Myers (business, U. of Michigan) explores the concept of having a calling in management and how it has evolved. She draws on Positive Organizational Scholarship, her Christian faith, and
history, economics, sociology, anthropology, theology, and political science, as well as practitioner and folk wisdom, to understand management scholarship on callings, including different
perspectives about it and the evolution of scholarship, and perspectives about callings beyond management, from popular and academic literature, historical references, and personal and
collective narratives from the past 500 years, and the theoretical elements of callings in them, in addition to practitioner perspectives about callings in business and leadership. She proposes
a theory of callings across disciplines, cultures, and philosophical traditions, as well as the possibility of atheists having a calling, a case study of her theory’s application, and ways to
cultivate callings. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
