Det utforskande fältarbetet fångar och belyser komplexa samhällsprocesser och samhällsfenomen. Det är en typ av fältarbete som syftar till att upptäcka och ”titta in” i skrymslen som döljs av andra metodansatser. Boken är skriven för samhällsvetenskapliga studenter och är användbar på alla nivåer men särskilt för kandidat- och masteruppsatser. Den tar upp kvalitativa metoder inom fältarbete, i huvudsak intervjuer och observationer. Genom hela boken betonas att studenter forskar, och liksom forskare bör studenter ha stor frihet att utforma och utföra sina egna arbeten. Med frihet kommer ansvar och studenter är kapabla att ta ansvar för sin egen forskning.

This entry represents the authors’ attempts to introduce anti-capitalist, pro-life rhythms into organization theory research and education, where the purpose is not only to resist capitalism but to overthrow it, i.e. not just replace the kapellmeister, but the entire orchestra, the instruments, and the note system. In short, to implement a new rhythm. Music has the potential to have an emancipatory impact on research and teaching, where the rhythm of CMS goes well with, and would be energized by music when resisting organization theory research and education. With music, it might hit the right vibe, which is essential in the fight against capitalism.

In this paper, we show how capitalism and feudalism reinforce each other to enable the former’s success in the higher education context. In this regard, Polish universities are an interesting case due to Poland’s capitalist shock therapy in the 1990s, its Western European membership in the European Union in the 2000s and due to recent reforms intended to modernize Polish academia. Based on 36 interviews with Polish early career academics from urban universities with experience working in watchdogs of higher education, we examine respondents’ perspectives on the current capitalist reforms. They treat ongoing changes as a solution for the problems experienced and defined as “feudal”: political labeling, abuse of power and discrimination against women. Understanding capitalism and feudalism through their organizing principles, the main contribution of this study is that it demonstrates how capitalist organizing principles fix existing feudalist organizing principles to flourish in Polish university. Hence, it is difficult for early career academics to recognize that capitalist organizing principles are in fact reinforcing rather than eliminating (as the advocates of capitalist reforms often claim) feudal problems in Polish academia.

Cultivating a dystopian imagination cannot be made from within the paradigmatic science of organization theory, hereafter paradigm. The source of the doom cultivation has to originate from the outside and be allowed inside as a basic premise. Otherwise, the clash between the premises of the paradigm and nature cannot be overcome. In this article, I position myself as an anti-essen-tialist, arguing that the world needs to be redescribed time and again (Czarniawska, 2001). Impor-tantly, there needs to be richness among the redescription attempts. To achieve richness in stories about the world, the pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty had hope in the ironists (Rorty, 1989). In this essay, I even put my hope in the ironists who are misfits, outcasts, and drunkards, and use the documentary “To Stay Alive” and the musician Miland “Mille” Petrozza as case in point.

Kapitalism och klass är två begrepp som åter blivit aktuella - kapitalismen expanderar och de mänskliga och ekologiska skadorna eskalerar. Den verkar ostoppbar och förefaller vara naturgiven. Så är det inte eftersom människor har konstruerat kapitalismen. Den här boken vill bidra till att avmystifiera kapitalismen genom att visa hur den organiseras. På så sätt kan motstrategier för att omkullkasta kapitalismen bli möjliga.

In this paper, we seek to belong to the “writing differently” turn in organization studies. We argue that writing poetry when doing field work is a way of disrupting and unsettling the objective scientific gaze, the scientific ideal of experiencing the world, and of opening for the Buberian world—the world as an encounter in itself. A tension framed by Buber as I-It and I-You. Rather than merely arguing that poetry can help us understand the world differently, we argue that poetry can help us encounter the world differently. Further, by telling two field work stories, we show that poetry can help the researcher to remain human in the field. Having hope in writing poetry when doing field work transcends the more politically and individually oriented engaged ethnography, realizing that field work as encounter—I and You—holds the possibility of not only companionship, trust, mercy, cooperation, forming of joint causes, dreams but also betrayal, plundering, exploitation, and force.

2024 marks the 40th anniversary of Scandinavian Journal of Management (SJM). This anniversary editorial engages in a reflection on and discussion of some of the distinctive ways that the journal has contributed to a wider academic landscape of management insight. Marking an anniversary of considerable duration prompts us to revisit SJM’s production and its self-proclaimed ethos before letting this anniversary issue delve into present and future challenges and opportunities within our field. Through a retrospective analysis of selected articles and editorials since the journal’s inception we aim to identify key characteristics and phenomena that have garnered attention and traction within the journal.

Despite previous efforts to deal with the ontological split between human subjects and reality, sensemaking has remained human-centered. We argue that human-centered sensemaking risks omitting constitutive elements of reality. To escape the ontological split, we decenter sensemaking and thus extend it in such a way that it allows seemingly unrelated and independent humans and nonhumans to become connected and interdependent with what is made sense of. Doing so allows us to demonstrate how a decentered understanding of reality can produce a radically different understanding of research phenomena. As a means to show the consequences of a decentered sensemaking, we revisit the Mann Gulch disaster and show that not all disasters can be avoided by better sensemaking or good management.