Introduction -- A brief organizational history of Christmas -- The buying and selling of a season -- The magical atmospherics of Christmastide -- Working at Christmas -- Here comes Santa Claus -- Home and the gendered organization of Christmas -- Organizing Christmas : the wrapping up.

The labour of interactive service work, particularly its emotional and aesthetic dimensions, has been the focus of significant research. This article investigates the occupational practices of perhaps one of the most immediately recognizable of interactive service workers, the Santa Claus...

Purpose - The objective of this paper is to provide insight beyond the internal dynamic of organizational change and explore how organizations contribute, at the symbolic and aesthetic level, to the experiential stabilization of spatio-temporal change within society more generally. As such, the...