{"title":"Media Review: Doing Process Research in Organizations: Noticing Differently","authors":"A. Langley","doi":"10.1177/01708406231191333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231191333","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48423,"journal":{"name":"Organization Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47188430","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}
{"title":"How Orchestration Both Generates and Reduces Polyphony in Narrative Strategy-Making","authors":"E. Vaara, Anniina Rantakari","doi":"10.1177/01708406231191331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231191331","url":null,"abstract":"Although we have seen a growing interest in participatory strategy-making, there is a paucity of knowledge about the role of polyphony and how it may be orchestrated. Our longitudinal analysis of a revealing case reveals how narrative strategy-making unfolded in four temporally overlapping phases: First, a top-down effort to lead participatory strategy-making resulted in polyphony, which was nevertheless largely controlled from the top. Second, this was followed by autonomous narrative strategy-making in units, leading to polyphony that was less but still partly controlled from the top. Third, this triggered an emergence of counternarratives offering alternatives to the overall narrative, thus generating “genuine” polyphony not controlled from the top. Fourth, partly as a response, top decision-makers launched an update, again seizing more control in polyphony. Thus, our study advances prior research by elucidating how orchestration of participatory strategy-making both generates and reduces polyphony. By so doing, our analysis helps us to move from a dichotomous view of participation and openness towards a more nuanced appreciation of alternative voices and how they may or may not emerge or be controlled in strategy-making.","PeriodicalId":48423,"journal":{"name":"Organization Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47365353","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}
{"title":"Special Issue: Post-diversity, precarious work for all: Unmaking borders to govern labor in the Amazon warehouse","authors":"P. Zanoni, Milosz Miszczynski","doi":"10.1177/01708406231191336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231191336","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the (un)making of borders as a form of labor governmentality in one of Amazon’s warehouses in Poland. Guided by a critical theory of borders as a form of labor governmentality under global capitalism, we identify organizational practices through which socio-demographic categories traditionally deployed as principles of organizing work (e.g., gender, age, ability) are unmade: the management of deskilled labor through an algorithmic system, the non-selective hiring of workers, the enforcement of social norms of inter-personal respect, and a universal system of casualized employment. Together, these practices constitute workers as undifferentiated, interchangeable and equal labor, let them compete with each other under harshly exploitative conditions, and continuously dispose of the least productive among them, keeping all in structural uncertainty. The study contributes to the critical diversity literature by showing a ‘post-diversity’ governmentality that rests on equality, competition and precarization of labor as a whole, rather than segregation and marginalization through an ‘ideal worker’ norm. This labor governmentality operates by eliciting consent from historically subordinated workers and eliminating the advantage of historically relatively privileged ones. Unmaking borders within labor inside the organization, this governmentality at once crucially rests on borders outside it.","PeriodicalId":48423,"journal":{"name":"Organization Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41737243","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}
J. Fourie, Markus A. Höllerer, G. Dwyer, Paul Spee
{"title":"Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires","authors":"J. Fourie, Markus A. Höllerer, G. Dwyer, Paul Spee","doi":"10.1177/01708406231182766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231182766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48423,"journal":{"name":"Organization Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42346177","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}
{"title":"Trajectories of value generation and capturing by public-private hybrids: Mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare","authors":"G. Cappellaro, Amelia Compagni, M. Dacin","doi":"10.1177/01708406231187084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231187084","url":null,"abstract":"Our paper unpacks the multi-level process through which hybrids generate value in the long term. By combining interviews, archival and survey data, we examine the longitudinal trajectories of value generation of public-private hybrids (PPHs) established in the regionalized Italian healthcare system (1992-2018). We identify three ideal-type trajectories: a) long-term value generation by stable PPHs; b) long-term value generation by transient PPHs; and c) interrupted value generation by terminated PPHs. We uncover how these trajectories are shaped by the interplay between regional governance arrangements – i.e., institutionally embedded norms regarding who is entitled to generate value for the field, the scope for organizational value capturing and the institutional monitoring system – and organizational governance mechanisms – i.e., the strategic orientation of individual PPHs and their internal monitoring functions. Our paper contributes to theory by conceptualizing the mechanism of “double filter”, which we define as the set of field- and organizational-level governance compensatory mechanisms that, together, allow long-term value generation by hybrids. We also problematize the relationship between hybrids’ value-generation capacities and the persistence of hybrid organizational forms, and ultimately trace it to different field governance arrangements. In so doing, we conceptualize “transient hybrids” as a distinctive organizational form for long-term value generation.","PeriodicalId":48423,"journal":{"name":"Organization Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43961613","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}
{"title":"Women Whistleblowers: Examining parrhesia, power and gender with Sophocles’ Antigone","authors":"K. Kenny, Mahaut Fanchini","doi":"10.1177/01708406231187073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231187073","url":null,"abstract":"How do gender and power intersect in whistleblowing situations? In this article, we deepen understandings of whistleblowing as a contemporary form of parrhesia, involving a process of self-constitution while speaking ‘truth to power’ from below. To explore the complex interactions of gender and power, we analyze in-depth, qualitative data from senior women managers whistleblowing in financial services organizations in France, Ireland and the US. Sophocles’ play Antigone, via a feminist lens, inspires a novel theoretical framing for understanding how structures of gender and power can be subverted, as women whistleblowers move between positions of masculine, feminine, subjugation and control. Our article contributes to organizational research on whistleblowing by showing how parrhesiastic risk intersects with gender in nuanced ways: violent gendered reprisals can occur in momentary interactions that are painfully internalized, yielding a search for support from outside sources in order to survive. These acts of exclusion necessitate the creation of new subject positions beyond those on offer within the organization. Overall our article demonstrates how experiences of ‘outsider truth-telling’ from the margins, shed light on the power dynamics at play in whistleblowing situations.","PeriodicalId":48423,"journal":{"name":"Organization Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42581881","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}
{"title":"Extending meta-organization theory: A resource-flow perspective","authors":"S. Bor, S. Cropper","doi":"10.1177/01708406231185932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231185932","url":null,"abstract":"Meta-organization theory has shied away from a systematic consideration of the complexities and consequences of resource acquisition patterns, instead assuming member organizations furnish the resources their associations require. The theory reflects empirical enquiry, which has focused primarily on the most visible form of resources, the association’s finance budget and staffing. This paper develops a conceptual framework to show the wider range of ways in which meta-organizations acquire resources and presents a resource-flow perspective. We utilize insights from resource dependency theory to specify two dimensions of resource flow. The first addresses the source of resources, distinguishing those acquired from the meta-organization's membership from those acquired from external interests. The second concerns whether the meta-organization secures control over the use and allocation of acquired resources, or not. We identify four resource flows utilizing these two dimensions: member resourcing, associational resourcing, contributed resourcing and generated resourcing, and discuss how each resource flow relate to meta-organizational activity, highlighting when a particular flow can be expected. The resource-flow perspective allows us to adapt existing typologies to define a conceptual space onto which variations among meta-organizations can be mapped. This space focuses on the expected level of resource engagement of members in the meta-organization and the extent of resource contribution from interests in the meta-organization's environment. Finally, we discuss areas for development of the resource-flow perspective and its potential to support future research.","PeriodicalId":48423,"journal":{"name":"Organization Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45364307","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}
{"title":"Deliberative boundary work for sustainable finance: Insights from a European Commission expert group","authors":"S. Giamporcaro, Jean‐Pascal Gond, C. Louche","doi":"10.1177/01708406231185972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231185972","url":null,"abstract":"To explain how multistakeholder groups organize democratic deliberations about complex sustainability issues, organizational scholars have focused on the key role of deliberative capacity, which encompasses the dimensions of inclusiveness, authenticity, and consequentiality. However, the tensions inherent to the search of these three dimensions have been overlooked. In this paper, we argue that focusing on how spaces for deliberation are designed can help one understand how to manage such tensions. We identified the boundary work practices that shape the design of deliberative spaces and generate deliberative capacity properties in a high-level expert group (HLEG) launched by the European Commission about sustainable finance regulation. Our results show how these boundary work practices help balance deliberative tensions. We advance deliberation studies by conceptualizing deliberative boundary work, explaining how deliberative capacity is spatially generated, and showing how deliberative tensions are balanced. We also contribute to boundary work theory by making explicit the deliberative nature of configuring boundary work and showing its relevancy to regulatory settings.","PeriodicalId":48423,"journal":{"name":"Organization Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43540812","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}