{"title":"If on a summer’s day a researcher: the implied author and the implied reader in writing differently","authors":"R. Weatherall","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2210245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2210245","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT You are scrolling through the results of your latest search for papers. You wade through the papers you’ve been planning to read for ages; papers you could put aside to read this summer; papers you say you’ve read but really haven’t; papers you’ve actually read … but don’t remember; when a paper catches your eye. You prepare to puzzle through the complex explanations of VERY IMPORTANT CONCEPTS and the (unfulfilled?) promise of a contribution to *the literature*. But as you start reading you are pleasantly surprised. The tone is almost jovial; the writing is fresh and accessible. But there seems to be an error; the paper is missing the discussion and conclusion. You try and track down the original paper but end up with a different one. You contact the journal and ask for a replacement, only to find yourself with a different paper again. Slowly, however, you are beginning to enjoy yourself. Each paper you read leads you on a different journey. A flurry of words, styles, genres, tones. And in all the papers is you: the reader, the writer, the text. * * * Inspired by If on a Winter’s Night a traveller by Italo Calvino this paper explores the intimate relationships between the reader, the writer, and the text. I interweave second person tales of a writer and a reader, trying to write a text across time and space, with reflections on the value of the concepts of the ‘implied author’ and ‘implied reader’ for writing differently in management and organisation studies. In particular, I give attention to an often overlooked, yet ever present, part of writing differently in organisation studies: the reader. I address the reader as someone who, like the writer, is actively produced through engagement with the text and the according political and aesthetic implications. Ultimately, I argue that it matters deeply how readers are positioned in texts and how the reader comes to understand themselves through the text for realising the potential of writing differently.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44200601","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}
M. Erogul, Dilek Zamantılı Nayır, Emir Ozeren, Aykut Arslan
{"title":"Female soldiers maneuvering visibility in the Turkish Armed Forces","authors":"M. Erogul, Dilek Zamantılı Nayır, Emir Ozeren, Aykut Arslan","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2209690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2209690","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How do Turkish female soldiers’ (TFS) relate to and manage their (in)visibility within the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF)? Guided by a social-constructionist approach and driven by a gendered perspective, we display the embeddedness of gender role expectations and TFS struggle for visibility within TAF and the wider social context. We explore TFS accounts displaying cultural and organizational practices inhibiting their visibility along with how they manage it. Our findings provide insight into the dynamics of social and organizational practices that impact women’s visibility and advance the understanding of how marginalized members in similar settings may relate, manage and navigate their careers in their daily organizational life elsewhere.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43577041","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}
Laura Jaramillo, M. Cozza, A. Hallin, I. Lammi, S. Gherardi
{"title":"Readingwriting: becoming-together in a Composition","authors":"Laura Jaramillo, M. Cozza, A. Hallin, I. Lammi, S. Gherardi","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2206132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2206132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48406457","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}
{"title":"Toiling from the homespace, longing for the workplace: gendered workplace imaginaries in an (in)flexible work scenario","authors":"Lena Kurban Rouhana, Michelle Mielly","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2201005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2201005","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Flexible work arrangements (FWAs) promise both emancipation and loss: freedom from workplace constraints also strips away protective work-life boundaries. To date, very little is understood about how flexible work shapes workplace imaginaries. Drawing on a sample of 44 managers from a Middle Eastern firm, we explore their evolving internal representations of the workplace and domestic space under (in)flexible conditions. Findings suggest that (in)flexible work arrangements fashion and amplify subjective, organizational, and gender-specific workplace imaginaries. While both genders in this study imagined the workplace as a site of ‘salvation,’ it became a haven from domestic labor for the women, while for the men it provided a crucial extension of individual managerial identity. Such distinctions provide glimpses into how (in)flexible scenarios influence and shape neoliberal workplace imaginaries that may sustain gendered career trajectories and the perpetuation of FWAs as a misleading panacea for individual freedom and happiness in the workplace.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41553908","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}
{"title":"Neither work nor leisure: temporalities and life world realities of split shift work in the Austrian care sector","authors":"Karin Sardadvar, Cornelia Reiter","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2203490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2203490","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Employment conditions have been subject to far-reaching flexibilization and fragmentation in recent decades. One of the many ways to make labor flexibly available and cost-effective is to divide the working day using split shifts. In this qualitative study on the home care sector in Austria, we investigate the workers’ experiences of split shifts as example of fragmented work and unsocial working times. On an empirical level, the findings show that split shifts imply severe challenges for the workers. On a conceptual level, the research emphasizes the need to consider complex and subjective dimensions of time in researching working times. Our findings suggest that even seemingly clear delineations between work and non-work time are in fact fragile and ambivalent. In that sense, the interruption between the two shifts in split shift work is neither work nor real leisure.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48301049","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}
{"title":"Is physical co-presence a prerequisite for Durkheimian collective effervescence? Reflections on remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Tom Vine","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2201004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2201004","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores why it is that so many of us regard virtual communication technologies as imperfect substitutes for co-present organisational interaction. In so doing, it invokes Durkheim’s concept of collective effervescence; that is, the bonding phenomenon experienced between people in physical proximity. Initially, ethnographic data are presented from a Scottish commune known as the Findhorn Foundation, where the word ‘energy’ is widely used by participants to describe the feelings associated with co-present interaction. Macrosocial data are then drawn from the ‘Return, Reimagine, Reinvent’ series of reports published by McKinsey & Co. which documents remote working experiences during the pandemic. Both data sets suggest that even in an era of advanced virtual connectivity, physical co-presence remains a prerequisite for collective effervescence. Furthermore, the data reveal that while virtual connections are useful for routine communication, our sense of collective effervescence must be periodically ‘recharged’ by means of intermittent physical assembly.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48973939","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}
{"title":"The intersectional identity work of entrepreneurs with disabilities: constructing difference through disability, gender, and entrepreneurship","authors":"A. Hidegh, C. Svastics, S. Csillag, Z. Győri","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2201006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2201006","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite a growing interest in intersectional entrepreneurship studies investigating the interplay of privileged and disadvantaged identities, people with disabilities still appear to be a ‘forgotten minority’ in that field. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 29 entrepreneurs with disabilities (EWD), this study examines how differences are constructed by EWD when performing intersectional identity work at the crossroads of disability, gender, and entrepreneurship. The results revealed four overlapping strategies in response to different sources of identity threats, such as disability and gender threats: bracketing, reconciling, adjusting, and neglecting. While the identity work of EWD was informed by challenging dominant entrepreneurial discourse impregnated by ableism and hegemonic masculinity, simultaneously, othering was also used in crafting positive identities, which instead reproduced power-laden social differences.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46209223","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}
Nikki Fairchild, Carol A. Taylor, Neil Carey, Mirka Koro, Angelo Benozzo, K. Hannes, Jo Albin-Clark, E. Maynard, S. Zarabadi, Tanner Caterina-Knorr, Angeline J. Taylor
{"title":"Tags, tagging, tagged, # - undisciplining organ-ization of [academic] bodies","authors":"Nikki Fairchild, Carol A. Taylor, Neil Carey, Mirka Koro, Angelo Benozzo, K. Hannes, Jo Albin-Clark, E. Maynard, S. Zarabadi, Tanner Caterina-Knorr, Angeline J. Taylor","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2193406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2193406","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41807112","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}
{"title":"‘Another work routine is possible’: everyday experiences of (unexpected) remote work in Italy","authors":"A. Gandini, Emma Garavaglia","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2201003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2201003","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article discusses the opinions and perceptions of knowledge workers in Italy concerning the shift to remote work during the first countrywide lockdown (March–May 2020) imposed to contain the Covid-19 outbreak. Prior to the pandemic, remote work arrangements in the Italian context were not common. Thanks to a set of 35 interviews to workers who experienced significant disruption to their usual working routine because of the health crisis, we show that a marked element of discovery of remote work characterizes their accounts, articulated across 3 dimensions: temporal organization of work and life, technology, and social relations. We argue that this experience was instrumental for many of them to learn that ‘another work routine is possible’, because of the opportunity to try out alternative arrangements in the management of tasks and responsibilities. Yet issues of work-life balance, together with managerial cultures anchored in pre-pandemic forms of organization, considerably affect this perception.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42781297","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}
{"title":"Why write about animals? Organization and the Daily Occurrences of London Zoo","authors":"Lee Christien","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2198716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2198716","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyses as series of archival documents called the Daily Occurrences of the Zoological Gardens of London. These pro formas were the institutional working texts that allowed authorial statements to appear concerning the organization of London Zoo, including: animal arrivals, departures, births, deaths, work, visitor figures and finance. The Daily Occurrences classified, described, and curated the frames which were constructed around the display animals at the zoo. By contextualizing and paying critical attention to these managerial pro formas, this article undertakes an interdisciplinary reading of overlooked texts that organized how animals and humans entered into and exited out from a system of living exhibition. This article addresses the research question: how were animals and humans organized at the zoo? By looking to how animals were organized at the zoo this article contributes to wider discussions found in organization studies regarding the visibility and status of what constitutes animal labour.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46684589","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}