Nina Kivinen

• Doctor of Business Administration
• Associate Professor at Uppsala University

We invite you to explore with us the enchanting affects that move us, through ordinary moments in writing for children. Enchantment shows how we are entangled with the world, that which surprises us and builds a sense of wonder. A wind in the trees, a gentle smile, a look of horror. The smell of fresh coffee and the final words of a manuscript. We...

Impatience rules the systems in which we operate. Since the inauguration of ephemera in 2001, we have witnessed increasing haste which continues until this day. There are endless possibilities for us to work smarter and harder, thereby delivering more in less time and writing to comply with sector and university publishing norms. In this situation,...

This paper orchestrates alterethnographical reflections in which we, women, polyphonically document, celebrate and vocalize the sound of change. This change is represented in Kamala Harris's appointment as the first woman, woman of color, and South Asian American as the US Vice President, breaking new boundaries of political leadership, and harvest...

This is an essay in three parts on writing differently, on grief and on breathing. The first part I wrote in one go, embodied and raw. The second part was written over two months, reflecting on my earlier words. The third part argues for the importance of writing differently. I write for hope. Hope is to voice that which has remained silent. Hope i...

The spread of COVID‐19 acutely challenges and affects not just economic markets, demographic statistics and healthcare systems, but indeed also the politics of organizing and becoming in a new everyday life of academia emerging in our homes. Through a collage of stories, snapshots, vignettes, photos and other reflections of everyday life, this coll...

This piece of writing is a joint initiative by the participants in the Gender, Work and Organization writing workshop organized in Helsinki, Finland, in June 2019. This is a particular form of writing differently. We engage in collective writing and embody what it means to write resistance to established academic practices and conventions together....

Recent work has highlighted how brands play an important role within organisational practice, for example, they can act as tools of normative control on employees (Cushen, 2009, Russell, 2011). To extend this discussion, we ask: How do gendered media brands come into being in an organisation by connecting ideas, objects and people? This paper chall...

Coworking spaces have been established in great numbers around the globe over the past 10 years. Previous studies on coworking spaces argue that these spaces are designed to enable serendipitous encounters. Here we introduce the concept of an economy of encounters, arguing that both intended and unintended encounters have become a form of productio...

Girls' magazines act as important texts through which meanings of childhood, girlhood and womanhood are mediated and constructed. However, previous research has focused on either the conditions of work practices or cultural production of the magazine as a product. Separately in each context women or girls have been described as abject. The paper wi...

Our everyday experience of living in the here-and-now is performed through a complex network of relationships and meanings attached to people, things and ideas. Yet some organizational spaces we occupy matter more than others (cf. Halford & Leonard, 2006; Tyler & Cohen, 2010). A challenge is to study organizational spaces as they are being performe...

Within organisation theory we researchers have been and still are interested in finding answers to why some organisations succeed and others fail, why some companies are competitive on the market while others are not. The classical approach tried, through its institutional ideas and theories, to provide answers to these questions, but in the 1980s,...