Epistemic and institutional recognition work in changing conditions of social visibility: Anosmia's journey from the shadows to the spotlight

This paper explores the complex relationships between recognition, collective action, and social (in)visibility of health conditions. We trace how collective action for recognition changes as conditions of visibility shift. We investigate how the Covid-19 global pandemic thrust one health condition (anosmia) and collective efforts around its recognition from almost complete public invisibility into a sudden spotlight. We show how ‘prepared’ movement actors leveraged this sudden hypervisibility to mobilize resources and change cultural values, noting how prior ‘recognition work’ becomes a resource for new ways to advocate for their condition's recognition, toward epistemic and institutional recognition: from building a shared epistemic ground and improving relatability, toward resource distribution and finally, creating and institutionalizing new cultural values through policy change. Our findings highlight organizational efforts to mitigate community tensions and dispersions related to hypervisibility, through boundary and integration work.European Commission Horizon 2020Ahead of print although there is vol., please check citing and date details in 6

In pursuit of impact: how psychological contract research can make the work-world a better place

This paper is the result of the collective work undertaken by a group of Psychological Contract (PC) and Sustainability scholars from around the world, following the 2023 Bi-Annual PC Small Group Conference (Kedge Business School, Bordeaux, France). As part of the conference, scholars engaged in a workshop designed to generate expert guidance on how to aid the PC field to be better aligned with the needs of practice, and thus, impact the creation and maintenance of high-quality and sustainable exchange processes at work. In accordance with accreditation bodies for higher education, research impact is not limited to academic papers alone but also includes practitioners, policymakers, and students in its scope. This paper therefore incorporates elements from an impact measurement tool for higher education in management so as to explore how PC scholars can bolster the beneficial influence of PC knowledge on employment relationships through different stakeholders and means. Accordingly, our proposals for the pursuit of PC impact are organized in three parts: (1) research, (2) practice and society, and (3) students. Further, this paper contributes to the emerging debate on sustainable PCs by developing a construct definition and integrating PCs with an ‘ethics of care’ perspective

In Pursuit of Impact: How Psychological Contract Research Can Make the Work-World a Better Place

This paper is the result of the collective work undertaken by a group of Psychological Contract (PC) and Sustainability scholars from around the world, following the 2023 Bi-Annual PC Small Group Conference (Kedge Business School, Bordeaux, France). As part of the conference, scholars engaged in a workshop designed to generate expert guidance on how to aid the PC field to be better aligned with the needs of practice, and thus, impact the creation and maintenance of high-quality and sustainable exchange processes at work. In accordance with accreditation bodies for higher education, research impact is not limited to academic papers alone but also includes practitioners, policymakers, and students in its scope. This paper therefore incorporates elements from an impact measurement tool for higher education in management so as to explore how PC scholars can bolster the beneficial influence of PC knowledge on employment relationships through different stakeholders and means. Accordingly, our proposals for the pursuit of PC impact are organized in three parts: (1) research, (2) practice and society, and (3) students. Further, this paper contributes to the emerging debate on sustainable PCs by developing a construct definition and integrating PCs with an ‘ethics of care’ perspective

Becoming Through Doing: How Experimental Spaces Enable Organizational Identity Work

International audienceThis qualitative study of a magazine publishing incumbent shows how organizational identity work can be triggered when organizational members engage in business model experimentation within the bounded social setting of experimental space. The study adds to the understanding of the strategy-identity nexus by expanding on the view of business models as cognitive tools to business models as tools for becoming and by understanding the role of experimental spaces as holding environments for organizational identity work. We show how an experimental space engages organizational members in experimental practices (e.g., cognitive, material, and experiential). As firms experiment with “what they do”, organizational members progressively confront the existing organizational identity in the following ways: they engage in practices of organizational identity work by coping with the loss of the old identity, they play with possible organizational identities, and they allow new organizational identity aspirations to emerge. In these ways, experimental spaces act as an organizational identity work space that eventually enables organizational identity change. We identify two mechanisms (i.e., grounding and releasing) by which an organizational identity work space emerges and leads to the establishment of a renewed organizational identity

Cultural Entrepreneurship In Legitimizing Social Innovation: Cultural Reconfiguration Of Sex-Tech

Recent scholarship draws attention to social innovation undertaken by entrepreneurs to improve the lives and wellbeing of marginalized populations. Within this context, women entrepreneurs, traditionally marginalized and working within cultural milieus that eschew innovative products by women for women, confront an uphill battle, especially when working with tainted cultural resources. However, as our inquiry of the initiatives undertaken by sex-tech women entrepreneurs unveils, these entrepreneurs can engage in cultural entrepreneurship to innovate and reconfigure the meanings associated with their products to legitimize them as social innovations. Data show entrepreneurs: (a) designing and commercializing embodied products to address unmet needs, (b) engaging in discursive practices to create a new language, and (c) engaging in social action while aligning with other social movements. These practices together led to a cultural reconfiguration, i.e., shifting the meaning of sex-tech products from immoral to a health and wellness devices, resulting in the legitimation of sex tech as a social innovation and conversion of tainted cultural resources into valuable ones

Learning, signaling, and convincing: The role of experimentation in the business modeling process

This study examines experimentation in the business modeling process, unpacking three different roles of experimentation: learning, signaling, and convincing. Learning is an inherent role of experimentation, as managers typically experiment to engage with the environment and to obtain knowledge. This study uncovers another set of roles, which have a symbolic nature. These roles show that experimentation is not just a learning process, but also a strategic legitimation process, aimed at enacting the environment. Experimentation serves the purpose of signaling to potential customers and other stakeholders, and of convincing them to embrace the business model. Furthermore, this study shows that experimentation takes two forms—purposeful interactions and experimental projects—and that these forms can support the different roles of experimentation.European Commission Horizon 2020CHESS (Connected Health Early Stage Researcher Support System)Agence nationale de recherche (France): Better Business Models projec

Bringing sex back in: Performative performances of stigmatized products within and across field-configuring events

Management and organizational scholars interested in stigmatized organizations, industries and categories have been studying how actors in such settings cope with stigma. In this paper, we explore the relationship between stigma and field-configuring events (FCEs), a relationship that remains undertheorized. We conducted a multimodal, longitudinal study of events that unfolded involving actors of a stigmatized industry (sex tech) and the consumer electronics show (CES)—a prestigious FCE in the consumer electronics industry. Data show how the retraction of an award given to an already stigmatized sex-tech product, Osé, could have deepened the core stigma for the category. Instead, it led to the stigmatizer (CES) risking stigmatization. Eventually, the interactions between the various actors led to the reconfiguration of both the CES and the sex-tech product category around Osé. In our model of the performative performance of stigmatized products, we examine the relationship between core and event stigma of products and FCEs, and in this way contribute to both the literatures

Beyond a mediocre customer experience in the circular economy: The satisfaction of contributing to the ecological transition

This article aims to understand and explain the differences in circular (versus traditional) economy consumption habits. It explores the customer experience's role in influencing satisfaction and reuse decisions. Data is collected through a mixed-methods case study. Specifically, the article looks at an innovative ecological sanitation system for urban households aiming at collecting human waste for valorization. Among the participating households, 46 persons provided data: 12 were interviewed about their motives for and experience of using dry sanitation and participating in the waste collection process, 42 answered a user profile survey focusing on demographics and basic individual values, and 36 submitted diary entries (123 in total) providing detailed descriptions and evolutions of their experiences. Based on this rich dataset, the findings highlight that the customer experience is largely inferior to that of using traditional sanitation systems because it is inconsistent, inconvenient and requires significant customer efforts (e.g., voluntary participation, creativity, and bricolage skills). Nonetheless, this mediocre experience is counterbalanced by the customer's personal values and beliefs, as well as the satisfaction of achieving a more responsible and sustainable activity

Les business modèles dans la littérature en systèmes d'information : état de l'art et perspectives de recherche

Large-scale digitization has induced profound changes in the contemporary economy. In this context, the literature on information systems (IS) is proving invaluable to understand digital business models. Based on a mixed bibliometric analysis, this article reveals the historical contribution of the IS business model literature, identifies current research trends, and proposes a three-pronged research agenda for IS scholars working on digital business models: a design science; a user-centered; and a data-oriented perspective.La digitalisation à grande échelle a bouleversé l’économie contemporaine et la littérature en systèmes d’information (SI) offre une perspective privilégiée pour analyser et comprendre l’évolution des business models. Construit sur une analyse bibliométrique mixte, cet article reconsidère la contribution historique de la littérature en SI sur les business models et identifie ses tendances actuelles. A partir de ce double diagnostic, nous proposons un programme de recherche à destination de la communauté scientifique en systèmes d’information décliné en trois volets : une perspective ancrée en design science; une perspective centrée sur l’utilisateur; et une perspective orientée données

The impact of COVID-19 on abortion access: Insights from the European Union and the United Kingdom

Government policies on abortion are a longstanding topic of heated political debates. The COVID-19 pandemic shook health systems to the core adding further to the complexity of this topic, as imposed national lockdowns and movement restrictions affected access to timely abortion for millions of women across the globe. In this paper, we examine how countries within the European Union and the United Kingdom responded to challenges brought by the COVID-19 crisis in terms of access to abortion. By combining information from various sources, we have explored different responses according to two dimensions: changes in policy and protocols, and reported difficulties in access. Our analysis shows significant differences across the observed regions and salient debates around abortion. While some countries made efforts to maintain and facilitate abortion care during the pandemic through the introduction or expansion of use of telemedicine and early medical abortion, others attempted to restrict it further. The situation was also diverse in the countries where governments did not change policies or protocols. Based on our data analysis, we provide a framework that can help policy makers improve abortion access.Accepted Author ManuscriptApplied Ergonomics and Desig