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- Baygi, Reza Mousavi, et al.
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Everything flows: Studying continuous Socio/Technological Transformation in a fluid and dynamic digital world
- 2021
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Ingår i: MIS Quarterly. - : University of Minnesota, Management Information Systems Research Center. - 0276-7783. ; 45:1, s. 423-452
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ongoing digital innovations are transforming almost every aspect of our contemporary societies rendering our lives and work evermore fluid and dynamic. This paper is an invitation to likewise remake our theorizing of socio-technological transformation by shifting from actor-centric orientations toward a flow-oriented approach and vocabulary. Such a shift from actors to the flows of action allows us to offer an innovative theory of socio-technological transformation that does not rely on self-contained actors or technologies as originators of transformation. To do this, we turn to the work of social anthropologist Tim Ingold to advance a theoretical vocabulary of flowing lines of action and their correspondences. We expound three modalities of correspondence, namely: timing, attentionality, and undergoing, which together explain the dynamics of creation, sensing, and actualization of (trans)formative possibilities for action along socio-technological flows. We demonstrate the application and utility of this vocabulary through an empirical illustration and show how it reveals novel insights for research vis-a-vis existing theoretical alternatives. Finally, we outline the implications of our approach for research and suggest some guiding principles for studying and theorizing digital phenomena through this orientation. In addition to theory, our vocabulary also provides practitioners an alternative approach on managing digital transformation-one that emphasizes cultivating favorable conditions under which transformative possibilities can be created, sensed, and actualized at timely moments. As such, we invite both scholars and practitioners to engage with our approach to develop novel ways of understanding, theorizing, and engaging with socio-technological phenomena along our increasingly fluid and dynamic digital world.
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- Bergman, Lotta, et al.
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Makt, mening, motstånd : Litteraturundervisningens dilemman och möjligheter
- 2009
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Boken ger fyra forskares perspektiv på elevers litteraturläsning och skrivutveckling. Författarna diskuterar svenskämnets djupare mening, litteraturens värde och de grundläggande frågorna om varför lärare och elever ska läsa tillsammans och hur de läser.
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- Fahlgård Lahache, Anna, et al.
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Organizational Identity Formation under Hybridity Inelasticity: The Case of a Digital Public Agency "Startup"
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Organizations increasingly hybridize as a response to external competing demands and expectations. In doing so, they develop more complex and contested hybrid identities. Identity elasticity – an organizations ability to adapt its identity boundaries – is a key aspect of shaping and sustaining such hybrid identities, yet less is known about this process when elasticity is restricted. To understand organizational identity formation under less elastic conditions, we followed a public agency for digital government from inception over 3.5 years. We traced identity unfolding in an organization where opposing organizing principles of Bureaucracy and Openness clashed and there was no opting-out from that hybridity. Our empirically grounded model show how hybrid identity is formed in cases of limited adaptability. This process is characterized by mission complexity, tensions, and externally imposed shifts in resource allocations. Our model provides direct implications for research on hybridity, organizational identity formation and identity (in)elasticity.
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- Fahlgård-Lahache, Anna, et al.
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Organizational Identity Formation Under Hybridity Unawareness and Inelasticity
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. - 2151-6561 .- 0065-0668. ; 2022:1
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The formation of organizational identity for new types of government agencies are especially challenging due to their institutional context. Drawing on in-depth longitudinal data from the first 2.5 years of an agency for digital government, we induce an empirically grounded model of how organizational identity is formed when hybridity is pre-defined and inelastic due to strict institutional boundaries. In this process study, our findings run counter to prevailing models of organizational identity formation who proposes a convergent process of dual logics, that through the enactment of practice experimentation end up with a blended identity. Instead, we found an organization that was assigned hybridity from the start by mission duality, with no way to escape the tension it brought with it due to the inelasticity provided by the institutional context. Our findings showed a divergent process emerging from an initial unawareness of hybridity and ending with structural separation. Our theoretical model of organizational identity formation in unaware hybrids has a number of direct implications for ongoing research on elasticity in hybrid organizations and organizational identity formation.
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- Göransson, Markus Balázs, Assistant Professor, 1984-, et al.
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‘The phone means everything.’ : Mobile phones, livelihoods and social capital among Syrian refugees in informal tented settlements in Lebanon
- 2020
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Ingår i: Migration and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2163-2324 .- 2163-2332. ; 9:3, s. 331-351
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores the role of mobile phones in livelihood creation among Syrian refugees in informal tented settlements in Akkar Governorate and the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. Drawing on forty-five interviews with Syrian refugees and ten interviews with aid workers, the study highlights the importance of mobile phones in reviving, maintaining and leveraging social capital for the purpose of securing livelihoods in a context of precarity and restricted movement. We find that mobile phones offer important means for reviving social networks in exile, managing supportive relationships that have been established in Lebanon and liaising with employers. As such, they constitute important tools for coping with a context shaped by legal exclusion, restricted movement, police harassment, decentralised aid provision and a geographical dispersal of support networks, even as they remain a costly investment with uncertain returns.
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- Hultin, Lotta, et al.
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Displacement, Marginalization and Identity: A Performative Perspective on Identity Re-construction amongst Refugees in Tented Settlements
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The notion of identity has acquired particular importance in studies of organizing within an increasingly fragmented, discontinuous and crisis-ridden world (Brown 2001: p. 113; Brown & Toyoki, 2013; Brown, 2015; Tomlinson & Egan, 2002; Ybema et al., 2009). Considering this bourgeoning field of research, it is striking that perhaps the most poignant micro-level manifestation of fragmentation, discontinuity and crisis today, namely the life and living of the many refugees forced to leave behind their families, friends, jobs, lives and, consequently, their sources of identification, remains understudied by organizational scholars (Binggeli et al., 2013). Through a qualitative study of the everyday life of Syrian refugees in tented settlements in Lebanon, this article aims to shed light on the practices (Feldman & Orlikowski 2011; Nicolini, 2012) through which the refugees, despite their marginalization and exclusion, are able to (re-)construct themselves as subjects, and thus as worthy of respect and dignity. Since the outbreak of the Syrian war, the UNHCR has registered over one million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, making the country the single largest recipient of refugees per capita in the world (World Bank, 2016). The vast majority of these refugees organize their lives outside of the purview of the Lebanese state. They are (if at all) granted only short-term residency permits, and on government orders, the UNHCR has since May 2015 suspended registration of new refugees. With little support forthcoming, they have to arrange their own accommodation, often consisting of makeshift tents erected on plots of land rented from rural landlords. They have access only to menial, temporary and low-paying jobs and in many cases depend on aid from humanitarian organizations. They carry traumas from war, terror and loss, face deep uncertainty, and harbor anxiety about their children’s upbringing and prospects under these precarious conditions. How do these refugees create a sense of meaning, self-worth and dignity? How does one live a life in which the “I” is not recognized by authorities and has no legitimate voice? A life in which means and resources to make claims to one’s rights and take actions that disrupt the field of power (Butler, 2009) are not available? This article aims to answer these questions by focusing on the everyday practices in the tented settlements through which agency and possibilities of becoming enacted as a legitimate subject are simultaneously restricted and enabled. More specifically, we draw on Judith Butler’s ideas on how performativity is linked with precarity through the question of “who can become produced as a recognizable subject, a subject who is living, whose life is worth sheltering and whose life, when lost, would be worthy of mourning” (Butler, 2009, xii). Based on forty-five interviews with Syrian refugees and their families on site in ten tented settlements, as well as observations in these settlements over a period of several weeks, our paper reports how the refugees, reduced to the basic functions of the reproduction of life—that is, finding food, creating shelter, getting clothes, having and rearing offspring, and so on—insist on their right to be an ‘I’ through the enactment of mundane everyday socio-material practices. We thus provide an account of how, in Butler’s terms, “the unspeakable population speak and makes its claims” (Butler, 2009, xiii). In our analysis, we highlight four different socio-material practices: the practice of caring and connecting, the practice of inviting/hospitality, the practice of play, humor and learning, and the practice of remembering and (re-)inventing the past. We show how, in all these practices the refugee becomes positioned (Butler, 1993) in relation to other humans, organizations, communities and institutions in ways that enables her to speak as an ‘I’ and to claim an individual identity beyond the passive, victimized collective identity of the refugee. Moreover, we show how the agency that makes these claims on identity does not belong to the human, the refugee, alone, but is rather enacted in socio-material practices. In these practices, smartphones, and specifically the smartphone apps WhatsApp, Facebook, and Google Translate, are important as they position the refugees in particular ways in relation to other refugees, their home in Syria, family and friends, local volunteers, aid organizations, the Lebanese state and its people, and the wider international political context. By assuming a performative practice perspective (Butler, 1993; Feldman & Orlikowski 2011; Nicolini, 2012) this study responds to recent critique of the tendency to center the human as the primary agent capable of making sense of complex organizational or institutional environments (Monteiro & Nicolini, 2015; Gawer and Phillips, 2013; Thornton, Ocasio, & Lounsbury, 2012), resisting change or oppression (Harding et al., 2017), and performing identity work (Bardon et al., 2012; Paring et al., 2017; Symon & Prichard, 2015; Hultin & Introna, 2017). The study thus contributes to the vibrant stream of organizational research that aims to move beyond an understanding of identity construction as a more or less rational human endeavor achieved through talk and narratives, and towards an understanding of the performative processes through which subjects become positioned to think and act the way they do (Butler, 1993). Specifically, studying the struggle of vulnerable groups living under precarious conditions through Butler’s conception of performativity enables us to move beyond a dualistic enactment of power and resistance, agency and structure, oppression and empowerment, and human and inhuman. Our account shows how refugees become positioned as legitimate and respectable not in spite of their precarious and vulnerable situation, but through it. In the enactment of the four practices outlined above, we show how vulnerability can be understood, not as a condition restricting identity formation practices, but as generative of new practices, repositioning subjects in relation to significant others, and reproductive of agency and alternative subject positions. We discuss what implications this understanding of vulnerability has for our view of responsibility and suggest that it is through our exposure and dependency that we not only become recognized as subjects, but can register the other as someone to whom we are responsible.
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- Hultin, Lotta
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Go with the flow : Post-humanist Accounts of how Matter Matters in Organizational Change
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis contributes to our understanding of “how matter matters” in organizational change. Building on research grounded in an ontology of becoming and emphasizing and experimenting with various vocabularies grounded in this ontology, it challenges and moves beyond the normative enactment of separation between human and material, subject and object, structure and agency. In five articles, based on longitudinal case studies at the Swedish Migration Board and ‘Nordic University Hospital’, the thesis decenters the human as the primary agent of change and offers insights into how matter, including information technologies and physical work environments, are entangled in, and thus constitutive of, a performative flow of material-discursive practices providing the conditions of possibilities to be, act, respond and change. In doing this, it uncovers how researchers working within an ontology of becoming can be responsive to their own entanglement in material-discursive practices and challenge and extend current conceptions of what organizational theories can do in the creative co-construction of organizational realities. Specifically, the articles present novel readings of organizational sensemaking, identity work, management ideas and institutional logics.
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- Hultin, Lotta, et al.
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How practice makes sense in healthcare operations: Studying sensemaking as performative, material-discursive practice
- 2017
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Ingår i: Human Relations. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US) / Springer Verlag (Germany). - 1741-282X .- 0018-7267. ; 70:5, s. 566-593
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to move sensemaking theory forward by exploring a post-humanist view of how sense is made in material-discursive practices. Answering recent calls for novel theoretical views on sensemaking, we adopt a relational ontology, assuming subject and object to be ontologically entangled, and viewing agency as a circulating flow through material-discursive practices. Employing this perspective, we study how sensemaking unfolds at the emergency ward of a Nordic university hospital. By working through the concepts of material-discursive practices, flow of agency and subject positions, we produce an account of sensemaking that decenters the human actor as the locus and source of sensemaking, and foregrounds the performativity of practices through which certain ways of acting become enacted as sensible. This allows us to propose an alternative to the traditional view of sensemaking as episodic, cognitive-discursive practices enacted within and between separate human actors. With this view, what makes sense is understood as a material-discursive practice and related subject positions, which owing to their specific positioning in the circulating flow of agency emerge as sensible. Consequently, every actor is not just making sense, but is also already being made sense of; positioning and being positioned in the flow of agency. © 2016, © The Author(s) 2016.
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- Hultin, Lotta
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On becoming a sociomaterial researcher: Exploring epistemological practices grounded in a relational, performative ontology
- 2019
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Ingår i: Information and Organization. - : Elsevier. - 1873-7919 .- 1471-7727. ; 29:2, s. 91-104
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What is the role of the researcher in a world that is continuously enacted and reconfigured in sociomaterial practices, a world in which subject and object, structure and agency, body and mind, knower and known, are assumed to be ontologically inseparable? In this article, I explore this question by drawing on my own experiences of reconsidering essentialist and representationalist assumptions, and becoming a sociomaterial researcher. My exploration draws on my experiences of conducting a qualitative longitudinal case study at the Swedish Migration Board. Specifically, I show what it can mean to ‘invite materiality’ into interviews, examine the conditions of possibility to become in certain ways by tracing the genealogy of practices, and engage with data relationally rather than categorically. By accounting for my experience of working through these practices, I aim to develop and articulate an understanding of what the ontological position underlying a sociomaterialapproach implies for epistemology, and of how we can act (or, rather, intra-act) more creatively and responsibly as sociomaterial researchers. Moreover, I highlight differences in the kinds of knowledge that a sociomaterial approach grounded in relational and performative onto-epistemologies, as opposed to a socio-material approach, grounded in critical realism, produce about the unfolding of organizational practices—specifically, the practices unfolding in the reception area of the Swedish Migration Board. The paper contributes to the current debate on sociomaterial approaches, and in particular to the development of practices available to draw upon for researchers taking a sociomaterial approach.
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