Culture and Organization is the SCOS in-house journal. It is published six times a year by Taylor and Francis. The journal reflects the SCOS outlook and philosophy, and the editors are members of the SCOS board.
The journal started out as Studies in Cultures, Organizations, and Society in 1995, and changed to its current name in 2002. Amongst open and special issues, there is also a special issue each year devoted to the theme of a previous SCOS conference.
More information can be found at the Culture and Organization homepage.
Recent Articles
Resistance at the top: exploring re-railing in meetings
This study explores the perpetual struggle between policymakers and bureaucrats in top-level meetings within organizations. We examine how senior bureaucrats resist their superiors’ policymaking and introduce the concept of ‘re-railing’ to identify senior bureaucrats’ resistance by redirecting the …
Poetry as research communication: internal exclusion of Deaf older adults
Drawing on qualitative field work – interviews, shadowing and poetry – this study investigates the potential of poetry to communicate the internal exclusion of Deaf older adults receiving old age care support. By presenting poetry to people working in different authorities and …
Beyond the unfashionable boring gray: a collaborative autoethnography on the journey to become …
We explore how young audit professionals navigate identity development as they transition into mature professionals, using fashion as a metaphor to illuminate dynamics within accountancy. Drawing on our own similar career trajectories — from Big Four firms to accounting academia …
Boy meets girl, boy likes girl, boy changes underlying social order: the representation of leadership in Antz and …
This paper offers a critical analysis of Antz, Dreamworks Animation’s first feature film. In many respects, Antz is faithful to what is known about ant colonies. Yet the film departs significantly from ecological reality in its representations of hierarchical leadership and gender. The paper offers a re-evaluation …
Unheard voices: emotional exclusion of migrant students in Spain’s schools through poetic inquiry
This study explores the educational challenges faced by migrant students in Spain, focusing on segregation, discrimination, and emotional exclusion. Using a qualitative approach, we conducted 22 in-depth semi-structured interviews with migrant students in Madrid. Their testimonies were transformed …
Identifying (with) couture
Couture promises individuality, while its worlds of design, retail, and display remain shaped by boundaries around gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. We examine couture beyond the legal designation of Haute Couture as an ambivalent cultural economy, in which inclusion is continually made and unmade. …
Strategic silence in human resource management: ethical resistance and the masks of inclusion
This paper reconceptualizes employee silence in Human Resource Management (HRM) as strategic, ethical, and epistemic resistance rather than disengagement. Drawing on Foucauldian governmentality, intersectionality, and psychopolitical theory, we argue that HRM increasingly ...
Mastering the art of prime ministership?: the politics of cooking in ABC’s At Home with Julia (2011)
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s At Home with Julia (2011) is a four-part television series based on the life of then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her romantic partner. This article engages with the media's long history of judging women in politics on the basis of their domesticity and cooking to ...
As soft as lace: an autoethnography of a sexual assault
This article explores how sexual abuse, as an organized phenomenon, is enacted by multiple actors and concealed within systemic structures and power hierarchies. Drawing from my doctoral research (2018-2020) on the Vietnamese community in Prague, particularly within a Buddhist …