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Overview

Gail T. Fairhurst is affiliated with the University of Cincinnati in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on business, management, and accounting, with an emphasis on organizational behavior and human resource management. They have contributed to fields such as management science and operations research, sociology and political science, and literature and literary theory.

The main topics of their work include management and organizational studies, management theory and practice, complex systems and decision making, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, information systems theories and implementation, and discourse analysis in language studies.

Fairhurst has published in several venues, with a frequent presence in:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Human Relations
  • Organization Studies
  • Journal of Management Inquiry
  • Communication Research and Practice

The scientist has authored notable papers, including:

  • "Studying collective leadership: The road ahead" (2020, Human Relations)
  • "Whither organisational discourse analysis? The case from paradox and leadership research" (2022, Communication Research and Practice)

They also appear as a coauthor on influential works like "Collective dimensions of leadership: Connecting theory and method" (2020, Human Relations), written by Sonia Ospina, reflecting overlapping research interests.

Recent selected publications involving or related to their fields are:

  • "Collective dimensions of leadership: Connecting theory and method" (2020, Human Relations)
  • "A Paradox Approach to Societal Tensions during the Pandemic Crisis" (2021, Journal of Management Inquiry)
  • "Phronetic Pivoting between Compliance and Care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk" (2024, Organization Studies)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Fairhurst include:

  • Linda L. Putnam
  • Sonia Ospina
  • Erica Gabrielle Foldy
  • Brad Jackson
  • Garima Sharma

Best Publications

  • Organizations as Discursive Constructions

    Gail T. Fairhurst;Linda Putnam

  • The Social Construction of Leadership: A Sailing Guide

    Gail T. Fairhurst;David Grant

  • Contradictions, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizations: A Constitutive Approach†

    Linda L. Putnam;Gail T. Fairhurst;Scott Banghart

  • Discourse Analysis in Organizations. Issues and Concerns

    Linda L. Putnam;Gail T. Fairhurst

  • Organizational discourse analysis (ODA): Examining leadership as a relational process

    Gail T. Fairhurst;Mary Uhl-Bien

  • The leader‐member exchange patterns of women leaders in industry: A discourse analysis

    Gail T. Fairhurst

  • Leadership: A communicative perspective:

    Gail T Fairhurst;Stacey L Connaughton

  • The Art of Framing: Managing the Language of Leadership

    Gail Theus Fairhurst;Robert A Sarr

  • Considering context in discursive leadership research

    Gail T. Fairhurst

  • Social structure in leader‐member interaction

    Gail T. Fairhurst;Teresa A. Chandler

  • Discursive Leadership: In Conversation with Leadership Psychology

    Gail Theus Fairhurst

  • The Power of Framing: Creating the Language of Leadership

    Gail Theus Fairhurst

  • Interaction Patterns in Organic and Mechanistic System

    John A. Courtright;Gail T. Fairhurst;L. Edna Rogers

  • Dualisms in Leadership Research

    Gail T. Fairhurst

  • Resistance leadership: The overlooked potential in critical organization and leadership studies

    Heather M. Zoller;Gail T. Fairhurst

  • Reframing The Art of Framing: Problems and Prospects for Leadership

    Gail T. Fairhurst

  • Living Leadership: A Systemic Constructionist Approach:

    J. Kevin Barge;Gail T. Fairhurst

  • Knots in the Discourse of Innovation: Investigating Multiple Tensions in a Reacquired Spin-off:

    Mathew L. Sheep;Gail T. Fairhurst;Shalini Khazanchi

  • Discursive Leadership A Communication Alternative to Leadership Psychology

    Gail T. Fairhurst

  • Collective dimensions of leadership: Connecting theory and method:

    Sonia M Ospina;Erica Gabrielle Foldy;Gail T Fairhurst;Brad Jackson

  • Why are we here? Managing the meaning of an organizational mission statement

    Gail T. Fairhurst;Jerry Monroe Jordan;Kurt Neuwirth

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda L. Putnam
Linda L. Putnam University of California, Santa Barbara
Stephen G. Green
Stephen G. Green Purdue University West Lafayette
François Cooren
François Cooren University of Montreal
Patrice M. Buzzanell
Patrice M. Buzzanell University of South Florida
John Antonakis
John Antonakis University of Lausanne
David Grant
David Grant Griffith University
Gudela Grote
Gudela Grote ETH Zurich
Robert C. Liden
Robert C. Liden University of Illinois at Chicago
Tobias Hahn
Tobias Hahn Ramon Llull University
Joseph A. Raelin
Joseph A. Raelin Northeastern University

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