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 kinds of questions that are tempting to ask when listening to a ghost story as well as about how more careful questioning may allow organization studies to learn from ghostly encounters. Listening to what the two social workers have experienced, the paper identifies four sets of questions that the ghostly encounter may offer to organization studies, namely questions about inheritance, what it means to feel at home in an organization, temporality and affect. Thereafter, the paper discusses how organizational inquiries that are attentive to ghostly matters may look like.

摘要

本文从一个鬼故事出发。在哥本哈根一所社区住宅工作的两名社会工作者都遇到了一个幽灵。本文的第一部分是想知道在听鬼故事时很容易提出的各种问题，以及更仔细的提问如何使组织研究从鬼的遭遇中学习。通过听取两位社会工作者的经历，本文确定了幽灵式遭遇可能为组织研究提供的四组问题，即关于继承，在组织中感到宾至如归，暂时性和影响力的问题。此后，本文讨论了关注鬼事的组织查询的外观。