Exploring Organisational Controversies as Actor-Networks
Ethnographic Insights from a Brazilian State School
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 6437441 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Bruno Luiz Américo (0000-0003-2615-6583, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú), César Tureta (0000-0003-0091-1114, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo), Stewart Clegg (0000-0001-6083-4283, The University of Sydney) |
| Ano | 2025 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 239-266 |
| Data de publicação | 2025-03-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of Organizational Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 2752-2997 • E-ISSN: 2752-2997 |
| Editora | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/joso-2024-0018 |
| OpenAlex | W4408650057 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 1 |
| Referências citadas | 61 |
We adopt an ethnographic approach grounded in Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to examine the controversies surrounding student performance in a Brazilian State School recovering from a post-disaster scenario. By tracing the networks of actors – school staff, students, educational regulations, and community concerns – we illustrate how translation processes shape and stabilise organisational actions. The analysis reveals that controversies over project-based versus traditional learning approaches prompted continuous renegotiation of roles, interests, and goals. These renegotiations drew on output-based regulations, prior award-winning educational projects, and local socio-environmental issues to enact a provisional future that the school should achieve. Our findings suggest that contradictory interests in highly regulated public institutions do not necessarily mean a lack of success in achieving collective objectives but instead create opportunities for their creative redefinition. We demonstrate how past experiences and imagined futures influence public managers’ and employees’ decisions in negotiating these controversies, temporarily stabilising organisational practices
Ethnography · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Computer Science · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Management and Organizational Studies
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| Citações por ano | 1 |
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