This chapter conceptualizes a discourse-and dissensus-based dialogic approach to identity work in organizational contexts in a change communication perspective. Focus is on identities in organizations as co-creative accomplishments and as socially negotiated phenomena that come into being in the...

When reporting wrongdoing internally, whistleblowers are confronted with the dilemma of weighing up their loyalty toward the organization (e.g., ethical standards) and their co-workers (e.g., the social norm of not snitching on peers). However, the role played by peers in the whistleblowing...

The postcolonial era in Botswana started with what the author referred to as the neocolonial interlude. During this period, elites who worked to gain independence ruled Botswana. They lacked legitimacy because of their closeness to the colonial masters and their actions to marginalize the...

Following the principles of post-humanism (“post” to the humanist universalism of “Man”) and post-anthropocentrism (“post” to the exceptionalism of the human species), and by conflating them into the concept of ethico-onto-epistemology, we explore how posthumanist feminism may inform...

This study delves into the factors that influence the practice of female genital mutilation in West Africa, as well as the health implications. An online cross-sectional study was conducted with the use of electronic questionnaire. The study was targeted at adult females who were between the age...

This chapter describes the motives and objectives of pricing transport externalities like carbon emissions (CO2). The main emitter of CO2 in the transport sector is road traffic, and much of that is due to the usage of cars. The focus of the chapter when describing different policies used to...

How do organizations think about the future? Remarkably, this question has received little explicit attention in complex project organizing research, yet projects are fundamentally about achieving desired future states. We first identify the micro-foundations of project shaping as the cognitive...

The financial services industry is opening the theoretical system to address business and digital trans-formation. More reasonable and biological micro-foundations have emerged and are anchored fundamentally to the generation of sustainable value at investors’ micro-level and for the global...

In this chapter, we reexamine the relationships among social intelligence (SI), emotional intelligence (EQ), and cultural intelligence (CQ) from a new perspective. Questions remain about their uniqueness, despite substantial research on each in recent decades. Specifically, a lack of clarity in...