Hugo Gaggiotti's Outputs (58)

From magical thinking to being ‘pragmagic’: Narratives of wellbeing in health and care in England (2024)
Book Chapter

Accounts of wellbeing are traditionally understood as ‘rooted in social, caring relationships and traditional virtues of compassion, altruism and duty’ (Cieslik, Not smiling but frowning’: Sociology and the ‘problem of happiness’. Sociology, 49(3), 4... Read More about From magical thinking to being ‘pragmagic’: Narratives of wellbeing in health and care in England.

Transcending equality, diversity and inclusion at work. A self-critical engagement (2024)
Book

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.

Unleadership: The Remarkable Power of Unremarkable Acts (2024)
Book

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

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

Vulnerability in the global tropics? An ethnography of the experiences of international managers in Venezuela and Mexico (2023)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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

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.

It’s a kind of magic: Narratives of wellbeing in health and social care in England (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Narratives of wellbeing (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

‘Humanity will not be saved by promises’: Using an unleadership lens to restory the ‘blah blah bah’ of leadership at COP26 (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Outlining a practical, emotional and reflexive approach to organizational ethnography (2022)
Book Chapter

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.

Organizational Ethnography: An Experiential and Practical Guide (2022)
Book

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.

Narrative practicing of the meaning of work: The gender we think and talk (2022)
Book Chapter

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

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

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.

Irregular adoptions and infrastructures of memory in Spain: Remnant practices from the Franco regime (2021)
Journal Article

The irregular adoption of displaced children during the Spanish Civil War, the Franco dictatorship, and the early years of Spanish democracy remains silent and unrecognised. The difficulty in recognising these irregular practices is linked to remnant... Read More about Irregular adoptions and infrastructures of memory in Spain: Remnant practices from the Franco regime.

Narratives of entrepreneurship: A video-game rhetorical epic? (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper we explore stories mobilised by budding entrepreneurs in the creation and maintenance of an entrepreneurial identity. We explore how budding entrepreneurs, studying on an undergraduate, project-based, practice-led entrepreneurship degre... Read More about Narratives of entrepreneurship: A video-game rhetorical epic?.

Unleadership (2020)
Book Chapter

A toolkit for living in a new building: A visual post occupancy evaluation of Bristol Business School (2020)
Report

The Bristol Business School building – that houses both Bristol Business School and Bristol Law School – is situated on the University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol Frenchay campus, and has been occupied since April 2017. It is a flagship spac... Read More about A toolkit for living in a new building: A visual post occupancy evaluation of Bristol Business School.

Change within the change: Pregnancy, liminality and adventure tourism in Mexico (2020)
Journal Article

Despite the growing number of pregnant women engaging in outdoor adventure activities, very few studies have explored pregnancy or the specific needs and challenges of pregnant women in tourism research. To fill this gap in the literature, we examine... Read More about Change within the change: Pregnancy, liminality and adventure tourism in Mexico.

The texture of entrepreneurship programs: Revisiting experiential entrepreneurship education through the lens of the liminal–liminoid continuum (2019)
Journal Article

Positioning the liminal and the liminoid on a continuum, we define a “space” within which practice-led, experiential learning occurs. The more liminal processes within this space are associated with familiarity, wide social recognition, and relative... Read More about The texture of entrepreneurship programs: Revisiting experiential entrepreneurship education through the lens of the liminal–liminoid continuum.

Cultura organizacional e inteligencia competitiva en una institución de educación superior del norte de México (2018)
Journal Article

Relatedness, co-inquiring and imagination: Mimetic images of recovery (2018)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to explore the methodological challenges of developing a shared academic-student discourse of recovery with undergraduate students in their final year at a British business school.
We reflect on the meaning of recovery a... Read More about Relatedness, co-inquiring and imagination: Mimetic images of recovery.

Responsible forms of project management education: Theoretical plurality and reflective pedagogies (2017)
Journal Article

The paper aims to revive an interest in the notion of responsible project management education (RPME) in the context of related contemporary debates about the integration of reflexivity, ethics and sustainability in the business schools’ curricula; t... Read More about Responsible forms of project management education: Theoretical plurality and reflective pedagogies.

The words leader/líder and their resonances in an Italo-Latin American multinational corporation (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. The problems of ‘lost in translation’ are well known. Yet some terms of English managerial vocabulary, which are perfectly translatable in other languages, remain untranslated. One explanation of this phenomenon is what... Read More about The words leader/líder and their resonances in an Italo-Latin American multinational corporation.

Re-imagining business schools of the future as places of theorizing (2017)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, we argue that one of the reasons of resisting the temptation of teaching what ‘we could do and perhaps should not do’ (Eco, 2014 [1980], 107) in university Business Schools is the emphasis on the application of theories to the exclus... Read More about Re-imagining business schools of the future as places of theorizing.

US/Mexico borderland communities: Organising resilience with wall, bridges and other artefacts (2017)
Other

A BBC interview with Dr Gaggiotti to discuss his research findings on the impact of Trump administration policies in US-Mexico borderland communities.

More than a method? Organisational ethnography as a way of imagining the social (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The authors–two anthropologists and an organisational theorist, all organisational ethnographers–discuss their understanding and practices of organisational ethnography (OE) as a way of... Read More about More than a method? Organisational ethnography as a way of imagining the social.

Italo Calvino and the organizational imagination: Reading social organization through urban metaphors (2016)
Journal Article

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. This article explores the way in which uses or abuses of urban metaphors can inform differing polities and ethics of human organization. From its earliest inception, the city has taken on a metaphorical significance for hum... Read More about Italo Calvino and the organizational imagination: Reading social organization through urban metaphors.

Of tropes, totems and taboos: Reflections on using Morgan’s images from a cross-cultural perspective (2016)
Book Chapter

The chapter begins by setting up a reflexive social anthropological stance from which to explore the mimetic qualities and possibilities of Morgan’s images. It then proceeds to consider the pedagogical implications of this theoretical reinterpretatio... Read More about Of tropes, totems and taboos: Reflections on using Morgan’s images from a cross-cultural perspective.

"You don't take anything for granted": The role of anthropology in improving services, policies, and parenting practices for adoptive families (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 American Anthropological Association. This article examines the impact of the transnational adoption research of an interdisciplinary group of researchers (AFIN). Since 2004, AFIN has successfully developed several research projects with the p... Read More about "You don't take anything for granted": The role of anthropology in improving services, policies, and parenting practices for adoptive families.

Learning from the sharp end in a Business School - A back-to-nature student fieldtrip (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The aim of this paper/roundtable discussion is to expose and discuss our experience with an alternative pedagogic method of post-graduate (management) education: a field trip, which combines student-led, inquiry-based learning approach with a critica... Read More about Learning from the sharp end in a Business School - A back-to-nature student fieldtrip.

The found world: A learning adventure at Eden (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We wish to present a reflective account of a participatory action inquiry in which a cosmopolitan and professionally and educationally diverse group of students and staff explored, in collaboration with our hosts from the Eden Project Trust, the inno... Read More about The found world: A learning adventure at Eden.

Should we teach students to theorize? Classical Greek philosophy and the learning journey (2015)
Book Chapter

In this chapter we reflect on theorizing using Plato’s allegory of the Cave as a mythical representation of the journey to see the eidos, the Forms or Ideas, which Plato considered the most fundamental reality. The philosopher-as-theoros was not taug... Read More about Should we teach students to theorize? Classical Greek philosophy and the learning journey.

Nomadism and movement as epistemologies of the contemporary world (El nomadismo y el movimiento como epistemologías del mundo contemporáneo) (2015)
Journal Article

In the same way that movement and nomadism as a lifestyles opposite to sedentism involve not only the abandonment of the idea of a permanent home, but also an active challenge or furtive avoidance of the state's sedentary authority, movement and noma... Read More about Nomadism and movement as epistemologies of the contemporary world (El nomadismo y el movimiento como epistemologías del mundo contemporáneo).

Urban as a symbolic organizer of the social (Lo urbano como organizador simbólico de lo social) (2015)
Book Chapter

The city has been one of the most powerful symbolic artifacts to imagine, represent and organize the social. Capel (1975) suggested that "the definition of the urban" exceeds the geography. Economic, sociological, anthropological, linguistic, philoso... Read More about Urban as a symbolic organizer of the social (Lo urbano como organizador simbólico de lo social).

The ‘slippery’ concept of ‘culture’ in projects: Towards alternative theoretical possibilities embedded in project practice (2014)
Journal Article

Journeying and the experiential gaze in research: Theorizing as a form of knowing (2014)
Journal Article

In this paper, we consider the implications of the ideas of journeying and the experiential gaze for research practice. We do so by drawing first upon Plato's allegory of the Cave as a representation of the journey of the philosopher to see reality,... Read More about Journeying and the experiential gaze in research: Theorizing as a form of knowing.

Organizing through displacement, travel and movement (2014)
Journal Article

Making sense of global careerism in Argentina: The structure, culture, and context (2013)
Book Chapter

The bridges that change us: Inquiring in the middle of the gorge (2013)
Book Chapter

Journeying and the experiential gaze in research (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper we consider the implications of the ideas of journeying and the experiential gaze for research practice. We do so by drawing first upon Plato’s analogy of the Cave as a mythical representation of the journey of the philosopher to see ul... Read More about Journeying and the experiential gaze in research.

A visual inquiry into ethics and change (2012)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the practices and findings of a visual inquiry developed by the co-authors with students in a Business School in the south west of England. The authors are interested in how students engaged with the visual a... Read More about A visual inquiry into ethics and change.

The rhetoric of synergy in a global corporation: Visual and oral narratives of mimesis and similarity (2012)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to expand understanding about the rhetoric of synergy and how it is manifested in a global corporation, Tubworld (name changed), during a period of mergers and acquisitions. Design/methodology/approach: The metho... Read More about The rhetoric of synergy in a global corporation: Visual and oral narratives of mimesis and similarity.

Project deadline: A precondition for survival? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Narrating expatriation and making sense of globalization experience impressions from the fieldwork (2011)
Book Chapter

Culturalistic models and corporate discourse: An ethnographic analysis of managers training in a Spanish corporation (2011)
Journal Article

Official chronicles of corporate globalization and unofficial stories of international mobility: Resisting patronage of meaning? (2010)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse contradictions, similarities, and differences between official corporate chronicles and individual stories of international managers of a multinational company. Design/methodology/approach: The analysi... Read More about Official chronicles of corporate globalization and unofficial stories of international mobility: Resisting patronage of meaning?.

Who cares about project deadlines? A processual relational perspective on problems with information sharing in project environments (2009)
Journal Article

The paper draws on a study of a manufacturing company which delivers engineering solutions, through projects, to customers in the international oil and gas industry. It focuses on the problem of persistent project delays and failure to meet promised... Read More about Who cares about project deadlines? A processual relational perspective on problems with information sharing in project environments.

City brand management (CBM): The case of Kazakhstan (2008)
Journal Article

In order to attract talents and resources, cities in Kazakhstan need to factor in various marketing techniques in their administrative practices and governing philosophies. This paper explores the concept of city branding and its application to the K... Read More about City brand management (CBM): The case of Kazakhstan.

Virtual academic organizations: ten years of changes (2008)
Journal Article

Student and lecturers’ experiences of introducing a hybrid IBL approach to teaching organisation studies in a business school (2008)
Other

In this paper we set out to introduce our approach to Inquiry Based Learning, the supporting practices we have developed and how they are evolving in hybrid forms in three different undergraduate modules in a Business School. We reflect on some of th... Read More about Student and lecturers’ experiences of introducing a hybrid IBL approach to teaching organisation studies in a business school.

Un lugar en su sitio : narrativas y organización cultural urbana en el espacio latinoamericano (2006)
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How a city organised? What does a group of people to define and begin their urban cultural practices? Why do places become symbols, by whom or from whom do some places occupy a "space" while others remain in an apparent lack of definition? "A place o... Read More about Un lugar en su sitio : narrativas y organización cultural urbana en el espacio latinoamericano.

Introduction: In search of alternative origins of organizing
Book Chapter

How might we imagine the origins of organizing? We trust that most readers of this volume will agree that this is a thought provoking and challenging question. Are we to anchor the origins of organizing to specific historical events, to particular ph... Read More about Introduction: In search of alternative origins of organizing.

Origins of Organizing
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Despite of the accumulating body of research on the birth of organizations and organizing, there have been astonishingly few contributions that challenge the established consensus of the social and philosophical programs marking the origin of organiz... Read More about Origins of Organizing.