Apologies for any cross posting:
A new issue of Human Relations is available online: November 2014; Vol. 67, No. 11 - we hope you enjoy reading these articles.
The entire issue can be accessed online at: http://hum.sagepub.com/content/67/11?etoc
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November issue articles
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Categorization and identification: The identity work of 'business sellers' on eBay
Corentin Curchod, Gerardo Patriotta, and Nicolas Neysen
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/67/11/1293?etoc
Multiple legitimacy narratives and planned organizational change
Dana Landau, Israel Drori, and Siri Terjesen
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/67/11/1321?etoc
The visible hand of consultants in the construction of the markets for virtue: Translating issues, negotiating boundaries and enacting responsive regulations
Luc Brès and Jean-Pascal Gond
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/67/11/1347?etoc
Brès and Jean-Pascal Gond vodcast:
CSR: Just a job creation scheme for management consultants?
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http://hum.sagepub.com/site/podcast/podcast_dir.xhtml
Thrilled by the discourse, suffering through the experience: Emotions in project-based work
Monica Lindgren, Johann Packendorff, and Viviane Sergi
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/67/11/1383?etoc
Resistance and struggle in leadership development
Brigid Carroll and Helen Nicholson
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/67/11/1413?etoc
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November free-access article
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This article will be free to access until 30 November 2014:
Fantasies about work as limitless potential – how managers and employees seduce each other through dynamics of mutual recognition
Susanne Ekman
Human Relations 2013; 66 (9): 1159–1181
DOI: 10.1177/0018726712461812
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/66/9/1159
Abstract
This article draws on combinations of discourse theory and Lacanian theory to study the role of fantasies in creative knowledge work. It attempts to nuance a number of critical Lacanian studies that emphasize how management and HRM practices exploit the seductive, yet disciplining, effects of fantasies to increase worker commitment. In contrast, empirical data from fieldwork in two creative industries are used to show how employees also ensnare and discipline their managers based on the same fantasmatic dynamics. The article argues that both managers and employees avoid concrete definitions of responsibility in favor of intense mutual recognition. This allows them to pursue a shared fantasy about limitless potential (financial and existential) realized via work. This dynamic of recognition renders both parties more vulnerable towards each other and makes both parties resist attempts at moderation. The question of power and exploitation thus becomes highly muddled.
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When normative commitment leads to lower well-being and reduced performance
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Human Relations 0018726714547060, first published on November 5, 2014 as doi:10.1177/0018726714547060
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/11/04/0018726714547060?papetoc
'Content to be sad' or 'runaway apprentice'? The psychological contract and career agency of young scientists in the entrepreneurial university
Alice Lam and André de Campos
Human Relations 0018726714545483, first published on November 5, 2014 as doi:10.1177/0018726714545483
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/11/04/0018726714545483?papetoc
The challenge of sustaining organizational hybridity: The role of power and agency
Claudine Mangen and Marion Brivot
Human Relations 0018726714539524, first published on November 4, 2014 as doi:10.1177/0018726714539524
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/11/03/0018726714539524?papetoc
The impact of China's new Labour Contract Law on socioeconomic outcomes for migrant and urban workers
Zhiming Cheng, Russell Smyth, and Fei Guo
Human Relations 0018726714543480, first published on October 27, 2014 as doi:10.1177/0018726714543480
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/23/0018726714543480?papetoc
The role of relational resources in the knowledge management capability and innovation of professional service firms
Na Fu
Human Relations 0018726714543479, first published on October 16, 2014 as doi:10.1177/0018726714543479
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/16/0018726714543479?papetoc
Global ends, local means: Cross-national homogeneity in professional service firms
Crawford Spence, Claire Dambrin, Chris Carter, Javier Husillos, and Pablo Archel
Human Relations 0018726714541489, first published on October 16, 2014 as doi:10.1177/0018726714541489
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/16/0018726714541489?papetoc
Smell organization: Bodies and corporeal porosity in office work
Kathleen Riach and Samantha Warren
Human Relations 0018726714545387, first published on October 9, 2014 as doi:10.1177/0018726714545387
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/09/0018726714545387?papetoc
Humanized management? Capital and migrant labour in a time of labour shortage in South China
Susanne YP Choi and Yinni Peng
Human Relations 0018726714541162, first published on October 9, 2014 as doi:10.1177/0018726714541162
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/09/0018726714541162?papetoc
Liminality, space and the importance of 'transitory dwelling places' at work
Harriet Shortt
Human Relations 0018726714536938, first published on October 6, 2014 as doi:10.1177/0018726714536938
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/06/0018726714536938?papetoc
Family interference and employee dissatisfaction: Do agreeable employees better cope with stress?
Smriti Anand, Prajya Vidyarthi, Satvir Singh, and Seungeui Ryu
Human Relations 0018726714539714, first published on October 6, 2014 as doi:10.1177/0018726714539714
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/01/0018726714539714?papetoc
Surface acting in service: A two-context examination of customer power and politeness
Jennifer L Wessel and Dirk D Steiner
Human Relations 0018726714540731, first published on October 6, 2014 as doi:10.1177/0018726714540731
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/01/0018726714540731?papetoc
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