Organizational presence and place: Sociomaterial place work in the Swedish outdoor industry

Crevani, Lucia

doi:10.1177/1350507619839636

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“…Such co‐evolving trajectories, organized in specific configurations in relation to a place, may not be anything other than home or the ‘office’. As recent research has explored, the outdoors (Crevani, 2019) also presents a place for performing work, as well as providing organizational presence (in the traditional sense). Navigating the new place of work invites the formation of connections that inclusiveness promotes and calls for leadership among the many and not the few.…”

Section: The Future Of the Corporation: Rethinking The Workplacementioning

confidence: 99%

Leading through social distancing: The future of work, corporations and leadership from home

Antonacopoulou¹,

Georgiadou

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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At this critical juncture when the COVID-19 health crisis has disrupted our ways of living, working and relating to each other, we are perforce to explore and co-create the Future we want to be part of. Drawing upon feminist theory, we introduce the notion of 'inclusiveness' as a fresh conceptualization of the impact of meaning rendering from working, almost irrespective of where work takes place. The 'new (ab)normal' that is emerging, is challenging the future of corporations not only in fulfilling their purpose, but also in leading the future leadership necessary to restore the balance between the economy and ecology. In this respect, the corporation is more than a workplace, and leadership is more than a relational process. Inclusive leadership, as we will elaborate when 'leading from home', invites us to rethink social distancing and remote working as a platform for rebuilding the fundamentals of humanity. We propose an agenda for leading on leadership in co-creating the future of work and corporations by outlining themes as well as an approach to connecting that no longer separates research and business practice. K E Y W O R D S future of corporation, future of work, inclusiveness, leading on leadership, meaningfulness, social distancing And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

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Section: The Future Of the Corporation: Rethinking The Workplacementioning

confidence: 99%

Leading through social distancing: The future of work, corporations and leadership from home

Antonacopoulou¹,

Georgiadou

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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“…As noted, data analysis focussed on participants' narrative accounts. An abductive approach was adopted (Saunders et al 2019) with the analysis moving back and forth between the narrative data and theoretical concepts (Crevani 2019). While the data generated was influenced but not constrained by our discursive understanding of identity, the APC method particularly facilitated the emergence of the intangible construct of identity.…”

Section: Methodology: Researching Parkrunmentioning

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Lost and found: parkrun, work and identity

Warhurst

Black

2021

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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This article develops new understandings of the weekly mass participation running event, parkrun. The popularity of parkrun has been understood in terms of counteracting sedentary lives and obesity and offering mental-health benefits. However, in view of critical accounts of running in general, a more nuanced inquiry was pursued through examining parkrun in the broader context of runners' lives, particularly their occupations. Managers and professionals formed an exemplifying occupational group. Changes in managers' and professionals' work have brought to the fore characteristics of contemporary work more generally such as performativity and insecurity. Data was generated from parkrunners through an artefact prompted conversational method and as the inquiry was insider-research, so the autoethnographic influences on the research are critically examined. Visual and narrative findings from parkrunners are presented and interpreted through a social-constructionist identity lens. The distinctive theoretical contribution of this inquiry is to provide a more detailed discussion of identity than is the norm in the field, and to show how running, like work, could structurally regulate identities but how running also offered scope for agentic identity-work. The results show that a desired sense-of-self was unlikely to be derived from occupations whereas parkrun provided an additional identity dimension and enabled the construction of a more positive and satisfying sense-of-self.

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“…Sense of place is important for people's connection to the natural environment, including their environmental stewardship [8,22,23]. From an organizational level, applying placebased theory can help reframe the traditional understanding of organizations to include the relationship between organizations and nature [24,25]. Research suggests the importance of organizational perceptions of place and demonstrates how a place can affect organizational processes [2].…”

Section: Sense Of Place and Organizationsmentioning

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Is there no “I” in team? Potential bias in key informant interviews when asking individuals to represent a collective perspective

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This paper sought to understand the extent to which, and how individuals use personal or collective language when asked to articulate sense of place from a collective perspective. Understanding a collective sense of place could illuminate place-based connections in natural resource industries, where it is as groups or as institutions that organizations interact with the environment rather than as individuals. While there are well known methods for collecting information about sense of place at the individual level, there is a gap in understanding the best method to collect information at a collective level. We examined the use of key-informant interviews as a method to understand collective sense of place. In Bocas del Toro, Panama, ecotourism and environmentally based organizations are becoming more prolific due to abundant natural resources, making it an interesting case study for understanding sense of place from an organizational perspective. The use of personal and collective language is examined though in-depth semi-structured interviews from 15 environmentally-oriented organizations with a total of 17 interviews. This study specifically examined whether and how key informants, when prompted to speak for their organization, spoke collectively, reflecting a collective perspective versus their own. Methods included both quantitative analysis of personal versus collective language use frequency, and qualitative examinations of how individuals used personal versus collective language. Our results indicated no difference in the frequency with which individuals use personal versus collective language. We found that how individuals situated their perspectives into an organization reflects a complex personal and collective point of view reflecting five themes of personal versus collective language use: 1) sole personal perspective, 2) sole collective perspective, 3) distinction between collective and personal perspective; 4) organization perspective with insertion of “I think”; and 5) personal and collective perspective about organization and greater community. Our research identifies a previously undiscussed potential bias of key informant interviews. These findings have implications for how researchers approach collecting information beyond the individual level.

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Organizational presence and place: Sociomaterial place work in the Swedish outdoor industry

Cited by 12 publications

References 28 publications

Leading through social distancing: The future of work, corporations and leadership from home

Leading through social distancing: The future of work, corporations and leadership from home

Lost and found: parkrun, work and identity

Is there no “I” in team? Potential bias in key informant interviews when asking individuals to represent a collective perspective

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