The COVID-19 pandemic and its medical, social economic impacts presented profound challenges to business, government, society. It also presents management scholars with an opportunity rethink some of our core assumptions directions research. In response, in the Summer 2020, capacity as co- General Editors Journal Management Studies, one foremost academic journals organization studies, we commis...

We write this editorial from our homes as the greater Sydney region of Australia experiences an extended lockdown due to increasing risks Delta variant SARS-CoV-2—coronavirus or Covid-19—on relatively isolated population. While we are hopeful that, by time publishing, immediate impacts Covid-19 significantly reduced, confident that several elements, notably within digital space, will remain. In...

Over the past decade, China's central and municipal governments have consistently supported development of social credit systems (SCSs). While research has highlighted Chinese public's high approval backing SCSs, their engagement with these digital projects not been fully explored. Based on 44 semi-structured interviews, our examines citizens' participation in government-run SCSs at local level...

This article suggests some basic terms for surveillance analysis. The analysis requires a map and a common language to explain and evaluate its fundamental properties, contexts, and behaviors. Surveillance is neither good nor bad but context and comportment make it so. Topics considered in this article include: a broad definition of surveillance, its strategic and nonstrategic forms, and the tr...

Political communication and opinion formation have always been central topics in democratic theory. Today, all eyes are on the new digital landscape ways that it is affecting these elements of democracy. The diagnosis both popular press scholarly research revolution has anything but good for democracy: “Today conventional wisdom holds technologies brought world addictive devices, an omnipresent...

Architects produce diagrams, not buildings, but diagrams that are wholly immanent, wholly embedded and coextensive with the materials, configurations, and forms of buildings. Theories of representation and expression have tended to privilege the concept over the building, treating the artifact as a site of interpretation, a mere extension of the process of its production. But if such concepts c...

This paper explores forms of surveillance within residential care homes for young people. It is argued that surveillance is a crucial aspect of care and this can be experienced as both negative and positive by children and staff. In particular the research was concerned with how forms of control and monitoring are conducted in relation to food and food practices. Relations of power and resistan...

Standing on the south bank of Thames, today, its chimneys reconstructed, brickwork restored, roof replaced, Battersea Power Station betrays few troubles that plagued development and redevelopment (Figure 1). Like many London’s power stations, began as two separate units: A, western wing, opened in 1933, B, eastern 1955. Unlike these other however, which ‘B’ building formed an ad hoc response to...

The free exchange of data between many interconnected nodes in the absence of a central point of control has been at the heart of the internet architecture since its inception. For its engineering architects “if the Web was to be a universal resource, it had to grow in an unlimited way” thus “its being ‘out of control’ was very important” (Berners Lee, Fischetti 1999). Yet, this simple deign ch...