Organizational aesthetics comprises a way of understanding organizational life based on
immediate sensory reactions (ie, sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch) to the material …

Across the social sciences, scholars are increasingly showing how people'work'to construct
organizational life, including the rules and routines that shape and enable organizational …

Drunks are accorded great social license in Oaxacan villages. They may shout insults,
intrude uninvited into social gatherings, and behave in other normally unacceptable …

Contemporary organizations increasingly rely on images, logos, videos, building materials,
graphic and product design, and a range of other material and visual artifacts to compete …

Existing category research tends to divorce categories from place. When considered at all,
place is often relegated to the contextual background. We see at least three important …

In this article we develop novel theory on the differentiated impact of verbal and visual text
on the emergence, rise, establishment, and consolidation of institutions. Integrating key …

Purpose This essay raises a concern about the trajectory that new institutionalism has been
following during the last decades, namely an emphasis on heterogeneity, change and …

We draw upon the metaphor of navigation to rethink how we think about place. We highlight
three extensions that dominate current place-sensitive organizational research. We draw …

Through its specific rhetorical potential that is distinct from verbal text, visual material
facilitates and plays a pivotal role in linking novel phenomena to established and taken-for …

Defining institutions as taken-for-granted systems of roles and interactions, this paper
presents a novel theoretical integration of hereto disparate micro and macro approaches to …