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Sub-theme 24:
Comic Intrusions: Humour, Irony and Bullshitting in Organizations
and Organization Studies
Convenors:
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Session I: Thursday, July
10 – 11:00–12:30
Laughing at Organizational Studies |
Convenors
Introduction and house keeping
Alf Rehn
"Are we having fun yet?" Glumness, unintentional humor, and
bullshitting in the identity-work of management and organization
scholars
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Session
II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Humour as Critique: The Office |
– Lisa Graham videos this session – designated reader/discussant
followed by author response –
Allanah Johnston and Bob Westwood
Causing offence in the office: Humour in the face of political
correctness
Discussant: Christina Garsten
Christina Garsten and Hervé Laroche
'You're such a laugh': Boredom and humour in The Office
Discussant: Allanah Johnson
Ion Voicu Sucala
Irony and bullshitting – A perspective on the Romanian
organization
Discussant: Sinem Aykol
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Session III: Friday, July
11 – 9:00–10:30
Constructing Humour and Language |
Izidoro Blikstein
Nonsense and bullshit in corporate and political discourse: A
semiotic analysis of organizational discourses
Discussant: Nicola Bigi
Nicola Bigi, Fabrizio Montanari and Jordi Trullén
Playing serious, working cheerful. A narrative approach to
understand how organizational identity is built
Discussant: Izidoro Blikstein
Frans Kamsteeg and May Ling Thio
Fooling around in organizations: The ethnographer-cum-jester
Discussant: Lisa Graham
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Session IV: Friday, July
11
– 14:00–15:30
Organizational Cultures and Humour |
Janet Sayers, Nanette Monin and Ralph Bathurst
Customer service bullshit: Ironic intrusions in the classroom
Discussant: Matthias Köck
Matthias Köck, Thorsten Kliewe and Dilek Zamantili Nayir
"Give me just a little smile…" Cultural orientations and the use
of humour in the workplace
Discussant: Maria José Tonelli
Maria José Tonelli and Rafael Alcadipani
Bullshiting in the making: Humour and violence in a context of
organisational change
Discussant: Janet Sayers
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Session V: Friday, July 11
– 16:15–17:45
Fools, Jesters and History |
Sinem Ergun Aykol and Müjdelen Yener
Historical perspective on the dark side of organizational jesters:
Examples from Ottoman empire
Discussant: Donncha Kavanagh
Donncha Kavanagh, Kieran Keohane and Carmen Kuhling
The fool as organization: Re-imagining the university as fool
Discussant: Ion Voicu Sucala
Lisa Graham
Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) methodology and humour
research
Convenors
It's a wind-up (conclusion)
– no Sessions VI and VII –
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