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
On the persistence of gender inequality: the case of informal workload allocation in a research-intensive university in the UK
This paper extends Martin’s framework of ‘practicing gender’ by showing how practices of informal workload allocation often contribute to reproducing the gender order, even in an organisation that claims to be committed to equality. As a case, the paper analyses informal workload allocation …
The experiences of a transgender woman in Brazilian accounting: an autoethnography
In this article, I present an autoethnography of my experiences as a white transgender woman in corporate and university environments in the accounting field in Brazil. To do so, I use reflexivity to question and denounce the oppressive structures present in accounting with the theoretical support of Transfeminism, which …
Enterprising subjects and gendered-ageing: economization of gendered life course and career temporalities among …
This article theorizes the economization of gendered-aged life courses and careers as a temporal technology of the self, mobilized by enterprising subjects to navigate the competing temporal demands of heteropatriarchal masculinity/femininity and career stages. Through a qualitative analysis of …
Going pro in the business of influence: unfolding influencers’ trajectories through influencing capital
This study examines the rise and professionalisation of fashion influencers, focusing on their visibility and legitimacy achieved through professional content production and social media monetisation. It draws on the concept of ‘trajectories’ to capture the dynamic nature of influencers’ professional …
This is us now. Collectively making sense of our new identities as parents and early career academics
In this paper, we draw on our subjective experiences as Early Career Academics (ECAs) at a Dutch University to demonstrate our complex relationship between academic life and parenthood. Building on the sensemaking literature, we employ a collective autoethnography to unveil six distinct new parent …
Backlash against wokeness in contemporary organizational fields: a critical discourse analysis of anti-woke discourses in…
In this paper, we focus on backlash against wokeness as a phenomenon that contributes to the denial of the ubiquity of racism in contemporary organizational fields. We conduct a critical discourse analysis of these anti-woke discourses that play out at the macro-level (politicians) and meso-level (university presidents)…
From vision to action: fostering a culture of sustainability in organisations
This article explores the concept of culture of sustainability in various contexts, considering different definitions of sustainability, such as environmental, social, and economic. Sustainable choices require radical change to the extent that companies must change their organisational structure and strategies to promote…
The worker-priests: care as a composition of love and solidarity
This article explores the moral lessons organization studies can draw from the worker-priest movement of the 1940s and 1950s. The first section gives an account of the worker-priests and their organization in France. The second section, drawing on the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard, Emmanuel Levinas and Leonardo Boff...
‘Carry on laughing and I’ll punish you as well!’: humour, power, and relationship negotiation in a prison workshop
Drawing on a 10-month ethnographic study of a private prison in the UK, this paper examines how humour is used between prisoners and prison staff to negotiate working relationships in prison. We show how both the presence and absence of humour can shape power relations. Three situations are presented to understand…