Critique & Boundary

Papers that complicate, limit, or push back against mainstream PS claims.

Papers (47)

• Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics (Crenshaw, 1989)
• Distinguishing Voice and Silence at Work: Unique Relationships with Perceived Impact, Psychological Safety, and Burnout (Sherf, Parke & Isaakyan, 2021)
• Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations (Acker, 1990)
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire, 1970)
• The Effects of Feedback Interventions on Performance: A Historical Review, a Meta-Analysis, and a Preliminary Feedback Intervention Theory (Kluger & DeNisi, 1996)
• A Sand County Almanac (Leopold, 1949)
• Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters (Kernick, 2021)
• Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems (Cilliers, 1998)
• Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning (Rittel & Webber, 1973)
• Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System (Juarrero, 1999)
• From Titanic to Costa Concordia — a Century of Lessons Not Learned (Schröder-Hinrichs et al, 2012)
• On the Ontological Status of Autism: the Double Empathy Problem (Milton, 2012)
• Restricted Complexity, General Complexity (Morin, 2007)
• Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Scott, 1998)
• The Tyranny of Structurelessness (Freeman, 1972)
• Thinking About Process Safety Indicators (Hopkins, 2009)
• Time and Transition in Work Teams: Toward a New Model of Group Development (Gersick, 1988)
• What Sociologists Should Know About Complexity (Page, 2015)
• A game of adoption – but playing by whose rules? (Busch et al., 2026)
• A Question of Trust (O'Neill, 2002)
• A Stupidity-Based Theory of Organizations (Alvesson & Spicer, 2012)
• Camouflaging in Autism: a Systematic Review (Cook et al., 2021)
• Dysfunctional Consequences of Performance Measurements (Ridgway, 1956)
• Forced Vulnerability: A Dangerous Approach (Boettcher et al., 2024)
• How Did Crew Resource Management Take-Off Outside of the Cockpit? A Systematic Review of How CRM Training Is Conceptualised and Evaluated for Non-Pilots (Havinga et al, 2017)
• How Effectively Has a Just Culture Been Adopted? A Qualitative Study of Clinicians' and Managers' Attitudes to Clinical Incident Management Within an NHS Hospital Trust (Tasker, Jones & Brake, 2023)
• Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of the Measures of Psychological Safety (Liu et al, 2024)
• Psychological Safety and Patient Safety: A Systematic and Narrative Review (Montgomery et al., 2025)
• State of Science: Evolving Perspectives on 'Human Error' (Read et al, 2021)
• Studying Complexity in Health Services Research: Desperately Seeking an Overdue Paradigm Shift (Greenhalgh & Papoutsi, 2018)
• The Dark Side of Organizations: Mistake, Misconduct, and Disaster (Vaughan, 1999)
• The Science of Complexity: An Alternative Perspective for Strategic Change Processes (Stacey, 1995)
• Universality Reconsidered: Diversity in Making Meaning of Facial Expressions (Gendron, Crivelli & Barrett, 2018)
• Voices Unheard: Employee Voice in the New Century (Wilkinson et al, 2018)
• When are randomised trials unnecessary? Picking signal from noise (Glasziou et al., 2007)
• When Feeling Safe Isn't Enough: Contextualizing Models of Safety and Learning in Teams (Sanner & Bunderson, 2015)
• When Is Psychological Safety Helpful in Organizations? A Longitudinal Study (Higgins et al, 2022)
• Does Performance Improve Following Multisource Feedback? A Theoretical Model, Meta-Analysis, and Review of Empirical Findings (Smither, London & Reilly, 2005)
• Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood: Psychological Safety, Black Girls' Speech, and Black Feminist Perspectives on Directness (Woodson, 2020)
• Enviable Support: How and When Advantageous Voice Endorsement Fosters Employee Silence (Song et al, 2026)
• Safety Risk Management Methodologies: Overview of SRM Methods and Analysis Based on Systems Thinking (ICAO, 2026)
• Slacking Off in Comfort: A Dual-Pathway Model for Psychological Safety Climate (Deng, Leung, Lam & Huang, 2019)
• The Case Against Grades (Kohn, 2011)
• The Limits of Psychological Safety: Nonlinear Relationships with Performance (Eldor, Hodor & Cappelli, 2023)
• Walking the Plank: An Experimental Paradigm to Investigate Safety Voice (Noort, Reader & Gillespie, 2019)
• At the Heart of Morality Lies Folk Psychology (Guglielmo, Monroe & Malle, 2009)
• Replicating the 'Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations' Effect (Väth et al, 2024)