OrganizationPub Date : 2026-02-11eCollection Date: 2026-09-01DOI: 10.1177/13505084251366177
Cassandra Bowkett, Christian Lévesque
{"title":"Shifting terrains of expertise: Power, knowledge and the era of Industry 4.0.","authors":"Cassandra Bowkett, Christian Lévesque","doi":"10.1177/13505084251366177","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13505084251366177","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the social and political construction of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies, situating I4.0 as the latest of several episodes of power that have shaped the shifting terrains of expertise. Expertise and power relations unfold over time, with expert groups exercising persuasive and coercive forms of power through the mobilisation of knowledge amongst other sources. Building on a processual analysis of the Montreal Aerospace cluster, we situate I4.0 as contextually bounded and identify how experts are mobilisers and carriers of knowledge, shifting the terrain of expertise and reproducing and transforming the rules of the game with implications for systemic power relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"912-930"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13546732/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148901228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OrganizationPub Date : 2025-07-09eCollection Date: 2026-07-01DOI: 10.1177/13505084251350847
Mojtaba M Shourkaei, Bruno Dyck
{"title":"Scaling sustainability in businesses with a post-growth orientation: An exploratory empirical study.","authors":"Mojtaba M Shourkaei, Bruno Dyck","doi":"10.1177/13505084251350847","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13505084251350847","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To avoid negative social and ecological consequences associated with growth-based economics, businesses with a post-growth orientation intentionally forgo scaling for profit maximization and instead seek to scale positive socio-ecological impacts. This study investigates 35 small and medium-sized businesses (33 private and 2 cooperatives) with a post-growth orientation to examine how they strive to scale their positive socio-ecological impact. Our findings reveal four distinct scaling approaches: Enhancement, Expansion, Bridging, and Collaboration. We provide a typology of these four approaches and explain how they can be interlinked to create synergy. Our study shows how private businesses can participate in creating a post-growth economy, thus broadening the scope of previous post-growth research that has focused on other organizational forms such as social enterprises, benefit corporations, and cooperatives.</p>","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"33 5","pages":"710-735"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13290066/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148320117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OrganizationPub Date : 2024-10-18DOI: 10.1177/13505084241284055
Mar Pérezts, Marianna Fotaki, Yuliya Shymko, Gazi Islam
{"title":"Breathe and let breathe: Breathing as a political model of organizing","authors":"Mar Pérezts, Marianna Fotaki, Yuliya Shymko, Gazi Islam","doi":"10.1177/13505084241284055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084241284055","url":null,"abstract":"Take a deep breath. Although nothing is more natural or essential to human bodies than breathing, this simple yet vital act is the critical result of complex organizational, material, and political processes. We suggest that breathing can be thought of as a political model of organizing insofar as it shapes questions of life and death while rooting these “operationally” in immediate, urgent, collective and more-than-human intra-action. Breathing is also a social act because the self is bound up with others in a fabric of relations upon which each person depends, and so breathing can serve as a trope for regenerating and rethinking social structures, institutions and organizing blueprints. We take the act of breathing—its literal and metaphorical (im)possibility and collective organization—as the focus of a reflection on relations among humans and between other living beings, humans, and their ecological surroundings. Re-thinking the question of whose breathing we care about and whose breathing counts, we offer a political model that embraces the mutuality principle for post-humanistic and post-anthropocentric organizing and community building. We thereby hope to “inspire” and materialize new social and political realities for organizing our shared future, conceptualized as building a (scholarly) community of breathers who breathe and let breathe.","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"32 1","pages":"136-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://hal.science/hal-04819967v1/file/Breathe%20and%20let%20breathe_R2_essay_FINAL.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147881941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OrganizationPub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1177/13505084241280790
Stephanie Daher
{"title":"Alter-anthropological thought in organization studies","authors":"Stephanie Daher","doi":"10.1177/13505084241280790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084241280790","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142206193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OrganizationPub Date : 2024-08-17DOI: 10.1177/13505084241275780
Juh Círico, Akira Aikyo Galvão, Silvia Pereira de Castro Casa Nova
{"title":"Carta Aberta: (In)visibilizing transgender bodies in organizations","authors":"Juh Círico, Akira Aikyo Galvão, Silvia Pereira de Castro Casa Nova","doi":"10.1177/13505084241275780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084241275780","url":null,"abstract":"In this review, we critically reflect on the exclusionary practices in the social organization of a cisnormative society based on the song “Carta aberta” by Monna Brutal. The lyrics denounce the oppression suffered by her and by the transgender, travesti and gender non-conforming population in Brazil, the most transphobic country in the world for 15 consecutive years. We discuss the potential of music for social awareness, the resistance of minority groups, and possibilities for future explorations on music, resistance, and organizations.","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142206211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OrganizationPub Date : 2024-08-17DOI: 10.1177/13505084241275774
Howard Jean-Denis
{"title":"Media Review: Lupin: Eradicating the stereotype of the African immigrant","authors":"Howard Jean-Denis","doi":"10.1177/13505084241275774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084241275774","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142206195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OrganizationPub Date : 2024-08-06DOI: 10.1177/13505084241270985
Emmanouela Mandalaki
{"title":"Rethinking organization studies methods through a posthumanist epistemology of practice","authors":"Emmanouela Mandalaki","doi":"10.1177/13505084241270985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084241270985","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141935019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}