Sub-theme 41: Fiction, the Novel and Literature: Towards Organization 2666?
Convenors:
Christian De Cock, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Damian O'Doherty, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Sine Nørholm Just, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Session I: Thursday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, FG 2B15 (2nd floor)
The Abyssal Space
Chair: Sine Just
Michael Pedersen and Stephen Dunne
Consider the infinite jest between individual habituation and organizational routine
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Justine Grønbæk Pors
Justine Grønbæk Pors and Rasmus Johnsen
Sense and the City (and the city)
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Rashné Limki
Rashné Limki
Between madness and suicide: On the ‘woman of colour’ in organisation/s
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Michael Pedersen
Session II: Thursday, July 06, 14:00 to 15:30, FG 2B15 (2nd floor)
Cities in Fiction
Chair: Christian De Cock
Clare N. Hindley, Damian Ruth and Deborah Knowles
A day in the life of ... Ulysses in Dublin
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Christina Volkmann
Christina Renate Volkmann
No findings of any significance? An exploration of little-known literature relating to industrial organizations in Wuppertal,
Germany
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Louise Nash
Louise Nash
Reading, wandering and sensing: Using literary traditions of walking as a method of organizational research
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Clare Hindley
Session III: Friday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30, FG 2B15 (2nd floor)
Dystopia and Resistance
Chair: Damian O'Doherty
David Pick, Christine Symons, Fernando Porta and Ruth Tigges
'As far as thought can reach': Science fiction and the creation of new convsersations about theory and practice of organization
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Line Kirkegaard
Line Kirkegaard
The Hunger Games Method
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Luca Pareschi
Luca Pareschi
How to perform resistance through novels: The narration of Wu Ming
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): David Pick
Session IV: Friday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, FG 2B15 (2nd floor)
Animals and Monsters
Chair: Sine Just
Robin Holt and Timon Beyes
A bestiary of organization
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Damian Ruth
Damian Ruth and Mary Murray
Frankenstein: Creativity and narcissism in organizations
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Robin Holt
Mary Murray and Damian Ruth
Dracula: Undead animals and undead humans
created in and through organisation and management structures in contemporary
capitalist society
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Robin Holt
Session V: Friday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, FG 2B15 (2nd floor)
Satire and Dark Comedy
Chair: Christian De Cock
Mrinalini Greedharry
Dark comedy: Reading the campus novel as an archive of colonial management
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Erkan Erdemir
Erkan Erdemir and Umut Koç
The social construction of a new organizational form in the Time Regulation Institute
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Mrinalini Greedharry
Session VI: Saturday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, FG 2B15 (2nd floor)
Fiction and Entrepreneuring
Chair: Christian De Cock
Paul Savage, Henrika Franck, Hanna Maula and Eero Vaara
Entrepreneurial opportunity as fiction: Glimpses
of the imaginary in discursive practices
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Inge M. Brokerhof
Inge M. Brokerhof, Jan Fekke Ybema and P. Matthijs Bal
Illness narratives and chronic patients’ sustainable employability: The impact of positive work stories on fellow sufferers
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Felipe Marcondes
Felipe Marcondes, Sergio Luis Seloti Jr. and Fernanda Yasuzawa Praxedes
Actors, archetypes and networks in entrepreneurship
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Paul Savage
Session VII: Saturday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, FG 2B15 (2nd floor)
Using Fiction in Studying Organization
Chair: Damian O'Doherty
Hélio Arthur Irigaray, Flávio Vasconcelos and Darliny Maria Amorim de Sousa Oliveira
Borges’ Lottery and The Good Organization: Our
ability to excuse ourselves from wrought engagement and the illusion of meritocracy
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Christian Huber
Christian Huber and Nadine Gerhardt
After Kafka’s "Before the Law": Performance evaluation and self-subjectification through reflexive entanglement
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Helio Arthur Irigaray