Senior Lecturer in Management and Organisations | My research is on uncertainty | All views expressed are mine | For teaching see: @IntroOrgStudies
Newcastle University
Joined April 2008
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Ever wondered how a policy, legal text, or economic program ends up creating an organisational reality altogether different from the one it depicts? @MarcLenglet @BTaupin and I argue in this @orgjournal article that it is through its “explication” - thread
doi.org/10.1177/135050842311…
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FREE in-person ethnography event for everyone (but RSVP required and limited seats available)! 9:30am-6:30pm on Tue 18 Jun 24 at @NCLBusiness in Newcastle, UK, with amazing speakers and exceptional panels working with ethnographic texts (see poster). forms.office.com/e/V7ZbM04Z6…
PhD students & ECRs - FREE ethnography event and bursaries available (for UK travel to, and accommodation in, Newcastle)! RSVP required before Fri 29 Mar 24 - please share widely. For more details on the event narti.org.uk/event/narti-sam… and to sign up forms.office.com/e/53y4pU78B…
The event will have multiple keynotes, panels and sessions with experienced ethnographers and journal editors. For those applying for bursaries, the best papers will be considered for publication as part of a special issue of Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Sponsors of the event are @JMS_Journal @NARTINetwork @NCLBusiness @UoYSBS_Research @UoLManSchool - Thank you!
We disrupt false perceptions of immediacy conveyed by the concept of #implementation. “Explication is real, whereas implementation remains an abstraction that will always require explication”
doi.org/10.1177/135050842311…
This has important practical implications for what we expect the #law to do. “To suggest a regulation is only ever implemented is to misinform policy and organisation theory about the material quandaries typical of explication” doi.org/10.1177/135050842311…
If you are interested in how organisations are changing institutions and society through their use of new technologies come to our @isa_sociology RC17 session in Melbourne on Tue 27 June 23, M4 (Level 1, Crown). For more details see: linkedin.com/posts/dpierides…
If evidence for #AI producing emergent realities does not stack up, then discussions premised on contrary (think sui generis) are speculative. Here, @RylanSchaeffer @BrandoHablando @sanmikoyejo (Stanford) draw our attention to importance of measurement
doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2304.…
This brings together three strands of my research on handling uncertainty: (1) measurement and ethics of quantitative research link.springer.com/collection…; (2) new technology and organisation doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12253; (3) measurements that grasp at emergence doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.…
RIP Ian Hacking philosophy.utoronto.ca/news/…
FREE ethnography event by popular request! 10am Mon 5 Jun 23 in York, UK. Please circulate widely, it’s free but limited number of seats - please secure by registering by Fri 12 May 23 forms.office.com/e/jX1V516W5… and see full details here or read full thread: narti.org.uk/event/ethnograp…
ALT Poster for ethnography event on Monday 5 June 2023 in York UK that contains the same details as the linked NARTI website
The purpose of this event is to support PhD students and ECRs who are either already doing ethnography or interested in business, management and organizational ethnography by hosting a discussion about its practices. It is free thanks to support from @NARTINetwork and @UoY_SBS
Entanglement of tech with institutions is one issue. Completely breaking those institutions is another. At @isa_sociology (Melbourne, 27 Jun 23) @NCLBusiness @Abigaill_Marks and I are hosting a discussion panel with @NBSNU @CatherineCasler and @BusEcoNews Graham Sewell on this
Technological determinists will say it’s happening whether we like it or not. That is not an absolute truth, but as the @nytopinion authors say: “The time to reckon with #AI is before our politics, our economy and our daily life become dependent on it” nytimes.com/2023/03/24/opini…
Knowledge and institutions are another core problem - e.g. our thinking was appropriate for understanding 19th-20th century institutions but does not cohere with the interruptions these technologies introduce - see @SocSimon et al: doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12253
Have you been thinking about what #chatGPT means for organisations & finding it difficult to keep up with the pace of the debate? I have. In this thread, I draw on this excellent @nytopinion by @harari_yuval @tristanharris @aza and my research to summarise nytimes.com/2023/03/24/opini…
Agency is another core problem - see: @nytopinion: “Though everyone is by now aware of the downside of social media, it hasn’t been addressed because too many of our social, economic and political institutions have become entangled with it”: nytimes.com/2023/03/24/opini…
Here, we show exactly how this happens in healthcare under financialisation through the use of these technologies (i.e. that care for humans is foundational to healthcare but becomes caring for numbers) - See @SocSimon et al: doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12…