In this section we want to showcase the range of case study research that has been published by our contributors and provide a rich source of references for further research.

Adler, P. S. (1993). The learning bureaucracy: New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. In B. M. Staw & L. L. Cummings (Eds.), Research in organizational behavior (Vol. 15, pp. 111–194). Greenwich, CT: JAI.

Adler, P. S. (1999). Hybridization of human resource management at two Toyota transplants. In J. Liker, M. Fruin, & P. S. Adler (Eds.), Remade in America: Transplanting and transforming Japanese management systems (pp. 75–116). New York: Oxford University Press.

Adler, P. S. (2006). Beyond hacker idiocy: The changing nature of software community and identity. In C. Heckscher & P. S. Adler (Eds.), The firm as a collaborative community: Reconstructing trust in the knowledge economy (pp. 198–258). New York: Oxford University Press.

Adler, P. S., Goldoftas, B., & Levine, D. (1997, April). Ergonomics, employee involvement, and the Toyota production system: A case study of NUMMI's 1993 model introduction. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 50(3), 416–437.

Adler, P. S., Goldoftas, B., & Levine, D. I. (1999). Flexibility versus efficiency? A case study of model changeovers in the Toyota production system. Organization Science, 10(1), 43–68.

Ainamo, A., Tienari, J., & Vaara, E. (2006). Between West and East: A social history of business journalism in cold war Finland. Human Relations, 59(5), 611–636.

Boje, D. M. (1995). Stories of the storytelling organization: A postmodern analysis of Disney as “Tamara-land.” Academy of Management Journal, 38(4), 997–1035. Retrieved April 19, 2009, from http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/papers/DisneyTamaraland.html

Boje, D. M. (2000). Nike corporate writing of academic, business, and cultural practices. In Essays for the Popular Management Forum [Special issue]. Management Communication Quarterly, 4(3), 507516. Prepublication draft retrieved April 19, 2009, from http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/papers/Nike_corporate_writing_shortversion.html

Boje, D. M. (2001). Carnivalesque resistance to global spectacle: A critical postmodern theory of public administration. In Radical organization theory [Special issue]. Administrative Theory and Praxis, 23(3), pp. 431–458. Prepress version retrieved April 19, 2009, from http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/papers/carnivalesque_resistance_to_glob.htm

Boje, D. M. (2001). The sexual politics of sneakers: “Common ground” and absent-referent stories in the Nike debate. Organization and Environment, 14(3), 356–363. Prepublication version retrieved April 19, 2009, from http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/77/Fourth_sexual_politics_of_sneakers.htm

Boje, D. M., & Rosile, G. A. (2008). Specters of Wal-Mart: A critical discourse analysis of stories of Sam Walton's ghost. Critical Discourse Studies Journal. Prepress version retrieved April 19, 2009, from http://peaceaware.com/vita/paper_pdfs/Specters%20of%20WalMart%20Jan%202008.pdf

Brogden, L. M., & Page, B. (2008). Ghosts on the cupboard: Discursive hauntings during the first year of French immersion teaching in Canada. In T. S. C. Farrell (Ed.), Novice language teachers: Insights and perspectives for the first year. London: Equinox Publishers.

Bruni, A., & Gherardi, S. (2001). Omega's story: The heterogeneous engineering of a gendered professional self. In M. Dent & S. Whitehead (Eds.), Managing professional identities: Knowledge, performativity and the “new” professional (pp. 174–198). London: Routledge

Bruni, A., Gherardi, S., & Poggio, B. (2005). Gender and entrepreneurship: An ethnographical approach. London: Routledge.

Burns, J. M. C. (1992). Caught in the riptide: Female researcher in a patricentric setting. In D. Harrison, W. K. Carroll, L. Christiansen-Ruffman, & R. Currie (Eds.), Fragile truths: 25 Years of sociology and anthropology in Canada (pp. 171–182). Ottawa: Carleton University Press.

Burns, J. M. C. (1993). Looking as women: The painting of Suzanne Valadon, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Frida Kahlo. Atlantis, 18(1 & 2), 25–46.

Burns, J. M. C. (1999). Homologies and heterodoxies between Canadian and Mexican art: Lawren Harris and Diego Rivera. Retrieved May 1, 2009, from http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/LASA98/BurnsJanet.pdf

Burns, J. M. C. (2005). Artistic modernism as nationalism in the periphery: Canada and Mexico. International Review of Modern Sociology, 31(1), 81–105.

Burns, J. M. C. (2005). Les automatists and COBRA as abstract expressionism. International Journal of the Humanities, 2(3), 1763–1769.

Burns, J. M. C. (2005–2006). Engagement and art: Luis Merino and art as praxis. International Journal of the Humanities, 3(5), 196–221.

Burns, J. M. C. (2006). Artistic modernism as nationalism in the periphery: Canada and Mexico. In S. Kukreja (Ed.), Case studies in political sociology. New Delhi: Serials Publications. (Reprinted from International Review of Modern Sociology, 31(1), 2005, p. 81.)

Burns, J. M. C. (2007). Art critics, artistic recognition and the disengagement and re-engagement of art. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 2(3), 291–298.

Burns, J. M. C. (2008, May). Making local art happen: Understanding art world dynamics. Unpublished paper presented in the Art Worlds and Artists session at the Qualitatives 2008, 25th annual conference, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Burns, J. M. C. (2008, July). Making local art happen: I don't know much about art, I just sell it! Unpublished paper presented at the Third International Conference on the Arts and Society, Birmingham, UK.

Burns, J. M. C., & Detroye, R. (2007). CoBrA: Abstract expressionism and the art of engagement. International Journal of the Arts in Society, 1(6), 137–152.

Butovsky, J., & Smith, M. E. G. (2007). Beyond social unionism: Farm workers in Ontario and some lessons from labour history. Labour/Le Travail, 59, 69–97.

Durepos, G., Helms Mills, J., & Mills, A. J. (2008). Flights of fancy: Myth, monopoly and the making of Pan American Airways. Journal of Management History, 14(2), 116–127.

Durepos, G., Helms Mills, J., & Mills, A. J. (2008). The Pan American dream and the myth of the pioneer. In M. Kostera (Ed.), Organizational epics and sagas: Tales of organizations (pp. 131–143). London: Routledge.

Elger, T., & Fairbrother, P. (1992). Inflexible flexibility: A case study of modularisation. In N. Gilbert, R. Burrows, & A. Pollert (Eds.), Fordism and flexibility: Divisions and change (pp. 89–106). London: Macmillan.

Elger, T., & Smith, C. (1998, June). Exit, voice and “mandate”: Management strategies and labour practices of Japanese firms in Britain. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 36(2), 185–207.

Elger, T., & Smith, C. (1998, November). New town, new capital, new workplace? The impact of the employment relations of Japanese inward investors in a West Midlands new town. Economy and Society, 27(4), 578–608.

Elger, T., & Smith, C. (1999). Japanese inward investors and the remaking of employment and production regimes: The British case. In A. Eckardt, H.-D. Köhler, & L. Pries (Eds.), Global players in local bonds: Corporate globalization in sociological perspective (pp. 99–134). Berlin: Sigma Rainer Bohn Verlag.

Elger, T., & Smith, C. (2005). Assembling work: Remaking work regimes in Japanese multinationals in Britain (p. 414). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Foley, J. R. (2000). Developing an explanatory framework for the demise of a women's committee. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 21(4), 505–531.

Foley, J. R. (2004). Mobilisation and change in a trade union setting: The role of structures and activism. Work, Employment and Society, 17(2), 247–268.

Gherardi, S. (1995). When will he say: “Today the plates are soft”? Management of ambiguity and situated decision-making. Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies, 1, 1995, 9–27.

Gherardi, S. (2004). Translating knowledge while mending organizational safety culture. Risk Management: An International Journal, 6(2), 61–80.

Gilbert, C. (2005). Unbundling the structure of inertia: Resource versus routine rigidity. Academy of Management Journal, 48(5), 741–763.

Harlow, E. (2002). Gender, parenting and managerial ambition in social work. Journal of Social Work, 2(1), 65–82.

Hellgren, B., Löwstedt, J., Puttonen, L., Tienari, J., Vaara, E., & Werr, A. (2002). How issues become [Page 985]constructed in the media: “Winners” and “losers” in the AstraZeneca merger. British Journal of Management, 13(2), 123–140.

Helms Mills, J. (2002). Employment practices and the gendering of Air Canada's culture during its Trans Canada Airlines days. Culture and Organization, 8(2), 117–128.

Helms Mills, J. (2003). Making sense of organizational change. London: Routledge.

Helms Mills, J. (2005). Representations of diversity and organizational change in a North American utility company. Gender, Work & Organization, 12(3), 242–269.

Helms Mills, J. (2006). Lightco: The case of the serial changers. In G. Jones, A. J. Mills, T. G. Weatherby, & J. Helms Mills (Eds.), Organizational theory, design and change. Toronto: Pearson.

Helms Mills, J., & Weatherbee, T. (2006). Hurricanes hardly happen: Sensemaking as a framework for understanding organizational disasters. Culture and Organization, 12(3), 265–279.

Jahnukainen, M. (2007). High-risk youth transitions to adulthood: A longitudinal view of youth leaving the residential education in Finland. Children and Youth Services Review, 29(5), 637–654.

Jahnukainen, M., & Järvinen, T. (2005). Risk factors and survival routes: Social exclusion as a life-historical phenomenon. Disability & Society, 20(6), 667–680.

Johnson, C. L., & Lapadat, J. C. (2000). Parallels between learning disabilities and fetal alcohol syndrome/effect: No need to reinvent the wheel. Exceptionality Education Canada, 10(3), 65–81.

Kuronen, M.-L., Tienari, J., & Vaara, E. (2005). The merger storm recognizes no borders: An analysis of media rhetoric on a business manoeuvre. Organization, 12(2), 247–273.

Kushner, S. (2000). Personalising evaluation. London: Sage.

Kushner, S. (2002). The object of passion: Engagement and community in democratic evaluation. Journal of the Australasian Evaluation Society, 2(2), 16–22.

Kushner, S., & Adelman, C. (2006). Program evaluation: A democratic practice. In J. L. Green, G. Camilli, & P. B. Elmore (Eds.), Complementary methods in education research. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Laine, P.-M., & Vaara, E. (2007). Struggling over subjectivity: A discursive analysis of strategic development in an engineering group. Human Relations, 60(1), 29–58.

Lapadat, J. C. (2000). Construction of science knowledge: Scaffolding conceptual change through discourse. Journal of Classroom Interaction, 35(2), 1–14.

Lapadat, J. C. (2000). Evaluative discourse and achievement motivation: Students' perceptions and theories. Language and Education: An International Journal, 14(1), 37–61.

Lapadat, J. C. (2004). Autobiographical memories of early language and literacy development. Narrative Inquiry, 14(1), 113–140.

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Madibbo, A. (2006). Minority within a minority: Black Francophone immigrants and the dynamics of power and resistance (New Approaches in Sociology, Vol. 9). London & New York: Routledge.

Madibbo, A. (2007). Le mouvement associatif des immigrants africains Francophones en Ontario. In M. Diop & O. Benois (Eds.), Associations, cultures et développement (pp. 107–116). Paris: Éditions Karthala.

Madibbo, A. (2007). Race, gender, language and power relations: Blacks within Francophone communities in Ontario, Canada. Race, Gender and Class, 14(1–2), 213–226.

Madibbo, A. (2007). Race, language and la francophonie: Black Francophones caught between racism and linguicism. In N. Massaquoi & N. Wane (Eds.), Theorizing empowerment: Canadian perspectives on black feminist thought (pp. 199–227). Toronto: Inanna Publication and Education.

Madibbo, A. (2008, Spring). The integration of black Francophone immigrant youth in Ontario: Challenges and possibilities. Canadian Issues, pp. 45–50.

Madibbo, A., & Labrie, N. (2005). La transformation des institutions et des communautés francophones face à l'immigration et à la mondialisation: Une étude de cas. La revue ontarienne d'intervention sociale et communautaire, 11, 49–80.

Maitlis, S. (2005). The social process of organizational sensemaking. Academy of Management Journal, 48(1), 21–49.

Mantere, S., & Vaara, E. (2008). On the problem of participation in strategy: A critical discursive perspective. Organization Science, 19(2), 341–358.

Meier, L. (2006). On the road to being white: The construction of whiteness in the everyday life of expatriate German high flyers in London and Singapore. In H. Berking et al. (Eds.), Negotiating urban conflicts. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Publisher.

Meier, L. (2007). Working in the skyline: Images and everyday action. In L. Frers & L. Meier (Eds.), [Page 986]Encountering urban places: Visual and material performances in the city (pp. 119–134). Burlington, VT; Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

Memon, P. A., & Selsky, J. (2004). Stakeholders and the management of freshwater resources in New Zealand: A critical commons perspective. In S. Sharma & M. Starik (Eds.), Stakeholders, the environment and society (pp. 23–61). London: Edward Elgar.

Migliore, S. (1997). Mal'uocchiu: Evil eye, ambiguity, and the language of distress. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

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Mills, A. J. (1994). The gendering of organizational culture: Social and organizational discourses in the making of British Airways. In M. DesRosiers (Ed.), Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Women in Management Division, 15, 11–20.

Mills, A. J. (1995). Man/aging subjectivity, silencing diversity: Organizational imagery in the airline industry: The case of British Airways. Organization, 2(2), 243–269.

Mills, A. J. (1996). Corporate image, gendered subjects and the company newsletter: The changing faces of British Airways. In G. Palmer & S. Clegg (Eds.), Constituting management: Markets, meanings and identities (pp. 191–211). Berlin: de Gruyter.

Mills, A. J. (1997). Duelling discourses: Desexualization versus eroticism in the corporate framing of female sexuality in the British airline industry, 1945–60. In P. Prasad, A. J. Mills, M. Elmes, & A. Prasad (Eds.), Managing the organizational melting pot: Dilemmas of workplace diversity (pp. 171–198). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Mills, A. J. (1997). Practice makes perfect: Corporate practices, bureaucratization and the idealized gendered self. Hallinnon Tutkimus (Finnish Journal of Administrative Studies), (4), 272–288.

Mills, A. J. (1998). Cockpits, hangars, boys and galleys: Corporate masculinities and the development of British Airways. Gender, Work & Organization, 5(3), 172–188.

Mills, A. J. (2000, July). Cultural traces and traces of culture: Problems of studying corporate culture over time. In R. Sexty (Ed.), Proceedings of the Business History Division of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Annual Conference. Montreal: Administration Sciences Association of Canada.

Mills, A. J. (2002). History/herstory: An introduction to the problems of studying the gendering of organizational culture over time. In I. Aaltio & A. J. Mills (Eds.), Gender, identity and the culture of irganizations (pp. 115–136). London: Routledge.

Mills, A. J. (2002). Studying the gendering of organizational culture over time: Concerns, issues and strategies. Gender, Work and Organization, 9(3), 286–307.

Mills, A. J. (2006). Sex, strategy and the stratosphere: The gendering of airline cultures. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Mills, A. J., & Helms Mills, J. (2004). When plausibility fails: Towards a critical sensemaking approach to resistance. In R. Thomas, A. J. Mills, & J. Helms Mills (Eds.), Identity politics at work: Resisting gender and gendered resistance (pp. 141–159). London: Routledge.

Mills, A. J., & Helms Mills, J. (2006). Masculinity and the making of Trans-Canada Air Lines, 1937–1940: A feminist poststructuralist account. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 23(1), 34–44.

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Porter, M. (1985). The tangly bunch: Outport women of the Avalon Peninsula. Newfoundland Studies, 1(1), 77–90.

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