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
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 scripts that …
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…
Studying the moments of encounter and (im)mobilities in artists’ creative processes
This article advances management and organization (MOS) research on the everyday creative process through an explorative study of artists. In this paper, we investigate moments of encounter–the coming together of different bodies and forces that create change in processes. We explore how encounters are enacted by…
Between co and solo writing: experimenting with constraint, composition, and community through writing 100s
In this article, we describe what we’ve learned about writing through the development of our academic-creative writing group, a community initiated during the first lockdown of Spring 2020. Called The 100s, we adopted and adapted a format of writing popularised by the writer-theorists Lauren Berlant and Kathleen…
Collective social responsibility: revealing agendas in intersectional and decolonial interpretive communities
This article examines how decolonial and intersectional agendas, viewed through feminist and activist lenses, reshape collective social responsibility (CSR) by anchoring social justice initiatives in non-colonial perspectives. Drawing on intersectional and decolonial feminist scholarship, it explores strategic paths and challenges to…