Pablo Fernandez

IAE Austral University · Empresa, Sociedad y Economia

In this paper we examine how a socially innovative solution to a complex social problem is able to overcome entrenched disadvantage and division and sustain itself within an existing institution. We explore how a rugby team in a high-security prison in Argentina has become an organizational response that substantially transformed prisoners’ lives i...

This paper contributes to the Business Ethics literature by unpacking the multimodal construction of moral narratives in popular culture and its portrayals of organizations and organizational roles. Understanding such portrayals and their construction is crucial to Business Ethics scholarship because they shape organizational imaginaries, influenci...

La acción de emprender, entendida como la creación de nuevas formas de organización y, de hecho, de nuevas organizaciones, cuestiona el carácter de lo establecido, institucionalizado y habitual. Quienes emprenden desafían lo que se ha organizado de una manera dada (en la que se desenvuelve nuestra vida), para introducir novedad. La interacción de l...

In this special issue, our focus is primarily on the opening up, the move away, the declassification, the entrance of the unthought into action as free movement without denying the need for such processes to become well-managed ones, securing economic capacity for the politics of new action – freeing entrepreneurship again from its policing state o...

In this inductive, exploratory study, we explore how emotions affect the agency of vulnerable persons and their engagement in social innovation to challenge oppressive institutional constraints. By presenting the in-depth case of a successful entrepreneur from a shantytown, we show how emotions affect the construction of a self that contributes to...

Social movement scholars and activists have recognized the difficulties of mobilizing people for the long haul, moving from the exuberance of the protest to the dull and ordinary work necessary to produce sustainable change. Drawing on ethnographic work in La Juanita, in Greater Buenos Aires, we look at local actions for and from the neighborhood i...

This special issue proposal encourages submissions investigating the socio-political nature of entrepreneurship processes. As the creation of new organizational form, entrepreneurship challenges the established, settled, institutionalized, habituated nature of what already has been organized. By opening up and moving in the in-between spaces of an...

Studying entrepreneurship in the context of recession and (post)crisis opens up a set of important questions regarding the relationship between entrepreneuring, social relations, and social change. In drawing upon insights from a 2-year ethnographic study of the Spanish’s Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (Mortgage Victims Platform), known as...

In recent years there has been an outburst of studies aiming to advance our understanding of how actors do work to create, maintain and disrupt institutions. Drawing on work on the Holocaust, a largely neglected event in organization theory, we explore types of institutional work through which actors first maintain domination and grant acquiescence...