Browsing Management (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Kenny, Kate"
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Academic activism: Pasts, presents and futures of critical publishing
Kenny, Kate (Ephemera, 2021)No abstract available -
Affective disruption: Walter Benjamin and the 'history' of Ireland's industrial schools
Kenny, Kate (Taylor & Francis, 2013-02-19)What role do organizations play in writing history? In this paper, I address the part played by organizations in the enactment of large-scale violence, and focus on the ways in which the resulting histories come to be ... -
Banking compliance and dependence corruption: towards an attachment perspective
Kenny, Kate (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2015-05-07)Why did banking compliance fail so badly in the recent financial crisis and why, according to many, does it continue to do so? Rather than point to the lack of oversight of individuals in bank compliance roles, as many ... -
Censored: Whistleblowers and impossible speech
Kenny, Kate (SAGE Publications, 2017-11-10)What happens to a person who speaks out about corruption in their organization, and finds themselves excluded from their profession? In this article, I argue that whistleblowers experience exclusions because they have ... -
The costs and labour of whistleblowing: Bodily vulnerability and post-disclosure survival
Kenny, Kate; Fotaki, Marianna (Springer, 2021-12-27)Whistleblowers are a vital means of protecting society because they provide information about serious wrongdoing. And yet, people who speak up can suffer. Even so, debates on whistleblowing focus on compelling employees ... -
From gendered organizations to compassionate borderspaces: Reading corporeal ethics with Bracha Ettinger
Kenny, Kate; Fotaki, Marianna (SAGE Publications, 2014-12-04)In this article, we propose a new way of approaching the topic of ethics for management and organization theory. We build on recent developments within critical organization studies that focus on the question of what kind ... -
How to whistle-blow: Dissensus and demand
Kenny, Kate; Bushnell, Alexis (Springer, 2020-01-22)What makes an external whistleblower effective? Whistleblowers represent an important conduit for dissensus, providing valuable information about ethical breaches and organizational wrongdoing. They often speak out about ... -
Irony as discipline: Self-help and gender in the knowledge economy
Kenny, Kate; Bell, Emma (Oxford University Press, 2014-06-25)In this article, we explore the role of self-help literature within the knowledge economy. We point to the recent growth of ironic humour within such texts, and examine how this operates to construct gendered and embodied ... -
Organizational form and pro-social fantasy in social enterprise creation
Kenny, Kate; Haugh, Helen; Fotaki, Marianna (SAGE Publications, 2019-03-11)Why do social entrepreneurs retain their faith in social entrepreneurship despite the organizational tensions and anxieties inherent to this field of practice? In this article, we employ the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy ... -
Organizations and violence: The child as abject-boundary in Ireland's Industrial Schools
Kenny, Kate (SAGE Publications, 2016-02-05)What role do organizations play in the enactment of large-scale violence against a specific group of people? In this paper, I depart from existing literature that focuses on violence within organizations, and instead ... -
Power and politics in public inquiries: Bloody Sunday 1972
Kenny, Kate; Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (Routledge, 2021-03-16)What are the dominant framings by which public inquiries understand and analyze power dynamics in the events they examine? We draw on unique data from the Saville Inquiry into the killing of 13 people by British soldiers ... -
Power and the construction of independence in ICTD organizations
Kenny, Kate (Taylor & Francis, 2013-07-04)How do powerful vested interests continue to influence ICT for development (ICTD) projects? In this paper, instead of adopting a macro-level analysis, I take an in-depth, ethnographic approach to focus on work practices ... -
Thinking critically about affect in organization studies: Why it matters
Fotaki, Marianna; Kenny, Kate; Vachhani, Sheena J. (SAGE Publications, 2017-01-06)Affect holds the promise of destabilizing and unsettling us, as organizational subjects, into new states of being. It can shed light on many aspects of work and organization, with implications both within and beyond ... -
When care is left to roam: Carers' experiences of grassroots nonprofit services in Ireland
Power, Andrew; Kenny, Kate (Elsevier, 2010-03-20)Increasingly countries are turning to nonprofit organisations to provide health and social care, particularly for people with disabilities. Alongside this change, debates continue about how states should manage the ... -
Whistleblower subjectivities: Organization and passionate attachment
Kenny, Kate; Fotaki, Marianna; Vandekerckhove, Wim (SAGE Publications, 2018-12-07)What is the nature of whistleblower subjectivity? In this article, we depart from current scholarly depictions of this figure as a fearless truth-teller who is fully independent of the organization. We argue for a new ... -
Whistleblowing advocacy: Solidarity and fascinance
Van Portfliet, Meghan; Kenny, Kate (SAGE Publications, 2021-10-25)What role does difference play in relationships between partners in solidarity? In this article we add to debates on difference-in-solidarity by proposing fascinance as a critical aspect of intersubjective relations in ... -
Work-worlds colliding: Self-reflexivity, power and emotion in organizational ethnography
Gilmore, Sarah; Kenny, Kate (SAGE Publications, 2014-06-26)While organizational ethnographers have embraced the concept of self-reflexivity, problems remain. In this article we argue that the prevalent assumption that self-reflexivity is the sole responsibility of the individual ...