Damian O’doherty
Biographic Data
| ID | 823098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Damian O’doherty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Damian |
| FAMILY NAME | O’doherty |
| SIGNATURE | O’DOHERTY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3686-4383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Alignment and Articulation Work in Computer Mediated Organization
The concept of ‘alignment’ has been commonly used to refer to the re-organizations of the world deemed necessary in order to accommodate the workings of complex technological systems. However, such re-organizations also, and inevitably, dis-organize the settings where such technologies are deployed. This, in turn, incites further orderings – and thus further dis-orderings. Complex (if often invisible) patterns of ‘articulation work’ typically eme…
And a note on ‘some notes for anniversarifiers’
This essay forms part of the 30th Special Issue of the journal and reflects on the role of the anniversarifier and reports on way of escaping the end of Organization to which it leads. Playful, ludic and irreverent this paper poses difficulties to the abstract, which should eventually be excised from the final publication
Olly the Cat: Excerpts from a Feline Ethnography in Business and Management Studies
This chapter draws on two and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork at Manchester Airport Group in the UK, part of which included extended study of ‘Olly the cat’ where the author grappled with the significance of his/her presence in matters of management and organization. The feline and multispecies ethnography developed in this chapter extends existing work in animal studies in management and organization to show how we can learn from the nonh…
The developments in ethnographic studies of organising: Towards objects of ignorance and objects of concern
In this introduction to the Special Issue, we review the rich tradition of ethnographic studies in organisation studies and critically examine the place of ethnography in organisation studies as practised in schools of business and management. Drawing on the findings of the articles published here, we reflect on the need for a significant extension of the content and syllabus of our discipline to include what we call objects of concern and object…
On the beginning of formal organization
As part of a series of audacious experiments in organization during the early 1960s, the cybernetician Stafford Beer sought to enroll pond life into organizational decision-making. In one experimen
The break-up of management: Critique Inside-Out
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Feline politics in organization: The nine lives of Olly the cat
The appearance of ‘Olly the cat’ on the doorsteps of a major UK international airport provides occasion to reconsider the role of the animal in organization and offers suggestive insight into how we might have to learn new ways of being within extended multi-species or interspecies ontologies. Olly is found to lead multiple lives that cannot be reduced to the status of object or media of human intentionality. Her increasing political involvement …
Reconstructing Organization: The Loungification of Society
This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 2Â1⁄2 years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group. Much has been written about the â McDonaldisationâ or â Disneyizationâ of society, but few have been attentive to what the author terms â Loungification of societyâ . A minor mode of organization, but one whose effects are likely to become ever more profound, this study show…
Missing Connexions: The politics of airport expansion in the United Kingdom
Airports have recently become a central preoccupation for scholars concerned with a range of issues in the social sciences and the wider academy focused around governance and the modern nation state, philosophy, political economy, economics, geography, society and community. There is, however, little critical scholarly interest in what can be learned about management and organisation from airports, which has meant that our discipline is ceding gr…
Something happened: Spectres of organization/disorganization at the airport
The article explores the practical accomplishment of organization at an international airport during the course of a number of ‘security alerts’ that disrupted routine ‘modes of ordering’ (Law, 1994). Airports, we suggest, invite us to re-think ‘organization’ as the partial, contingent and always-incomplete outcome of complex order(ing)s and disorder(ing)s played out across various spaces, agencies and materials. When ‘something happens’ we begin…
Specters, ruins and chimeras: Management & Organizational History 's encounter with Benjamin
The historical materialist leaves it to others to be drained by the whore called 'Once upon a time' in historicism's bordello. He remains in control of his powers, man enough to blast open the continuum of history. © 2013 Taylor & Francis
Off-Road and Spaced-Out in the City: Organization and the Interruption of Topology
The article reports on the methods and findings of an urban experiment/intervention that deployed mathematic formulae to design a series of random walks through the city of Manchester. In developing these methods, the letters of the words “order” and “disorder” were inscribed into an A-Z map of the city to provide the outline for these walks. This quest to seek alternative modes of conduct in the everyday life of the city attempts to find access …
Enacting the Global in the Age of Enterprise Resource Planning
In this article we seek to address 'the experience of work in a global context' by revisiting the relationship between globalisation and information technologies and attributions of local and global effects. We do this through an empirical investigation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, information systems which are purported to enable the institution and the enactment of global business practices. Rather than looking for the metrics…
Organization Studies: The Sixth Organization Studies Summer Workshop “Bringing Public Organization and Organizing Back In” 25—28 May 2011, Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay, Paris, France
Perspectives on Labor Process Theory
Revitalising labour process theory: A prolegomenon to fatal writing
This article attempts a revitalisation of labour process study by way of an oblique entry and transversal movement through the writing of contemporary labour process theory. Making use of a relatively novel and experimental mode of reading and writing, including ‘signature effects’ and homophonic and homonymic play, the paper proposes ways of escape from the double‐binds, infinite regress, and solipsism inherent to the labour process. Tracing the…
The Decline of Labour Process Analysis and the Future Sociology of Work
Labour process analysis (LPA) is a well-established approach to the sociological study of work which attends to the instabilities of capitalism and, more specifically, to the volatile and contested nature of social relations at work. However, an unreflexive 'neo-orthodoxy' has emerged in recent years that is constrained by a series of dualistic and (critical) realist assumptions which inhibit the development of this distinctive sociology of work.…
The Blur Sensation: Shadows of the Future
The paper raises the question of embodiment and disembodiment as modes of theorizing organization and essays that struggle to negotiate what we call `entrance' to Blur, an `anti-architectural' installation designed as a working media pavilion by the New York based architects Diller and Scofidio. In Blur the human body is displaced from its customary mode of being-in-the-world and is given chance to discover `media' in organization as transport an…
Enacting Airports: Space, Movement and Modes of Ordering
In the era of an increasingly `light' and `liquid' modernity (Bauman, 2000) airports appear to be privileged and distinctive sites of organization, constitutive of what Castells calls a `space of flows' that is helping to extend and integrate the so-called `network age' of global economy and `glocal' culture. This paper draws on original empirical research at Fulchester International Airport and studies the movement of various subjects and object…
The Question of Theoretical Excess: Folly and Fall in theorizing Organization
This paper traces and distils crisis in theory and organization that threatens to generate what we call here a cacophony of voices—a `dada' of incoherence and contradiction; but it is babble with `real world' consequences and effects. To explore this we consider organization studies as a machine that is out of control, an `ambulatory automatism' (Hacking, 1999) that is symptomatic of the end, or perhaps the impossibility, of `the social'. Theory …
Transformative Capacity, Information Technology, and the Making of Business 'Experts
This paper explores the making of experts and the basis of claims to expertise in corporate organisational settings. The performance of expertise within organisations is increasingly associated with the implementation and use of integrated business information systems which purport to abstract the world into an informational form to make businesses run more efficiently. We argue that as these systems are put to work to replace the calculations of…
David Knights and Hugh Willmott: The Subjugation of Identity and … and … and Organization-to-Come
Speed Limits: Out of Time in Organization Studies
A screaming comes across the sky. Others glare with a vacant intensity. Solaris studies at the very same time that the world appears to be becoming one vast recording studio. Our cameras are in the process of dissolution and decay. This paper hurtles headlong into the Green Burning Car that is the crash of organization studies today. On the cusp of a promised new mode of study in organizational analysis we write on speed, attracting found objects…
Debating Labour Process Theory: The Issue of Subjectivity and the Relevance of Poststructuralism
This paper locates labour process theory in broader sociological debates concerned with the action-structure dualism before examining three broad programmes for research that have emerged in response to the question of subjectivity and agency. Whereas the `orthodox' school tends to re-assert the structuralist and economistic features of Marx, the `anti-realist' or deconstructionist position invites the abandonment of analysis that has traditional…
Debating Labour Process Theory: The Issue of Subjectivity and the Relevance of Poststructuralism
This paper locates labour process theory in broader sociological debates concerned with the action-structure dualism before examining three broad programmes for research that have emerged in response to the question of subjectivity and agency. Whereas the `orthodox' school tends to re-assert the structuralist and economistic features of Marx, the `anti-realist' or deconstructionist position invites the abandonment of analysis that has traditional…
Something happened: Spectres of organization/disorganization at the airport
The article explores the practical accomplishment of organization at an international airport during the course of a number of ‘security alerts’ that disrupted routine ‘modes of ordering’ (Law, 1994). Airports, we suggest, invite us to re-think ‘organization’ as the partial, contingent and always-incomplete outcome of complex order(ing)s and disorder(ing)s played out across various spaces, agencies and materials. When ‘something happens’ we begin…
Reconstructing Organization: The Loungification of Society
This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 2Â1⁄2 years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group. Much has been written about the â McDonaldisationâ or â Disneyizationâ of society, but few have been attentive to what the author terms â Loungification of societyâ . A minor mode of organization, but one whose effects are likely to become ever more profound, this study show…
The Decline of Labour Process Analysis and the Future Sociology of Work
Labour process analysis (LPA) is a well-established approach to the sociological study of work which attends to the instabilities of capitalism and, more specifically, to the volatile and contested nature of social relations at work. However, an unreflexive 'neo-orthodoxy' has emerged in recent years that is constrained by a series of dualistic and (critical) realist assumptions which inhibit the development of this distinctive sociology of work.…
The developments in ethnographic studies of organising: Towards objects of ignorance and objects of concern
In this introduction to the Special Issue, we review the rich tradition of ethnographic studies in organisation studies and critically examine the place of ethnography in organisation studies as practised in schools of business and management. Drawing on the findings of the articles published here, we reflect on the need for a significant extension of the content and syllabus of our discipline to include what we call objects of concern and object…
Revitalising labour process theory: A prolegomenon to fatal writing
This article attempts a revitalisation of labour process study by way of an oblique entry and transversal movement through the writing of contemporary labour process theory. Making use of a relatively novel and experimental mode of reading and writing, including ‘signature effects’ and homophonic and homonymic play, the paper proposes ways of escape from the double‐binds, infinite regress, and solipsism inherent to the labour process. Tracing the…
Off-Road and Spaced-Out in the City: Organization and the Interruption of Topology
The article reports on the methods and findings of an urban experiment/intervention that deployed mathematic formulae to design a series of random walks through the city of Manchester. In developing these methods, the letters of the words “order” and “disorder” were inscribed into an A-Z map of the city to provide the outline for these walks. This quest to seek alternative modes of conduct in the everyday life of the city attempts to find access …
Transformative Capacity, Information Technology, and the Making of Business 'Experts
This paper explores the making of experts and the basis of claims to expertise in corporate organisational settings. The performance of expertise within organisations is increasingly associated with the implementation and use of integrated business information systems which purport to abstract the world into an informational form to make businesses run more efficiently. We argue that as these systems are put to work to replace the calculations of…
David Knights and Hugh Willmott: The Subjugation of Identity and … and … and Organization-to-Come
The break-up of management: Critique Inside-Out
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Debating Labour Process Theory: The Issue of Subjectivity and the Relevance of Poststructuralism
This paper locates labour process theory in broader sociological debates concerned with the action-structure dualism before examining three broad programmes for research that have emerged in response to the question of subjectivity and agency. Whereas the `orthodox' school tends to re-assert the structuralist and economistic features of Marx, the `anti-realist' or deconstructionist position invites the abandonment of analysis that has traditional…
Speed Limits: Out of Time in Organization Studies
A screaming comes across the sky. Others glare with a vacant intensity. Solaris studies at the very same time that the world appears to be becoming one vast recording studio. Our cameras are in the process of dissolution and decay. This paper hurtles headlong into the Green Burning Car that is the crash of organization studies today. On the cusp of a promised new mode of study in organizational analysis we write on speed, attracting found objects…
David Knights and Hugh Willmott: The Subjugation of Identity and … and … and Organization-to-Come
The Question of Theoretical Excess: Folly and Fall in theorizing Organization
This paper traces and distils crisis in theory and organization that threatens to generate what we call here a cacophony of voices—a `dada' of incoherence and contradiction; but it is babble with `real world' consequences and effects. To explore this we consider organization studies as a machine that is out of control, an `ambulatory automatism' (Hacking, 1999) that is symptomatic of the end, or perhaps the impossibility, of `the social'. Theory …
Transformative Capacity, Information Technology, and the Making of Business 'Experts
This paper explores the making of experts and the basis of claims to expertise in corporate organisational settings. The performance of expertise within organisations is increasingly associated with the implementation and use of integrated business information systems which purport to abstract the world into an informational form to make businesses run more efficiently. We argue that as these systems are put to work to replace the calculations of…
The Blur Sensation: Shadows of the Future
The paper raises the question of embodiment and disembodiment as modes of theorizing organization and essays that struggle to negotiate what we call `entrance' to Blur, an `anti-architectural' installation designed as a working media pavilion by the New York based architects Diller and Scofidio. In Blur the human body is displaced from its customary mode of being-in-the-world and is given chance to discover `media' in organization as transport an…
Enacting Airports: Space, Movement and Modes of Ordering
In the era of an increasingly `light' and `liquid' modernity (Bauman, 2000) airports appear to be privileged and distinctive sites of organization, constitutive of what Castells calls a `space of flows' that is helping to extend and integrate the so-called `network age' of global economy and `glocal' culture. This paper draws on original empirical research at Fulchester International Airport and studies the movement of various subjects and object…
Perspectives on Labor Process Theory
Revitalising labour process theory: A prolegomenon to fatal writing
This article attempts a revitalisation of labour process study by way of an oblique entry and transversal movement through the writing of contemporary labour process theory. Making use of a relatively novel and experimental mode of reading and writing, including ‘signature effects’ and homophonic and homonymic play, the paper proposes ways of escape from the double‐binds, infinite regress, and solipsism inherent to the labour process. Tracing the…
The Decline of Labour Process Analysis and the Future Sociology of Work
Labour process analysis (LPA) is a well-established approach to the sociological study of work which attends to the instabilities of capitalism and, more specifically, to the volatile and contested nature of social relations at work. However, an unreflexive 'neo-orthodoxy' has emerged in recent years that is constrained by a series of dualistic and (critical) realist assumptions which inhibit the development of this distinctive sociology of work.…
Organization Studies: The Sixth Organization Studies Summer Workshop “Bringing Public Organization and Organizing Back In” 25—28 May 2011, Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay, Paris, France
Enacting the Global in the Age of Enterprise Resource Planning
In this article we seek to address 'the experience of work in a global context' by revisiting the relationship between globalisation and information technologies and attributions of local and global effects. We do this through an empirical investigation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, information systems which are purported to enable the institution and the enactment of global business practices. Rather than looking for the metrics…
Specters, ruins and chimeras: Management & Organizational History 's encounter with Benjamin
The historical materialist leaves it to others to be drained by the whore called 'Once upon a time' in historicism's bordello. He remains in control of his powers, man enough to blast open the continuum of history. © 2013 Taylor & Francis
Off-Road and Spaced-Out in the City: Organization and the Interruption of Topology
The article reports on the methods and findings of an urban experiment/intervention that deployed mathematic formulae to design a series of random walks through the city of Manchester. In developing these methods, the letters of the words “order” and “disorder” were inscribed into an A-Z map of the city to provide the outline for these walks. This quest to seek alternative modes of conduct in the everyday life of the city attempts to find access …
Missing Connexions: The politics of airport expansion in the United Kingdom
Airports have recently become a central preoccupation for scholars concerned with a range of issues in the social sciences and the wider academy focused around governance and the modern nation state, philosophy, political economy, economics, geography, society and community. There is, however, little critical scholarly interest in what can be learned about management and organisation from airports, which has meant that our discipline is ceding gr…
Something happened: Spectres of organization/disorganization at the airport
The article explores the practical accomplishment of organization at an international airport during the course of a number of ‘security alerts’ that disrupted routine ‘modes of ordering’ (Law, 1994). Airports, we suggest, invite us to re-think ‘organization’ as the partial, contingent and always-incomplete outcome of complex order(ing)s and disorder(ing)s played out across various spaces, agencies and materials. When ‘something happens’ we begin…
Feline politics in organization: The nine lives of Olly the cat
The appearance of ‘Olly the cat’ on the doorsteps of a major UK international airport provides occasion to reconsider the role of the animal in organization and offers suggestive insight into how we might have to learn new ways of being within extended multi-species or interspecies ontologies. Olly is found to lead multiple lives that cannot be reduced to the status of object or media of human intentionality. Her increasing political involvement …
Reconstructing Organization: The Loungification of Society
This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 2Â1⁄2 years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group. Much has been written about the â McDonaldisationâ or â Disneyizationâ of society, but few have been attentive to what the author terms â Loungification of societyâ . A minor mode of organization, but one whose effects are likely to become ever more profound, this study show…
The break-up of management: Critique Inside-Out
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
On the beginning of formal organization
As part of a series of audacious experiments in organization during the early 1960s, the cybernetician Stafford Beer sought to enroll pond life into organizational decision-making. In one experimen
The developments in ethnographic studies of organising: Towards objects of ignorance and objects of concern
In this introduction to the Special Issue, we review the rich tradition of ethnographic studies in organisation studies and critically examine the place of ethnography in organisation studies as practised in schools of business and management. Drawing on the findings of the articles published here, we reflect on the need for a significant extension of the content and syllabus of our discipline to include what we call objects of concern and object…
Olly the Cat: Excerpts from a Feline Ethnography in Business and Management Studies
This chapter draws on two and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork at Manchester Airport Group in the UK, part of which included extended study of ‘Olly the cat’ where the author grappled with the significance of his/her presence in matters of management and organization. The feline and multispecies ethnography developed in this chapter extends existing work in animal studies in management and organization to show how we can learn from the nonh…
And a note on ‘some notes for anniversarifiers’
This essay forms part of the 30th Special Issue of the journal and reflects on the role of the anniversarifier and reports on way of escaping the end of Organization to which it leads. Playful, ludic and irreverent this paper poses difficulties to the abstract, which should eventually be excised from the final publication
Alignment and Articulation Work in Computer Mediated Organization
The concept of ‘alignment’ has been commonly used to refer to the re-organizations of the world deemed necessary in order to accommodate the workings of complex technological systems. However, such re-organizations also, and inevitably, dis-organize the settings where such technologies are deployed. This, in turn, incites further orderings – and thus further dis-orderings. Complex (if often invisible) patterns of ‘articulation work’ typically eme…
Sociology (21 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (19 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Information Systems Theories and Implementation (6 works)