1st Edition
Ethics of Engagement in Research Practices Response-ability in Organization and Management
The book elaborates on the concept of response-ability. Although the notion is becoming popular in organization and management studies to talk about the ethical dimension of academic practices and research work, it has been formulated outside this discipline with Joan Tronto, Donna Haraway, Vinciane Despret, and Karen Barad as key authors. This book honours the foundational contribution of these scholars and their legacy.
The book adopts a feminist posthumanist definition of response-ability as an iterative and emergent process that unfolds within embodied relations and through academic practices. A response-able academic practice intertwines personal reflexivity and critical analysis of the politics underlying our ways of knowing and doing in academia. Furthermore, a response-able approach requires us, as researchers, to pay attention to the consequences of our research practices through which multiple encounters are made possible (or impossible).
By offering empirical examples and theoretical elaborations, the book invites students, researchers, and practitioners to find ways of embodying response-ability when generating knowledge.
Chapter 1. Introduction. Ethics of Engagement in Research Practices: Response-ability in Organization and Management
Michela Cozza, Anna Carreri, and Barbara Poggio
Chapter 2. Knowledge Creation as Becoming Together in Writing, Reviewing and Editing
Emmanouela Mandalaki
Chapter 3. Collaborative Justice Research Across Difference
Jared M. Poole, Alessia Contu, and Maureen Scully
Chapter 4. Becoming Response-able Together in Research Fieldwork
Leni Grünbaum and Alice Wickstrom
Chapter 5. Playing With Theatre in Research Practices: Response-ability and Becoming with a Queer Community
Carmen Pellegrinelli and Laura Lucia Parolin
Chapter 6. Response-able Management-as-Practice: The Ability to Respond
Marcelo de Souza Bispo
Biography
Michela Cozza is an Associate Professor at the Department of Organization and Management at Mälardalen University, Sweden. Her research interests focus on the relationships between social and material aspects of organizational practices. She takes a practice-based approach and leverages a science and technology studies perspective to understand issues related to technology's role in embodied practices of care and technological interventions. She is a member of several research networks scientific associations, and editorial boards.
Anna Carreri is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) of Sociology of Work and Organization at the Department of Human Sciences of the University of Verona, Italy. She is scientific coordinator and co-founder of the Research Centre RE-WOrk: REsearching for REmaking Work and Organizing at the same university. She is affiliated with the School of Social Sciences, Hasselt University, Belgium. Her research is mainly conducted through qualitative methods, from an intersectional and critical perspective. Her current research is focused on gender inequalities in academic careers and the quality of working life in relation to ‘new’ forms of work and organizing enabled by technology.
Barbara Poggio is Vice-Rector for Equality and Diversity at the University of Trento, Italy. She is a full professor of Sociology of Work and Organization at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the same university. She carried out several international studies and research in the field of gender studies (gender cultures and practices in organizations, gender and entrepreneurship, gender and science), workforce diversity, work precariousness and work-life balance. She is a member of several national and international editorial boards.
