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
Notions of safety: observing cultural perspectives in a homeless youth hostel
The preservation of a person’s ontological security plays a vital role in the cultural formation of social groups. Using ethnographic data, the following paper demonstrates how young people, who reside in homeless hostels deal with feelings of anxiety and ontological insecurity. The paper argues that within the institutional …
An empirical analysis of how national culture influences banks’ sustainability via ESG criteria
In today's world, addressing the topic of sustainability is crucial due to its profound impact on financial and non-financial corporations. Although interesting, previous studies underinvestigate the issue, especially concerning financial institutions and the potential impact of national context by means of culture. This paper aims …
Caring to write, writing to care: a feminist care approach to doctoral supervision in the intimate encounters of co-writing
My autoethnography examines intimate encounters of co-writing with four former doctoral students and how I juggled the ethical dilemma of performative ways of being in the neoliberal university juxtaposed with care for students and myself as women scholars. I do this from a feminist care perspective, barely considered in…
Performing intimate publics in academia: speak-writing as affective politics for sustainability transformation
Ecological and social systems are in poly-crisis, whose present is mediated not only materially but also affectively. This article introduces the concept of speak-write – a form of writing to be performed for an audience – to address affective states that belong to processes of transformation but are silenced in organisational…
When ‘struggling with English’ becomes ‘passivity’: how language asymmetries in higher education get masked as ‘cultural…
This paper contributes to the study of power imbalances in intercultural encounters by investigating the role of language differences in the construction and deconstruction of ‘cultural differences’. Adopting a Critical Discursive Psychological approach, it demonstrates how self- and other-perceived language...
Friendships on the stage: co-writing feminist theatrical accounts
We, as friends, feminists, and Early Career Academics, explore the complex interplay between friendships and the Neoliberal University through an experimental genre blending text: a collaborative performance combining duoethnographic theater, poetry and artistic-academic writings. We offer intimate…
Experiencing vulnerability between frontstage and backstage identities: the vulnerable ‘I’s in creative writing…
In the context of creative writing groups, this paper explores how the affective experience of vulnerability as a basis for driving more reciprocal and interdependent caring relations involves articulating orientations towards individuality and orientations towards relationality. I examine this experience of vulnerability as …
Eudaimonic well-being: a socio-cultural perspective on narrative action
This paper, inspired by Arendt’s thought on the narrative character of action, aims to understand how speech and action, performed in the context of new beginnings, reveal eudaimonic potential in the quest for well-being. Our qualitative study follows ethnographic/netnographic principles and highlights …
The hidden garden: cultivating relational writing through intimate encounters in the collective research journey
Relational writing offers an alternative approach to traditional writing and is a process to explore intimacy in togetherness. In this paper, we offer a bouquet of stories that we, eight scholars, have written collectively to share our memories of researching and writing together over the past three years. Ours was not a linear …