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
Inner-focused Sage & Outer-Focused King: sustainable leadership research from two Chinese companies’ cases
‘Inner-focused Sage & Outer-focused King’ describes the Confucian perspective on an individual's transition from self-cultivation to societal contribution. This study applies the concept to leadership, illustrating how business leaders achieve family well-being, corporate success, and social …
National culture as a lens to improve ecosystem innovation maturity: a cross-cultural analysis
Innovation is a key driver of economic growth and organisational success, particularly in complex and regulated sectors like healthcare. In recent years, there has been growing recognition of the role national culture plays in shaping and supporting innovation processes. This conceptual research …
Blurry service relationships – exploring recurrent encounters in personal training through photo-elicitation interviews
There are a variety of service occupations characterised by recurrent contact with familiar customers. Through the performance of emotional labour, these service worker/customer relationships can potentially flourish as part of ongoing relational trajectory that evolves with each encounter. Using data …
In-betweenness of doctoral students in co-authoring with English L1 academics: an emotion-based duoethnography …
This duoethnography unveils our emotional odysseys during the co-authoring process as women early career researchers (ECRs) with English as an additional language (EAL) who collaborated with scholars whose first language is English (L1). The use of duoethnography allows us to ...
Minor miracles – the play: a co-ethnographic exploration of intimate encounters at work by diverse bodies and minds
Minor Miracles is a play that depicts a three-and-a-half-day experience in silence and darkness undertaken by a group of mere strangers whose diverse bodies and minds afford unexpected intimate encounters, surprizing emotional intimacy, and reflections about intimacy and disability at work.
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 …