scholarly journals It takes two to tango: Theorizing inter-corporeality through nakedness and eros in researching and writing organizations

Organization ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 135050842095632
Author(s):  
Emmanouela Mandalaki ◽  
Mar Pérezts
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
Sexual Stereotypes ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Dance Floor ◽  
Phenomenological Experience ◽  
Vulnerability To Stress

Dance with us, on the dance-floor and with words, as we reenact our individual and shared tango autoethnographic experiences to develop an understanding of field inter-corporeality as a phenomenological experience of nakedness empowered by the transformational potential of eros. We write as we dance to discuss how eroticizing through the other’s presence our embodied nakedness, beyond sexual stereotypes, pushes us to meta-reflect on ourselves as organizational ethnographers and writers to reinvent our field and writing interactions as inter-corporeally relational and intersubjective. We problematize the sexual gaze that traditionally associates nakedness with shame and objectified vulnerability to stress the capacity of eroticizing our academic nakedness to enable free, embodied knowledge stripped of the traits of the dominant masculine academic order. In so doing, we join burgeoning autoethnographic and broader debates in the field of organization studies calling for the need to further unveil the embodied, erotic, and feminine aspects of organizational research and writing. Shall we dance?

Experience Sampling Methodology: A Systematic Review and Discussion for Organizational Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozge Can
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Total Duration ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Workplace Relationships ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Sampling Methodology ◽  
Experience Sampling Methodology ◽  
Current State ◽  
Methodological Aspects

In organizational research, growing attention has been given to the dynamic nature of workplace relationships and how such dynamic processes shape key behavioural outcomes. Experience sampling methodology (ESM) brings more opportunity than any other research option to examine such fluctuations and relevant causal relationships. ESM can be described as a quantitative method which allows individuals to assess discrete evaluative states on multiple events by combining three distinct elements; person, variables and occasion. Despite its increasing prevalence and popularity, however, there has been only a few attempts to investigate the most appropriate design, measurement and analysis choices for experience sampling data. Even though ESM has been utilized in organizational research for some time, systematic investigations regarding how these issues have been addressed and how the method has been applied to specific organizational topics are limited. This study provides a systematic and critical assessment of the use of ESM in current organizational research (2010‑2020) by reviewing a random sample of 50 ESM studies indexed in ISI Web of Science with the aim of identifying the current state of practice. The selected studies were analysed based on several methodological aspects including the type of ESM protocol applied, sample characteristics, data sources, specified interval and total duration of data collection, structure and properties of designated measures, analytic strategy, and the research model to be tested. Findings show that organization studies vary considerably based on how they design and implement ESM. Moreover, despite the availability of good practices, many studies fail to attain recommended standards about sample size, data collection procedures, data characteristics and measurement quality. As such, this paper offers several insights regarding how time‑based within‑person frameworks can be improved in future studies to account for dynamic organizational phenomena.

scholarly journals An Introduction to Video Methods in Organizational Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis LeBaron ◽  
Paula Jarzabkowski ◽  
Michael G. Pratt ◽  
Greg Fetzer
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Observational Studies ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
The World ◽  
Methodological Tool

Video has become a methodological tool of choice for many researchers in social science, but video methods are relatively new to the field of organization studies. This article is an introduction to video methods. First, we situate video methods relative to other kinds of research, suggesting that video recordings and analyses can be used to replace or supplement other approaches, not only observational studies but also retrospective methods such as interviews and surveys. Second, we describe and discuss various features of video data in relation to ontological assumptions that researchers may bring to their research design. Video involves both opportunities and pitfalls for researchers, who ought to use video methods in ways that are consistent with their assumptions about the world and human activity. Third, we take a critical look at video methods by reporting progress that has been made while acknowledging gaps and work that remains to be done. Our critical considerations point repeatedly at articles in this special issue, which represent recent and important advances in video methods.

Why I think shadowing is the best field technique in management and organization studies

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Czarniawska
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Field Technique

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the value of shadowing as a field technique. Design/methodology/approach – This piece takes the form of a viewpoint. Findings – Barbara Czarniawska describes the methodological journey that led her to the adoption of shadowing approaches in her organizational research. Originality/value – This invited commentary is informed by extensive experience of using shadowing to gather data in organizational settings.

scholarly journals Vulnerabling People

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Taika Bottner
Keyword(s):  
Care Practice ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
Phenomenological Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
Dementia Research

In dementia research and care practice and there has been a turn to try to offer approaches that acknowledge the patient’s personhood and agency and protect the rights of the vulnerable. Yet while defining people as demented or vulnerable, the focus is on the disabilities of and dysfunctions in the patient, and the strengths are left undiscussed, thus ignoring an important part of being a person. I move the focus from disabilities to strengths and call for more attention to be paid to other ways of interaction with vulnerable people. As an example, I consider ‘making’ as a form of creative interaction and how this applies to people living with dementia. My focus is on the phenomenological experience of the world. I argue that this offers a perspective that shows the value in embodied knowledge and making practices in a manner that acknowledges the agency and ability to interact with the world, even when other forms of interaction might not seem possible. Keywords: agency, art, dementia, making, phenomenology, vulnerability

The Grounded Theory Methodology in Organization Studies Within Qualitative Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Practical Research ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
Development Practice

It is believed that the grounded theory (GT) approach works best for researchers who are concerned about the gap between academic and practical research because of the importance they place on applied research. The chapter aimed to explain the GT methodology and identify its application in organizational research context. In this regard, the theory-research-development-practice cycle, the factors affecting the choice of organization research methodology, and the types of qualitative research methods have been studied by comparing four qualitative methods of case study, GT, phenomenological study, and content analysis. Also, in this regard, the four main GT schools including Glaserian classic GT, Straussian GT, Charmazian constructivist GT, and Clarkeian situational GT, as well as the GT process involving the phases of data collection, coding, memo-ing, sorting, and validation are discussed in detail.

Time, Temporality, and History in Process Organization Studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Juliane Reinecke ◽  
Roy Suddaby ◽  
Ann Langley ◽  
Haridimos Tsoukas
Keyword(s):  
Central Element ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Prior Literature ◽  
Precise Relationship ◽  
Organizational Study ◽  
Organizational Scholarship ◽  
Relationship Of

Time and history have emerged as prominent subjects of interest in organization studies. This volume stands testament to the recent foregrounding of time and history as focal objects of organizational study and scholarship. The precise relationship of temporality and history to processes of change remains under-theorized, and we lack a coherent set of conceptual tools that can be applied to ongoing research directed to addressing the puzzle. The chapters in this volume, devoted to understanding temporality and history as a central element of process, offer a glimpse of both a defining puzzle and a set of emergent conceptual tools that might be useful for scholars engaged in historical and temporally sensitive organizational research. Before elaborating their contribution to the emergent theoretical scaffolding of historical and temporal organizational scholarship, this chapter presents the puzzle and its evolution in prior literature.

Anecdotal evidence: understanding organizational reality through organizational humorous tales

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 539-561
Author(s):  
Dariusz Jemielniak ◽  
Aleksandra Przegalińska ◽  
Agata Stasik
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Humor Studies

Abstract In the paper, we propose a new focus in qualitative organization studies, which we call organizational anecdotal evidence. The novelty of our method is in linking storytelling, studies of organizational anecdotes, and humor studies. We claim that organizational anecdotes, jokes, and short fictional stories should become a core object of organizational culture analysis, rather than be refuted as unimportant. This is so because the study of organizational anecdotes and fictional stories shared by the social actors is more meaningful and gives more insight into their culture than establishing mere facts. In the article, we briefly relate the limitations of factual studies in many areas of organizational research, describe the theoretical background of our method (coming from humor studies, storytelling, and organizational anecdotes analysis), and propose their combination as a new approach for organization scholars, namely, organizational anecdotal evidence research. The utility of the proposed methodological approach is demonstrated based on original research conducted in a public administration organization.

scholarly journals Towards an Articulation of the Material and Visual Turn in Organization Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 597-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Boxenbaum ◽  
Candace Jones ◽  
Renate E. Meyer ◽  
Silviya Svejenova
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Organizational Theory ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Visual Artifacts

Contemporary organizations increasingly rely on images, logos, videos, building materials, graphic and product design, and a range of other material and visual artifacts to compete, communicate, form identity and organize their activities. This Special Issue focuses on materiality and visuality in the course of objectifying and reacting to novel ideas, and, more broadly, contributes to organizational theory by articulating the emergent contours of a material and visual turn in the study of organizations. In this Introduction, we provide an overview of research on materiality and visuality. Drawing on the articles in the special issue, we further explore the affordances and limits of the material and visual dimensions of organizing in relation to novelty. We conclude by pointing out theoretical avenues for advancing multimodal research, and discuss some of the ethical, pragmatic and identity-related challenges that a material and visual turn could pose for organizational research.

scholarly journals Un/doing Chrononormativity: Negotiating Ageing, Gender and Sexuality in Organizational Life

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 1677-1698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Riach ◽  
Nicholas Rumens ◽  
Melissa Tyler
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
The Impact

This paper is based on a series of ‘anti-narrative’ interviews designed to explore the ways in which lived experiences of age, gender and sexuality are negotiated and narrated within organizations in later life. It draws on Judith Butler’s performative ontology of gender, particularly her account of the ways in which the desire for recognition is shaped by heteronormativity, considering its implications for how we study ageing and organizations. In doing so, the paper develops a critique of the impact of heteronormative life course expectations on the negotiation of viable subjectivity within organizational settings. Focusing on the ways in which ‘chrononormativity’ shapes the lived experiences of ageing within organizations, at the same time as constituting an organizing process in itself, the paper draws on Butler’s concept of ‘un/doing’ in its analysis of the simultaneously affirming and negating organizational experiences of older self-identifying LGBT people. The paper concludes by emphasizing the theoretical potential of a performative ontology of ageing, gender and sexuality for organization studies, as well as the methodological insights to be derived from an ‘anti-narrative’ approach to organizational research, arguing for the need to develop a more inclusive politics of ageing within both organizational practice and research.

scholarly journals Feeling the Reel of the Real: Framing the Play of Critically Affective Organizational Research between Art and the Everyday

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 319-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Linstead
Keyword(s):  
Close Relationships ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
The Real ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Intention To Move ◽  
Cultural Texts

This article considers a number of issues hampering the application of arts-based ‘playful’ methods in organization studies once the close relationships between ethnography and aesthetic research, and the connections between art and everyday experience, are recognized. Drawing particularly from the creative ethnographies of Kathleen Stewart, Dwight Conquergood and H. L. Goodall, Jr. it suggests that the performative nature of artistic cultural texts lies in their intention to move their audience towards new sensitivities, awareness, and even learning. Critique is not oppositional to such development, being essential for fully creative movement. The article therefore suggests that what is needed are critically affective performative texts. For such texts to be socially, politically and epistemologically defensible, and thus a viable form for researchers to consider adopting, it is necessary to understand how they work to generate critical momentum, and what possible lines are available for justifying and evaluating creative approaches that challenge orthodox organizational research in being neither objective, representational nor expressive. The article outlines four ‘moments’ of critical leverage – aesthetic, poetic, ethical and political – that work in play with each other to create powerful artistic texts, and illustrates them by drawing on work-related literature, music, poetry and art, including workplace ethnographies. This framework enables the location of artistic and ‘playful’ methods epistemologically and ontologically relative to other modes of research and offers a robust justification for their further use in the field of organization studies.

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