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What is NORML? Sedimented meanings in ambiguous organizational identities
No full textOrganizational identity scholarship has largely focused on the mutability of meanings ascribed to ambiguous identity labels. In contrast, we analyze a case study of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) to explore how leaders maintained a meaning ascribed to an ambiguous identity label amid successive identity threats. We found that heightened dissensus surrounding meanings attributed to the organization’s “reform group” label at three key points spurred theoretically similar manifestations of two processes. The first, meaning sedimentation, involved leaders invoking history to advocate for the importance of their preferred meaning while mulling the inclusion of others. The second, reconstructing the past, occurred as leaders and members alike offered narratives that obscured the history of disavowed meanings while sharing new memories of those they prioritized. Our work complements research on identity change by drawing attention to the processes by which meaning(s) underlying ambiguous identity labels might survive
Indigenous Peoples and organization studies
Full text linkThis essay encourages scholars of management and organization studies (MOS) to critically reflect on
how Indigenous peoples and their knowledges have been, and continue to be, systemically discriminated
against. This discrimination is the result of colonization; it has deeply impacted and continues to affect
which knowledges and practices are valued and embraced. The impact of colonization is mirrored in
MOS via processes and actions within the academic setting and our business schools. The result is the
continued marginalization of Indigenous peoples and their knowledges. We propose a shift in how MOS
scholars approach research in relation to non-western societies to counter, and hopefully end, these
continued practices of discrimination in our business schools. Specifically, we argue that demarginalizing
Indigenous research in academia and going beyond ‘cosmetic indigenization’ in our business schools are
new, collaborative ways of rethinking indigeneity and breaking down the current barriers in MOS that
reinforce and perpetuate the systemic discrimination against Indigenous peoples, their knowledges and
practices.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication
of this article. This work was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada [430-2019-00070].FacultyReviewe
Organizational memory studies
No full textThis paper provides an overview and discussion of the rapidly growing literature on organizational memory studies (OMS). We define OMS as an inquiry into the ways that remembering and forgetting shape, and are shaped by, organizations and organizing processes. The contribution of this article is threefold. We briefly review what we understand by organizational memory and explore some key debates and points of contestation in the field. Second, we identify four different perspectives that have been developed in OMS (functional, interpretive, critical and performative) and expand upon each perspective by showcasing articles published over the past decade. In particular, we examine four papers previously published in Organization Studies to show the distinctiveness of each perspective. Finally, we identify a number of areas for future research to facilitate the future development of OMS
Historical Narratives and the Defense of Stigmatized Industries
Full text linkThis study examines how managers and entrepreneurs in stigmatized industries use historical narratives to combat stigma. We examine two industries, the private military contractors (PMC) industry in the United States and the cannabis industry in Canada. In recent decades, the representatives of these industries have worked to reduce the level of stigmatization faced by the industries. We show that historical narratives were used rhetorically by the representatives of both industries. In both cases, these historical narratives were targeted at just one subset of the population. Our research contributes to debates about stigmatization in ideologically diverse societies, an important issue that have been overlooked by the existing literature on stigmatized industries, which tends to assume the existence of homogeneous audiences when researching the efforts of industry representatives to destigmatize their industries
Ecologies of Memories: Memory Work Within and Between Organizations and Communities
Full text linkIn this paper we review and synthesize the growing sociology-informed literature on organizational memory studies (OMS). Sociological approaches have recently emerged in management and organization studies focused on the study of collective memory as a social construction of the past. To organize this literature, we develop an ecological view of collective memory. This perspective sees organizations as constituted by a variety of mnemonic communities and, simultaneously, part of a broader ecology of mnemonic communities. We use this framework to guide our review of the various forms of memory work within and between mnemonic communities. Our review shows that much of the sociologically-informed research has focused on memory work within communities. We also identify an emerging interest in the study of memory work between communities. In conclusion, we discuss possible future directions and outline a three-point agenda for future research that calls for a better understanding of the relational dynamics of memory with a focus on how it is collectively organized, how it is influenced by ethical and institutional standards, and how it is used for political and commercial purposes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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