Fully Embracing the Paradoxical Condition:Banksy to Organization Theory

Management and organization studies has recently expressed heightened interest in the concept of paradox. Paradox, etymologically para-doxa, is that which challenges the norm. Frequently representative cases drawn from the terrain of the arts and of artistic work have provided a context for exploring going against the norm, usually under the label of the avant-garde. In this article we explore the case of one artist, Banksy, whose art per se is not necessarily avant-garde but who, through systematic use of paradox, composes a persona that embodies and thrives on paradoxical meanings, aiming not at finding some form of balance but at performatively expressing an avant-garde disruption of art world norms. The case of Banksy can be transposed to organizational analysis with the intention of illuminating how paradox may be embraced by avant-garde organizational scholarship that thrives on anti-normative moves.publishedVersio

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Innovation in organizations: A Literature Review

Este artículo presenta una revisión sistemática de la literatura basada en la innovación en las organizaciones en un contexto global, haciendo énfasis en los beneficios y aportes de las innovaciones como propósito estratégico para la competitividad de las empresas. Tiene por objeto resaltar la importancia e integración del concepto de innovación en todas las áreas funcionales, de manera que esta pueda facilitar el desarrollo de la creatividad y la implementación de ideas como elementos esenciales para la sustentabilidad organizacional. La información anterior se tomó de la investigación de las palabras clave “innovación”, “organizaciones”, “Innovaciones organizacionales” y “organización de innovación aplicada”, en las bases de datos científicas Scopus, Science Direct y EbscoHost, en los años 2015 a 2020. La investigación arrojó un total de 2355 artículos, sobre los cuales aplicando los criterios de inclusión relacionados con los temas de desarrollo e innovación, de adopción y contribución de la innovación, quedaron minimizados hasta 50 artículos. Como resultado de la investigación se observó que la innovación es un proceso holístico en el que convergen las funciones de producción, tecnología, investigación y evolución de nuevos productos, que impulsan la creación de valor, competencia por parte de las organizaciones sustentables.This article presents a systematic revision of the literature based on the innovation in organizations in a global context, making an emphasis on the benefits and contributions of the innovations as a strategic purpose for the competitiveness of the companies. As an object, we find to highlight the importance and integration of the concept of innovation in all functional areas, so this can facilitate the development of creativity and the idea implementations such as essential elements for organizational sustainability. The previous information was taken from the research of the keywords “innovation”, “organizations”, “Organizational innovations” and “applied innovation organization”, on the scientific databases Scopus, Science Direct and EbscoHost, on the years 2015 to 2020. The initial research showed a total of 2355 articles, on which by applying the criteria’s inclusion related with the themes of development and innovation, of adoption and contribution of the innovation, stayed minimized up to 50 articles. As a result of investigation, it was observed that the innovation is a holistic process in which they converge the functions of production, technology, investigation and evolution of new products, that impulse the creation value, competition by sustainability organizations

Innovators’ Acts of Framing and Audiences’ Structural Characteristics in Novelty Recognition

We integrate a rhetorical with an audience-mediated perspective on novelty recognition to advance a conceptual framework where recognition of novel ideas is understood as the result of the interplay between an innovator’s acts of framing and audiences’ structural characteristics. Building on storytelling and narrative research, we argue that innovators can overcome the liability of newness of their ideas by framing them so as to shape the evaluation of relevant audiences (e.g., peers, critics, investors or users). We also suggest that non-agentic mechanisms can render a field more or less permeable to the reception of novel ideas. Specifically, we propose that two audience-level characteristics affect novelty evaluation: audience heterogeneity and whether an audience is internal or external to cultural producers’ (including innovators’) professional community. Studying innovators’ acts of framing and marrying them with audience-level characteristics affords a window into a more nuanced understanding of how novel ideas are recognized and eventually accepted in cultural fields, thus offering several contributions to research on innovation and entrepreneurship and, more generally, social evaluation

An institutional palimpsest? The case of Cambodia’s political order, 1970 and beyond

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. How do continuity and change coexist and coevolve? How does continuity enable change and change reinforce continuity? These are central questions in organizational and political research, as organizational and institutional systems benefit from the presence of both reproduction and transformation. However, the relation between the processes of change and continuity still raises significant questions. To contribute to this discussion, we analyse the coexistence of deep institutional continuity and radical political change in the second half of twentieth-century Cambodia. Over a two-decade period, Cambodia was ruled by radically different political systems of organization: a traditional monarchy with feudal characteristics, a failing republic, a totalitarian communist regime, and a Vietnamese protectorate, before being governed by the UN and finally becoming a constitutional monarchy. We use an historical approach to study how a succession of radical changes may in reality signal deep lines of continuity

The Legitimation of Peripheral Producers’ Novelty by External Audiences: The Contingent Role of Consultants

Are radically novel practices more likely to attract recognition when the evaluating audience is composed of external evaluators? Our baseline argument asserts that radical novelty is more likely to be positively evaluated by an external audience and that peripheral (rather than core) producers have higher incentives to adopt novel practices that depart from tradition. Yet, because peripheral producers often lack the necessary support and legitimacy to promote novelty, audiences play a critical role in recognizing their innovative efforts. How can peripheral producers mitigate the challenges associated with novelty recognition? To answer this question, we explore how peripheral producers’ collaboration with acclaimed consultants affects the process of external audience recognition in the context of the Italian wine field from 1997 to 2006. Our findings suggest that radical novelty is positively received by an external audience composed of critics, although we do not find a significant difference between core and peripheral producers. However, external audiences are more open to recognizing peripheral producers’ use of novel practices when they collaborate with well-connected consultants. We find that the use of central consultants produces a “boosting” effect that accentuates the differences between evaluations of peripheral producers who embrace novelty and evaluations of those that follow the tradition. Our study thus advances theory by providing empirical evidence of the value of considering third-party actors such as consultants, who sit at the nexus between the agency required for innovation and external audiences’ recognition of novelty, when studying novelty evaluation and recognition

An institutional palimpsest? The case of Cambodia’s political order, 1970 and beyond

How do continuity and change coexist and coevolve? How does continuity enable change and change reinforce continuity? These are central questions in organizational and political research, as organizational and institutional systems benefit from the presence of both reproduction and transformation. However, the relation between the processes of change and continuity still raises significant questions. To contribute to this discussion, we analyse the coexistence of deep institutional continuity and radical political change in the second half of twentieth-century Cambodia. Over a two-decade period, Cambodia was ruled by radically different political systems of organization: a traditional monarchy with feudal characteristics, a failing republic, a totalitarian communist regime, and a Vietnamese protectorate, before being governed by the UN and finally becoming a constitutional monarchy. We use an historical approach to study how a succession of radical changes may in reality signal deep lines of continuity.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Exploring the craft of visual accounts through arts: Fear, voids and illusion in corporate reporting practices

This paper explores the craft of visual accounts in corporate reporting practices through an arts-inspired perspective. We research the subtle mechanisms underpinning the craft of visual accounts since their preparation phase, as these accounts engage with the emotional sphere of their preparers, including the fear and the power struggles surrounding the preparers’ role within the organization. We rely upon an artistic line of inquiry based on baroque art to unpack the voids and absences underpinning accounting visualizations. By drawing on this lens, we examine the case of a large European bank where we investigate the craft of visual accounts in corporate reports from the perspective of the preparers of these accounts. We extend prior studies on the visual and emotional dimensions of accounting by showing that the craft of visual accounts evolves as the preparers of these accounts experience voids in the meanings that they attempt to represent and the fear of being excluded from their role. We also demonstrate that the mixed emotions of fear and self-celebration, illusion and disillusion experienced by the preparers of accounting visualizations may follow intra-organizational power struggles in between the different organizational roles involved in corporate reporting. In so doing, we reveal how the philosophical underpinnings of artistic movements, such as baroque art, can be drawn upon to critically delve into the power of voids and absences in accounting visualizations