“Lives in the Balance”: A Comment on Hinings and Greenwood's “Disconnects and Consequences in Organization Theory?”

I would like to thank participants in the American Academy of Management New Doctoral Students Consortium 2002 for their feedback on some of the ideas in this reflection, as well as conversations with John Gray, Bo Nielsen, Tyrone Pitsis, Marc Tyrell, Ray Gordon, John Garrick, Carl Rhodes, and Chris Carter. Especially, I would like to thank John Gray for his appreciation of the finer points of an argument and his sober yet learned counsel; Ray Gordon and Carl Rhodes for the passion of shared views; Marc Tyrell for his systemic insights; and Chris Carter for reminding me about the analytic formaldehyde, amongst other things. I remain the author, however, with all the usual liabilities. Hinings and Greenwood's Proposition