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Architectural design and managerial control: Lefebvre, Latour and the process of enrollment Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Jenn McArthur, Stephen Dunne, Sarah Birrell Ivory
Organizational scholarship on architecture often applies Henri Lefebvre’s conceived, perceived, and lived framework. Karen Dale and Gibson Burrell, most notably, have illustrated how architectural design exploits each of these, exerting managerial control through processes of enchantment, emplacement, and enactment. Although this “3E framework” has been productively applied to buildings from the modern
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Making apps, owning data: Digital sovereignty and public authorities’ arrangements to “byte” back Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Alexander Paulsson, Mats Fred
This study tells the story of two public transport authorities (PTA) in Sweden who developed their own apps. Although this might seem trivial and far-detached from the critical issues discussed in organization studies, this story raises questions of great relevance for this field, namely how digital sovereignty is organized. Digital sovereignty refers to governments trying to take or regain power and
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Trolling the Leviathan: How the use of social media by democratic organizations engenders monsters Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Vincent Pasquier, Marcos Barros, Thibault Daudigeos
The proliferation of trolls may be one of the main reasons why democratic organizations fail to use social media to renew. The literature predominantly assimilates these trolls to psychologically deviant individuals. This article questions this individual-centric approach by suggesting that trolls may well be socially constructed organizational monsters. To investigate this phenomenon, for 2 years
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Girls, women, others and organisations Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Lakshmi Balachandran Nair
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Hegemony and its alternatives in organizing around climate change Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Gazi Islam
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The wor(l)d is out -You are not alone: Toward a healing organizational autoethnography in/through feminist reading and writing Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Nathalie Clavijo, Emmanouela Mandalaki
This paper recounts herstories of domestic violence and separation, where by reading and writing of/through one another’s physical and emotional bruises, we create a healing autoethnographic space for connection. We argue that doing so allows us to acquire the feminist relational power necessary to resist when forms of patriarchal violence threaten to hit us again. Our embodied text converses with
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The search for meaningful work under neo-bureaucracy: Work precarity in freelance TV Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Jon Morris, Gazi Islam, James Davies
Drawing from a qualitative, empirical study of the working lives of freelance television workers, we explore the experience of ‘meaningful’ work where aesthetic considerations are attractants to the industry. Such aesthetic considerations – and the glamorous nature of the work – attracted both older and younger freelancers. However, whereas the older cohort had entered the industry in a previous era
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Hope Springs Eternal for Progressive Capitalism Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Richard Marens
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A Role for Agrarian Populism in Adler’s 99 Percent Economy Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Stephen Carpenter
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The Sidewalk Capitalism Discussion Group Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Sarah Stookey
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Manufacturing climate precarity and disaster in the global South Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Seray Ergene, Erim Ergene
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“Making the unimaginable imaginable?” The power of artmaking in understanding animal vulnerabilities and “humanimal” relationality in Organization Studies Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Astrid Huopalainen, Eline Jammaers
The vulnerabilities of nonhuman animals in human–animal relationships have received scant attention in Organization Studies (OS). What could OS scholars learn about animal vulnerability and “humanimal” relationality by turning to the context of artmaking, where sensate animals, human artists, spaces, materialities, artworks, affects and critical audiences come together? Building on feminist vulnerability
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Platform cooperativism for the Uberworked Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Tim Christiaens
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Managing stigma together: Relationality in the wound clinic Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Anna Milena Galazka, Ismael Al-Amoudi
Our paper contributes to studies of stigma and dirty work by asking ‘how can workers and clients of dirty work manage stigma together?’ With the purpose of appreciating the worker/client relational dynamics in an organisation characterised by stigma, we conducted an ethnography in a wound healing clinic where clinicians do the dirty work of caring for patients with socially stigmatising wounds. To
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What do you mean? Linguistic sensitivity and relational reflexivity in scholarly writing Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Iga Maria Lehman, Janne Tienari
We argue that privileged forms of scholarly writing in the English language perpetuate inequalities in academia. While writing and language, on the one hand, and marginalization and exclusion, on the other, are subject to critique, we propose that these are considered together as interrelated elements of an unequal academic system. We call for linguistic sensitivity to challenge the systemic inequalities
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Craft-orientation as a mode of organizing for postgrowth society Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Jens Rennstam, Alexander Paulsson
How may a “craft-orientation” facilitate a shift toward an ecologically sustainable economy that does not perceive the pursuit of economic growth as a self-evident good? Responding to this question, this paper is rooted in the argument that efforts to increase economic growth collide with ecological sustainability goals and pose a substantial threat to human prosperity. Drawing on key insights from
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Let’s dream big! Affecting future female workers through governmental atmospheres Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Mie Plotnikof, Justine Grønbæk Pors
This paper addresses the subtle, affective power of organisational discourses and practices concerning employability that target children as future workers. It develops a concept of governmental atmospheres inspired by governmentality studies and theories of affective, atmospheric power dynamics. Governmental atmospheres are defined as an affective charging of a normative setting that incites individuals
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Epistemic governance of evaluative practices by organizations: The case of sovereign credit ratings Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Claudio Columbano, Mahmoud Ezzamel
Financial analysts often work for organizations, such as brokerage houses, banks, and credit rating agencies. We ask whether these organizations condition the work of analysts and, if so, how and why. Through a qualitative study of the sovereign government rating departments of four credit rating agencies, our paper sheds light on the bundle of social practices and material arrangements through which
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Two routes to degeneration, two routes to utopia: The impure critical performativity of alternative organizing Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Genevieve Shanahan
It sometimes appears that alternative organizations are doomed to perpetuate the systems they aim to transform, as efforts to avoid co-optation entail retreat from the very engagement social change requires. Scholars then face a dilemma: do we reveal these degenerative processes in existing alternative organizations and reinforce disillusionment, or avoid such critique and endorse ineffectual strategies
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Hidden figures: Women’s experiences in management graduate courses in Brazil Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Polyanna Torres, Marcelo de Souza Bispo
This study examines the sexism practiced in the academic environments of Management graduate schools in Brazil. We investigate how sexist practices manifested in the intersectionality of gender, race, and class affect female researchers’ training in Management graduate schools. Universities are spaces where students learn to be scholars and receive education and training in various disciplines. Based
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Gaia storytelling: Management learning as terrestrial politics Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen, Pauline Fatien
This paper addresses calls for developing eco-centric approaches to sustainable management learning that challenge the anthropocentric technocratic foci of established models. A growing concern is that despite declarations of climate emergencies, programs making a sustainable turn perpetuate rather than challenge the status-quo. A key issue is that they rely on an ontology of separateness which further
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Female desire in phallocentric industries: A duo-ethnographic interrogation Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Maria Brock, Sara Persson
The persistence of workplace inequality requires female subjects to examine their place in exploitative systems of production and consumption, and to identify means for emancipation beyond masculine dominant orders. In this paper we examine our past experiences as young women in the finance and oil industries, the phallocentric and extractive engines of global capitalism. We do this by employing a
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Postfeminist technologies of authenticity: Examining the construction of authentic feminine selves in the neoliberal workplace Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Sara Zaeemdar
This paper examines how the neoliberal injunction to be authentic as addressed to working women operates at the level of the individual. Drawing on Foucault’s framing of self-construction, the paper conceptualizes the quest for the authentic feminine self as a technology of the self which enables women to work upon transformation of their subjectivity to attain a state of authenticity. The developed
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Subtle activism: Heterotopic principles for unsettling contemporary academia from within Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Annemette Kjærgaard, Rasmus Bergmann, Maribel Blasco, Tali Padan, Carole Elliott, Jamie Callahan, Sarah Robinson, Tony Wall
Research on academic activism tends to foreground vociferous and explicit forms of activism that pursue predefined political agendas. Against this backdrop, this article proposes that academic acti...
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Breaking isolation: Consciousness-raising as a methodology for academic activism Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Lauren McCarthy, Kate Grosser
In this essay we argue that one way to combat the depressing creep of the neoliberal university is to recuperate and re-use consciousness raising (CR) in teaching, administration, research, and eng...
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Hiding in plain sight: Exploring the complex pathways between tactical concealment and relational wellbeing Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 David Raymond Jones, Tony Wall, Amy Kenworthy, Fiona Hurd, Suzette Dyer, Peggy Hedges, Shankar Sankaran
We argue that the current environment in higher education is one of the primary drivers for the widespread adoption of concealment tactics with the aim of enhancing wellbeing. To explore the relati...
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Extreme wellness at work: Whose body counts in the rise of exceptionalist organisational fitness cultures Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Tim Butcher, Eric P James, Peter Bloom
Management has long concerned itself with controlling workers’ bodies, with organisational wellness discourses being its latest fixation. This article’s purpose is to introduce and understand ‘whos...
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A metatheoretical framework for organizational wellbeing research: Toward conceptual pluralism in the wellbeing debate Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Peter Kenttä, Jouni Virtaharju
The organizational wellbeing discourse has in the past decades gravitated toward two adversarial camps. The first camp draws increasingly from positive psychology and studies wellbeing as the prese...
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Re-organising wellbeing: Contexts, critiques and contestations of dominant wellbeing narratives Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 David Watson, James Wallace, Christopher Land, Jana Patey
Wellbeing has emerged as an important discourse of management and organisation. Practices of wellbeing are located in concrete organisational arrangements and shaped by power relations built upon e...
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Invisible minds: The dominant wellbeing discourse, mental health, bio-power and chameleon resistance Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Hadar Elraz, Darren McCabe
The dominant wellbeing discourse (DWD) in neoliberal economies can be understood as a form of bio-power that presupposes healthy individuals. It seeks to produce subjects who take responsibility fo...
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YouTube’s Yoga with Adriene as a somametamnemata: Exploring experiences of self-care and wellness in times of crisis Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Kseniya Navazhylava, Amanda Peticca Harris, Sara R.S.T.A. Elias
Drawing on the Foucauldian technologies of the self, this study explores how individuals re-envision practices of wellbeing outside of traditional organizational contexts during extreme events. Bas...
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Contextualizing capitalism in academia: How capitalist and feudalist organizing principles reinforce each other at Polish universities Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Tommy Jensen, Michał Zawadzki
In this paper, we show how capitalism and feudalism reinforce each other to enable the former’s success in the higher education context. In this regard, Polish universities are an interesting case ...
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The digital commons, cosmolocalism, and open cooperativism: The cases of P2P Lab and Tzoumakers Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Vangelis Papadimitropoulos
The digital commons support novel organizational models such as cosmolocalism and open cooperativism that seek to challenge the capitalist mode of production. They set out to establish a counter-he...
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Treating disability as an asset (not a limitation): A critical examination of disability inclusion through social entrepreneurship Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Stefanie Mauksch, Pascal Dey
Social enterprises play an increasing role in providing employment opportunities for disabled people. This paper examines the implications of social enterprises’ market-based approach to disability...
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Grounding in the unconscious: “The field” in psychosocial organizational ethnography Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Didem Derya Özdemir Kaya, Marianna Fotaki
Psychosocial research, which explores the unconscious and affective dynamics of organizational and social phenomena from critical perspectives, often adopts ethnographic methods. However, its locus...
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Affective boundaries: The power effects of objects of emotion in collaborative encounters Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Sara Dahlman
Organization studies has (re)turned to affect, a development that has brought affective tensions—build-ups of energy, or vitalities—to the fore of research. Previous studies on affect in organizati...
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Beyond the technology-centric and citizen-centric binary: Ontological politics of organizing in Translation of the Smart City Discourse in India Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Harsh Mittal, George Kandathil, Navdeep Mathur
Smart city (SC) experts in India often center-stage citizens as an alternative to a technology-led transformation. A substantial body of literature on smart cities sustains this resultant binary be...
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Tech sharing, not tech hoarding: Covid-19, global solidarity, and the failed responsibility of the pharmaceutical industry Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Susi Geiger, Nicole Gross
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of health technologies to mitigate against the spread of the disease and improve care, dominantly including life-saving vaccines. But the pandem...
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Scaling in a post-growth era: Learning from Social Agricultural Cooperatives Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Laura A Colombo, Adrian R Bailey, Marcus VP Gomes
It has become normative in organization and management studies literature to consider scaling as a synonym for organizational growth. Scaling is typically understood as scaling-up. This article dem...
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Temporal multimodality and performativity: Exploring politics of time in the discursive, communicative constitution of organization Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Mie Plotnikof, Dennis K Mumby
This paper discusses the critical role of time in the discursive, communicative constitution of organization under neo-liberal capitalism and its normalization of uncertainty and change. Building o...
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Overcoming communicative separation for stigma reconstruction: How pole dancers fight content moderation on Instagram Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Milena Leybold, Monica Nadegger
This article investigates how stigmatized groups get organized to fight stigmatization through content-moderation practices on social media platforms. We apply a communicative understanding of stig...
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“You just earned 10 points!”: Gaming and grinding in academia Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
This short paper explores the gamification of an online academic conference. At the conference, digital gamification was meant to stimulate increased levels of participation among attendees. Instea...
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Tribunals of inquiry as instruments of legitimacy: A ritualization perspective Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Paul McGrath, Donna Marshall
This paper is an exploratory qualitative study into how tribunals of inquiry act as instruments of legitimacy and hegemony for the State. Focusing on a case study of two consecutive tribunals of in...
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Collaborative construction of the closet (in and out): The affordance of interactivity and gay and lesbian employees’ identity work online Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Aleksi Soini, Kirsi Eräranta
For LGBQ employees, the disclosure and management of sexual identity in the workplace are likely to cause additional identity work. In this paper, we explore how such identity work is undertaken co...
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On the psycho-emotional deficitisation of workers in the age of cognitive enhancement Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Dirk Lindebaum, Susanne Langer
Despite being the subject of public and scholarly debates for some time, the topic of cognitive enhancement remains theoretically under-developed in organisation studies. This is because the ‘dots’...
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People on the tweets: Online collective identity narratives and temporality in the #LebaneseRevolution Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Dima Louis, Michelle Mielly
Our study examines collective identity development in the early stages of a social movement as it narratively unfolded on Twitter during the 2019 October revolution in Lebanon. Based on a sample ex...
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Romanticisation and monetisation of the digital nomad lifestyle: The role played by online narratives in shaping professional identity work Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Claudine Bonneau, Jeremy Aroles, Claire Estagnasié
Some occupations are subject to more complex identity work processes than others. This rings true for those professional endeavours that are relatively poorly known and that cannot rely on institut...
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Online identities in and around organizations: A critical exploration and way forward Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Marcos Barros, Rafael Alcadipani, Christine Coupland, Andrew D Brown
The construction, performance, and regulation of identities in the online world have deep implications for individuals, organizations, and society, particularly as digital technologies become incre...
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Constituting affective identities: Understanding the communicative construction of identity in online men’s rights spaces Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Sean M Eddington, Caitlyn M Jarvis, Patrice M Buzzanell
The present study examined how identity is affectively organized online in an online men’s rights community, responding to calls to explore how sites like Reddit serve as spaces that host and suppo...
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Managing precarity at the intersection of individual and collective life: A Membership Categorisation Analysis of Tensions and Conflict in Identities within an Online Biosocial Community Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Mohammed Cheded, Niall Curry, Alan Gilchrist, Gillian Hopkinson
This paper explores how individuals living within high-stakes precarious categories navigate their identity within online spaces. Using Membership Categorisation Analysis, we investigate how catego...
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Management’s collusion in poverty? Archetypes, conceits, and performative neophytism Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Arun Kumar, Bill Cooke
Mainstream management studies’ arm’s length engagement with poverty exemplifies its performative neophytism as field. It is enabled by its problematic archetypes of the poor and their poverty: (a) ...
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Layers and limits of power and resistance in multinational subsidiaries: The interaction of micro-politics and postcolonial power at Reuters India Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Zehra Sayed, Michal Frenkel
This study analyses how the mutual imbrication of organizational and postcolonial power along with the micro-embedding of actors’ shape and structure power struggles in multinational corporations. ...
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Culture and politics in overlapping frames for the future: Multi-dimensional activist organizing and communicating on climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Debashish Munshi, Raven Cretney, Priya Kurian, Sandra L Morrison, Alvina Edwards
Responding to climate change requires us to reimagine not only our future on a planet that is rapidly changing, but also how we organize to create political change. The climate movement and those i...
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Composite relations: Democratic firms balancing the general and the particular Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Nina Pohler
This paper focuses on a central coordinative tension in alternative, democratic organizations: They need to maintain formal equality and democratic governance, but they also have to support their m...
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Who cares for wellbeing? Corporate wellness, social reproduction and the essential worker Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Anna-Maria Murtola, Neil Vallelly
This paper seeks to contribute to the rethinking of wellbeing in organisation studies. First, it contributes to critiques of corporate wellness by drawing on social reproduction theory to show how ...
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“Hold your nose and harness these men”: Sexual vulnerability in a hyper-masculine organization – A barrier or a resource? Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Tair Karazi-Presler, Varda Wasserman
Based on 34 in-depth interviews with women in the Israeli military, this article explores how the sexual vulnerability of women in power positions is used as both a disciplining power and a resourc...
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Prefiguring an alternative economy: Understanding prefigurative organizing and its struggles Organization (IF 3.301) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Simone Schiller-Merkens
Cooperatives, post-growth organizations, common good organizations, community-supported agriculture, transition towns or ecovillages are examples of alternative forms of organizing economic exchang...