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
Crossings: witnessing Gaza
This essay explores Gaza, Gazan writing, and writing about Gaza through the framework of crossings and the denial of crossings, with particular focus on the poetry of witness as an act of border crossing. By attending to Elaine Scarry’s concept of language as a form of self-extension and agency, a way to move …
The fashioning of the researcher
This essay explores the process of becoming or fashioning the researcher. It focuses on the becoming and being of the ‘self-as-researcher’. It will be posited that such a ‘self’ is created interactively and is thus inherently social. In particular, the researcher is fashioned by the relatedness of interacting with the researched. …
Not so banal binationalism: the organisational reproduction of nationalism in a cross-border company
While the reproduction of nationalism has received considerable attention in the social sciences at both the macro and micro levels, it has been largely overlooked at the meso-organisational level. Nationalism is often difficult to discern, as we tend to distance ourselves from it by focusing on its most extreme forms, …
Influence of traditional ethics on the corporate social responsibility reporting of restaurant firms
Despite the increasing importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR), traditional ethics’ influence on CSR implementation in international business remains unclear. To fill this gap, this study investigates how the CSR initiatives of restaurant firms from Taiwan and the US embody the traditional ethics underlying …
The end of alternative organising (just as we were getting to know it)? A conjunctural analysis of the …
The last fifteen years have seen a rise in interest in alternative organising within CMS. Although this work covers a diverse world of organisational forms, this academic interest is commonly connected to the prefigurative turn in social movements. Yet the momentum of such movements has recently stalled, and …
Feminist theorizing as collective practice: staying with the art of reading
A group of feminist scholars met and collectively read feminist texts aloud. As an alternative to hegemonic modes of theorizing dominant in Management and Organization Studies (MOS), we propose ‘readinglistening’ as a feminist intervention: a practice in which collective reading aloud and embodied listening are …
Draining bodies without care: worker energy depletion and recharging at Amazon, Poland
This article proposes integrating the concepts of energy depletion and recharging as key elements in the struggle over labour indeterminacy at Amazon. To this end, it draws on empirical data collected from two Amazon warehouses and analyses worker narratives related to energy management at work. ...
Writing the fascination for extreme contexts: Darwin’s reverie
Fascination, as an affective, material and non-rational force, creates a particular bond between human beings, nature, and the materialization of space in an extreme context. This article, in relation to the ‘Darwin Expedition’ in Patagonia, explores affect as a poetic reverie under the dreamscape influence of Gaston ...
Saudade: how complex emotions shape the experience of paradox
Emotions and paradoxes permeate organizational life. The former shape how individuals interpret, respond to, and cope with the tensions that arise from the latter. While paradox theory has extensively explored the handling of these tensions through cognitive and structural mechanisms, the emotional dimensions …