Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: Volume 19 Issue 2

Guest editorial: Out in the field with Bruno Latour

Barbara Czarniawska, Hervé Corvellec, Franck Cochoy

Method as democratizing; through researcher positionality and empirical inclusivity

Maira Babri

The purpose of this paper is to present how my positionality as a researcher aligned with the works of Latour in terms of methodological inspirations and allowed me to develop a…

How a project design becomes a macro-actor: laboratory simulations in trials of strength between competing bridge designs, project budgets and sustainability

Peter Skærbæk, Tim Neerup Themsen, Kjell Tryggestad

This paper shows how Bruno Latour’s novel work and methodological approach can enrich management and organization studies, accounting and science and technology studies on what it…

Traces of anti-programs against COVID-19: retailers' responses aimed at mitigating the spread of the virus

Gabriella Wulff

The aim of the paper is to demonstrate how programs of action and anti-programs, concepts developed by Bruno Latour, are of excellent value in interpreting current world…

Understanding careers as translations: the importance of Bruno Latour for the study of careers

Hannelore Ottilie Van den Abeele

This paper argues that Bruno Latour’s work on translation provides an alternative to dominant anthropocentric, individualistic and managerial approaches in career studies by…

Watching Oppenheimer through Latour’s lens [1]

Andrzej Wojciech Nowak

This study aims to demonstrate what myths of and about science are reproduced in this popular cultural work (movie – “Oppenheimer”). This is done by examining the unconscious…

In memoriam: Barbara Czarniawska

Hugo Gaggiotti, Peter Case