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{"title":"What’s up with our obsession with the theoretical contribution: A means to an end or an end in and of itself?","authors":"Ajnesh Prasad","doi":"10.1177/13505084231183079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231183079","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge production in the discipline of management and organization studies (MOS) is in a labyrinth of its own making. Over the last 30 years, scholars in the discipline have exhibited an intransigent obsession with the theoretical contribution. At this juncture, with Organization about to commence its fourth decade in publication, I would like to take the opportunity to pause as well as to reflect on some of the implications and the consequences that emanate from this obsession. Drawing on specific examples from MOS, I focus my analysis on three mechanisms through which the discipline’s obsession with the theoretical contribution poses unintended but detrimental outcomes on knowledge production: (1) unnecessary proliferation of theoretical constructs, (2) building theory upon theory rather than empirical validation, and (3) making theory for theory’s sake.","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46380536","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}

{"title":"The collaboration dilemma in smart city projects: Time to ask the right questions","authors":"S. Thabit, Luca Mora","doi":"10.1177/13505084231183949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231183949","url":null,"abstract":"This Connexions article links collaboration in smart city projects, a contemporary and undertheorised social challenge, with theories on assemblage thinking, organisation, and public value creation. Using this multidisciplinary lens, we critically analyse smart city theory and expose the inability of prevailing collaborative models to properly account for the complexities of real-world practices. Building on our observations, we formulate a new and more robust theoretical perspective on smart city collaboration, which helps us trigger new research questions that focus on procedural, relational and diversity factors previously ignored.","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48272292","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}

{"title":"Digital financialization and surveillance capitalism in the Global South: The new technologies of empire","authors":"G. Zulfiqar","doi":"10.1177/13505084231183033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231183033","url":null,"abstract":"This essay describes a hybrid form of contemporary colonization that involves the fusion of digital and financial realms to explore new frontiers in profit generation, governance, and control. While early research has explored this dual mode of financialization and surveillance capitalism, it primarily employs Western frameworks assuming a universalism that does not account for the coerced lived experiences of the digitally colonized across the Global South. Organization, with its commitment to providing critical epistemic space to non-Western subjectivities, should lead this quest by shining a light on the colonization of everyday spaces in the Global South, with the new technologies of empire.","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46830074","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}

{"title":"What is the point of method sections?","authors":"N. Butler, S. Spoelstra","doi":"10.1177/13505084231183078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231183078","url":null,"abstract":"There are plenty of books and articles on research methods, but few discuss the nature and purpose of method sections in academic journals. Based on interviews with critical and interpretivist researchers, this short paper examines the nature and purpose of method sections in management and organization studies. We show how researchers make sense of, and struggle with, positivist expectations about the form and content of method sections. Ultimately, we call for greater openness about what method sections might look like and ask whether all academic articles need method sections.","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45650138","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}

{"title":"The dangers of revenge in politics","authors":"J. Garrick","doi":"10.1177/13505084231183950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231183950","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47710307","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}

{"title":"Book Review: Redeeming Leadership by Helena Liu","authors":"Anna Zueva","doi":"10.1177/13505084231183951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231183951","url":null,"abstract":"avoid going to court. In contrast, families in upper-middle class America, which are most likely the experts’ audience, are generally free from the aforementioned issues; for such a public, home cooking is perhaps a feasible, recommended option. Regardless, while getting back into the kitchen may not be one-size-fits-all solution, it may help those who are not doing it and if it is possible to do so. The book is very much a gendered take on food in American culture. The authors make it clear that even in contemporary egalitarian-motivated America, women bear the grunt of shopping, preparing, and cleaning up food; men continue to play a side, almost apathetic role in what is described as the invisible work of food provision (it may be added that follow-up studies may analyze life from the male perspective). There is a fair bit of discussion on trying to become a good mom and working towards serving the idealized meal and distress at not being able to do so. Relatedly, young children (which each of the families has) are a central issue in the accounts and the authors’ compassionate analytical gaze casts sufficient light on how the next generation of under-privileged Americans are being brought up. The solutions to America’s food worries are deeper than one imagines. The concluding section offers some answers, like improving regulation, multi-use of large school kitchens, and increasing base incomes. However, this is the part of the book that could have been developed further considering that the subtitle of the book leads readers to this direction. Nevertheless, the book does offer more than an icebreaker to start the discussion on engrained problems. Pressure Cooker is an excellent read for any social scientist who intends to study food preparation in modern homes. The book may be light on theory, but it is vivid in description. While the setting is the American lower-middle class, many of the issues are universal. Hence, even if fine details do not apply to another context, they are useful as a point of comparison. In this regard, the book is accessible to any global lay reader. In sum, Pressure Cooker needs to be lauded for its very accessible approach to pervasive complexities in America’s food dilemma.","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"30 1","pages":"792 - 794"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44099003","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}

{"title":"The passive revolution is televised: The dominant ideology of media capitalism","authors":"D. Nyberg","doi":"10.1177/13505084231180288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231180288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47563368","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}

{"title":"What’s wrong with creativity?","authors":"S. Schaefer, Olof Hallonsten","doi":"10.1177/13505084231179383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231179383","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay we put forward a critique of the prevailing orthodoxy of creativity and innovation which are rarely fundamentally questioned neither in science nor in public discourse. We urge to reconsider contemporary purposes and consequences of what we call instrumental and humanist conceptions of creativity and innovation. Based on our critique we speak out to transcend reified notions of creativity and innovation by engaging in disciplined imagination of desirable alternative futures using the example of craft as a timeless form of work. Craft, we argue, prefigures a type of creativity and innovation that addresses the social and ecological challenges of contemporary economy and society and may thus serve as a source for inspiration to radically re-think current, ingrained notions of creativity and innovation.","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46678783","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}

{"title":"Creating meaningful connections: An experiment in practically engaged CMS","authors":"Daniel King, Martyn Griffin","doi":"10.1177/13505084231176118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231176118","url":null,"abstract":"Can meaningful connections between academics, consultants, and practitioners of workplace democracy be created to bring about critically inspired change? This article presents an exploration of our experiment in producing a practical and engaged form of Critical Management Studies (CMS) through a case study of a 2-day event. The event brought together academics, consultants, and practitioners of workplace democracy to examine the possibilities and challenges of creating meaningful connections between these groups. It served as a platform for investigating and reflecting on the efforts made to bridge the gap between academia and practice in CMS. Drawing on pre-event documents, recordings of the event and interviews with participants after the event, we provide an account of academics out of their comfort zone struggling to feel authentic and useful; suspicion and uneasiness between groups leading to inter and intra group struggles; and lingering difficulties around power and control. Our event suggests that CMS scholars seeking more practical engagement should pursue a: (i) deliberative research perspective of co-production alongside multiple stakeholders (academics, consultants, and practitioners) to practically seek to bring about change; (ii) democratization of the research process so that the democratic intentions of the research outcomes are built into the research process; (iii) fluid research position breaking down and blurring of boundaries between academics and practitioners to increase the possibilities for creating meaningful connections.","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44143211","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}

{"title":"The future of work guaranteed: Assembling NEETs in the apparatus of the welfare state","authors":"T. Boland, R. Griffin","doi":"10.1177/13505084231177199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231177199","url":null,"abstract":"The future of work is partially written in the organisation of the welfare state – particularly in social policies and practices which imagine a vibrant labour market with ever-more employment. Here, we offer a genealogy of the peculiar formulation of the term NEETs, ‘Not in Employment, Education or Training’ as emblematic of a deep cultural and organisational commitment to work. To understand this array of policies, we draw on the Foucauldian concept of the dispositif. We move between the authoritarian valency of the concept as used by Agamben, and the looser Deleuzian assemblage, to investigate the policy, discourses and material structures that guarantee the future of work. NEETS conceptually and practically narrows the broad liminal transition from adolescent to adult into a labour market transition – producing work-ready, employable subjects for any future. The future of work need not be NEETs, but to approach that future we need to attend to the overwhelming policy apparatus and assemblage that holds a post-work future at bay.","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"30 1","pages":"873 - 891"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48999389","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}