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1.	Arman, Rebecka, 1976 (författare) Death metaphors and factory closure 2014 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 20:1, s. 23-39 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article seeks to further our understanding of the role of death metaphors in the context of factory closure. A closure is an example of what has been called an organizational death. This refers to a literal ending, but there is also a metaphorical meaning. In this case study, three root-metaphors of different kinds of death explain the actors' accounts of the enactments of the closure, changing over time. Firstly, employees have mainly described managers as responsible and the decision as illegitimate and deliberate (murder). However, managers and others have described the decision as strategic and inevitable (sacrificial killing). The beginning of the closure process was mostly described by employees as irresponsible. Later on, accounts were better explained using a palliative death metaphor. The metaphor analysis offered a contextualized, process-oriented, and agentic understanding of the closure which is relevant to other contexts where the types of death metaphors may vary.
2.	Arman, Rebecka, 1976, et al. (författare) The sacred and the profane in life science: The case of assisted reproduction laboratories 2018 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 24:5, s. 348-364 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Reproductive medicine and assisted reproduction therapies have been developed over the last decades resulting in over five million babies. The handling of human reproductive materials and patients is based on the ability to combine health care work and techno-scientific expertise in both the clinic and the laboratory setting. This study of Swedish assisted reproductive technology clinics demonstrates that the active day-to-day manipulation of human reproductive materials enact both the ‘profane’, through treating the embryos as raw materials in standardized procedures enabling economies of scale, and the ‘sacred’ through enacting a separation, the potential to human life, the patients ordeals, and seriousness. The enactment of the profane and the sacred is mostly balanced but at certain points in the work procedures, their intersecting becomes particularly salient. Such points provide opportunities for the study of the sense making of professionals in organizational grey zones, during techno-scientific activities.
3.	Babri, Maira, 1986-, et al. (författare) Material affordances in circular products and business model development : for a relational understanding of human and material agency 2022 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Routledge. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 28:1, s. 79-96 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper uses the notion of material affordances to show that a focus on how people engage with materials helps understanding how organizations transit toward sustainability. Material affordances refer to the enablements and constraints afforded by materials to someone engaging with an environment for a particular purpose. Based on a qualitative study of a company's efforts at becoming circular, we show that material affordances are evolutive as organizational members shift focus from the development of products to the establishment of a circular business model. We also show that affordances are distributed across the company's circular ecosystem. Between what they enable and prevent, they invite humans to a dynamic engagement with materials that decenters human agencies to incorporate material agency in such efforts. A key contribution of the notion of material affordances is to put the relationships of humans and materials at the core of a transition toward circularity and sustainability.
4.	Bell, Emma, et al. (författare) Introduction : Organizational death 2014 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Routledge. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 20:1, s. 1-6 Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
5.	Brewis, Joanna, et al. (författare) Professor Heather Höpfl, 1948-2014 : Eine Gedenkschrift 2017 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 23:2, s. 81-84 Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
6.	Bruzzone, Silvia, Senior Lecturer (författare) Wildfire forecasting : Between criminal act and unintentional events 2019 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 25:1, s. 52-64 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Forecasting represents the new credo in the reorganization of risks prevention. What does the introduction of such technology mean in terms of fire-fighting practice and policy? By applying Practice-Based Studies, forecasting practice emerges as a form of practical knowledge resulting from the alignment of the forecasting tool with foresters’ former competences, expertise, practices and tools. The acknowledgement of practical and scientific knowledge linked to forecasting allows the identification of the different organizational cultures linked to fire-fighting. For foresters wildfire is mainly a criminal act and forecasting a policing activity. This use of the artefact silences alternative approaches to wildfire-fighting such as the prevention of unintentional acts. While forecasting technology may reproduce forms of blindness in the future, anticipation becomes then an interesting research objet, embedded in dominant professional cultures and forms of knowledge.
7.	Butler, Nick (författare) Joking aside: Theorizing laughter in organizations 2015 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1477-2760 .- 1475-9551. ; 21:1, s. 42-58 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Humour is becoming an increasingly prevalent topic in organization studies. On the one hand, humour is said to enable workers to undermine management control; on the other hand, humour is said to provide managers with a resource for ensuring compliance with corporate objectives. This paper seeks to challenge the duality found in the literature between rebellious and disciplinary forms of humour by examining the meaning and significance of laughter in organizations. Following Bergson, it will be argued that laughter serves to rectify overly rigid behaviour that has temporarily disrupted the natural elasticity of life. This will serve to attune us to the way in which laughter - whether it is directed at a dominant group or a marginalized group - plays a socially normative role in organizations through processes of ridicule and embarrassment.
8.	Cort, Rebecca, et al. (författare) Sensing the breakdown : Managing complexity at the railway 2024 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Routledge. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 30:2, s. 179-197 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper explores the complex and time-critical work practices within operational train traffic in Sweden by reporting on an incident causing an infrastructure breakdown and large traffic disruptions. Based on a workplace study approach, we report on how the control room workers – train traffic controllers and information officers – grasp, make sense of, and handle the consequences of the incident as it unfolds in realtime. We portray how the workers develop and acquire a sense of place in relation to the incident’s severity which is essential for successfully handling the situation. By introducing the ‘sense of place’ concept originally derived from the field of natural resources to the domain of operational train traffic, we provide a deepened understanding of the challenges characterising remote control work from a safety-critical socio-technical systems perspective. Finally, reflections on the application of the ‘sense of place’ concept, safety aspects and directions for future research are provided.
9.	Corvellec, Hervé, et al. (författare) Demanding Hosts and Ungrateful Guests – The Everyday Drama of Public Transportation in Three Acts and Academic Prose 2012 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1477-2760 .- 1475-9551. ; 18:3, s. 231-249 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In their own view, public transportation companies make a very hospitable offer to commuters: if you are ready to travel with us, we will take you for a reasonable price nearly anywhere, every day and almost at any time of the day, under good conditions of comfort and safety. Please, step onboard. But commuters resist being reduced to the thankful guests of their commuting service providers. Commuting is an experience whose rhythm structures daily lives. It is not an innocuous in-between-doors passage, but a social practice intertwined with the routines bound to the home, workplace, and places of leisure which they commute to and from. Commuting routines are a constitutive part of commuters’ lives. Correspondingly, commuters own their commuting space. They do not own it in terms of legal ownership, although they possess a valid ticket; they own it via the degree to which they are at home in their routines and intuitively know through the senses and feelings produced through the normal flow of daily practices, that they are on their own home turf. Home is more than the physical space of the house; it is an embodied perception of a familiar cultural space which is organized in such a way that one has some control and responsibility over. Because commuters grant transportation companies daily access to the intimacy of their homes, they are hosting the companies, not the opposite. Public transportation hospitality is thus a tension filled drama, co-produced by transportation companies and commuters. In this drama managerial routines meet routines of daily life, legal definitions of ownership meet practice-based ones, and organizational hospitality stands against individual hospitality. Our claim is that the fact that each party considers itself to be the host of the other, the prevailing situation consequently frames the provision and experience of public transportation services as a drama: the drama of hospitality.
10.	Corvellec, Hervé, et al. (författare) Introduction to the special issue on the contested realities of the circular economy 2020 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 26:2, s. 97-102 Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
11.	Czarniawska, Barbara, 1948 (författare) Is it possible to study anxiety in organizations? 2018 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 24:2, s. 171-178 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Anxiety has been traditionally studied by asking people to describe their emotions, or by deducing their emotions from their observable behavior. Such methods are, however, ethically doubtful in case of organization studies. Organization scholars do not have a moral right to ask people about their emotions. Further, there is no guarantee that people who were asked describe their emotions correctly. Even more uncertain is the idea of deducing emotions from behavior observed. There are at least two methods permitting to avoid these problems: Eliciting narratives, which permits to study a rhetoric of emotions, and analyzing descriptions of emotion in the literature (including fiction). It is this latter approach that has been used in this paper.
12.	Czarniawska, Barbara, 1948, et al. (författare) Narrative glimpses of organizing 2024 Ingår i: CULTURE AND ORGANIZATION. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Gareth Morgan (1986) is famous for drawing attention to the key role of metaphors (metaphors) in organization theory. He suggested that various definitions of organizations are based on different metaphors, often unconscious ones. In this paper we set out with metaphors contained in Morgan's book (1986), but altered, re-imagined supplemented by us. Also, somewhat reinterpreted. The aim of the paper is, now as it was then, not to serve as a research article, but, rather, a kind of intertextual journey in search of narrative intricacy but without wandering off into chaos.
13.	Czarniawska, Barbara, 1948 (författare) Teoria organizacji i literatura piękna w jednym stoją domu? 2024 Ingår i: CULTURE AND ORGANIZATION. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Organisation theory began to be appreciated in the 1960s when it became clear that neither economics nor psychology could explain the phenomena of organising purely in the language of economics, whereas these phenomena were becoming more and more central to the functioning of modern society. Enterprises and organised institutions were becoming increasingly complex and their activities could not be explained by a combination of economic laws and psychological observations. The machine metaphor that used to dominate before was now replaced by an organic metaphor that seemed complex enough to capture the complexity of the phenomenon itself. But the practices of organising outgrew even this metaphor and it became evident that we need even more complex ways to account for what organisations do. One of the propositions for how to live up to the living complexity is the language of fiction. Narrative knowledge and narrative form are good ways to an incisive insight into concrete and lived organisational experience.
14.	Dahl, Matilda, 1978-, et al. (författare) The poetic teaching space: Gaston Bachelard and a third realm in management education 2021 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 28:3-4, s. 362-377 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract How to make students and teachers stopStop and think and feelReading slowReading aloudSavouring silenceBeing there with all our emotions and bodiesAn experimentNot a social experimentNot a psychological experimentBut a poeticAccompanied by a French philosopherGaston Bachelard was always therein the atmosphereOur classroom practiceWith our master’s studentsIn sustainable managementWe searched for poetic momentsTurned into a conversationTurned into a paperA paper about the poetics of teachingPhenomenologizing philosophyRupturing classrooms
15.	Diedrich, Andreas, 1973, et al. (författare) Sorting people out – The uses of one-dimensional classificatory schemes in a multi-dimensional world 2011 Ingår i: Culture and Organization.. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 17:4, s. 271-292 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
16.	Ericsson, Daniel, 1967-, et al. (författare) Body, mind, and soul principles for designing management education : an ethnography from the future 2022 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 28:3-4, s. 313-329 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In this paper, we advance the conversation about management education by outlining a future scenario of management teaching in which art is employed as a method, learning goal, and methodology. The scenario is informed by our personal experiences of teaching management and art expressed in terms of three design principles for management education: the principles of body, mind, and soul; and it is presented as an ethnography from the future. This future is envisioned to be characterized by four assumptions: that students are co-creators of knowledge; that the role of teachers is to facilitate the students’ learning processes; that Artificial Intelligence is an integral part of learning processes; and that the primary learning objective for the students is to develop their relations to the world and contribute with feasible future solutions to wicked problems and global challenges.
17.	Gaggiotti, Hugo, et al. (författare) More than a method? : Organisational ethnography as a way of imagining the social 2017 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 23:5, s. 325-340 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The authors – two anthropologists and an organisational theorist, all organisational ethnographers – discuss their understanding and practices of organisational ethnography (OE) as a way of imagining and reflect on how similar this understanding may be for young organisational researchers and students in particular. The discussion leads to the conclusion that OE may be regarded as a methodology but that it has a much greater potential when it is reclaiming its roots: to become a mode of doing social science on the meso-level. The discussion is based on an analysis of both historical material and the contemporary learning experiences of teaching OE as more than a method to our students.
18.	Gherardi, Silvia, et al. (författare) Staging precariousness : The Serpica Naro catwalk during the Milan Fashion Week 2015 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 21:2, s. 174-196 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The article illustrates the Italian process of work precarisation and the collective resistance of precarious workers. It interprets them in terms of the birth of a collective identity that conducts a critique against precariousness while developing learning resources. Through discursive analysis of the Serpica Naro catwalk, organised in the area of Milan by the activists of the May Day Parade and the San Precario network, the article illustrates the process of construction of this collective identity that uses irony and playfulness to resist and denounce precarious working conditions. The purpose is to interpret the anti-precariousness movement as a process of critical urban learning that creates the viability of spaces for resistance in metropolitan contexts.
19.	Gillberg, Nanna (författare) Remaining neutral while conveying ‘the right picture’ of Sweden: governing agents navigating a neoliberally influenced social contract 2022 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 29:1, s. 54-72 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article studies how governing agents at a civic orientation course site, through collaborative boundary work, manage tensions that arise from simultaneously representing the governing state and the governed subjects taking part in the courses. The findings illustrate how individual agency—in policy and practice—is expected of immigrants enrolled in civic orientation courses, but not necessarily facilitated by the governing system providing the context for this agency. Through three types of collaborative boundary work, the governing agents produce and enact an understanding of professionalism as continuous shifting between different positions related to their two reference points—the governing state and the governed subjects. By engaging in collaborative boundary work, the governing agents manage perceived ambiguities and tensions between rhetoric and ‘reality’ and between policies they are set to represent and practices related to these policies that they do not personally believe in and/or challenge.
20.	Grafström, Maria, et al. (författare) Professional blinders? The novel as an eye-opener in organizational analysis 2019 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 25:2, s. 146-158 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Scholarly textbooks often follow a logic where suitable empirical cases are selected to illustrate the theoretical and analytical points that we as scholars want to make. But what would happen if we would do the opposite: build a textbook on a novel written by a novelist for such purpose and let the theories explain the actions and emotions of fictional characters? In this article, we share and reflect upon our experiences of co-authoring a textbook in organization theory together with a professional novelist. We argue that the novel can function as an eye-opener in organizational analysis, forcing us to look beyond more static and rationalistic perspectives on organizations as well as the stereotypes of such. We build and relate our experiences to the growing literature about using fiction in scholarly work and discuss the potential of such genre-bending work when we bring in flesh and blood into the analyses.
21.	Gustafsson, Claes, et al. (författare) Improvisation – An emergence theory perspective 2017 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 23:3, s. 177-196 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The paper addresses the occurrence of improvisation and intuition within dynamic business environments from an emergence theory perspective. As argued, the dynamics of the so-called red queen principle forces competition towards the verge of the manageable, making improvised and intuitive action and decision-making not a shortcoming but a necessity in a successful business context. Particularly, the paper discusses how we may interpret the highly rationalistic acts and outcomes of planning and plans in such chaotic and uncertain contexts. We draw upon a longitudinal study of large industrial project deliveries incorporating more than 25 such deliveries.
22.	Hansson, Magnus, 1972-, et al. (författare) Call for papers: Special issue on Organizational Death, Memory and Loss 2012 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Routledge. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 18:3, s. 275-277 Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
23.	Hansson, Magnus, 1972- (författare) Organizational Closedown and the Process of Deconstruction and Creativity 2017 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - Oxon, United Kingdom : Routledge. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 23:3, s. 238-256 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper outlines an analysis of how the deconstruction of organizational, management control and performance management structures affects performances and how workers make sense of enhanced efforts and practices of creativity, in a situation when facing a certainty of job loss as of the closedown of the organization. In this paper, we have shown that the deconstruction of structures generate positive performance outcomes, and that such relation is being mediated by workers identity. We have also shown that identity work under a process of organizational closedown generate certain creativity. By doing so, this paper contributes to the literature on creativity and deconstruction by developing an emergent model where workers identity mediates formal structures in relation to performance. This paper contributes to the literature on closedowns by extending its analytical and theoretical domains, proving alternative, yet complementary and mediating explanations to the causes of drivers to enhanced performances during the process of closedown.
24.	Helin, Jenny, 1972- (författare) Dialogical writing: Co-inquiring between the written and the spoken word 2019 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 25:1, s. 1-15 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The foundational view of discourse as a descriptive mode of representation and writing as a retrospective stabilizing tool has been criticized in organization and management research. The purpose of this paper is to inquire into a more emergent, unfinished and relational writing used throughout the research processes. To that aim, I develop the notion of ‘dialogical writing’ by drawing on literature on performative utterances and a collaborative fieldwork project where writing became an integrated part of the research process. I come to understand this form of writing as one in situ where addressivity, responsiveness and unfinalizability are emphasized. This enables writing to be part of a conversation; writing as a response to that which has been said and in anticipation of the next possible utterance. I close with implications for writing in organization studies, such as the possibility of thinking of writing as an offering of the tentative.
25.	Helin, Jenny, 1972-, et al. (författare) The power of daydreaming : the aesthetic act of a new beginning 2022 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Routledge. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 28:1, s. 64-78 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract What can we learn from a better understanding of the process of daydreaming in an organizational context? That is the main question underpinning this study. Based on a field study with a rural entrepreneur that uses daydreaming as her main strategic tool in the development of her farm, and a reading of Bachelard's work on the phenomenology of 'reverie,' we come to understand daydreaming as an embodied act that emerges at the intersection between relational materiality, vertical temporality and aesthetic space. This conceptualization of daydreaming reminds us that rather than focusing on how to make dreams come true, which is the traditional way of relating to dreams in organizational life, there is a need to enable people to dream anew, because that is when new beginnings can be born, and the particular will to act, through daydreaming, can be released.
26.	Holmgren Caicedo, Mikael, 1971- (författare) Defying interpretation : Dwelling on and delving into metonymy 2014 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - London : Taylor & Francis. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 20:3, s. 232-249 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract To defy interpretation, delay sense making and accommodate a process view, I propose metonymy as an alternative/complement to metaphor in organization studies. By way of three examples I attempt to show how the unpacking of metonymies, i.e. metonymic reading, can delay metaphorical interpretation to allow for the inclusion of alternative views of concrete experience. Thus, although metonymy ultimately yields to metaphor, it seems worthwhile to dwell on and delve into.
27.	Holmgren Caicedo, Mikael (författare) The story of us : on the nexus between metaphor and story in writing scientific articles 2011 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - London : Routledge. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 17:5, s. 403-416 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Inquiring along the lines of reflexivity into the style of scientific articles as portrayed in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), an attempt is made to bring forth the nexus between metaphor and plot in the story of academic writing. The contention is that the APA manual expounds a protoplot (B. Czarniawska. 1999. Writing management - organization theory as a literary genre. Oxford: Oxford University Press) in and through its description/prescription of the form of the scientific article that is held together by a metaphor, the incessant strife for progress, that binds together the elements of the story (plot) of writing scientific articles. Writing is then the creation of organization in an always already organized manner so that we can know a scientific article as a scientific article and ensure ever-forward motion in and through its end.
28.	Jansson, Andreas, 1978- (författare) Stigmatisation of elite actors in corporate scandals : the role of meaning making in the media 2016 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 22:5, s. 383-408 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Corporate scandals sometimes result in social devaluation and stigma for elite actors. This paper explores the linkage between the meaning-making processes that pertain to corporate scandals in the media and the outcome of stigma in two Swedish cases: the Skandia and ABB scandals. Several discursive strategies are identified that support two meaning-making processes that mediate between corporate acts and the stigmatisation of elite actors: the labelling of the acts as illegitimate and the transformation of the illegitimate act into evidence of some deeply discrediting attributes of elite organisational actors. The paper contributes to the literature on stigmatisation by elaborating on the concept of scandal-induced stigmatisation of elite actors, integrating a more sophisticated understanding of discursive legitimation, and introducing the characteristics of meaning making in the media as a mechanism that links corporate acts to the stigmatisation of elite corporate actors.
29.	Jaramillo, Laura, et al. (författare) Readingwriting : becoming-together in a Composition 2023 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In this paper, we share with the reader our individual and collective experience of a reading circle organised during the pandemic, at a time of social distancing. The collective reading allowed ‘us’ to become-with other humans, non-humans, and more-than-humans with the materiality of different bodies. The reading circle allowed individual vulnerability to be shared in a process of becoming-together a multiple ‘Author’ who authored a ‘Composition’. We thus propose to the reader a Composition, in which we experiment with an embodied process of writing, where a drawing and words are mingled in-between poesy and prose. In their being intertwined, reading- and writing-together enabled a different ‘academicity’, emerging as an alternative to an individualistic experience of the neo-liberal Academia.
30.	Just, Sine N, et al. (författare) From antagonists to allies? Exploring the critical performativity of alternative organization 2021 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1477-2760 .- 1475-9551. ; 27:2, s. 89-97 Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract In this introduction to the special issue on critical performativity and alternative organization we provide a brief historico-theoretical sketch of the key concepts involved and point to ongoing pertinent debates in the field of critical management studies. We also present the articles included in the issue, which all explore aspects of how critical performativity and alternative organization may cross-fertilize each other. In doing so, this collection of articles provides interesting critical vantage points outside of the usual empirical and theoretical haunts of organization and management studies.
31.	Kallio, Tomi J., et al. (författare) Academic writing as autocommunication : the case of doctoral dissertations on CSR 2009 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - London : Routledge. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 15:1, s. 75-87 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In this article, we explore the self-oriented rather than socially-oriented reasons why a doctoral dissertation in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is written. We base our article on Yuri M. Lotman's idea on autocommunication which we use as tool in analysing a group interview conducted with six doctoral students studying in the field of CSR. We suggest that autocommunicational aspects might play a much more important role in rationalized Western culture and science than is often realized, and our main thesis is that one essential reason for writing a doctoral dissertation in the field of CSR might be to communicate with oneself and that this even might contain a therapeutic dimension. Implications for students, supervisors and future research are discussed at the end of the article.
32.	Karlsson, Mathias (författare) In pursuit of ignorant university teachers and intellectually emancipated students 2022 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - London : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 28:3-4, s. 194-215 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The current neo-liberalization of academia threatens the historical role of the university as a safe haven where critical thinking and intellectual emancipation can take place. Instead of educating questioning and independent knowledge seekers, much teaching centres on producing employable, efficient and uncritical workers who instrumentally solve problems within the given system. This essay considers the possibilities and limitations of contesting the neo-liberalization of academia through the teaching practice of not-knowing. This is done by drawing upon the work of Jacques Ranciére and by exploring how ignorant university teaching practices might lead to intellectually emancipated students. To push our imagination and understanding, the film Dead Poets Society is used as an empirical illustration. It is shown that ignorant (university) teachers can intellectually emancipated students through the practice of not-knowing by: (1) practising our own equality; (2) announcing the students’ inevitable equality; and (3) creating spaces for intellectual emancipation for our students.
33.	Kostera, Monika, 1963-, et al. (författare) Teaching what is not there 2022 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Routledge. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 28:3-4, s. 185-193 Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract When we started talking about the idea of a special issue on teaching and what might be missing in business school education, we were not sure how much resonance we would receive in an academic environment that was obsessed with the metrics of research activities manifested in paper writing and third-party funding applications. Yet, we found that this overemphasis on publishing and funding applications did more than render unacknowledged the importance of teaching as part of academics' service to the public. Making a business case out of education by standardizing knowledge that can be mass-delivered to student-customers devalues students and teachers in equal measure. We found that, in conversations with colleagues, teaching tended to be framed as a space of suffering or a necessary evil of an academic's existence. In such an environment it is difficult to maintain a sense of care for students, who cease being students and become customers demanding 'value for money' service. It is even more difficult to care for the subject one is teaching, as it turns into a standard product that has to be `delivered' in a standardized way. And above all it is easy to lose sight of the political potential of teaching that empowers upcoming generations to participate in shaping the future. We felt that, due to the predominance of metrics and the alignment to the demands of employability, management education was turned into a means of maintaining a status quo instead of enabling students to shape their and all our future. We felt that something essential was missing in teaching regarding content and that reducing education to delivering knowledge was entirely missing the point of teaching. In a world that is marked by increasingly unstable conditions,social and environmental, teaching reductive thinking and abstract principles of control that are based on the assumption that the future is an extrapolation of the past is not only meaningless but also dangerous. And we were not alone in this opinion. We have to admit that we had not expected such a surge of personal, careful and considerate contributions from authors and reviewers engaging in intellectual labour on the question of how to co- or re-create with students an educational home. Since the first round of reviews, however, all of us have been overtaken by the events - and their social repercussions of the last two years: global lock-downs, precarious existences, pending planetary crisis. These events pushed teaching out into the flatness of the virtual space. And now it seems like this special issue contributes not just to something essential but rather vital of academic work.
34.	Lennerfors, Thomas Taro, 1979-, et al. (författare) Chance Interventions – On Bricolage and the State As an Entrepreneur in a Declining Industry 2014 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 20:5, s. 377-391 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In this paper, we develop the notion of bricolage by paying attention to the role of chance in the same, rather than approaching it from the perspective of control and agency. We argue that the concept of chance can be used to downplay the common tendency to focus on individual agency in bricolage, proposing an alternative understanding of the latter as constellations of resources coming together in unexpected combinations. We situate our theoretical argument in the for bricolage understudied context of a declining industry, where we focus on the role of chance in how resources are combined and separated in state interventions, connecting to the literature on the ‘state as entrepreneur’. Three episodes from the Swedish state-owned shipping companies Zenit and Uddevalla Shipping during the shipping crisis of the 1970s and 1980s are used to illustratehow state intervention can be imbued with chance and serendipity.
35.	Lennerfors, Thomas Taro (författare) Organizational diaspora : The aftermath of the Saleninvest bankruptcy 2013 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 19:5, s. 430-450 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In this paper, I argue that the concept of diaspora, meaning the mass and usually involuntary migration of people from their homeland, which is widely used in disciplines such as anthropology, can contribute to organization studies both theoretically and empirically. Theoretically, the concept of diaspora urges scholars to study the identifications with roots, routes and the new home, the emotional relation the people in the diaspora have to these roots and routes, and the exchanges within the diaspora. This contributes to understanding organizational identity. Empirically, the concept of diaspora brings up issues of remembering and recovery of the homeland, but connotations can also be positive. I focus on diaspora in the aftermath of bankruptcies by drawing on a case study of Swedish shipping firm Saleninvest's bankruptcy in 1984. I will describe the Saleninvest diaspora that both remembered and reconstructed Saleninvest, and whose members did not feel at home in their new workplaces.
36.	Lennerfors, Thomas Taro, 1979-, et al. (författare) The animal 2018 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 24:4, s. 263-267 Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
37.	Lennerfors, Thomas Taro, et al. (författare) The Metastases of Winning : Svenska Spel advertisements through the lens of a Žižeko-Lacanian critique of ideology 2009 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Taylor and Francis. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 15:3-4, s. 347-360 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In a time when the privileged market position of Svenska Spel is under intense scrutiny by EU officials and pro-market ideologists, this study provides a critical reading of the advertisement material issued by this Swedish state-run gambling operation. Drawing on a Zizeko–Lacanian critique of ideology, the essay identifies and theorizes different kinds of enjoyment promoted in a number of TV advertisement campaigns issued by the company. By taking recourse to the Lacanian notion of jouissance, the study throws light on the radical ambiguity that resides in the gambling win – an ambiguity which manifests itself in the win being pictured as both pleasurable and painful. Moreover, the essay suggests that Svenska Spel entirely excludes the enjoyment derived from the gambling experience as such from its advertisement material, possibly as a consequence of the threat that the promotion of such enjoyment would pose to the company’s legitimacy.
38.	Liff, Roy, 1951, et al. (författare) Rumours and gossip demand continuous action by managers in daily working life 2021 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 27:6, s. 456-475 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate why and how informal information such as rumours gains relevance for managers in relation to their workplace situations. The results demonstrated rumours not only played a role as a supplement to formal information in this study; the relationship between rumours and formal information was shown to be a relatively dynamic, complex interaction in which the various sources of information were feeding each other. Without using this informal information, it was difficult for the managers in this study to gain insight into how they should act, and to act timely. Confidence in their leadership can be harmed if managers do not listen to informal information, and that negative effects on leadership can occur when rumours switch to gossip. We concluded, from a process view on rumours, that the ability of managers to include informal information in their daily work can create trust.
39.	Loacker, Bernadette (författare) Becoming 'culturpreneur': How the 'neoliberal regime of truth' affects and redefines artistic subject positions 2013 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1477-2760 .- 1475-9551. ; 19:2, s. 124-145 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract In relating to the politico-economic concept of creative industries', the paper explores in what way the art field and its actors are discursively repositioned within flexible cultural capitalism'. Through empirical material from the independent Austrian theatre scene, the paper, moreover, illustrates how the culturpreneurial' transformation of the field affects the specific artistic practices, forms of organizing and conduct. In this regard, it will be shown that the artists' modes of conduct are, at least to some extent, precarious: due to their ascetic and disciplined self-concept, artists seem to contribute, in parts, to their own marginalization as well as to the strengthening of certain neoliberal orders' and culturpreneurial subject ideals' of flexible capitalism even though they are actually keen to resist current governmental technologies like the promotion of competition and market-determined assessment.
40.	Löfgren, Orvar (författare) Changing emotional economies: The case of Sweden 1970-2010 2013 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1477-2760 .- 1475-9551. ; 19:4, s. 283-296 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper discusses processes of emotionalisation and commodification at home and work, a theme that has been a focus of Arlie Hochschild’s research in the USA over the last four decades. What happens when you look at similar processes within another national frame? The American experience is contrasted to that of two periods of rapid cultural and economic change in Swedish society during the early 1970s and late 1990s. Some similarities and differences in the emotional economies of these two periods are explored. My perspective is ethnological, with a focus on changes in the emotional landscape of everyday life. The main argument is that a historical perspective can capture some of the contradictory and many stranded aspects of both commodification and de-commodification processes.
41.	Maravelias, Christian, 1967- (författare) Faster, harder, longer, stronger – management at the threshold between work and private life : The case of work place health promotion 2018 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 24:5, s. 331-347 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper studies Work Place Health Promotion at two international corporations as an example of an unobtrusive control that targets employees’ lifestyles. It uses Michel Foucault's concepts of neoliberal governmentality and post-disciplinary control to show how Work Place Health Promotion breaks with the disciplinary logic of control most commonly associated with studies of unobtrusive controls in organizations. While discipline is centripetal, correcting employees’ misconduct so that they freely keep within prescribed norms, Work Place Health Promotion is centrifugal, targeting employees’ lifestyles and promoting those existing faculties and inclinations that may increase their activity, performance and their health. It hereby emerges as less restrictive than organizational discipline, but also as more discriminating. For not only does it subject employees’ lifestyles to an economic logic of investment and disinvestment, it also contributes to an exclusion of employees that fail in this regard in the name of their lack of health.
42.	Muhr, Sara Louise (författare) Ethical interruption and the creative process - A reflection on the new 2010 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1477-2760 .- 1475-9551. ; 16:1, s. 73-86 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Both organizations and management theory seem obsessed with creativity and 'the new,' but lately, the 'newness' of this so-called 'new' has also been questioned. With this paper, I continue in this critical fashion and point to the peculiar fact that the obsession with the new is accompanied by just as strong a rejection of that which is different. Overcoming this paradox, the paper emphasizes the relatively ignored ethical element in organizational creativity and in the 'production' of novelty. In doing this, I draw on the moral philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas to argue that profound novelty can only be accomplished in an ethical encounter with the Other in which not only is knowledge questioned but also the interruption of the Other changes the self as a knower. In other words, this paper argues for ethics as creativity.
43.	Muhr, Sara Louise (författare) Strangers in Familiar Places – Using Generic Spaces in Cross-Cultural Identity Work 2012 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1477-2760 .- 1475-9551. ; 18:1, s. 51-68 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Abstract in UndeterminedEmployees working across multiple cultures are exposed to a vast number of different norms and values, and consequentially work is often a struggle to retain a coherent sense of self. However, when international workers travel, they also encounter more bland spaces where familiarity and similarity are important. These spaces appear culturally generic to the Western traveler, but are highly Westernized to bring comfort to Western employees traveling in foreign cultures. This paper argues that these spaces are important in cross-cultural identity work in the sense that international workers - professional strangers - need these places to belong and relate to familiarity and to regain a sense of identity. Drawing on an illustrative empirical vignette of an international consultant, I demonstrate how culturally generic spaces can be used in identity work of an international relations consultant.
44.	Muhr, Sara Louise, et al. (författare) The dream consultant: Productive fantasies at work 2013 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1477-2760 .- 1475-9551. ; 19:2, s. 105-123 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Consultants are known to work extreme hours. We show empirically how consultants fantasize about off-work activities, which are impossible to realize with their work schedule. These fantasies are, however, not obstructing their work, but important to justify the extreme hours and sustain desire for work. We draw on Lacan's notion of desire as the Other's desire and analyze the consultants' desire as controlled by a need for recognition at work. We show how consultants need off-work fantasies to maintain the illusion of wholeness of being more than work. Only with this illusion of wholeness can they allow themselves to fully direct their desire toward work. The illusion of being more than work paradoxically makes them capable of being all work.
45.	Pallas, Josef, Professor, 1974-, et al. (författare) Producing and sustaining field-configuring events : The role of prizes in a Swedish Book Fair 2024 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Routledge. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 30:1, s. 47-64 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract We approach field-configuring events (FCEs) as gatherings that engender formative moments in the trajectory of technologies, professions, or industries. Previous research has focused on the field-level consequences of FCEs, implying we still know little about how these events are produced and sustained. Our aim in this paper is concomitantly to theorize the particular role of prizes as elements that help produce and sustain FCEs. Drawing on a qualitative case study of awards allocated at the 2018 Gothenburg Book Fair, we show how prize givers arduously attempt to raise issues and celebrate accomplishments in ways that are packaged for dissemination through media outlets. And these awards generate occasional visibility for prize givers and – by extension – for event organizers. Our paper contributes by highlighting how FCEs and prizes co-construct each other, and how such co- construction regularly unfolds in relation to a media logic that favors simplification and standardization.
46.	Palmås, Karl, 1976 (författare) The production of chemical worlds: Territory and field science in global agribusiness 2013 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 19:3, s. 227-241 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article explores how the marketing practices of an agrichemical corporation can be understood in relation to particular landscapes and soils. Surveying material from a three-year ethnography of farming practices in Sri Lanka, the text interrogates how paddy fields are rendered expressive for farmers. This ‘territorialisation’, the article suggests, is not to be understood as an effort to claim authority over a geographical space, but rather as a ‘worlding’ technique. Thus, the globalisation and agricultural modernisation promoted by the agrichemical corporation co-exists with an affirmation of the uniqueness of particular soils, and with a celebration of site-specific rural knowledges over general physical principles.
47.	Paulsen, Roland (författare) In the mood for obedience : Despair, cynicism, and seduction among employment service employees 2018 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 24:5 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Based on an ethnography at the Swedish Public Employment Service, this paper offers a typology of how employees managed to obey tasks they would rather not perform. It is argued that earlier studies of workplace obedience have tended to focus on a single mood in which the actor obeys: despair, cynicism, or seduction. Here, the movement between these moods is analysed. To pass from despair to cynicism, the emotional sensitivity particular to despair must be reduced. This happens through processes of detachment. To pass from cynicism to seduction, employees must break down the reflexive layer that obstructs enthusiasm. This happens through positive thinking. The reflexive step back to cynicism requires an analytic space that can be obtained either intentionally or through certain events. Building up the sensitivity that distinguishes cynicism from despair occurs through forms of alarm.
48.	Pedersen, Helena (författare) Education, animals, and the commodity form 2012 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Routledge. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 18:5, s. 415-432 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract What would biocommodities say if they could teach? This article investigates what kind of work education performs in biocommoditization processes. It makes two contributions to scholarship on commoditization. First, it integrates education into Marx’s formula for the circulation of capital through the commodity form. Second, it provides a case study of veterinary education to develop Helmreich’s ‘unfinished worksheet’ of biocommoditization, that is, the adaptation of Marx’s formula to biocapital accumulation (B–C–B′). With the material embeddedness of veterinary education in the animal commodity form as an empirical example viewed through a synthesis of Marxist and posthumanist analyses, this article works through each component of Helmreich’s B–C–B′ chain (animal material, animal commodity, animal capital), with particular attention to its interplay with educational practice. In the end, education emerges as a vitalizing guide among other organic and inorganic actants that channel student traffic into the animal economy. This channeling of student traffic is, however, complicated by an element of indeterminacy always already accompanying the education process as well as the transformation of biomaterial into capital.
49.	Rehn, Alf, et al. (författare) 'I Love the Dough' : Rap Lyrics as a Minor Economic Literature 2005 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 11:1, s. 17-31 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Whereas literary and cinematic representations of economy and management have been analyzed for some time (see e.g. Czarniawska and Guillet de Monthoux, 1994; Hassard and Holliday, 1998), precious little interest has been directed to similar aspects in popular music. Consequently, this paper analyzes economy as it is portrayed and disseminated in rap music. By discussing how conspicuous consumption and economic discourses are used in rap lyrics to convey the image of success and possibility, the paper attempts a reading of contemporary capitalism in a particular cultural setting through the notion of a minor literature as theorized by Deleuze and Guattari. The multidimensionality and ironical approach held to the ‘bling-bling’ thus problematizes simplified analyzes of economic language as colonizing (cf. Gibson-Graham, 1996) and instead opens up to a reading of economy as openness.
50.	Rolandsson, Bertil (författare) Responsive professionalism in post-NPM reforms: the case of the Swedish police 2022 Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 28:2, s. 97-114 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article investigates responsive professionalism in local collaboration across organizational boundaries, introduced by public reforms as a means to address the downsides of new public management (NPM) and to foster professionalism ‘closer to the citizens’. The case in point is the Swedish police reform, and the empirical material comprises 39 semi-structured interviews with police officers. Drawing on the work of Noordegraaf (2020. “Protective or Connective Professionalism? How Connected Professionals Can (Still) Act as Autonomous and Authoritative Experts.” Journal of Professions and Organization 7: 205–223. doi:10.1093/jpo/joaa011) and Anteby et al. (2016. “Three Lenses on Occupations and Professions in Organizations: Becoming, Doing, and Relating.” Academy of Management Annals 10 (1): 183–244), indicating that occupations today earn recognition for their professionalism within wider networks of other occupations, this study examines police officers’ occupational awareness of how to maintain responsive professionalism during local collaboration. Findings illustrate how police officers conceive of themselves as moderators, orchestrators, and mediators guided by occupational awareness of different organizational strains and of demands for responsive professionalism. The Swedish police reform was found to promote officers’ independent engagement in formalized or ‘abstract’ modes of professionalism that, nevertheless, continue to be responsive to local demands.

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