... that require no explicit justification, while newcomers' alternative normative reasons are marginalised or treated as secondary. Under these conditions, established colleagues appear as co-authors of norms, while newcomers are positioned as addressees of norms. Drawing on Forst's theory of normative power...

... period have focused on several topics. These include emotions, identity and power (Fernandes and Lourenço, 2025); emotions and identity in language-learning processes (Maldaner et al., 2025) and emotions and professional identity (Rodrigues and Cyrino, 2024). Furthermore, recent research has...

...Yi Zhu Purpose This study explores the politics of ideology in the process of sensegiving and sensemaking at a Japanese retailer in Hong Kong. Studies on power and politics are scarce despite key role of power and politics in understanding the factors behind the conflict between the management's...

...Alexander Styhre; Jonas Fasth; Martin Löwstedt Purpose Drawing on the literature on pastoral power, a term introduced by Foucault that denotes a specific form of authority based on the subordinate's open communication regarding aspirations, interests and personal concerns, having the full faith...

.... To understand the emergence of the CSM theory, we outline its early beginnings in the use of Weickian sensemaking to study organizational change, the emergent critique of the neglect of contextual factors and issues of power within Weickian sensemaking and the factors and debates that lead to the development...

... bullying can emerge from informal social power struggles embedded and performed within ubiquitous humorous teasing interactions. Workplace bullying can result in a devastating impact on victims’ health and well-being owing to the risk of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress (Einarsen and Nielsen...

...Eileen Patterson; Sara Branch; Michelle Barker; Sheryl Ramsay Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of power in cases of upwards bullying by examining the bases of power that staff members use, and how these bases create power imbalances. Design/methodology/approach...

...Premilla D’Cruz; Ernesto Noronha Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report a study of targets’ experiences of cyberbullying on online labour markets (OLMs). In addition to highlighting the link between targets’ coping and power and control, the paper compares conventional and digital...

... not be forthcoming. These participants who had exercised agency in attempting to seek redress were met with power abuses and cultures of collusion. Research limitations/implications This is a small-scale study with self-selecting teachers. The data point to some problematic assumptions underpinning anti-bullying...

... education Power © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only 30 03 2017 06 06 2017 The nine participants, evidenced different experiences, although all constituted ill-treatment involving either bullying, incivility or both. Three...

... in an environment where even radical perspectives have a powerful grammar and set of taken-for-granted assumptions. While this is somewhat in line with Caroline Ramsay’s (2014) argument that a scholarship of practice should be focused on attention rather than knowledge, our attention to our experience drives...