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Values Work: A Process Study of the Emergence and Performance of Organizational Values Practices

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Existing cognitive and cultural perspectives on values have undertheorized the processes whereby values come to be practiced in organizations. We address this lacuna by studying the emergence and performance of what we call values practices. Drawing on an analysis of the development of an honor code within a large business school, we theorize the multiple kinds of values work involved in dealing with pockets of concern, knotting local concerns into action networks, performing values practices, and circulating values discourse. We conclude by discussing some opportunities and challenges that values work implies for future organizational scholarship.

Source: Academy of Management Journal

DOI: 10.5465/amj.2010.0628

Authors: Joel Gehman, Linda K. Treviño, Raghu Garud

Institutions: University of Alberta, George Washington University, Pennsylvania State University

Language: English

Topic: Management and Organizational Studies

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2046826263

FWCI: 33.99

Cites: 137

Cited by: 515

Related to: 20