scholarly journals Censored: Whistleblowers and impossible speech

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (8) ◽  
pp. 1025-1048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Kenny
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Recruitment Practices

What happens to a person who speaks out about corruption in their organization, and finds themselves excluded from their profession? In this article, I argue that whistleblowers experience exclusions because they have engaged in ‘impossible speech’, that is, a speech act considered to be unacceptable or illegitimate. Drawing on Butler’s theories of recognition and censorship, I show how norms of acceptable speech working through recruitment practices, alongside the actions of colleagues, can regulate subject positions and ultimately ‘un-do’ whistleblowers. In turn, they construct boundaries against ‘unethical’ others who have not spoken out. Based on in-depth empirical research on financial sector whistleblowers, the article departs from existing literature that depicts the excluded whistleblower as a passive victim – a hollow stereotype. It contributes to organization studies in a number of ways. To debates on Butler’s recognition-based critique of subjectivity in organizations, it yields a performative ontology of excluded whistleblower subjects, in which they are both ‘derealized’ by powerful norms, and compelled into ongoing and ambivalent negotiations with self and other. These insights contribute to a theory of subjective derealization in instances of ‘impossible speech’, which provides a more nuanced conception of excluded organizational subjects, including blacklisted whistleblowers, than previously available.

scholarly journals Precarity, hospitality and the becoming of a subject that matters: A study of Syrian refugees in Lebanese tented settlements

2021 ◽  
pp. 017084062110261
Author(s):  
Lotta Hultin ◽  
Lucas D. Introna ◽  
Markus Balázs Göransson ◽  
Magnus Mähring
Keyword(s):  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Digital Home ◽  
Boundary Making ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Home Cooking

How is it possible to gain a sense that you have a voice and that your life matters when you have lost everything and live your life as a ‘displaced person’ in extreme precarity? We explore this question by examining the mundane everyday organizing practices of Syrian refugees living in tented settlements in Lebanon. Contrasting traditional empirical settings within organization studies where an already placed and mattering subject can be assumed, our context provides an opportunity to reveal how relations of recognition and mattering become constituted, and how subjects in precarious settings become enacted as such. Specifically, drawing on theories on the relational enactment of self and other, we show how material-discursive boundary-making and invitational practices—organizing a home, cooking and eating, and organizing a digital ‘home’—function to enact relational host/guest subject positions. We also disclose how these guest/host relationalities create the conditions of possibility for the enactment of a subject that matters, and for the despair enacted in everyday precarious life to transform into ‘undefeated despair’.

Beyond Self-Interest

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua May
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Concern For Others ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Christian Love ◽  
The Right ◽  
Conceptual Difficulties

This chapter introduces the long-standing idea that inappropriate motives, such as self-interest, can militate against virtuous motivation (acting for the right reasons). Some theorists have tried to show that we are universally egoistic by appeal to empirical research, particularly evolutionary theory, moral development, and the neuroscience of learning. However, these efforts fail and instead decades of experiments on helping behavior provide powerful evidence that we are capable of genuine altruism. We can be motivated ultimately by a concern for others for their own sake, especially when empathizing with them. The evidence does not show that empathy blurs the distinction between self and other in a way that makes helping behavior truly egoistic or non-altruistic. Whether grounded in Christian love (agape) or the Buddhist notion of no-self (anātman), such self-other merging proposals run into empirical and conceptual difficulties.

scholarly journals BANKS AND FINTECH: IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION ON COMPETENCES MANAGEMENT IN LATVIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 423-438
Author(s):  
Andris Nātriņš ◽  
Andris Sarnovics ◽  
Elīna Miķelsone
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Focus Group Discussion ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Information And Communication

Purpose: To explore information and communication technologies (ICT) impact on competences management in the financial sector in Latvia.Methodology: Focus group discussion with leading financial sector experts in the Latvia.Findings: There is a mismatch between academically provided competences and what is expected by the financial sector representatives within Latvia.Originality/value: Empirical research on what kind of competences are important in the financial sector at present and in the future. Contribute to the current literature by researching on how resulting competencies from the focus group compare to the academically provided competences for potential financial sector employees. By exploring received responses to the questions from this research, it can help policymakers, financial sector and academical representatives to stay agile to the arising changes of supplied and demanded competencies in the financial sector. 

scholarly journals Gender, the Body and Organization Studies: Que(e)rying Empirical Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 600-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eloisio Moulin de Souza ◽  
Jo Brewis ◽  
Nick Rumens
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
Organization Studies

scholarly journals Performance Anxieties: Interpellation of the Refugee Subject in Law

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (01) ◽  
pp. 91-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trish Luker
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
Legal Recognition ◽  
Refugee Law ◽  
A Performance

AbstractRefugee law posits the refugee as a rights-bearing subject prior to legal recognition. The determination procedures from which legal protection may be availed to a person escaping persecution demand that the applicant be recognizable as a subject entitled to law’s power to name her as a refugee. In this article, I draw on speech act theory to investigate the rhetorical structure of refugee recognition. Viewed as a performative speech act, refugee subjectivity emerges as a result of repetition and citation of tropes of “refugee-ness,” which function to legitimate and naturalize certain representations as evidence of the grounds for protection. This places applicants in a paradoxical position: they must attempt to deliver their evidence as a performance of refugee-ness, but in making the narrative recognizable and understandable according to the norms of the legal process, the singularity, and possibly the authenticity, of the account may be lost. The argument is supported by empirical research conducted at the Australian Refugee Review Tribunal.

scholarly journals Post-Keynesian Empirical Research and the Debate on Financial Market Development

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Financial Market ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Real Sector ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Financial Market Development

Literature suggests that financial intermediation affects growth through various channels. The questions, however, are “Whether financial development affects real economic activities?” and “Does the structure of the financial system matter for the economic growth outcome?” The aim of this chapter is, therefore, to briefly describe the concept of financial market development by highlighting the important role of the financial sector in the development of the real sector. Later in the chapter, the scope of the book is discussed, and research objectives are identified.

Can Perceptions of an Individual’s Organizational Citizenship Be Influenced Via Strategic Impression Management Messaging?

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elissa Arterburn Adame ◽  
Ryan S. Bisel
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Message Processing ◽  
Personal Gain ◽  
Working Adults ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Strategic Messaging

A two-part investigation explored whether strategic messaging can influence others’ perceptions of one’s organizational citizenship. In a first study, inductive analysis of interviews ( N = 24) revealed working adults hold implicit rules for how (and how not) to present themselves to their colleagues as good citizens: The rules require organizational members’ attempt to avoid being interpreted by colleagues as motivated by personal gain or working through ostentatious means. Then, the content of impression management (IM) messages were crafted—based on these rules—and used for a message-processing experiment ( N = 274). Analysis demonstrated working adults’ perceptions of organizational citizenship behavior were influenced by strategic self- and other-referential messaging regarding motives and means. Results imply that strategic IM messaging, which conforms to the rules of organizational citizenship behavior impression-construction, are rewarded with audience perceptions of being citizenly. Implications for IM in the workplace are discussed.

12. Securitization

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Emmers
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Undocumented Migration ◽  
Copenhagen School ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter examines the Copenhagen School and its securitization model. The Copenhagen School broadens the definition of security by encompassing five different sectors: military, political, societal, economic, and environmental security. It first provides an overview of the Copenhagen School’s securitization model before discussing its application to empirical research as well as the limitations of the securitization model. It then considers the role of the securitizing actor and the importance of the ‘speech act’ in convincing a specific audience of a threat’s existential nature. It argues that the Copenhagen School allows for non-military matters to be included in Security Studies while still offering a coherent understanding of the concept of security. It also describes the dangers and the negative connotations of securitizing an issue and concludes with some cases of securitization, including the securitization of undocumented migration, securitization of drug trafficking, and the failure of securitization in the Iraq War.

12. Securitization

2018 ◽  
pp. 173-188
Author(s):  
Ralf Emmers
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Undocumented Migration ◽  
Copenhagen School ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter examines the Copenhagen School and its securitization model. The Copenhagen School broadens the definition of security by encompassing five different sectors: military, political, societal, economic, and environmental security. It first provides an overview of the Copenhagen School’s securitization model before discussing its application to empirical research as well as the limitations of the securitization model. It then considers the role of the securitizing actor and the importance of the ‘speech act’ in convincing a specific audience of a threat’s existential nature. It argues that the Copenhagen School allows for non-military matters to be included in Security Studies while still offering a coherent understanding of the concept of security. It also describes the dangers and the negative connotations of securitizing an issue and concludes with some cases of securitization, including the securitization of undocumented migration, securitization of drug trafficking, and the failure of securitization in the Iraq War.

scholarly journals The Utility of Video Diaries for Organizational Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Zundel ◽  
Robert MacIntosh ◽  
David Mackay
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Diary Studies

This article assesses the utility of video diaries as a method for organization studies. While it is frequently suggested that video-based research methodologies have the capacity to capture new data about the minutiae of complex organizational affairs, as well as offering new forms of dissemination to both academic and professional audiences, little is known about the specific benefits and drawbacks of video diaries. We compare video diaries with two established and “adjacent” methods: traditional diary studies (written or audio) and other video methods. We evaluate each in relation to three key research areas: bodily expressions, identity, and practice studies. Our assessment of video diaries suggests that the approach is best used as a complement to other forms of research and is particularly suited to capturing plurivocal, asynchronous accounts of organizational phenomena. We use illustrations from an empirical research project to exemplify our claims before concluding with five points of advice for researchers wishing to employ this method.

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