Organizational science/fiction : the postmodern in the management disciplines.

ManagementDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.

Another Country: Explaining Gender Discrimination with "Culture"

This paper reports a study where students fromseveral countries were asked to interpret shortstories presenting a career woman in a difficultsituation. The situation was sometimes interpretedas gender discrimination, but several othercompeting interpretations were offered. Whengender discrimination was mentioned, students oftenasumed that the event was taking place in "anothercountry," usually outside the "modern westernworld." These latter interpretations are furtherexplored in the conclusion

Crafting organization

The recent shift in attention away from organization studies as science has allowed for consideration of new ways of thinking about both organization and organizing and has led to several recent attempts to \u27bring down\u27 organizational theorizing. In this paper, we extend calls for organization to be represented as a creative process by considering organization as craft. Organizational craft, we argue, is attractive, accessible, malleable, reproducible, and marketable. It is also a tangible way of considering organization studies with irreverence. We draw on the hierarchy of distinctions among fine art, decorative art, and craft to suggest that understanding the organization of craft assists in complicating our understanding of marginality. We illustrate our argument by drawing on the case of a contemporary Australian craftworks and marketplace known initially as the Meat Market Craft Centre (\u27MMCC\u27) and then, until its recent closure, as Metro! &Dagger; Stella Minahan was a board member and then the Chief Executive Officer of the Metro! Craft Centre.<br /

RECLAIMING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH ORGANIC COTTON SEEDS

We are currently facing multiple ecological crises due to large-scale human impact on the planet. While a growing body of work studies the relationship of organizations with the natural environment, most research overlooks the fundamental premise that organizations, institutions, and societies are built on: anthropocentrism. To explore this assumption and to capture human-Earth power relations in everyday organizational practices, we develop a new theoretical lens, becoming naturecultural, by drawing from feminist new materialisms. Through a multi-sited ethnographic study at an organic cotton t-shirt supply chain, and by utilizing the methodological insights from actor-network theory, we narrate a human de-centered journey of organic cotton seeds from the fields until they become a sustainable t-shirt. Our case study illustrates the analytic work of becoming naturecultural and sheds light onto the emerging tensions as we experiment with non-anthropocentric writing. Our proposed relational lens facilitates moving beyond critique of anthropocentrism and making visible affirmative possibilities of more-than-human and more-than-capitalist practices