Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1177/01708406231197815
Luca Mora, Francesco Paolo Appio, Nicolai J. Foss, David Arellano-Gault, Xiaoling Zhang
Worldwide, smart city projects have emerged as a response to urban crisis conditions with the aim of leveraging digital technologies for urban innovation and sustainable development. However, these projects involve complex organizational challenges that have received little attention in existing smart city research, particularly in the exploration of interorganizational collaboration. The disconnect between organization studies and smart city research means that these two knowledge fields have yet to maximize the valuable insights that each one can offer to the other. To address this gap, this Special Issue seeks to foster cross-fertilization. Elaborating on the contributions in our Special Issue, we present potential and actual research crossroads conceptual and theoretical arenas in which collaborative efforts between organization studies and smart city research can thrive. We aim to bridge knowledge gaps and generate mutual benefits by stimulating interdisciplinary encounters. This approach offers opportunities for empirical research that can expand organization studies and their theories while deepening our understanding of organizations, organizing, and the organized in smart city projects, thereby contributing to theoretical and practical advancements.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.1177/01708406231200718
Julia Nentwich
{"title":"Media Review: How to use a discursive approach to study organizations","authors":"Julia Nentwich","doi":"10.1177/01708406231200718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231200718","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48423,"journal":{"name":"Organization Studies","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136249141","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 : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.1177/01708406231200715
Marvin Hanisch
{"title":"Media Review: Blockchains as the Basis for New Forms of Organizing?","authors":"Marvin Hanisch","doi":"10.1177/01708406231200715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231200715","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48423,"journal":{"name":"Organization Studies","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136249142","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 : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1177/01708406231206069
Zahira Jaser, Mats Alvesson
{"title":"Media Review: The Happy Worker – Or How Work Was Sabotaged","authors":"Zahira Jaser, Mats Alvesson","doi":"10.1177/01708406231206069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231206069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48423,"journal":{"name":"Organization Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134957837","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 : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1177/01708406231197816
Kerstin Sahlin
Since the first universities were established more than a millennium ago, we have seen a remarkable rise of universities worldwide. Yet, over time widespread concerns have repeatedly been raised about the crisis of the university and research on universities is largely occupied with contemporary changes. Research also tends to focus on cross-national differences in the operation, governance and organization of universities. At the same time, universities are recognized everywhere, the main idea of a university stays robust and generalized. Characterizations of universities as ivory towers are still dominating many discussions and spur reforms. Lots of resources are poured into seeking to increase their exchange with society at large. But, universities have constantly changed with society and are central for the emergence of a global knowledge society. The book The University and the Global Knowledge Society fills an important need of contrasting the many current discussions on crisis, changes and variations across universities with the unprecedented success of one of our societies’ grand institutions.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.1177/01708406231196956
Gabriel Lomellini
{"title":"Media Review: <i>Tár</i>, Power of <i>jouissance</i>, <i>jouissance</i> of Power","authors":"Gabriel Lomellini","doi":"10.1177/01708406231196956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231196956","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48423,"journal":{"name":"Organization Studies","volume":"186 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135109344","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 : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.1177/01708406231197810
Jelena Brankovic
{"title":"Media Review: Competition: What it is and why it happens","authors":"Jelena Brankovic","doi":"10.1177/01708406231197810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231197810","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48423,"journal":{"name":"Organization Studies","volume":"223 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135109345","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}