All Outputs (61)

Unleadership: The Remarkable Power of Unremarkable Acts (2024)
Book
Kars-Unluoglu, S., Jarvis, C., & Gaggiotti, H. (2024). Unleadership: The Remarkable Power of Unremarkable Acts. (1). Germany: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110767353

Leaderly acts and practices from unexpected places are often overlooked and yet have remarkable power. These spontaneous acts are in sharp contrast to those of formal leaders in governments and leading corporations. Global events like the Covid-19 pa... Read More about Unleadership: The Remarkable Power of Unremarkable Acts.

Translating organizing and organizational metaphors: From the universal to the particular (2024)
Book Chapter
Gaggiotti, H., Case, P., Gosling, J., Holmgren Caicedo, M., & Austin, H. M. (2024). Translating organizing and organizational metaphors: From the universal to the particular. In The Oxford Handbook of Metaphor in Organization Studies (375-390). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192895707.013.23

This chapter deploys the concept of translation as a “metaphor of metaphor” from which to learn. Thus, the authors explore the relationship between universals and particulars with respect to organizational metaphors and address the contradiction of t... Read More about Translating organizing and organizational metaphors: From the universal to the particular.

RBWM World Cafe Final Evaluation Report (2023)
Report
Jarvis, C., Kars, S., & Gaggiotti, H. (in press). RBWM World Cafe Final Evaluation Report. Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead - online: Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

Vulnerability in the global tropics? An ethnography of the experiences of international managers in Venezuela and Mexico (2023)
Journal Article
Gaggiotti, H. (2024). Vulnerability in the global tropics? An ethnography of the experiences of international managers in Venezuela and Mexico. Journal of Tropical Futures, 1(1), 83 - 109. https://doi.org/10.1177/27538931231165277

The Latin American tropics have been considered spaces where the taken-for-granted vulnerability of the international assignment experience is exacerbated because of poor working conditions. In classical approaches to international management studies... Read More about Vulnerability in the global tropics? An ethnography of the experiences of international managers in Venezuela and Mexico.

Guest editorial: Living in a “bubble”: Global working communities and insulation in mobile contexts (2023)
Journal Article
Gaggiotti, H., Case, P., & Lauring, J. (2023). Guest editorial: Living in a “bubble”: Global working communities and insulation in mobile contexts. Journal of Global Mobility, 11(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-03-2023-101

Globally mobile workers are often depicted as isolated individuals and families, who navigate crises and hazards more or less on their own (Dabic, González-Loureiro and Harvey, 2015; Bader, Stoermer, Bader and Schuster, 2018; McNulty, Lauring, Jonass... Read More about Guest editorial: Living in a “bubble”: Global working communities and insulation in mobile contexts.

Organising and disorganising trust: Corporate governing in Argentina (2023)
Book Chapter
Gaggiotti, H., Lucero Bringas, M. D. L. Á., & Adelopo, I. (2023). Organising and disorganising trust: Corporate governing in Argentina. In . J. Callund, G. Jiménez-Seminario, & N. Pyper (Eds.), Corporate Governing in Latin America (225-246). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85780-6_6

The historical and conceptual evolution of the organizational meaning of governance has been used in this chapter as an axis to explain the similarities and differences of an ignored paradigmatic case: Argentina. The chapter illustrates how the econo... Read More about Organising and disorganising trust: Corporate governing in Argentina.

Popping the 'bubble' metaphor: Separation and integration of expatriate communities (2022)
Journal Article
Miao, C., Gaggiotti, H., & Brewster, C. (2023). Popping the 'bubble' metaphor: Separation and integration of expatriate communities. Journal of Global Mobility, 11(1), 110-124. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-05-2022-0016

Purpose: This paper aims to discuss multiple uses of the concept of “bubble” as a metaphor to refer to different experiences of foreign working communities and suggests a more flexible and comprehensive approach. Design/methodology/approach: Based on... Read More about Popping the 'bubble' metaphor: Separation and integration of expatriate communities.

Learning through uncertainty: Team learning and the development of entrepreneurial mindset (2022)
Book Chapter
Gaggiotti, H., Kars-Unluoglu, S., & Jarvis, C. (2022). Learning through uncertainty: Team learning and the development of entrepreneurial mindset. In The SAGE Handbook of Graduate Employability (7-23). SAGE Publications

This Handbook brings together the latest research on graduate employability into one authoritative volume. Dedicated parts guide readers through topics, key issues and debates relating to delivering, facilitating, achieving and evaluating graduate em... Read More about Learning through uncertainty: Team learning and the development of entrepreneurial mindset.

Narratives of wellbeing (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Gaggiotti, H., Jarvis, C., Kars-Unluoglu, S., & von Bulow, C. (2022, September). Narratives of wellbeing. Paper presented at Narratives of Wellbeing Symposium, Hybrid - LaTrobe University, Australia and online

As the Philosopher John Austin (1962) pointed out, saying and doing are indissociable, although not always expressed in the same way with the same understanding and intention. For Cieslik (2016), accounts of wellbeing are “rooted in social, caring re... Read More about Narratives of wellbeing.

It’s a kind of magic: Narratives of wellbeing in health and social care in England (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Gaggiotti, H., Jarvis, C., Kars-Unluoglu, S., & von Bulow, C. (2022, September). It’s a kind of magic: Narratives of wellbeing in health and social care in England. Paper presented at Narratives of Wellbeing Symposium, HYbrid - LaTrobe University, Australia and online

As the Philosopher John Austin (1962) pointed out, saying and doing are indissociable, although not always expressed in the same way with the same understanding and intention. For Cieslik (2016), accounts of wellbeing are “rooted in social, caring re... Read More about It’s a kind of magic: Narratives of wellbeing in health and social care in England.

‘Humanity will not be saved by promises’: Using an unleadership lens to restory the ‘blah blah bah’ of leadership at COP26 (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Gaggiotti, H., Kars-Unluoglu, S., Galpin, K., & Jarvis, C. (2022, July). ‘Humanity will not be saved by promises’: Using an unleadership lens to restory the ‘blah blah bah’ of leadership at COP26. Paper presented at 38th EGOS Colloquium, Vienna

This paper identifies ways in which leaders, affected nations and activists construct their leadership practices in different ways to address the climate crisis. Whether they advocate for leadership or against it, there remains an opportunity to lear... Read More about ‘Humanity will not be saved by promises’: Using an unleadership lens to restory the ‘blah blah bah’ of leadership at COP26.

Transcending equality, diversity and inclusion at work. A self-critical engagement (2022)
Book
Gaggiotti, H., & Weber, M. (in press). Transcending equality, diversity and inclusion at work. A self-critical engagement. (1). New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

The book reflects on ways of transcending Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) by establishing a dialogue between the professional experience of the authors and experts from academia and practitioners from financial services and executive search.... Read More about Transcending equality, diversity and inclusion at work. A self-critical engagement.

Too close for comfort? The challenges and unexpected consequences of immersed ethnography (2022)
Book Chapter
Weller, S. (2022). Too close for comfort? The challenges and unexpected consequences of immersed ethnography. In J. Pandeli, N. Sutherland, & H. Gaggiotti (Eds.), Organizational Ethnography (34-49). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003021582-4

This chapter considers the nature of immersed ethnography and its importance to the study of organizations, and also provides some context for the fieldwork. This is followed by an analysis of some of the methodological challenges, emotion work, and... Read More about Too close for comfort? The challenges and unexpected consequences of immersed ethnography.

Deception as a moral project: Covert research and the construction of the ethical-self (2022)
Book Chapter
Tarrabain, C. (2022). Deception as a moral project: Covert research and the construction of the ethical-self. In J. Pandeli, N. Sutherland, & H. Gaggiotti (Eds.), Organisational Ethnography: An Experiential and Practical Guide (115-126). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

In this chapter, the author explores the ethical continuum through a reflection on her own “identity work” during her fieldwork, considering how the ethics of doing covert research are always complex, situated and political. She considers how the pow... Read More about Deception as a moral project: Covert research and the construction of the ethical-self.

Organizational Ethnography: An Experiential and Practical Guide (2022)
Book
Pandeli, J., Sutherland, N., & Gaggiotti, H. (Eds.). (2022). Organizational Ethnography: An Experiential and Practical Guide. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003021582

This textbook explores practices, first-hand experiences and emerging ideas within organizational ethnography, providing a toolkit that prepares ethnographers for the uncertainties and realities of fieldworking. Students faced with the complexitie... Read More about Organizational Ethnography: An Experiential and Practical Guide.

Outlining a practical, emotional and reflexive approach to organizational ethnography (2022)
Book Chapter
Pandeli, J., Sutherland, N., & Gaggiotti, H. (2022). Outlining a practical, emotional and reflexive approach to organizational ethnography. In J. Pandeli, N. Sutherland, & H. Gaggiotti (Eds.), Organizational Ethnography An Experiential and Practical Guide (1-12). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

First and foremost we want this book to be a practical guide. We want to show readers the real experiences of ethnographers conducting this type of research, particularly as a vast majority of contemporary texts centred on ethnographic work still pre... Read More about Outlining a practical, emotional and reflexive approach to organizational ethnography.

Removing The Rose-Tinted Glasses. Fear, risk and being uncomfortable in ethnographic fieldwork (2022)
Book Chapter
Pandeli, J., & Alcadipani, R. (2022). Removing The Rose-Tinted Glasses. Fear, risk and being uncomfortable in ethnographic fieldwork. In J. Pandeli, N. Sutherland, & H. Gaggiotti (Eds.), . Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter draws on the authors experiences of research in prison and the police force to stress the value in analysing the stories ethnographers do not tell: the stories of self that cast us as imperfect, emotional and flawed. We reflect on how do... Read More about Removing The Rose-Tinted Glasses. Fear, risk and being uncomfortable in ethnographic fieldwork.

Narrative practicing of the meaning of work: The gender we think and talk (2022)
Book Chapter
Kars-Unluoglu, S., Guneri-Cangarli, B., & Gaggiotti, H. (2022). Narrative practicing of the meaning of work: The gender we think and talk. In Eastern Perspectives on Women’s Roles and Advancement in Business (1-27). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8742-3

This chapter shows how gender asymmetry is produced through narrative practices. By analyzing the work-life narratives of 14 men and 14 women working in a variety of occupations ranging from personal care to finance, from crafts to health, from creat... Read More about Narrative practicing of the meaning of work: The gender we think and talk.

Unleading during a pandemic: Scrutinising leadership and its impact in a state of exception (2022)
Journal Article
Kars-Unluoglu, S., Jarvis, C., & Gaggiotti, H. (2022). Unleading during a pandemic: Scrutinising leadership and its impact in a state of exception. Leadership, 18(2), 277-297. https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150211063382

Characterising COVID-19 pandemic as a ‘state of exception’, we might expect great hero models of leadership to come to the fore. Instead, drawing on a thematic analysis of 246 news articles, this paper illustrates something different: communities, co... Read More about Unleading during a pandemic: Scrutinising leadership and its impact in a state of exception.

Is it all in the mindset? Team coaching, psychological capital and the collaborative development of an entrepreneurial mindset (2021)
Book Chapter
Jarvis, C., Gaggiotti, H., & Kars-Unluoglu, S. (2022). Is it all in the mindset? Team coaching, psychological capital and the collaborative development of an entrepreneurial mindset. In E. Vettraino, & B. Urzelai (Eds.), Team Academy: Leadership and Teams. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

The changing nature of work attaches greater significance, by organisations, entrepreneurs and students alike, to the development of entrepreneurial capacities, with growing interest in entrepreneurial mindset and psychological capital (self-efficacy... Read More about Is it all in the mindset? Team coaching, psychological capital and the collaborative development of an entrepreneurial mindset.