In this article, we adopt a critical perspective to study how executive search practices reproduce particular understandings of the 'ideal'executive body. We show how this …
This paper focuses on the experiences of self-identified fat women employees. Combining the works of Karen Barad and Sara Ahmed, we offer a feminist new materialist analysis of …
K Dale, G Burrell - Organization, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
'Organizational wellness' has become a high profile issue for businesses. We argue that a 'wellness movement'has sprung up around a particular coalescence of economic …
We argue that the healthy, fit and athletic body plays an essential role in the way contemporary managerial identities are construed. Drawing on insights from Judith Butler …
This article focuses on contemporary responses to public health messages in Denmark, a country whose system of social welfare is, like that of the United Kingdom and the rest of …
B Loacker - Culture and Organization, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
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 …
C Levay - Human relations, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
This article argues that obesity is an overlooked topic that deserves to be investigated in organizational studies, in line with the recent interest in embodiment. Obesity plays a …
Consumers' internalisation of social norms is at work when they make routine, healthier food choices in everyday contexts. We investigate the dynamics of this phenomenon in …
Résumé En prenant le cas de la prévention de l'obésité, l'article contribue à éclairer les recompositions de l'action publique dans le champ de la santé publique en France …