All Outputs (6)

Exploring the Role of Worker Co-operatives in the Co-creation of Meaningful Work (2023)
Book Chapter
Langmead, K., & Webster, A. (2023). Exploring the Role of Worker Co-operatives in the Co-creation of Meaningful Work. In J. Manley, A. Webster, & O. Kuznetsova (Eds.), Co-operation and Co-operatives in 21st-Century Europe (60-77). Bristol: Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529226430.ch004

This chapter argues that, by compelling workers to act in the interests of owners, customers and shareholders, work in hierarchical capitalist organizations frequently disconnects workers from their core values and from the communities in which they... Read More about Exploring the Role of Worker Co-operatives in the Co-creation of Meaningful Work.

Realizing the critical performative potential of responsible organizational research through participant action research (2020)
Book Chapter
Langmead, K., & King, D. (2020). Realizing the critical performative potential of responsible organizational research through participant action research. In O. Laasch, R. Suddaby, R. Freeman, & D. Jamali (Eds.), Research Handbook of Responsible Management (700-714). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788971966.00058

Management research, particularly critical management research, has long been criticised for making little impact on practice. One response to this critique has been Critical Performativity; an attempt to make critical scholarship actively involved i... Read More about Realizing the critical performative potential of responsible organizational research through participant action research.

Can management ever be responsible? Alternative organizing and the three irresponsibilities of management (2020)
Book Chapter
Langmead, K., Land, C., & King, D. (2020). Can management ever be responsible? Alternative organizing and the three irresponsibilities of management. In O. Laasch, R. Suddaby, R. E. Freeman, & D. Jamali (Eds.), Research Handbook of Responsible Management (40-55). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788971966.00007

This chapter argues that management should be understood as a concrete set of institutionally embedded practices, rather than an abstract verb for ‘getting things done’. Management, as a discourse, a social group, and a practice cannot become respons... Read More about Can management ever be responsible? Alternative organizing and the three irresponsibilities of management.

Exploring the Performance of Democracy and Economic Diversity in Worker Cooperatives (2018)
Thesis
Langmead, K. Exploring the Performance of Democracy and Economic Diversity in Worker Cooperatives. (Thesis). Sheffield Hallam University

Adopting the lens of diverse economies theory, this thesis explores the role of democratic praxis in supporting a shift from the perceived dominance and homogeneity of capitalism towards performative post-capitalist praxes of economic diversity and i... Read More about Exploring the Performance of Democracy and Economic Diversity in Worker Cooperatives.

From cooperative practice to research and back: Learning from the emotional experience of ethnography with two social enterprises (2017)
Journal Article
Langmead, K. (2017). From cooperative practice to research and back: Learning from the emotional experience of ethnography with two social enterprises. Social enterprise journal, 13(2), 194-212. https://doi.org/10.1108/sej-07-2016-0028

Purpose This paper aims to explore how experiences and emotions arising from the performance of ethnography shape the construction of knowledge about democratic practice in two social enterprises. It argues that ethnographers can develop a more nuan... Read More about From cooperative practice to research and back: Learning from the emotional experience of ethnography with two social enterprises.

Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives? (2016)
Journal Article
Langmead, K. (2016). Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?. The Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 5(1), 79-98. https://doi.org/10.5947/jeod.2016.005

This paper uses data collected through written narratives, focus groups and participant observation in three small UK worker cooperatives to investigate the role of democracy in maintaining cooperatives’ dual social-economic characteristic and resist... Read More about Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?.