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The sonic side of organizing: theorizing acoustemology for blind and visually impaired people's inclusion in the workplace Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Domenico Napolitano, S. Ripetta, L. M. Sicca
Drawing on ethnography, this study investigates the treatment of blind and visually impaired people (BVIP) in the workplace adopting a sociomaterial framework based on acoustemology. This approach ...
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Co-constructing new ways of working: relationality and care in post-pandemic academia Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Linna Sai, Grace Gao, Emmanouela Mandalaki, Ling Eleanor Zhang, Jannine Williams
In this article, we write collectively, using an autoethnographic approach to problematize the pervasive neoliberal performance culture in Higher Education (HE). While exploring the challenges many...
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Languaging organizational space: when Whitehead meets the Buddha Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Dhammika Jayawardena
This paper explores the Buddha’s philosophy of becoming in relation to that of Whitehead. It questions how we might begin to understand the spatial production of organization differently if we move...
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Correction Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2024-01-17
Published in Culture and Organization (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The multidimensionality of care in remote work: women academics in Chile during the COVID-19 pandemic Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Claudia Mora, Rosario Undurraga, Elisabeth Simbürger
The boundaries between paid and care work all but disappeared for women during COVID-19 lockdowns. All realms of life merged into the household while the workload shouldered by women heavily increa...
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Embracing relational vulnerabilities at the top: a study of managerial identity work amidst the insecurities of the self Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Suvi Satama, Hannele Seeck, Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo
This study aims to revitalise the concept of relational vulnerability in advancing the theory of managerial identity work. Drawing on 35 semi-structured interviews and 12 podcast interviews with to...
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Who’s excellent now? The unspeakable nature of business excellence Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 David Collins
This paper, developed in the long shadow cast by the 40th anniversary of the first publication of In Search Excellence offers a critical reanalysis of the orientations of the excellence project and...
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Is Indie ‘the new black’?: The rise of an interstitial field between indie music and Quality TV in the US Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Daniela Aliberti, Chiara Paolino
Drawing on the role of institutional work for fields’ emergence and transformation, we investigate how interstitial fields emerge, proto-institutionalize, and transform from the interplay between d...
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Do spatial practices legitimize the values promoted by organizations? An ethno-architectural survey of governance and sustainable development in coworking spaces Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Sabine Carton, Stéphanie Dadour, Nathalie Mitev, Lucie Perrier
Compared to traditional organizations, a coworking organization needs to be clearly distinguished, recognized and identified in its environment. The question of legitimacy is therefore relevant for...
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Sensing the breakdown: managing complexity at the railway Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Rebecca Cort, Jessica Lindblom
This paper explores the complex and time-critical work practices within operational train traffic in Sweden by reporting on an incident causing an infrastructure breakdown and large traffic disrupt...
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Re-reading Fatima Meer's Prison Diary and art through the lens of Saidiya Hartman's concept of ‘stealing away’ Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Lebohang Bidla
This paper interprets and analyses the concept of stealing away, as a redemptive act, that can be embodied in alternative modes such as writing, painting and drawing. The paper articulates how the ...
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The different shades of co-working spaces: how culture change explains the market rules Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Aristides I. Ferreira, Nádia Pereira, Henrique Duarte
This study aims to contribute to the existing literature by providing a deeper understanding of the links between the multiple layers in organizational culture and the different Co-working characte...
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The different shades of co-working spaces: how culture change explains the market rules Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Aristides I. Ferreira, Nádia Pereira, Henrique Duarte
This study aims to contribute to the existing literature by providing a deeper understanding of the links between the multiple layers in organizational culture and the different Co-working characte...
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Emotional status and emotional labour: exploring the emotional labour among casualised and tenured knowledge workers Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Sabina Pultz, Katia Dupret
Working for Roskilde Festival is a dream come true for most of the employees there. In this paper, we apply Hochschild’s theoretical framework of emotional labour (EL) supplemented with recent cont...
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Emotional status and emotional labour: exploring the emotional labour among casualised and tenured knowledge workers Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Sabina Pultz, Katia Dupret
Working for Roskilde Festival is a dream come true for most of the employees there. In this paper, we apply Hochschild’s theoretical framework of emotional labour (EL) supplemented with recent cont...
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Researching culture and organization; what possibilities? Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Hugo Letiche
Research into organizational culture seems to have come to a stillstand. In its heyday in the 1980s and 90s two crucial problems were voiced: (i) Is organizational culture really manageable? and (i...
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A game of futures: the strategy of scenarios in a Danish medical company Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Andreas Lyse Brandt, Kasper Tang Vangkilde
ABSTRACT While the future has gained increasing attention in organizational research, the minutiae and intricacies of how organizational actors produce and enact the future remain little explored. In this article, we present an ethnographic study of a future-making practice called ‘the strategy of scenarios’ in a Danish medical company. We propose the concept of technologies of prefiguration to capture
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A game of futures: the strategy of scenarios in a Danish medical company Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Andreas Lyse Brandt, Kasper Tang Vangkilde
While the future has gained increasing attention in organizational research, the minutiae and intricacies of how organizational actors produce and enact the future remain little explored. In this a...
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Flexible lives: spatial, temporal, and behavioural boundaries in a fluid world of work and home Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Special Issue editors, Michal Izak, Stefaine Reissner, Harriet Shortt
Published in Culture and Organization (Vol. 29, No. 5, 2023)
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Using the relational approach to explore the representation of women through Brazilian popular music: 1880 to 1970 Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Anderson de Souza Sant’Anna, Rosana Silveira Reis, Laura Ferolla Siqueira Campos, Marcella de and Assis Ribeiro Batista
ABSTRACT We explore representations of women in music by covering a broader symbolic and cultural spectrum. We demonstrate that musical texts engage with representations of gender and sexuality in concrete ways and that these representations can have an impact on attitudes and value systems in real life. We also investigate the relational role of composers, performers, and the media in the transition
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Ann Rippin (1960–2023) – in memoriam Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-07-14
Published in Culture and Organization (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Fire inside me – Exploring the possibilities of embodied queer listening Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Bontu Lucie Guschke
In this article, I develop the methodological approach of embodied queer listening, which allows capturing, analyzing, and writing with/through/about the researcher’s embodied experience as part of...
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Intersectional income inequality: a longitudinal study of class and gender effects on careers Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Lea Katharina Reiss, Michael Schiffinger, Marco Leander Rapp, Wolfgang Mayrhofer
ABSTRACT Intersectional income inequalities based on social class and gender remain under-researched. This paper examines the development of the gender pay gap, the class pay gap, and the intersectional gender-class pay gap over time. Drawing on a longitudinal survey of the first ten career years of business school graduates, our results show that both social class origin and gender lead to income
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Research as reach-searching from the kinesphere Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Pauliina Jääskeläinen
Solitude.in my office.Where to start,what to do,what to read,how to make sense of all of this?Decisions.directions.movement.If I stop pushing forward,soothe my breath,dive in slowly,where do I reac...
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Writing research-based theatre on aged care: the ethnodrama, After Aleppo Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 C. Lewis, E. Miller, S. Pike
ABSTRACT This paper documents the visioning, crafting, and writing of an ethnodrama – a type of embodied writing that takes the form of a research-based play script – about one unusual experience within an aged care organization: what might happen when technology, specifically virtual reality, is implemented into this unique organizational setting? As well as reflecting on the artistic and scientific
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Like an Elephant in the room: the emergence of informal interactions in the workplace Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Delphine Minchella, Jean-Denis Culié, Gisele De Campos Ribeiro
Research concerning employees’ informal interactions in organizational life has shown many positive impacts for the company and the employees. However, there is reduced research concerning how a pl...
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‘Burning toda la mierda’: a schizo-affective poem Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Javiera Garcia-Meneses, Giazú Enciso Domínguez, Iván Chanez-Cortés
ABSTRACT We gave ourselves permission to affect and to be affected. We listened to the voices of Chilean child welfare workers and embodied their experiences. We heard their doubts, contradictions, ideas, and yearnings. After a series of interviews, we created three poems with those voices. It felt wrong and incomplete. Vertical(ly)-Dry. We focused on the textual, but the workers’ voices demanded an
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If on a summer’s day a researcher: the implied author and the implied reader in writing differently Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Ruth Weatherall
You are scrolling through the results of your latest search for papers. You wade through the papers you’ve been planning to read for ages; papers you could put aside to read this summer; papers you...
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Female soldiers maneuvering visibility in the Turkish Armed Forces Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Murat Sakir Erogul, Dilek Zamantılı Nayır, Emir Ozeren, Aykut Arslan
How do Turkish female soldiers’ (TFS) relate to and manage their (in)visibility within the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF)? Guided by a social-constructionist approach and driven by a gendered perspecti...
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Toiling from the homespace, longing for the workplace: gendered workplace imaginaries in an (in)flexible work scenario Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Lena Kurban Rouhana, Michelle Mielly
ABSTRACT Flexible work arrangements (FWAs) promise both emancipation and loss: freedom from workplace constraints also strips away protective work-life boundaries. To date, very little is understood about how flexible work shapes workplace imaginaries. Drawing on a sample of 44 managers from a Middle Eastern firm, we explore their evolving internal representations of the workplace and domestic space
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The intersectional identity work of entrepreneurs with disabilities: constructing difference through disability, gender, and entrepreneurship Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Anna Laura Hidegh, C. Svastics, S. Csillag, Z. Győri
ABSTRACT Despite a growing interest in intersectional entrepreneurship studies investigating the interplay of privileged and disadvantaged identities, people with disabilities still appear to be a ‘forgotten minority’ in that field. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 29 entrepreneurs with disabilities (EWD), this study examines how differences are constructed by EWD when performing intersectional
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Neither work nor leisure: temporalities and life world realities of split shift work in the Austrian care sector Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Karin Sardadvar, Cornelia Reiter
ABSTRACT Employment conditions have been subject to far-reaching flexibilization and fragmentation in recent decades. One of the many ways to make labor flexibly available and cost-effective is to divide the working day using split shifts. In this qualitative study on the home care sector in Austria, we investigate the workers’ experiences of split shifts as example of fragmented work and unsocial
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Is physical co-presence a prerequisite for Durkheimian collective effervescence? Reflections on remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Tom Vine
ABSTRACT This paper explores why it is that so many of us regard virtual communication technologies as imperfect substitutes for co-present organisational interaction. In so doing, it invokes Durkheim’s concept of collective effervescence; that is, the bonding phenomenon experienced between people in physical proximity. Initially, ethnographic data are presented from a Scottish commune known as the
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Tags, tagging, tagged, # - undisciplining organ-ization of [academic] bodies Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Nikki Fairchild, Carol A. Taylor, Neil Carey, Mirka Koro, Angelo Benozzo, Karin Hannes, Jo Albin-Clark, Emma Maynard, Shiva Zarabadi, Tanner Caterina-Knorr, Angeline J. Taylor
ABSTRACT We write as a collaborative mode of embodied writing that moves, tags, and re-sites us elsewhere, that mis/dis/aligns self-other, and permeates various stable body(boundaries). We write as a group of (un)bounded (virtual) bodies who aim to collectively create and tag arguments. We write as a collective body where materialities, ideas, discussions and writing become in the doing. Different
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‘Another work routine is possible’: everyday experiences of (unexpected) remote work in Italy Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Alessandro Gandini, Emma Garavaglia
ABSTRACT The article discusses the opinions and perceptions of knowledge workers in Italy concerning the shift to remote work during the first countrywide lockdown (March–May 2020) imposed to contain the Covid-19 outbreak. Prior to the pandemic, remote work arrangements in the Italian context were not common. Thanks to a set of 35 interviews to workers who experienced significant disruption to their
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Why write about animals? Organization and the Daily Occurrences of London Zoo Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Lee Christien
ABSTRACT This article analyses as series of archival documents called the Daily Occurrences of the Zoological Gardens of London. These pro formas were the institutional working texts that allowed authorial statements to appear concerning the organization of London Zoo, including: animal arrivals, departures, births, deaths, work, visitor figures and finance. The Daily Occurrences classified, described
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‘You’re walking on eggshells’: exploring subjective experiences of workplace tracking Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Paul Bowell, Gavin J.D. Smith, Ekaterina Pechenkina, Paul Scifleet
Technology-driven workplace tracking is becoming increasingly widespread and normalized. However, experiences of the tracking practices and their impact on individual employees and employers are no...
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‘Half of my body is at work and the other half at home’: narratives of placemaking while working from homes in rural and small-town India Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Rajeshwari Chennangodu, Advaita Rajendra
ABSTRACT The article reflects on moving workspaces into homes during and after the Covid-19-induced lockdown. In our qualitative research in India, we investigate the processes of place-making and redrawing of boundaries between paid and unpaid care work. Through interviews and autoethnographic reflections, we analyse the process of new workspace making. We examine the erasing of the home from the
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Beyond politics of difference: intersectionality across time and place Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Jasmin Mahadevan, Henriett Primecz, Albert J. Mills
Published in Culture and Organization (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
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Toward a conceptualization of kuuki-wo-yomu (reading the air) in the Japanese organizational context Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Yuhee Jung, Soyeon Kim, Tomohiko Tanikawa
ABSTRACT Kuuki-wo-yomu (KWY) holds particular importance in Japanese society. Literally meaning ‘reading the air,’ KWY refers to attitudinal and behavioral patterns that Japanese exhibit in social groups. Noting its conceptual importance, the study intends to theorize KWY. Adopting the contextualization approach, the study explains the emergence and its structure of KWY through a thorough investigation
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The creation of the stranger – the process of recreating immigrants as the Other in Canada’s government-produced texts Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Isabella Krysa, Salvador Barragan, Albert J. Mills
ABSTRACT This research analyses textual and visual representations of immigrants in government-produced texts and investigates how such depictions aid in the production of the stranger discourse. How immigrants are discussed and portrayed has an impact on how immigrant populations are perceived and treated in their host countries. By using postcolonial theory and conducting a Foucauldian critical discourse
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Pinkwashing and mansplaining: individual and organizational experiences of gender inequality at work during the COVID-19 pandemic Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Davide de Gennaro, Gabriella Piscopo
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has had adverse global impacts not only from a health perspective but also, and especially, in the work sphere. Drawing on the literature on gender inequality at work, this study developed four poetic inquiries to investigate how women’s working lives were affected by the pandemic in Italy. In particular, we focused on how women’s work experience has changed in their
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Modernising government, aestheticising decision information: how ‘business-like’ quantification turns performance numbers into aesthetic enumerated entities Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Oz Gore
ABSTRACT Adopting numbering practices is central to ‘business-like’ public organising. These practices were primarily critiqued for their more-than-technical, normative character. This paper expands the critique of numbers in governance by considering numbers’ epistemic consequences in public sector work. Drawing on Whitehead’s philosophy of aesthetics and an ethnography of enumeration inside a public
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Exploring the politics of linguistic difference: the construction of language requirements for migrants in jobs traditionally conducted by local native speakers Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Anne Theunissen, Koen Van Laer
ABSTRACT While linguistic difference has been identified as an organizational source of disadvantage for migrants, the construction of language requirements in relation to which these differences emerge has rarely been examined. Yet, this is key to understand the politics of difference. Taking a social constructionist approach and relying on the concept of the ideal worker, this article analyzes a
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Revisiting old and opening new spaces for feminist organizing in Austria Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Angelika Schmidt, Regine Bendl, Maria Clar
ABSTRACT Before the onset of COVID-19, the political mood in Europe shifted to the right. This is indicated, for example, by efforts to close the borders to migrants, an undermining of legislative and executive democratic structures as well as restrictions on free speech. Such anti-democratic developments have also impacted gender equality – at the level of policy and in daily life. Our paper aims
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Achieving active inclusion in an industrial community? Appropriating working-class culture in the local activation of unemployed Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Jon Sunnerfjell
ABSTRACT As a way of managing the challenges posed by automation, relocation of production, and economic crises, the Western welfare states have sought to implement so called active societies fostering changeable and self-reliant citizens able to navigate flexible capitalism responsibly. Increasingly, this plays out at the local level. Under the banner of active inclusion, a sense of community is here
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Intentionality, not just agency: bringing intended meaning back into the micro–macro institutionalization processes Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Yuan Li
ABSTRACT Organization theory and organizational institutionalism have moved toward a more generative understanding of agency to better account for the relation between the microfoundations and macrofoundations of institutions. Central to such an understanding is an overlooked construct: intentionality, defined as actors’ consciousness directed at or about something, the content of which is actors’
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‘You're the one that I want’: differentiating between beneficiaries in voluntary organizations Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Anna Wettermark
ABSTRACT This paper examines differentiations between beneficiaries in voluntary organizations. Drawing on the writings of Ahmed and Bauman, the paper suggests that beneficiaries are socially constructed through efforts to assist them and according to complex and varied criteria that combine immediate ‘re-cognition’ of otherhood with attention to the ‘achievements’ of beneficiaries, i.e. how well beneficiaries
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Naturalizing, normalizing and neutralizing: metaphors framing the global financial crisis in Nordic banks Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Ulla Forseth, Emil A. Røyrvik, Stewart Clegg
ABSTRACT In this paper we discuss metaphors and rhetoric characterizing rationalizations of past banking practices after the global financial crisis of 2008. We draw on qualitative data from six Nordic banks, 2008–2012. Financial advisers and managers sourced their accounts from everyday materials, including popular metaphors and symbols that patterned thought and practice in financial institutions
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Writing with silent bodies: a pandemic play in three scenes Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Monika Kostera, Anke Strauß, Jerzy Kociatkiewicz
ABSTRACT The following text is a play co-written as a response to, and a remembrance of, the experiences during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is based on writing during lockdown that was meant to make sense of our own experiences as academic labourers and those gained from informal conversations with colleagues. Following the conventions and the sensibilities of theatre, the text demands
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Taking experiences of disrespectful misrecognition in blended workgroups seriously Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Martin Lund Kristensen, A. K. Kristensen
ABSTRACT This article explores how experienced relational quality in blended workgroups consisting of permanent and temporary members is affected by temporary members’ normative expectations for the relationship. We draw on Axel Honneth’s four primary forms of recognition to illuminate the foundation of normative expectations. This focus on temporary members’ normative expectations contrasts with existing
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The corporate social media creep Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Stephan M. Schaefer
ABSTRACT This paper analyses an empirical case study of a corporate social media platform, and suggests and elaborates the concept of corporate social media creep framed by the notion of imagined affordances. The corporate social media creep describes the gradual expansion and encroachment of corporate social media on work and private life beyond its supposed productive function and purpose. The corporate
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Habits, Infinite Jest and the recoveries of pragmatism Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Stephen Dunne, Michael Pedersen
ABSTRACT Behaviourists treat habits as thoughtlessly undertaken actions. Pragmatists, by contrast, emphasise the role intelligence plays in habit’s cultivation. Although organisational analysts have tended to prefer behavioural approaches to habit, pragmatism has been recently resurgent. This paper analyses how David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest dramatises this hermeneutical dichotomy. The novel
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Reconciling knowledge sharing with individual tasks: interaction and interruptions in the open-plan office Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Francesca Salvadori, Jon Hindmarsh, Christian Heath
ABSTRACT The contribution of the open-plan office to work and organisation has long been a matter of some debate. Aside from its economic advantages, it is argued that it provides an important opportunity for colleagues to share knowledge and help each other. It is recognised, however, that the presence and participation of others can undermine the ability of personnel to concentrate on individual
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Trapped in the abject: prison officers’ use of avoidance, compliance and retaliation in response to ambiguous humour Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Constantine Manolchev, Anna Einarsdottir, Duncan Lewis, Helge Hoel
ABSTRACT The place of humour in organisational interactions has been the subject of long-standing interest. Studies have considered the positive role of humour in increasing social contact and promoting group cohesion, while warning it can be a means for expressing hostility and excluding group members. However, more ambiguous uses of humour remain underexplored and under-theorised. Using a single
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Remaining neutral while conveying ‘the right picture’ of Sweden: governing agents navigating a neoliberally influenced social contract Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2022-10-15 Nanna Gillberg
ABSTRACT This article studies how governing agents at a civic orientation course site, through collaborative boundary work, manage tensions that arise from simultaneously representing the governing state and the governed subjects taking part in the courses. The findings illustrate how individual agency—in policy and practice—is expected of immigrants enrolled in civic orientation courses, but not necessarily
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How do high-tech industry remote team employees learn to manage their emotions? Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Nurit Zaidman, Jeff Dodick
ABSTRACT High-tech employees, need to manage their emotions on a daily basis, given their interactions with culturally different colleagues; nonetheless, they are not given much direction about such issues. Based on interviews with 75 Israeli workers employed by 25 high-tech companies, this study explains the display rules in high-tech organizations and the ways employees learn to manage their emotions
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Unpacking the ambiguous work of middle managers: on the ongoing becoming in liminality Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Maria Hvid Dille
ABSTRACT In this article, I propose that the work of middle managers can meaningfully be conceptualized as a form of liminal work herby drawing attention to the interstitial (spatial) and temporary (temporal) elements of organizing and work. Building on a case study of emerging middle management positions within schools in Denmark, I show that working ‘in’ the middle is demarcated by entanglements
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The lived experience of organizational disidentification: how soldiers feel betrayed, dissociate, and suffer Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Jori Pascal Kalkman
ABSTRACT Organizational identification has received much scholarly attention, while disidentification remains understudied. Existing studies on disidentification examined people who never identified with an organization in the first place or rely on (cross-sectional) survey data. This means that there is little research on the lived experience of the disidentification process. Based on an analysis
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Emotional rhythms of power: reframing emotion rules through aesthetic modes of embodied interaction Culture and Organization (IF 2.209) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Eeva Aromaa, Päivi Eriksson, Albert J. Mills
ABSTRACT This paper examines how emotion rules are socially constructed and how and why they are enacted and challenged through specific modes of embodiment in face-to-face interactions. The paper broadens the understanding of emotion rules by connecting them to aesthetics to explore face-to-face interactions. This paper is based on ethnographic data gathered from a two-year study of a micro-sized