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Editorial: A Special Forum on the Australian Black Summer Bushfires Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Hokyu Hwang, Erica Coslor, Hamid Foroughi
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Media Review: On speaking about (refugee) lives that do not matter equally Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Marianna Fotaki
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Politics in Organization Studies: Multi-disciplinary traditions and interstitial positions Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Damian O’Doherty, Christian De Cock
This Perspectives article delves into the archives of Organization Studies covering the period 1986-2010 to advance and develop our thinking of politics and political thinking in organization studies. In our Benjamin-inflected reading (Benjamin, 2002), we look for the revolutionary energies that reside in what may at first appear as perhaps ‘outmoded’ articles in an intellectual environment where the
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Maintaining the meritocracy myth: a critical discourse analytic study of leaders’ talk about merit and gender in academia Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Jean Clarke, Cheryl Hurst, Jennifer Tomlinson
The belief in meritocracy – that advancement is based solely on individual capabilities and hard work – remains ingrained in organizations despite evidence it is a flawed concept that perpetuates gender and other social inequalities. Critical streams of research have highlighted the ideological character of meritocracy discourse, its entrenched nature and acceptance as ‘common-sense’. Less is known
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Wage theft, secrecy, and derealization of “ideal workers” in the Bangladesh garment industry Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Shoaib Ahmed
This study addresses how violence is mobilized through wage theft in feminized workplaces thriving within the global value chain. Guided by Judith Butler’s concept of derealization, this longitudinal case study on the Bangladesh garment industry advances the current debate on violence in Organization Studies. First, it re-conceptualizes the notion of an “ideal worker.” Empirical evidence reveals that
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Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women Leaders Self-Positioning Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Sharon Mavin, Marina Yusupova
This study addresses the lack of research into social processes of competition in organizations and explores women leaders self-positioning in relation to the discourses of gendered competition and neoliberal competition. The discourses carry contradictory obligations for women. While the gendered competition discourse socially punishes competitive women, the neoliberal competition discourse expects
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When Top Managers’ Temporal Orientations Collide: Middle Managers and the Strategic Use of the Past Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Innan Sasaki, Masahiro Kotosaka, Alfredo De Massis
Use-of-the-past research has advanced our understanding of how top managers instrumentalize past knowledge, events, and rhetorical constructions to advance their present-day interests. However, it is unclear how they use the past when they have divergent understandings of the past and different visions of the future. Temporal tensions can lead to a period of unsettlement in organizations, undermine
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Catastrophe to Consensus: Hegemonic Performativity in Climate Adaptation Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Nichole Wissman, David Levy, Daniel Nyberg
As the impacts of climate change unfold, coastal cities are beginning to adapt to the emerging physical and financial risks. In our case study of climate adaptation in Boston, we advance the concept of hegemonic performativity, which shows how political pressures lead an assemblage– a network of human and nonhuman actors, including models, algorithms, instruments, market devices, and experts– to converge
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What we do in the shadows – how expert workers reclaim control in digitalized and centralized organizations through ‘stealth work’ Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Peter Kalum Schou, Torstein Nesheim
Organizations often depend on experts to carry out complex tasks that require specialized or tacit knowledge. Yet, organizations often want to increase their control over how tasks are performed and thus reduce the autonomy of experts. In the past, scholars have argued that experts had the ability to rebuff organizational attempts to control them. However, in an era with increased digitalization and
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HOW DOES EMBODIMENT ENABLE THE ACQUISITION OF TACIT KNOWLEDGE IN ORGANIZATIONS? FROM POLANYI TO MERLEAU-PONTY Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Demetris Hadjimicheal, Rodrigo Ribeiro, Haridimos Tsoukas
We address the question of how embodiment enables tacit knowledge acquisition at the workplace. Although references to tacit knowledge in organizational research are common, we still lack a refined theoretical account of how tacit knowledge is acquired, especially in relation to embodiment. Following Polanyi, we start with the premise that to know something tacitly implies a movement from subsidiary
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Organizing Sustainably: Introduction to the Special Issue Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Rick Delbridge, Markus Helfen, Andreas Pekarek, Elke Schuessler, Charlene Zietsma
To confront the climate crisis requires fundamental system change in order to break the convention of relentless economic exploitation of nature. In this Special Issue we extend understanding of the opportunities for an organizing perspective on sustainability in order that organization studies might contribute more effectively to the challenges of organizing sustainably. This organizing perspective
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Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of Dalit labour contractors in India Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Vivek Soundararajan, Garima Sharma, Hari Bapuji
Research on precarity predominantly adopts a monolithic view of labour market intermediaries and ignores the differential distribution of precarity based on social group membership. This omission n...
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Becoming Naturecultural: Rethinking Sustainability for a More-than-human World Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Seray Ergene, Marta B. Calás
The Earth is facing extraordinary ecological crises resulting from human impact on the planet. Meanwhile, a growing body of research studies the relationship of organizations with the natural envir...
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'Letting the uniform take it': Emotion absenting and its role in institutional maintenance Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Mia Rosa Koss Hartmann, Ninna Meier
Emotion regulation is essential to the maintenance of institutions. To date, institutional scholars have focused on how individual actors express or suppress emotions according to internalised inst...
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Media review: Contemporary art as collective organizing (and its contradictions) Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Timon Beyes, Ditte Vilstrup Holm
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A dynamic perspective on collaborative innovation for smart city development: The role of uncertainty, governance, and institutional logics Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Sharon A.M. Dolmans, Wouter van Galen, Bob Walrave, Elke den Ouden, Rianne C. Valkenburg, Georges Romme
Collaborative innovation is at the heart of smart city development, yet also notoriously challenging due to fundamental differences between public and private sector actors that need to collaborate...
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Media Review: Building institutional infrastructure for social impact at scale Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Danielle Logue
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Despotic leadership and ideological manipulation at Theranos: Towards a theory of hegemonic totalism in the workplace Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Dennis Tourish, Hugh Willmott
This paper addresses despotic leadership and ideological manipulation in the workplace, and explores their detrimental consequences for employees and other stakeholders. The notion of ‘hegemonic to...
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Transforming visions into actions: Strategic change as a future-making process Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Krista L Pettit, Julia Balogun, Mandy Bennett
AbstractThis paper draws on a longitudinal, qualitative study to develop an empirically grounded model of strategic change as a future-making process. We provide an alternative to linear models of ...
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In the name of transparency: Organizing European pharmaceutical markets through struggles over transparency devices Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Susi Geiger, Théo Bourgeron
The controversies surrounding the heavily redacted contracts between the European Commission and COVID-19 vaccine producers have highlighted ‘transparency’ as a hotly debated concept in the pharmac...
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Media Review: Can elite-driven social change save the world? Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Myrto Chliova
This book aims to deliver a wake-up call to philanthropists, and more critically to the public at large, by bringing attention to the outsized influence and potential perils of elite philanthropy. ...
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Enjoying the betwixt and between: Liminoid identity construction on Twitter Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Patrick Lê, Michel William Lander
Prior research predominantly portrays states of ‘betwixt and between’ in identity construction as unsettling, given the ambiguity and uncertainty they raise. However, our study suggests that in-bet...
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Home alone and all together: Lightness of agency in social inquiry Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Arne Carlsen, Oyvind Kvalnes
Research has provided limited knowledge of how people in organizations experience growth of agency during circumstances that seem hopeless and stuck, and how such growth emerges. Drawing from the s...
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Strangers at the bedside: Solidarity-making to address institutionalized infrastructural inequalities Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Devi Vijay, Philippe Monin, Mukta Kulkarni
This study explores how heterogeneous actors produce solidarities to address institutionalized infrastructural inequalities. We trace fifteen years over which diverse actors constructed community p...
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Deferring Difference No More: An (Im)modest, Relational Plea From/Through Karen Barad Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Kate Lockwood Harris, Karen Ashcraft
The field of management and organization studies (MOS) regularly invokes the relational theories of Karen Barad in sociomaterial and new materialist scholarship. Taking the increasing influence of ...
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Strategic change in a pluralistic context: Change leader sensegiving Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Lisa Day, Julia Balogun, Michael Mayer
Research points to the challenge of delivering strategic change in pluralistic contexts. We explore this challenge through a real-time, qualitative case study of the implementation of strategic cha...
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When time falls apart: Re-centering human time in organisations through the lived experience of waiting Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Catherine Bailey, Roy Suddaby
Research on the lived experience of organisational temporalities has thus far overlooked the potential significance of what happens in the interstices that arise between temporal structures. To add...
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A figure is worth a thousand words: The role of visualization in paradox theorizing Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Camille Pradies, Marco Berti, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Arménio Rego, Andrea Tunarosa, Stewart Clegg
Visualization (i.e., the use of figures and images to represent findings and conceptual models) is central to theorizing. Yet, by focusing solely on the textual content of papers, analysis has inad...
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Williamson and Organization Studies: Reclaiming a legacy Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Anna Grandori
Following Oliver Williamson’s passing in 2020, associations and journals in institutional and organizational economics have undertaken various initiatives in recognition of his contribution. The or...
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Developing capabilities in smart city ecosystems: A multi-level approach Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Anushri Gupta, Panos Panagiotopoulos, Frances Bowen
Smart city projects require complex coordination of resources, but research on how capabilities form at the city-ecosystem level remains scarce. This article develops a multi-level approach to capa...
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Affective resonance and durability in political organizing: The case of patients who hack Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Simeon Vidolov, Susi Geiger, Emma Stendahl
We explore the role of affect in fuelling and sustaining political organizing in the case of an online Type-1 Diabetes community. Analysing this community’s interactions, we show that the drive tow...
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Amplifying stigmatization: Owlcatraz and the naming of a football stadium Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Lin Dong, Bryant Ashley Hudson, David Moura, Lee Jarvis
While organizational stigma has emerged as an important and vibrant area of study, yet the processes of stigmatization have not been as thoroughly examined. Specifically, this study explores the su...
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Media Review: Barbara Czarniawska & Bernward Joerges. Robotization of Work? Answers from Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Simon Okwir
Robotization of Work delves into humanity’s fears and hopes surrounding automation in employment. It draws upon science fiction, the media, and social science. The book is based on the assumption t...
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From Catch-and-Harvest to Catch-and-Release: Trout Unlimited and Repair-Focused Deinstitutionalization Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Brett Crawford, Madeline Toubiana, Erica Coslor
Increasingly we are faced with broad societal challenges that encourage us to rethink existing institutions. Yet many people also want to preserve institutions they cherish. This tension points to ...
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Workplace Humiliation and the Organization of Domestic Work Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Rohit Varman, Ismael Al-Amoudi, Per Skålén
This study of domestic workers and employers in Kolkata (India) examines the significance of workplace humiliation as an important yet neglected concept for organization studies. It identifies prac...
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The Two Sides of Community Political Conservatism and Corporate Social Responsibility: Exploring the Role of Community Social Connectedness Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Tony Jaehyun Choi, Yuval Deutsch
Despite decades of globalization, organization studies have consistently found evidence of community influences on firm behavior. In this study, we develop and test a nuanced theory on the relation...
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Rethinking Historical Methods in Organization Studies: Organizational Source Criticism Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Michael Heller
How do we know what we know about an organization’s history? What methodologies do historians use? I explain and adapt the historical method of source criticism for organizational scholars through ...
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The virus and organization studies: A changing episteme Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Sally Riad
As scholars on organization, we have been confronting the challenges of a changing episteme. The arrival of a new coronavirus and its devastating pandemic compel us to ask what the virus means for ...
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Media Review:Re-imagining the Research Process: Conventional and Alternative Metaphors Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Lena J. Jaspersen
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Mind the setback! Enacted sensemaking in young workers’ early career transitions Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Gloria Kutscher, Wolfgang Mayrhofer
Setbacks at career transitions can have an enduring impact on how people enact their subsequent careers. Drawing on an enacted sensemaking perspective, we examine the micro-mechanisms of career cho...
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Organizational Magic as a Contested Process of Revelation and Concealment Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Jessica Inez Backsell, Stefan Schwarzkopf
This article seeks to theorize organizational magic. A vast literature in organization and management studies has come to understand magic as an epiphenomenon, a by-product, an outcome of affective...
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The role of moral anger in social change efforts Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Mukta Kulkarni
Drawing upon the functional account of emotions—the view that emotions can facilitate adaptive responses—I analyze how Javed Abidi harnessed moral anger to promote inclusion of persons with disabil...
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“Rather than Follow Change, Business Must Lead This Transformation”: Global Business’s Institutional Project to Privatize Global Environmental Governance, 1990–2010 Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Rami Kaplan
Regardless of the enormous risks to humanity, the three-decades-long international effort to administer sustainability has seen an intensifying process of governance privatization, coupled with a f...
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Openness as Organizing Principle: Introduction to the Special Issue Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Violetta Splitter, Leonhard Dobusch, Georg von Krogh, Richard Whittington, Peter Walgenbach
‘Openness’ has become an organizational leitmotif of our time, spreading across a growing set of organizational domains. However, discussions within these specialized domains (e.g. open data, open ...
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FROM FIT TO FITTING: A ROUTINE DYNAMICS PERSPECTIVE ON M&A SYNERGY REALIZATION Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Nicola Mirc, Kathrin Sele, Audrey Rouzies, Duncan N. Angwin
Many mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fail to achieve anticipated synergistic benefits. The combination of resources and processes is particularly difficult. This paper uses a routine dynamics perspe...
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‘Dead Reckoning’ Our Way into the Future of Organization Theory Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Kevin Lee
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The power implications of the shift to customer reviews: A field perspective on jobbing platforms operating in France Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Anne Sophie Barbe, Jean-Pascal Gond, Caroline Hussler
Customer reviews are a new type of third-party evaluation that transformed how power operates over evaluated producers, and in so doing attracted scholarly attention. However, this literature rarel...
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Balancing breadth and depth in qualitative research: Conceptualizing performativity through multi-sited ethnography Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Ajnesh Prasad, Masoud Shadnam
While performativity, as a theoretical concept, has gained much purchase in the field of management and organization studies (MOS), there remains a dearth of empirical work operationalizing the ide...
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Tearing at the Tapestry: An Ethnography of Solidaristic Humour, Academic Strike Action and a New Management Strategy Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Darren Mccabe
This article emerged through ethnographic research into strike action at a UK University. It provides three insights. First, it adds to the literature linking humour to resistance that has largely ...
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Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Boukje Cnossen, Nicolas Bencherki
This paper highlights the role of materiality in legitimising art organising as occurs at festivals and performances. Through ethnographic fieldwork pertaining to art events and projects, we docume...
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Indigenous Peoples and Organization Studies Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Francois Bastien, William Milton Foster, Diego Maganhotto Coraiola
This essay encourages scholars of Management and Organization Studies (MOS) to critically reflect on how Indigenous peoples and their knowledges have been, and continue to be, systemically discrimi...
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Stuck in temporal translation? Challenges of discrepant temporal structures in interorganizational project collaboration Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Therese Dille, Tor Hernes, Anne-Live Vaagaasar
The effects of different temporal structures among actors in interorganizational projects can be hugely consequential, especially for large societal projects. By applying a temporal translation vie...
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Temporal structuring as self-discipline: Managing time in the budgeting process Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Ferdinand Kunzl, Martin Messner
We examine how actors engage in temporal self-discipline so as to achieve entrainment of a practice to temporal norms. Temporal self-discipline is about imposing self-created temporal structures on...
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BRUNO LATOUR (1947–2022) Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Barbara Czarniawska
BRUNO LATOUR (1947–2022)
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When everyone and no one is a leader: Constructing individual leadership identities while sustaining an organizational narrative of collective leadership Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Laura Empson, Ann Langley, Viviane Sergi
Our paper investigates the dynamic interplay of narratives of individual and collective leadership within a professional service firm, where an organizational narrative of collective leadership pre...
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Breaking with the past to face the future? Organisational path dependence in family businesses Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Julia K. de Groote, Nadine Kammerlander
This study adopts a qualitative approach in order to determine why and how the idiosyncrasies of family business influence path formation and path-breaking (and their outcomes) in strategically per...
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How leadership moments are enacted within a strict hierarchy: The case of kitchen brigades in Haute Cuisine restaurants Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Josee Lortie, Laure Cabantous, Cyrille Sardais
This paper employs a strong process approach to leadership – one that focuses on leadership moments in action – to explore how collaborative leadership emerges within a hierarchical context. Drawin...
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Better Sorry than Safe: Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Michelle Mielly, Gazi Islam, Dora Gosen
Recent organizational theorizing has noted the emergence of a new spirit of normative control; implicit, informal, and internalized, “neo-normative” control emphasizes a positive affective disposit...
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Are we all activists? Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Giuseppe Delmestri
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Paradox as an Interactional Resource: An ethnomethodological analysis into the interconnectedness of organizational paradoxes Organ. Stud. (IF 5.524) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Tea Lempiälä, Sanni Tiitinen, Outi Vanharanta
In this paper, we demonstrate how performing and belonging paradoxes act as triggers, mitigators and amplifiers for each other in moment-by-moment interaction. We show how expressing a performing p...