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
Organising domestic spaces of professionalisation: selective agency and labour precarity in esports
Drawing on semi-structured interviews and participant-led photography, this study investigates the labour precarity of esports athletes in processes of professionalisation, adopting a sociomaterial framework attentive to domestic spatial arrangements. In line with interest in homeworking within …
A Mestizo-inspired vista for organization studies: reconciling science and aesthetics in Latin America
Organization and management studies in and concerning Latin America are often caught between two poles: decontextualized universal theories or highly localized, critical decolonial perspectives. This polarity constrains dialogue and obscures the region’s intellectual contributions, …
The other in organizational studies: heterological encounters with Quilombola communities in Paraná
This article reflects on the possibilities and limits of heterological research in organizational studies through empirical engagement with Quilombola communitiesAfro-Brazilian groups historically positioned as ‘Other’ by colonial and racial structures in Brazil. Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s …
Multiplicity, discretion, and power: enacting school report cards under performance management
School report cards are key audit devices through which New Public Management is enacted in public schools. We examine how educational professionals enact school report cards. We draw on Mol's concepts of coordination, distribution, and inclusion as abductive sensitizing devices. …
Meaningful work across value-laden contexts: how organizational settings shape job crafting pathways
This study examines how employees’ religious and non-religious identities interact with organizational context to shape meaningful work through job crafting. Drawing on 40 interviews conducted in religious and secular organizations in Italy, the study adopts a configurational perspective and …
What can fiction teach us? Proposing a guide to utopian analysis
This paper argues that audiovisual fiction can serve as a valuable empirical and theoretical resource for critically engaging the future through utopian analysis. Drawing on Fredric Jameson’s notions of utopia and the political unconscious, we propose engaging with audiovisual fiction as a mediated …
Ripples and waves: poetic inquiry into mental health services for disabled people
This article embarks on our reflective journey through the landscape of mental health care for disabled people. We discuss how ableism is manifested in mental health care settings, elaborating on embodied and intersubjective approaches. We engaged in a critical, ethnographic, collective exploration ...
The toolkit of domination: organizational violence in liminal change contexts
This article maps how neoliberal reforms in higher education incubate organizational violence during periods of change. The analysis draws on unstructured interviews from a Romanian public university and close reading of policy and managerial discourse. Conceptually, we theorize liminal ...
Surviving an academic boys’ club: a black feminist autoethnography of PhDicking, workplace bullying and …
This Black Feminist Autoethnography (BFA) examines the systemic workplace bullying and mobbing I experienced as a woman lecturer in a masculinist academic department within a patriarchal university in Botswana. Framed by Black feminist scholarship, the paper centres lived experience, anger, and …