came Back Scandinavian Journal of Management (2002)—revisiting “Learning In and From Eastern Europe” (below)

23. Managing to Innovate, in Leading for Innovation (Volume II of the Drucker Foundation Wisdom to Action Series, 2002)—low key approach to stimulating innovation

24. Educating Managers Beyond Borders (with Jonathan Gosling) Academy of Management Learning and Education (1, 1, 2002)—looks beyond conventional business education (workers (available through EBSCO and ProQuest)

25. Managing Health and Disease - Up and Down, In and Out Health Science Management Research (2002)—a day in the lives of seven health care connected and disconnected managers

26. Reality Programming for MBAs (with Johathan Gosling), Strategy+Business (1^st quarter, 2002)—brief review of our IMPM program

27. Researching the Researching of Walking Journal of Management Inquiry (2002)—following the practicing managers of our masters program on assignment (available through ProQuest)

28. Do MBAs Make Better CEOs? (with Joseph Lampel) Fortune (February 19, 2001)—not how they get there but how they perform there: not impressively!

29. The Yin & Yang of Managing Organizational Dynamics (Spring 2001)—a day in the life of the male head of Médecins sans frontiers and the female head of Paris’s fashion museum

30. Decision-Making: It’s not what You Think (with Frances Westley) Sloan Management Review (Spring, 2001)—Seeing First and Doing First as compared with Thinking First

31. Thoughts on Schools, in Rethinking Strategies (Volderda and Elfring, eds., 2001)—responding to two proposed new schools on strategy

32. Managing Exceptionally Organizational Science (2001) - a day in the lives of two Red Cross managers at refugee camps

33. Managing the Care of Health and the Cure of Disease: Part 1: Differentiation, Part II: Integration (with Sholom Glouberman) Health Care Management Review, (Winter, 2001)—a broad framework to think and rethink about the field of health

34. Re-viewing the Organization (with Ludo Van der Heyden) Ivey Busines Journal (September/October, 2000)—different ways to conceive processes in organizations

35. Sustaining the Institutional Environment, (with Frances Westley), Organizational Studies (Issue 0, 2000) - a day in the life of two Greenpeace managers

36. Organigraphs: Drawing How Companies Really Work (with Ludo Van der Heyden) Harvard Business Review (September-October 1999)—mapping processes in organizations

37. Reflecting on the Strategy Process (with Joseph Lampel,) Sloan Management Review (Spring 1999) - ten schools of strategy, and beyond (available through ProQuest)

38. Managing Quietly, Leader to Leader (Spring, 1999) - enough hype, time for low key managing

39. Covert Leadership: The Art of Managing Professionals Harvard Business Review (November-December, 1998) - a day in the life of an orchestra conductor, questioning the myths

40. A Day in the Life of John Cleghorn, Decision (Fall, 1997)—following the CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada

41. Toward Healthier Hospitals, Health Care Management Review (Fall 1997)—another perspective on managing hospitals, based on a consulting study

42. A Guide to Strategic Positioning, in The Strategy Process, (Mintzberg and Quinn, Prentice Hall, 1997)—a fancy framework to think about positioning

43. Managing on the Edges, International Journal of Public Sector Management (1997)—a day in the lives of three managers in hierarchical succession in the western Canadian Parks who must manage on all kinds of physical, administrative, and political edges

44. Whining and Dining: Une table de joyeuses lamentations, ou une soirée, québeçoise parfaitment canadienne, in M. Briere (ed.) Le Gout du Québec (Editions Hurtubise, 1996)—an evening on the Quebec debate

45. Customizing Customization (with Joe Lampel) Sloan Management Review, (Fall, 1996)—the concept of customization is too standardized; an effort to nuance it

46. The “Honda Effect” Revisited, Califiornia Management Review (Summer, 1996)—a set of writings I drew together, some old, some new, including a couple of my own commentaries, to revisit Richard Pascale’s Honda story

47. Some Surprising Things About Collaboration, with (Deborah Dougherty, Jan Jorgensen, and Frances Westley), Organizational Dynamics (Summer, 1996)—some additional thoughts about collaboration

48. Une journée avec un dirigeant, Revue française de gestion (nov-dec, 1996)—following the president of a high technology French company

49. Musings on Management, Harvard Business Review (July/August 1996)—ten points of the superficiality of management and my thinking

50. Managing Government, Governing Management Harvard Business Review, (May-June, 1996)—a critique of the customer is everything, business is smarter, management has all the answers, capitalism has triumphed, and suggestions for an alternative perspective

51. Mirroring Canadian Industrial Policy: Strategy Formation at Dominion Textile from 1873 to 1990 (with Barbara Austin) Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences (13, 1996) - study of tracking strategy research (available through ProQuest and FindArticles [html format])

52. Opening up Decision Making: The View From the Black Stool (with Ann Langley, Pat Pitcher, Elizabeth Posada, and Jan Saint-Macary) Organization Science, (May-June 1995) - extensive paper critiquing conventional views of decision making (available through JSTOR, ProQuest, and EBSCO)

53. Case Study Research, in N. Nicholson (ed.) The Blackwell Dictionary of Organizational Behaviour (Blackwell, 1995) - brief comments on case-type research method

54. Some Fresh Air for Management - in Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett (Harvard Business School Press, 1995) - introduction to Follet's wonderful chapter on cooperation

55. Diversifiction and Diversifact (with Sumantra Ghoshal), California Management Review, (Fall 1994) - grew out of joint effort to rethink how to organize multi-business enterprise (available through ProQuest)

56. Parting Shots: Our Real Ridge, in Building the Strategically Responsive Organization (Wiley, 1994) - bringing practitioners and academics together

57. "That's Not `Turbulence,' Chicken Little, It's Real Opportunity", Planning Review, (Nov-Dec. 1994) - excerpt from my planning book

58. Rounding Out the Manager's Job, Sloan Management Review, (Fall 1994) - a more integrated framework than my earlier work to consider the manager's job

59. Managing as Blended Care, Journal of Nursing Administration, (September 1994) - based on a day observing the head nurse of a hospital ward

60. Rethinking Strategic Planning: Parts I and II Long Range Planning (June 1994) - summary of my planning book (available through ProQuest)

61. Une polémique en appelle une autre Revue Française de Gestion (janvier-février 1994) - my response to an article criticizing my critique of Henri Fayol

62. The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning Harvard Business Review (January-February, 1994) - summary of my planning book (title change from my book "Rise and Fall" done without my advice or consent)

63. The Pitfalls of Strategic Planning, California Management Review (Fall 1993) - excerpt from my book on Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning (available through ProQuest)

64. Globalization: Separating the Fad from the Fact, in D. Wong-Reiger and F. Reiger (eds.) International Management Research: Looking to the Future (de Gruyter, 1993)- summary comments at conference

65. 25 Years Later...The Illusive Strategy, in A. Bedeian Management Laureates: A Collection of Autobiographical Essays, Vol. II (Grennwich, Ct., JAI Press, 1993) - autobiography of my working career, a detailed, ordered review of my research and writing

66. Cycles of Organizational Change (with Frances Westley) Strategic Management Journal, (13, 1992)—attempt to draw dimensions of process together (available through JSTOR and ProQuest)

67. Learning In (and from) Eastern Europe Scandinavian Journal of Management 1992; - more learning at grass roots level and fewer planners/economists might help

68. Commentary on "MBA: Is the Traditional Model Doomed?" Harvard Business Review (November-December, 1992) - a shot at the dysfunctions of the MBA (available through EBSCO)

69. Managing the Form, Function, and Fit of Design (with Angela Dumas) Design Management Journal (Summer 1991)—adding fit to form and function and discussing models of cooperation

70. Learning 1, Planning 0 (Reply to Igor Ansoff) Strategic Management Journal 1991 - is strategy making deliberate or emergent (available through JSTOR and ProQuest)

71. Strategic Thinking as "Seeing," in Juha Nasi (editor) Arenas of Strategic Thinking (Helsinski, Finland, Foundation for Economic Education) 1991 - comment on papers and theme of a Finnish conference, different ways to "see" strategically

72. A Letter to Marta Calàs and Linda Smircich Organization Studies, (1991) - my reply to their to "deconstruction" of The Nature of Managerial Work (which is not about rape!) (available through EBSCO)

73. Managerial Work: Forty Years Later, in Sune Carlson Executive Behavior, Textgruppen i Uppsala, 1991 (book originally published in 1951) - revisiting my thesis subject, to celebrate Carlson's 80th birthday

74. Strategies in the Financial Services Industry (with Maria Gonzalez) McKinsey Quarterly (1991) - framework of strategies that grew out of a consulting experience (available through EBSCO)

75. The Effective Organization: Forces and Forms Sloan Management Review (Winter, 1991) - beyond configuration, playing "LEGO" with the dimensions

76. Does Decision Get in the Way? (with James Waters) Organization Studies (1990) - "decision" is a construct (available through EBSCO)

77. Strategy Formation: Schools of Thought, in J. Frederickson (ed.) Perspectives on Strategic Management (Harper & Collins, 1990) - extensive piece (half the book) on different viewpoints in the field

78. The Design School: Reconsideration of the Basic Premises of Strategic Management Strategic Management Journal (1990) - criticising the dominant Harvard view of strategy making (available through JSTOR and ProQuest)

79. Managing Design, Designing Management (with Angela Dumas) Design Management Journal (Fall, 1989) - stages in managing the design process

80. Positioning the Positioning School: A Framework for Strategy Content Research (Working Paper, 1989) - trying to pin down so-called content side of strategy

81. Visionary Leadership and Strategic Management (with Frances Westley) Strategic Management Journal (l989) - probing beyond, and into vision (available through JSTOR and ProQuest)

82. Profiles of Strategic Vision: Levesque and Iacocca (with Frances Westley), in J. Conger and R. Kanungo (eds.) Charismatic Leadership: the Elusive Factor in Organizational Effectiveness (Jossey-Bass, l988) - comparative study of visionaries' autobiographies

83. Strategy of Design: A Study of "Architects in Co Partnership" (with Jamal Shamsie, Susann Otis, and James Waters), in J. Grant (ed.) Significant Developments in Strategic Management (JAI Press, 1988) - tracking strategy research|

84. Generic Strategies: Toward a Comprehensive Framework, in R.B. Lamb and P. Shivastava (eds.) Advances in Strategic Management (JAI Press, l988; shorter version in The Strategy Process, Prentice-Hall, 1991) - foray into Porter territory, an exhaustive/ing typology

85. Society Has Become Unmanageable as a Result of Management, in Mintzberg on Management (Free Press, 1989) - cerebral style management is destroying our organizations and our social fabric

86. Training Managers, Not MBAs in Mintzberg on Management (Free Press, 1989) - why we need to rethink degree management education

87. Analysis and Intuition in Management, in Mintzberg on Management (Free Press, 1989)—some correspondence with Hebert Simon and other thoughts

88. Emergent Strategy for Public Policy (with Jan Jorgensen) Canadian Public Administration (Summer, 1987) - applying notion of emergent strategy to public sector (abstract available through ProQuest)

89. Another Look at Why Organizations Need Strategies California Management Review (June l987) - various reasons delineated

90. Five Ps for Strategy California Management Review (June l987) - ideas to open up the definition