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AbstractThis paper examines the ethical value of artistic artifacts in challenging the unequal valuation of working bodies with a focus on the contemporary art exhibition 'Useless bodies?' by Danish artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset. Drawing on Judith Butler's work and posthuman theory, particularly Braidotti's contributions, the paper argues that this exhibition exemplifies how art can foster an ethics of interdependency, one that both critiques dynamics of misrecognition and imagines alternative futures. Furthermore, the paper proposes that this affirmative and critical ethics provides theoretical and methodological foundations for work and organization studies, prompting new questions about the significance of embodiment, esthetics, and artifacts for conducting (ethical) research.

This research aims to investigate the financial and immigration mismanagement in Italy in the context of the recent refugee crisis. The paper contributes to previous accounting studies on corruption and immigration by unveiling the role of accounting as a technology of ignorance serving multiple and contradictory objectives of a fragmented State. We observed that ignorance partially produced through accounting relieved the Italian state of the social, political and economic burden of the refugee crisis. As opposed to a common understanding of corruption as use of public office for private gains, the consequent lack of control and corruption deriving from this ignorance ultimately served 'public' gains. The paper proposes retroduction as an approach for conducting critical accounting studies and invites future accounting researchers to expose States' control over territory, resources, and population through a critical investigation of the strategic and political use of ignorance.

Dans le présent article, nous examinons la relation entre les réseaux en tant que mode émergent de gouvernance publique et la corruption. C'est sur la base de la vision théorique de la théorie de l'acteur-réseau que nous examinons un exemple italien de corruption lié à l'attribution de marchés gouvernementaux pour la gestion du CARA de Mineo, le plus grand centre d'accueil de migrants en Europe. Notre analyse montre qu'un réseau de gouvernance peut transformer la corruption proprement dite en un réseau où les abus de pouvoir peuvent proliférer grâce à l'opacité résultant de la multiplicité des acteurs, des interactions et de la fragmentation qui caractérisent le système de gouvernance. Remarques à l'intention des praticiens Dans le présent article, nous élaborons une analyse destinée à mettre en évidence l'efficacité des stratégies de lutte contre la corruption en analysant les points critiques du système de gouvernance mis en place par le gouvernement italien pour faire face aux flux migratoires. Notre article offre dès lors un éclairage pertinent aux décideurs politiques et aux institutions nationales et européennes.

This article explores the relation between networks as an emerging mode of public governance and corruption. Adopting the theoretical lens of actor-network theory, the article investigates an Italian episode of corruption related to the awarding of government contracts for the management of Mineo's CARA, Europe's largest reception centre for migrants. The analysis shows that a governance network may turn corruption itself into a network where abuse of power can proliferate thanks to the opacity resulting from the multiplicity of actors, interactions and fragmentation characterizing the governance system.

Les études existantes ont négligé la manière dont les partenariats entre les acteurs publics et privés (PPP) sont influencés par les conditions culturelles et historiques dans le contexte des villes intelligentes. Notre analyse porte sur le contexte particulier du Japon, où les initiatives en matière de villes intelligentes découlent d'un « partenariat » historiquement et culturellement ancré entre l'État et les entreprises. Contrairement à d'autres contextes de villes intelligentes, l'adoption d'une logique néolibérale consistant à voir le monde comme un marché omniprésent en donnant la priorité aux intérêts commerciaux sur d'autres questions civiques n'est pas inévitable. Le présent article contribue à la littérature sur les PPP et les villes intelligentes en présentant le cas d'un partenariat entre acteurs publics et privés qui vient à bout de la relation antagoniste et transactionnelle problématisée dans les études antérieures. Nous démontrons que le fonctionnement des PPP est ancré dans l'histoire et la culture. Nous mettons donc en garde les décideurs politiques contre l'adoption d'un cadre universel pour les partenariats dans les initiatives de villes intelligentes. Dans le cas du Japon, nous préconisons des orientations à long terme pour les projets plutôt que des objectifs à court terme comme ceux qui sont adoptés pour les initiatives de villes intelligentes.

Previous studies have overlooked how partnerships between public and private actors (PPPs) play out as an effect of cultural and historical conditions in the context of a smart city. Our analysis investigates the peculiar context of Japan, where smart city initiatives stem from a historically and culturally embedded "partnership" between government and businesses. Unlike other smart city settings, the adoption of a neoliberal logic of an all-embracing market world by prioritizing business interests over other civic issues is not inevitable. This paper contributes to the literature on PPPs and smart cities by presenting the case of a partnership between public and private actors that overcomes the antagonistic and transactional relationship problematized in previous studies. We demonstrate that the workings of PPPs are historically and culturally embedded. Thus, we caution policy-makers against adopting a universal framework for partnerships in smart city initiatives. In the case of Japan, we advocate for long term orientations of projects instead of the short-term goals espoused by smart city initiatives.

Previous studies have overlooked how partnerships between public and private actors (PPPs) play out as an effect of cultural and historical conditions in the context of smart city. Our analysis investigates the peculiar context of Japan, where smart city initiatives stem from historically and culturally embedded 'partnership' between government and businesses. Unlike other smart city settings, adopting a neoliberal logic of an all-embracing market world by prioritizing business interests over other civic issues is not inevitable. This paper contributes to the literature on PPPs and smart city by presenting the case of a partnership between public and private actors that overcomes the antagonistic and transactional relationship problematized in previous studies.

Drawing from the theoretical insights of pragmatic constructivism, this paper aims to explain the difficulties faced by organizational actors in the translation of performance-based budgeting (PBB) into practice. The dichotomy of reality and illusion at the centre of pragmatic constructivism sheds light on the limitations and shortcomings that characterize the implementation of a business-like practice introduced as a component of the reform movement known as New Public Management (NPM). The paper investigates the case of an Italian Ministry through the analysis of interviews, policy documents, and governmental reports. The analysis shows that a failed integration of communication, values and aims between actors and an illusionary analysis of factual possibilities constrain the construction of causalities, hence jeopardizing the successful implementation of the performance-based budgeting reform. Rather than engaging in a co-authoring process, the actors are left with illusionary constructs that, while providing the appearance of a compliant organization, fail to produce the desired changes.

The regulative and oppressive effects of gender norms on bodies of transgender workers have been mostly explored in standard binary gender work settings. We explore the regulative effects of specialized transgender work regimes by posing the following two questions: how do specialized transgendered work regimes regulate transgender work and bodies? and how do transgender workers cope with these regimes? Through a case study of khwajasiras, a community of male-to-female transgender people in Pakistan, we explain how competing and conflicting body ideals of hyper-eroticism, spirituality, and hybridity set by these regimes, allow khwajasiras to transgress the binary gender norms. Ironically, however, these specialized work regimes have their own regulative and oppressive effects on khwajasiras' bodies and work. We then demonstrate how khwajasiras cope with these regulative effects in three different ways: embracing the body ideals, strategically shifting work and body across the regimes, and relegating body norms as unimportant for being a transgender. We finally argue that these differences in enacting different form of transgenderness is an outcome of a tight coupling or contradiction between audiences, khwajasira community and individual workers' own sense of transgender authenticity.