Archive - General Rules & Specific Cases

January 2025

Organizations as decision-makers

The post where I respond to reader mail

Jan 3 •

December 2024

October 2024

Gomer Pyle, Management Consultant

Management consulting's co-created screwing problem

Oct 5, 2024 •

August 2024

Mega-mergers as a window on political-economy

What Couche-Tard's bid for Seven & i tells us about the organization of contemporary commerce

Aug 20, 2024 •

December 2023

Information and markets

Another day, another confidential IPO

Dec 3, 2023 •

November 2023

Innovation as organized crime

Shein’s long await IPO is (confidentially) here. And while analysts proclaim $90bn valuations all I can think about is what this says about the current…

Nov 28, 2023 •

September 2023

The "Donald MacKenzie was on to something" edition

Sep 16, 2023 •

June 2023

My beef with behaviorial science

Sunday morning sociology, angry edition

Jun 25, 2023 •

C.R.E.A.M. edition

Jun 24, 2023 •

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