Thomas Burø

Thomas Burø
  • Master of Arts
  • PhD Student at Copenhagen Business School

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Current institution
Copenhagen Business School
Current position
  • PhD Student
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June 2017 - December 2018
Copenhagen Business School
Position
  • PhD Student

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Publications (8)
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Based on a 1‐year ethnographic case study of a Copenhagen‐based CrossFit gym we demonstrate how an organized training place is made physically, psychologically, and socially safe. This we show empirically by analyzing how the local multi‐sited CrossFit gym ‘CHALK’ maintains its safe space through three organizing mechanisms: (1) coach‐led learning...
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Purpose The paper discusses how the management of a sports and fashion company, which we refer to as NULMA, successfully applied the neo/normative control technology “karma organisation” and gained employee engagement. Whereas other studies have documented employee resistance to organisational cultures when used for managerial control, our case dem...
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This is a review of Roberto Bolaño's book 'Nazi literature in the Americas'. We explore its organizational particularities and its continued relevance in times when we face the return of a 'low-tar' version of fascism as an animating political idea.
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This chapter explores Roberto Bolaño's writing as an expression of horror in contemporary society and organization. Bolaño's mode of inquiry is concerned with how our organizational world has become immunized to horror by concealing the most obvious things, in particular its institutionalized violence, and we conceive of his body of work as a liter...

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