Both shaping and shaped by technological, economic social facets, the world of work has witnessed a wide array changes. This review article sets out to provide synthesis some main directions insights existing research connected new work. In particular, we approached topic practices through four key dimensions: (1) Conceptual methodological dimensions in study practices; (2) Spatial temporal manifestations collaborative economy; (3) Individuals, organizations configurations; (4) Power...

University governance is becoming increasingly autocratic as marketization intensifies. Far from the classical ideal of a professional collegium run according to academic norms, today’s universities feature corporate cultures and senior leadership teams disconnected both staff students, intolerant dissenting views. This not completely new phenomenon. In 1960s America, leaders developed technocratic managerialist model university, in keeping with theories around ‘convergence’ socio-economic...

Organizational life consists of an ever-changing world encounters, experiences, and complex sociomaterial relations. Within this context, standard routines can be seen as a solution to problems inefficiency within organizations, especially when associated with images stability, repeatability, standardization. This bring sense order where there is disorder, stability in the face change. However, whereas may providing solutions organizational worlds, they also viewed sources problems. Through...

Digital nomadism, a mobile lifestyle that encompasses wide array of professional endeavours, ranging from corporate remote workers to digital entrepreneurs, has benefitted steadily growing appeal. Despite this, there is dearth research exploring the premises and development nomadism. This paper concerned with image its underlying structure practices, relation current world work. In order explore these aspects problematise traces nomadism takes inspiration Deleuzo‐Guattarian nomad. Adopting...

Meta-work – the work that makes possible is an important aspect of professional lives. Yet, it also one remains understudied, in particular context activities characterised by continuous and global mobility. Building on a qualitative approach to online content analysis, this article sets out explore meta-work underlying digital nomadism, leisure-driven lifestyle premised ‘work from anywhere’ logic. This explores four main dimensions (resource mobilisation, articulation, transition migration...

Abstract The term ‘platform capitalism’ captures a dynamic set of new work modalities that are mediated by platforms and have been brought about through advances in Information Communication Technologies, adjustments consumption modes preferences, changes how is conceived. Beyond work‐related changes, the ascent platform capitalism reflects wider societal political as well economic changes. While research on its manifold manifestations abounds, there lack consensus literature regarding key...

An ever-increasing range of work activities occur in open spaces that require collective discipline, with silence emerging as a key feature such workplace configurations. Drawing from an ethnographic examination makerspace Paris, we explore the ways which is incorporated into new practices context their actualization, embodiment and apprenticeship. Through its engagement conceptual Merleau-Ponty, this article does not posit opposite sounds or passive achievement. Silence inscribed learning...

Some occupations are subject to more complex identity work processes than others. This rings true for those professional endeavours that relatively poorly known and cannot rely on institutions as a reference identification, such digital nomadism. Digital nomads can broadly be defined professionals who embrace extreme forms of mobile combine their interest in travel with the possibility remotely. Building two-stage data collection process, this paper proposes typology characterises four...

Digitalisation offers a wide array of opportunities, but also challenges, for universities and business schools alike, regarding the provision delivery their teaching learning activities. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted some these as it forced educational institutions to move pedagogic activities online in line with new governmental regulations. In this article, we identify discuss critically following three interconnected challenges: (1) shifting from direct embodied co-presence...

For the United Kingdom, 2008 financial crisis coupled with subsequent economic austerity programme forced many public institutions to engage in various cost-cutting and fundraising ventures. In parallel, corporate ideologies came dominate how academics, officials professionals debated activities, turn profoundly affecting provision of communal services. This paper explores ‘corporate colonization’ ( sensu Deetz, 1992), fuelled by austerity, claims for commercial interests. Drawing on...

This paper focuses on the figure of flâneur and sets out to explore how practice flânerie might offer social researchers a different way engaging with digital worlds. It is articulated around two main interests: relationship worlds theoretical methodological implications envisioning as contends that could inform creatively enrich our practices in ways: enabling us approach differently exploration leading investigate phenomena have remained concealed through more conventional methodologies....

Abstract Though it is widely understood that the past can be an important resource for organizations, less known about micro‐level skills and choices help to materialize different representations of past. We understand these as a practice: ‘memory work’ – banner term gathering various activities provide scaffolding shared Seeking learn from context where memory work central, we share insights quasi‐longitudinal study UK museum employees. theorize three ideal‐typic regimes work, namely...

The aim of the article is to explore how an apprenticeship through signs can inform ethnographic inquiries. Upon engaging with signs, one develop new empirical sensibilities that could allow for appreciation flows, forces and intensities encountered during such research processes. In particular, it enables us attend those aspects we may struggle capture or illuminate. We suggest naming endeavour nomadography in order emphasize move away from anthropocentric accounts reflect iterative,...

This paper aims to explore the insight that can be brought by Deleuze and Guattari's concept of minor literature with regard questions field access within context organizational ethnography. draws from an ethnographic account scientists negotiating during a expedition Fiji. While could secure prior their departure abiding legal dimension plant collecting in field, they had renegotiate engaging different epistemologies, codes forms relationality. Positioned as ethnography access, this...