Ruin and Organization Studies

In this paper we offer a preliminary study of the various ways in which ‘ruin’ has significance for organization studies. One important motif associated with both modern and romantic treatments of ruins concerns the revelatory impressions they make. In this respect the tradition of ruin writing will talk of their ‘beauty’, their ‘strangeness’ or their capacity to ‘intimidate’, which somehow never fails to strike a responsive nerve in us. In order to attend to this elusive phenomenon we must necessarily breach some of the self-imposed boundaries of our ‘discipline’. Taking up this challenge we follow W. G. Sebald in his use of contiguity as both method and textual structuring device, allowing us to drift across iconic ruin images, ruin theories and our own ruinous research experiences. This helps us learn how to ‘dwell’ in the ruin – without any impatient reaching after fact or explaining away ruins in the terms of an established tradition of theorizing in organization – and open up new analytic spaces and associations for organizational researchers. These concern specifically (a) a distinctive approach to time, history and memory; (b) an increased awareness of the multiplicity of forces impinging on organization, forces from which we so easily retreat behind the cordon sanitaire of organization-studies-as-usual; and (c) a cognisance of how the very way we write is a mode of doing organization that is crucial for our ability and willingness to look into ‘all corners of reality’ so that we might better grasp organizational phenomena.

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Time, Temporality, and History in Process Organization Studies

10.1093/oso/9780198870715.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Time History ◽

Organization Studies ◽

History And Memory ◽

Alternative Structures ◽

Critical Elements ◽

Historical Processes ◽

Experience Of Time ◽

Temporal Aspects ◽

Process Studies ◽

Unique Source

Process studies of organizations focus attention on how and why organizational actions and structures emerge, develop, grow or terminate over time. Time, timing, and temporality, are inherent to organizational process studies, yet time remains an under-theorized construct that has struggled to move beyond chronological conceptions of “clock” time. Missing from this linear view are ongoing debates about objectivity versus subjectivity in the experience of time, linear versus alternative structures of time, or an appreciation of collective or culturally determined inferences of temporality. This is critical because our understanding of time and temporality can shape how we view and relate to organizational phenomena—as unfolding processes or stable objects. History is an equally important but under-theorized concept in organization studies. Organizational theorists have struggled to move beyond two limited conceptualizations of historical processes: history as a constraint on organizations’ capacity for change, or history as a unique source of competitive advantage. Both approaches suffer from the restrictive view of history as an objective set of “brute facts” that are exterior to the individuals, organizations, and collectives that experience them. The historical turn in management has triggered an effort to re-theorize history in organizations in a more nuanced manner, and management theory is acquiring a “historical consciousness”—an awareness of time, history, and memory as critical elements in processes of organizing. This volume draws together emerging strands of interest in adopting a more nuanced orientation toward time and history to better understand the temporal aspects of organizational processes.

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Recent Mediaevel Studies - 1J. Joseph Ryan: Saint Peter Damiani and His Canonical Sources. A Preliminary Study in the Antecedents of the Gregorian Reform. (Studies and Texts. Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, 1956. Pp. XVIII, 212. $5.00.) - 2Norman F. Cantor: Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture in England 1089–1135. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1958. Pp. 349. $6.00.) - 3J. Ambrose Raftis: The Estates of Ramsey Abbey. A Study in Economic Growth and Organization. (Studies and Texts. 3: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, 1958. Pp. xiii, 341. $7.00.) - 4Marthinus Versfeld, A Guide to The City of God (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1958. Pp. 141. $3.00.)

The Review of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0034670500003922 ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 699-702

Author(s):

James A. Corbett

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

New York ◽

Organization Studies ◽

Medieval Studies ◽

City Of God ◽

Princeton University ◽

Preliminary Study ◽

Saint Peter ◽

Gregorian Reform ◽

The City

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PRELIMINARY STUDY ON NOVEL BEAM-TO-COLUMN CONNECTION BASED ON SMA PLATE

Proceedings of International Structural Engineering and Construction ◽

10.14455/isec.2021.8(1).str-22 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Michael CH Yam ◽

Ke Ke ◽

Ping Zhang ◽

Qingyang Zhao

Keyword(s):

Friction Coefficient ◽

Energy Dissipation ◽

Numerical Study ◽

Numerical Models ◽

Numerical Technique ◽

The Self ◽

Hysteretic Behavior ◽

The Novel ◽

Energy Dissipation Capacity ◽

Preliminary Study

A novel beam-to-column connection equipped with shape memory alloy (SMA) plates has been proposed to realize resilient performance under low-to-medium seismic actions. In this conference paper, the detailed 3D numerical technique calibrated by the previous paper is adopted to examine the hysteretic behavior of the novel connection. A parametric study covering a reasonable range of parameters including the thickness of the SMA plate, friction coefficient between SMA plate and beam flange and pre-load of the bolt was carried out and the influence of the parameters was characterized. In addition, the effect of the SMA Belleville washer on the connection performance was also studied. The results of the numerical study showed that the initial connection stiffness and the energy-dissipation capacity of the novel connection can be enhanced with the increase of the thickness of the SMA plate. In addition, the initial connection stiffness and energy-dissipation behavior of the novel connection can be improved by increasing the friction coefficient or pre-load of bolts, whereas the increased friction level could compromise the self-centering behavior of the connection. The hysteretic curves of the numerical models of the connection also implied that the SMA washers may contribute to optimizing the connection behavior by increasing the connection stiffness and energy-dissipation capacity without sacrificing the self-centering behavior.

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The Role of Witnesses in Humiliation: Why Does the Presence of an Audience Facilitate Humiliation Among Victims of Devaluation?

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin ◽

10.1177/01461672211053078 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 014616722110530

Author(s):

Saulo Fernández ◽

Tamar Saguy ◽

Elena Gaviria ◽

Rut Agudo ◽

Eran Halperin

Keyword(s):

Moderating Effect ◽

The Self ◽

The Other ◽

Recall Method ◽

Preliminary Study ◽

Event Recall

We examined the role that witnesses play in triggering humiliation. We hypothesized that witnesses trigger humiliation because they intensify the two core appraisals underlying humiliation: unfairness and internalization of a devaluation of the self. However, we further propose that witnesses are not a defining characteristic of humiliating situations. Results of a preliminary study using an event-recall method confirmed that witnesses were as characteristic of humiliating episodes as of those that elicited shame or anger. In Experiments 1 and 2, we manipulated the presence (vs. absence) of witnesses when a professor devalued participants and the hostile tone of this devaluation. As hypothesized, in both experiments, witnesses indirectly increased humiliation via the appraisal of unfairness. Results of Experiment 2 revealed that the presence of witnesses also interacted with hostility, enhancing humiliation. As expected, this moderating effect occurred via the other key appraisal of humiliation (i.e., internalization).

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The Foucault Effect in Organization Studies

Organization Studies ◽

10.1177/0170840617745110 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 155-182 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Sverre Raffnsøe ◽

Andrea Mennicken ◽

Peter Miller

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

The Self ◽

Third Wave ◽

Organization Studies ◽

Linguistic Turn ◽

The Third ◽

The Past ◽

Organizational Scholarship ◽

The Impact ◽

Second Wave

Since the establishment of Organization Studies in 1980, Michel Foucault’s oeuvre has had a remarkable and continuing influence on its field. This article traces the different ways in which organizational scholars have engaged with Foucault’s writings over the past thirty years or so. We identify four overlapping waves of influence. Drawing on Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, the first wave focused on the impact of discipline, and techniques of surveillance and subjugation, on organizational practices and power relations. Part of a much wider ‘linguistic’ turn in the second half of the twentieth century, the second wave led to a focus on discourses as intermediaries that condition ways of viewing and acting. This wave drew mainly on Foucault’s early writings on language and discourse. The third wave was inspired by Foucault’s seminal lectures on governmentality towards the end of the 1970s. Here, an important body of international research investigating governmental technologies operating on subjects as free persons in sites such as education, accounting, medicine and psychiatry emerged. The fourth and last wave arose out of a critical engagement with earlier Foucauldian organizational scholarship and sought to develop a more positive conception of subjectivity. This wave draws in particular on Foucault’s work on asceticism and techniques of the self towards the end of his life. Drawing on Deleuze and Butler, the article conceives the Foucault effect in organization studies as an immanent cause and a performative effect. We argue for the need to move beyond the tired dichotomies between discipline and autonomy, compliance and resistance, power and freedom that, at least to some extent, still hamper organization studies. We seek to overcome such dichotomies by further pursuing newly emerging lines of Foucauldian research that investigate processes of organizing, calculating and economizing characterized by a differential structuring of freedom, performative and indirect agency.

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Cause of a Crisis

Advances in Early Childhood and K-12 Education - Challenges and Opportunities in Global Approaches to Education ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9775-9.ch013 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 235-252

Author(s):

Jonathan J. Felix

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Trinidad And Tobago ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Mission Statements ◽

The Self ◽

Current Crisis ◽

Commercial Activity ◽

21St Century Education ◽

Current State ◽

Preliminary Study

From the 1990s until the present, there has been a growing movement in the higher education sector worldwide, emphasizing the primacy of the natural sciences and commercial activity as an important part of 21st century education and workforce preparation. Since then, the ongoing discourse on higher education has also systematically led to the marginalization of humanities. This chapter explores the ways in which the statements of purpose of higher education institutions, and their subsequent activities, might contribute toward the current state of the humanities. The author argues that the self-perception of these entities is related to their organizational identity, values, and actions. Using discourse analysis, this work will also attempt to explore the mission statements of 15 major higher education institutions in Trinidad and Tobago, and how statements regarding their core work are related to the current crisis with the humanities. From this preliminary study, higher education providers may be able to reconsider the ways in which their core internal and market-driven activities might severely compromise their ability to adequately serve students and the wider society by extension.

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Time, history and memory

Assembling Past Worlds ◽

10.4324/9780367814786-10 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 199-221

Author(s):

Oliver J.T. Harris

Keyword(s):

Time History ◽

History And Memory

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Strength reduction factor of self-centering structures under near-fault pulse-like ground motions

Advances in Structural Engineering ◽

10.1177/1369433220945055 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 119-133

Author(s):

Huihui Dong ◽

Qiang Han ◽

Xiuli Du ◽

Canxing Qiu

Keyword(s):

Ground Motions ◽

Time History ◽

Reduction Factor ◽

Strength Reduction ◽

The Self ◽

Hysteretic Behavior ◽

Hysteretic Model ◽

Strength Reduction Factor ◽

Vibration Period ◽

Near Fault

Many studies on the strength reduction factor mainly focused on structures with the conventional hysteretic models. However, for the self-centering structure with the typical flag-shaped hysteretic behavior, the corresponding study is limited. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the strength reduction factor of the self-centering structure with flag-shaped hysteretic behavior subjected to near-fault pulse-like ground motions by the time history analysis. For this purpose, the smooth flag-shaped model based on Bouc-Wen model which can show flag-shaped hysteretic behavior is first described. The strength reduction factor spectra of the flag-shaped model are then calculated under 85 near-fault pulse-like ground motions. The influences of the ductility level, vibration period, site condition, hysteretic parameter, and hysteretic model are investigated statistically. For comparison, the strength reduction factors under ordinary ground motions are also analyzed. The results show that the strength reduction factor from near-fault pulse-like ground motions is smaller. Finally, a predictive model is proposed to estimate the strength reduction factor for the self-centering structure with the flag-shaped model under near-fault pulse-like ground motions.

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