Organizational aesthetics comprises a way of understanding organizational life based on
immediate sensory reactions (ie, sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch) to the material …

In today's new economy—in which “good” jobs are typically knowledge or technology based—
many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue …

Increasingly, organizations have been employing self‐managing teams to circumvent
bureaucratic controls and stimulate innovation. However, this goal is not easily achieved; in …

Labor process theory (LPT) is a critical approach to studies on work and employment; it is
rooted in the Marxist tradition, which addresses conflictual relations between capital and …

Katie Beavan, graduated in 2019 from the University of the West of England. She is currently
working as affiliate faculty in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College …

The seventh edition of Sociology, Work and Organisation is outstandingly effective in
explaining how we can use the sociological imagination to understand the nature of …

Creative industries are among the fastest-growing and most important sectors of European
and North American economies. Their growth depends on continuous innovation, which is …

For junior professionals, notions of professional identity established during their education
are often called into question in the early stages of their professional careers. The workplace …

In this article, we explore what happens in professional formation when the locus of its
meaning, as it has been formed, is increasingly contradicted by professional practice …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into how a constellation of actors
seek to define, shape, and reinvent the notion of organizational control at the confluence of …