Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: Volume 17 Issue 5

When cooperation turns ugly: exploring the dark side of social capital

Lena Strindlund, Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren, Christian Ståhl

This article explores theoretical assumptions regarding negative consequences of social capital in the empirical case of a failed cooperation project, and how these consequences…

Exploring the many tales behind success: understanding translations of the “intrapreneurships” management fashion as editing processes

Julia Sofia Carlsson

The paper explores a management fashion within the Swedish Public Sector called intrapreneurships. Intrapreneurships became popular during a period of public debate on what forms…

Is ‘co’ in coworking a short for contradictions?

Silvia Ivaldi, Annalisa Sannino, Giuseppe Scaratti

Building on the existing literature and on a series of interviews conducted in very diverse coworking spaces, this article attempts at analyzing coworking by focusing on the…

Organizational legitimation of body-worn camera use in the Swedish private security industry

Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Christel Backman

The authors set out to show how key private security industry actors in Sweden establish body-worn cameras (BWCs) as a tool to protect private security officers from the public…

Publisher’s note

Engaging the body, appropriating a corporate wellness programme

Enrico Attila Bruni, Filippo Andrei, Lia Tirabeni

The purpose of this contribution is twofold: at the empirical level, it is shown how in the relationship that subjects are encouraged to construct with their bodies major…

“It is ok to be interrupted; it is my job” – perceptions on technology-mediated work-life boundary experiences; a sociomaterial analysis

Sulakshana De Alwis, Patrik Hernwall, Arosha S. Adikaram

This study aims to explore how and why employees perceive technology-mediated interruptions differently and the role of sociocultural factors in this process using sociomaterial…

Chosen, trusted and disillusioned – an autoethnographic account of university–society collaboration from an academic's point

Ulrica Nylén

The purpose of this paper is to understand the dynamic and power-laden nature of university–society collaboration from the individual academic's point of view.