Purpose This study offers insight into how individuals in non-managerial positions make
sense of a strategic change as it unfolds. We explore the dynamic aspects of how these …

Assemblages are the actors, artefacts or practices that are intertwined with and co-produce
theories. Despite being at the core of the performativity process, assemblages have been …

What is a special issue? It might sound almost too obvious to ask this question. Everybody
knows that a special issue is a collection of articles all connected by a single theme. The …

This article seeks to open up new possibilities for process organization studies to reimagine
power and performativity by exploring the potential of Mary Parker Follett's pragmatism as …

In this chapter, we use Austin's view of performativity as a framework to comprehend the
effects of strategic discourse on strategic outcomes. Our review of the literature reveals a …

Critical performativity has become a promising notion for critical scholars who want to have
concrete impact on society. Although the number of studies contributing to this literature has …

Purpose Project studies analyse either managing practices or the temporal nature of project
management, which leaves open a research gap: the temporality of managing practice. The …

The purpose of this chapter is to explain how organization and management studies have
built on and helped advance various streams of research dedicated to the performativity of …

This chapter seeks to discuss the way organization studies have accounted for innovations
at work and their influence on the way organization has been conceptualized over time …

The article sheds light on the process of fabrication of a polysemous, ambiguous, and
mocking French entrepreneurial expression–the 'start-up nation'–construed as an empty …