Belief and Organization

PETER CASE is a professor of Management and Organization Studies at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. His research interests encompass corporate social and environmental responsibility, leadership ethics and behaviour change in organizations. He served as general editor of Culture & Organization (2007-10) and is currently a member of the editorial boards of Leadership, Leadership & Organizational Development Journal, Business & Society Review and the Journal of Management, and Spirituality and Religion. His publications include The Speed of Organization (2006), John Adair: the Fundamentals of Leadership (2007) and Worldly Leadership (2012).


HEATHER HOPFL is a visiting professor at the University of South Australia, Australia, and has a background in commercial research and theatre. Her recent publications have been on dirty work and notions of exile. She is interested in organizational architecture and has published three special issues of journals on the subject in 2011.


HUGO LETICHE combines in his work post-phenomenology with (social) complexity theory, in an effort to champion ethical narrativism in organizational studies. He has been the Professor of 'Meaning in Organization' at the Universiteit voor Humanistiek, Utrecht, the Netherlands, since 1999, where he was director of the part-time PhD program. He studied at the University of Chicago (BA), Leiden University (Drs) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (PhD). He first taught philosophy at Polytechnic 'De Horst', and then phenomenological and qualitative research methods at the Nutsseminarium, University of Amsterdam, followed by the Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Previously he was a part-time professor at Lancaster, Keele and Durham Universities, and at Bristol Business School; and a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and Osaka City University. His recent writings include Making Healthcare Care (2008) and he co-authored Coherence in the Midst of Complexity (2012).