John Austin introduced the formulation 'performative utterance'in his 1962 book How to Do
Things with Words. This term and the related concept of performativity have subsequently …

This paper examines how fluid social collectives, where membership is latent, contested, or
unclear, achieve 'organizationality', that is, how they achieve organizational identity and …

This chapter develops two proposals for the future of organization studies aimed at
increasing its significance and relevance for studies of social processes outside …

This article develops an understanding of coworking spaces as organizational phenomena.
Based on an ethnography of betahaus in Berlin, we demonstrate how coworking spaces not …

Institutions that are controlled by organized crime are particularly change resistant. Sicilian
society, for instance, has been dominated by the Mafia for more than 150 years, and our …

In recent years, several scholarly attempts have been made to conceptually outline the
contours of the sharing economy. However, there is still limited consensus on fundamental …

This article centers marginal organizational actors—the disenfranchised of the Global South—
to remedy their theoretical erasure and disrupt the Anglo-American grand narrative of …

In this paper, we propose reconceptualizing diversity management from a communication-
centered perspective. We base our proposal on the observation that the literature on …

Scholars of organization tend to apportion organizational phenomena into two distinct
levels: micro and macro. In organization studies, efforts to overcome the problems resulting …

While the majority of research promotes the idea of transparency and puts all efforts into
refining existing concepts, critical studies emphasize the performativity of measures to …