The institutionalization of suffering: Embodied inhabitation and the maintenance of health and safety in e-waste recycling

AF Stowell, S Warren - Organization Studies, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we put forward the concept of 'embodied inhabitation'to bring a bodily and
material perspective to bear on institutional maintenance. Using an 'inhabited institutions' …

Digitization and the Shaping of Society–A Soft Systems Study

F Stowell - Systemic Practice and Action Research, 2024 - Springer
The ubiquity of communication technologies has influenced the way we receive and process
'information'. It is shaping the way that human societies interact and made it to distinguish …

Organisational power and the metaphor commodity

F Stowell - International Journal of Systems and Society (IJSS), 2014 - igi-global.com
Organisational intervention is problematic as each inquirer has a different notion of what an
organisation is and in order to make sense of it the inquirer adopts a model or concept of …

Rethinking education for sustainability in management education: Going beyond metrics toward human virtues

B Acevedo, R Malevicius - … of research on international business and …, 2021 - igi-global.com
Education for sustainable development (ESD) initially emerged around the 1990s, and it has
opened the possibility to re-think areas such as management education. Although the …

17 Plastic futures: mobilising circular economy contexts to address the plastic crisis

M Ferri, A Stowell, G Whiteman - Handbook of the Circular Economy …, 2023 - degruyter.com
The plastic crisis has demonstrated how single-use plastic waste is growing significantly and
has a negative impact on natural ecosystems and human activities (UNEP 2018). Drawing …

e-Waste trading zones and the economy of greening: Imbricating computer sourcing in the pre-and post-WEEE Directive era

AF Stowell, M Brigham - Society and Business Review, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose In the context of the environmental impacts caused due to the increasing volumes
of discarded technologies (e-Waste), this paper aims to critically evaluate whether …

Expanding the discourse on organizational inquiry, power and the metaphor commodity

F Stowell - Systems Research for Real-World Challenges, 2018 - igi-global.com
Abstract Models of organization are unsatisfactory as they assume a certain level of
predictability, but research shows that each organization is unique and cannot be …

The Manager's Guide to Systems Practice

F Stowell, C Welch - Wiley Online Library
The idea for this book grew out of many years' experience in using, and teaching others to
use, Systems concepts, methods and techniques to address complex problems. The …