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- Karjalainen, Mira, et al.
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Unpacking the problem of research access(es) : the case of large knowledge-intensive international consultancies
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Ingår i: Qualitative research in organization and management. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1746-5648 .- 1746-5656. ; 10:3, s. 274-293
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to unpack the question of research access(es), especially ethnographic access, seen as an intrinsic part of research projects that should be scrutinized carefully to gain a deeper understanding of the field. Two main questions are asked: what does the process of accessing knowledge-intensive businesses (KIBs), specifically large international consultancies (LICs), tell us about access more generally? And what does accessing KIBs, specifically LICs, tell us about these organizations more generally?Design/methodology/approach: The paper builds on discussions of research access issues in organizational ethnography, in part when setting out to employ shadowing as a method of inquiry. It focuses on the challenges of gaining access to KIBs, where confidentiality is central to the work. The empirical focus is a study of LICs from where the data for this paper is drawn.Findings: To answer the two questions, the paper provides an analysis of: accesses in the plural; ongoing processes of accessing; multiple levels of access and contradictory negotiations; research accesses, including access difficulties, as constitutive of research itself; and research accesses as dependent on and giving data on the organizations in question. Building on literatures on ethnographic access and empirical data gained while negotiating access to LICs, this paper contributes to prior research on access, focusing on LICs as an arena for organizational ethnography, whose particular character has to be taken into account when conducting research.Originality/value: This paper examines the processes of accessing, a neglected but important part of research: the phase(s) of negotiating and gaining access to the field, and the need to fully absorb these phases into the research process as a whole. Access as such multi-level ongoing processes is often neglected, however, in both academic writing and importantly in doctoral education curricula. Therefore, the paper offers guidelines for use in research training.
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- Niemistö, Charlotta, et al.
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Boundaries, continuities and disruptions in contemporary knowledge work
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Ingår i: WORK - Continuities and Disruptions in Modern Life. - : University of Turku and Turku Centre for Labour Studies (TCLS). - 9789512954605 ; , s. 6-7
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Continuities and disruptions of daily work, as well as boundaries between work and the rest of life, are key issues in the contemporary working life, and the so-called 24/7 society; yet this specifi c type of “boundary work” remains neglected in studies of work and organi-zations relative to research on other forms of boundary work.The paper arises from the Academy of Finland-funded project, Age, Generation and Changing Work-Life Balance Boundaries, which explores how different age and generational groups of professionals in mul-tinational private sector enterprises encounter chang-ing work-life balance in their everyday lives (Kelly et al. 2008). It examines how age-related and genera-tion-related dynamics, processes and practices in organisations impact on women and men and their changing work-life balance and boundaries (Fineman 2011; D’Amanto and Hertzfeldt 2008; Crampton and Hodge 2007, 2009). In this, age and generation inter-sect with other social divisions in women’s and men’s working life and work-life balance, via changing work-life boundaries of time and space, roles and spheres.The data comprises interview material with knowl-edge workers in the mobile work of business consul-tancy working with client organisations around the world, in different time zones and with high availability. Additionally, we examine self-reported data of disrup-tions of the knowledge workers’ working days from the private spheres of their lives, as well as disrup-tions in the knowledge workers’ leisure due to work issues. Along with individual experiences within these organisational contexts, we address organisational re-sponses to work-life balance challenges and retention of women and men in different ages/generations and career stages.Overall, the paper highlights the importance of ex-amining and developing better understanding of the blurring boundaries of knowledge work, as well as the clashes between, on one hand, the importance of in-dividual leisure time, and, on the other, the ever inten-sifying work culture with expectations of 24/7 availa-bility in global settings (Heiskanen 2004; Pyöriä and Blom 2005). Finding new ways of managing blurred boundaries is an important societal issue, not least as the lengthening of careers is seen as necessary at the macro European socio-economic policy level.
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- Niemistö, Charlotta, et al.
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Interrogating silent privileges across the work-life boundaries and careers of high-intensity knowledge professionals
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Ingår i: Qualitative research in organization and management. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1746-5648 .- 1746-5656. ; 15:4, s. 503-522
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: Privilege is often silent, invisible and not made explicit, and silence is a key question for theorizing on organizations. This paper examines interrelations between privilege and silence for relatively privileged professionals in high-intensity knowledge businesses (KIBs).Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on 112 interviews in two rounds of interviews using the collaborative interactive action research method. The analysis focuses on processes of recruitment, careers and negotiation of boundaries between work and nonwork in these KIBs. The authors study how relative privilege within social inequalities connects with silences in multiple ways, and how the invisibility of privilege operates at different levels: individual identities and interpersonal actions of privilege (micro), as organizational level phenomena (meso) or as societally constructed (macro).Findings: At each level, privilege is reproduced in part through silence. The authors also examine how processes connecting silence, privilege and social inequalities operate differently in relation to both disadvantage and the disadvantaged, and privilege and the privileged.Originality/value: This study is relevant for organization studies, especially in the kinds of "multi-privileged" contexts where inequalities, disadvantages and subordination may remain hidden and silenced, and, thus, are continuously reproduced.
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