The corporation performed

Minutes From the Rituals of Annual General Meetings

Bibliographic Data

ID7857656
AuthorsAnette Nyqvist (Stockholm University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume4
Issue3
Pages341-355
Publication date2015-10-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Organizational Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2046-6749 • E-ISSN: 2046-6757
PublisherEmerald (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1108/joe-12-2014-0037
OpenAlexW1253402933
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited31

Purpose – In this paper the annual general meetings (AGM) of corporations are conceptualized as front-stage performances and dramas where the three roles of the corporation – the shareholder, manager and director – perform the corporation as a particular type of organization. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Meeting ethnography conducted at four seasons of AGMs in Sweden. Findings – The study sheds light on how the required AGM of public companies may be seen as a ritualized, legitimizing and trust-building corporate performance where the different roles of the corporation are played out in positioning procedures and where the corporation as an organizational form is enacted. Originality/value – The topic is of this paper is clearly original. Looking at corporations from an anthropological angle, exploring foundation myths, rites and organizational cultures, have been employed earlier, but exploring AGMs from an anthropological angle, is new

Corporate governance · Corporation · Economics · Ethnography · Management · Organizational culture · Originality · Political science · Qualitative research · Shareholder · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Anthropology · Computer Science · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts

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