Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 22 Issue 4

The novel and organization: introduction from the Editors

Chris Land, Martyna Śliwa

The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise the relationship between novels and organizational change and to introduce this special issue of the Journal of Organizational Change…

Distant readings: anthropology of organizations through novels

Barbara Czarniawska

Although it is commonly assumed that comparative studies are the best way to proceed in constructing theories of organizing, the practical fulfillment of this postulate has always…

Organizational brilliance: on blinding visions in organizations

Sverre Spoelstra

Seeing, one might say, is everything between black blindness and white blindness: between not seeing because of the absence of light and not seeing because of the blinding quality…

“All I want to do is get that check and get drunk”: Testifying to resistance in Charles Bukowski's Factotum

Carl Rhodes

The purpose of this paper is to examine the themes of resistance to organizations in Charles Bukowski's novel Factotum in relation to contemporary theory in organization studies…

The illustrated Post Office: a layered account of organisational sexism, brutality and escape

Ann Rippin

Reading the works of Charles Bukowski is a male, and by extension, masculine activity, and as such it can make a female reader feel as if she is trespassing into some male…

An aesthetics of displacement: Thomas Pynchon's symptomatology of organization

Timon Beyes

The purpose of this paper is to explore Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day as a symptomatology of organization and examine the (un)easy relationship between the novel and…

Jumpstarting the future with Fredric Jameson: Reflections on capitalism, science fiction and Utopia

Christian De Cock

The purpose of this paper is to explore conceptions of radical change and utopianism in the work of Philip K. Dick and Fredrick Jameson in order to challenge the neo‐liberal…