Pub Date : 2023-10-21DOI: 10.1177/01708406231203296
Chiara Benassi
This article combines insights from the organizational institutionalist (OI) literature on the complexity of transnational institutional streams and the power-based approach of the comparative employment relations (CER) literature to better explain diversity in human resource (HR) practices across organizations embedded in different societal contexts. Building on the insights from both literature strands, the article argues that societal institutions, by providing power resources to labour vis-a-vis management, influence the settlement of contradictions in HR practices in the workplace, with implications for the internal consistency of HR systems. The findings are based on the comparative case study of three metal companies in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom that implemented lean management systems. They suggest that labour-supporting institutions at the sectoral and organizational levels in the German metal company contribute to a more ‘balanced’ settlement of the tensions between the (ideo)logics of empowerment, cost-cutting and Taylorism, which characterize lean management systems, compared to the Italian and British companies. The article contributes to cross-fertilization between the OI and CER literature because it demonstrates the value of integrating the power resource perspective in (comparative) OI studies, and of taking into greater consideration the role of transnational (ideo)logics in CER research.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-18DOI: 10.1177/01708406231208358
Fernando F. Fachin, Ann Langley
This study contributes to the literature on organizational identity work by examining the ongoing micro-political processes of influence and negotiation that arise as conceptions of organizational identity are proposed and debated in the moment. To do so, we focus on interaction episodes, rather than on top management discourses or participant narratives as the key locus of organizational identity work. Specifically, based on a longitudinal case study of an open innovation organization from inception, we reveal five patterns of interactive organizational identity work emerging over time, that we label monologue, polyphony, dialogue, deadlock and rupture. While Monologue is a one-sided pattern that involves the dominance of a single voice, Polyphony involves episodes of engaged collective conversation about identity issues that lack clear resolution. In Dialogue, we see interactions where critical issues accumulate towards temporary compromises on identity concerns, while the Deadlock pattern arises when compromises appear unattainable, potentially culminating in Rupture, as interactions around identity lead members to dissociate themselves from the organization. We show how the direct and indirect focus on organizational identity issues (i.e., whether identity is the focal topic of conversation, or emerges as an issue underlying another decision), as well as the intensity of personal identity engagement among participants (i.e., the degree to which the conversation addresses speakers’ personal identity commitments) may be implicated in the emergence of these patterns. Moreover, we show how the multiplicity and singularity of identity constructions are expressed through the different interaction patterns, with variable consequences for organizational collaboration and continuity among organization members.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-18DOI: 10.1177/01708406231209861
Marianna Fotaki, Alison Pullen
This piece reflects on the untapped potential of feminist theories and activist practices to address vital organizational issues and societal challenges such as inequality, sustainability, and care for the environment. While we recognize and briefly review the progress on gender issues in organization studies achieved over the last decades, our focus is on identifying the critical and underutilized strands of feminist thinking offering fresh responses to these problems, including decolonial feminism, feminist ethics of care, posthuman feminism, and ecofeminism. By way of illustrating our theoretical arguments, we discuss how five different papers recently published in Organization Studies address some of these issues, including the uncovering hidden entanglements of power and performativity in a global bank and in the beauty industry by paying attention to body and affect, the underrepresented struggles of women in the Global South as they disrupt gendered practices through consciousness raising, contesting gender regimes at organizational social events, and finally, how the social media operate at the intersection of gender and occupation. We conclude by outlining future directions for research as we discuss the contributions of anti-racist feminist theory and decolonial feminist practice to completing the unfinished project of social change while making our scholarship more reflexive and inclusive.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-14DOI: 10.1177/01708406231209856
Shardul Shankar
{"title":"Media Review: The Privatization of Love and its Impact on Relationships and Society","authors":"Shardul Shankar","doi":"10.1177/01708406231209856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231209856","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48423,"journal":{"name":"Organization Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135803742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-14DOI: 10.1177/01708406231209854
Hamid Foroughi, Andrew Smith
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Pub Date : 2023-10-07DOI: 10.1177/01708406231208372
Philipp Arnold, Jana Costas
This paper explores how violence is mobilised for control purposes in organisations. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at the total institution we name Arrival—a German refugee reception centre—we develop how private security guards engage in practices of signalling and exerting violence vis-a-vis Arrival’s residents to enforce rules. Our research contributes to the extant literature in three ways: First, we elucidate how practices of violence, following a logic of escalation and deterrence, work for organizational control purposes. Second, our research shifts the extant focus from discursive to embodied forms of invisibilization by showing how violence is made simultaneously visible and invisible in its very enactment. Third, it provides insights into situational interactions rather than conditions of violence in total institutions.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-07DOI: 10.1177/01708406231208370
Anna-Bertha Heeris Christensen, Richard Gyrd-Jones, Michael Beverland
This article examines the emotional labour of digital influencers to extend our understanding of the processes of transmutation of workers’ emotional systems. According to Hochschild (2012) transmutation occurs when workers’ emotional systems are engineered into commercial and organizational settings for economic profit. To date much work has been carried out within formal organizational settings on “surface acting”, which often leads to self-abuse, burnout and depersonalisation, and “deep acting”, which is associated with feelings of personal freedom. We use a multi-sited ethnography of digital influencers’ emotional work practices to show how so-called “person-brands” labour on the self through dialectical process between emancipating one’s person brand and exploiting oneself. We suggest a new mode of emotional labour in which transmutation happens in practices where influencers display their private actions to the public and where they transfer commercial agendas into their private realm and exploit their selves. Consequently, digital influencers work under the condition that they must self-exploit to succeed, and we demonstrate how they do this in seven distinct work-practices. While we suggest self-exploitation to be a condition of digital influencers’ work, we question whether this is a boundary condition in the transformation to become more powerful person-brands where work becomes more individualized.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-07DOI: 10.1177/01708406231208371
Elise Lobbedez
Organisational research has increasingly recognised violence as an instrument for achieving compliance and maintaining the existing order. However, resisters tend to be portrayed as powerless in the face of this violence or engaging in hopeless acts of resistance. In comparison, by examining the context of violent protests, this paper discusses how activists can endure and use violence as part of their resistance. I build on a fifteen-month ethnography of the yellow vest movement to illuminate the absorptive resisting work involved in deploying resistance to and through violence. This absorptive resisting work included reducing the repressive effects of violent protests and embracing those effects to generate symbolic and discursive resources against police violence, as well as including violent protest tactics in ways that regenerated those resources. Ultimately, my findings reveal that this absorptive work allowed resisters to withstand violent protests in the short term and reframe them in the long term. This paper thus contributes to studies on resistance to violence by showing how people can effectively and collectively catalyse violence to challenge it.
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