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The paper discusses how the management of a sports and fashion company, which we refer to as NULMA, successfully applied the neo/normative control technology “karma organisation”…
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Purpose
The paper discusses how the management of a sports and fashion company, which we refer to as NULMA, successfully applied the neo/normative control technology “karma organisation” and gained employee engagement. Whereas other studies have documented employee resistance to organisational cultures when used for managerial control, our case demonstrates resistance to management practices that employees find inconsistent with the dominant karma culture.
Design/methodology/approach
The study is based on a six-year longitudinal organisational at-home ethnography conducted by one of the authors using methods of both participant and non-participant observation, semi-structured interviews and collaborative production of secondary data in the case organisation.
Findings
While our research shows that management can successfully apply neo/normative control which employees accept and support, we further show that employees mobilise the same values to resist management when it fails to deliver on the commitments and promises of the organisational culture.
Originality/value
The study contributes to the literature on organisational culture and, in particular, neo/normative control by theorising employee resistance as being by “accident”, by which we mean an inherent negative potentiality co-invented and released by managers establishing a “karma organisation”. Our theorising culminates in a discussion of the study’s implications for research and practice.
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Mrinalini Luthra, Konstantin Todorov, Charles Jeurgens and Giovanni Colavizza
This paper aims to expand the scope and mitigate the biases of extant archival indexes.
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Purpose
This paper aims to expand the scope and mitigate the biases of extant archival indexes.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors use automatic entity recognition on the archives of the Dutch East India Company to extract mentions of underrepresented people.
Findings
The authors release an annotated corpus and baselines for a shared task and show that the proposed goal is feasible.
Originality/value
Colonial archives are increasingly a focus of attention for historians and the public, broadening access to them is a pressing need for archives.
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