Stephen Linstead
Biographic Data
| ID | 196020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Linstead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Linstead |
| SIGNATURE | LINSTEAD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1006-2921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 337 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Vardo: On keeping our journeys safe
This poem is a personal response to Romany culture and history, including consideration of the legacy of the holocaust or Porraijmos (devouring) and the socioeconomic diversity of contemporary Roma classes. It does, however, draw on anthropological and sociological theory that supports the significance of the lyric approach to the representation of affect in culture and its virtues over the typical narrative approach. It is set at the annual hors…
The Magic of Organization
Exploring magic as a creative necessity in contemporary business, this book clarifies the differences between magic as an organizational resource and magic as fakery, pretence and manipulation. Using this lens, it highlights insights into the relationship between anthropology and business, and organizational studies.Ours is an economy dependent on magic; success depends on innovation and creativity producing unexpected, unpredictable and amazing …
Postmodern Organizations
Postmodern organizations are considered to have broken with the traditional principles of organizing that were typical of modernity and its associated rationalism and logics of efficiency. They display new and original forms and practices both in response to and in shaping change in global society, and are associated with networking as a process rather than with hierarchy as a structure. They can be identified by the extent to which they depart f…
Re-reading masculine organization: Phallic, testicular and seminal metaphors
This article examines the metaphorical resources provided by specific parts of the male body for thinking masculinity in social and organizational contexts. The genital metaphor of the male phallus is the most familiar, being associated with a form of hegemonic masculinity identified with power and control. However, other parts of the male genitalia can and do act as root metaphors for alternative forms of masculinity. Where the phallic metaphor …
Chapter 19. Organizational Bricolage
Luck of the draw? Serendipity, accident, chance and misfortune in organization and design
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,In proving foresight may be vain:The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ menGang aft agley,An’ lea'e us nought but grief an’ pain,For promis'd joy!(Robert Burns) Designer
Theorizing and Researching the Dark Side of Organization
The paper offers an introduction to research that concerns itself with the 'dark side' of organization and attempts to bring theoretical resources from a range of disciplines to bear upon the problem. This stream of research has emerged most visibly since the 1990s, although its concerns can be found in much earlier research. Frustrations with the tendencies of mainstream work to overlook, ignore or suppress difficult ethical, political and ideol…
The territorial organization: History, divergence and possibilities
This paper introduces a new field to organization studies – that of organizational territoriality – as well as introducing the papers to the special issue on The Territorial Organization. Organization seen as territory may function symbolically, offering an additional metaphor to those suggested by Morgan, or materially, taking into account existing studies of organizational space and architecture. This paper integrates perspectives from anthropo…
Gerald Raunig, Gene RAY, & Ulf Wuggenig (2011) Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the ‘Creative Industries’. London: Mayfly Books.
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Reimagining method
The Territorial Organization’: A special issue of Culture and Organization
The act of interpretation involves creating maps or representations that simplify some territory in order to facilitate action. (Weick 1993, 361) Although the activity of mapping has received susta
Metropoems: Poetic Method and Ethnographic Experience
Discussions of the use and significance of poetry as a research tool have raised the question of poetic technique and craftsmanship in ethnographic poetic outputs. In this article, the authors look explicitly at a contemporary poetic form, the "metropoem" originated by French Oulipian poet Jacques Jouet,1 arguing that it presents a potentially valuable new tool for qualitative research for four reasons. First, the "metropoetic" form enables the t…
Introduction to special issue - “Telling Tales
Passion, Knowledge and Motivation: Ontologies of Desire
In this paper we address some neglected ontological issues regarding the ideas of passion and knowledge in the contemporary Western context. We argue that passion as a concept can be understood in two main ways. The prevalent interpretation in organization studies is teleological, that of a powerful, purposive motivation to achieve an end result. The second is an ontological understanding of the nature of desire, which in itself is double-sided. …
Postmodern Organizations
Postmodern organizations are organizations that have broken with the traditional principles of organization as defined by modernist theory dominated by rationalism; they are also characterized by having developed new and original forms and practices in response to the changing environmental conditions of postmodern society. Such organizations can be identified both by the extent to which they are not epistemologically modern and by the extent to …
Multiplicity, Virtuality and Organization: The Contribution of Gilles Deleuze
Formal organization is often seen as opposed or resistant to change, in theory as well as in practice. Drawing primarily on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze we argue that the reverse is true - that organization is itself a dynamic quality and that change and organization are imbricated in each other. We expand several key concepts of this philosophy in relation to organization (the multiplicity of order and the multiplicity of organization, strat…
Culture & Organization Art of Management and Organisation Conference Series Special Issue Editors Information
Introduction: Art of Management and Organisation Conference Series
Make that sixty-seven: A rejoinder to Whiteman and Cooper’s ‘Sixty-six ways to get it wrong’
Gender as multiplicity: Desire, displacement, difference and dispersion
This article argues that although gender is no longer widely considered to be a property of individuals, the alternative of viewing it in terms of performativity, where it is the outcome of linguistic and social performances, unnecessarily limits the possibilities of thinking of gender as a form of multiplicity that is both internally and externally differentiated. Any attempt to move beyond binary thinking in gender relations initiates a conside…
Ethnomethodology and Sociology: An Introduction
Arising as a powerful challenge to programmatic views of sociology that sought to determine stable laws underpinning social order, ethnomethodology set out an alternative programme to reveal social order as a dynamic, contingent 'ongoing accomplishment'. This programme was neither micro nor macro, but was concerned with different contexts of accountability in which both individuals and institutions are given identity and reproduced. Recognising e…
Masking Subversion: Neocolonial Embeddedness in Anthropological Accounts of Indigenous Management
Sustainability and sound ecological management of the natural environment, allied to the expanding body of work on managing tacit and explicit knowledge, has led to an increased interest in the contribution which anthropology can make to the practical adaptation of indigenous environmental knowledge and practice to the improvement of organization in western societies. In an exemplary ethnographic study of an indigenous beaver trapper belonging to…
Sex, Work and Sex Work: Eroticizing Organization
Sex is much more rife in the workplace than many would think according to this fascinating and controversial new book. It argues that not only does sexuality pervade every aspect of organizations, but also that organization pervades every aspect of our sexuality. This two-way conceptualization lends the book a two-part structure, covering firstly the ways in which organizational behaviour is shaped through issues such as male managers' experience…
Time, Creativity and Culture: Introducing Bergson
In this paper we introduce Bergson's philosophy of "action, process and movement" and its relevance for social science and the study of organizational culture. Bergson's philosophy of change argues against the spatialisation of thought in which phenomena are broken down into discrete components to be numbered, sequenced and manipulated: rather he argues for a view of time as qualitative; intuition as situated within experience rather than about i…
Organization as Reply: Henri Bergson and Casual Organization Theory
This paper introduces a symposium of three other papers on the work of Henri Bergson, which develop his idea of creative evolution and argue for the continuing relevance and vitality of Bergson's work for contemporary organization studies. Bergson's corpus is reviewed, along with some suggestions as to his relevance for contemporary organization theory. It is argued that Bergson's work would view organization as part of its object, a process that…
Gender as multiplicity: Desire, displacement, difference and dispersion
This article argues that although gender is no longer widely considered to be a property of individuals, the alternative of viewing it in terms of performativity, where it is the outcome of linguistic and social performances, unnecessarily limits the possibilities of thinking of gender as a form of multiplicity that is both internally and externally differentiated. Any attempt to move beyond binary thinking in gender relations initiates a conside…
The Worst Thing is the Screwing’ (1): Consumption and the Management of Identity in Sex Work
This paper reviews qualitative data from academic research into prostitution, accounts from prostitutes themselves in the UK and Australia, and data from one of the authors' own research in New South Wales to analyse the ways in which female sex workers negotiate and construct their sense of themselves. This analysis is informed by the suggestion that, in the act of commercial sex, the prostitute's own body is being consumed by the client, which …
Unpacking Priscilla: Subjectivity and Identity in the Organization of Gendered Appearance
This paper argues that our understandings of ourselves as gendered, as either masculine or feminine, are a power effect of the contemporary discourse of gender difference. The main premise of the paper is that this social construction of gender allows for gender difference to be resisted-and the form of resistance analyzed here is gender-inappropriate dress. Two forms of gender-inappropriate dress-male transvestism and female power dressing-are d…
Theorizing and Researching the Dark Side of Organization
The paper offers an introduction to research that concerns itself with the 'dark side' of organization and attempts to bring theoretical resources from a range of disciplines to bear upon the problem. This stream of research has emerged most visibly since the 1990s, although its concerns can be found in much earlier research. Frustrations with the tendencies of mainstream work to overlook, ignore or suppress difficult ethical, political and ideol…
Masking Subversion: Neocolonial Embeddedness in Anthropological Accounts of Indigenous Management
Sustainability and sound ecological management of the natural environment, allied to the expanding body of work on managing tacit and explicit knowledge, has led to an increased interest in the contribution which anthropology can make to the practical adaptation of indigenous environmental knowledge and practice to the improvement of organization in western societies. In an exemplary ethnographic study of an indigenous beaver trapper belonging to…
Multiplicity, Virtuality and Organization: The Contribution of Gilles Deleuze
Formal organization is often seen as opposed or resistant to change, in theory as well as in practice. Drawing primarily on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze we argue that the reverse is true - that organization is itself a dynamic quality and that change and organization are imbricated in each other. We expand several key concepts of this philosophy in relation to organization (the multiplicity of order and the multiplicity of organization, strat…
Objectivity, Reflexivity, and Fiction: Humanity, Inhumanity, and the Science of the Social
Problems of perspective, proximity and distance, objectivity, and self-interest perpetuate tensions in the social sciences. In positivistic research, still dominant in the organizational sciences, attention has been concentrated on the eradication of bias in the researcher. The effects of this approach have extended into areas where it is implicit and remains unrecognized, particularly in the tradition of “reflexive sociology.” The focal problem …
From Postmodern Anthropology to Deconstructive Ethnography
The social sciences have recently exhibited renewed interest in ethnography while traditional anthropology has been struggling with the challenges of postmodernism. This paper considers the theoretical implications of the potential convergence of these strands, with particular reference to the ethnography of organizations. Postmodernism is seen to affect ethnography by problematizing the processes of description, reference, and the establishment …
Abjection and Organization: Men, Violence, and Management
This paper explores case material to show the extent to which non-organizational experiences of violence can shape subsequent behavior within organizations. These connections are not commonly considered either in the study of organizational behavior or of managerial practice, because behaviors from other arenas, adaptations, and responses, can be reproduced many years away from the source of anxiety. These behaviors are widespread, patterned, cyc…
The Worst Thing is the Screwing’ (2): Context and Career in Sex Work
This article, and an earlier linked one, focus on the labour process of the modern Western female prostitute. Drawing on available qualitative research from the United Kingdom and Australia, and research undertaken by one of the authors in New South Wales, we argue here that the ways in which individual prostitutes understand themselves, the work that they do and their relationships with clients are at least partly informed by the discursive cont…
Metropoems: Poetic Method and Ethnographic Experience
Discussions of the use and significance of poetry as a research tool have raised the question of poetic technique and craftsmanship in ethnographic poetic outputs. In this article, the authors look explicitly at a contemporary poetic form, the "metropoem" originated by French Oulipian poet Jacques Jouet,1 arguing that it presents a potentially valuable new tool for qualitative research for four reasons. First, the "metropoetic" form enables the t…
Re-reading masculine organization: Phallic, testicular and seminal metaphors
This article examines the metaphorical resources provided by specific parts of the male body for thinking masculinity in social and organizational contexts. The genital metaphor of the male phallus is the most familiar, being associated with a form of hegemonic masculinity identified with power and control. However, other parts of the male genitalia can and do act as root metaphors for alternative forms of masculinity. Where the phallic metaphor …
Time, Creativity and Culture: Introducing Bergson
In this paper we introduce Bergson's philosophy of "action, process and movement" and its relevance for social science and the study of organizational culture. Bergson's philosophy of change argues against the spatialisation of thought in which phenomena are broken down into discrete components to be numbered, sequenced and manipulated: rather he argues for a view of time as qualitative; intuition as situated within experience rather than about i…
Managing the Sex Industry
This paper consists of a panel discussion of the merits and demerits of the regulation or legalization of the sex industry. The contributors are an academic researcher, a policy adisor, an agency network co-ordinator and a sex-worker representative. The debate covers sex work and the law; attitudes of courts, police and public; the conditions and exploitation of sex workers; the distinction between voluntary and non-voluntary sex work. The sex in…
Averting the Gaze: Gender and Power on the Perfumed Picket Line
This paper argues that the interplay of masculinity as a social construction, masculinism as an ideology, and patriarchy as a political system is grounded in the ontological condition of anxiety as a response to undecidability. Gender differences initiate the desire to resolve the ambiguities and incompletenesses experienced through the lack of the Other. In phallogo‐centrism this means the masculinist claim to dominate and legislate epistemologi…
Ethnomethodology and Sociology: An Introduction
Arising as a powerful challenge to programmatic views of sociology that sought to determine stable laws underpinning social order, ethnomethodology set out an alternative programme to reveal social order as a dynamic, contingent 'ongoing accomplishment'. This programme was neither micro nor macro, but was concerned with different contexts of accountability in which both individuals and institutions are given identity and reproduced. Recognising e…
The territorial organization: History, divergence and possibilities
This paper introduces a new field to organization studies – that of organizational territoriality – as well as introducing the papers to the special issue on The Territorial Organization. Organization seen as territory may function symbolically, offering an additional metaphor to those suggested by Morgan, or materially, taking into account existing studies of organizational space and architecture. This paper integrates perspectives from anthropo…
Make that sixty-seven: A rejoinder to Whiteman and Cooper’s ‘Sixty-six ways to get it wrong’
The Territorial Organization’: A special issue of Culture and Organization
The act of interpretation involves creating maps or representations that simplify some territory in order to facilitate action. (Weick 1993, 361) Although the activity of mapping has received susta
Culture & Organization Art of Management and Organisation Conference Series Special Issue Editors Information
Introduction: Art of Management and Organisation Conference Series
Time After Time: The Temporal Organization of Red-Collar Work
Following the recent resurgence of interest in time and space in the social and organizational sciences, this paper examines the significance of time in prostitution. Prostitution provides a useful basis for analysis, given that it is at once similar (in its provision of consumer services) and different (in that sexuality is not fully commodified) to other industries. Time is significant to prostitution - for example, the industry is to some exte…
From Postmodern Anthropology to Deconstructive Ethnography
The social sciences have recently exhibited renewed interest in ethnography while traditional anthropology has been struggling with the challenges of postmodernism. This paper considers the theoretical implications of the potential convergence of these strands, with particular reference to the ethnography of organizations. Postmodernism is seen to affect ethnography by problematizing the processes of description, reference, and the establishment …
Objectivity, Reflexivity, and Fiction: Humanity, Inhumanity, and the Science of the Social
Problems of perspective, proximity and distance, objectivity, and self-interest perpetuate tensions in the social sciences. In positivistic research, still dominant in the organizational sciences, attention has been concentrated on the eradication of bias in the researcher. The effects of this approach have extended into areas where it is implicit and remains unrecognized, particularly in the tradition of “reflexive sociology.” The focal problem …
After the autumn harvest: Rhetoric and representation in an asian industrial dispute
This paper focuses on the practice of rhetorical analysis in the analysis of managerial talk, specifically in relation to management control. Rhetoric is the means by which discursive fields are linked in specific texts to concrete social forms, with the persuasive aim of naturalizing particular preferred arrangements. With great economy, it links belief to action. When it is successful it makes a partial, ambiguous or incomplete relationship app…
Averting the Gaze: Gender and Power on the Perfumed Picket Line
This paper argues that the interplay of masculinity as a social construction, masculinism as an ideology, and patriarchy as a political system is grounded in the ontological condition of anxiety as a response to undecidability. Gender differences initiate the desire to resolve the ambiguities and incompletenesses experienced through the lack of the Other. In phallogo‐centrism this means the masculinist claim to dominate and legislate epistemologi…
Organization as a theatre of performance
Resistance and return: Power, command and change management
“A command carried out impresses its exact shape on the performer. How deeply and firmly this is imprinted depends on the force with which the command is given, its phrasing, the extent of the giver's superiority, and also, of course, on its exact content. In every case, something remains, and remains as discrete and isolated as the original command. It is this that I have called the sting. We can see how inevitable it is that each man should com…
Abjection and Organization: Men, Violence, and Management
This paper explores case material to show the extent to which non-organizational experiences of violence can shape subsequent behavior within organizations. These connections are not commonly considered either in the study of organizational behavior or of managerial practice, because behaviors from other arenas, adaptations, and responses, can be reproduced many years away from the source of anxiety. These behaviors are widespread, patterned, cyc…
Unpacking Priscilla: Subjectivity and Identity in the Organization of Gendered Appearance
This paper argues that our understandings of ourselves as gendered, as either masculine or feminine, are a power effect of the contemporary discourse of gender difference. The main premise of the paper is that this social construction of gender allows for gender difference to be resisted-and the form of resistance analyzed here is gender-inappropriate dress. Two forms of gender-inappropriate dress-male transvestism and female power dressing-are d…
Time After Time: The Temporal Organization of Red-Collar Work
Following the recent resurgence of interest in time and space in the social and organizational sciences, this paper examines the significance of time in prostitution. Prostitution provides a useful basis for analysis, given that it is at once similar (in its provision of consumer services) and different (in that sexuality is not fully commodified) to other industries. Time is significant to prostitution - for example, the industry is to some exte…
An introduction to the textuality of organizations
Management - A Critical Text
Preface - Acknowledgments - Introduction: A Critical Approach to Management - Management Knowledge and Learning - Gender and Management - Managing Culture - Power and Politics in Organizations - Leading and Managing - Managing Teams - Managing Motivation - Decision Making in Organizations - Managing Ethically - Managing Strategically - Networks and Interorganizational Relations - Index
The Aesthetics of Organization
'The Aesthetics of Organization' examines the possibility of developing an aesthetics of organization as a field of inquiry within organization studies
The Worst Thing is the Screwing’ (2): Context and Career in Sex Work
This article, and an earlier linked one, focus on the labour process of the modern Western female prostitute. Drawing on available qualitative research from the United Kingdom and Australia, and research undertaken by one of the authors in New South Wales, we argue here that the ways in which individual prostitutes understand themselves, the work that they do and their relationships with clients are at least partly informed by the discursive cont…
The Worst Thing is the Screwing’ (1): Consumption and the Management of Identity in Sex Work
This paper reviews qualitative data from academic research into prostitution, accounts from prostitutes themselves in the UK and Australia, and data from one of the authors' own research in New South Wales to analyse the ways in which female sex workers negotiate and construct their sense of themselves. This analysis is informed by the suggestion that, in the act of commercial sex, the prostitute's own body is being consumed by the client, which …
Globalization, Multiculturalism and Other Fictions: Colonialism for the New Millennium
In this paper, we critically examine different discourses of globalization and explore how concepts of globalization have been represented in organizational theory. We argue that, despite its celebratory rhetoric of `one world, many peoples', notions of globalization are inextricably linked with the continued development of First World economies, creating new forms of colonial control in the so-called `post-colonial' era. Thus, globalization beco…
Organization as Reply: Henri Bergson and Casual Organization Theory
This paper introduces a symposium of three other papers on the work of Henri Bergson, which develop his idea of creative evolution and argue for the continuing relevance and vitality of Bergson's work for contemporary organization studies. Bergson's corpus is reviewed, along with some suggestions as to his relevance for contemporary organization theory. It is argued that Bergson's work would view organization as part of its object, a process that…
Organizational Kitsch
Kitsch as a descriptive and evaluative term is popularly deployed in the context of art and artifacts, contemporarily denoting that which is perhaps poor in taste, quality or refinement yet which retains some sort of mildly perverse attractiveness. It prettifies the problematic, makes the disturbing reassuring, and establishes an easy (and illusory) unity of the individual and the world. This article draws on historical sources and contemporary t…
Managing the Sex Industry
This paper consists of a panel discussion of the merits and demerits of the regulation or legalization of the sex industry. The contributors are an academic researcher, a policy adisor, an agency network co-ordinator and a sex-worker representative. The debate covers sex work and the law; attitudes of courts, police and public; the conditions and exploitation of sex workers; the distinction between voluntary and non-voluntary sex work. The sex in…
Sex, Work and Sex Work: Eroticizing Organization
Sex is much more rife in the workplace than many would think according to this fascinating and controversial new book. It argues that not only does sexuality pervade every aspect of organizations, but also that organization pervades every aspect of our sexuality. This two-way conceptualization lends the book a two-part structure, covering firstly the ways in which organizational behaviour is shaped through issues such as male managers' experience…
Time, Creativity and Culture: Introducing Bergson
In this paper we introduce Bergson's philosophy of "action, process and movement" and its relevance for social science and the study of organizational culture. Bergson's philosophy of change argues against the spatialisation of thought in which phenomena are broken down into discrete components to be numbered, sequenced and manipulated: rather he argues for a view of time as qualitative; intuition as situated within experience rather than about i…
Masking Subversion: Neocolonial Embeddedness in Anthropological Accounts of Indigenous Management
Sustainability and sound ecological management of the natural environment, allied to the expanding body of work on managing tacit and explicit knowledge, has led to an increased interest in the contribution which anthropology can make to the practical adaptation of indigenous environmental knowledge and practice to the improvement of organization in western societies. In an exemplary ethnographic study of an indigenous beaver trapper belonging to…
Culture & Organization Art of Management and Organisation Conference Series Special Issue Editors Information
Introduction: Art of Management and Organisation Conference Series
Make that sixty-seven: A rejoinder to Whiteman and Cooper’s ‘Sixty-six ways to get it wrong’
Gender as multiplicity: Desire, displacement, difference and dispersion
This article argues that although gender is no longer widely considered to be a property of individuals, the alternative of viewing it in terms of performativity, where it is the outcome of linguistic and social performances, unnecessarily limits the possibilities of thinking of gender as a form of multiplicity that is both internally and externally differentiated. Any attempt to move beyond binary thinking in gender relations initiates a conside…
Sociology (29 works) · Epistemology (21 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (20 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Aesthetics (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works)