Pub Date : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1177/13505084231183078
N. Butler, S. Spoelstra
There are plenty of books and articles on research methods, but few discuss the nature and purpose of method sections in academic journals. Based on interviews with critical and interpretivist researchers, this short paper examines the nature and purpose of method sections in management and organization studies. We show how researchers make sense of, and struggle with, positivist expectations about the form and content of method sections. Ultimately, we call for greater openness about what method sections might look like and ask whether all academic articles need method sections.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1177/13505084231183950
J. Garrick
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Pub Date : 2023-06-17DOI: 10.1177/13505084231183951
Anna Zueva
avoid going to court. In contrast, families in upper-middle class America, which are most likely the experts’ audience, are generally free from the aforementioned issues; for such a public, home cooking is perhaps a feasible, recommended option. Regardless, while getting back into the kitchen may not be one-size-fits-all solution, it may help those who are not doing it and if it is possible to do so. The book is very much a gendered take on food in American culture. The authors make it clear that even in contemporary egalitarian-motivated America, women bear the grunt of shopping, preparing, and cleaning up food; men continue to play a side, almost apathetic role in what is described as the invisible work of food provision (it may be added that follow-up studies may analyze life from the male perspective). There is a fair bit of discussion on trying to become a good mom and working towards serving the idealized meal and distress at not being able to do so. Relatedly, young children (which each of the families has) are a central issue in the accounts and the authors’ compassionate analytical gaze casts sufficient light on how the next generation of under-privileged Americans are being brought up. The solutions to America’s food worries are deeper than one imagines. The concluding section offers some answers, like improving regulation, multi-use of large school kitchens, and increasing base incomes. However, this is the part of the book that could have been developed further considering that the subtitle of the book leads readers to this direction. Nevertheless, the book does offer more than an icebreaker to start the discussion on engrained problems. Pressure Cooker is an excellent read for any social scientist who intends to study food preparation in modern homes. The book may be light on theory, but it is vivid in description. While the setting is the American lower-middle class, many of the issues are universal. Hence, even if fine details do not apply to another context, they are useful as a point of comparison. In this regard, the book is accessible to any global lay reader. In sum, Pressure Cooker needs to be lauded for its very accessible approach to pervasive complexities in America’s food dilemma.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-16DOI: 10.1177/13505084231180288
D. Nyberg
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Pub Date : 2023-06-15DOI: 10.1177/13505084231179383
S. Schaefer, Olof Hallonsten
In this essay we put forward a critique of the prevailing orthodoxy of creativity and innovation which are rarely fundamentally questioned neither in science nor in public discourse. We urge to reconsider contemporary purposes and consequences of what we call instrumental and humanist conceptions of creativity and innovation. Based on our critique we speak out to transcend reified notions of creativity and innovation by engaging in disciplined imagination of desirable alternative futures using the example of craft as a timeless form of work. Craft, we argue, prefigures a type of creativity and innovation that addresses the social and ecological challenges of contemporary economy and society and may thus serve as a source for inspiration to radically re-think current, ingrained notions of creativity and innovation.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1177/13505084231176118
Daniel King, Martyn Griffin
Can meaningful connections between academics, consultants, and practitioners of workplace democracy be created to bring about critically inspired change? This article presents an exploration of our experiment in producing a practical and engaged form of Critical Management Studies (CMS) through a case study of a 2-day event. The event brought together academics, consultants, and practitioners of workplace democracy to examine the possibilities and challenges of creating meaningful connections between these groups. It served as a platform for investigating and reflecting on the efforts made to bridge the gap between academia and practice in CMS. Drawing on pre-event documents, recordings of the event and interviews with participants after the event, we provide an account of academics out of their comfort zone struggling to feel authentic and useful; suspicion and uneasiness between groups leading to inter and intra group struggles; and lingering difficulties around power and control. Our event suggests that CMS scholars seeking more practical engagement should pursue a: (i) deliberative research perspective of co-production alongside multiple stakeholders (academics, consultants, and practitioners) to practically seek to bring about change; (ii) democratization of the research process so that the democratic intentions of the research outcomes are built into the research process; (iii) fluid research position breaking down and blurring of boundaries between academics and practitioners to increase the possibilities for creating meaningful connections.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1177/13505084231177199
T. Boland, R. Griffin
The future of work is partially written in the organisation of the welfare state – particularly in social policies and practices which imagine a vibrant labour market with ever-more employment. Here, we offer a genealogy of the peculiar formulation of the term NEETs, ‘Not in Employment, Education or Training’ as emblematic of a deep cultural and organisational commitment to work. To understand this array of policies, we draw on the Foucauldian concept of the dispositif. We move between the authoritarian valency of the concept as used by Agamben, and the looser Deleuzian assemblage, to investigate the policy, discourses and material structures that guarantee the future of work. NEETS conceptually and practically narrows the broad liminal transition from adolescent to adult into a labour market transition – producing work-ready, employable subjects for any future. The future of work need not be NEETs, but to approach that future we need to attend to the overwhelming policy apparatus and assemblage that holds a post-work future at bay.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-24DOI: 10.1177/13505084231167702
Annemette Kjærgaard, Rasmus Bergmann, M. Blasco, Tali Padan, Carole Elliott, Jamie Callahan, Sarah M. Robinson, T. Wall
Research on academic activism tends to foreground vociferous and explicit forms of activism that pursue predefined political agendas. Against this backdrop, this article proposes that academic activism can take more subtle forms. Writing as an academic activist collective, we unpack what subtle activism might look like within the context of contemporary academia. We use Foucault’s concept of heterotopia to argue that subtle activism can expand the space of what is possible in academia today by experimenting with quietly unsettling norms rather than overtly opposing or rejecting them. We offer a set of principles that might underpin a subtle activist agenda, extrapolated from practices from colleagues and from own activist collective. We hope that these principles may serve to inspire other academics wishing to engage in subtle activism by unsettling everyday practices that discreetly challenge the status quo, thereby contributing to gently shifting the agenda for how it is possible to conduct intellectual work in the contemporary neoliberal university context.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-13DOI: 10.1177/13505084231166172
Lauren McCarthy, Kate Grosser
In this essay we argue that one way to combat the depressing creep of the neoliberal university is to recuperate and re-use consciousness raising (CR) in teaching, administration, research, and engagement. Consciousness-raising can be roughly characterised as first, an apprehending of one’s place in a system, and second, feeling inspired to do something about that system. We propose that CR is an especially helpful way to think about our work in contexts where more structural changes to advance social justice agendas appear to have stalled, or even to have taken a step backwards. There may be potential to co-opt the increasing dominance of individualism in our worlds, by revisiting the role that individual reflection and development plays in social change, as conceptualised within CR. Through examples drawn from our own experiences, we demonstrate how CR happens in our day-to-day interactions, reigniting a sense of meaning in our working lives whilst potentially creating ripples of positive change. We thus call not just for revisiting, but also for reconceptualising and reframing CR rooted in feminist and intersectional praxis as a methodology for academic activism in the contemporary business school.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.1177/13505084221145543
K. Navazhylava, Amanda Peticca Harris, S. Elias
Drawing on the Foucauldian technologies of the self, this study explores how individuals re-envision practices of wellbeing outside of traditional organizational contexts during extreme events. Based on a thematic analysis of 7234 comments posted on the Yoga with Adriene YouTube channel in 2020, this study unpacks a technologically mediated practice of self-care, which we conceptualize as somametamnemata. Our findings illustrate three entangled aspects of somametamnemata relating to yoga, a form of bodywork: Caring about self through practicing yoga online; caring about self and others through sharing about yoga in written comments; and caring about self and others through responding to shared verbalizations of yoga. This study distinguishes somametamnemata from known practices of self-care, advancing existing literature on technologies of self by overcoming the dichotomy between negative views of ill-being and positive views of wellbeing. By situating the potentiality of individual wellbeing within ill-being, we shift debates and discussions of “corporate wellness” beyond organizational boundaries.
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