This edition of the Journal includes five book reviews exploring topics such as corporate governance, business and management research, organisational studies, leadership and action research. A common theme in most of the reviews relates to the need to reframe theory and practice for the current and future contexts in organisations. We begin with Jim Stewart’s review of Garratt’s Stop the Rot-Reframing Corporate Governance for Directors and Politicans. A book which is described by Stewart as having much to offer academics, policy-makers and professionals with an interest in governance. The book emphasises the re-framing of governance in relation to four themes; recreating trust in organisational leaders, rebuilding human values in organisations, assessable competence and professionalism in leadership and governance roles and the need to create a system of national public oversight. The next review is Bernadette McDonald’s review of Eastebry-Smith and Thorpe’s Business Management and Research. Mc Donald highlights a key message in the book which is that ‘high quality research is underpinned by sound research design and the need for reflective and reflexive researchers’. We continue with David Coghlan’s review of Vorre Hansen and Madsen’s Theorizing in Organisational Studies: Insights from Key Thinkers. Coughlan emphasises that the aim of the book is to encourage researchers to reflect upon their subjective theorising practices and to engage in dialogue about theorising in organisation studies. Although this is not an explicit action learning book Coghlan highlights that ‘the authors emphasis on theorising as a process of cognition and of relationships make it a covert action learning book’. The next review by John Edmonstone continues with Sadler-Smith’s Hubristic Leadership. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to investigating this form of leadership. However, Edmonstone asserts that ‘although the book may provide useful information and concepts it is less concerned with the pragmatic and context-dependent knowledge grounded in craft and skill which action learning practitioners would be more interested in’. The final review by Edel Roddy is Coghlan’s Doing Action Research in your own Organisation. This is a book which aims to offer an in-depth, and expansive exploration of the theoretical and practical aspects of insider action research. Roddy summarises the premise of the book in that ‘it speaks to the heart, whilst also providing detailed information of use to heads and hands’. Perhaps such a premise resonates with the theme of re-framing theory and practice in organisations as discussed in many of this edition’s book reviews.

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在当前和未来的组织环境中重新构建理论和实践

本期杂志包括五篇书评，探讨了公司治理、商业和管理研究、组织研究、领导力和行动研究等主题。大多数评论中的一个共同主题涉及需要为组织的当前和未来环境重新构建理论和实践。我们从吉姆·斯图尔特 (Jim Stewart) 对加勒特 (Garratt) 的“停止为董事和政客停止腐朽重构公司治理”的评论开始。这本书被斯图尔特描述为可以为对治理感兴趣的学者、政策制定者和专业人士提供很多信息。这本书强调了与四个主题相关的治理的重新框架；重建对组织领导者的信任，重建组织中的人类价值观，领导和治理角色方面的可评估能力和专业精神，以及创建国家公共监督系统的必要性。下一篇评论是 Bernadette McDonald 对 Eastebry-Smith 和 Thorpe 的《商业管理与研究》的评论。麦克唐纳德强调了书中的一个关键信息，即“高质量的研究以合理的研究设计以及对反思和反思研究人员的需求为基础”。我们继续阅读 David Coghlan 对 Vorre Hansen 和 Madsen 在组织研究中的理论化：来自关键思想家的见解的评论。考夫兰强调，这本书的目的是鼓励研究人员反思他们的主观理论实践，并就组织研究中的理论化进行对话。尽管这不是一本明确的行动学习书，但 Coghlan 强调“作者强调将理论作为认知和关系的过程使其成为一本隐蔽的行动学习书”。John Edmonstone 的下一篇评论继续讨论萨德勒-史密斯的傲慢领导。本书采用跨学科的方法来研究这种领导形式。然而，埃德蒙斯通断言，“虽然这本书可能提供有用的信息和概念，但它不太关注行动学习从业者更感兴趣的基于工艺和技能的务实和上下文相关的知识”。Edel Roddy 的最终评论是 Coghlan 的《在您自己的组织中进行行动研究》。这是一本旨在提供深入、以及对内幕行动研究的理论和实践方面的广泛探索。Roddy 总结了这本书的前提，即“它对心脏说话，同时还提供对头部和手部使用的详细信息”。也许这样的前提与在本版的许多书评中讨论的在组织中重新构建理论和实践的主题产生共鸣。