129 research outputs found
Whither Critical Management and Organization Studies? For a Performative Critique of Capitalist Flows in the Wake of the COVID‐19 Pandemic
No full textZanoni, P (corresponding author), Hasselt Univ, Hasselt, Belgium.
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Post-Diversity, Precarious Work for All: Unmaking borders to govern labour in the Amazon warehouse
No full textThis paper investigates the (un)making of borders as a form of labour governmentality in one of Amazon's warehouses in Poland. Guided by a critical theory of borders as a form of labour governmentality under global capitalism, we identify organizational practices through which socio-demographic categories traditionally deployed as principles of organizing work (e.g., gender, age, ability) are unmade: the management of deskilled labour through an algorithmic system, the non-selective hiring of workers, the enforcement of social norms of interpersonal respect and a universal system of casualized employment. Together, these practices constitute workers as undifferentiated, interchangeable and equal labour, let them compete with each other under harshly exploitative conditions, and continuously dispose of the least productive among them, keeping all in structural uncertainty. The study contributes to the critical diversity literature by showing a 'post-diversity' governmentality that rests on equality, competition and precarization of labour as a whole, rather than segregation and marginalization through an 'ideal worker' norm. This labour governmentality operates by eliciting consent from historically subordinated workers and eliminating the advantage of historically relatively privileged ones. Unmaking borders within labour inside the organization, this governmentality at the same time crucially rests on borders outside it.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: We would like to acknowledge the funding Patrizia Zanoni received from the Flemish
Research Fund (FWO), grant no. G085119N and Miłosz Miszczyński from the National Science Centre, Poland, grant no. 2019/35/B/HS4/04136.
We would like to thank our respondents, the guest editors of the special issue, the anonymous reviewers, the members of the Chair Organization Studies of the Utrecht School of Governance, the members of SEIN - Identity, Diversity & Inequality Research at Hasselt University, the participants in EGOS Sub-theme ‘Diversity and intersectionality: Struggles for recognition and redistribution in organizations and (self-)entrepreneurship’ in 2021 in Amsterdam (online) and the EGOS sub-theme ‘Re-organizing imperfections at work: negotiating power and control in employment relations’ in 2022 in Vienna for their generous feedback on previous versions of the paper. Last but not least, we thank ERA-NET CHANSE for allowing us to further build on this line of research through the Humans in Digital Logistics (HuLog) project, grant no. 101004509 (2022-2025)
«Due fontane che di diverso effetto hanno liquore»: l’intertestualità in traduzione. Il caso ‘Zanoni’ di E. G. Bulwer-Lytton (1842)
No full textThis article deals with the all-but-forgotten literary reception of a Victorian author, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who became famous in the nineteenth century in Italy thanks to the translations by Francesco Cusani, a famous historian of that period. Then, the author will be compared to the translator, according to the most recent studies in translational stylistics and intertextuality, focusing on the novel Zanoni (1842), translated by Cusani in 1848.L’articolo illustra la fortuna letteraria avuta dall’autore vittoriano oggi poco frequentato, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, che divenne celebre nell’Italia dell’Ottocento grazie alle traduzioni dello storico, Francesco Cusani. Si procederà, dunque, ad un confronto tra autore e traduttore, secondo i più recenti studi in stilistica traduttiva e intertestualità, focalizzando l’attenzione sulla produzione del romanzo Zanoni (1842), tradotto dal Cusani nel 1848
La prima ricezione inglese dell’"Aminta": uno sguardo d’insieme
No full textThe essay deals with the first English destiny of the Aminta by Torquato Tasso, examining its focal moments and the cultural context in which its reception took place. In addition, the article aims to show the reasons why Tasso’s pastoral wasn’t take as a theatrical model by Elizabethan dramatists, despite of the great appreciation that it received on the island and the high regard that the British had of its author
Real-Time RT-PCR for the Detection of Lyssavirus Species
No full textThe causative agents of rabies are single-stranded, negative-sense RNA viruses in the genus Lyssavirus of Rhabdoviridae, consisting of twelve classified and three as yet unclassified species including classical rabies virus (RABV). Highly neurotropic RABV causes rapidly progressive encephalomyelitis with nearly invariable fatal outcome. Rapid and reliable diagnosis of rabies is highly relevant for public and veterinary health. Due to growing variety of the genus Lyssavirus observed, the development of suitable molecular assays for diagnosis and differentiation is challenging. This work focused on the establishment of a suitable real-time RT-PCR technique for rabies diagnosis as a complement to fluorescent antibody test and rabies tissue culture infection test as gold standard for diagnosis and confirmation. The real-time RT-PCR was adapted with the goal to detect the whole spectrum of lyssavirus species, for nine of which synthesized DNA fragments were used. For the detection of species, seven probes were developed. Serial dilutions of the rabies virus strain CVS-11 showed a 100-fold higher sensitivity of real-time PCR compared to heminested RT-PCR. Using a panel of thirty-one lyssaviruses representing four species, the suitability of the protocol could be shown. Phylogenetic analysis of the sequences obtained by heminested PCR allowed correct classification of all viruses used
Templates of Ethnographic Writing in Organization Studies: Beyond the Hegemony of the Detective Story
No full textUsing a translation lens, we explore templates for writing ethnography in organization studies and their
evolution over time through the analysis of all ethnographic papers published in the premier journal
Administrative Science Quarterly, 1956-2018.We found three templates of ethnographic writing. Few early
ethnographic papers resemble travelogues, as they use theory to explain a unique case based on firsthand
experiences of the author. Most studies read like detective stories, using extensive, quantified data from a
case and systematically analyzing it to advance theory. This template has remained predominant over time.
Finally, some ethnographic papers read like postmodern detective stories, in that they attempt to create
knowledge from lived experience, while also hinting at the partiality of this knowledge. This template
appeared around the turn of the century but is today rare. The overall low number of ethnographies and
the lasting hegemony of the ethnography as detective story template reflect the strict disciplining of
ethnography into the emulation of positivist research, constraining knowledge creation in organization
studies. We conclude by offering researchers some strategies to recover the strengths of templates
available in the past to broaden the boundaries of existing norms for writing ethnography today.We thank Tamar Gross and Merav Migdal-Picker for their help in the research process. In developing this article, we benefited much from comments on earlier drafts from participants in the ABC conference in Boston; Harvard-MIT seminar in Economic Sociology; The Centre for Strategy Studies seminar in the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University; The Davis Conference on Qualitative Research; the Gothenburg Research Institute seminar; the WOW group; And the HUOS forum in the Hebrew University. The first author thanks the Asper center In the Jerusalem Business School for its generous support, and Yehuda C. Goodman for the ongoing conversation on this projec
More Than Prefigurative Politics? Redefining institutional frames to reduce precarity under neoliberal capitalism
No full textThis paper responds to the emergent calls for recovering the role of contentious politics in prefigurative communities to more effectively transform capitalist institutions. Theoretically drawing on the work of Judith Butler, our paper points to the importance of addressing the institutional frames that demarcate who will be (mis)recognized in the public space and which are at the core of politics. Our analysis of the Coop case shows how prefigurative and contentious politics are not incompatible, but can rather strengthen each other in a virtuous circle. When articulated to redefine existing institutional frames, they can reduce precarity. Through this articulation an assembly is constituted where a redefined subject can emerge outside the precarizing frames of neoliberalism. At the same time, our analysis suggests that Coop's political practices do not completely redefine the individualized, calculative neoliberal subject. Project workers embraced the assembly only to the extent that it helped them reduce their self-responsibility and advance their professional and life projects. Overall, these insights advance the literature on grassroots organizations by showing the importance of contentious politics in attempting to redefine the institutional frames, as opposed to solely relying on prefigurative politics outside institutions. Yet they simultaneously confirm the difficulty of redefining the precarious neoliberal subject through collective emancipatory projects.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This research has been funded by Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, [G.0630.14N]
The authors would like to thank the associate editor Christine Coupland and the three anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback throughout the review process. Further, they like to thank Koen Van Laer, Marijke Verbruggen and Sara Louise Muhr as well as their colleagues from SEIN – Identity, Diversity & Inequality Research (Hasselt University) and the Qualcor network for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this paper. A special word of gratitude goes to all members and staff of Coop who participated in our research and in particular to our contact person for granting the authors access to the Coop community and her support in the data-gathering process
Genomic heterogeneity of small ruminant lentiviruses detected by PCR
No full textIn order to detect a large spectrum of small ruminant lentiviruses, primers for PCR were chosen in conserved parts of the LTR and GAG genes of Icelandic Visna virus 1514 and of the POL gene of caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus. This set of primers was tested in six different caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (CAEV)- and Maedi-Visna virus isolates of Dutch, American and Swiss origin. The LTR primers allowed the detection of the corresponding fragments of all isolates. The GAG primers allowed amplification of the corresponding fragments of all but the Swiss Maedi-Visna virus strain OLV. Using the POL primers, one Maedi-Visna- and two caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus strains were detected after one round of amplification. Sequencing of the GAG and POL amplification products and comparison to Icelandic Visna virus and CAEV strain CO revealed total heterogeneity of 38% for the GAG- and 28% for the POL fragment. The virus strains studied fall into two groups which are more closely related to one another than to Icelandic Visna virus
Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD): from biology to control
No full textBovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is endemic worldwide. Together with classical swine fever and border disease viruses, it belongs to the genus Pestivirus of the family Flaviviridae. Most infections with BVDV take a transient, acute, course. Only rarely BVDV persists in its hosts. Due to the early time point of infection in utero, persistently infected (PI) animals are immunotolerant to the infecting non-cytopathic BVDV. In such animals the virus may mutate to a cytopathic biotype, causing lethal mucosal disease. In BVD-endemic regions, approximately 1% of the animals are PI. Removal of all PI animals leads to extinction of BVD. This approach to BVD eradication has been vindicated in Scandinavia. Following the same principles, regional and country-wide eradication programs are run in different parts of the world. These programs differ in the way PI animals are detected and in the role of vaccines. The Scandinavian two-step method of detecting PI animals is based on (i) the high level of seroprevalence in herds where PI animals are present and (ii) on testing all animals for virus in such herds. However, the high average herd seroprevalence in Switzerland made it impossible to define a reasonable threshold for virus testing. Therefore, all animals were directly tested for virus in the year 2008 and all newborn calves until the end of 2012, when the PI prevalence had dropped to 0.02%. Vaccination remains prohibited. Since 2013, surveillance for BVD is accomplished by serology. As a unique consequence of eradication, over 7500 viral strains are available to us for genetic studies
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