Overview

Tamar Parush’s research focuses on the spread of management ideas and practices, and on management consulting firms and professional associations as prominent actors in this process. Her doctoral dissertation examined management fashions and management movements as mechanisms of innovation diffusion and institutional change.

Parush’s other research interests revolve around organizational culture, discourse and argumentation. Within this field, she studied the organizational culture of symphony orchestras, focusing on how metaphor, synecdoche, irony and other tropes are played out in this culture.

Parush received her PhD from Tel Aviv University, and her MA (Sociology and Anthropology, Summa Cum Laude) and BA (Psychology and Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She joined the Novak Druce Centre for Professional Service Firms as Post Doctoral Research Fellow in October 2008.

Research interests

Organization theory 
Institutional theory
Sociology of professions, professional service firms and consulting firms
Sociology of management knowledge: management innovations, fashions and ideologies
Art and Business
Organizational culture, discourse and argumentation
Qualitative research methods in organization studies

Publications:

Schlesinger, Izchak, Tamar Keren-Portnoy and Tamar Parush (2001). The Structure of Arguments. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Parush, Tamar (2001). Metaphor and Organizational Culture: A Study of Metaphors in the Organizational Culture of a Symphony Orchestra. Jerusalem: The Shaine Center for Research in Social Sciences (in Hebrew). 

Parush, Tamar (2008). "From 'Management Ideology' to 'Management Fashion': A Comparative Analysis of Two Key Concepts in the Sociology of Management Knowledge". International Studies of Management and Organization 38 (1): 48-70. 

Work in progress:

Parush, Tamar. “Expanding the Institutional Tool Kit: Management Fashion, Movement, and Reform as Mechanisms of Institutional Change”
 
Parush, Tamar. “Managerial Movements: Corporate Power in Action"
 
Parush, Tamar. "Managerialization Reconsidered: The Translation of Ideas, Interests and Identities in Society-Wide Management Movements”
 
Parush, Tamar. "Towards an An-trope-ology of Organizations: Putting Metaphors in Context"
 
Parush, Tamar, and Spicer, André. "A New-Institutional Perspective on Charisma: The Institutionalization of Orchestra Conductors' Charisma in Nineteenth-Century Europe"
 
Parush, Tamar and Koivunen, Niina. “Constructing Managerial Identities at the Intersection of Art and Business: Choir Conducting in Management Training”.