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ABSTRACTS
Absconding vociferously:
Rumours about the disturbing disappearance of
organizations
Jens Aderhold and Ralf
Wetzel
Understanding the future
by looking at the past: Search of management wisdom as
therapeutic autocommunication
Ari Ahonen and Tomi J.
Kallio
Is small beautiful when it comes to the
management of older workers?
Linda Alker
Linux communities‘ voice versus
mainstream discourse on information and communication
technology
Rozi Bako
University culture(s) as a
determinant/moderator of innovative assessment
practice
Stephen
Barr
Genealogy, critique and the government
of public servants
Edward Barratt
The advent or badvent of small business
decline: The case of the newsagent and the monopoly
newspaper distributor
Lynne Baxter
The economy of exchange
Thomas Bay and Martin
Fuglsang
The dreams of reason produces monsters
John Bergin
Pictures and rugs, cartoons and mugs:
Using artefacts to create stable individual spaces in
changing organizational times
Jan Betts
Marx, Volée
Armin Beverungen
Improbable spaces: Signs of the
future city in a university project
Timon Beyes, Christoph Michels and
Sabine Poralla
Rejoice! We are haunted.
Towards a Deleuzian understanding of accounting
standard setting process
Frederic Bill and Lena
Olaison
In the name of love! -
Let’s remember desire
Anders Bojesen and Sara
Louise Muhr
Poetry as organization of
creativity: Lessons from ‘the Jack Kerouac school of
disembodied poetics’
Janet Borgerson
Temporality and
templarity in an advertising agency
François Bouchetoux and
Gavin Jack
Temporal co-ordination and
time tensions in a university business school: The
non-academic staff's account
Brandon E. Brown and Reva
Berman Brown
Ethno-national discourse, employee
identity and public sector organisation in Northern
Ireland
Gary Brown, Mark McGovern, Dominic
Elliott and Frank Worthington
Performativity and
experience in the inter-active service economy (IASE)
– Call-centres and boutique night life
Gary Brown and Terry
Wallace
Managing director Mr.
Sisyphus – Romanian industry leaders facing the
absurdities of a state-socialist economy
Dirk Bunzel and Mihaela
Kelemen
‘Truth is in the future’: Foucault and
the history of management consultancy
Nick Butler
Signs of the spirit:
Critical reflections on the instrumentality of
workplace spirituality
Peter Case and Jonathan
Gosling
The past – precious asset, sweet burden
or a curse?
Sylwia Ciuk
Creating identity dynamics: How the
major music labels failed to make sense of future
insights while new entrants set the pace
Carsten Claus
Future proofing nature – a
how to guide
Denise Conroy and Christina
Lee
Desperately seeking summerland: The
abyss-mal present and the perfect future in
spiritualism, surrealism, and the spirituality at work
movement
Martin Corbett
Sensegiving as
mise-en-sens - the case of wind power development
Hervé Corvellec and
Annette Risberg
At war with oneself: Self-alienation at
work
Jana
Costas
Archaeologies of the future - the
desire called utopia and other science fictions: A
review essay
Christian De Cock
Organizational discontinuity:
Evolutionary, revolutionary and re-evolutionary change
Juergen Deeg
Academic Competence and the
RAE
Stephen Dunne and Stefano
Harney
Modern consulting between
messianism, foolism and medialism
Sigrid Duschek and Ralf
Wetzel
Klassicism, Kitsch, Kraus and
Katastrophe
James Fairhead
Becoming a manager: How newly
appointed managers are shaped by and shape the future
Elisabeth Fellbom
The protean self: Career
self-management between the dream of autonomy and the
dystopia of disposability
Isleide Arruda
Fontenelle
Cosmopolitan utopias and the global
corporation
Robert Halsall
Employment tribunal decisions: Do
panels get persuaded?
Peter Hamilton
The problem with demands
David Harvie and Keir
Milburn
Back to the future for diversity: A
manifesto for less modesty, more bravado!
Susan Harwood
The interrupted promise of the
One: work, subjectivity and the metonymy of desire
Casper
Hoedemaekers
The manager – a suitable
case for treatment
Norman Jackson and Pippa
Carter
“… and this is where the flying cars
were supposed to land.” Spaces and events in the
making and celebrating of a Garden City
Marjana Johansson
From communicating to
others to communicating to self: Doctoral thesis
writing as therapy
Tomi Kallio and Johan
Sandström
The step forward
Eleni Karamali
It used to be so nice...
Organizations and the myth of the origins
Ruud Kaulingfreks and René ten
Bos
Futures’ past: A genealogy of
the futures
Donncha Kavanagh, Geoff Lightfoot
and Simon Lilley
Autonomy and tacit cruelties: Judith
Butler’s politics of identification
Kate Kenny
Promises of the past,
promises for the future: On utopianism and commercial
space
Nina Kivinen and
Anna-Maria Murtola
Measures of life: Performance
management, commitment and work life balance
Anders Raastrup
Kristensen
Social Design
Jan Lachenmeyer and
Claas Wenzlik
Guattari, organisation and future
potential
Scott Lawley
The war on corruption: Envisaging a
bright future?
Thomas
Lennerfors
The undivine comedy: The question of
happiness and success (or whatever) after German
philosophy
Ming Lim
"He's not the Messiah, he's a very
naughty boy" - Critical and dialectical meontology,
desire, and the cultishness of organization studies
Stephen Linstead
Messianism and Decisionism
Matteo Mandarini
Dreaming of space, imagining
membership
Zara Mirmalek
Bakhtin's theory of speech as social
praxis
Branta Mraovic
Control challenged: Why
homogenetic structures may fail in radically changing
environments
William C. Murray, Anthony R. Yue,
Gabrielle Durepos and Albert J. Mills
Just coasting/terminal man in flight
at airport-organization
Damian O’Doherty
In the face of hierarchy and patriarchy:
Struggling for the egalitarian workplace in five
worker cooperatives in buenos aires
Collette Oseen
Restricted access to the
promised land: An action-based aesthetic investigation
into leading values-based masters programmes
Margaret Page and Ann
Rippin
The Passion of Bauer
Michael Pedersen and
Rasmus Johnson
Risk as present futures
Peter Pelzer
Megadebacleopolis: Living in the future
office
Luc Peters
The Sine of the end of all things:
Reflecting on the future of organisations from an
analysis of Grendel, Poko-poko Te-Herehere-A-Taniwha
and J.M Coetzee’s magistrate as reflection and
repetition.
Wayne Pihema
The future of diversity:
Tolerance or respect?
Elvio Corrêa Porto and
Hélio Arthur Reis Irigaray
Mythic leadership and the reality of
conflict: Shakespeare’s Henry V and Coriolanus
Chris Poulson
Trust and the future: How to build
trust in the future?
Frank Pruvost
“I guess I don’t know
what I’m doing” – the implications of IT support and
training on the worker and the organization
Hannah Rasmussen and
Nicole Haggerty
After Organization, Apocalypse
Alf Rehn
The Promise of Re-inventing
Capitalism: Ethical Consumerism and the 21st Century
Act of Indulgence
Juliane
Reinecke
The mobility work of men managers careers
Cristina Reis
“All I want to do is get that check and
get drunk”: Work, catastrophe and subversion in
Charles Bukowski’s Factotum
Carl Rhodes
Over the hill or under the table?
Organizing age identities at work
Kathleen Riach
A club of socializers: The future of the
economic discipline
Juliane Riese
Domestication of global capital
Aapo Riihimäki
Is there another way but a utopian one?
Rudi Rozman
A more fulfilling life: Critical
analysis of discourses on spirituality and work
Cécile Rozuel
How to manage imagination and
reason turning it a “good utopia”: Is such a thing
possible (and desirable)?
Adriana Salinas, Oswaldo Melo
Souza Filho and Mirivaldo Rosim
The compression of time: Virilio,
info-war and the drug test
Charlotte Sanderson
Mourning the dead: Memory, culture and
family snapshot photography
Janet Sayers
Stories of diversity
Christina Schwabenland and
Frances Tomlinson
Foresight as structured communication
and learning processes: Preparing for the future
Jan Oliver Schwarz
Veils, ceilings and
identity: Interpretations of the hijab
Sudi Sharifi and Chris
Rees
Aestheticization of the heavy trucks
industry — but who will cater for it?
David Sköld
What’s wrong with authentic
transformational leadership?
Sverre Spoelstra
The foreshortened future and climate
change
Mescal Stephens
Fragmented identity: A sign of the
future?
David Stiles
Sustainable regional
development and employment: a role for organized
labour?
Graham Symon and Jonathan
Crawshaw
The resources of future – On ownership,
immateriality and copyright
Saara Taalas
“Vanity of vanities! All is vanity!”
Deirdre Tedmanson
Managing in messianic time/s: The
manager as messiah
Edward Trezise
Zigmanagement
Wayne Tyson
Bodies of the future: Embodied labour
and lived difference
Sheena Vachhani
Future imagining as a social
practice: SETI, aliens, and other other
David Valentine
Feeding the genetic faith: Genetic
determinism in Dutch information on genetic technology
Jan van Baren
Placidity: the real spiritual
infrastructure for leadership
Frits van
Engeldorp
Water futures: how do scattered
sovereignties and infrastructure markets articulate?
Katie Vann
Making sense of job loss:
Experiences of Indian managers
Viji
Vijayalakshmi
Bean counters or bright young things?:
A visual study of identity construction among newly
qualified professional accountants
Sam Warren
Utopian Demands
Kathi Weeks
The event’s the thing: Brief
encounters with the leaderful moment
Martin Wood and Donna
Ladkin
A cacophony of voices:
Postcolonialist sensemaking and Hurricane Katrina
Anthony R. Yue and Jean Helms
Mills