Organization
Organization brings forth critical perspectives in studies of critical management and organization studies, addressing significant current and emergent theoretical, meta theoretical and substantive developments in the field.
This is a time of unprecedented debate and diversity in organization studies, when intellectual reassessments go alongside a plurality of organizational forms and practices in a globalizing world. The central task for students of organization is to construct those analytical narratives and ethical discourses appropriate to the radically changing structural, theoretical and ideological realities we now face. Organization seeks to address this important task.
Read Organization’s Manifesto here to understand the different types of critical work we publish.
The Manifesto has in part been inspired by the journal’s 30th anniversary in 2024 and the reflexive discussions that ensued at the Organization 30 Year Workshop in December 2023, which included current and past editors, members of the editorial board, and the journal’s readers. It also incorporates reactions and feedback received at Organization’s First Virtual Conference in December 2024, for as we note in the Manifesto, the journal is committed to non-hegemonic modes of radical pluralism.
We welcome standard academic papers of up to 11,000 words (excluding references), as well as 'Speaking Out' pieces written to challenge contemporary orthodoxies, ‘Acting Up’ submissions supporting relevance, political engagement, resistance, and activism (both 4,000 words, excluding references) and 'Connexions' essays that tie together contemporary social problems and the study of organizing (6,000 words, excluding references). We will also publish rejoinders to any of our published articles, if the quality of the response justifies it. We also publish book reviews as well as media and artefacts reviews (1,500 words, excluding references). See the 'Submission guidelines' for more details.
Electronic access:
All issues of the Organization journal are available to browse online.
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/organization.
AIMS: Organization is a peer-reviewed journal whose principal aim is to be a leading platform for transformative critical scholarship. The journal inculcates a pluralistic episteme in addressing a broad spectrum of issues. In doing so, it promotes an ethos which is explicitly:
- speaking to the challenges of our time
- open, reflective, imaginative and critical
- theory-driven
- international in scope and vision
Organization facilitates exchange amongst scholars from a wide range of disciplinary bases and perspectives. It invites management and organization scholars as well as social scientists from all other disciplines interested in:
- non-managerialist/non-functionalistic/non-positivist work on organizations and organizing
- from a broad variety of critical perspectives (e.g., political economic, feminist, Marxist, post-capitalist, de-colonial, intersectional, critical discourse analytical, post-structuralist, neo-materialist, critical realist, post-humanist, critical psychoanalytic, etc.)
SCOPE: The journal encompasses a range of key theoretical and methodological debates and developments in critical organizational analysis, broadly conceived, identifying and assessing their impacts on organizational practices worldwide. Alongside more micro-processual analyses, it particularly encourages attention to the links between intellectual developments, changes in organizational forms and practices, and wider social, cultural and institutional transformations. In addition to established themes of continued significance to the development of the field, topics and themes addressed by Organization include:
- Critical studies on domination, oppression, and power inequalities
- Critical approaches that expose the language, affect and social practices of capitalism, patriarchy, supremacy, and coloniality
- Critical studies on solidarity, post/decolonialism, posthumanism
- Self-reflexive accounts of engaged and radical inclusivity
- Anti and post-capitalist alternatives and utopias
- Interrogation of the plural ontologies, lifeworlds and sustainable livelihoods of Indigenous communities
- Alternatives to the market as a mode of organizing and the imperative of capital accumulation
- Approaches that reclaim the economy of human and ecological care
Please note: If you wish your article to be freely available online immediately upon publication (gold open access, as some funding bodies now require), you can opt for it to be included in the SAGE Choice scheme subject to payment of a publication fee. The manuscript submission and peer reviewing procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let SAGE know directly if you are choosing SAGE Choice. Under this scheme, authors of articles in Organization are currently able to publish via SAGE Choice at a special discounted Article Processing Charge of US$750. For further information, please visit SAGE Choice. For more information on open access options and compliance at SAGE, including self author archiving deposits (green open access) visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.
| Marcos Barros | Grenoble School of Management, France |
| Ghazal Mir Zulfiqar | Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan |
| Ismael Al-Amoudi | Grenoble Ecole de Management, France |
| Ozan Alakavuklar | Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| Fahreen Alamgir | Monash University, Australia |
| Rafael Alcadipani | FGV EAESP Brazil |
| Rutvica Andrjiasevic | University of Bristol, UK |
| Hari Bapuji | The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Armin Beverungen | Leuphana University Luneburg, Germany |
| Steffen Boehm | University of Exeter Business School, UK |
| Alexandra Bristow | The Open University, UK |
| Nick Butler | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Ekaterina Chertkovskaya | Lund University, Sweden |
| Jana Costas | Europa Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany |
| Pascal Dey | Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland |
| Martin Fougère | Hanken School of Economics, Finland |
| Julie Labatut | INRA |
| Emmanouela Mandalaki | NEOMA Business School, France |
| Susan Meriläinen | University of Lapland, Finland |
| Sara Louise Muhr | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Iain Munro | Newcastle University, UK |
| Annalisa Murgia | University of Leeds, UK |
| Daniel Nyberg | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Ana Maria Peredo | University of Victoria, Canada |
| Mie Plotnikof | Aarhus University, Denmark |
| Kathleen Riach | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Suhaib Riaz | University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Yuliya Shymko | Audencia, France |
| Sverre Spoelstra | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Nidhi Srinivas | The New School, USA |
| Melissa Tyler | University of Essex, UK |
| Koen Van Laer | Hasselt University, Belgium |
| Kyoung-Hee Yu | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Emrah Karakilic | Lancaster University Management School, UK |
| Genevieve Shanahan | Cardiff University, UK |
| Penelope Muzanenhamo | University College Dublin, School of Business, Ireland |
| Devi Vijay | Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India |
| Jennifer Manning | Maynooth University, School of Business, Ireland |
| Chahrazad Abdallah | Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada |
| Paul Adler | University of Southern California, USA |
| Mats Alvesson | Lund University, Sweden |
| Maria Ceci Araujo Miso | UFRGS, Brazil |
| Jeremy Aroles | University of York, UK |
| Karen Lee Ashcraft | University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Junaid Ashraf | University of Essex, UK |
| Bobby Banerjee | Bayes Business School, UK |
| Amon Barros | FGV-EAESP, Brazil |
| Emma Bell | Open University, UK |
| Ilaria Boncori | University of Essex, UK |
| Joanna Brewis | University of Leicester, UK |
| Todd Bridgman | Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Andrew Brown | University of Bath, UK |
| Attila Bruni | University of Trento, Italy |
| Catherine Casey | University of Leicester, UK |
| Carl Cederstrom | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Rashedur Chowdhury | University of Essex, UK |
| Sneha Chrispal | Monash University, Australia |
| Stewart R Clegg | The University of Sydney |
| Alessia Contu | UMass Boston, USA |
| Douglas Creed | University of Rhode Island, USA |
| Leanne Cutcher | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Barbara Czarniawska | University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Karen Dale | University of Lancaster, UK |
| Sadhvi Dar | Queen Mary University of London, UK |
| Christian De Cock | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Penny Dick | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Michaela Driver | New Mexico State University, USA |
| Paul du Gay | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Yvonne Due Billing | Copenhagen University, Denmark |
| Gabrielle Durepos | Mount Saint Vincent University, France |
| Seray Ergene | URI College of Business, USA |
| Mahmoud Ezzamel | Cardiff Business School and IE Business School, UK |
| Ziyun Fan | University of York, UK |
| Peter Fleming | City University, UK |
| Erica Foldy | Nyu, USA |
| Jackie Ford | Durham University Business School, UK |
| Mariana Fotaki | University of Warwick, UK |
| Martin Fougère | Hanken School of Economics, Finland |
| Yiannis Gabriel | University of Bath, UK |
| Shiv N. Ganesh | University of Texas-Austin, USA |
| Christina Garsten | SCORE, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Silvia Gherardi | University of Trento, Italy |
| Sarah Gilmore | Cardiff University, UK |
| Chris Grey | Royal Holloway University London, UK |
| Philip Hancock | University of Essex, UK |
| Gerry Hanlon | Queen Mary University, London, UK |
| Nancy Harding | University of Bath, UK |
| Jean Helms Mills | Saint Mary's University, Canada |
| Stefan Heusinkveld | Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| Joel Hietanen | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Daniel Hjorth | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Charlotte Holgersson | Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
| Isabelle Huault | Université de Paris Dauphine, France |
| Yasmin Ibrahim | Queen Mary, University of London, UK |
| Gazi Islam | Grenoble Ecole de Management, France |
| Srinath Jagannathan | Indian Institute of Management, Indore, India |
| Nimruji Jammulamadaka | IIM Calcutta, India |
| Maddy Janssens | Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium |
| John M Jermier | University of South Florida, USA |
| Campbell Jones | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Viktorija Kalonaityte | Linnaeus University, Sweden |
| Emrah Karakilic | Lancaster University Management School, UK |
| Dan Karreman | Lund University, Sweden |
| Kate Kenny | National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland |
| Farzad Rafi Khan | MBS College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Saudi Arabia |
| Daniel King | Nottingham Trent University, UK |
| Martin Kornberger | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Monika Kostera | Södertörn University, Sweden |
| Arun Kumar | University of Essex, UK |
| Chris Land | Anglia Ruskin University |
| David Levy | University of Massachusetts, USA |
| Patricia Lewis | University of Kent, UK |
| Helena Liu | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Jennifer Manning | Maynooth University, School of Business, Ireland |
| Richard Marens | California State University, USA |
| Angela Martinez Dy | Loughborouh University, UK |
| Gerlinde Mautner | Vienna University of Economics and Business , Austria |
| Lucy McCarthy | University of Bristol, UK |
| Debra Meyerson | Stanford University, USA |
| Ali H. Mir | William Paterson University, USA |
| Mathilde Mondon-Navazo | Grenoble School of Management, France |
| Anna-Maria Murtola | Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand |
| Alistair Mutch | Nottingham Trent University, UK |
| Nisha Nair | University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| Stella M Nkomo | University of Pretoria, South Africa |
| Damian O'Doherty | University of Liverpool, UK |
| Joe O'Mahoney | University of Cardiff, UK |
| Banu Ozkazanc-Pan | Brown University, USA |
| Samantha Parsley | University of Portsmouth, UK |
| Veronique Perret | Universite de Paris Dauphine, France |
| Amanda Peticca-Harris | Grenoble Management School, France |
| Daniela Pianezzi | University of Verona, Italy |
| Ajnesh Prasad | Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico |
| Alison Pullen | Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia |
| Linda Putnam | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Sigrid Quack | University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
| Paolo Quattrone | Alliance Manchester Business School, UK |
| Alf Rehn | Abo Akademi University, Finland |
| Juliane Reinecke | University of Oxford, UK |
| Carl Rhodes | UTS Sydney, Australia |
| John Roberts | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Sarah Robinson | University of Renens, France |
| Laurence Romani | Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden |
| Michael Rowlinson | Exeter University, UK |
| Ashar Saleem | Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, Pakistan |
| Marie Laure Djelic | Sciences Po, School of Management and Innovation, France |
| Fernanda Sauerbronn | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Andreas Georg Scherer | University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Gregory Schwartz | University of Bristol, UK |
| Maureen A. Scully | University of Massachusetts, USA |
| Paulina Segarra | Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico |
| Prajna Seneviratne | The Open University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka |
| Graham Sewell | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Masoud Shadnam | Sharif University of Technology |
| Dorothy Smith | University of Victoria (Canada) |
| Patricia J Sotirin | Michigan Technological University, USA |
| Andre Spicer | City University, UK |
| Nidhi Srinivas | The New School, USA |
| Chris Steyaert | University of St Gallen, Switzerland |
| Antonio Strati | Trento University, Italy |
| Andrew Sturdy | University of Bristol, UK |
| Scott Taylor | University of Birmingham, UK |
| René ten Bos | Raboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| Torkild Thanem | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Janne Tienari | Hanken University, Finland |
| Barbara Townley | University of St Andrews, UK |
| Eda Ulus | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Eero Vaara | Swedish School of Economics, Finland and EM Lyon, France |
| Marieke Van den Brink | Radboud University, Netherlands |
| Marc J Ventresca | University of Oxford, UK |
| Bénédicte Vidaillet | University Paris Est Créteil, France |
| Devi Vijay | Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India |
| Hugh Willmott | Cardiff Business School, UK |
| Julie Wolfram Cox | Monash University, Australia |
| Thomaz Wood | RAE, FGV-EAESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Hela Yousfi | Université Paris-Dauphine, France |
| Kyoung-Hee Yu | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Larry Zacharias | University of Massachussets at Amherst, USA |
| Yvonne Benschop | Radboud University, Netherlands |
| Gibson Burrell | University of Leicester, UK |
| Marta Calas | University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA |
| Raza Mir | William Paterson University, USA |
| Glenn Morgan | Cardiff Business School, UK |
| Martin Parker | Bristol University, UK |
| Craig Prichard | Massey University, New Zealand |
| Mike Reed | University of Cardiff, UK |
| Linda Smircich | University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA |
| Robyn Thomas | Cardiff University, UK |
| Patrizia Zanoni | Hasselt University, Belgium |
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