What are the distinctive traits that characterize work (ing) through (and for) a digital platform?
In the burgeoning debate on the 'gig economy', a critical examination that comprehensively …

In recent years" leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from
North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these …

The Problem The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a stark light on workplace inequities and
injustices. Aside from disrupting daily routines and ways of working, the pandemic has …

The worldwide spread of work‐related mental unhealth suggests that this is a major problem
affecting organizations and employees on a global scale. In this paper, we therefore provide …

In Experimental Practice Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new
forms of political and social movements through the reconfiguration of the material …

The article analyses the UK government's plans to create a social investment market. The
Big Society as political economy is understood as a response to three aspects of a multi …

This essay presents an argument for critical organization studies scholars to more seriously
address the phenomenon of corporate branding as a central, constitutive feature of …

Abstract This Special Issue holds that managerialism is not an abstract, trans-historical
category, and this article argues that neither is it hidden within an impenetrable black box …

The structures of ownership and governance at John Lewis, a major UK employee-owned
retailer, have been commended by those who wish to recuperate capitalism and by those …

In this paper we explore how so-called 'social media'such as Facebook challenge Marxist
organization studies. We argue that understanding the role of user activity in web 2.0 …