Ever wondered how a policy, legal text, or economic program ends up creating an organisational reality altogether different from the one it depicts? @MarcLenglet @BTaupin and I argue in this @orgjournal article that it is through its “explication” - thread https://t.co/41fkWW2Cmg

FREE in-person ethnography event for everyone (but RSVP required and limited seats available)! 9:30am-6:30pm on Tue 18 Jun 24 at @NCLBusiness in Newcastle, UK, with amazing speakers and exceptional panels working with ethnographic texts (see poster). https://t.co/51SvSm7rz2

Sponsors of the event are @JMS_Journal @NARTINetwork @NCLBusiness @UoYSBS_Research @UoLManSchool - Thank you!

The event will have multiple keynotes, panels and sessions with experienced ethnographers and journal editors. For those applying for bursaries, the best papers will be considered for publication as part of a special issue of Research in the Sociology of Organizations

PhD students & ECRs - FREE ethnography event and bursaries available (for UK travel to, and accommodation in, Newcastle)! RSVP required before Fri 29 Mar 24 - please share widely. For more details on the event https://t.co/4t04i3v3tR and to sign up https://t.co/3zD7834F7c

This has important practical implications for what we expect the #law to do. “To suggest a regulation is only ever implemented is to misinform policy and organisation theory about the material quandaries typical of explication”

We disrupt false perceptions of immediacy conveyed by the concept of #implementation. “Explication is real, whereas implementation remains an abstraction that will always require explication” https://t.co/41fkWW2Cmg

We investigate Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (#MiFID) - an economic programme aimed to create a level-playing field among European #financialmarkets but in reality its explication reduced transparency https://t.co/41fkWW2Cmg

#explication is “the organisational process that allows abstract ideas to be transposed into material realities… a movement of the implicit towards the explicit, revealing from within the abstract what is implied (i.e. contained, but not yet expressed)” https://t.co/41fkWW2Cmg

If you are interested in how organisations are changing institutions and society through their use of new technologies come to our @isa_sociology RC17 session in Melbourne on Tue 27 June 23, M4 (Level 1, Crown). For more details see: https://t.co/pNu1SdJfjz

This brings together three strands of my research on handling uncertainty: (1) measurement and ethics of quantitative research https://t.co/SpjZRmW2Lg; (2) new technology and organisation https://t.co/Fr6PwW0m0E; (3) measurements that grasp at emergence https://t.co/ULrl1mDSGu

If evidence for #AI producing emergent realities does not stack up, then discussions premised on contrary (think sui generis) are speculative. Here, @RylanSchaeffer @BrandoHablando @sanmikoyejo (Stanford) draw our attention to importance of measurement https://t.co/daQj4gIorj

RIP Ian Hacking

We have divided discussants according to themes under the titles of post-humanism, occupational cultures, sustainability and organization. Panel members will discuss recent monographs which they and others have authored or co-authored. All welcome to attend in person in York, UK

The purpose of this event is to support PhD students and ECRs who are either already doing ethnography or interested in business, management and organizational ethnography by hosting a discussion about its practices. It is free thanks to support from @NARTINetwork and @UoY_SBS

FREE ethnography event by popular request! 10am Mon 5 Jun 23 in York, UK. Please circulate widely, it’s free but limited number of seats - please secure by registering by Fri 12 May 23 https://t.co/Hqjj9EFClH and see full details here or read full thread: https://t.co/yrENwsPG6E

Knowledge and institutions are another core problem - e.g. our thinking was appropriate for understanding 19th-20th century institutions but does not cohere with the interruptions these technologies introduce - see @SocSimon et al:

Technological determinists will say it’s happening whether we like it or not. That is not an absolute truth, but as the @nytopinion authors say: “The time to reckon with #AI is before our politics, our economy and our daily life become dependent on it”

Entanglement of tech with institutions is one issue. Completely breaking those institutions is another. At @isa_sociology (Melbourne, 27 Jun 23) @NCLBusiness @Abigaill_Marks and I are hosting a discussion panel with @NBSNU @CatherineCasler and @BusEcoNews Graham Sewell on this

Agency is another core problem - see: @nytopinion: “Though everyone is by now aware of the downside of social media, it hasn’t been addressed because too many of our social, economic and political institutions have become entangled with it”: