Resistance Redux

Organization Studies, Journal Year: 2017, Volume and Issue: 38(9), P. 1157 - 1183

Published: July 21, 2017

The last 15 years have witnessed renewed interest in resistance and around organizations. In this essay, we offer a conceptual framework to thematize burgeoning empirical terrain. We critically explore scholarship that examines terms of its manifestations political intent or impact. four fields possibility for scholarship: individual infrapolitics, collective insubordination, insurrection (the “four I’s” resistance). conclude by considering the relationship between theory praxis, pose questions, provocations, stimulating future research practice.

Language: Английский

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Risk management of supply chains in the digital transformation era: contribution and challenges of blockchain technology

Industrial Management & Data Systems, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 123(1), P. 253 - 277

Published: Feb. 15, 2022

Purpose The high degree of likely disruption challenges organizations at all levels to develop and implement innovative strategies. Ensuring supply chain continuity even during emergency complex situations is critical for organizations. Therefore, this study explores some strategies adopted by firms based on innovation blockchain-enabled digital transformation reduce risk in their chain. Design/methodology/approach This follows the qualitative form enquiry. authors interviewed 26 professionals from domain. After three-layered coding mapping multiple layers data interviews, identified emerging themes sub-themes through a thematic analysis. Findings type risks that can affect global chains along with both role blockchain culture minimizing such adopting technologies. led us framework address blockchain. Practical implications research offers exciting practice drawing insights gathered facilitate management applications are strongly impacted practices around world. also utilization followed propositions era. Originality/value focuses presenting mechanism application technology value Blockchain offer an platform ready future dynamic situations.

Language: Английский

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Sandwiched: Exploring role and identity of middle managers in the genuine middle

Human Relations, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 73(1), P. 124 - 151

Published: March 11, 2019

This article explores middle managers in the professions from their position sandwiched middle. Based upon interviews with senior academics management roles and subordinates UK business schools, we investigate this experienced through a metaphor that informs one particular subject position: to be an umbrella carrier. entails protecting what is seen as unnecessary and/or damaging initiatives information top above, order allow for good professional work take place below. form of countermanagement, which aims weaken hierarchical pressure rather than enforce or uphold it, informed by stronger identification profession below leader role superiors aids identity work.

Language: Английский

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Identities in Organization Studies

Organization Studies, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 40(1), P. 7 - 22

Published: March 20, 2018

Identities scholarship, in particular that focused on self-identities, has burgeoned recent years. With dozens of papers identities organizations published this journal by a substantial community, doubtless with more to come, now is an appropriate juncture reflect extant scholarship and its future prospects. I highlight three key strands self-identities research Organization Studies reference six articles collected the associated Perspectives issue journal. In reviewing contribution work made debates nature identities, how are implicated organizational processes outcomes, micro-politics formation, seek also contribute ongoing deliberations raise issues questions for further research. conclude call increased efforts integrate into agendas sub-fields within organization theory.

Language: Английский

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Sex-based harassment and organizational silencing: How women are led to reluctant acquiescence in academia

Human Relations, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 72(10), P. 1565 - 1594

Published: Dec. 13, 2018

The #MeToo and the Time’s Up movements have raised issue of sexual harassment encountered by women to level public consciousness. Together, these captured not only ubiquity in everyday functioning workplace, but they also demonstrated how are silenced about their experiences it. Inspired political social currents emerging from movements, theoretically informed ideas discursive hegemony, rhetorical persuasion affective practice, this article draws on a qualitative study early- mid-career female academics business schools answer following question: How victims who start voice sex-based within workplace? Our findings reveal that organizational silence is product various third-party actors (e.g. line managers, HR, colleagues) mobilize myriad discourses persuade discontent. We develop concept ‘reluctant acquiescence’ explain victims’ response silencing. In terms its contributions extant literature, article: (i) moves away explanations focus solely (or predominately) actions individual perpetrators; (ii) shows reluctant acquiescence leads maintaining status quo organization. highlighting features academic work facilitate acquiescence, we call for more contextualization dynamics specifically, other forms workplace mistreatment broadly.

Language: Английский

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The Performative University: ‘Targets’, ‘Terror’ and ‘Taking Back Freedom’ in Academia

Management Learning, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 51(4), P. 363 - 377

Published: June 22, 2020

This special issue assembles eight papers which provide insights into the working lives of early career to more senior academics, from several different countries. The first common theme emerges is around predominance ‘targets’, enacting aspects quantification and ideal perfect control fabrication. second about ensuing precarious evocation ‘terror’ impacting on mental well-being, albeit enacted in diverse ways. Furthermore, highlight a particular type response, beyond complicity ‘take freedom back’ (the third theme). used assert an emerging parallel form resistance over time, overt, planned, institutional collective representation towards informal, post-recognition forms collaborative, covert, counter spaces (both virtually physically). Such underpinned by care, generosity embrace vulnerability, whereby reflexive collegiality enacted. We feel that these emergent practices should encourage management, including vice-chancellors, rethink performative practices. Situating context current coronavirus crisis, they point new seeing organising open up, rather than close down, academic unleash collaborative emancipatory power so as contribute public ecological good.

Language: Английский

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Who cares for academics? We need to talk about emotional well-being including what we avoid and intellectualise through macro-discourses

Organization, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 27(6), P. 840 - 857

Published: Aug. 12, 2019

This article explores academics’ well-being through analysing published sensitive disclosures, bringing to journal space the pain, rawness and emotional suffering of individuals’ experiences. We confront taboos speaking openly about mental health in academic institutions, with masculine structures encroaching neoliberal discourses that create hostile atmospheres unsupportive vulnerability uncertainty. also challenge existing well-being, implicitly burdening individuals as responsible for their pain creating walls shame, rather than building new healthy structures. By spotlighting voices intensified by embodied social inequalities, we plead openness formal outlets sharing pre-existing struggles wounds created cruelly competitive, winner-takes-all structures, fortified ideals. Led experiences, make recommendations supporting academics an attempt extract academia from its current perverse state commit repair transformation.

Language: Английский

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Not Even Trying to Change the World: Why Do Elite Management Journals Ignore the Major Problems Facing Humanity?

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 57(2), P. 133 - 152

Published: March 3, 2021

Social scientists have long been concerned with using their research to make the world a better place and there are frequently calls within management studies community for which does so. In this essay, we consider extent such concerns reflected in what is published elite journals. We coded approximately 5,500 articles “top-tier” journals between 2008 2018 found that only 2.8% of critically addressed global “grand challenges”—such as inequality, climate change, racism, gender discrimination. This essay explores possible reasons why. reject explanation academics uninterested major problems facing world. Our argument instead focuses on relationship business school practices journal norms. term school/elite gridlock. To break gridlock, number changes recommended.

Language: Английский

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Decolonizing journals in management and organizations? Epistemological colonial encounters and the double translation

Management Learning, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 54(4), P. 576 - 586

Published: March 18, 2022

Increasingly, academics worldwide need publishing in international journals. Various events and articles aim at teaching others how to write, they spread ideas skills help newcomers. However, we tend neglect the specificities of periphery-based academics, engaging with “international” Drawing from our experience as Brazil, argue that top-academic journals management organization studies demands more than knowing a language goes beyond style. Periphery-based willing publish engage colonial encounter. They develop their ability perform double-translation, writing another for audience. Besides, deal financial costs are often invisible others. We claim decolonizing is challenging must be an ongoing process, which some steps highlight here.

Language: Английский

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Critical Management Studies: A Critical Review

Journal of Management Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 25, 2024

Abstract In this paper, we review the development of critical management studies, point at problems and explore possible developments. We begin by tracing out two previous waves studies. then focus on more recent work in studies identify ten over‐arching themes (Academia, alternatives organizations, control resistance, discourse, Foucauldian gender, identity, Marxism, post‐colonialism, psychoanalysis). argue that CMS has largely relied one‐dimensional critique which focused negation. This made field increasingly stale, usual suspects predictable. a number calling for rethinking. label these author‐itarianism, obscurantism, formulaic radicalism, usual‐suspectism empirical light‐touchism.

Language: Английский

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