Bernadette Loacker
Biographic Data
| ID | 2496623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernadette Loacker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernadette |
| FAMILY NAME | Loacker |
| SIGNATURE | LOACKER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Organisation, Work and Technology, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5094-7225 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Being (Ab)normal – Be(com)ing Other
Does the Ethos of Law Erode? Lawyers’ Professional Practices, Self-Understanding and Ethics at Work
Furthering an integrative ethics-as-practice framework, this paper explores the professional practices, self-understanding and ethics of lawyers working in the Germanic legal context. Existing studies of the legal profession often argue that changing conditions in law have led to a ‘constrained morality’ and an ‘erosion of ethos’ among lawyers. While the current study acknowledges shifts in lawyers’ ethos, it challenges the claim of an erosion or…
Entrepreneurship and the struggle over order and coherence
This paper is grounded in a thematic reading of Robert Musil's (1933/1997 Musil, R. 1933/1997. The Man Without Qualities. London: Picador. [Google Scholar]) novel The Man Without Qualities. Combining literary, social, and economic theory, the discipline-spanning novel engages with some of the central questions and conflicts of our age, such as the search for order and coherence, seeking to overcome the fragmentation of life. Specifically, we sugg…
Complexities, challenges and implications of collaborative work within a regime of performance measurement
The current demands on higher education institutions (HEIs) to become more efficient and effective have led to increasing performance pressures on researchers, and consequently on the practices and outcomes of researcher collaborations. In this paper, based on a qualitative study of collaborative experiences of management and organisation studies scholars, we explore the complexities and challenges of researcher collaborations under the current r…
‘Moving to stay in the same place?’ Academics and theatrical artists as exemplars of the ‘mobile middle’
This article provides insights into mobility in the context of geographical, economic, professional, temporal and imaginary movements of academics and theatrical artists. It explores how these dimensions of mobility intersect in the narratives of academics and theatrical artists, thereby producing a position ‘in between’ choice and necessity, and privilege and disadvantage with regard to movement. The analysis shows how both academics and theatri…
Beyond bureaucracy and entrepreneurialism
This paper examines how discursive codes and demands associated with ‘bureaucratic and entrepreneurial regimes’ of work and career organization shape the work, careers and subjectivities of management graduates. The study is based on an analysis of 30 narratives of management professionals who graduated from an Austrian business school in the early 1970s or 2000s. Its insights suggest that variegated discursive codes manifest in the graduates’ ar…
Becoming ‘culturpreneur’
In relating to the politico-economic concept of ‘creative industries’, the paper explores in what way the art field and its actors are discursively repositioned within ‘flexible cultural capitalism’. Through empirical material from the independent Austrian theatre scene, the paper, moreover, illustrates how the ‘culturpreneurial’ transformation of the field affects the specific artistic practices, forms of organizing and conduct. In this regard, …
Becoming ‘culturpreneur’
In relating to the politico-economic concept of ‘creative industries’, the paper explores in what way the art field and its actors are discursively repositioned within ‘flexible cultural capitalism’. Through empirical material from the independent Austrian theatre scene, the paper, moreover, illustrates how the ‘culturpreneurial’ transformation of the field affects the specific artistic practices, forms of organizing and conduct. In this regard, …
Complexities, challenges and implications of collaborative work within a regime of performance measurement
The current demands on higher education institutions (HEIs) to become more efficient and effective have led to increasing performance pressures on researchers, and consequently on the practices and outcomes of researcher collaborations. In this paper, based on a qualitative study of collaborative experiences of management and organisation studies scholars, we explore the complexities and challenges of researcher collaborations under the current r…
Entrepreneurship and the struggle over order and coherence
This paper is grounded in a thematic reading of Robert Musil's (1933/1997 Musil, R. 1933/1997. The Man Without Qualities. London: Picador. [Google Scholar]) novel The Man Without Qualities. Combining literary, social, and economic theory, the discipline-spanning novel engages with some of the central questions and conflicts of our age, such as the search for order and coherence, seeking to overcome the fragmentation of life. Specifically, we sugg…
Beyond bureaucracy and entrepreneurialism
This paper examines how discursive codes and demands associated with ‘bureaucratic and entrepreneurial regimes’ of work and career organization shape the work, careers and subjectivities of management graduates. The study is based on an analysis of 30 narratives of management professionals who graduated from an Austrian business school in the early 1970s or 2000s. Its insights suggest that variegated discursive codes manifest in the graduates’ ar…
Becoming ‘culturpreneur’
In relating to the politico-economic concept of ‘creative industries’, the paper explores in what way the art field and its actors are discursively repositioned within ‘flexible cultural capitalism’. Through empirical material from the independent Austrian theatre scene, the paper, moreover, illustrates how the ‘culturpreneurial’ transformation of the field affects the specific artistic practices, forms of organizing and conduct. In this regard, …
‘Moving to stay in the same place?’ Academics and theatrical artists as exemplars of the ‘mobile middle’
This article provides insights into mobility in the context of geographical, economic, professional, temporal and imaginary movements of academics and theatrical artists. It explores how these dimensions of mobility intersect in the narratives of academics and theatrical artists, thereby producing a position ‘in between’ choice and necessity, and privilege and disadvantage with regard to movement. The analysis shows how both academics and theatri…
Beyond bureaucracy and entrepreneurialism
This paper examines how discursive codes and demands associated with ‘bureaucratic and entrepreneurial regimes’ of work and career organization shape the work, careers and subjectivities of management graduates. The study is based on an analysis of 30 narratives of management professionals who graduated from an Austrian business school in the early 1970s or 2000s. Its insights suggest that variegated discursive codes manifest in the graduates’ ar…
Complexities, challenges and implications of collaborative work within a regime of performance measurement
The current demands on higher education institutions (HEIs) to become more efficient and effective have led to increasing performance pressures on researchers, and consequently on the practices and outcomes of researcher collaborations. In this paper, based on a qualitative study of collaborative experiences of management and organisation studies scholars, we explore the complexities and challenges of researcher collaborations under the current r…
Entrepreneurship and the struggle over order and coherence
This paper is grounded in a thematic reading of Robert Musil's (1933/1997 Musil, R. 1933/1997. The Man Without Qualities. London: Picador. [Google Scholar]) novel The Man Without Qualities. Combining literary, social, and economic theory, the discipline-spanning novel engages with some of the central questions and conflicts of our age, such as the search for order and coherence, seeking to overcome the fragmentation of life. Specifically, we sugg…
Does the Ethos of Law Erode? Lawyers’ Professional Practices, Self-Understanding and Ethics at Work
Furthering an integrative ethics-as-practice framework, this paper explores the professional practices, self-understanding and ethics of lawyers working in the Germanic legal context. Existing studies of the legal profession often argue that changing conditions in law have led to a ‘constrained morality’ and an ‘erosion of ethos’ among lawyers. While the current study acknowledges shifts in lawyers’ ethos, it challenges the claim of an erosion or…
Being (Ab)normal – Be(com)ing Other
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Art (2 works)