Narratives of fate and misfortune in organizational life: Stories of success and failure

Jalan, Ishan; Sinha, Shuchi; Ulus, Eda

doi:10.1080/14759551.2014.964239

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“…Similarly, witchcraft plays a similar role as people leverage, frame and rely upon the belief system that witchcraft provides -also to gain power and material advantages from the organizations they inhabit. Similar to what we found in witchcraft practices, we know that other forms of spirituality ground their reliance on cosmological beliefs to frame, cope with and build collective sustenance from events that scientific rationality fails to explain (Jalan, Sinha, & Ulus, 2014;Luhrmann, 2020).…”

Section: Contribution To Theories Of Spirituality In Organizationssupporting

confidence: 72%

‘That’s Witchcraft’: Community entrepreneuring as a process of navigating intra-community tensions through spiritual practices

Cucchi

Lubberink

Dentoni

et al. 2021

Organization Studies

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This paper theorizes the spiritual processes of community entrepreneuring as navigating tensions that arise when community-based enterprises (CBEs) emerge within communities and generate socio-economic inequality. Grounded on an ethnographic study of a dairy CBE in rural Malawi, findings reveal that intra-community tensions revolve around the occurrence of ‘bad events’ – mysterious tragedies that, among their multiple meanings, are also framed as witchcraft. Community members prepare for, frame, cope, and build collective sustenance from ‘bad events’ by intertwining witchcraft and mundane socio-material practices. Altogether, these practices reflect the mystery and the ambiguity that surround ‘bad events’ and prevent intra-community tensions from overtly erupting. Through witchcraft, intra-community tensions are channeled, amplified and tamed cyclically as this process first destabilizes community social order and then restabilizes it after partial compensation for socio-economic inequality. Generalizing beyond witchcraft, this spiritual view of community entrepreneuring enriches our understanding of entrepreneuring – meant as organization-creation process in an already organized world – in the context of communities. Furthermore, it sheds light on the dynamics of socio-economic inequality surrounding CBEs, and on how spirituality helps community members to cope with inequality and its effects.

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Section: Contribution To Theories Of Spirituality In Organizationssupporting

confidence: 72%

‘That’s Witchcraft’: Community entrepreneuring as a process of navigating intra-community tensions through spiritual practices

Cucchi

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Dentoni

et al. 2021

Organization Studies

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“…The impacts of the opinion of haplessness which is considerably prevalent in a society (Jalan, Sinha & Ulus, 2014) are required to get evaluated in all aspects (Kaufman, 1998). Individuals desiring to gain a respectable status in a society (İnce, 2018) and get rid of the negative situations such as haplessness and those who consider themselves as hapless in terms of finding a job are able to apply for distinct ways of employment in business life.…”

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confidence: 99%

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2021

International Scientific Conference ERAZ - Knowledge Based Sustainable Development

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“…Psychoanalysis is already an analysis of the social in that the unconscious is shared collectively, given that the Other is also desiring the Other's desire due to its own lacking essence. A psychoanalytic interpretation of conscious phenomena would therefore be to view them as concealed expressions of the unconscious (Gabriel and Carr 2002;Jalan et al 2014).…”

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Desired diversity and symptomatic anxiety: theorising failed diversity as Lacanian lack

Christensen

Muhr

2017

Culture and Organization

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This paper conceptualises organisational diversity as constituted by psychoanalytic lack.Empirically, we show how diversity as Lacanian lack is understood as nothing in or of itself, but as an empty signifier with no signified. The lack of diversity becomes a catalyst for desiring particular ideas of diversity that, however, constantly change due to the empty form of diversity. Anxiety manifests itself in the obsession of unobtainable idealised forms of diversity as well as in the uncertainty associated with the traumatic experience of always falling short of what is desired in an object -the experience of failed diversity. Conclusively, we discuss the productive potential of the power of lack. The impossibility of diversity is what, at once, conditions the possibility of diversity. We therefore suggest that the symptomatic anxiety provoked by the lack should be enjoyed in order to engage with new meaningful desires and fantasies of organisational diversity.

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Narratives of fate and misfortune in organizational life: Stories of success and failure

Cited by 8 publications

References 30 publications

‘That’s Witchcraft’: Community entrepreneuring as a process of navigating intra-community tensions through spiritual practices

‘That’s Witchcraft’: Community entrepreneuring as a process of navigating intra-community tensions through spiritual practices

7th ERAZ Conference Proceedings (part of ERAZ conference collection)

Desired diversity and symptomatic anxiety: theorising failed diversity as Lacanian lack

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