Visual Inquiry: Exploring Embodied Organizational Practices by Collaborative Film-Elicitation

Skjælaaen, Gudrun R.; Bygdås, Arne Lindseth; Hagen, Aina Landsverk

doi:10.1177/1056492618778138

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“…This allowed us to identify and triangulate multiple behavioural characteristics and social systems of reference involved in individual processes of self-reflection, value modification and identity change. This therefore fits with calls for wider research approaches using visual sources, which have still only been used in a fairly limited way (Runfola et al, 2017;Skjaelaaen et al, 2020). The use of the visual approach in this study encouraged openness by interviewees.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 68%

Shifting identities in the public sector: portraying the “new” public manager in the Italian setting

Spanó

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Parker

2021

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Purpose This paper aims to understand how training programs fostering discourses centred on individuals’ identity construction may turn resistance into a generative and enabling force to elicit more relationally and negotiated solutions of change. Design/methodology/approach The study used Foucault’s conceptualisation of “regimes of truth” to show how even potentially resistant public managers may generatively contribute to change processes if given the chance to restate the macro discourses of the hegemonic new public management movement at their own micro level. It relied upon an ethnographic approach based on verbal interviews, photo-elicitation, DiSC behavioural tests and observation of 29 Italian public managers participating in a training course. Findings The findings allow us to unveil how helping public managers to think about their self-identity in new ways enabled them to approach changing processes differently turning their resistance efforts into a generative force. Originality/value The paper offers a noteworthy contribution to the literature on public sector change by examining neglected issues relating to the identity of change agents and the implications of their multiple roles. It presents an alternative to the deterministic view of resistance as impeding or dysfunctionally shaping change under the new public management approach. This has important implications for both practice and policymaking.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 68%

Shifting identities in the public sector: portraying the “new” public manager in the Italian setting

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Parker

2021

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“…The main idea of PIE is that, in addition to photography, there are in fact various other "sources" or points or reference available for elicitation (cf. Harper 2002), including film (Skjaelaaen et al 2018;Gross and Levenson 1995), drawings and artwork (Hogan 2015;Bagnoli 2009), 3D objects in public displays (Du et al 2018), visually impaired people "watching" or listening to television (Dim et al 2016), and, as in the two cases examined in this chapter, mobile phones (Symons Downs 2018; Kaufmann 2018) and other digital devices such as tablets, laptops, smart televisions, and even blog posts consisting of both text and visual materials (Hänninen 2018). In this light, I argue that almost anything can serve as a point of reference for PIE just as long as it conveys meaning and relevance to the person participating in the research under the premises of the study in question.…”

Section: Riitta Hänninenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research

Lähdesmäki¹,

Koskinen-Koivisto²,

Čeginskas³

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Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research: Ethnography with a Twist seeks to rethink ethnography 'outside the box' of its previous tradition and to develop ethnographic methods by critically discussing process, ethics, impact and knowledge production in ethnographic research. This interdisciplinary edited volume argues for a 'twist' that supports openness, courage, and creativity to develop and test innovative and unconventional ways of thinking and doing ethnography. 'Ethnography with a twist' means both an intentional aim to conduct ethnographic research with novel approaches and methods but also sensitivity to recognize and creativity to utilize different kinds of 'twist moments' that ethnographic research may create for the researcher. This edited volume critically evaluates new and old methodological tools and their ability to engage with questions of power difference. It proposes new collaborative methods that allow for co-production and co-creation of research material as well as shared conceptual work and wider distribution of knowledge. The book will be of use to ethnographers in humanities and social science disciplines including sociology, anthropology and communication studies.

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“…Non-verbal methodologies, e.g., visual analysis (Skjaelaaen et al 2018), videography (Knoblauch and Schnettler 2012), visual metaphors and visual meaning-making (Kassinis and Panayiotou 2016), and participant-generated visual methodologies (Guillemin and Drew 2010) can be used to document the unsayable while making the research context-sensitive. In addition to being highly participatory and contextual, these de-centre the written language as the primary medium for inquiry and understanding.…”

Section: Self-deperipherisingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is Global Management Knowledge on the Way to Impoverishment?

Bachkirov

2020

Philosophy of Management

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This article seeks to synthesise three fields of inquirymanagement studies, linguistics and cognitive psychologyto explore an arguably emerging phenomenon of global management knowledge (MK) impoverishment. To this end, three literatures are reviewed and interrogated for the insights they may provide into the underlying factors affecting global MK: trends in knowledge production, Englishisation of management scholarship and the culturally determined differences in cognition. Arguments are developed through descriptive investigation, discussion and analysis. The central proposition of this article is that the politics of knowledge production, the hegemony of English as the dominant language of management studies and the variations in thinking styles are synergistically interlinked in a way that facilitates Anglophone homogenisation of management research and potentially leads to global MK impoverishment. The ways of addressing the situation are discussed.

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Visual Inquiry: Exploring Embodied Organizational Practices by Collaborative Film-Elicitation

Cited by 11 publications

References 83 publications

Shifting identities in the public sector: portraying the “new” public manager in the Italian setting

Shifting identities in the public sector: portraying the “new” public manager in the Italian setting

Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research

Is Global Management Knowledge on the Way to Impoverishment?

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