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Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism 2023

Created 03 Jul 2023| Updated 03 Jul 2023 | 10 articles

In this collection, you will find 10 impactful articles from Culture and Organization in line with the 2023 Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism. These papers span a range of topics such as happiness at work, consumption and health, organisational ethnography and much more.

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Ilaria Boncori(University of Essex, UK)

Kristin Williams(University of Eastern Finland, Finland and Dalhousie University, Canada)

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Organisational rhetoric and the threat of ambivalence
Heather Höpfl

Originally published in Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies, Volume: 1, Number: 2 (01 Oct 1995)

Published online: 21 Jun 2007
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The Economy of Magnificence: Organisation, Excess and Legitimacy
Ann Rippin

Originally published in Culture and Organization, Volume: 13, Number: 2 (01 Jun 2007) The Excess of organization: Theory and Practice

Published online: 02 May 2007
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‘There’s no limit to how much you can consume’: the New Public Health and the struggle to manage healthy bodies
Torkild Thanem

Originally published in Culture and Organization, Volume: 15, Number: 1 (01 Mar 2009)

Published online: 04 Mar 2009
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If on a summer’s day a researcher: the implied author and the implied reader in writing differently
Ruth Weatherall

Originally published in Culture and Organization, Volume: 29, Number: 6 (02 Nov 2023)

Published online: 11 May 2023
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Happy objects at work: the circulation of happiness
Carolyn Hunter

Originally published in Culture and Organization, Volume: 28, Number: 2 (04 Mar 2022)

Published online: 09 Nov 2021
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Dirty writing
Alison Pullen & Carl Rhodes

Originally published in Culture and Organization, Volume: 14, Number: 3 (01 Sep 2008)

Published online: 28 Aug 2008
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Organization: On the Theory and Practice of Excess
Alf Rehn & Damian O'Doherty

Originally published in Culture and Organization, Volume: 13, Number: 2 (01 Jun 2007) The Excess of organization: Theory and Practice

Published online: 02 May 2007
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‘Beyond the Scope of the Possible’: Art, Photography and Organisational Abjection
Laurie Cohen, Philip Hancock & Melissa Tyler

Originally published in Culture and Organization, Volume: 12, Number: 2 (01 Jun 2006)

Published online: 22 Aug 2006
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Othering the ‘leaky body’. An autoethnographic story about expressing breast milk in the workplace
Noortje van Amsterdam

Originally published in Culture and Organization, Volume: 21, Number: 3 (27 May 2015)

Published online: 24 Mar 2014
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More than a method? Organisational ethnography as a way of imagining the social
Hugo Gaggiotti, Monika Kostera & Paweł Krzyworzeka

Originally published in Culture and Organization, Volume: 23, Number: 5 (20 Oct 2017)

Published online: 03 Jul 2016
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