In most western countries there is a widely held opinion that, facing competition from other knowledge-producers, universities must change their identity from that of state-financed monopolies to self-financed participants in the knowledge-production markets. Together with a demand for...

This paper presents a study of a successful organizing process, namely the knotting together of different types of action by "translating" them into one another. The connections thus established were then stabilized to form a unit that can be designated as an "action net". This instance of...

There is no doubt that in the present well-connected world, universities form an organization field, or perhaps a subfield of field of organizations that produce education. But I am concerned only with that subfield. It is to be expected, therefore, that, as in any other field, isomorphic forces...

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Interviews aimed at a reconstruction of working-life stories of ”digital immigrants” and ”digital natives” revealed, unsurprisingly, that such stories are emplotted with the aid of existing repertoires. What is more surprising, though, is the fact that ”nomadic plots” can be borrowed...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the complexity of accounting for the city, on a specific example of an urban project in Rome. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a study consisting of various accounts of the project, including a photo reportage done by...

This text begins with a brief summary of problems resulting from the traditional framing of the term “organizations”. It ignores organizing without organizations, organizing between organizations, and the fact that organizations can be obstacles to organizing. The text continues with the...