Showing papers in "Culture and Organization in 2021"
TL;DR: The concept of the gaze plays an important role in (post)colonial organizational analysis as mentioned in this paper, particularly as they pertain to knowledge and identity, and it addresses dynamics of looking and being seen.
Abstract: The concept of the gaze plays an important role in (post)colonial organizational analysis. It addresses dynamics of looking and being seen, particularly as they pertain to knowledge and identity. D...
16 citations
TL;DR: Gossip is an everyday part of organizational life and has been increasingly researched as discussed by the authors. However, some gossip has a particular character, whereby it is to some degree secret. Drawing on studies of b...
Abstract: Gossip is an everyday part of organizational life and has been increasingly researched. However, some gossip has a particular character, whereby it is to some degree secret. Drawing on studies of b...
11 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how normative control is enacted in an alternative "minor party" in Southwest England called Independents for Frome, based primarily on ethnographic data and interviews.
Abstract: This paper explores how normative control is enacted in an alternative ‘minor party’ in Southwest England called Independents for Frome. Based primarily on ethnographic data and interviews, I argue...
11 citations
TL;DR: This article explored the positive connotations associated with home from humanistic geography and Western culture and explored the relationship between home and culture in the context of homemedia and home-from-humanistic geography.
Abstract: Drawing on the positive connotations associated with home from humanistic geography (Relph 1976; Tuan 1977; Cresswell 2015) and Western culture (Rybczynski 1986; Mallett 2004), this paper explores ...
10 citations
TL;DR: This paper conceptualized the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) as a weapon of epistemic violence to kill the victims' knowledge of instances of misconduct and discrimination in organizations.
Abstract: This paper conceptualizes the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) as a weapon of epistemic violence to kill the victims’ knowledge of instances of misconduct and discrimination in organizations...
9 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a thematic reading of Robert Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities is presented, combining literary, social, and economic theory, the discipline-spanning novel engages the reader.
Abstract: This paper is grounded in a thematic reading of Robert Musil's (1933/1997) novel The Man Without Qualities. Combining literary, social, and economic theory, the discipline-spanning novel engages wi...
8 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine Swedish police students' and officers' situational use of irony as a resource for engaging in workplace resistance, arguing that irony, managerial discourses and policies are destab...
Abstract: The article examines Swedish police students’ and officers’ situational use of irony as a resource for engaging in workplace resistance. Through irony, managerial discourses and policies are destab...
7 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the growth of the global video game industry has resulted in an inflow of new entrants who aspire to create novel video games and preferably new video game genres, from an empiricist perspective.
Abstract: The growth of the global video game industry has resulted in an inflow of new entrants who aspire to create novel video games and preferably new video game genres. From an empiricist perspective pr...
6 citations
TL;DR: The romance of leadership has been much discussed amongst leadership researchers as discussed by the authors, yet few researchers actually analyze the way in which it is talked into being as it is socially constructed i.e.
Abstract: The romance of leadership (ROL) has been much discussed amongst leadership researchers, yet few researchers actually analyze the way in which it is talked into being as it is socially constructed i...
6 citations
TL;DR: Although having grown significantly to constitute a strong influence in several fields of business research, research on corporate acquisitions still needs fresh voices as discussed by the authors, and research on mergers and acquisitions still need fresh voices.
Abstract: Although having grown significantly to constitute a strong influence in several fields of business research, research on corporate acquisitions still needs fresh voices. Research on acquisitions is...
6 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, two perspectives on habits in organization studies are discussed: the conservative view, which sees habit as automatic behaviours: rigidified and lifeless, and the liberal view, who sees habits as habits that are learned from experience.
Abstract: This paper will present and discuss two perspectives on habits in organization studies. The first, which we label the conservative view, sees habit as automatic behaviours: rigidified and lifeless....
TL;DR: In this paper, two social workers working in a community house in Copenhagen have both encountered a ghost, and the first part of the paper wonders about the ki... and the second part of this paper takes a point of departure in a ghost story.
Abstract: This paper takes a point of departure in a ghost story. Two social workers working in a community house in Copenhagen have both encountered a ghost. The first part of the paper wonders about the ki...
TL;DR: In this paper, animal-centred organizations that operate based on the interrelationship between human and animal agencies are investigated. And the empirical part develops an original case -hunting with hounds.
Abstract: This paper focuses on animal-centred organisations that operate based on the interrelationship between human and animal agencies. The empirical part develops an original case – hunting with hounds ...
TL;DR: Viola Desmond is now considered a forerunner in the civil rights movement in Canada as mentioned in this paper, but her role as a groundbreaking and successful African Nova Scotian entrepreneur is less known.
Abstract: Viola Desmond is now considered a forerunner in the civil rights movement in Canada. Lesser known is her role as a groundbreaking and successful African Nova Scotian entrepreneur. In this paper, th...
TL;DR: Taking inspiration from Sedgwick [(2002]], the authors wrote, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You.
Abstract: Taking inspiration from Sedgwick [(2002). “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You.” In Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Perfor...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlighted the distinctiveness of freelance workers in terms of vocation, precariousness, work-life boundaries, professional autonomy and co-working, and there is a need for more research on freelance workers.
Abstract: Existing research on freelance workers has highlighted its distinctiveness in terms of vocation, precariousness, work-life boundaries, professional autonomy and co-working. However, there is a need...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a brief historyico-theoretical sketch of the key concepts involved in critical performativity and alternative organization, and point to ongoing work in this area.
Abstract: In this introduction to the special issue on critical performativity and alternative organization we provide a brief historico-theoretical sketch of the key concepts involved and point to ongoing p
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how metaphors act as a semiotic resource for managing conflicting institutional logics in science and technology parks (STPs) by analyzing discourse concerning STPs from the UK and Finland.
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article examines how metaphors act as a semiotic resource for managing conflicting institutional logics. Due to their polysemic nature, metaphors help to bridge contending logics and facilitate their long-term co-existence without a need for a battle over dominance. Hence, metaphors provide a similar tool for reconciling competing logics as images and polysemic targets have been shown to offer in earlier studies. The study looks at the workings of metaphors by analysing discourse concerning science and technology parks (STPs) from the UK and Finland. The dataset includes interviews with park managers and representatives of client companies, parliamentary debates and self-presentations by the parks. The article shows how the six key metaphors used to describe STPs (the garden, the incubator, the accelerator, the conduit, the village, and the landlord) are utilized by various actor groups to reconcile the two conflicting institutional logics prevalent in the STPs: instrumental rationalism and romanticism.
TL;DR: Despite the growing academic interest in the aesthetic dimensions of organizational life, there is a surprising lack of critical reflection on how to analyse data acquired through organizational ae... as discussed by the authors, which is a surprise.
Abstract: Despite the growing academic interest in the aesthetic dimensions of organizational life, there is a surprising lack of critical reflection on how to analyse data acquired through organizational ae...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate why and how informal information such as rumours gains relevance for managers in relation to their workplace situations, and demonstrate that rumours gain relevance with respect to their performance.
Abstract: The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate why and how informal information such as rumours gains relevance for managers in relation to their workplace situations. The results demonstrate...
TL;DR: The authors investigates how popular self-help books on work and career construct problems and solutions related to the subject and its working life, drawing on Michel Foucault's theory of critical thinking.
Abstract: This article investigates how popular self-help books on work and career construct problems and solutions related to the subject and its working life. The investigation draws on Michel Foucault’s c...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors engage with Boltanski's dual framework of critique to examine the development of critical performativity in critical management studies (CMS), and propose a framework of critical performance analysis.
Abstract: Joining the debate on ‘critical performativity’ as articulated in the field of critical management studies (CMS), we engage with Boltanski’s dual framework of critique to examine the development of...
TL;DR: The Changing University and the (legal) Academic Career -Rethinking the Relationship between Women, Men and the Private Life of the Law School as discussed by the authors, is a seminal work in the field of legal education.
Abstract: Although Collier’s [2002. “The Changing University and the (Legal) Academic Career – Rethinking the Relationship between Women, Men and the Private Life of the Law School.” Legal Studies 22: 1–32] ...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors aim to problematize cross-cultural management discourse that naturalizes and depoliticizes similarities as a power neutral or even power neutralizing mechanism for creating a posi...
Abstract: This paper aims to problematize cross-cultural management (CCM) discourse that naturalizes and depoliticizes similarities as a power-neutral or even power-neutralizing mechanism for creating a posi...
TL;DR: In this paper, a management academic and a practitioner from the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), the largest sporting and cultural organisation in Ireland, discuss the challenges faced by the GAA.
Abstract: This paper is a conversation between a management academic and a practitioner from the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), the largest sporting and cultural organisation in Ireland. The GAA is an al...
TL;DR: This article developed a psychoanalytic perspective on boredom as an important resource for narratively constructing the self with significant implications for how functional or dysfunctional it is, and used it as a metaphor for how to construct the self.
Abstract: The study develops a psychoanalytic perspective on boredom as an important resource for narratively constructing the self with significant implications for how functional or dysfunctional it is. By...
TL;DR: In this article, an exploratory study aims to understand the ways in which gay male employees are harassed due to their sexual orientation in Sri Lanka, a developing Asian country, within a culture of hegemonic heteronormativity.
Abstract: This exploratory study aims to understand the ways in which gay male employees are harassed due to their sexual orientation in Sri Lanka, a developing Asian country, within a culture of hegemonic h...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conceptualize design as redesign and as a collective process, which is similar to the way we conceptualise design as design as a design collective process in this paper.
Abstract: Organisational research positions design as complex and open-ended We contribute to research on design and the organisation of competition by conceptualising design as redesign and as a collective
TL;DR: A growing number of organizations are hybrid organizations with ambiguous goals subjected to plural institutional logics as mentioned in this paper, and many culture financiers not only need to handle an institutional logic of m...
Abstract: A growing number of organizations are hybrid organizations with ambiguous goals subjected to plural institutional logics. Many culture financiers not only need to handle an institutional logic of m...