Ritual Semiosis in the Business Corporation
Recruitment to Routinized Innovation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13085767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Wilf (0000-0003-0975-2826, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | S13-S40 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Signs and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2326-4489 • E-ISSN: 2326-4497 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/679321 |
| OpenAlex | W1977986481 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 25 |
This essay draws on fieldwork conducted in a workshop organized in New York City by an innovation consultancy group and attended by representatives of different business corporations. In this workshop, participants are supposed to learn a set of innovation techniques for generating new products and services and to become convinced that there can be added value in buying the consultancy group’s services. The task of the consultancy group embodies a basic cultural contradiction because innovation is widely associated with notions that derive from a modern Romantic ethos of creativity, which itself connotes resistance to routinization. To overcome this contradiction the facilitators engage the participants in ritual semiosis. They orchestrate densely multilayered and multimodal discursive practices that reflexively consolidate a macrosociological order, which opposes a Romantic ethos and a professional ethos, and that dynamically figurate transformations in the microsociological context of the participants’ role-inhabitance with respect to innovation—from their role-inhabitance of a Romantic ethos at the beginning of the workshop to their entailed role-inhabitance of a professional ethos at the workshop’s end
Context (archaeology · Contradiction · Creativity · Epistemology · Ethos · Management · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Romance · Semiosis · Semiotics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
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Mapping participant deictics
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Sources of the self
Discourse and the No-thing-ness of Culture
Language and Social Relations
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Institutionalized Organizations
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2020 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |