Business Ethics and Critical Consultant Jokes: New Research Methods to Study Ethical Transgressions
(2023)
Book
Bouwmeester, O. (2023). Business Ethics and Critical Consultant Jokes: New Research Methods to Study Ethical Transgressions. (1). Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10201-1
Outputs (20)
First up then out: Self-employment as a response to normative control practices in elite consultancies (2023)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O., & Slaats, M. (2024). First up then out: Self-employment as a response to normative control practices in elite consultancies. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 40(1), Article 101313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101313While normative control practices aim to raise employee motivation and commitment to professional standards in professional service firms, there is much debate on when and for whom such practices remain motivational. Based on interviews with 18 self-... Read More about First up then out: Self-employment as a response to normative control practices in elite consultancies.
Lowering Social Desirability Bias: Doing Jokes-Based Interviews (2023)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O. (2023). Lowering Social Desirability Bias: Doing Jokes-Based Interviews. Management consulting journal, 6(2), 78-90. https://doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2023-0010Jokes-based interviews can help to reduce social desirability bias of responses onsensitive topics, such as unethical business behaviour or other norm transgressions.The jokes-based interview method is relevant for academic researchers, as well as fo... Read More about Lowering Social Desirability Bias: Doing Jokes-Based Interviews.
What Jokes Can Tell: A Top 5 of Ethical Transgressions in Consulting (2023)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O. (2023). What Jokes Can Tell: A Top 5 of Ethical Transgressions in Consulting. Management consulting journal, 6(1), 37-48. https://doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2023-0005In studies on consultant ethics clients are usually portrayed as their potential victims. However, in newspapers a different story can be found, when journalists report cased where clients and consultants have been partners in crime. To better map th... Read More about What Jokes Can Tell: A Top 5 of Ethical Transgressions in Consulting.
Intermediaries in the relevance‐gap debate: A systematic review of consulting roles (2022)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O., Heusinkveld, S., & Tjemkes, B. (2022). Intermediaries in the relevance‐gap debate: A systematic review of consulting roles. International Journal of Management Reviews, 24(1), 51-77. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12267
Accentuating dirty work: Coping with psychological taint in elite management consulting (2022)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O., Versteeg, B., Sturdy, A., & van Bommel, K. (2022). Accentuating dirty work: Coping with psychological taint in elite management consulting. German journal of human resource management, 36(4), 411-439. https://doi.org/10.1177/23970022211055480
The Relational Dimension of Feedback Interactions: A Study of Early Feedback Meetings Between Entrepreneurs and Potential Mentors (2022)
Journal Article
Werven, R. V., Cornelissen, J., & Bouwmeester, O. (2022). The Relational Dimension of Feedback Interactions: A Study of Early Feedback Meetings Between Entrepreneurs and Potential Mentors. British Journal of Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12615Entrepreneurs’ responses to feedback are in part determined by how the interactions during which they receive it unfold. Prior studies primarily discuss feedback interactions between entrepreneurs and their mentors or trusted advisors. As a result of... Read More about The Relational Dimension of Feedback Interactions: A Study of Early Feedback Meetings Between Entrepreneurs and Potential Mentors.
An exploration of obstacles to identity play during unemployment (2021)
Journal Article
Mühlhaus, J., Bouwmeester, O., & Khapova, S. (2021). An exploration of obstacles to identity play during unemployment. Career Development International, 26(3), 333-347. https://doi.org/10.1108/cdi-10-2019-0238
Work-life balance policies in high performance organisations: A comparative interview study with millennials in Dutch consultancies (2021)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O., Atkinson, R., Noury, L., & Ruotsalainen, R. (2021). Work-life balance policies in high performance organisations: A comparative interview study with millennials in Dutch consultancies. German journal of human resource management, 35(1), 6-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/2397002220952738
Reconceptualizing Moral Disengagement as a Process: Transcending Overly Liberal and Overly Conservative Practice in the Field (2021)
Journal Article
Schaefer, U., & Bouwmeester, O. (2021). Reconceptualizing Moral Disengagement as a Process: Transcending Overly Liberal and Overly Conservative Practice in the Field. Journal of Business Ethics, 172(3), 525-543. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04520-6
Pitching a business idea to investors: How new venture founders use micro-level rhetoric to achieve narrative plausibility and resonance (2019)
Journal Article
Werven, R. V., Bouwmeester, O., & Cornelissen, J. P. (2019). Pitching a business idea to investors: How new venture founders use micro-level rhetoric to achieve narrative plausibility and resonance. International Small Business Journal, 37(3), 193-214. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242618818249For entrepreneurial narratives to be effective, they need to be judged as plausible and have to resonate with an audience. Prior research has, however, not examined or explained how entrepreneurs try to meet these criteria. In this article, we addres... Read More about Pitching a business idea to investors: How new venture founders use micro-level rhetoric to achieve narrative plausibility and resonance.
Moral or Dirty Leadership: A Qualitative Study on How Juniors Are Managed in Dutch Consultancies (2018)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O., & Kok, T. E. (2018). Moral or Dirty Leadership: A Qualitative Study on How Juniors Are Managed in Dutch Consultancies. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(11), Article 2506. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15112506
The Social Construction of Rationality: Policy Debates and the Power of Good Reasons (2017)
Book
Bouwmeester, O. (2017). The Social Construction of Rationality: Policy Debates and the Power of Good Reasons. Routledge
The paradoxical effect of self-categorization on work stress in a high-status occupation: Insights from management consulting (2016)
Journal Article
Mühlhaus, J., & Bouwmeester, O. (2016). The paradoxical effect of self-categorization on work stress in a high-status occupation: Insights from management consulting. Human Relations, 69(9), 1823-1852. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726715626255Following social identity theory, the way in which individuals appraise stressful encounters and cope with them is influenced by their membership of social groups, which presumes self-categorization as a group member. To date, the impact of self-cate... Read More about The paradoxical effect of self-categorization on work stress in a high-status occupation: Insights from management consulting.
The Power of Arguments: How Entrepreneurs Convince Stakeholders of the Legitimate Distinctiveness of Their Ventures (2015)
Journal Article
Werven, R. V., Bouwmeester, O., & Cornelissen, J. (2015). The Power of Arguments: How Entrepreneurs Convince Stakeholders of the Legitimate Distinctiveness of Their Ventures. Journal of Business Venturing, 30(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2014.08.001
The paradoxical image of consultant expertise: a rhetorical deconstruction (2015)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O., & Stiekema, J. (2015). The paradoxical image of consultant expertise: a rhetorical deconstruction. Management Decision, 53(10), 2433-2456. https://doi.org/10.1108/md-11-2014-0653
Consultant Jokes About Managing Uncertainty: Coping by humor (2013)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O. (2013). Consultant Jokes About Managing Uncertainty: Coping by humor. International Studies of Management and Organization, 43(3), https://doi.org/10.2753/imo0020-8825430303
Field Dependency of Argumentation Rationality in Decision-Making Debates (2013)
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Rationality in Decision-Making Debates. Journal of Management Inquiry, 22(4), 415-433. https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492612469727
Consultants as legitimizers: exploring their rhetoric (2011)
Journal Article
Bouwmeester, O., & Werven, R. V. (2011). Consultants as legitimizers: exploring their rhetoric. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 24(4), 427-441. https://doi.org/10.1108/09534811111144601
Economic Advice and Rhetoric: Why do Consultants Perform Better than Academic Advisers (2010)
Book
Bouwmeester, O. (2010). Economic Advice and Rhetoric: Why do Consultants Perform Better than Academic Advisers. Cheltenham: Elgar