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Business coaching : The translation of the therapeutic habitus into the managerial realm

The aim of this paper is to trace the processes of translation through which coaching transports, transforms and transgresses therapeutic discourses into the managerial realm. Our empirical analysis, firstly, shows the architectures of coaching as a site of translation between two professional fields, management and therapy. Second, our analysis reveals that coaching as discursive...

English / 06/07/2011

Multilingual organizations as 'linguascapes' : Negotiating the position of English through discursive practices

To address the complexity of multilingual communication, this paper applies a discursive approach to analyze how people account for the ways that specific languages are used in multilingual companies. Through our discourse analysis, we identify six different ways of accounting for language use. Further, we map the various tensions between these accounts through which we can...

English / 01/07/2011

Omnisensoring Social Entrepreneurship : Nine practices to construct ventures in a glocal economy

This paper aims to answer the question what practices entrepreneurs use to construct their ventures. Academic research often focuses on one sensory modality as a route to knowing (Pink 2009). We take a holistic approach by involving all the senses as it is the 'experiecing, knowing and emplaced body' (Pink 2009: 25) that can make us
understand best. We have distilled...

English / 26/06/2011

Integrating Safety and Crew Resource Management (CRM) Aspects in the Recurrent Training of Cabin Crew Members

Recurrent training of cabin crew should include theoretical and practical instruction on safety as well as crew resource management (CRM) issues. The endeavors of Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. and Swiss Aviation Training Ltd. to integrate CRM and safety aspects into a single training module were evaluated. The objective of the integration was to make CRM more tangible and ease...

English / 09/06/2011

Online consumer behavior and its relationship with socio-demographics, shopping orientations, need for emotion, and fashion leadership

With online shopping entering a consolidation phase, there is a need for research differentiating online consumer behavior for a range of prod-uct categories. Also, individual differences in online shopping need to be considered. Therefore, a survey (N = 405) assessing online infor-mation search and online shopping for nine different product categories as well as socio-demographic...

English / 01/04/2011

The ontological politics of artistic interventions : Implications for performing action research

The aim of our article is to reflect upon intervention as a threshold where art and action research meet. For this, we will relate calls to apply the capacity of the performing arts to the social sciences to examples of neo-avant-garde art practices which show a renewed interest in (intervening into) the everyday production of public space. We recount and analyze two vignettes of...

English / 16/03/2011

Enacting entrepreneurship research in a pioneering, provocative and participative way : on the work of Bengt Johannisson

Bengt Johannisson received the International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research in 2008. In this essay we present and evaluate his work over the last four decades in three of its dimensions: pioneering, provocative and participative. While his research interests and themes range widely, early on he resisted the individualization of entrepreneurship studies and...

English / 01/02/2011

Entrepreneurship as in(ter)vention : Reconsidering the conceptual politics of method in entrepreneurship studies

Special Issue: A Festschrift for Bengt Johannisson

In this article, I look into Bengt Johannisson's experiments with enactive research in the so-called Anamorphosis Project. This methodological experiment was based on the assumption that to understand entrepreneurship, researchers themselves must enact an entrepreneurial process and reflect upon it by engaging in auto-...

English / 01/01/2011

Six memos for a curious and imaginative future scholarship in entrepreneurship studies

In this introductory article, we explain the purpose of this special issue that is set up as a Festschrift in honour of the (editorial) work of Bengt Johannisson. Inspired by Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the special issue is structured along six essays that are both commemorative and affirmative, that is we use the work of Johannisson to explore fresh...

English / 01/01/2011

Intertwined practices of gender and technology : The case of home heating

This paper focuses on the everyday practices of technology acquisition. Acquisition decisions not only have a large and long-term impact on the structural possibilities for sustainability as an everyday practice and have so far been mainly ignored by research on everyday consumption, also interpretative flexibility (Bijker, Hughes & Pinch, 1987) is especially visible here.Our...

English / 03/09/2010

High Responsibility Teams - Teamwork Context-Specific Transfer of Crew Resource Management Training from Aviation to other Teams within High Reliability Organisations

The goal of this study is to emphasise the importance of studying High Responsibility Teams (HRT) in organisational research and to present a teamwork context analysis inventory that reveals the requirements for HRTs. HRTs work, among other areas, within anaesthesia, police forces, fire services or aircraft maintenance. Although research on teamwork and team training is widespread...

English / 02/09/2010

Towards a reflexive politics of translation and language in management and organization studies

Sub-theme: Englishization and Language Diversity in Contemporary Organizational Life

English / 28/06/2010

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