Book review: We are going to have to imagine our way out of this one.....: Climate change, fiction and Organization
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 150-153
ISSN: 1461-7323
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In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 150-153
ISSN: 1461-7323
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 23, Heft 6, S. 932-935
ISSN: 1461-7323
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 451-454
ISSN: 1461-7323
In: Culture and organization: the official journal of SCOS, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 197-210
ISSN: 1477-2760
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 15, Heft 6, S. 946-956
ISSN: 1461-7323
In: Asia Pacific business review, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 177-184
ISSN: 1743-792X
In: Organization studies: an international multidisciplinary journal devoted to the study of organizations, organizing, and the organized in and between societies, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 589-609
ISSN: 1741-3044
This essai examines how Borges' narrative fiction may contribute to a reconceptualization of organizational interpretation and representation, and thus complexify the thinking of both organizational theorists and practitioners. This exploration is situated against the background of an increasing awareness of the fictionality of organizational life, and a sensitivity towards the representational practices employed by organizational scholars as they seek to construct persuasive accounts of the theory and practice of organization. By pushing standard interpretative and representational practices to their limits, we can reveal their arbitrariness (and sometimes absurdity), and thus open up new positions of intelligibility. In the denatured contexts of the digital economy, Borges' fantastic fictions appear closer to temporal experience than the authoritative discourses with which mainstream organizational discourse has accustomed us.
In: Asia Pacific business review, Band 4, Heft 2-3, S. 157-161
ISSN: 1743-792X
In: Asia Pacific business review, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 131-132
ISSN: 1743-792X
In: Organization studies: an international multidisciplinary journal devoted to the study of organizations, organizing, and the organized in and between societies, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 699-704
ISSN: 1741-3044
In: Organization studies: an international multidisciplinary journal devoted to the study of organizations, organizing, and the organized in and between societies, Band 45, Heft 5, S. 745-766
ISSN: 1741-3044
This Perspectives article delves into the archives of Organization Studies covering the period 1986–2010 to advance and develop our thinking of politics and political thinking in organization studies. In our Benjamin-inflected reading, we look for the revolutionary energies that reside in what may at first appear as perhaps 'outmoded' articles in an intellectual environment where the obsolescence of ideas and concepts seems to increase at pace. The purpose of the excavation of our six chosen texts is to build a constellation of what we call 'interstitial positions' that reside within and outside the analytical contours of these texts. In this way we bring these texts into a critical condition in the hope that their constellation can act as a real force in the present and help illuminate our contemporary situation. We might then renew our sense of possibility and choice about the organizational worlds we inhabit and open future avenues for thinking politics informed by the distinctive disciplinary traditions of organization studies.
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 59-78
ISSN: 1461-7323
In this article, we seek to open up the study of affect and organization to colour. Often simply taken for granted in organizational life and usually neglected in organizational thought, colour is an affective force by default. Deploying and interweaving the languages of affect theory, critical theory and organization studies, we discuss colour as a primary phenomenon for the study of 'critical affect'. We then trace colour's affect in conditioning the unfolding of organization in two particular 'colour/spaces' – Adorno's grey and Taussig's blue of our title – and discuss both its ambiguity and critical potential. Finally, we ponder what colour might do to the style of an organizational scholarship attuned to affect, where sentences blur with things and forces more than they seek to represent them.
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 465-484
ISSN: 1461-7323
In this article, we examine the theoretically constructed case of private equity in the UK anno 2007. The theory at play is the theoretical edifice Luc Boltanski has been developing for more than two decades and which concerns the underlying architectonics of how social reality is constituted, challenged and stabilized. We thus interweave the story of private equity with the evolution of Boltanski's work: from the six-world model to the widening of the critical notion of 'test' and the outline of a new 'connexionist' capitalist logic, and finally to his most recent attempts at reconnecting his sociology of critical practices with a more traditional critical sociology. Now that Boltanski's work from the 1990s is being increasingly used and critiqued in our field, we believe it is important to engage with his more recent writings which, while less easy to 'apply', have acquired more depth, complexity and a change in focus in response to some of the more pertinent critique. The case of private equity is of particular interest in that for a brief moment it became the 'face' of 21st century capitalism, something which is significant in the broadening of our discussion into the possibilities and the limits of critique under a financialized capitalism.
In: Organization: the critical journal of organization, theory and society, Band 15, Heft 6, S. 851-868
ISSN: 1350-5084
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 15, Heft 6, S. 851-868
ISSN: 1461-7323
Building on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Maurice Merleau-Ponty we seek to open up traditional categories of thought surrounding the relation `body-organization' and elicit a thought experiment: What happens if we move the body from the periphery to the centre? We pass the interlocking theoretical concepts of object-body/subject-body and habitus through the theoretically constructed empirical case of `carnival dance' in order to re-evaluate such key organizational concepts as knowledge and learning. In doing so, we connect with an emerging body of literature on `sensible knowledge'; knowledge that is produced and preserved within bodily practices. The investigation of habitual appropriation in carnival dance also allows us to make links between repetition and experimentation, and reflect on the mechanism through which the principles of social organization, whilst internalized and experienced as natural, are embodied so that humans are capable of spontaneously generating an infinite array of appropriate actions. This perspective on social and organizational life, where change and permanence are intricately interwoven, contrasts sharply with the dominant view in organization studies which juxtaposes change/ creativity and stability.