All Outputs (25)

Towards an integral pedagogy in the age of “Digital Gestell”: Moving between embodied co-presence and tele-presence in learning and teaching practices (2021)
Journal Article
Aroles, J., & Küpers, W. (2022). Towards an integral pedagogy in the age of “Digital Gestell”: Moving between embodied co-presence and tele-presence in learning and teaching practices. Management Learning, 53(5), 757-775. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076211053871

Digitalisation offers a wide array of opportunities, but also challenges, for universities and business schools alike, regarding the provision and delivery of their teaching and learning activities. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted some of these... Read More about Towards an integral pedagogy in the age of “Digital Gestell”: Moving between embodied co-presence and tele-presence in learning and teaching practices.

The language of business and the business of language: Exploring hegemonic linguistic performativity in the UK museum sector (2021)
Journal Article
Aroles, J., Hassard, J., & Hyde, P. (2023). The language of business and the business of language: Exploring hegemonic linguistic performativity in the UK museum sector. Organization, 30(5), 1024–1045. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084211057258

Austerity measures and neoliberal policies have deeply affected the UK cultural sector. In particular they have been central to cementing the idea that contemporary cultural institutions should henceforth be regarded as commercial operations. As the... Read More about The language of business and the business of language: Exploring hegemonic linguistic performativity in the UK museum sector.

Assessing the Role of Managerial Feedback in Changing Routines in Small and Medium Enterprises (2021)
Journal Article
Blakçori, F., & Aroles, J. (2021). Assessing the Role of Managerial Feedback in Changing Routines in Small and Medium Enterprises. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 34(3), 570-589. https://doi.org/10.1108/jocm-08-2020-0235

Purpose – In an ever-complexifying business context, organizations need to continuously adapt, adjust and change their routines in order to remain competitive. This paper explores the role played by managerial feedback on routine change within Small... Read More about Assessing the Role of Managerial Feedback in Changing Routines in Small and Medium Enterprises.

Introduction: Experiencing the new world of work (2021)
Book Chapter
Aroles, J., de Vaujany, F., & Dale, K. (2021). Introduction: Experiencing the new world of work. In J. Aroles, F. de Vaujany, & K. Dale (Eds.), Experiencing the New World of Work (1-10). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108865814.002

Over the past few years, much has been written on the changing world of work, with discussions focusing, for instance, on the rise of automation (Spencer 2018), changes in the nature of the employment relationship (Sweet and Meiksins 2013), the (fail... Read More about Introduction: Experiencing the new world of work.

Digital nomads: A new form of leisure class? (2021)
Book Chapter
Bonneau, C., & Aroles, J. (2021). Digital nomads: A new form of leisure class?. In J. Aroles, F. de Vaujany, & K. Dale (Eds.), Experiencing the New World of Work (157-177). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108865814.011

Digital nomadism refers to a mobile lifestyle in which freelancers, digital entrepreneurs and remote workers combine work with continuous travel. In this chapter, we draw from Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) to explore whether digital nom... Read More about Digital nomads: A new form of leisure class?.

Experiencing making: Silence, Atmosphere and Togetherness in two makerspaces (2021)
Book Chapter
De Vaujany, F., & Aroles, J. (2021). Experiencing making: Silence, Atmosphere and Togetherness in two makerspaces. In J. Aroles, F. de Vaujany, & K. Dale (Eds.), Experiencing the New World of Work (84-106). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108865814.007

Craftsmanship, making and do-it-ocracy are prominent elements of the so-called new world of work. In this chapter, we describe the ‘experience of making’ in two makerspaces, one located in France and the other in the United States. In particular, we... Read More about Experiencing making: Silence, Atmosphere and Togetherness in two makerspaces.

‘Culture for Sale’: The Effects of Corporate Colonization on the UK Museum Sector (2021)
Journal Article
Aroles, J., Hassard, J., & Hyde, P. (2022). ‘Culture for Sale’: The Effects of Corporate Colonization on the UK Museum Sector. Organization Studies, 43(3), 347-368. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840621989001

For the UK, the 2008 financial crisis coupled with the subsequent economic austerity programme forced many public institutions to engage in various cost-cutting and fundraising activities. In parallel, corporate ideologies came to dominate how academ... Read More about ‘Culture for Sale’: The Effects of Corporate Colonization on the UK Museum Sector.

Pratique éthique et sensible de la réponse incarnée: La contribution de Merleau-Ponty à l'éthique corporelle dans les organisations (2020)
Journal Article
Küpers, W., & Aroles, J. (2020). Pratique éthique et sensible de la réponse incarnée: La contribution de Merleau-Ponty à l'éthique corporelle dans les organisations. Revue internationale de psychosociologie et de gestion des comportements organisationnels (En ligne), XXVI, 163-187. https://doi.org/10.3917/rips1.066.0163

Cet article explore l’éthique corporelle en tant que pratique dans les organisations. Selon la phénoménologie mise en avant par Merleau-Ponty, le corps et l’incarnation peuvent être interprétés comme des médias et des sphères de réflexion éthiques, d... Read More about Pratique éthique et sensible de la réponse incarnée: La contribution de Merleau-Ponty à l'éthique corporelle dans les organisations.

Conclusion: Experiences of continuity and change in the new world of work (2020)
Book Chapter
Aroles, J., de Vaujany, F., & Dale, K. (2021). Conclusion: Experiences of continuity and change in the new world of work. In J. Aroles, F. de Vaujany, & K. Dale (Eds.), Experiencing the New World of Work (253-263). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108865814.016

This edited volume has endeavoured to link micro-social experiences of work with the wider macro-social context in which these changes operate, so as to provide a rich and detailed account of the most prominent manifestations of the ‘new’ world of wo... Read More about Conclusion: Experiences of continuity and change in the new world of work.

Organizational Memorialization: Spatial History and Legitimation as Chiasms (2020)
Journal Article
de Vaujany, F.-X., Vaast, E., Clegg, S., & Aroles, J. (2021). Organizational Memorialization: Spatial History and Legitimation as Chiasms. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1108/qrom-01-2020-1887

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how historical materialities might play a contemporary role in legitimation processes through the memorialization of history and its reproduction in the here-and-now of organizations and organizing.... Read More about Organizational Memorialization: Spatial History and Legitimation as Chiasms.

Does the end justify the means? Information systems and control society in the age of pandemics (2020)
Journal Article
Leclercq-Vandelannoitte, A., & Aroles, J. (2020). Does the end justify the means? Information systems and control society in the age of pandemics. European Journal of Information Systems, 29(6), 746-761. https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085x.2020.1820912

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, governments across the globe are enforcing various Information Systems (IS)-based systems of control that, we contend, augur a new organisation of our freedoms, raising concerns related to issues of surveillance and... Read More about Does the end justify the means? Information systems and control society in the age of pandemics.

'Upon the gears and upon the wheels’: Terror convergence and total administration in the neoliberal university (2020)
Journal Article
McCann, L., Granter, E., Hyde, P., & Aroles, J. (2020). 'Upon the gears and upon the wheels’: Terror convergence and total administration in the neoliberal university. Management Learning, 51(4), 431-451. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507620924162

University governance is becoming increasingly autocratic as marketization intensifies. Far from the classical ideal of a professional collegium run according to academic norms, today’s universities feature corporate cultures and senior leadership te... Read More about 'Upon the gears and upon the wheels’: Terror convergence and total administration in the neoliberal university.

'Becoming mainstream': The professionalization and corporatization of digital nomadism (2020)
Journal Article
Aroles, J., Granter, E., & de Vaujany, F. (2020). 'Becoming mainstream': The professionalization and corporatization of digital nomadism. New Technology, Work and Employment, 35(1), 114-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12158

Digital nomadism, a mobile lifestyle that encompasses a wide array of professional endeavours, ranging from corporate remote workers to digital entrepreneurs, has benefitted from a steadily growing appeal. Despite this, there is a dearth of research... Read More about 'Becoming mainstream': The professionalization and corporatization of digital nomadism.

Mapping themes in the study of new work practices (2019)
Journal Article
Aroles, J., Mitev, N., & de Vaujany, F. (2019). Mapping themes in the study of new work practices. New Technology, Work and Employment, 34(3), 285-299. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12146

Both shaping and shaped by technological, economic and social facets, the world of work has witnessed a wide array of changes. This review article sets out to provide a synthesis of some of the main directions and insights of existing research connec... Read More about Mapping themes in the study of new work practices.

Smoothing, Striating and Territorialising: The assembling of ‘science in the making’ (2019)
Journal Article
Aroles, J., & McLean, C. (2019). Smoothing, Striating and Territorialising: The assembling of ‘science in the making’. Ethnography, 22(1), 111-130. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138119856570

Drawing on a rich two-year ethnographic study that followed evolutionary biologists in their everyday work, this paper explores the making of scientific knowledge through the spatial conceptual imagery developed by Deleuze and Guattari. In particular... Read More about Smoothing, Striating and Territorialising: The assembling of ‘science in the making’.

Nothing happened, something happened: Silence in a makerspace (2018)
Journal Article
de Vaujany, F., & Aroles, J. (2019). Nothing happened, something happened: Silence in a makerspace. Management Learning, 50(2), 208-225. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507618811478

An ever-increasing range of work activities occur in open spaces that require collective discipline, with silence emerging as a key feature of such workplace configurations. Drawing from an ethnographic examination of a makerspace in Paris, we explor... Read More about Nothing happened, something happened: Silence in a makerspace.

Death and the Penguin: Modularity, alienation and organizing (2018)
Journal Article
Aroles, J., Clegg, S., & Granter, E. (2019). Death and the Penguin: Modularity, alienation and organizing. Culture and Organization, 25(2), 104 -117. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2018.1509861

The originality of this paper lies in the ways in which it explores how the depiction of organised crime within Andrey Kurkov’s novel Death and the Penguin can inform our understanding of organisational modularity. This non-orthodox approach might op... Read More about Death and the Penguin: Modularity, alienation and organizing.

Towards a Political Philosophy of Management: Performativity & Visibility in Management Practices (2018)
Journal Article
De Vaujany, F., Aroles, J., & Laniray, P. (2019). Towards a Political Philosophy of Management: Performativity & Visibility in Management Practices. Philosophy of Management, 18(2), 117-129. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-018-0091-4

Phenomenological, process-based and post-Marxist approaches have stressed the immanent nature of the ontogenesis of our world. The concept of performativity epitomizes these temporal, spatial and material views. Reality is always in movement itself:... Read More about Towards a Political Philosophy of Management: Performativity & Visibility in Management Practices.

Ethnographic encounters: towards a minor politics of field access (2018)
Journal Article
Aroles, J. (2020). Ethnographic encounters: towards a minor politics of field access. Culture and Organization, 26(1), 48-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2018.1443103

This paper aims to explore the insight that can be brought by Deleuze and Guattari's concept of minor literature with regard to questions of field access within the context of organizational ethnography. This paper draws from an ethnographic account... Read More about Ethnographic encounters: towards a minor politics of field access.

Critical realism and ANT/Deleuzian thinking: a critical comparison in the area of information systems, technology and organisation studies (2016)
Book Chapter
McLean, C., & Aroles, J. (2016). Critical realism and ANT/Deleuzian thinking: a critical comparison in the area of information systems, technology and organisation studies. In L. Introna, D. Kavanagh, S. Kelly, W. Orlikowski, & S. Scott (Eds.), Beyond interpretivism? new encounters with technology and organization (58-72). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49733-4_4

Much debate has encircled studies of information systems (IS), technology and organizations with regards to ideas of process, stability and change, performance and materiality. This encapsulates different ways of viewing dualities (e.g. subjective/ob... Read More about Critical realism and ANT/Deleuzian thinking: a critical comparison in the area of information systems, technology and organisation studies.