Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 17 Issue 4

Objects and the production of technological forms of life: Understanding organisational arrangements from a post‐social perspective

Alan Lowe

Objects are produced within, and simultaneously affect, the process of organizing as a consequence of their interaction within social collectives. This paper discusses the impact…

Transitional and quasi‐objects in organization studies: Viewing Enron from the object relations world of Winnicott and Serres

Adrian Carr, Alexis Downs

It is proposed to examine how these two different models of human relations – that of Winnicott and Serres – illuminate features of contemporary organizational life. With these…

Linkages and entrainment

Hugo Letiche, Rouven E. Hagemeijer

Entrainment is a theory of causality wherein different but proximate actants are tied to one another in complementary rhythms. Entrainment proposes a naturalism of…

Parasite logic

Steven D. Brown

Through the use of the concept of the parasite, a new way of thinking about communication and our sociality is presented. Communication can be seen as the mutual effort of…

“Inertia Creeps”, or a phenomenological perspective on objects in sociology

Willem Schinkel

In this paper, the attitude of general sociology towards nature and objects is criticized. Usually, the social is so defined that it excludes objects, “things” in general. But…

After the fact

Rouven E. Hagemeijer

A review of and commentary upon the papers in the special issue of JOCM (Vol. 17, No. 4) and their actual relation to the object and organising.