{"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":"29 1","pages":"380 - 396"},"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":"29 1","pages":"226 - 241"},"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":"1 1","pages":""},"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":"29 1","pages":"397 - 415"},"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":"29 1","pages":"356 - 373"},"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}
Paul Bowell, G. Smith, E. Pechenkina, Paul Scifleet
{"title":"‘You’re walking on eggshells’: exploring subjective experiences of workplace tracking","authors":"Paul Bowell, G. Smith, E. Pechenkina, Paul Scifleet","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2198717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2198717","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Technology-driven workplace tracking is becoming increasingly widespread and normalized. However, experiences of the tracking practices and their impact on individual employees and employers are not fully understood. Eleven qualitative interviews investigated employees’ and employers’ subjective and affective perceptions and experiences of workplace tracking, finding that employees were ambivalent about being tracked, their divergent feelings affecting their actions and experiences, while employers emphasized the benefits, concerns and rationales of the practice. This research highlights the affective side of the tracking practice by revealing how employee and employer experiences and perceptions of workplace tracking are embodied in divergent ways, with meanings ascribed to technologies culturally situated, mediated by context, positionality and use. Recommendations are proposed for further research as well as a collective policy framework governing workplace tracking to address current tensions within a fairer organizational culture.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":"29 1","pages":"471 - 490"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48414076","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":"‘Half of my body is at work and the other half at home’: narratives of placemaking while working from homes in rural and small-town India","authors":"Rajeshwari Chennangodu, Advaita Rajendra","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2196080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2196080","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article reflects on moving workspaces into homes during and after the Covid-19-induced lockdown. In our qualitative research in India, we investigate the processes of place-making and redrawing of boundaries between paid and unpaid care work. Through interviews and autoethnographic reflections, we analyse the process of new workspace making. We examine the erasing of the home from the workspace where historical hierarchies of gender and caste mediated the (re) organising of work boundaries between paid knowledge and unpaid care work. The study is based in a context where social and physical infrastructure for paid knowledge work could not be assumed to be available in homes. The paper contributes to the literature on place-making with stories from a new context.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":"29 1","pages":"455 - 469"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44099269","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":"Toward a conceptualization of kuuki-wo-yomu (reading the air) in the Japanese organizational context","authors":"Yuhee Jung, Soyeon Kim, Tomohiko Tanikawa","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2185780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2185780","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Kuuki-wo-yomu (KWY) holds particular importance in Japanese society. Literally meaning ‘reading the air,’ KWY refers to attitudinal and behavioral patterns that Japanese exhibit in social groups. Noting its conceptual importance, the study intends to theorize KWY. Adopting the contextualization approach, the study explains the emergence and its structure of KWY through a thorough investigation of Japanese society and organization. A three-stage survey was conducted on 158 Japanese employees and analysis of the results indicates that KWY is perceived as an important capability. Specifically, KWY is composed of three subdimensions: (1) perception, comprising the awareness of one’s surroundings, including people, norms and rules, and implicit social contexts; (2) attitude, comprising consideration, conformity, responsibility, and maintenance of harmony; and (3) behavior, comprising flexibility, cooperation, and proactivity. This study’s novel research approach has theoretical and practical implications, and we hope it will foster follow-up studies to develop Japan-grounded behavioral concepts and theories.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":"29 1","pages":"336 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45448310","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":"Beyond politics of difference: intersectionality across time and place","authors":"Jasmin Mahadevan, Henriett Primecz, A. Mills","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2182499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2182499","url":null,"abstract":"As Theunissen and Van Laer ([32]) reveal in this special issue, language and the politics of linguistic difference are key closure mechanism through which native speakers defend job privilege and prevent migrants from entering. \" Exploring the Politics of Linguistic Difference: the Construction of Language Requirements for Migrants in Jobs Traditionally Conducted by Local Native Speakers.\" Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, nationalist and rightist movements were on the rise in many parts of the world. \" Guest Editorial: Unpacking Diversity, Grasping Inequality: Rethinking Difference Through Critical Perspectives.\". [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Culture & Organization is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":"29 1","pages":"191 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45379475","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 creation of the stranger – the process of recreating immigrants as the Other in Canada’s government-produced texts","authors":"I. Krysa, Salvador P. Barragan, A. Mills","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2180800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2180800","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This research analyses textual and visual representations of immigrants in government-produced texts and investigates how such depictions aid in the production of the stranger discourse. How immigrants are discussed and portrayed has an impact on how immigrant populations are perceived and treated in their host countries. By using postcolonial theory and conducting a Foucauldian critical discourse analysis (CDA), we analyse argumentative strategies through which the host and immigrant populations are portrayed, and how the politics of difference is constructed and normalized. We critically evaluate such representations for their discursive functions which contribute to immigrants’ socio-economic marginalization and racialization.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":"29 1","pages":"197 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47505214","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}