This editorial essay introduces a special issue that tackles the seemingly intractable
challenge of re-conceptualizing power and performativity as continuously interweaving and …

Power AND performativity AND process. Three concepts. Three theoretical perspectives that
shape current studies of organizing, of organizations, how they come into existence and how …

Global issues and challenges, an increased turnover rate of knowledge production and
networked technologies challenge educational research, systems, and practices worldwide …

Although we have to welcome the renewed interest in socio-materiality in organization
studies, I claim that we are yet to understand what taking matter seriously really means. The …

Marti and Gond (2018) recently attempted to extend our understanding of how theories
shape social reality by developing a process model of performativity and by articulating the …

Although human lives towards the second half of the twentieth century became increasingly
mediated by objects and artifacts and have depended heavily on the functioning of technical …

The legacy of classical American Pragmatism–Peirce, James, Dewey, Addams, Mead,
Follett and others–in organization theory is significant, albeit that much of its influence has …

In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of 'critical performativity', a concept
designed to debate relationships between theory and practice and encourage practical …

Whatever happened to human agency in organizational analysis? Although never entirely
disavowed or forgotten, there has been a tendency to marginalize the presence and …

In this chapter, the author explains how envisaging agency from a relational perspective
leads us to view any acting as an acting for, with, and through. He demonstrates how this …