“…We borrow from the organizational studies literature on micro-emancipation, considering the complexities of understanding the nuances and forms of both micro-emancipation and compliance with discursive and material structures in organizational settings (Collinson, 1999;Courpasson, 2000Courpasson, , 2016Courpasson & Dany, 2003;Harding, Ford, & Lee, 2017;Iedema, Rhodes, & Scheeres, 2006;Kamoche, Kannan, & Siebers, 2014). Moreover, we centre the attention on the dynamic and ongoing process between dominators and dominated (Courpasson, 2000;Courpasson & Dany, 2003;Courpasson, Dany, & Clegg, 2012), where the latter actively rather than passively obey to organizational norms.…”