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Simon Mallette is a doctoral candidate and lecturer in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal in Canada. His research focuses on organizational communication, with an emphasis on technologically mediated collaboration and the relational nature of entrepreneurship.

Ellen Nathues is Assistant Professor of Organization, Collaboration, and Communication at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Ellen’s research broadly focuses on processes of organization and communication, particularly in pluralistic, open, and/or temporary contexts such as interorganizational collaborations or learning communities. More specifically, she is interested in questions of multivoicedness, agency, materiality and multimodality. Her research is mainly ethnographic and qualitative, and she also has a strong interest in methodological work. Ellen’s research has been published in journals such as Organization Studies, Strategic Organization, Human Relations, and Culture and Organization, as well as in edited handbooks.

Boukje Cnossen is Professor of Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Culture at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany. Her research focuses on practices and processes of organizing and entrepreneuring, with a specific interest in the role of space and materiality in the emergence of organization. Current and recent research projects focus on independent art spaces, start-up accelerators and coworking spaces, among other empirical contexts. Her research has been published in journals such as Organization Studies and Human Relations.

Boris H.J.M. Brummans is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal in Canada. His research interests include agency, mindful organizing, organizational communication, organizational ethnography, process philosophy and qualitative inquiry. He has contributed chapters to several edited books and his articles appear in peer-reviewed journals such as Academy of Management Review, Communication Monographs, Human Relations, Information, Communication and Society, Management Communication Quarterly, Organization Studies, and Qualitative Inquiry. His edited volume, The Agency of Organizing (Routledge), received the 2018 Outstanding Edited Book Award from the National Communication Association’s Organizational Communication Division, and he co-edited the first Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Organizational Communication, which received the same award in 2024. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Associate Editor of Management Communication Quarterly. Moreover, he served as Chair of the International Communication Association’s Organizational Communication Division from 2022 to 2024.