Katherine K Chen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3620474 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Katherine K Chen |
| PRENOMES | Katherine K |
| SOBRENOME | Chen |
| ASSINATURA | CHEN K K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1826-5501 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Legitimizing Organizations via Research
Under multiple public administration reforms since the 1980s, public bureaucracies' activities range from connecting with markets to inviting the participation of service users, citizens, and networks of organizations in policy development, decision-making, and implementation. Despite this broadening of stakeholder participation, certain organizations are at risk of being overlooked, despite their direct involvement in efforts to engage communiti…
Justice in the Workplace
After Covid, a New “New Economy”
With COVID, employees are questioning their exploitative workplace conditions, providing opportunities to rethink conventional arrangements. How might we reorganize economies so that they actually support the vast majority of people? How might we create stronger institutions to protect us against the array of existential threats we now face—which would include not just another pandemic, but also ongoing political instability, growing economic ine…
Bounded relationality
Using observations of US governmental, advocacy and human service organizations' (GAHSOs) talks, I show how these intermediary organizations endorsed 'bounded relationality' when teaching conventions about exchanges in the social insurance market. Bounded relationality synthesizes (a) Simon's argument that organizations' goals and practices help people compensate for bounded rationality-their cognitive limitations with decision-making-and (b) Zel…
School choice's idealized premises and unfulfilled promises
In school choice systems, families choose among publicly funded schools, and schools compete for students and resources. Using neoinstitutionalist and relational inequality theories, our article reinterprets recent critical sociological and education research to show how such markets involve actors' enacting myths; these beliefs and their associated practices normalized white, privileged consumption as a basis for revamping public education as ma…
Curated Stories
In Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling, Sujatha Fernandes delves into narratives produced by four organizations “as a tool of philanthropy, statecraft, and advocacy” (2). Comparing blogged narratives that invited readers’ comments, testimonies produced for policymakers, and oral histories elicited by a socialist state, Fernandes proposes that organizations engage in a “political economy of storytelling” (10), where they prompt a…
Burning Man
Burning Man, an annual week‐long event devoted to countercultural principles and art, offers a rich context for studying art, consumption, religiosity and spirituality, subcultures, collective action, and organizations. During the week leading to the Labor Day holiday, 80,000 persons gather in the Black Rock Desert to form Black Rock City, one of Nevada's largest, albeit temporary, cities. Toward the week's end, the event's eponymous bonfire cons…
Crafting Collectivity
“Plan your Burn, Burn your Plan”
Research has found that compared with larger groups, small ones had fewer difficulties with retaining their participatory-democratic practices and values. However, the endurance and expansion of Burning Man, from 20 friends and family in 1986 to a temporary arts community of more than 66,000 persons in 2014, suggests that collectivities can maintain and augment participatory practices over increasing scale. Using an ethnographic study of organizi…
Prosumption
During the week prior to the 2006 Labor Day weekend, explorers of Black Rock City, a temporary city in the Nevada Black Rock Desert, may have stumbled upon a handmade wooden stand. Unlike conventio
Paradoxes of Individualization
Organizing Creativity
How individuals can exercise creativity in collectivities is unclear. We thus need to more thoroughly investigate the ‘black box’ of organizational creativity. Future research should consider creativity in a variety of organizations, rather than just those that are known for creative outputs or practices. In addition, we need to examine what I call everyday, relational, and proto‐institutional forms of organizational creativity. Intra‐ and inter‐…
Charismatizing the Routine
Banded Together
Artistic Prosumption
Researchers have called for more studies of how organizations institutionalize the unfamiliar as taken for granted. This study answers this call by examining how an organization has advocated an unfamiliar activity, the prosumption of art. To show how particular means and ends become taken for granted, this research analyzes how the Burning Man organization has promoted a logic advocating the prosumption of art. Using an in-depth ethnographic stu…
Lessons for creative cities from Burning Man
Burning Man
Burning Man, an annual weeklong event devoted to countercultural principles and art, offers a rich context for studying art, consumption, religiosity and spirituality, subcultures, collective action, and organizations. During the week leading to the Labor Day holiday, some 47,000 persons gather across five square miles, forming Black Rock City, one of Nevada's largest, albeit temporary, cities. Toward the week's end, the event's eponymous bonfire…
Enabling Creative Chaos
Charismatizing the Routine
Artistic Prosumption
Researchers have called for more studies of how organizations institutionalize the unfamiliar as taken for granted. This study answers this call by examining how an organization has advocated an unfamiliar activity, the prosumption of art. To show how particular means and ends become taken for granted, this research analyzes how the Burning Man organization has promoted a logic advocating the prosumption of art. Using an in-depth ethnographic stu…
Bounded relationality
Using observations of US governmental, advocacy and human service organizations' (GAHSOs) talks, I show how these intermediary organizations endorsed 'bounded relationality' when teaching conventions about exchanges in the social insurance market. Bounded relationality synthesizes (a) Simon's argument that organizations' goals and practices help people compensate for bounded rationality-their cognitive limitations with decision-making-and (b) Zel…
School choice's idealized premises and unfulfilled promises
In school choice systems, families choose among publicly funded schools, and schools compete for students and resources. Using neoinstitutionalist and relational inequality theories, our article reinterprets recent critical sociological and education research to show how such markets involve actors' enacting myths; these beliefs and their associated practices normalized white, privileged consumption as a basis for revamping public education as ma…
Legitimizing Organizations via Research
Under multiple public administration reforms since the 1980s, public bureaucracies' activities range from connecting with markets to inviting the participation of service users, citizens, and networks of organizations in policy development, decision-making, and implementation. Despite this broadening of stakeholder participation, certain organizations are at risk of being overlooked, despite their direct involvement in efforts to engage communiti…
Organizing Creativity
How individuals can exercise creativity in collectivities is unclear. We thus need to more thoroughly investigate the ‘black box’ of organizational creativity. Future research should consider creativity in a variety of organizations, rather than just those that are known for creative outputs or practices. In addition, we need to examine what I call everyday, relational, and proto‐institutional forms of organizational creativity. Intra‐ and inter‐…
Crafting Collectivity
Banded Together
Enabling Creative Chaos
Burning Man
Burning Man, an annual weeklong event devoted to countercultural principles and art, offers a rich context for studying art, consumption, religiosity and spirituality, subcultures, collective action, and organizations. During the week leading to the Labor Day holiday, some 47,000 persons gather across five square miles, forming Black Rock City, one of Nevada's largest, albeit temporary, cities. Toward the week's end, the event's eponymous bonfire…
Lessons for creative cities from Burning Man
Organizing Creativity
How individuals can exercise creativity in collectivities is unclear. We thus need to more thoroughly investigate the ‘black box’ of organizational creativity. Future research should consider creativity in a variety of organizations, rather than just those that are known for creative outputs or practices. In addition, we need to examine what I call everyday, relational, and proto‐institutional forms of organizational creativity. Intra‐ and inter‐…
Charismatizing the Routine
Banded Together
Artistic Prosumption
Researchers have called for more studies of how organizations institutionalize the unfamiliar as taken for granted. This study answers this call by examining how an organization has advocated an unfamiliar activity, the prosumption of art. To show how particular means and ends become taken for granted, this research analyzes how the Burning Man organization has promoted a logic advocating the prosumption of art. Using an in-depth ethnographic stu…
Paradoxes of Individualization
“Plan your Burn, Burn your Plan”
Research has found that compared with larger groups, small ones had fewer difficulties with retaining their participatory-democratic practices and values. However, the endurance and expansion of Burning Man, from 20 friends and family in 1986 to a temporary arts community of more than 66,000 persons in 2014, suggests that collectivities can maintain and augment participatory practices over increasing scale. Using an ethnographic study of organizi…
Prosumption
During the week prior to the 2006 Labor Day weekend, explorers of Black Rock City, a temporary city in the Nevada Black Rock Desert, may have stumbled upon a handmade wooden stand. Unlike conventio
Crafting Collectivity
Burning Man
Burning Man, an annual week‐long event devoted to countercultural principles and art, offers a rich context for studying art, consumption, religiosity and spirituality, subcultures, collective action, and organizations. During the week leading to the Labor Day holiday, 80,000 persons gather in the Black Rock Desert to form Black Rock City, one of Nevada's largest, albeit temporary, cities. Toward the week's end, the event's eponymous bonfire cons…
Curated Stories
In Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling, Sujatha Fernandes delves into narratives produced by four organizations “as a tool of philanthropy, statecraft, and advocacy” (2). Comparing blogged narratives that invited readers’ comments, testimonies produced for policymakers, and oral histories elicited by a socialist state, Fernandes proposes that organizations engage in a “political economy of storytelling” (10), where they prompt a…
School choice's idealized premises and unfulfilled promises
In school choice systems, families choose among publicly funded schools, and schools compete for students and resources. Using neoinstitutionalist and relational inequality theories, our article reinterprets recent critical sociological and education research to show how such markets involve actors' enacting myths; these beliefs and their associated practices normalized white, privileged consumption as a basis for revamping public education as ma…
Bounded relationality
Using observations of US governmental, advocacy and human service organizations' (GAHSOs) talks, I show how these intermediary organizations endorsed 'bounded relationality' when teaching conventions about exchanges in the social insurance market. Bounded relationality synthesizes (a) Simon's argument that organizations' goals and practices help people compensate for bounded rationality-their cognitive limitations with decision-making-and (b) Zel…
After Covid, a New “New Economy”
With COVID, employees are questioning their exploitative workplace conditions, providing opportunities to rethink conventional arrangements. How might we reorganize economies so that they actually support the vast majority of people? How might we create stronger institutions to protect us against the array of existential threats we now face—which would include not just another pandemic, but also ongoing political instability, growing economic ine…
Justice in the Workplace
Legitimizing Organizations via Research
Under multiple public administration reforms since the 1980s, public bureaucracies' activities range from connecting with markets to inviting the participation of service users, citizens, and networks of organizations in policy development, decision-making, and implementation. Despite this broadening of stakeholder participation, certain organizations are at risk of being overlooked, despite their direct involvement in efforts to engage communiti…
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