In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of ‘critical performativity’, a concept designed to debate relationships between theory and practice and encourage practical interventions in organizational life. Notwithstanding its laudable ambition to stimulate discussion about engagement between CMS researchers and practitioners, we are concerned that critical performativity theory is flawed ...

This paper outlines how wearables recon!gure notions of performativity because of their admixtures of human/nonhuman agencies. It argues that contemporary wearables, in a continuum with technological/body performative entanglement dating from early 20th century art (Avant-Garde), materially alter practices of performativity because they propose new and intimately co-dependent agencies of the hu...

What is performativity? In this paper I set out to encounter this question by intimating the directions we are forced to consider when thinking through the performative. In centring my arguments within the corpus of Deleuze's philosophy of difference I advocate academic production as creative of thought. This is to suggest a performative thinking and doing that unfolds our way of looking at our...

Mental Spaces theory, with its sophisticated mechanisms for representing the contents of speech, thought, and perception, opens routes for the exploration of relations between these domains and the ``real'' world. One of the most intriguing of these relations is performativity, de®ned by Searle (1989) as the ability of some descriptions to bring about the described situations in reality. My bro...

Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) is a trend introduced by a large IT corporation in 2009 realised as a consequence of the consumerization of Information Technology. BYOD is described as the phenomenon of using personal mobile devices connected to corporate networks to perform work. This study aims to understand consumerization of IT and BYOD in the Tertiary Education sector, particularly the contex...

Culture and Performance, "Performativity Challenged? Creativity and the Return of Interiority". (sample chapter 6 available, pp. 97-120) You may cite this version as: Bell, Vikki. 2007. Culture and Performance, "Performativity Challenged? Creativity and the Return of Interiority". (sample chapter 6 available, pp. 97-120). This copy has been supplied on the understanding that it is copyright mat...

Research Article| May 01 2022 Queering Performativity Zeynep Gambetti ZEYNEP GAMBETTI is an independent scholar who taught as Associate Professor of political theory at Boğaziçi University until 2019. Her theoretical work focuses on contemporary forms violence and resistance. Among her publications are Rhetorics Insecurity: Belonging Violence in the Neoliberal Era (coedited with Marcial Godoy-A...

This article draws on the concepts of “counter-intentionality” and “saturated phenomena” developed by phenomenologists to analyse how performative processes can fail in organizations. To make our point, we investigate the case of new transparency requirements for European investment firms following the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) in 2007. Using an et...