I believe that there is always a political component in almost organizations but it is only one of factors that affect publication. The quality of research is a key determination to get published.

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Despite the rigor there is undoubtedly a political component.  There always is.  So, the glad-handing is a way of not offending anyone who might be helpful or useful at a later time.   At least there's no reason to create enemies where none need to exist.

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Ok.  I'm not feeling so bad any more.  Two of the people I respect the most (of course, I have tremendous respect for all of my classmates;-) are looking up words in our readings.  I'm doing the same thing.  There's so much that I have little or no clue about, that I spend hours on the Wikipedia pages just trying to figure some of it out! 

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I think that somehow the study could have been more rigourously designed to inlcuded quantitative analysis as well.  If the authors had as much access as they did, they might have also wanted to do direct observational analysis to supplement the questionairres (I think this might have reduced bias from the surveys only being from all but 1 IT professional).

 

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I don't think you need to apologize. I think most of us have had things come up that lead us to be behind in our postings and readings.  Hope all is better with your family.

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I agree that this is a very interesting book and is different from what we have read in our journals and other texts, but has way too many words to look up.  I think I stopped after heuristic, just so I could try to stay with the flow of the book.  Our journals are even worse.  Not only do they use specialized terminology without explanation, but the don't explain the statistics either.  I recognize a few words from the GRE test, but not most of them. 

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I think the Swanson team did a good job of explaining the concept of mindfulness and mindlessness, but not innovation.  Is it an I T artifact or a management philosopy?  Are these software products that serve a large organization or are they styles or templates for home-grown software?  Different definitions imply different ways of being mindful and innovative.  I think that at least a couple of real-world examles would have been very helpful.

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This is the same feeling that I got after I attended my first week of classes at CGU.  All of a sudden, I realized that I was on the verge of a journey that very few people take.  I going to be trained to contribute to the discipline.  That thought is as inspirational, and scary, as the granite façades of the buildings of the great Universities of the world.  I sure know what you mean!

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I wonder if it is the nature of exploratory research to not have much empirical or qualitative evidence.  At least the authors qualified their paper as "preliminary" theory development, which implies that probably had a lot more to say but could not fit it all in the page length they were given.  Good thing for us, because we probably would have been more lost and tired from the extra reading.  However, all in all, I think I got their gist and actually appreciated that it does take a lot of work to develop new theories.

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Agree. Organizational behavior or religion research would be the next logical stepping stone.  People tend to act and behave with much more religious values when they get older. 

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