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- Al-Dajani, Haya, et al.
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A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research : expanding the agenda of family entrepreneurship
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1355-2554 .- 1758-6534.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PurposeThis conceptual, multi-voiced paper aims to collectively explore and theorize family entrepreneuring, which is a research stream dedicated to investigating the emergence and becoming of entrepreneurial phenomena in business families and family firms.Design/methodology/approachBecause of the novelty of this research stream, the authors asked 20 scholars in entrepreneurship and family business to reflect on topics, methods and issues that should be addressed to move this field forward.FindingsAuthors highlight key challenges and point to new research directions for understanding family entrepreneuring in relation to issues such as agency, processualism and context.Originality/valueThis study offers a compilation of multiple perspectives and leverage recent developments in the fields of entrepreneurship and family business to advance research on family entrepreneuring.
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- Benozzo, Angelo, et al.
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Working within the shadow : what do we do with "not-yet" data?
- 2020
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Ingår i: Qualitative research in organization and management. - : EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD. - 1746-5648 .- 1746-5656. ; 15:2, s. 145-159
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities opened up by those messy, unclear and indeterminate data in research situations that may be described as being in the shadow and may as such remain in a state of vagueness and indeterminacy. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on the extant literature on shadow organizing and post-qualitative methodologies. It focuses attention on not-yet (or shadow data) in order to ponder over what researchers do to data when they are not (yet) black-boxed as such. At the same time, it investigates what it is that not-yet data do to researchers. Findings Four types of "not-yet" data - illegible, wondrous and disorienting, hesitant and worn out - are presented and discussed. Data are illegible when a researcher is in the position of not knowing how to interpret what is in front of her/him. A second illustration is constructed around wonder, and poses the question of the feelings of surprise and disorientation that arise when facing uncanny realities. In a third situation, not-yet data are narrated as hesitation, when a participant feels conflicting desires and the researchers hesitates in interpreting. The fourth illustration depicts not-yet data as data that have been corrupted, that vanish after time or are worn out. Practical implications Not-yet data belong to researchers practice but can also be found in other professional practices which are concerned with the indeterminacy of shadowy situations. It is argued that situations like these constitute opportunities for learning and for the moral and professional development, so long as indeterminacy is kept open and a process of "slowing down" both action and interpretation is nurtured. Originality/value This paper is of value for taking the metaphor of shadow organizing further. Moreover, it represents a rare attempt to bring the vast debate on post-qualitative research/methodologies into management studies, which with very few exceptions seems to have been ignored by organization studies.
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- Bispo, Marcelo de Souza, et al.
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Flesh-and-blood knowing Interpreting qualitative data through embodied practice-based research
- 2019
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Ingår i: RAUSP MANAGEMENT JOURNAL. - : UNIV SAO PAULO, FAC ECONOMIA. - 2531-0488. ; 54:4, s. 371-383
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose - This paper aims to offer a perspective to interpret qualitative data drawing on the introduction of the notion of "embodied practice-based research". Design/methodology/approach - Drawing on a comprehensive literature review to support a meta-theoretical approach, we developed a theoretical essay. Findings - The body is not only a field of studies but a mean of study as well. The embodied practice-rased research is an inquiry style to access the tacit texture of social action and cognition. Practical implications - Embodied practice-based research may impact qualitative researchers' education and the way to report methodological proceedings and data report. Originality/value - The core contribution of the paper is the introduction of a new research style able to change how researchers' bodies may be used in qualitative management research.
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- Bivall, Ann-Charlotte, 1977-
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Helpdesking : Knowing and learning in IT support practices
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The background of this doctoral thesis is an interest in work achievement over extended time periods in specialized and technology-infused workplaces. Globalization, digitalization and increased focus on customer services are constituent aspects that have been claimed responsible for the current changes in the way work practices and teamwork are organized. In IT helpdesk work, which is the object of study in this thesis, challenges including dissemination of information, keeping up-to-date with technological changes and coordi- nation of people and tasks have been identified as critical. The aim of this thesis is to illuminate how knowing and competence are maintained and shared as participants engage in backstage activities in helpdesk work. The focus is on the nature of the activities that unfolds when employees engage in activities that include interaction as well as artefacts. The empirical material comprises video- and audio-recorded activities of a second-level helpdesk in a large multinational IT provider. Targeted ‘hot spot’ activities are shift changes, quality discussions and introductions of newcomers. Based on a sociocultural perspective, the (re)production of professional practices is understood as continuous negotiations between participants and tools within a situated framework. Methodologically, this implies detailed investigations of authentic activities where interactions and tool use are analysed from the participant’s perspective. Three studies are included in the thesis, each of them provide insights into the organizing of shared knowing and competence. Study One focuses on how tasks and information are communicated between shifts and transformed into workable units and knowledge. Study Two addresses the role of activities specifically arranged for learning and separated from other work tasks. In Study Three, the focus is on introductions of newcomers and what can be learned from interactions with experienced participants and technological tools. The analyses show that knowledge work is a continuous and communicatively-based undertaking. Continuity across shifts relies on several documenting routines and procedures, but shift change meetings provide opportunities for interpretation and negotiation of information as well as coordination of tasks. Talking about work provides a space for reflection and reformulation of team-related quality norms and values as shared foundations for work. Furthermore, inducting newcomers to the specialized and situated practice brings about the very detailed procedures involved in managing everyday work and technological tools. By describing the reasoning and knowing displayed by helpdesk employees, the thesis contributes to discussions about knowledge work and sharing in organizational settings, teamwork, system design and lifelong learning. To conclude, it is suggested that sharing and reproduction of knowing in practice is a collective effort that entails creative involvement by members of the practice.
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- Calás, M. B., et al.
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What to do about "The Human" in Organization Studies? : Thinking/saying/ doing with the Anthropocene, pandemics, and thereafters
- 2023
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Ingår i: A Research Agenda for Organization Studies, Feminisms and New Materialisms. - : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.. - 9781800881273 - 9781800881266 ; , s. 177-194
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Each of the chapters in this volume, from the introduction to this end(ing), engaged in a conversation about producing knowledge in, about, with "organization studies" at a time when we (us, the human inhabitants of this Earth) are facing calamitous conditions, probably leading to our/its destruction, and (some more than others) are wondering what is to be done. As members of the management and organization studies (MOS) scholarly community, all the authors in this project are deeply concerned about the "knowledge" our common field is producing as "legitimate", for it seems not only inadequate for addressing those calamitous conditions but also that this kind of knowledge may be implicated in reproducing the harms we all decry. The aim here has not been to critique the field on the basis of what it produces but to acknowledge conditions perpetuating the production of those forms of knowledge more generally, and to offer positive alternatives which may make a difference in what is produced, perhaps contributing to a better world‚ over and over again. The message this chapter and all other chapters hope to convey is the possibility of "thinking, saying and doing otherwise". But can we truly question the very notion of "the human" supporting "legitimate knowledge"? Can we truly focus on producing processual knowledge with indefinite aims? In other words, is the becoming of an organization studies produced with feminist new materialisms possible? Responding to those questions, and following the original proposal for this volume, this chapter is the voice of the collectivity articulating 'the-world-and-beyond' as envisioned in each of the prior chapters. Taking this approach resonates as well with new materialisms: "'a doing with' which cannot be a 'doing alone' -more like a world of on-going assembling".
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- Capelli, Filippo, et al.
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Decontamination of food packages from SARS-COV-2 RNA with a cold plasma-assisted system
- 2021
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Ingår i: Applied Sciences (Switzerland). - : MDPI AG. - 2076-3417. ; 11:9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The accidental contamination of food and food packaging surfaces with SARS-CoV-2 is of increasing concern among scientists and consumers, particularly in relation to fresh foods that are consumed without further cooking. The use of chemical sanitizers is often not suitable for these kinds of commodities; therefore, a non-thermal sanitation technology could help to increase safety in relation to the food supply chain. Cold plasma has proven to be a promising strategy for virus inactivation. This research is aimed at evaluating the ability of a cold plasma sanitation system to inactivate SARS-CoV-2 RNA on packaged foods. Two different plastic materials were investigated and subjected to 5- and 10-min exposure to plasma after experimental inoculum of the RNA. In addition to viral degradation, possible changes in the performance of the materials were evaluated. Shelf-life of the foods, after exposure of the packages to plasma, was also investigated. Results showed that 10 min of exposure was sufficient to almost completely eliminate the viral RNA from package surfaces. The treatment did not produce any significant variation in packaging material performance or the shelf-life of the tested packaged products, indicating the potentiality of this treatment for the decontamination of packaged products.
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- Cozza, Michela, 1978-, et al.
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COVID-19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices
- 2021
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : WILEY. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 28:S1, s. 190-208
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A lot of things need to be repaired and a lot of relationships are in need of a knowledgeable mending. Can we start to talk/write about them? This invitation - sent by one of the authors to the others - led us, as feminist women in academia, to join together in an experimental writing about the effects of COVID-19 on daily social practices and on potential (and innovative) ways for repairing work in different fields of social organization. By diffractively intertwining our embodied experiences of becoming together-with Others, we foreground a multiplicity of repair (care) practices COVID-19 is making visible. Echoing one another, we take a stand and say that we need to prevent the future from becoming the past. We are not going back to the past; our society has already changed and there is a need to cope with innovation and repairing practices that do not reproduce the past.
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- Cozza, Michela, 1978-, et al.
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Feminism under erasure in new feminist materialism as a case of symbolic manspreading
- 2023
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Ingår i: A Research Agenda for Organization Studies, Feminisms and New Materialisms. - : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.. - 9781800881273 - 9781800881266 ; , s. 33-54
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this chapter, by metaphorically extending the meaning of the word "manspreading", on one hand we describe how the term "feminist" in "new feminist materialism" has been placed "under erasure". On the other hand, we show how the feminism has been always already all set for disturbing the discursive male order of new materialism. We foreground three main feminist ethico-onto-epistemological assumptions: decentering the subject, (re)materializing all bodies; intra-acting responsibly. Correspondingly, we articulate three alternative forms of politics - a politics of location, a politics of re-materialization, and an ethical politics of response-ability - which, we deem, embody the generative and affirmative posture of new feminist materialism and pave the way for a different knowledge production practice in Management and Organization Studies.
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- Cozza, Michela, 1978-, et al.
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Narrare la quotidianità in FBK
- 2010
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Ingår i: Trasformazioni. Identità istituzionale e organizzazione della ricerca: la Fondazione Bruno Kessler. - Trento : FBK Press. - 9788890538902
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- de Vaujany, F. -X, et al.
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General conclusion : The paradoxical invitation of posthumanism to organization studies: Between processuality and criticality
- 2024
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Ingår i: Organization Studies and Posthumanism: Towards a More-than-Human World. - : Taylor and Francis. - 9781040011669 ; , s. 316-319
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- At the end of the adventure of this book, we would like to conclude by coming back to the implications of posthumanism for the grand challenges of our time. Climate change, geopolitical crisis (with war), nuclear threats, the crumbing of sense at work, surveillance capitalism, and rising inequalities all of these dangers converge in one way or another to an old will of control. They originate in too-humanistic paths in the world. From there, posthumanism can lead to two different approaches: a processual posthumanism and a critical posthumanism. These two complementary approaches are detailed and implications are drawn for management and organization studies.
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- Gherardi, Silvia
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A practice-Based approach to safety as an emergent competence
- 2018
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Ingår i: Beyond Safety Training. - Cham : Springer Verlag. - 9783319655277 ; , s. 11-21
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter proposes to look at safety as a collective knowledgeable doing, i.e. a competency embedded in working practices. Therefore, by adopting a practice-based approach to inquire into how work is actually accomplished, we can study how knowing safe and safer working practices is kept and maintained within situated ways of working and talking about safety. The knowledge object ‘safety’ is constructed—materially and discursively—by a plurality of professional communities, according to specific scientific disciplines, controlling specific leverages within an organization, and talking different discourses. In a workplace, there are competing discourses: technological, normative, educational, economic, and managerial. Therefore, learning safer working practices is mediated by comparison among the perspectives of the world embraced by the co-participants in the production of safety as an organizational practice. Training and learning based on situated working practices presumes the collective engagement of researchers and participants in reflexivity, which can help to bring to the surface the experience knowledge embedded in practicing and transform it into actionable knowledge to produce practice changes. In fact, the engagement of practitioners, their experience knowledge and their care for what they do may enhance workplace resilience.
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- Gherardi, Silvia, et al.
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Academy in my flesh : Affective athleticism and performative writing
- 2023
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Ingår i: Affective Capitalism in Academia. - : Policy Press. - 9781447357841 - 9781447357865 ; , s. 175-195
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- Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on affect theory and research on academic capitalism, this book examines the contemporary crisis of universities. With 11 international and comparative case studies, it offers a unique exploration of the contemporary role of affect in academic labour and the organisation of scholarship and explores diverse features of contemporary academic life, from the coloniality of academic capitalism to performance management and the experience of being performance-managed.
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- Gherardi, Silvia, et al.
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ACTOR-NETWORKS : ECOLOGY AND ENTREPRENEURS
- 2020. - 2
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Ingår i: Actor-Network Theory and Organizing. - : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144151762 ; , s. 295-320
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- Gherardi, Silvia
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Atmospheric Attunement in the Becoming of a Happy Object : ‘That Special Gut Feeling’
- 2022
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Ingår i: Doing Process Reserch in Organizations. - : Oxford University Press. - 9780191944741 - 9780192849632 ; , s. 16-38
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter illustrates the empirical and processual study of affect. By drawing on a posthumanist practice theory, we conceive a research practice as an agencement of heterogeneous elements that achieve agency by entanglement, focusing on how affect realizes ‘agencing’. We experiment with ‘slow seeing’ as a research practice in our engagement with the digital materiality of a video produced for promoting welfare technologies in Sweden. We follow our ‘becoming-with’ the main character of the video and her digital embodiments as ‘self-in-control’, a ‘vulnerable’ body, a ‘technologically mediated body’, and the body of a ‘happy consumer’. From affect theory, we borrow the concept of ‘happy object’ as a method to engage the flow of performative ‘becoming-with’ ideas, values, and objects. Our contribution in theorizing the process of atmospheric attunement is noticing how the labour of attuning proceeds in iterations of sensing, becoming, and becoming-with.
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- Gherardi, Silvia
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Authoring the female entrepreneur while talking the discourse of work-family life balance
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Small Business Journal. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. - 0266-2426 .- 1741-2870. ; 33:6, s. 649-666
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article illustrates the gendering of entrepreneurship as an intertwined process of gendering and entrepreneuring that can commence from the analysis of a single situated practice. The practice I explore is deemed 'authoring own-self as entrepreneur', that is, how the 'I' is authored through narrative and discursive processes, mobilized in the presentation of a public identity within a community of entrepreneurs. This is illustrated by four ways of authoring the process of becoming a female entrepreneur in relation to gender and life issues: as a firm-creator, as a coauthor of a project, as a responsible wife, as a member of the second generation. In authoring entrepreneuring, discursive resources are mobilized and edited within a narrative of identity where the process of negotiating one of the major narratives in the field (the work-family life balance) is performed. The discourse on work-family life balance is traditionally constructed in dichotomous terms, and its gender subtext is taken for granted. It portrays a supposed universality of gender conditions based on the implicit assumptions that when women work their family life is under threat, that work and family are two separate and separable spheres of activities, that it is a women's responsibility to keep them in balance, and finally that women in entrepreneurship, as in any other working environment, will be affected by the potential unbalance since their primary loyalty would be to reproduction and the home. On the contrary when female entrepreneuring is conceived as a life form, the discourse on work-family life balance is challenged.
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- Gherardi, Silvia, et al.
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Caring as a collective knowledgeable doing : About concern and being concerned
- 2016
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Ingår i: Management Learning. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. - 1350-5076 .- 1461-7307. ; 47:3, s. 266-284
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Care is not an innate human capacity; rather, it is an organizational competence, a situated knowing that a group of professionals enact while attending to their everyday tasks. We propose a post-humanist practice approach to reading care as a matter of concern for those producing care and for society at large. Care is framed as a collective knowledgeable doing', it is not an object or a quality that is added to work; rather, it is caring', an ongoing sociomaterial accomplishment. Through an ethnography in a nursing home for the elderly, we describe: (a) how caring was collectively performed in keeping a common orientation, (b) how caring was inscribed in a texture of practices, and (c) how a technological change in nutrition practice mobilized ethics as practice in situated decision-making. Since natural nutrition is being increasingly replaced by artificial feeding, we describe how the collective and organizational ethic of care with tube feeding is talked about in practice, in a front-stage situation and in the back-stage one. In this process, the duality of care as a matter of concern and as the process of being concerned by caring becomes visible.
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- Gherardi, Silvia
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Conclusions : Towards an Understanding of Education as a Social Practice
- 2015
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Ingår i: Practice-based Learning in Higher Education. - Dordrecht : Springer Nature. - 9789401795012 ; , s. 173-181
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The chapters in this book have focused on what is apparently a single issue, and which is denoted by the expression ‘practice-based learning’. However, consideration of this theme through many different lenses and from diverse points of view has had the effect of constructing an approach whereby the topic has become broader and more nuanced. What has been used is a kind of magnifying glass that places the knowledge object within a broader framework, freeing it from the strictures of falsely circumscribed definitions.
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- Gherardi, Silvia, et al.
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Daughters taking over the family business : Their justification work within a dual regime of engagement
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship. - : EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD. - 1756-6266 .- 1756-6274. ; 8:1, s. 28-47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose - This paper aims to explore gender and legitimacy in family business succession. Design/methodology/approach - Within the theoretical framework of French pragmatic sociology, the authors conceptualise the family business as the locus where two regimes of engagement are present, generating the co-presence of two orders of worth, namely the domestic and the industrial. Taking a processual approach to entrepreneuring, and using case studies of small enterprises in Italy, this paper explores the case of daughters taking over the family firms. Findings - The paper shows how the daughters' perceived gender inequality in the succession process is justified and how the justification work and the production of legitimacy are accomplished, shifting from one order of worth to the other. Originality/value - The value of the contribution consists in pointing to how gender inequality is reproduced and justified inside the family business. The dual regime of engagement is what justifies the reproduction of a specific gender regime within the family business. Moreover, the paper adds a "gender" perspective to French pragmatist sociology.
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- Gherardi, Silvia
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Embodied Research Methods
- 2020
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Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 41:6, s. 901-904
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- Gherardi, Silvia
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Gender as a politics of knowledge
- 2015
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Ingår i: Identitäten verhandeln – Identitäten de/konstruieren. - : Innsbruck university press. - 9783902936905 ; , s. 17-35
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- Gherardi, Silvia
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How practice theory participates in critical posthumanist conversations
- 2024
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Ingår i: Organization Studies and Posthumanism: Towards a More-than-Human World. - : Taylor and Francis. - 9781040011669 ; , s. 162-182
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter illustrates the contribution that practice theories have offered to the ongoing conversation on critical posthumanism and how this conversation has shaped in its turn a stream of practice theorization. It offers two points of entry: a conception of practice as agencement and the sociomateriality of situated practices and it argues that the main contribution that a posthumanist practice theory offers to posthumanism is a methodological reflection for re-thinking qualitative empirical research once the human subject (and the humanist predicament associated to the Man of reason) has been decentered. It constitutes an experimentation with posthumanist qualitative inquiry, in which research practices do not “represent” reality, rather they explore various knowledge-producing practices and how different ways of producing reality have different social, economic, and political effects.
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- Gherardi, Silvia
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How the Turn to Practice may contribute to Working Life Studies
- 2015
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies. - : ROSKILDE UNIV. - 2245-0157. ; 5:3A, s. 13-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Working life studies and practice-based studies have a common interest for work, and how work is accomplished in situated working conditions. The turn to practice may contribute to renew the study of work. The main concern of a practice-based approach to working practices is to understand the logic of the situation and the performance of action as practical knowledge, which connects working with organizing and knowing with practicing. The article will first illustrate the basic assumptions of an approach to working practices based on a post-humanist practice theory and second it will focus on a specific contribution from it. I shall argue that a practice approach to innovation as a continuous process contributes to a better understanding of how working practices change or persist. In fact, the study of work in situation is not only descriptive in its purpose, but it is also intended to yield practical outcomes for empowering practitioners in their attachment to practicing.
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- Gherardi, Silvia
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If we practice posthumanist research, do we need 'gender' any longer?
- 2019
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : WILEY. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 26:1, s. 40-53
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article offers a reflection around the question of 'do we need 'gender' any longer?' In taking up this problem and inspired by the way in which postqualitative inquiry has opened a conversation with Deleuzian philosophy and formulated a 'concept as/instead of method' line of thought, I wonder whether new images of thought might give the concept of gender 'the forces it needs to return to life' or the forces to abandon it. I propose four different images that might provoke the desire to experiment with a new image of thought in relation to the problem: a vegetal mode of thought, a musical mode, a fleshy mode as labiaplasty, a nonliving mode. This choice is connected to the dualities they target: the human/vegetal living world, the rational/artistic production of knowledge, the dis-embodied/corporeal being in the world, the life/nonlife hierarchization. Each way of thinking of 'gender' stages, enacts, performs a different material reality of the concept that shifts the focus from linguistic representations to discursive practices. Hence, if gender has become a dominant discourse, it may be that positive repetition of this discourse might become a way of opening a new site inside it, by de-territorializing it and re-territorializing it otherwise.
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- Gherardi, Silvia, et al.
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Imagine being asked to evaluate your CEO ... : Using the constructive controversy approach to teach gender and management in times of economic crisis
- 2015
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Ingår i: Management Learning. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. - 1350-5076 .- 1461-7307. ; 46:1, s. 6-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses the relationship between gender and management as intertwined discursive practices. Following a constructive controversial approach, we proposed to the students to complete a short story in which they have to give a feedback either to a fictitious female or to a male boss. The article has a dual aim since it offers a reflection on a teaching methodology suited to foster critical thinking in the classroom and analyzes the narratives so produced in search of what constitutes the students' idea of good management. In positioning men/women CEO within a narrative, students enact a moral order that evaluates management in society. Their narratives reveal how the economic crisis has undermined the positive image of the male manager, while femaleness is emphasized for its anti-managerial imaginary. Moreover, the idea of what constitutes good management is constructed around an idea of care for both male and female CEOs.
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- Gherardi, Silvia
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Learning : Organizational
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition. - : Elsevier Inc.. - 9780080970875 - 9780080970868 ; , s. 695-698
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Organizational learning is a relatively recent metaphor for the organization that matches two concepts - learning and organization - and enables exploration of the organization as if it were endowed with a stock of knowledge, skills, and expertise. A short history of the concept will illustrate its development in organization studies. During the 2000s, not only did attention to processes and temporality increase, but also an epistemology of becoming appeared where the boundaries between learning and knowing, order and disorder, organization and organizing became conflated. Knowing took the place of knowledge, and instead of considering knowledge as an object or a resource, the concept of knowing makes it possible to see it as a collective knowledgeable doing that is situated in working practices.
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- Gherardi, Silvia, et al.
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Luigi Pareyson’s Estetica : Teoria della formatività and Its Implications for Organization Studies
- 2017
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Review. - : Academy of Management. - 0363-7425 .- 1930-3807. ; 42:4, s. 745-755
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- In this article, we illustrate some principal features of Pareyson’s philosophical aesthetics and their relevance within aesthetic organizational research and the study of social practice in organization. In his main work on aesthetics, Estetica: Teoria della formatività, written during the Fifties, the Italian philosopher proposes a personalistic existentialist hermeneutics and stresses the concreteness of the person in the social interaction with the concreteness of the Other and of the materiality of the world created and formed. Aesthetic philosophy as ‘formativeness’ focuses on flesh, incarnation, materiality of the interpreted world, doing while inventing how to do, and the practice of doing philosophy. In the essay, we underline the relationship between ‘formativeness’ and the valorization of aesthetics in the study of organizational practice that has led to the appreciation of the corporeality of personal knowledge in the process of knowing in practice. We argue that, if we want to appreciate Pareyson’s contribution to organization and management studies, we can see management as art, production processes as artistry, a work well done as a work of art, and of course art in itself. Our conclusion is that, while ‘philosophy’ constituted the link between Pareyson’s Formatività and the aesthetic discourse on organizational life, ‘practice’ constituted the link among ‘formativeness’, organizational aesthetics research and practice-based studies.Keywords aesthetic philosophy; formativeness; organizational aesthetics; Luigi Pareyson; Practice-based Studies
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- Gherardi, Silvia
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One turn ... and now another one : Do the turn to practice and the turn to affect have something in common?
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Ingår i: Management Learning. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. - 1350-5076 .- 1461-7307. ; 48:3, s. 345-358
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The turn to practice has been prominent in the community of Management Learning and still occupies an important place in the debate that approaches practice from the standpoint of learning and knowing. On considering how the turn to practice contributes to the ongoing conversation on post-epistemologies, one notes a convergence with another turn'. The turn to affect started more or less in the same years as the turn to practice, but the conversation between the two has not yet been fully articulated. I argue that both share a concern for (1) a relational epistemology, (2) the body and (3) sociomateriality. To show how they may interact, three vignettes are presented to illustrate their commonalities and how they try to produce in the reader an affective reaction. This article is also the outcome of an experimentation conducted with a visual writer during the Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities conference in Milan, and it proposes a reflection on the limits of representationalism.
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- Gherardi, Silvia, et al.
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Organizational members as storywriters : on organizing practices of reflexivity
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Ingår i: Learning Organization. - 0969-6474 .- 1758-7905. ; 25:1, s. 51-62
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- Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe how organizational members became storywriters of an important process of organizational change. Writing became a practice designed to create a space, a time and a methodology with which to author the process of change and create a learning context. The written stories produced both the subjectivity of practical authors and reflexively created the con/text for their reproduction.Design/methodology/approach – A storywriting workshop inspired by a processual and participatory practice-based approach to learning and knowing was held in a research organization undergoing privatization. For six months, 31 organizational members, divided into two groups, participated in writing one story per week for six weeks. The written story had to refer to a fact that had occurred in the previous week, thus prompting reflection on the ongoing organizational life and giving a situated meaning to the change process.Findings – Storywriting is first and foremost a social practice of wayfinding, that is of knowing as one goes. Writing proved to be an effective practice that involved the authors, their narratives and the audiences in a shared experience where all these practice elements became connected and through their connection acquired agency.Originality/value – Narrative knowledge has been studied mainly in storytelling, while storywriting by organizational members has received less attention. This paper explores storywriting both as a situated, relational and material practice and as the process that produces narratives which can be considered for their content and their style.
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