Overview
Work under the theme of Management, Organisation and Workplace Relations includes analyses of post-industrial and knowledge-driven service work; ‘corporate culturism’ – power and identity; management innovations; organizational transformation and change; and poststructural examinations of ‘emotional’ or ‘aesthetic labour’.
Work on Gender includes: masculinity at work in organizations; gender identities in organisations and institutions; and gender and consumption. Work on consumption and markets include: analyses of the changing nature of consumption; consumption, culture and knowledge production; and critical analyses of rationality in accounting regulations, economics, and public sector organizations. Philosophical and methodological inquiry concerns: the ontology and epistemology of social institutions; deconstructionist and reflexive methodologies; and ethnographic research.