'Moving to stay in the same place? Academics and theatrical artists as exemplars of the 'mobile middle

This article provides insights into mobility in the context of geographical, economic, professional, temporal and imaginary movements of academics and theatrical artists. It explores how these dimensions of mobility intersect in the narratives of academics and theatrical artists, thereby producing a position ?in between? choice and necessity, and privilege and disadvantage with regard to movement. The analysis shows how both academics and theatrical artists engage in mobility to secure, maintain or improve their professional and economic position. On this basis, we suggest that they are part of an emerging category of professionals: the ?mobile middle?, for whom mobility is a crucial part and principle of life. We argue that the phenomenon of the ?mobile middle? and mobility in general have wide-ranging implications for our understanding of contemporary careers, work and life organisation

Corporate philanthropy through the lens of ethical subjectivity

The dynamic organisational processes in businesses dilute the boundaries between the individual, organisational, and societal drivers of corporate philanthropy. This creates a complex framework in which charitable project selection occurs. Using the example of European tour operators, this study investigates the mechanisms through which companies invest in charitable projects in overseas destinations. Inextricably linked to this is the increasing contestation by local communities as to how they are able to engage effectively with tourism in order to realise the benefits tourism development can bring. This research furthers such debates by exploring the processes through which tour operators facilitate community development through charitable giving. Findings show, with no formal frameworks in existence, project selection depends upon emergent strategies that connect the professional with the personal, with trust being positioned as a central driver of these informal processes. Discretionary responsibilities are reworked through business leaders’ commitment to responsible business practises and the ethical subjectivity guiding these processes

Researcher Collaboration: Learning from Experience

The notion of ?researcher collaboration? typically refers to the relationship between researchers and their participants, case site, or funding organization (Engstrom, 1984; Katz and Martin, 1997). Less commonly discussed, though no less important for the process and outcome of research, is the relationship between researchers. Given the recent ?reflexive turn? in research methodology ? and critical management (CM) research in particular (Alvesson et al., 2008; Linstead, 1994) ? it is perhaps surprising that more attention has not been paid to the role of inter-researcher relations in framing, shaping and producing research (Wray-Bliss, 2003). This is also curious since so much of our research is focused on the working relationships of others, and on power relations. In failing to evaluate our own, often hierarchical relationships (Rogers-Dillon, 2005) we fail to be critical or reflexive about, and in, our research

Becoming culturpreneur:how the neoliberal ‘regime of truth’ affects and redefines artistic subject positions.

In relating to the politico-economic concept of ‘creative industries’, the paper explores in what way the art field and its actors are discursively repositioned within ‘flexible cultural capitalism’. Through empirical material from the independent Austrian theatre scene, the paper, moreover, illustrates how the ‘culturpreneurial’ transformation of the field affects the specific artistic practices, forms of organizing and conduct. In this regard, it will be shown that the artists’ modes of conduct are, at least to some extent, precarious: due to their ascetic and disciplined self-concept, artists seem to contribute, in parts, to their own marginalization as well as to the strengthening of certain ‘neoliberal orders’ and ‘culturpreneurial subject ideals’ of flexible capitalism – even though they are actually keen to resist current governmental technologies like the promotion of competition and market-determined assessment