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View article: When freedom and control walk hand in hand: friendship in the workplace
When freedom and control walk hand in hand: friendship in the workplace Open
Purpose While workplace friendship is often idealized in the literature as well as in practice, this paper problematizes the uncritical endorsement of the phenomenon by drawing attention to its inherent power implications. Design/methodolo…
View article: Cosmopolitanism as an Aspirational Identity: When Normative Ideals Give Rise to Identity Struggles
Cosmopolitanism as an Aspirational Identity: When Normative Ideals Give Rise to Identity Struggles Open
While cosmopolitanism is often celebrated for its contemporary ideals of openness toward people from different cultural backgrounds, this paper reveals how and why these same ideals can generate tensions and identity struggles when rigidly…
View article: Establishing the Liminal-Liminoid Distinction in Organization Studies: How individuals pursue a liminoid transition in a social venture incubator
Establishing the Liminal-Liminoid Distinction in Organization Studies: How individuals pursue a liminoid transition in a social venture incubator Open
While the notion of liminality has improved our understanding of individuals going through transition, its widespread use in a variety of organizational contexts has led to a dilution of the concept’s analytical precision. By analysing ‘li…
View article: Who Empowers Who in Co-production? Surgeons’ and Patients’ Power Dynamics throughout Clinical Decision Making
Who Empowers Who in Co-production? Surgeons’ and Patients’ Power Dynamics throughout Clinical Decision Making Open
Co-production tends to assume that co-produced decision-making leads to consensus and equality between actors with different perspectives. Drawing on ethnographic insights into interactions between professionals and patients, this article …
View article: Communication in organizations: An overview and provocations
Communication in organizations: An overview and provocations Open
The role that communication plays in social organization and processes of organizing has received considerable scholarly attention from multiple disciplines over several decades. This paper provides a review of the diverse literature that …
View article: Do medical specialists accept claims-based Audit and Feedback for quality improvement? A focus group study
Do medical specialists accept claims-based Audit and Feedback for quality improvement? A focus group study Open
Objectives Audit and Feedback (A&F) is a widely used quality improvement (QI) intervention in healthcare. However, not all feedback is accepted by professionals. While claims-based feedback has been previously used for A&F interventions, i…
View article: ‘Truly a European company’: a Chinese auto maker’s strategies of Europeanization
‘Truly a European company’: a Chinese auto maker’s strategies of Europeanization Open
Research on international business presents ‘liability of foreignness’
\nas a key factor in a Multinational Enterprise’s (MNE’s) operations,
\nbut it has not addressed ‘foreignness’ as a complex and dynamic
\nphenomenon. Adopting an identi…
View article: Oddity as Commodity? The body as symbolic resource for Other-defying identity work
Oddity as Commodity? The body as symbolic resource for Other-defying identity work Open
While studies on the work people undertake on their ‘identities’ in professional contexts tend to focus on inner conversations between different possible selves, this paper considers the impact of ‘inherited’ prescriptions and expectations…
View article: Monologue and Organization Studies
Monologue and Organization Studies Open
In this essay, we propose that recent work in management and organization studies is typically inclined to understand organization and organizing as dialogic in form. Dialogicity is characterized by dynamic interlocution on the part of act…
View article: Who Participates in Public Participation? The Exclusionary Effects of Inclusionary Efforts
Who Participates in Public Participation? The Exclusionary Effects of Inclusionary Efforts Open
Highlighting public-service actors’ deliberately tokenistic or self-serving efforts, existing literature has shown that public participation often involves the co-optation of sympathetic citizens. In contrast, our study demonstrates that p…
View article: Working Toward Network Governance: Local Actors’ Strategies for Navigating Tensions in Localized Health Care Governance
Working Toward Network Governance: Local Actors’ Strategies for Navigating Tensions in Localized Health Care Governance Open
Although network governance has become increasingly popular in both research and practice, its anticipated benefits do not always materialize. Although literature on network governance acknowledges the challenges that result from its intro…
View article: Catching a glimpse: Corona‐life and its micro‐politics in academia
Catching a glimpse: Corona‐life and its micro‐politics in academia Open
The spread of COVID‐19 acutely challenges and affects not just economic markets, demographic statistics and healthcare systems, but indeed also the politics of organizing and becoming in a new everyday life of academia emerging in our home…
View article: Bridging Self and Sociality
Bridging Self and Sociality Open
‘Identity’, Berger and Luckmann (1991: 195) maintained, ‘remains unintelligible unless it is located in a world’. In order to ‘locate’ identity, this chapter provides, first, a theoretical underpinning for an essentially social understandi…
View article: Engaged yet excluded: The processual, dispersed, and political dynamics of boundary work
Engaged yet excluded: The processual, dispersed, and political dynamics of boundary work Open
What happens when people try to ‘transcend’ organizational boundaries and engage with so-called outsiders? Current boundary-work literature does not fully account for the processual, dispersed, and political dynamics triggered by such effo…
View article: From What to Where: A setting-sensitive approach to organizational storytelling
From What to Where: A setting-sensitive approach to organizational storytelling Open
Extant literature on organizational storytelling assumes storytelling to be context-bound, but does not empirically detail or theorize how storytelling might differ across organizational settings. In the context of members’ everyday work l…
View article: Citizens as Active Participants in Integrated Care: Challenging the Field’s Dominant Paradigms
Citizens as Active Participants in Integrated Care: Challenging the Field’s Dominant Paradigms Open
Policy makers, practitioners and academics often claim that care users and other citizens should be 'at the center' of care integration pursuits. Nonetheless, the field of integrated care tends to approach these constituents as passive rec…
View article: Sensitivity to situated positionings: Generating insight into organizational change
Sensitivity to situated positionings: Generating insight into organizational change Open
Within ethnographic forms of organisational research, sensitivity to context is generally acknowledged as a critical ingredient for analysing processes and practices. When conducting such research, however, researchers typically privilege …
View article: I’ve Got You Under My Skin: Relational Identity Work in Interactional Dynamics
I’ve Got You Under My Skin: Relational Identity Work in Interactional Dynamics Open
While identity is commonly believed to be shaped through relations, most organizational research into identity directs attention toward individuals' constructions of a coherent en distinct sense of self and away from the situated construct…
View article: The talent paradox: talent management as a mixed blessing
The talent paradox: talent management as a mixed blessing Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an inside-out perspective on the practices and effects of talent management (TM) in a multinational organization. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts an autoethnographic approach foc…
View article: Resistance Through Compliance: The Strategic and Subversive Potential of Frontstage and Backstage Resistance
Resistance Through Compliance: The Strategic and Subversive Potential of Frontstage and Backstage Resistance Open
Cynicism, gossip, foot-dragging, simulation of productivity, etc. have been regarded by some scholars as manifestations of resistance that are subtle and unobtrusive, but still real and effective. Denying their strategic and subversive pot…
View article: Studying culture in organizations : Not taking for granted the taken-for-granted
Studying culture in organizations : Not taking for granted the taken-for-granted Open
At the beginning of the 1980s the publication of several key books and special issues of journals in the field of organization and management studies heralded the arrival of a new field known today as ‘organizational culture’. For academic…
View article: Clash of the Titans: Temporal Organizing and Collaborative Dynamics in the Panama Canal Megaproject
Clash of the Titans: Temporal Organizing and Collaborative Dynamics in the Panama Canal Megaproject Open
Recent studies of temporary organizing and project-based work explain how organizational actors establish and maintain clear role structures and harmonious relations in the face of precariousness by engaging in stabilizing work practices. …
View article: Identity-in-the-work and musicians’ struggles: the production of self-questioning identity work
Identity-in-the-work and musicians’ struggles: the production of self-questioning identity work Open
Identity work is widely regarded as a process through which people strive to establish, maintain or restore a coherent and consistent sense of self. In the face of potential disruptions of, or threats to, their identities, people seek to s…
View article: Ethnography and OrganizationalProcesses
Ethnography and OrganizationalProcesses Open
Ethnography, we think, is well suited for process studies, as ethnographers draw close enough to observe the precariousness of organizational processes, stay long enough to see change occurring, and are contextually sensitive enough to und…
View article: Organizational Change and Resistance: An Identity Perspective
Organizational Change and Resistance: An Identity Perspective Open
A classic term in popular and scholarly literature on change management is ‘resistance to change’. It understands resistance in terms of opposition to managerial strategies for organizational change. Since change is generally viewed as rea…
View article: Professional Identity in the Participation Society: Engaged Elderly with Dementia?
Professional Identity in the Participation Society: Engaged Elderly with Dementia? Open
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021…
View article: The Hofstede factor: the consequences of Culture’s Consequences
The Hofstede factor: the consequences of Culture’s Consequences Open
For many scholars and practitioners in the field of cross-cultural management, Hofstede’s work has provided a foundation for theory and practice. In this chapter, we briefly describe its main characteristics, explore its impact, and critic…