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This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.
The Publishing Process: The Struggle for Meaning
The Publishing Process: The Struggle for Meaning
For 10 years before I entered the field of organizational behavior, I played with clay. Happily pinching, pulling, centering, sculpting, and glazing, I learned and joyfully engaged in the creative demands of the ceramist's craft. When I was 15, my dad lost his job and had little hope of getting another. My five siblings and I were left with an uncertain financial future, questionable opportunities for college careers, and a feeling of fear in the pits of our stomachs that has never quite gone away. For me, publishing in the organizational sciences has always been a mixture of these two realities: the creative and the pragmatic, the expressive and the instrumental, ...
