Scandals and normality are at opposite extremes in the continuum of social reproduction of the existing order. As normality has no clear definition, scandals benefit a huge amount from classifications, however, the dissatisfactions fail to provide an overall conceptual map. I develop a four-type...

Management fads are increasingly a hot topic within Organization Theory. Recent articles have described the production process of fads, the role of «ideological» waves in explaining their emergence, and the development of management rhetoric supporting the fads. Despite this growing interest,...

This timely and important book provides a critical analysis of the changes and challenges that currently affect European universities. Using both theoretical contributions and applied case studies, leading experts argue that universities as institutions are in need of change – although the...

Risk, regulation and practices of organizing are interrelated in a myriad of ways. Natural disasters, technical failures, and also processes of organizing are sources of risk to which organizations must respond and for which new managerial and regulatory practices are demanded. In this...

This article describes the everyday interactions in an organization composed of groups to which gender identities have been ascribed, namely a hospital ward. The female identity of the nursing profession is reflected in the interaction both within the group and in the interaction between nurses...

Summary The annual film festival is a very European institution invented more than 70 years ago. As a research topic, however, film festivals have received surprisingly little and scattered attention within organization and management studies despite a mounting interest among film and media...