Showing papers in "Organization in 2019"
TL;DR: A new label, "Affective Ethnography" was introduced by as discussed by the authors and grounds it within the debates on post-qualitative methodologies and affective methodologies.
Abstract: This article introduces a new label, ‘Affective Ethnography’, and grounds it within the debates on post-qualitative methodologies and affective methodologies. Affective ethnography is theorized as ...
79 citations
TL;DR: This paper developed an understanding of coworking spaces as organizational phenomena based on an ethnography of betahaus in Berlin, and demonstrated how coworking space not only provide a sense o...
Abstract: This article develops an understanding of coworking spaces as organizational phenomena. Based on an ethnography of betahaus in Berlin, we demonstrate how coworking spaces not only provide a sense o...
74 citations
TL;DR: The results show that humans are increasingly detached from decision-making spatially as well as temporally and in terms of rational distancing and cognitive displacement, and the traditional view of automated media as diminishing user involvement is contrasted.
Abstract: Artificial intelligence can provide organizations with prescriptive options for decision-making. Based on the notions of algorithmic decision-making and user involvement, we assess the role of arti...
70 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how human resources professionals do not see that the diversity measures they initiate can contribute to the reproductiveness of the diversity management studies, and explore how such measures can be improved.
Abstract: This article contributes to critical diversity management studies by exploring how human resources professionals do not see that the diversity measures they initiate can contribute to the reproduct...
56 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors respond to Emma Bell and Amanda Sinclair's call for reclaiming eros as non-commodified energy that drives academic work, taking their point of entry from institutional ethnography.
Abstract: In this article, we respond to Emma Bell and Amanda Sinclair’s call for reclaiming eros as non-commodified energy that drives academic work. Taking our point of entry from institutional ethnography...
54 citations
TL;DR: The authors explored how the "world-class" discourse as an ideology and a fantasy structures neocolonial relations in intern... and built on postcolonial studies and discourse analytical research exploring how the 'worldclass' discourse as ideology and fantasy structure neocolony relations in the US.
Abstract: In this article, we build on postcolonial studies and discourse analytical research exploring how the ‘world-class’ discourse as an ideology and a fantasy structures neocolonial relations in intern...
49 citations
TL;DR: A typology for various interpretations of algorithms as ethnographic objects is developed, accounting for their structural ignorance and shedding light on a continuum of the changing human-machine/trader-algorithm relation.
Abstract: In this article, we make sense of financial algorithms as new objects of concern for organizational ethnography. We conceive of algorithms as ‘objects of ignorance’ jeopardizing traditional ethnogr...
47 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore academics' well-being through analyzing published sensitive disclosures, bringing to journal space the pain, rawness and emotional suffering of individuals' experiences.
Abstract: This article explores academics’ well-being through analysing published sensitive disclosures, bringing to journal space the pain, rawness and emotional suffering of individuals’ experiences. We co...
42 citations
TL;DR: Given critiques of postfeminism as a neoliberal and patriarchal discourse that has taken considerable tolls on professional life, its popularity in organisational practice seems out of place as discussed by the authors, given the fact that "postfeminism is a critique of post-feminism".
Abstract: Given critiques of postfeminism as a neoliberal and patriarchal discourse that has taken considerable tolls on professional life, its popularity in organisational practice seems out of place. This ...
34 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how digital media are pervasive, ubiquitous and mundane constituents of organization, and how organized life relies on, and is propelled by, technologies that store, transmit and process data and are based on...
Abstract: Digital media are pervasive, ubiquitous and mundane constituents of organization. Organized life relies on, and is propelled by, technologies that store, transmit and process data and are based on ...
34 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that resistance is the product of many agents of varying ontologica, and that they can be classified into three categories: knowing agents, passive agents, and opportunistic agents.
Abstract: Many studies of organizational resistance have focused on a knowing agent who intends to challenge power. In contrast, we suggest that resistance is the product of many agents of varying ontologica...
TL;DR: In this paper, the term "scatolic" was coined to suggest a new way for organizations to think about and engage with waste, drawing on Reno's analogy of waste as scats and of scats as sig...
Abstract: This article coins the term ‘scatolic’ to suggest a new way for organizations to think about and engage with waste. Scatolic engagement draws on Reno’s analogy of waste as scats and of scats as sig...
TL;DR: The deployment of digital technologies and data analytics within contemporary organizations are continually seeking to capture vast reams of information to shape employee performance and guide business processes as mentioned in this paper, which is a challenge for any organization.
Abstract: The deployment of digital technologies and data analytics within contemporary organizations are continually seeking to capture vast reams of information to shape employee performance and guide beha...
TL;DR: The authors review the rich tradition of ethnographic studies in organisation studies and critically examine the place of ethnography in organization studies as practised in schools of business and management, and reflect on the need for a significant extension of the content and syllabus of our discipline to include what we call objects of concern and objects of ignorance.
Abstract: In this introduction to the Special Issue, we review the rich tradition of ethnographic studies in organisation studies and critically examine the place of ethnography in organisation studies as practised in schools of business and management. Drawing on the findings of the articles published here, we reflect on the need for a significant extension of the content and syllabus of our discipline to include what we call objects of concern and objects of ignorance. The articles we publish show that decision makers in organizations are not always humans, and nor can we assume the human and its groups monopolise the capacity for agency in organisation. Where we still labour in organisation theory with dualisms such as structure or agent, or subject and object, these articles trace objects and their relations which point to new forms of non-human co-ordination and agency. The organisational realities to which these objects give rise demand careful methodological enquiry, and we show that recent experiments in a genre we call ‘post-reflexive ethnography’ are likely to prove helpful for developing ethnographic enquiry in contemporary organisation.
TL;DR: The authors argue that Trump's words, actions and inactions are potentially deeply damaging to the legitimacy of the office he holds and to the continuity of the institutions defining the American political system.
Abstract: In this brief polemic we argue that Trump’s words, actions and inactions are potentially deeply damaging to the legitimacy of the office he holds and to the continuity of the institutions defining ...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a dialogue that highlights different positions on men's activism and thought in relation to women's empowerment, and discuss the challenges and opportunities for men in this area.
Abstract: Feminism, historically and today, provides challenges and opportunities to men. In this essay, we present a dialogue that highlights different positions on men’s activism and thought in relation to...
TL;DR: This article argued that diversity is a dangerous misnomer in the white academe because the idea fails to recognize the politics of whiteness that structure a spectrum of assimilation academics of colour are positioned b...
Abstract: ‘Diversity’ is a dangerous misnomer in the white academe because the idea fails to recognize the politics of Whiteness that structure a spectrum of assimilation academics of colour are positioned b...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the role of the body and embodied experiences in constructing the entrepreneurial self and how this process unfolds over time, and they view entrepreneuring as an ethical practice.
Abstract: Organizational ethics has attracted increasing attention, but how individuals make sense of themselves as ethical subjects is a yet to be explored domain. The few empirical articles on ethical subjectivity have focused on how people within organizations seek to find a balance between a sense of ethical selfhood and dominant organizational discourse. We are interested in the role of the body and embodied experiences in constructing the entrepreneurial self and how this process unfolds over time. Viewing entrepreneuring as an ethical practice, we rely on a larger study of 58 entrepreneurs and a smaller multi-modal ethnography of three entrepreneurs in the ethical fashion industry. Drawing on the Deleuzian four folds of subjectivity that we employ as an analytical device, the data analysis reveals how our protagonists use the body as sensor, source, and processor in constructing themselves as ethical subjects. Our study complements rational perspectives on ethical decision making in entrepreneurship and establishes the body as a primary mechanism for one’s formation as an ethical subject. Through connecting the body with ethics, we aim to disclose the continuous subtle interaction between morality and materiality in the process of entrepreneuring. Our abductive framework discloses how one’s body prompts and informs the development of moral actions and material artifacts.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a new dynamic of affective intensification is currently instating itself in the digital organization of not only the GamerGate controversy, but also in the media itself.
Abstract: Through a study of the so-called GamerGate controversy, this article argues that a new dynamic of affective intensification is currently instating itself in the digital organization of not only hig...
TL;DR: It is suggested that database infrastructures are intrinsic to processes of organizing intra- and inter-organizational relations and materializes different, but overlapping,infrastructural experiments with governing education at different organizational sites enacting a governmental hierarchy.
Abstract: Organization is increasingly entwined with databased governance infrastructures. Developing the idea of ‘infrastructure as partial connection’ with inspiration from Marilyn Strathern and Science an...
TL;DR: In this paper, the simultaneity of privilege and disadvantage shapes the experiences of women expatriates in the Middle East, and the authors explore how these simultaneities shape their experiences of being an elite.
Abstract: This article explores how the simultaneity of privilege and disadvantage shapes the experiences of women expatriates in the Middle East. The article problematizes the simultaneity of being an elite...
TL;DR: Bureaucracy is deeply implicated in the biopolitical regimes that create and render invisible social waste as discussed by the authors, individuals classified as abnormal, deviant, or useless in contemporary societies.
Abstract: Bureaucracy is deeply implicated in the biopolitical regimes that create and render invisible social waste—individuals classified as abnormal, deviant, or useless—in contemporary societies. Accordi...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the affective dimension of human temporality, drawing on the work of Michael Theunissen in his Negative Theologie der Zeit (Negative Theology of Time).
Abstract: In this article, we explore the affective dimension of human temporality. Drawing on the work of Michael Theunissen in his Negative Theologie der Zeit (Negative Theology of Time), we suggest that u...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the critique of the boundaryless career concept by focusing on how organizational members may experience boundaries as ambiguous within contemporary career development in organi cation.
Abstract: This article extends the critique of the boundaryless career concept by focusing on how organizational members may experience boundaries as ambiguous within contemporary career development in organ...
TL;DR: It is found the technological mediation of atmospheres is constituted in sensory and affective spatial arrangements, and not in rationally calculated configurations of assets and goals.
Abstract: We argue technology and organization are inherently spatial phenomenon. We conceptualize this conjunction as atmosphere: a gathering of mood, human practice, material and environmental conditions, ...
TL;DR: The authors adopts an intersectional approach to explore the complexities and contingencies of subject positioning in the case of an individual older worker, and five deconstruction strategies are applied to deconstructed subject positions.
Abstract: This study adopts an intersectional approach to explore the complexities and contingencies of subject positioning in the case of an individual older worker. Five deconstruction strategies are appli...
TL;DR: This article examined metaphors used in the British press to characterize the payday loan industry in order to develop our understanding of organizational delegitimation, drawing on critical discursive discourses and metaphors.
Abstract: This study examines the metaphors used in the British press to characterize the payday loan industry in order to develop our understanding of organizational delegitimation. Drawing on critical disc...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors have witnessed the widespread deployment of technologies that enable real-time interaction between co-located and remote participants, and their adoption in a variety of applications.
Abstract: Over the past few decades, we have witnessed the widespread deployment of technologies that enable real-time interaction between co-located and remote participants. These technologies and their acc...
TL;DR: The concept of media can provide an anchor point for developing organizational theories about information and communication technologies, materiality, communication, and organizational change as mentioned in this paper, and it can be used as a metaphor for organizational change.
Abstract: The concept of ‘media’ can provide an anchor point for developing organizational theories about information and communication technologies, materiality, communication, and organizational change. Ho...
TL;DR: The literature on organisational culture suggests that ceremonies or rituals reinforce control as mentioned in this paper, which is contrary to the literature on resistance, culture and ceremony, which suggests that they reinforce control.
Abstract: The literature on organisational culture suggests that ceremonies or rituals reinforce control. By contrast, this article contributes to the literature on resistance, culture and ceremony by arguin...