infonet-economy

This article examines power issues related to language diversity in organizations, thus answering the need to investigate the role of language in cross-cultural management. More specifically, it contributes to a better understanding of how intraorganizational power relations are (re)defined through language use. Building on insights from language-sensitive research in international...

This article argues that the notion of affective atmosphere provides a privileged access to the study of organizational affect as it relates to a spatial ontology of ‘being-together-in-a-sphere’. Drawing on the study of affective atmospheres in philosophy and cultural geography, we develop a conceptual positioning from which to analyze a musical intervention in the streets and...

This chapter addresses the question of why some people may be more successful than others at creating an alternative identity in the course of a career change. Taking a narrative perspective, the author draws particular attention to a variety of transition narratives which function as legitimizing resources for people to distance
themselves from previous self-concepts, while at...

Past research on team boundary work has focused on a “cold,” information-exchange perspective to explain why boundary activities affect team innovation. Although the theory is widely accepted, empirical studies on the actual mechanism are scant and produce inconsistent results. Drawing from Interaction Ritual Theory (Collins, 2004), we propose a “warm,” affective perspective that...

How does change happen and how can we impact it? (Not only) feminist movements have asked this crucial question for decades. How can we conceptualize and experience gender relations differently, while moving beyond traditional models of work division between men and women? The idea of gender equality forms the horizon in which those questions of social and organizational...

In most developed countries, the workforce is aging. With increasing individual age, there is a higher chance to acquire health restrictions. Organizations typically react to these circumstances by providing health-related workplace accommodations. Prior research indicates that the effectiveness of workplace accommodations strongly relies upon stakeholders such as coworkers and their...