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With a background in the humanities and an eclectic bookshelf behind me, my eyes are firmly focused on innovative ways of managing organizations. the aim of my work is to stretch the organizational imagination of practitioners and scholars alike. PARAPHRASING ALBERT O. HIRSCHMAN, I AM interestED in what is possible - NOT WHATis probable.  

Martin Kornberger

Jan 22
Jan 22 Why and how counting counts: perspectives on calculative practices for organization studies

martin kornberger
organization, practices, processes

Numbers / calculation / quantification / datafication / evaluative infrastructures / power effects

Jun 24
Jun 24 Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Foundation of Institutions

martin kornberger
organization, practices, processes

 philosophy / institutions / symbol / organization theory / Cassirer

Jun 24
Jun 24 Rethinking value in public management

martin kornberger
organization, processes, practices

public value / public sector management / New Public Management  / valuation / review article  

Dec 1
Dec 1 Thought Experiments and Philosophy in Organizational Research

martin kornberger
organization, processes, practices

concepts / ideas / method / organization theory / philosophy / thought experiment

Jan 21
Jan 21 Rethinking the Sharing Economy: The nature and organization of sharing in the 2015 Refugee Crisis

martin kornberger
organization, practices, processes

sharing economy / crisis / collective action in crisis

Sep 25
Sep 25 Evaluative infrastructures: Accounting for platform organization

martin kornberger
organization, processes, practices

Accounting / Hierarchical consciousness Evaluation / Infrastructure / Platform organization

Sep 25
Sep 25 The visible hand and the crowd: Analyzing organization design in distributed innovation systems

martin kornberger
processes, practices, organization

crowds / distributed innovation / organization design / organization theory / search / strategy

Sep 25
Sep 25 When Bureaucracy Meets the Crowd: Studying “Open Government” in the Vienna City Administration

martin kornberger
processes, practices, organization

bureaucracy / democracy / open government / open government data / organization theory / public administration / Vienna

Jul 14
Jul 14 When you make manager, we put a big mountain in front of you': An ethnography of managers in a Big 4 Accounting Firm

martin kornberger
processes, practices, organization

professional identity / socialisation / manager / power / subjectivity 

Mar 3
Mar 3 The value of style in architectural practice

martin kornberger
processes, practices, organization

architecture / style / aesthetics / power / value

Jul 14
Jul 14 Changing gender domination in a Big Four accounting firm: Flexibility, performance and client service in practice

martin kornberger
processes, practices, organization

gender / organisational change / culture / power / practice 

Jul 14
Jul 14 Power, Rationality and Legitimacy in Public Organizations

martin kornberger
processes, practices, organization

legitimacy / power / rationality / structures of domination / culture  

Jun 1
Jun 1 Critical Practices in Organizations

martin kornberger
processes, practices, organization

criticism / practice theory / Foucault / institutionalization / power / knowledge

Apr 1
Apr 1 Desperately Seeking Legitimacy: Organizational Identity and Emerging Industries

martin kornberger
processes, practices, organization

organizational identity / business coaching / emerging industries / industry formation

Jul 14
Jul 14 For Management?

martin kornberger
processes, practices, organization

Critical Management Studies / critique / performativity / polyphony / strangers / translation

Dec 14
Dec 14 Learning/Becoming/Organizing

martin kornberger
processes, practices, organization

becoming / dis/organization / innovation / learning / power

May 1
May 1 Rethinking the polyphonic organization: Managing as discursive practice

martin kornberger
processes, practices, organization

Polyphonic organization / Power / Différend / Language games / Translation / Deconstruction

Dec 14
Dec 14 Noise, Parasites and Translation Theory and Practice in Management Consulting

martin kornberger
practices, organization, processes

disorganization / management consulting / organization / organization learning

Sep 14
Sep 14 The Art of Managing Relationships in Interorganizational Collaboration

martin kornberger
processes, practices, organization

collaboration / synthesis / interorganizational design / innovation

Jun 14
Jun 14 Bringing Space Back In: Organizing the Generative Building

martin kornberger
organization, practices, processes

space / organization / architecture / power / generative buildings

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