Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2256443
Hugo Letiche
ABSTRACTResearch into organizational culture seems to have come to a stillstand. In its heyday in the 1980s and 90s two crucial problems were voiced: (i) Is organizational culture really manageable? and (ii) Is organizational culture something an organization has (i.e. is it an identifiable variable) or something it is (i.e. is it an ontological prerequisite to the organization’s very ‘being’?). This article proposes that Aby Warburg’s ‘science without a name’ where ‘culture’ is identified with ‘ontology’ is a way out of what seems to be the current impasse in organizational culture research. Warburg conceptualized ‘culture as ontology’ as: M + P = N (Memory + Punctum = Notions that Abide). It will be argued that Viveiros de Castro’s current ‘turn-to-ontology’ in anthropology affirms the basic insights from Warburg’s ‘science without a name’ and is an inspiration for (re-)actualizing the M + P = N approach, with the understanding of ‘culture’ is informed by a Deleuzian ontology of repetition and difference.KEYWORDS: Organizational cultureAby WarburgM + P = NTurn-to-ontologyRepetition and differenceViveiros de Castro Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 Belonging to a prominent banking family himself, this surely is to be seen as self-referential.
对组织文化的研究似乎陷入了停滞。在20世纪80年代和90年代的鼎盛时期,提出了两个关键问题:(1)组织文化真的可以管理吗?(ii)组织文化是组织拥有的东西(即它是一个可识别的变量)还是组织本身的东西(即它是组织“存在”的本体论先决条件吗?)本文提出,Aby Warburg的“无名科学”将“文化”与“本体论”等同起来,是一种摆脱当前组织文化研究僵局的方法。Warburg将“文化作为本体论”概念化为:M + P = N(记忆+标点符号=永恒的观念)。我们认为,Viveiros de Castro目前在人类学中的“转向本体论”肯定了Warburg的“没有名字的科学”的基本见解,并且是(重新)实现M + P = N方法的灵感,对“文化”的理解是由德拉兹的重复和差异本体论所告知的。关键词:组织文化(aby warburg)转向本体论(turn to ontology)重复与差异(repetition and differentiation)维维罗斯·德·卡斯特罗(viveiros de Castro)披露声明作者未发现潜在的利益冲突。注1他本人属于一个显赫的银行业家族,这当然可以被视为自我参照。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-05DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2253954
Andreas Lyse Brandt, K. T. Vangkilde
{"title":"A game of futures: the strategy of scenarios in a Danish medical company","authors":"Andreas Lyse Brandt, K. T. Vangkilde","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2253954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2253954","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43014681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2251166
J. Kang, Yan Ling, L. Barclay
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Pub Date : 2023-08-09DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2243640
Javier Toscano
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Pub Date : 2023-08-08DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2211375
Special Issue editors, M. Izak, Stefaine Reissner, H. Shortt
The world of work and home has become increasingly fluid (Bauman 2000), due to an increase in flexible working. Work has become decoupled from time and space (Gajendran and Harrison 2007), making it increasingly common for knowledge-based workers to work at different times and in multiple spaces across a working day or week (Duxbury et al. 2014; Sewell and Taskin 2015; Kingma 2016). The Covid-19 pandemic in particular has been a catalyst for questioning accepted norms of where, when, and how work takes place and has encouragedmany to experiment with new ways of working at spatio-temporal distance from a regular workplace (Gandini and Garavaglia 2023). This reshaping of traditional modes of working has had a significant effect on working patterns, social workplace interactions, personal relationships, and the boundaries between familial and working lives, which we seek to explore in this Special Issue. For many years, an increase in flexible working has reshaped traditional modes of working, both infringing on traditional associations between a place of work and its content and reorienting the spatial, temporal, and behavioural boundaries between work and non-work (Ashforth, Kreiner, and Fugate 2000). According to Basile and Beauregard (2021), technology has played a central part in these changes as we ‘feel compelled to stay “switched on” to work’ (36). As a result, the use of time, space, and objects in demarcating the work-nonwork boundary has become more flexible and fluid (Reissner, Izak, and Hislop 2021; Izak, Shortt, and Case 2022) than traditionally assumed. During the Covid-19 pandemic, working from home crossed the work-nonwork boundary frequently to attend to both professional and family roles. Largely fixed work schedules commonly led to struggles to fulfil this multitude of commitments (Adisa et al. 2022). An increase in remote and hybrid forms of working, which has been associated with an increase of labour productivity (Office for National Statistics 2022), and which is bound to continue (World Economic Forum 2020), has further highlighted spatial, social, and temporal shifts in our understanding of community at work (Spinuzzi et al. 2019; Garrett, Spreitzer, and Bacevice 2017), as well as the embodied practices of workers (de Vaujany and Aroles 2019). Specifically, there has been a trend towards individualization of working patterns as a result of flexible working, which may weaken the fabric of social relationships at work (Ajzen and Taskin 2021). If excessive, this trend may affect our sense of belonging (Vine, this issue). However, if the right balance is achieved, individualization may increase the collaborative capabilities of many organizations by, for example, enabling speedier teamwork or supporting the facilitation of employees who feel less comfortable interacting during face-to-face meetings (Farragher 2022, 35). Yet this still changes the landscape for how and where we work in this Covid-emergent world. For example, man
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Pub Date : 2023-08-05DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2243636
J. Pallas, Jaan Grünberg, Peter Edlund, Elena Raviola
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Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2237163
A. Sant’Anna, R. Reis, Laura Ferolla Siqueira Campos, Marcella de and Assis Ribeiro Batista
{"title":"Using the relational approach to explore the representation of women through Brazilian popular music: 1880 to 1970","authors":"A. Sant’Anna, R. Reis, Laura Ferolla Siqueira Campos, Marcella de and Assis Ribeiro Batista","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2237163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2237163","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46301176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2224486
B. Guschke
ABSTRACT In this article, I develop the methodological approach of embodied queer listening, which allows capturing, analyzing, and writing with/through/about the researcher’s embodied experience as part of the research process in interview-based studies. The approach combines anti-narrative research with embodied and queer listening to enable researchers to engage critically with normative narratives shared in interview situations and listen to their own embodied experiences that are otherwise suppressed in normative discourse. Embodied queer listening enables careful reflection of the researcher’s positionality and power relation vis-à-vis the research participants and recognizes embodied experience as a source of knowledge that can guide further conceptualization and theorization in organizational research. Homing in on Black feminist standpoint epistemologies and the importance of ‘Outsiders Within’ who create knowledge ‘from the margin’, it contributes to epistemological discussions on the relationship between knowledge production and gendered and racialized power structures in organization studies.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2234257
{"title":"Ann Rippin (1960–2023) – in memoriam","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2234257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2234257","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42286093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2232505
L. Reiss, M. Schiffinger, M. Rapp, W. Mayrhofer
{"title":"Intersectional income inequality: a longitudinal study of class and gender effects on careers","authors":"L. Reiss, M. Schiffinger, M. Rapp, W. Mayrhofer","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2232505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2232505","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42017524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}