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.

The Archaeology of Movement in a Mediterranean Landscape

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-87
Author(s):  
Erin Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Regional Survey ◽  
Social Approach ◽  
Mediterranean Landscapes ◽  
The Social

This study forms an introduction to the archaeology of movement and interaction—a social approach to Mediterranean landscapes that prioritises the landscape beyond sites. The archaeology of movement and interaction applies systematic survey methods to the material culture of roads and paths. While this research fits within the context of off-site and siteless survey, its focus lies in understanding the social relationships and daily activity of people in the past. In this study, I outline the theoretical background and methodological approach used to survey roads and paths in an attempt to encourage Mediterranean regional survey projects to assess, consider and/or adopt these techniques. The underlying premise is that the material culture of roads and paths embodies the experiences and social relationships in which they were constructed, used and maintained. I draw upon a case study from the high mountains of Cyprus to illustrate the archaeology of movement and interaction and to stimulate further discussion of this topic of research

scholarly journals Estratégias discursivas em controvérsias midiáticas: análise da cobertura do “caso dos beagles” // Discursive strategies in media controversial issues: an analysis of the "beagle's episode" coverage

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Fábio Henrique Pereira ◽  
Graça França Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Beagle Dogs ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
The Social

O artigo analisa as intervenções de atores sociais no espaço público sobre o uso de animais em pesquisas científicas quando ativistas retiraram 180 cães da raça beagle dos laboratórios do Instituto Royal, em São Roque (SP), em outubro de 2013. O objetivo é mostrar os diferentes recursos sociais mobilizados pelos atores para influenciar resultados de questões de decisões coletivas. A abordagem teórico-metodológica se fundamenta nos conceitos de arena social e de competências discursivas. O corpus se constitui de 23 matérias (noticiosas e opinativas) publicadas no Brasil entre outubro e novembro de 2013. Apesar da evolução do debate e dos diferentes modelos de engajamento usados pelos atores, a cobertura midiática se mantém marcada pela lógica de conflito onde cientistas e militantes/políticos são situados em espaços opostos na arena social e o debate fica polarizado entre ciência e direitos dos animais. Discursive strategies in media controversial issues: an analysis of the “beagle’s episode” coverage This article analyses the interventions in public sphere by social actors regarding the use of animals in scientific researches when animal rights activists withdrew 180 beagle dogs from Instituto Royal laboratories, in São Roque (São Paulo), in October 2013. The purpose is to show the different social resources used by those actors in order to influence the results in collective decision matters. The theoretical-methodological approach is based on the concepts of social arena and discursive competences. The data is constituted of 23 news articles (opinion and informative) published in Brazil in the months of October and November 2013. Despite the evolution of the debate and of the different engagement models used by the actors, media coverage is still stressed by the logic of conflict, in which scientists and activists/politicians are posed in opposite sides in the social arena and the debate gets polarized between science and animal rights.

ANTi-History and the entrepreneurial work of privateers

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-110
Author(s):  
Peter Secord ◽  
Lawrence T. Corrigan
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
White Male ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Actor Networks

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to theorize the social role of management systems and their political connections using ANTi-History. In so doing, it engages with academic conversations around the writing of business history. The paper focuses on subjective experience in the context of colonial privateers and the vice-admiralty court in the Napoleonic Wars era. Design/methodology/approach ANTi-History is proposed as a theoretical lens to examine the entrepreneurial work of privateers. ANTi-History destabilizes the idea of history as a dominant account of the past and is interested in controversies as to how history is produced. This paper also brings-in Bourdieu’s notion of officialization because historical knowledge is situated in official practices that conceal translations and political strategies that enable actor-networks to act as one. Findings The controls of the vice-admiralty court not only perpetuated the inherited British class system, but also created versions of reality that came to be accepted as recorded history. This shows that the rules and regulations of the court were not neutral accounting activities. The systems constituted the identity of actors and produced privateer history as a modernist knowledge of the past and officialized by western, white, male, elites. Originality/value The “historic turn” in management and organization studies has not been fully realized more than a decade after its introduction. This paper engages with the historic turn by providing a specific exemplar of history as applied to officialized accounts of colonial privateers. Using ANTi-History as a methodological approach also makes a contribution by promoting it beyond a prolonged descriptive phase.

Strategie organizzative e consulenza come pratica situata di costruzione sociale di conoscenza

2009 ◽  
pp. 79-116
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Scaratti ◽  
Jeanpaul Frassy ◽  
Marina Orefice
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
Daily Experience ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Strategy Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Changing Patterns

- The aim of this paper is to present the main results of a consultation understood like a situated practice dealing with the social process by which professional identity, organizational knowledge and cultures take form. The work underlines how organizational strategies grow up from the social texture of workplace exchanges, in which the practical and daily experience of each professional becomes the main and more relevant field for a making sense process: the interactions and conversations between internal and external stakeholders and social actors shape the incarnate production of ordinary social facts. The paper underlines the qualitative approach and the methodological devices used to achieve the production of situated knowledge concerned the context of a social firm, located in Valle d'Aosta, dealing with the challenge of brand positioning and innovation. By means of accounts and thick descriptions the paper aims to show how making organizational strategies can be analyzed as a situated social process, as a practice which acquires progressive stability from provisional and changing patterns.Keywords: Strategy process, practice, situated knowledge, qualitative methodological approach.

Cancer survivors providing care: a call for a new approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-596
Author(s):  
Costanza Puppo ◽  
Lolane Dentand ◽  
Tanguy Leroy ◽  
Olivier Tredan ◽  
Djihane Ahmed-Lecheheb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ovarian Cancer ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Psychosocial Care ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Social

The provision of psychosocial care to cancer patients has been explored in detail in the literature. The objective of the present article is to show the need for a methodological approach in exploring the social dimension of care. The study sample comprised 15 ovarian cancer participants in long-term remission, who were included in the ‘Vivrovaire’ study. We employed a qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews. Results showed that these patients were both recipients and providers of care. We highlighted the importance of a methodological approach that considers care as a dynamic and social process in order to analyse the relational dimension of care.

scholarly journals Agency and Institutions in Organization Studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 1775-1792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samer Abdelnour ◽  
Hans Hasselbladh ◽  
Jannis Kallinikos
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Collective Intentionality ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Select Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Agency and institutions are essential concepts within institutional theory. In this Perspectives issue, we draw on a select group of Organization Studies articles to provide an overview of the topic of agency and institutions. We first consider different ways of defining agency and institutions and examine their implications for institutional theory. We then analyse the relationship of actors and institutions through four lenses – the wilful actor, collective intentionality, patchwork institutions and modular individuals. Our analysis leads us to dissociate agency from individuals and view it as a capacity or quality that stems from resources, rights and obligations tied to the roles and social positions actors occupy. Roles and social positions are institutionally engineered. It is social actors qua occupants of roles and positions (not individuals) that enter the social ‘stage’ and exercise agency.

scholarly journals Social representations of artistic practices in rural schools

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Cristiene Adriana da Silva Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Rural Education ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Rural Teachers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right

This work analyzes the movement of re-elaboration of social representations on artistic practices of rural teachers. These educators have graduated Rural Education from Faculdade de Educação at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. Artistic practices constitute a way of creation, fruition, and reflection of art present in education processes. Those practices carry historicity and resistance embedded in the struggle of social movements to the right of rural education. The theoretical background is guided by the Social Representations in Movement, related to the Theory of Social Representations. The methodological approach is based on narrative interviews and observations of pedagogical practices. The data analysis was built from the reconstruction of trajectories considering the movement of the Social Representations. We have observed that the artistic practices can be seen as a pedagogical mechanism of the struggle for transforming education and by strengthening rural identities.

scholarly journals On Conversation and Authorship: Legal Frameworks for Collaborative Methodologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692199328
Author(s):  
Lucero Ibarra Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Collaborative methodologies are at the forefront of an academic movement seeking to recognize the way social research emerges out of interaction with social actors involved in the processes studied. However, the question of how this recognition can be expressed through authorship is rarely explored. Even though co-authorship is common in different academic fields, including social sciences, the inclusion of actors involved in the social processes studied as co-authors of academic reports is still quite rare. Thus, I here analyze the methodological and epistemological assumptions underlying traditional expressions of authorship embedded in intellectual property models, and how these can be challenged through collaborative methodologies and co-authorship dynamics. I then present a methodological approach that focuses on the co-authored construction of academic texts through conversations, which was developed through four different experiences with scholars and persons involved in different social and political initiatives.

Exploring Foreign Language Communication Apprehension among the English Language University Students in the English Language Classroom Setting

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-39
Author(s):  
Draženka Molnar ◽  
Gabrijela Crnjak
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communication Apprehension ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
General View ◽  
Total Level ◽  
Foreign Language Acquisition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Language Communication

Abstract Over the past few decades the interest in communication apprehension has increased among researchers and teachers in the field of second/foreign language acquisition (SLA/FLA).The present paper is set between the macro perspective of the social-psychological period - by giving a general view of communication apprehension (CA) - and the situation-specific period - by taking into consideration the immediate educational context.The paper focuses on the phenomenon of communication apprehension among the Croatian university level students in a foreign language classroom setting.In particular, it investigates if there is a difference in the total level of communication apprehension between undergraduate and graduate students of English Language and Literature.Furthermore, it explores whether there is a relationship between different aspects of communication apprehension and the total level of communication apprehension and which background factor is the best predictor of communication apprehension among the students.The first part of the paper brings a theoretical background of the main concepts in this research, whereas the second part of the paper reports on the research itself.Two sets of instruments, questionnaires completed by the students and in-depth interviews conducted among the teachers, were used for the purpose of this study.The results show that the year of study is not a significant predictor of the communication apprehension level which students experience.Among all variables included in the analysis, the only significant predictors of communication apprehension are evaluations.

TELLING THE TALE, TELLING THE NATION: TIV TALES, MODERNITY AND THE (RE)CONSTRUCTION OF NIGERIAN NATIONHOOD

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Tsaaior
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Oral Cultures ◽  
High Literature

Scholarship negotiating African folktales and the entire folkloric tradition in Africa has always been constituted as harbouring fundamental lacks. One of these lacks is the supposed incapacity of oral cultures to produce high literature. However, it is true that folktales and other oral forms in Africa can participate actively in the social, political and cultural process. In this paper, we engage folktales told by the Tiv of central Nigeria and situate them within the dynamic of history, culture, modernity and national construction in Nigeria. The paper adopts a historicist and culturalist perspective in its interpretation of the folktales which were collected in particular Tiv communities. This methodological approach helps to crystallize the historical and cultural lineaments embedded in the people’s experiences, values and worldviews. It also constitutes a contextual background for the understanding of the folktales as they offer informed commentaries on social currents and political contingencies in Nigeria. It argues that though folktales belong to a pre-scientific and pre-industrial dispensation, they are part of the people’s intangible cultural heritage and are capable of distilling powerful statements which negotiate Nigerian modernity and postcolonial condition. The paper underscores the dynamism and functionality of folktales even in an increasingly globalised ethos.

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