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1.	Abdelnour, Samer, et al. (författare) Agency and Instituions in Organization Studies 2017 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - London : Sage Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 38:12, s. 1775-1792 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Agency and institutions are essential concepts within institutional theory. In this Perspectives issue, we draw on a select group of Organization Studies articles to provide an overview of the topic of agency and institutions. We first consider different ways of defining agency and institutions and examine their implications for institutional theory. We then analyse the relationship of actors and institutions through four lenses – the wilful actor, collective intentionality, patchwork institutions and modular individuals. Our analysis leads us to dissociate agency from individuals and view it as a capacity or quality that stems from resources, rights and obligations tied to the roles and social positions actors occupy. Roles and social positions are institutionally engineered. It is social actors qua occupants of roles and positions (not individuals) that enter the social ‘stage’ and exercise agency.
2.	Achtenhagen, Leona (författare) Organisationslernen : institutionelle und kulturelle Dimensionen 2000 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 21:2, s. 463-465 Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract Reviews the book "Organisationslernen--institutionelle und kulturelle Dimensionen (WZB-Jahrbuch)," edited by Horst Albach, Meinolf Dierkes, Ariane Berthoin Antal and Kristina Vaillant.
3.	Ahrne, Göran, et al. (författare) The Organization of Markets 2015 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 36:1, s. 7-27 Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract Markets have sometimes been described as vastly different from and even opposite to formal organizations.But markets and organizations share a similarity as well. Both are organized – by the use of decisionson membership, rules, monitoring, sanctions or hierarchy. Market organization creates differencesamong markets, and specific dynamics, which can be explained by the actions and interactions of marketorganizers: profiteers, ‘others’, sellers and buyers. The concept of market organization is an analyticaltool, which can be used for analysing why and how markets are created, why they get their specific formand how they change.
4.	Ainamo, Antti, 1963- (författare) Human players at the center of an ecosystem : The case of video games in Finland 2015 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; , s. 1-22 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Research on ecosystems as ways of organizing innovation and firm-level growth position a focal firm at the center of each ecosystem they study. This study of the video games industry in Finland argues that it can also be human users that are are at that center. In the birth and early developmental stages of the ecosystem or a game-design project, individual human beings can absorb and live with ambiguity and absence or fluidity of rules of the game, even be entertained by and enjoy such ambiguity.
5.	Alexandersson, Anna, et al. (författare) Playing to dissent : the aesthetics and politics of playful office design 2018 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : Sage Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 39:2-3, s. 297-317 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In this article we develop the analysis and the conceptualization of the relationship between play and work within the increasingly aestheticized working life, drawing on the scholarship of Jacques Rancière and using images of playful office interiors as our empirical case. In doing so, we are able to add to the theorization of the uneasy relationship between the subordination of employee imagination and self to the agendas of the employer, typical of wage labor, and the strive for heteronomy and refiguring of the social order, characteristic of play.
6.	Alvesson, Mats, et al. (författare) Good visions, bad micro-management and ugly ambiguity: Contradictions of (non-)leadership in a knowledge-intensive organization 2003 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 24:6, s. 961-988 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article investigates how managers position themselves and their work in terms of leadership in a large knowledge-intensive company. The significance of contemporary discourse on leadership, practical aspects of managerial work, and ambiguity as a central dimension of organization and leadership (particularly in knowledge-intensive settings) are highlighted. We examine the presumed leadership in a company with respect to the three 'moral' and 'aesthetic' positions or aspects of leadership: good, bad and ugly leadership. The article shows how managers incoherently move between different positions on leadership. The study undermines some of the dominant notions of leadership, for example, the leader as a consistent essence, a centred subject with a particular orientation to work. We suggest a less comfortable view of managers aspiring to adopt, but partly failing to secure leadership identities and a coherent view of their work. Value commitments appear as disintegrated and contradictory. The study indicates a need to radically rethink dominant ideas about leadership.
7.	Alvesson, Mats, et al. (författare) Habitat and Habitus: Boxed-in versus Box-Breaking Research 2014 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 35:7, s. 967-987 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper argues that scholarly work is increasingly situated in narrowly circumscribed areas of study, which are encouraging specialization, incremental adding-to-the-literature contributions and a blinkered mindset. Researchers invest considerable time and energy in these specialized areas in order to maximize their productivity and career prospects. We refer to this way of doing research and structuring careers as boxed-in research. While such research is normally portrayed as a template for good scholarship, it gives rise to significant problems in management and organization studies, as it tends to generate a shortage of novel and influential ideas. We propose box-breaking research as a strategy for how researchers and institutions can move away from the prevalence of boxed-in research and, thus, be able to generate more imaginative and influential research results. We suggest three versions: box changing, box jumping and, more ambitiously, box transcendence.
8.	Alvesson, Mats, et al. (författare) Money Matters: Teflonic Identity Manoeuvring in the Investment Banking Sector 2016 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 37:1, s. 7-34 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In this paper we address identity issues in relation to senior employees in the UK investment banking sector. Drawing on in-depth material, the study demonstrates their marginal concerns about identity issues or engagement in what is typically viewed as identity work. Instead they had what we refer to as an identity minimalism orientation and met potential challenges to identity with what we conceptualize as teflonic identity manoeuvring. In so doing they were able to deflect attention away from themselves, enabling them to circumvent identity concerns. These employees drew upon material resources, specifically money, to rationalize this disposition and social (in particular, dress codes) and discursive resources (around professionalism) to bolster and sustain this disposition.
9.	Alvesson, Mats, et al. (författare) Neo-Institutional Theory and Organization Studies : A Mid-Life Crisis? 2019 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 40:2, s. 199-218 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract We trace the development of neo-institutional theory in Organization Studies from a marginal topic to the dominant theory. We show how it has evolved from infancy, through adolescence and early adulthood to being a fully mature theory, which we think is now facing a mid-life crisis. Some of the features of this mid-life crisis include over-reach, myopia, tautology, pseudo-progress and re-inventing the wheel. To address these problems, we argue that institutional theorists should limit the range of the concept, sharpen their lens, avoid tautologies and problematize the concept. By doing this, we think institutional theorists could develop a narrower and more focused conception of institutions.
10.	Alvesson, Mats, et al. (författare) Philosophical Minds or Brotgelehrte? 2022 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 43:11, s. 1839-1852 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In this essay, we discuss basic orientations and ways of being among us, the academics, especially in the context of research. Using German poet, scholar and author Friedrich Schiller’s distinction between ‘der philosophische Kopf’ (‘philosophical mind’) and ‘Brotgelehrte’ (‘bread-fed scholar’), we contrast ideal-typical figures in academia. We find these forgotten 18th-century characters inspirational to help us understand some troublesome contemporary developments of academics and academia and to remind us of the perhaps perennial nature of the ongoing controversies and debates. We further develop and nuance these figures and bring them to the 21st century. Like Schiller in his time, we want to highlight the importance of each of us in shaping what academia is and what it becomes. The contrast may help us think through who we are, what is driving us in our work, and how we can (re)construct ourselves in the light of dominant normalizations and templates for being in contemporary academia.
11.	Alvesson, Mats, et al. (författare) Pre-understanding : An interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander in research 2022 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 43:3, s. 395-412 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Pre-understanding – our presuppositions of reality – underlies all research. Many researchers probably also draw productively on their pre-understanding in their studies. However, very few rationales and methodological resources exist for how researchers can enrich their research by mobilizing their pre-understanding more actively and systematically. We elaborate and propose a framework for how researchers more actively, systematically and visibly can bring forward their pre-understanding and use it as a positive input in research, alongside formal data and theory. In particular, we show how researchers, in dialogue with data and theory, can mobilize their pre-understanding as an interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander throughout the research process, including stimulating imagination and idea generation, broadening the empirical base, and evaluating what empirical material and theoretical ideas are interesting and relevant to pursue.
12.	Alvesson, Mats (författare) The meaning and meaninglessness of postmodernism : Some Ironic Remarks 1995 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 16:6, s. 1047-1075 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper discusses the popularity of postmodernism in social and organizational studies. It is argued that the word conflates quite different social phenomena and lines of development, and theoretical and philosophical positions. Framing issues in terms of modernism/postmodernism easily leads to insensitive conceptualizations of the varied positions within what is dumped together as 'modernism'. 'Modernist' ideas about contemporary society and types of organizations encourage an oversensitivity for novelty. It is argued that many of the themes raised under the banner of postmodernism are worth taking seriously, but no effort should be taken to combine them under the same concept.
13.	Annosi, Maria Carmela, et al. (författare) The Interaction of Control Systems and Stakeholder Networks in Shaping the Identities of Self-Managed Teams 2017 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : Sage Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 38:5, s. 619-645 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Team identity has received little research attention even though an increasing number of firms are moving to team-based organizations and there is evidence that teams form identities. We explore the extent to which team identity can be institutionalized as a central organizing principle of team-based firms. We argue that managerial and stakeholder interventions shape the self-construction of team identity as well as the team's commitment to specific work objectives. We also suggest that team identity becomes isomorphic to organizational identity because of pressures related to: (1) the presence of a dense network of managers and stakeholders, which orients teams towards a focus on certain aspects of the higher-order identity; (2) the use of team routines and regular feedback loops, which force alignment with the organizational identity; and (3) the use of coordinating roles aimed at promoting, ratifying and reinforcing the convergence of identity within the team. We analyse multiple cases from a major multinational corporation in the telecommunications industry, which we examine through the lens of a multi-level model of controls involving the micro, meso and macro organizational levels. We expand and refine the model in the process.
14.	Babri, Maira (författare) Media Review: Materially and Ethically Engaged Methods for Organizational Scholarship 2024 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
15.	Barry, Daved, et al. (författare) Seeing more and seeing differently : Sensemaking, mindfulness, and the workarts 2010 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 31:11, s. 1505-1530 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The past years have seen a marked rise in arts-based initiatives in organizations, a field we term the workarts. In this paper, we review the workarts in light of sensemaking theory, and especially the role of mindfulness within it. We propose that the workarts foster mindfulness by directing attention away from immediate work concerns and towards analogous artifacts. We identify three distinctive workarts movements - art collection, artist-led intervention, and artistic experimentation. In each movement, we find analogous artifacts that defamiliarize organizational members' habitual ways of seeing and believing, enabling them to make new distinctions and to shift contexts: to see more and see differently. Our review raises a number of questions for the workarts in particular and research on analogical artifacts in general.
16.	Barry, Daved, et al. (författare) To text or context? Endotextual, exotextual, and multi-textual approaches to narrative and discursive organizational studies 2006 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 27:8, s. 1091-1110 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Organizational researchers doing narrative and discursive research have three choices in how they approach a text: an ‘endotextual’ approach where the researcher works within a text, an ‘exotextual’ approach where the researcher works outward from a text to its context(s), or a combined exo/endotextual approach which embeds a textual analysis within contextual inquiry. Although all three methods are now widely used in mainstream organizational research, the merits of combining, sequencing, or separating them have never been systematically considered. After reviewing the advantages and limitations of each perspective, we discuss an experiment in which endo and exo methods were applied to a skit co-written by management and a communications company specializing in organizational theater. The finding that using one approach creates multiple, subtle blind spots towards the other, and even more significantly affects a researcher's capacity to effectively adopt a combined method, is used to construct an alternative ‘diatextual’ framework. This is used to frame a discussion of how multi-method textual studies of organizations might be conducted in the future.
17.	Bejerot, Eva, et al. (författare) Forms of Intervention in Public Sector Organizations : Generic Traits in Public Sector Reforms 2013 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 34:9, s. 1357-1380 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The present paper argues that recent research on public sector reforms offers few contributions to the body of knowledge on this topic because it adds little to the conclusions drawn during the first generation of research in this area. Although these later studies have often been context-specific and have explored the details of the process of change in some depth, it is rather difficult to compare their results or to make reasoned judgements of the comprehensiveness and centrality of the analysed change. Although most public sector reforms that affect hospitals, schools or social services are initiated and designed by national governments, individual case studies of local administrations often fail to capture the generic traits of nationwide reforms. However, public sector change cannot be approached as if it comprises collections of nominally independent local events. The present paper argues for two new approaches to the study of public sector change: (i) the systematic categorization of the different forms of governmental intervention under study and (ii) analysis of the ways in which these forms of intervention are linked and interact. Based on extensive empirical research, this paper suggests a generic classification of these forms of intervention that can be used in empirical research on comprehensive public sector change. Consequently, five interventions in public sector organizations are suggested, namely political intervention, intervention by laws and regulations, intervention by audit and inspection, intervention by management and intervention by rationalizing professional practice. The model is particularly well suited to the longitudinal analysis of complex public sector reforms. This approach provides a conceptual tool to distinguish between interventions based on different forms of knowledge and to investigate how they are linked to each other vertically and horizontally. We demonstrate the usefulness of the model by analysing two empirical examples of reforms in which a variety of interventions were imposed at the local level, through legislation as well as a spectrum of voluntary measures proposed by government agencies, by national associations for local and regional councils and by other national or regional actors.
18.	Bolander, Pernilla, et al. (författare) How Employee Selection Decisions are Made in Practice 2013 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 34:3, s. 285-311 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Existing literature on employee selection contains an abundance of knowledge of how selection should take place but almost nothing about how it occurs in practice. This paper presents an ethnomethodological-discourse analytical real-time study of how selection decisions are made in situ. The main findings suggest that selection decision making is characterized by ongoing practical deliberation involving four interrelated discursive processes: assembling versions of the candidates; establishing the versions of the candidates as factual; reaching selection decisions; and using selection tools as sensemaking devices. In addition, this paper identifies two basic forms of selection decision making: one characterized by initial agreement and one characterized by initial disagreement. In each basic form of decision making, selectors reason through the four discursive processes in a methodical, situated and practical manner in order to construct local versions of the candidates and make 'reasonable' selection decisions.
19.	Brattström, Anna, et al. (författare) From Trust Convergence to Trust Divergence: Trust Development in Conflictual Inter-Organizational Relationships 2019 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 40:11, s. 1685-1711 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Whereas extant research on trust in interorganizational relationships tends to focus on trust convergence – i.e. members of one focal firm developing similar trust perceptions toward a partner firm – we shift focus to trust divergence – i.e. members of one focal firm developing different trust perceptions toward a partner firm. To explore trust divergence, we conduct an inductive, longitudinal study of one interorganizational relationship characterized by mutual transgressions. We identify shifts in attentional perspectives and referent categorizations as two novel mechanisms for theorizing trust development in interorganizational relationships. In particular, we develop a process model illuminating how these two mechanisms can contribute to trust development patterns in interorganizational relationships that are more discontinuous than existing models would predict. Moreover, we highlight the constructive implications of trust divergence for interorganizational collaboration in the presence of transgression and conflict.
20.	Brunsson, Nils, et al. (författare) Constructing Organizations: The Example of Public Sector Reform 2000 Ingår i: Organization studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 21:4, s. 721-746 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Organizations are socially constructed phenomena. A crucial task for organizational research is to analyze how and why people construct organizations rather than other social forms. In this paper, it is argued that recent public-sector reforms can be interpreted as attempts at constructing organizations. Public-sector entities that could formerly be described as agents or arenas have been transformed into `more complete' organizations by installing or reinforcing local identity, hierarchy and rationality. This interpretation helps to explain important aspects of the reform process.
21.	Brunsson, Nils, 1946- (författare) In memoriam : James G. March 2019 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : Sage Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 40:2, s. 291-295 Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
22.	Brunsson, Nils, 1946-, et al. (författare) The Dynamics of Standardization : Three Perspectives on Standards in Organization Studies 2012 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 33:5-6, s. 613-632 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper suggests that when the phenomenon of standards and standardization is examined from the perspective of organization studies, three aspects stand out: the standardization of organizations, standardization by organizations and standardization as (a form of) organization. Following a comprehensive overview of existing research in these three areas, we argue that the dynamic aspects of standardization are under-represented in the scholarly discourse. Furthermore, we identify the main types of tension associated with standardization and the dynamics they generate in each of those three areas, and show that, while standards and standardization are typically associated with stability and sameness, they are essentially a dynamic phenomenon. The paper highlights the contributions of this special issue to the topic of standards as a dynamic phenomenon in organization studies and makes suggestions for future research.
23.	Buhr, Katarina, 1980- (författare) The Inclusion of Aviation in Emissions Trading : Temporal Conditions for Institutional Entrepreneurship 2012 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 35:11, s. 1565-1587 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Recent literature on institutional entrepreneurship has examined the enabling conditions under which actors may influence institutional arrangements. Whereas conditions at field level and among actors have been highlighted, scholars have paid little attention to how and why the field is amenable to change at certain times and how actors act upon these conditions in a timely fashion. This paper examines the temporal conditions for institutional entrepreneurship. I propose that a collective of time-aware institutional entrepreneurs opens a window of opportunity for policy breakthrough by relating its activities to temporally favorable conditions of the multidimensional institutional process. These theoretical propositions are illustrated through an empirical case study of how aviation was targeted for its climate change impact by inclusion in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
24.	Cederström, Carl, et al. (författare) On Bandit Organizations and Their (IL)Legitimacy : Concept Development and Illustration 2016 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 37:11, s. 1575-1594 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Outlaw organizations are neglected in organization studies. This is understandable given the presumption of illegitimacy they attract. Our article challenges the presumption by positing the concept of bandit organizations', demonstrating how some can build impressive levels of legitimacy among their audience. The case of Christopher Dudas' Coke, a philanthropic Jamaican drug cartel leader, and his Shower Posse' gang, is used to investigate how contemporary bandit organizations foster legitimacy. By placing shadow economy' organizations like this in the spotlight, we seek to extend scholarship on organizational legitimacy, while avoiding any undue romanticization of criminal organizations.
25.	Cheung, Zeerim, et al. (författare) Peer Interaction and Pioneering Organizational Form Adoption: A tale of the first two for-profit stock exchanges 2022 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 43:8, s. 1223-1246 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Building on a historical case study on the first two stock exchanges to adopt the now globally dominant for-profit organizational form, the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1993 and the Helsinki Stock Exchange in 1995, we argue that interaction among socially proximate peers contributes to pioneering organizational form adoption within an industry, particularly when such forms are introduced by established organizations. Peer interaction can induce a search for technically efficient organizational forms through the sharing of collective experiences, the establishment of collective assumptions, and a joint search for solutions. Together, these factors contribute to the legitimization of novel organizational forms in the local setting before the adoption of the first instantiation of those forms. We propose a context-sensitive multilevel model of peer-interaction-induced pioneering organizational form adoption that considers shared macro environmental drivers, idiosyncratic local environmental drivers, and peer interaction as central social mediators between the two. © The Author(s) 2021.
26.	Christensen, Lars Thøger, et al. (författare) Bullshit and Organization Studies 2019 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 40:10, s. 1587-1600 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Bullshit is a ubiquitous communication practice that permeates many dimensions of organizational life. This essay outlines different understandings of bullshit and discusses their significance in the context of organization studies. While it is tempting to reject bullshit as corrosive to rational organizational practice, we argue that it is necessary to understand its organizational significance and performative nature more systematically. We outline different social functions of bullshit focusing on two particular types of managerial practices in which bullshit is likely to play a significant role: commanding and strategizing. On this backdrop, we consider bullshit in terms of the messages, senders and receivers involved, focusing especially on the dynamics between these dimensions in the context of organizations. The final part of this essay debates the reasons why bullshit, which is recognized by organizational members, is rarely called and rejected explicitly.
27.	Corvellec, Hervé (författare) Alain de Botton: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work 2010 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 31:1, s. 118-122 Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
28.	Corvellec, Hervé (författare) Book review: Carl Rhodes Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022. 240 pp.) 2022 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 43:10 Recension (refereegranskat)
29.	Corvellec, Hervé (författare) “Organizations and Archetypes” by Monika Kostera (Edward Elgar, 2012) 2014 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 35:1, s. 147-150 Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
30.	Corvellec, Hervé, 1961 (författare) “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work” by de Botton, Alain (with pictures by Richard Baker, Hamish Hamilton-Penguin Group, 2009 2010 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 31:1, s. 118-122 Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
31.	Cucchi, Carlo, et al. (författare) 'That's Witchcraft' : Community entrepreneuring as a process of navigating intra-community tensions through spiritual practices 2022 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : Sage Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 43:2, s. 179-201 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper theorizes the spiritual processes of community entrepreneuring as navigating tensions that arise when community-based enterprises (CBEs) emerge within communities and generate socio-economic inequality. Grounded on an ethnographic study of a dairy CBE in rural Malawi, findings reveal that intra-community tensions revolve around the occurrence of 'bad events' - mysterious tragedies that, among their multiple meanings, are also framed as witchcraft. Community members prepare for, frame, cope and build collective sustenance from 'bad events' by intertwining witchcraft and mundane socio-material practices. Together, these practices reflect the mystery and the ambiguity that surround 'bad events' and prevent intra-community tensions from overtly erupting. Through witchcraft, intra-community tensions are channelled, amplified and tamed cyclically as this process first destabilizes community social order and then restabilizes it after partial compensation for socio-economic inequality. Generalizing beyond witchcraft, this spiritual view of community entrepreneuring enriches our understanding of entrepreneuring - meant as organization-creation process in an already organized world - in the context of communities. Furthermore, it sheds light on the dynamics of socio-economic inequality surrounding CBEs, and on how spirituality helps community members to cope with inequality and its effects.
32.	Czarniawska, Barbara, 1948 (författare) A golden braid: Allport, Goffman, Weick 2006 Ingår i: Organization Studies, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York.. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406. ; 27:11, s. 1661-1674 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract One of the central tenets of Karl Weick’s work and one of his original contributions to organization theory is his insistence that organizational scholars should study structures of events rather than people, objects, or pseudo-objects, important as they all are. Through the operation of sensemaking, events may be portrayed as meaningful actions or random occurrences, but it is the connections among them that are central to organizing. This paper connects Karl Weick’s work to that of Floyd H. Allport and Erving Goffman, two among several writers who inspired Weick. These three authors shared an interest in what Allport called structuring, Goffman called ordering, and Weick called organizing of the events and experiences of everyday life. This genealogical presentation of their work attempts to situate their thoughts within contemporary debates in social sciences, including those determined by the spirit of the times.
33.	Czarniawska, Barbara, 1948 (författare) Emerging institutions: Pyramids or anthills? 2009 Ingår i: Orgaization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 30:4, s. 422-441 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In the present text, an institution is understood to be an (observable) pattern of collective action, justified by a corresponding norm. By this definition, an institution emerges slowly, although it may be helped or hindered by various specific acts. From this perspective, an institutional entrepreneur is an oxymoron, at least in principle. In practice, however, there are and always have been people trying to create institutions. This article describes the emergence of the London School of Economics and Political Science as an institution and analyzes its founders and its supporters during crises as institutional entrepreneurs. A tentative theory of the phenomenon of institutional entrepreneurship is then constructed by combining elements of sociology of translation, actor-network theory and garbage can model. The article concludes with a suggestion that the way institutional enterprises are narrated may differ from the way they are built, and a genre analysis can be of further help in understanding this phenomenon.
34.	Czarniawska, Barbara, 1948 (författare) Has organization theory a tomorrow? 2007 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 28:1, s. 27-29 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
35.	Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara, et al. (författare) Political Organizations and Commedia Dell’Arte 1995 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - Berlin : de Gruynter. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 16:3, s. 375-394 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper employs the dramatistic metaphor of commedia dell’arte to interpret developments in a set of interlocking public administrative organizations in Sweden. More specifically, the performances given by state and municipal politicians studied in several projects of ours are analyzed, with the help of what we know of this special kind of theatre. In so doing, we relate to a long tradition within the social sciences. The symbolic acting, the public perform ances, and the ambiguous connection between ideas and realities of various sorts that are evident all made the theatre metaphor appear relevant to an analysis of politics in society at large and in organizations within it. Of the different forms of theatre, commedia dell’arte is that which seems to render itself best to the exploration and interpretation of contemporary organizations within the public sector, imprinted as they are with the stamp of modern demo cratic politics, which bespeaks force but is highly contradictory.
36.	Drori, I., et al. (författare) A Process Model of Internal and External Legitimacy 2013 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : Sage Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 34:3, s. 345-376 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract We report the results of a longitudinal case study depicting the relationship between internal and external legitimacy at Orion, an emergent creative professional firm. We address the following questions: How do different types of legitimacy emerge, and how do they interact to shape organizational evolution? Introducing a staged process model, we demonstrate that organizational legitimacy is a product of action, which is continually reproduced and reconstructed by members of an organization in concert with external legitimation activities. Internal and external legitimacy evolve through a process of emergence, validation, diffusion and consensus, sometimes recursively repeating the cycle when imbalances result in conflict and friction.
37.	Einola, Katja, et al. (författare) When ‘Good’ Leadership Backfires : Dynamics of the leader/follower relation 2021 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 42:6, s. 845-865 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper contributes to the understanding of relational aspects of leadership and followership. Our in-depth empirical study of the leader/follower relation uncovers how and why assigning team members into ‘leader’ and ‘follower’ positions may sometimes be a double-edged sword and lead to unintended consequences undermining both the team’s potential and member satisfaction. We report on a multi-voiced story of one team that at first looked like a well-performing one with effective, ‘good’ leadership and satisfied team members. However, a closer investigation revealed frictional understandings, unresponsiveness and dynamics of immaturization as the followers overly relied on the elected leader. Leadership seen as ‘good’ may indeed backfire and encourage satisfied, trustful followers to relax and focus on limited roles. Our study further shows the need to conduct rich empirical studies that capture views of all parties in a relation.
38.	Elg, Ulf, et al. (författare) Decision Making in Inter-firm Networks as a Political Process. 1997 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 18, s. 361-384 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract A political-process-oriented approach to decision making is applied to an asymmetric network of firms, based on the notion of resource interdependen cies as the prime motivator of inter-firm exchange, and on a multi-dimensional view of power. Empirically, the paper draws upon a case study of the introduc tion of a computer-based decision aid (DPP) in the Swedish food industry. A theoretical model is developed, demonstrating how motives, structural condi tions and moves made by powerful as well as more dependent firms interact in shaping the decision process. A central theme is that structural change as well as the adoption of innovations within inter-firm networks is influenced by political activities during the decision process. The relevance of subtle moves aimed at influencing the perceptions and beliefs of other actors is espe cially stressed. The paper also suggests that more dependent firms do not necessarily give priority to balancing dependencies since they may actually jeopardize privileges not attainable within a less asymmetric structure.
39.	Empson, Laura, et al. (författare) Collective Leadership Dynamics among Professional Peers : Co-constructing an unstable equilibrium 2020 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 41:9, s. 1234-1256 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Professional service firms (PSFs) are characterized by contingent and contested power relations among an extended group of professional peers. Studies of such firms can therefore yield important insights for the literatures on collective leadership and leader–follower relations. Yet to date PSF scholars have neglected the topic of leadership, and leadership scholars have neglected the context of PSFs. Based on 102 interviews across the consulting, accounting and legal sectors, we identify three relational processes through which professional peers co-construct collective leadership: legitimizing, negotiating and manoeuvring. We demonstrate how the relational processes taken together constitute an unstable equilibrium, both in the moment and over time, emphasizing how leadership in PSFs is inherently contested and fragile. Our model contributes to theories of collective leadership and leader–follower relations by foregrounding the power and politics that underlie collective leadership. We highlight the significance of the individual leader within the collective. We challenge assumptions concerning the binary nature of leadership and followership, by showing how colleagues may grant leadership identities to their peers without necessarily granting them leadership authority, and without claiming follower identities for themselves.
40.	Engwall, Mats, et al. (författare) Peripety in an R&D Drama : Capturing a Turn Around in Projects Dynamics 2004 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 25:9, s. 1557-1578 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article examines the process dynamics of a complex R&D project, which for a long period of time had suffered from little technical progress, then abruptly became highly structured and effective. The article examines the mechanisms behind this dramatic turnaround and discusses its implications for research and practice. Drawing on the dramaturgical concept of 'peripety' ('moment of sudden change'), the article captures how the turnaround came about due to the emergence of the participants' shared conceptualization of the project mission. The article provides insights into the process dynamics and sensemaking in complex R&D projects and demonstrates how time and evolution need to be included in the analysis of project management and temporary organizations.
41.	Essén, Anna, et al. (författare) Explaining Ignoring – Working with Information that Nobody Uses 2022 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 43:5, s. 725-747 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Research has demonstrated how ignorance is made, manipulated and called upon; how it is the result of strategies, activities and structures. This article extends the literature on ignorance by exploring actors’ own explanations of their self-inflicted ignorance following acts of ignoring. By means of a case analysis, we explore how actors explain and justify ignoring data they themselves produced. We provide a multifaceted model of how ignoring actors’ own rationales, facilitated by contextual conditions, enables persistent acts of ignoring the content and dysfunction of collectively upheld systems. We contribute to the understanding of ignorance by demonstrating how self-inflicted ignorance is made possible by the combination of ignoring rationales and their facilitators, which configures buffers against knowledge-seeking efforts.
42.	Flower, Lisa (författare) Clare L. Stacey: The Caring Self: The Work Experiences of Home Care Aides 2014 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 35:6, s. 939-941 Recension (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
43.	Gabriel, Yiannis (författare) Organizing Music: Theory, practice, performance. 2016 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 37:2, s. 267-271 Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
44.	Gaim, Medhanie, 1983-, et al. (författare) Managing impressions rather than emissions : Volkswagen and the false mastery of paradox 2021 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : Sage Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 42:6, s. 949-970 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The challenge of dealing with paradoxes has become a central issue in management and organization studies. Present research literature is largely inclined to idealize paradoxical framing in thinking and theorizing. We critically explore the perils paradoxes present when generated by stretch goals whose ‘achievement’ is accomplished through impression management. Using the Volkswagen emissions scandal we show how paradoxical promises, embraced discursively but not substantively, created false transcendence rather than paradoxical mastery. We contribute to paradox theory by discussing how the illusion of paradox embrace can trigger dysfunctional behaviours. In practice, the paper cautions organizations and their members from being overconfident in their ability to embrace paradoxes successfully.
45.	Garsten, Christina (författare) Betwixt and between : Temporary employees as liminal subjects in flexible organizations 1999 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 20:4, s. 601-617 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract As organizations change to become more flexible and transient, the use of a flexible workforce becomes an attractive solution. Temporary employees are here tentatively viewed as being `betwixt and between' organizational structures, in transit between the relatively fixed positions of full-time, regular employment. Building on previous fieldwork and recent interviews among temporary employees in Sweden and the US, the notion of liminality is employed to explore aspects of temporary work. The liminal position of `temporaries', it is suggested, is an ambiguous position involving both risks and opportunities for individuals, temporary staffing agencies, and client organizations alike. It may be seen as a seedbed of cultural creativity, where old perspectives on work and subjectivity are contested and new ones created. Related to the transient, mobile character of temporary employment, is an enhanced awareness of substitutability and a continuous reflexive monitoring of manners and competencies. Furthermore, the mobile and temporary character of assignments lead to the development of transient and episodic imagined communities of the workplace. Through the lens of liminality then, temporal and contractual flexibilization of work is seen to challenge the old boundaries of industrial society and to suggest new ways of organizing and experiencing work, as well as new ways of constructing organizational subjectivity.
46.	Garsten, Christina, et al. (författare) Trust, control and post-bureaucracy 2001 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 22:2, s. 229-250 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper is a contribution to the analysis of intra-organizational trust. From a discussion of concepts of trust, we suggest that trust is something which is constructed for and by people in organizations, thereby producing some degree of predictability. Trust is a precarious social accomplishment enacted through the interplay of social or discursive structures, including those of work organizations, and individuated subjects. We argue that bureaucratic organizations effected this construction in such an efficient manner that it `disappeared' as an issue for organizational theorists, but that shifting organizational forms have re-opened it. We suggest that the advent of corporate culturism in the 1980s offered one kind of reconfiguration of trust in organizations. However, subsequent extensions of organizational reform have undermined corporate culture as a way of constructing trust. These extensions, which, with some caveats, may be called post-bureaucratic, have brought with them new potential bases for trust, and hence control, in organizations. We explore these in two ways. First, we discuss how various types of managerial languages and techniques have the capacity to provide a global `script' through which particular local contexts can be made sense of, and which allow possible subject positions and identities to be secured. Second, we develop this discussion with reference to two different kinds of employees whose work is in some senses post-bureaucratic: accountants and consultants in Big Five firms, and temporary workers (temps) working through agencies to provide clerical and other services. In a conclusion, we comment on the durability of post-bureaucratic modes of trust
47.	Geiger, S, et al. (författare) Organizing the Sharing Economy Through Experiments: Framing and taming as onto-epistemological work 2023 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1741-3044 .- 0170-8406. ; 44:3, s. 377-400 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Prior work on performativity has illustrated how theories intervene in economic organizing. We expand this body of research by studying how concepts, and particularly those that are loosely defined and/or not widely understood, provoke their own realities through experiments. We examine how different experimental set-ups allow these concepts to be seized by a multitude of actors all wishing to instantiate worlds in their own interests, and how they potentially open up multiple competing realities as a result. We follow the concept of mobility-as-a-service as it mobilizes various experiments across public and private realms in Stockholm and Dublin, and we analyse how specific types of experiment co-produce epistemic and ontological work. Our results illustrate how different experimental designs can be conducive in taming and/or framing ambiguous concepts through interconnected processes of such onto-epistemological work. This highlights the distributed and relational and also the ‘provocative’ facets of performing ambiguous concepts through experiments. We discuss the consequences of these insights for how we think about scaling from experiments to broader socio-economic realities. © The Author(s) 2022.
48.	Gherardi, Silvia (författare) Embodied Research Methods 2020 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 41:6, s. 901-904 Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
49.	Gherardi, Silvia (författare) Language and Communication at Work : Discourse, Narrativity, and Organizing 2016 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 37:5, s. 738-742 Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
50.	Gond, Jean-Pascal, et al. (författare) Materializing power to recover corporate social responsibility 2017 Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : Sage Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 38:8, s. 1127-1148 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Through the development of CSR ratings, metrics and management tools, corporate social responsibility is currently materialized at an unprecedented scale within and across organizations. However, the material dimension of CSR and the inherent political potential in this materialization have been neglected. Drawing on insights from actor-network theory and the critical discussion of current approaches to power in CSR studies, we offer an alternative sociomaterial conceptualization of power in order to clarify how power works through materialized forms of CSR. We develop a framework that explains both how power is constituted within materialized forms of CSR through processes of ‘assembling/disassembling’, and how power is mobilized through materialized forms of CSR through processes of ‘overflowing/framing’. From this framework, we derive four tactics that clarify how CSR materializations can be seized by marginalized actors to ‘recover’ CSR. Our analysis aims to renew CSR studies by showing the potential of CSR for progressive politics.

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