Chris Steyaert
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 201410 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chris Steyaert |
| PRENOMES | Chris |
| SOBRENOME | Steyaert |
| ASSINATURA | STEYAERT C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of St.Gallen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9760-2355 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 183 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Why change towards gender equality is glacially slow
This paper explores men’s ambivalent relationship with gender equality within the homosocial context of management teams. Analysing 10 group discussions with male managers about increasing women’s representation in executive roles highlights how the male-dominated setting influences their engagement with gender equality. The study uncovers a dynamic, often conflictual, shift between subject positions across discussions and explores how speakers n…
Emancipatory entrepreneuring as disidentification
Democratizing entrepreneurship itself is by far no guarantee for emancipation: the majority can (over)rule, masculinist dominance or regressive ideologies may flourish, and exclusions occur. By ethnographically following the transformation of a socially engaged agency into a diverse cooperative, we offer a processual study of emancipatory entrepreneuring that is undoing the paternal, family-like, and pseudo-democratic enterprise and creates a div…
Ambivalent affects of queer resistance
Purpose This paper argues that past events of queer resistance – such as the Stonewall Riots in 1969 in New York – need to be critically inquired for their meaningful legacy and future potentiality through remembering and re-experiencing these events affectively. Considering the recent backlash against LGBTQI+ people, the paper underlines the importance of a nuanced understanding and affective remembering of historic events like the Stonewall rio…
The atmospheric attunement of diversity interventions
Since the start of diversity management in organizations, interventions have been primarily oriented toward altering individuals' cognition, missing out on the potential of the embodied and materially mediated character of learning and interacting as experimented with in arts-based interventions. In this study, through ethnographically exploring a dance performance, whose main purpose is to create a community between a diverse cast and audience, …
Peer Collaboration as a Relational Practice
Fashioning ethical subjectivity
Organizational ethics has attracted increasing attention, but how individuals make sense of themselves as ethical subjects is a yet to be explored domain. The few empirical articles on ethical subjectivity have focused on how people within organizations seek to find a balance between a sense of ethical selfhood and dominant organizational discourse. We are interested in the role of the body and embodied experiences in constructing the entrepreneu…
Social Entrepreneurship
Beyond possession and competition
This article examines power issues related to language diversity in organizations, thus answering the need to investigate the role of language in cross-cultural management. More specifically, it contributes to a better understanding of how intraorganizational power relations are (re)defined through language use. Building on insights from language-sensitive research in international business, the article suggests that a further conceptual developm…
By accident and by design
This article argues that the notion of affective atmosphere provides a privileged access to the study of organizational affect as it relates to a spatial ontology of 'being-together-in-a-sphere'. Drawing on the study of affective atmospheres in philosophy and cultural geography, we develop a conceptual positioning from which to analyze a musical intervention in the streets and squares of Berlin. The study traces the preparation and enactment of a…
Three Women. A Kiss. A Life. On the Queer Writing of Time in Organization
In this paper, a queer approach to feminine writing is related to the development of new female subject positions through conceiving of other understandings of time. To conceptualize this relationship, the novel The Hours by M ichael C unningham is analysed and interpreted as a queer story of how women — writing, reading and enacting a novel — acquire an opening to a life that breaks with the heteronormative conception of time. This one‐day novel…
Narrative identity construction in times of career change
Working at the intersection of narrative and psychoanalytic theory, we present in this article an affective conceptualization of identity dynamics during times of career change, incorporating the notion of unconscious desires. We propose that frictions in career change narratives, such as the paradoxical co-existence of coherence and ambiguity, allude to unconscious subtexts that can become ‘readable’ in the narrative when applying a psychoanalyt…
Multilingual scholarship and the paradox of translation and language in management and organization studies
This article questions the unreflexive use of English in academic practices by highlighting the paradox of multilingual scholarship and the need for practices that may help both scholars and journals to become inventive in performing multilingual scholarship. Even when academic outputs are only in English, language multiplicity exists and needs to be reflected upon. To do so, we introduce the three strategies of scandalization, scrutinization, an…
Strangely Familiar
This paper focuses on the aesthetics of the uncanny to inquire into and perform affective sites of organizing that are imbued with feelings of uncertainty and uneasiness. We argue that the uncanny forms an 'unconcept' that allows us to think and apprehend 'white spaces' of organization not as new or other spaces but through a process of relating intensively with the conventional places, streets and squares that form the backdrop to everyday life.…
Multiplicity and reflexivity in organizational research
Purpose The purpose of this paper is, first, to assess the potential of the visual to enact multiplicity and reflexivity in organizational research, and second, to develop a performative approach to the visual, which offers aesthetic strategies for creating future research accounts in organization and management studies. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews existing visual research in organization and management studies and presents an i…
Enacting entrepreneurship research in a pioneering, provocative and participative way
Spacing organization
This article connects to and extends the attempts to bring space back into critical organizational theory, which, we argue, has mainly been based on the socio-spatial perspective as pioneered by Henri Lefebvre. Taking issue with the various ways in which Lefebvre’s work can be interpreted, we develop an alternative route. Adopting a mode of non-representational theorizing as outlined in human geography, we propose the concept of ‘spacing’, which …
The ontological politics of artistic interventions
The aim of our article is to reflect upon intervention as a threshold where art and action research meet. For this, we will relate calls to apply the capacity of the performing arts to the social sciences to examples of neo-avant-garde art practices which show a renewed interest in (intervening into) the everyday production of public space. We recount and analyze two vignettes of artistic interventions to illustrate the politico-aesthetic power o…
The Politics and Aesthetics of Entrepreneurship
Queering Space
Understanding the study of sexual spaces as heterotopological, this article argues that, in the context of sexual minorities, new forms of sexual identity that contest the dominant forms are generated and practiced in specific, ‘other’, spaces and timings, so‐called ‘heterotopias’. To develop and illustrate this argument, the garden and gardening practices of Derek Jarman are described and analysed as a heterotopic space and practice. To theoreti…
‘Entrepreneuring’ as a conceptual attractor? A review of process theories in 20 years of entrepreneurship studies
The Troubadours of Knowledge
This paper argues that current management education works primarily with an instrumental, reified and fragmented conception of knowledge that ignores the connection between knowing and passion. To propose a learning process that is less dispassionate and disembodied and that conceives of knowledge as invention, we first exemplify the current crises of (management) education and reflect on its implied concepts of knowledge and learning along Lyota…
Justifying Theatre in Organisational Analysis
Drawing upon recent developments in “post‐dramatic theatre”, this article inquires how the aesthetics and art of theatre has been justified and used in the organisational context and tries to re‐imagine possible relations between theatre and organisation. Referring to the simultaneously provocative and self‐reflective staging of Dostojevski’s “The Idiot” by the German director Castorf, we suggest to break up an all‐too‐easily established relation…
Reclaiming the space of entrepreneurship in society
This paper seeks to explore and to reflect upon the implications of how to conceive entrepreneurship when considered as a societal rather than an economic phenomenon. To conceive and reclaim the space in which entrepreneurship is seen at work in society, we point at the geographical, discursive and social dimensions from where we develop three crucial and connected questions that can reconstruct the future research agendas of entrepreneurship stu…
Narrative and Discursive Approaches in Entrepreneurship
Foreword Introduction 1. The Prosaics of Entrepreneurship 2. A Moment in Time 3. Driven Entrepreneurs: A Case Study of Taxi Owners in Caracas 4. 'Going Against the Grain': Construction of Entrepreneurial Identities through Narratives 5. Storytelling to be Real: Narrative, Legitimacy Building and Venturing 6. The Devil is in the E-Tale 7. Of Crime and Assumptions in Entrepreneurship 8. The Dramas of Consulting and Counselling for Entrepreneur 9. M…
New Movements in Entrepreneurship
Drawing from contributions by scholars of entrepreneurship from North America, Western Europe and Asia, this text celebrates the vibrancy and interdisciplinarity of entrepreneurship research.
Spacing organization
This article connects to and extends the attempts to bring space back into critical organizational theory, which, we argue, has mainly been based on the socio-spatial perspective as pioneered by Henri Lefebvre. Taking issue with the various ways in which Lefebvre’s work can be interpreted, we develop an alternative route. Adopting a mode of non-representational theorizing as outlined in human geography, we propose the concept of ‘spacing’, which …
By accident and by design
This article argues that the notion of affective atmosphere provides a privileged access to the study of organizational affect as it relates to a spatial ontology of 'being-together-in-a-sphere'. Drawing on the study of affective atmospheres in philosophy and cultural geography, we develop a conceptual positioning from which to analyze a musical intervention in the streets and squares of Berlin. The study traces the preparation and enactment of a…
Narrative identity construction in times of career change
Working at the intersection of narrative and psychoanalytic theory, we present in this article an affective conceptualization of identity dynamics during times of career change, incorporating the notion of unconscious desires. We propose that frictions in career change narratives, such as the paradoxical co-existence of coherence and ambiguity, allude to unconscious subtexts that can become ‘readable’ in the narrative when applying a psychoanalyt…
The ontological politics of artistic interventions
The aim of our article is to reflect upon intervention as a threshold where art and action research meet. For this, we will relate calls to apply the capacity of the performing arts to the social sciences to examples of neo-avant-garde art practices which show a renewed interest in (intervening into) the everyday production of public space. We recount and analyze two vignettes of artistic interventions to illustrate the politico-aesthetic power o…
Strangely Familiar
This paper focuses on the aesthetics of the uncanny to inquire into and perform affective sites of organizing that are imbued with feelings of uncertainty and uneasiness. We argue that the uncanny forms an 'unconcept' that allows us to think and apprehend 'white spaces' of organization not as new or other spaces but through a process of relating intensively with the conventional places, streets and squares that form the backdrop to everyday life.…
Multiplicity and reflexivity in organizational research
Purpose The purpose of this paper is, first, to assess the potential of the visual to enact multiplicity and reflexivity in organizational research, and second, to develop a performative approach to the visual, which offers aesthetic strategies for creating future research accounts in organization and management studies. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews existing visual research in organization and management studies and presents an i…
Queering Space
Understanding the study of sexual spaces as heterotopological, this article argues that, in the context of sexual minorities, new forms of sexual identity that contest the dominant forms are generated and practiced in specific, ‘other’, spaces and timings, so‐called ‘heterotopias’. To develop and illustrate this argument, the garden and gardening practices of Derek Jarman are described and analysed as a heterotopic space and practice. To theoreti…
The atmospheric attunement of diversity interventions
Since the start of diversity management in organizations, interventions have been primarily oriented toward altering individuals' cognition, missing out on the potential of the embodied and materially mediated character of learning and interacting as experimented with in arts-based interventions. In this study, through ethnographically exploring a dance performance, whose main purpose is to create a community between a diverse cast and audience, …
Emancipatory entrepreneuring as disidentification
Democratizing entrepreneurship itself is by far no guarantee for emancipation: the majority can (over)rule, masculinist dominance or regressive ideologies may flourish, and exclusions occur. By ethnographically following the transformation of a socially engaged agency into a diverse cooperative, we offer a processual study of emancipatory entrepreneuring that is undoing the paternal, family-like, and pseudo-democratic enterprise and creates a div…
Beyond possession and competition
This article examines power issues related to language diversity in organizations, thus answering the need to investigate the role of language in cross-cultural management. More specifically, it contributes to a better understanding of how intraorganizational power relations are (re)defined through language use. Building on insights from language-sensitive research in international business, the article suggests that a further conceptual developm…
Justifying Theatre in Organisational Analysis
Drawing upon recent developments in “post‐dramatic theatre”, this article inquires how the aesthetics and art of theatre has been justified and used in the organisational context and tries to re‐imagine possible relations between theatre and organisation. Referring to the simultaneously provocative and self‐reflective staging of Dostojevski’s “The Idiot” by the German director Castorf, we suggest to break up an all‐too‐easily established relation…
Human and Inhuman Resource Management
The Inhuman Space of HRM
‘Thou Art a Scholar, Speak to it…’ - on Spaces of Speech
This article argues, based on the work of Bakhtin and de Certeau, that there is no aesthetics without politics and that all academic discourse and practices are enacted through aesthetic forms with inherently political and ethical effects. The article is written in a script-form with indications on how to perform it, acting out or ‘performing’ in a direct way rather than adding to the arguments already present in organizational literature. In a p…
'Thou art a scholar, speak to it …' - on spaces of speech
New Movements in Entrepreneurship
Drawing from contributions by scholars of entrepreneurship from North America, Western Europe and Asia, this text celebrates the vibrancy and interdisciplinarity of entrepreneurship research.
Entrepreneurship beyond (a new) economy
The relationship between entrepreneurship and the new economy is explored. This exploration builds on the writings of Michel de Certeau, whose examination of the impulsive and the spontaneous in relation to the dominant workings of a phenomenon allow for a culturally sensitive analysis of the role of entrepreneurship in the new economy. De Certeau's notion of creative swarms is borrowed to describe the emerging Internet economy.With its e-compani…
Reclaiming the space of entrepreneurship in society
This paper seeks to explore and to reflect upon the implications of how to conceive entrepreneurship when considered as a societal rather than an economic phenomenon. To conceive and reclaim the space in which entrepreneurship is seen at work in society, we point at the geographical, discursive and social dimensions from where we develop three crucial and connected questions that can reconstruct the future research agendas of entrepreneurship stu…
Narrative and Discursive Approaches in Entrepreneurship
Foreword Introduction 1. The Prosaics of Entrepreneurship 2. A Moment in Time 3. Driven Entrepreneurs: A Case Study of Taxi Owners in Caracas 4. 'Going Against the Grain': Construction of Entrepreneurial Identities through Narratives 5. Storytelling to be Real: Narrative, Legitimacy Building and Venturing 6. The Devil is in the E-Tale 7. Of Crime and Assumptions in Entrepreneurship 8. The Dramas of Consulting and Counselling for Entrepreneur 9. M…
Justifying Theatre in Organisational Analysis
Drawing upon recent developments in “post‐dramatic theatre”, this article inquires how the aesthetics and art of theatre has been justified and used in the organisational context and tries to re‐imagine possible relations between theatre and organisation. Referring to the simultaneously provocative and self‐reflective staging of Dostojevski’s “The Idiot” by the German director Castorf, we suggest to break up an all‐too‐easily established relation…
‘Entrepreneuring’ as a conceptual attractor? A review of process theories in 20 years of entrepreneurship studies
The Troubadours of Knowledge
This paper argues that current management education works primarily with an instrumental, reified and fragmented conception of knowledge that ignores the connection between knowing and passion. To propose a learning process that is less dispassionate and disembodied and that conceives of knowledge as invention, we first exemplify the current crises of (management) education and reflect on its implied concepts of knowledge and learning along Lyota…
Queering Space
Understanding the study of sexual spaces as heterotopological, this article argues that, in the context of sexual minorities, new forms of sexual identity that contest the dominant forms are generated and practiced in specific, ‘other’, spaces and timings, so‐called ‘heterotopias’. To develop and illustrate this argument, the garden and gardening practices of Derek Jarman are described and analysed as a heterotopic space and practice. To theoreti…
The Politics and Aesthetics of Entrepreneurship
Enacting entrepreneurship research in a pioneering, provocative and participative way
Spacing organization
This article connects to and extends the attempts to bring space back into critical organizational theory, which, we argue, has mainly been based on the socio-spatial perspective as pioneered by Henri Lefebvre. Taking issue with the various ways in which Lefebvre’s work can be interpreted, we develop an alternative route. Adopting a mode of non-representational theorizing as outlined in human geography, we propose the concept of ‘spacing’, which …
The ontological politics of artistic interventions
The aim of our article is to reflect upon intervention as a threshold where art and action research meet. For this, we will relate calls to apply the capacity of the performing arts to the social sciences to examples of neo-avant-garde art practices which show a renewed interest in (intervening into) the everyday production of public space. We recount and analyze two vignettes of artistic interventions to illustrate the politico-aesthetic power o…
Multiplicity and reflexivity in organizational research
Purpose The purpose of this paper is, first, to assess the potential of the visual to enact multiplicity and reflexivity in organizational research, and second, to develop a performative approach to the visual, which offers aesthetic strategies for creating future research accounts in organization and management studies. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews existing visual research in organization and management studies and presents an i…
Multilingual scholarship and the paradox of translation and language in management and organization studies
This article questions the unreflexive use of English in academic practices by highlighting the paradox of multilingual scholarship and the need for practices that may help both scholars and journals to become inventive in performing multilingual scholarship. Even when academic outputs are only in English, language multiplicity exists and needs to be reflected upon. To do so, we introduce the three strategies of scandalization, scrutinization, an…
Strangely Familiar
This paper focuses on the aesthetics of the uncanny to inquire into and perform affective sites of organizing that are imbued with feelings of uncertainty and uneasiness. We argue that the uncanny forms an 'unconcept' that allows us to think and apprehend 'white spaces' of organization not as new or other spaces but through a process of relating intensively with the conventional places, streets and squares that form the backdrop to everyday life.…
Three Women. A Kiss. A Life. On the Queer Writing of Time in Organization
In this paper, a queer approach to feminine writing is related to the development of new female subject positions through conceiving of other understandings of time. To conceptualize this relationship, the novel The Hours by M ichael C unningham is analysed and interpreted as a queer story of how women — writing, reading and enacting a novel — acquire an opening to a life that breaks with the heteronormative conception of time. This one‐day novel…
Narrative identity construction in times of career change
Working at the intersection of narrative and psychoanalytic theory, we present in this article an affective conceptualization of identity dynamics during times of career change, incorporating the notion of unconscious desires. We propose that frictions in career change narratives, such as the paradoxical co-existence of coherence and ambiguity, allude to unconscious subtexts that can become ‘readable’ in the narrative when applying a psychoanalyt…
Beyond possession and competition
This article examines power issues related to language diversity in organizations, thus answering the need to investigate the role of language in cross-cultural management. More specifically, it contributes to a better understanding of how intraorganizational power relations are (re)defined through language use. Building on insights from language-sensitive research in international business, the article suggests that a further conceptual developm…
By accident and by design
This article argues that the notion of affective atmosphere provides a privileged access to the study of organizational affect as it relates to a spatial ontology of 'being-together-in-a-sphere'. Drawing on the study of affective atmospheres in philosophy and cultural geography, we develop a conceptual positioning from which to analyze a musical intervention in the streets and squares of Berlin. The study traces the preparation and enactment of a…
Social Entrepreneurship
Fashioning ethical subjectivity
Organizational ethics has attracted increasing attention, but how individuals make sense of themselves as ethical subjects is a yet to be explored domain. The few empirical articles on ethical subjectivity have focused on how people within organizations seek to find a balance between a sense of ethical selfhood and dominant organizational discourse. We are interested in the role of the body and embodied experiences in constructing the entrepreneu…
Sociology (24 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Epistemology (13 obras) · Management and Organizational Studies (13 obras) · Psychology (12 obras) · Aesthetics (10 obras) · Art (9 obras) · Linguistics (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Philosophy (8 obras)