Patrizia Zanoni

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Hasselt University

The Organization Manifesto celebrates 30 years of Organization as a vital force in critical management and organization studies. It reaffirms the journal’s commitment to radical pluralism, within a non-hegemonic mode that avoids reproducing relations of dominance and subordination. Central to scholarship published and welcomed in Organization are f...

This study investigates platform companies offering care and domestic services through the lens of social reproduction theory. This perspective embeds these platforms in capitalism by foregrounding the fundamental dependence of the capitalist economy on the paid and unpaid socially reproductive work largely carried out by women in the home, communi...

Prompted by the Black Lives Matter movement, and COVID-19’s deepening of inequalities, philanthropic foundations are increasingly claiming racial justice as a core part of their mission and strategy. This study uses a racial capitalism lens to examine racial justice organizations’ (RJOs) accountability relations towards the philanthropies that fund...

Aiming to add to existing knowledge on the everyday operation of whiteness in organizations, this article explores how white employers attempt to construct an open self while engaging in the reproduction of whiteness. We draw inspiration from the work of Bhabha to understand the ambivalences involved and to analyse interviews with employers in Belg...

In this contribution to the roundtable, I reflect on the evolution of critical diversity studies, as part of the broader field of critical management and organization studies, from its origins in the 1990s to date. After reviewing its unique strengths in generating knowledge on the relation between difference and power, I discuss how the economic c...

https://www.elgaronline.com/display/book/9781800886377/ch09.xml

Open Marxism: chapter 12, Encyclopedia of Critical Political Theory, Edward Elgar Publishing, edited by Clyde Barrow https://www.elgaronline.com/display/book/9781800375918/9781800375918.xml

This contribution argues that, in order to foster a more socially just and sustainable economy and society, management and organization studies need to embrace novel, alternative forms of organizing the economy and society. We first discuss how the scholarship on workplace democracy, which promotes more participatory governance in firms and coopera...

Open Marxism is a strand of Marxism that argues that Marx's critique of political economy should be understood in the first place as the subversive critique of the economic categories of bourgeois society, its philosophical concepts, moral values, and political institutions. Contrary to structural Marxism, which conceptualizes social forms as a kin...

This editorial introduces the special issue celebrating 30 years of Organization. We first reflect on the continued relevance of our mission against the background of a management and organization studies field that is at once more open to the themes, epistemologies and methodologies we care about, and more dominated by a market logic and surveilla...

This paper investigates the (un)making of borders as a form of labor governmentality in one of Amazon’s warehouses in Poland. Guided by a critical theory of borders as a form of labor governmentality under global capitalism, we identify organizational practices through which socio-demographic categories traditionally deployed as principles of organ...

A critique of stakeholder theory from a critical political economic perspective, problematising the ontological/epistemological claims and analysing the voluntaristic/instrumentalist nature of corporate behavior.

This paper responds to the emergent calls for recovering the role of contentious politics in prefigurative communities to more effectively transform capitalist institutions. Theoretically drawing on the work of Judith Butler, our paper points to the importance of addressing the institutional frames that demarcate who will be (mis)recognized in the...

Although Belgium has a robust legal framework for equality at work, inequalities on corporate boards have remained blatant. The pressure from an economic crisis combined with a political impasse proved to be fertile ground for the initial steps toward inclusive change. The 2008 economic crisis shed public attention on the absence of women on corpor...

Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World takes a unique approach to the issue of gender equality in corporations in the 21st century. It examines the implementation of specific policies that seek to promote women’s presence on corporate boards in fifteen democracies in Western and Central Eastern Europe, North America and Au...

This editorial introduces eight papers included in this special issue on COVID-19. Together, these papers draw key theoretical and political insights for critical organization studies from the pandemic along three main lines. First, they examine how COVID-19 has denaturalized global capitalism, leading to a broad interrogation of the organization o...

Forthcoming - will be published open access Based on the case of a Belgian meat processing company that relies on posted workers employed by two subcontractors, this study investigates how posting affects client capital’s ability to control labour. Analysed through a Labour Process Theory lens, the findings reveal that posting fragments capital an...

Based on an analysis of gender equality provisions in national collective agreements, this article investigates the influence of European Union (EU) gender and macroeconomic policy on gender equality outcomes in Belgium since the signature of the Treaty of Rome in 1957. We show that, over time, EU gender equality policies have led to the adoption o...

Tekst beschikbaar via: https://www.vlaanderen.be/publicaties/subtiele-discriminatie-op-basis-van-seksuele-orientatie-genderidentiteit-expressie-sogie-bij-de-vlaamse-overheid

Outcome of the breakout session facilitated by Amon Barros, Ajnesh Prasad, Sadhvi Dar and Deborah Brewis

Outcome of the breakout session facilitated by Martin Parker, Patrizia Zanoni, Ernesto Noronha and Ghazal Mir Zulfiqar

Outcome of the breakout session facilitated by Koen Van Laer, Paulina Segarra, Alison Pullen and Arturo E. Osorio

Outcome of the breakout session facilitated by Hela Yousfi, Alessia Contu, Alexandra Bristow and Ozan Alakavuklar

The solidarity economy refers to a diverse set of cooperative and community-based economic practices ranging from cooperatives and credit unions to community gardens. It also refers to an anti-capitalist transnational social movement that aims to promote such practices as a way to transform the larger economy to make it better sustain vibrant commu...

This professional development workshop aims to support the development of critical and practical activism by building on the conversations around 'critical praxis' and 'activist turn' in the CMS. Grounded, in part, in the debate around 'critical performativity' and set against the urgent need for critical academics to act practically and critically...

The way in which organizations manage language diversity in the workplace, and the (in)equality outcomes thereof, have been examined by various bodies of literature. The literatures on racio-ethnic diversity management and migrant workers have revealed how workers’ labour market opportunities are limited because of (assumptions about) their lack of...

Samenvatting De coronacrisis confronteert ons op een extreme manier met een aantal vormen van ongelijkheid die onze arbeidsmarkt kenmerken. In het eerste deel van dit essay identificeren we ongelijkheden die zeer zichtbaar geworden zijn door de coronacrisis, met name de ongelijke waardering van beroepen, ongelijke onzekerheid, de ongelijke fysieke...

This paper argues that, to fulfil the ambition to foster equality and social justice, diversity research should move outside the empirical and ideational boundaries of the firm, which have historically limited our knowledge production on diversity and social change. We first look back at 30 years of diversity research, reflecting on how the main th...

L'introduzione a questo numero monografico riflette su come la qualità del lavoro e della vita lavorativa stanno cambiando a seguito della digitalizzazione. Viene ricostruito l'attuale dibattito cercando di andare oltre una visione deterministica e polarizzata degli effetti di queste tecnologie sui processi di controllo del lavoro, autonomia e asso...

In this editorial, we plea for radicalizing diversity research by re-engaging with the notion of class. We argue that theories of class, which are today seldom used in critical diversity research, have the potential to conceptualize the relationship between difference and power in ways that go beyond the current focus on equality within capitalist...

Drawing on in-depth interviews, this study investigates how entrepreneurs with disabilities (EWDs) position themselves, in their identity work, vis-à-vis dominant, normative representations of the entrepreneur that tend to exclude them. Addressing the current neglect in how EWDs deal with such discursive barriers, we document four identity position...

We at Organization are committed to “Black Lives Matter,” three simple words that represent a complex and powerful set of truths about the ongoing struggles of the Black community against the structural interests that beset them. We share many of the values that guide this global social movement. As a journal, we pledge to carry the ethical and pol...

Drawing on Judith Butler’s work on the ethical-political subject, accountability, vulnerability, and the assembly, this chapter advances current debates on performative critical scholarship. We do so by reflecting on accounts of our heterogeneous praxis as diversity scholars from the research collective SEIN. We specifically plead for re-conceptual...

This chapter critically assesses Management and Organization Studies (MOS) approaches to the topics of ethnic, racial, and national identity. It discusses how MOS has ignored ethnicity, race, and national identity or depoliticized these issues by conceptualizing them as "natural" and disconnected from processes of power and inequality. The chapter...

Using a translation lens, we explore templates for writing ethnography in Organization Studies and their evolution over time through the analysis of all ethnographic papers published in the premier journal Administrative Science Quarterly 1956-2018. We found three templates of ethnographic writing. Few early ethnographic papers resemble travelogues...

In this introduction to the second part of the special issue on alternative economies published in Organization in 2017, I first briefly chart key fora where the debate has continued in the last two years, and then present the three additional contributions included here. Moving the conversation forward, I argue that, in order to evaluate the prefi...

Conceptualizing organizational representations of disabled workers as a form of socio-ideological control, this study investigates the identity regulation of disabled employees. The comparative analysis of a bank, a labour market intermediary organization and a local public administration unveils distinct ways in which the able-bodied/disabled dich...

Termine per la presentazione degli abstract: 15/02/2020 Contesto e finalità Il dibattito sulla diffusione delle tecnologie digitali (IoT, AI, big-data analytics, smart-manufacturing, automazione intelligente) nei luoghi di lavoro soffre della scarsità di studi empirici e resta il più delle volte sul piano della riflessione teorica o delle stime sul...

Drawing on the case of the recent Belgian law on the “sharing economy,” this chapter develops a critique of the dominant discourse of platform-mediated work as fostering the inclusion of individuals belonging to historically underrepresented groups (e.g., women with caring roles, people living in remote areas, individuals with disabilities, etc.) i...

In 2014 deed minister-president Geert Bourgeois stof opwaaien door in een toespraak voor VOKA expliciet aandacht te vragen voor discriminatie op de arbeidsmarkt en door later toe te voegen dat hij het zou toejuichen moest Justitie van discriminatie een vervolgingsprioriteit maken. Terwijl sommige commentatoren het als een hele vooruitgang zagen dat...

Drawing on Joan Acker’s notion of the ideal worker (1990) and Karen Ashcraft’s notion of the ‘glass slipper’ (2013), this paper investigates the organising practices that gender the occupation of artist manager and the music industry, and how women artist managers construct an identity in an occupation that is tailored on a male ideal manager, made...

This paper examines how the use of in-house outsourcing involving foreign companies and workers affects capital’s ability and strategies to manage the indeterminacy of labour (Braverman, 1974), both in its form of ‘effort indeterminacy’ and ‘mobility indeterminacy’ (Smith, 2006). Whereas traditionally the struggle between capital and labour focused...

Responding to recent calls to extend our understanding of ableism as a powerful organizing principle of the workplace, this study examines how ableism operates as a form of symbolic violence, constraining the career opportunities of disabled employees in a financial services company. Drawing on Bourdieuan theory, we analyze how the ‘rules of the ga...

This chapter investigates the corporate resistance to the Belgian law of 2011, through which the state imposed a gender quota of 33% on the boards of listed companies to be met by the largest corporations in 2017 and others by 2019. We do so by examining board directors’ discursive practices of “defensive institutional work,” which is the instituti...

Drawing on Judith Butler's early work on gender as perfor-mance and her later work on the ethically accountable sub-ject, this study examines the production of gendered moralsubjects under neoliberal governance in contemporary aca-demia. The analysis of 40 semi‐structured in‐depth inter-views with postdoc researchers and assistant, associate andful...

Pressured by global competition, organisations are constantly looking for new strategies that allow them to reduce labour costs, increase workers' flexibility, and transfer burdensome employer responsibilities to other actors (Kalleberg, 2009; Muehlberger, 2007). Outsourcing and in-house subcontracting are popular solutions, leading to the increasi...

Doctoral proposal presented on the 'Automation of capital, philosophy and patriarchy: on the tautological universe of value and sign ', organized by Forum Scientiarum, University of Tübingen (13-16/8/2018)

In recent decades, the ‘business case for diversity’ discourse has caused significant managerial interest in the topic of ethnic diversity. However, the critical diversity literature has exposed that organizations often adopt a ‘darker’ version of the business case. In this, ethnic minority employees are indeed valued by employers, but mainly to th...

Het is een gekend probleem dat bepaalde sociodemografische groepen ondervertegenwoordigd blijven op de Vlaamse arbeidsmarkt. De laatste jaren zien we debatten omtrent het arbeidsmarktbeleid gericht op deze groepen steeds meer focussen op activering met een sterkere nadruk op individuele verantwoordelijkheid – individualisering – en op de flexibilis...

This paper examines the constitution and contestation of precarious subjectivities in contemporary capitalism. It addresses the contradiction between the two main bodies of victim of its conditions, the other drawing on Autonomist Marxist theory to highlight the potential of precarity as political space. Taking a Butlerean approach, we seek to brid...

This chapter aims to draw together theoretical lessons on how to effectively foster gender equality at work. Based on the qualitative case study of a Belgian high-tech company employing a considerable number of women throughout the organizational hierarchy, we identify a constellation of policies, practices and narratives which dilute three classic...

In June 2015, we launched the call for articles for this special issue in an attempt to catalyze the rising awareness, both within the critically oriented and the broader organization studies community, that we are today witnessing epochal changes, which are fundamentally redefining the social, economic, political, and environmental realities we li...

This review paper investigates how ethnography has been adopted in organization studies (OS). Drawing on Van Maanen’s classification of ethnographic tales into natural scientific, realist, confessional and impressionist/jointly told tales, we classify 209 empirical articles using ethnography published in two top-tier organization OS journals, the A...

Much literature on the cultural industries celebrates ethnicity as a source of creativity. Despite its positive connotation, this discourse reduces ethnic minority creatives to manifestations of a collective ethnic identity automatically leading to creativity, creating a paradox of creativity without a creative subject. Approaching creatives with a...

Drawing on De Clercq and Voronov (2009) we investigate the narrative use of ethnic minority identity for constructing legitimacy through ‘fitting in’ and ‘standing out’. By doing so we aim at bridging a individual and organizational level of inquiry to understand how ethnic minority entrepreneurs’ identities can be used as an asset for business ach...

This chapter aims to draw together theoretical lessons on how to effectively foster gender equality at work. Based on the qualitative case study of a Belgian high-tech company employing a considerable number of women throughout the organizational hierarchy, we identify a constellation of policies, practices and narratives which dilute three classic...

This study examines the impact of team characteristics on the supervisor’s attitude towards telework through a mixed-method approach. First, in the quantitative part, we test hypotheses drawing on disruption and dependency theory, using data of 205 supervisors from four Belgian organizations. The data confirm the hypothesized negative correlation b...

This paper theoretically reties the dynamics of gender in academia to contemporary regimes of governance. Specifically, we examine which gendered moral selves emerge from the social space of relations of accountability constitutive of the neoliberal academic regime and how they shape gendered dynamics of consent and dissent. Theoretically, we draw...

This compendium is part of an on-going collaboration on inclusive entrepreneurship between the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission. One of the key objectives of t...

This article explores how disabled workers engage with the ableist discourse of disability as lower productivity in constructing positive identities in the workplace. Disabled employees inhabit a contradictory discursive position: as disabled individuals, they are discursively constructed for what they are unable to do, whereas as employees they ar...

In this chapter, we would like to reconstruct the critically oriented scholarship in management studies conducted in the Benelux—the European cross-national region including Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg—over the last two decades. While reß ecting national and regional speciÞ cities, we will show how this scholarship relates to the ideas a...

This chapter aims to draw together theoretical lessons on how to effectively foster gender equality at work. Based on the qualitative case study of a Belgian high-tech company employing a considerable number of women throughout the organizational hierarchy, we identify a constellation of policies, practices and narratives which dilute three classic...

In this chapter, we would like to reconstruct the critically oriented scholarship in management studies conducted in the Benelux – the European cross-national region including Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg – over the last two decades. While reflecting national and regional specificities, we will show how this scholarship relates to the ide...