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dc.contributor.authorHagen, Aina Landsverken_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-11T10:35:56Z
dc.date.available2016-04-11T10:35:56Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.identifier.citationHagen, A. L. (2015). “Calling it a Crisis”: Modes of Creative Labour and Magic in an Elite Architect Company. Journal of Business Anthropology, 4(2), 201-218.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2245-4217en_US
dc.identifier.otherFRIDAID 1297172en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/3232
dc.description.abstractIn recent years we have seen a resurfacing of magic as an analytical category in anthropological literature, with particular emphasis on modern forms of occultism and witchcraft. Magic has yet to prove itself a useful analytical tool within the anthropolog y of organizations, and this article aims at understanding everyday work processes through the concepts of myth and magic. The discussion is based on empirical data from an internationally acclaimed architect company based in Norway, with a particular focu s on a period of downsizing in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in 2008. The architects try to uphold an egalitarian, social - democratic ideology of creativity within a capitalist system and make use of a range of magical practices in order to s ucceed. The article shows how narrative flexibility transforms the brutality of downsizing into a mode of creative labour, and concludes that the internal dynamic between risk taking and risk reducing is inherent in both magical practices and capitalist systems.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCopenhagen Business Schoolen_US
dc.subjectOrganizationsen_US
dc.subjectCreativityen_US
dc.subjectArchitectsen_US
dc.subjectMagicen_US
dc.subjectDownsizingen_US
dc.subjectFlexibilityen_US
dc.title"Calling it a Crisis : Modes of Creativity, Work and Magic in an Elite Architect Companyen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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