This article explores the meanings and uses of a hospital corridor through 98 diary entries produced by the staff of an English specialist hospital during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on Lefebvre's (1991, The production of space. Blackwell) threefold theorisation of space, corridors are seen as conceived, perceived and lived spaces, produced through and enabling the reconfiguration and reinterpretation of social interactions. The diaries depict two distinct versions of the central hospital corridor: its 'normal' operation prior to the pandemic when it was perceived as a social and symbolic space for collective sensemaking and the 'COVID-19 empty corridor' described as a haunting place that divided hospital staff along ostensibly new social and moral boundaries that impacted negatively on lived work experiences and staff relationships. The mobilisation of the central hospital corridor in the daily social construction of meaning and experience during a period of organisational and societal crisis suggests that corridors should not be only seen as a material backdrop for work relationships but as social entities that come into being and are maintained and reproduced through the (lack of) performance of social relations.

Public value and city governance are fundamental notions in contemporary settings, but, currently conceived, they are not fit for the challenges presented by the proposed new epoch of geological time—the Anthropocene. Walking through the locked-down streets or calle of Venice, we face the sudden emptiness that starkly reveals the impact of human activity on the city and its waterways. Reflecting on the walk, our starting point is to problematize how a city organizes and manages public value and what actually constitutes public value. In this, we develop a new definition, “New Public Value for the Anthropocene Epoch” (NPVA), which expands the notion of public value through the questions: “who” is it valuable to do things for, beyond humans and economic actors, building on a relational epistemology to incorporate the planet and its biosphere; and “what” is valuable to do, in order to ensure the inclusion of social, environmental, and cultural values alongside economic values. We conclude by arguing that NPVA is organized across scales in a manner that embeds global attentiveness toward local ecosystems solutions to drive the global response to the environmental crisis we all face.

How can organizations become responsive in a meaningful way to events which may occur way outside the boundaries of their own lifespan? We are living in a time of considerable climate crisis. The challenges presented by the Anthropocene are such that a piecemeal, incremental approach to addressing them will not be sufficient. In order to ‘become active’ and effect the radical change required, organizational processes need to be situated in relation to flows of activities that stretch across the enormity of ‘Earth time’. We will re-imagine the possibilities of dialogically affirmative organization in creating engagement, hope, and solidarity by proposing a novel organizational approach that refigures the dialogical basis of ‘thinking in time’ in relation to the Earth System. We build on the work of both Serres and Jarry to explore the conditions under which a dialogue between the temporalities of organizations and Earth time might be possible. We make four contributions. First, we draw a novel link between the concern with dialogical organization and wider issues around sustainability and the capacity of organizations to engage with the magnitude of entering the Anthropocene. Second, we present a series of conceptual experiments through which organizational time can be related to Earth time and show how duration – that time that makes ‘us’ – can be extended towards broader time ‘outside us’, and for this reason, we suggest that organizations should have a “Board of Indirectors”, a board of human and non-human actors that reflect on the long-term impact of organizations on the Earth System. We make a series of practical recommendations that are intended, in the spirit of ‘pataphysics, as ‘imaginary solutions’ that provoke thought beyond its current grounding in established business doxa. Finally, we sketch out how dialogues with ‘ethernity’ begin to coalesce as a ‘cybernetic ethics’.

Cryptocurrencies were supposed to replace traditional payment methods when they were invented over 13 years ago, but adoption by the general consumer is still lacking, at least in the United States. Instead, crypto is often used as a speculative investment, by illicit actors, or for use cases unrelated to everyday purchases. A literature review on general adoption barriers and interviews with experts has only unearthed factors like usability, performance, and political drivers, among other barriers. Brand as an adoption barrier is mostly missing from literature, at least for cryptocurrencies. This led to the formation of a hypothesis related to crypto’s lack of adoption as a payment method. A framework is being designed based on the technology adoption model to find out if “brand” has an impact on cryptocurrency adoption, which was paradoxically designed to be brandless and not needing any institutional trust. The intent is to focus on what “Bitcoin 2.0” might look like, and to also delve further and gauge perceptions about various types of brands getting involved in the next generation of cryptocurrencies, including traditional banks, governments, technology companies, and also some of the decentralized and hybrid consortia currently vying to get consumers to use stablecoins, nation-issued cryptocurrencies, and other forms of digital instruments. While other studies had focused on trust, early adopter usability, or performance of blockchain networks, this work intends to focus on the general consumer’s perceptions about digital money, and the types of brands and evolution of this instrument liable to increase uptake.

Global commodity capitalism necessitates the fast and efficient movement of all manner of entities across the globe. Importantly, this commercial flow needs to be secured against the undocumented and unregulated flow of illegitimate people, finance and information, counterfeits, drugs, terror and other undesirables. The organizational practices of business logistics are central for achieving this objective. Yet they have received little attention in management and organization studies to date. We suggest a fruitful avenue is via Foucault’s notion of ‘biopower’ – particularly his less discussed concept (in management studies, at least) of an apparatus of security. This is useful for understanding the emergent organizational/management practices of security in the border spaces in which business logistics operate. If ‘Society Must Be Defended’, as Foucault ironically notes in his famous lecture series that introduces biopower, then so too must contemporary organizations and their net-like activities within the global economy.

There has been an excellent series of formative articles centring on Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020) as an inspiration to pedagogical thought; this is a summative article written from the perspective of after his death. Stiegler argued that education is ontologically crucial to human development, wherein technics or the 'not-experienced-condition(s)-necessary-for-experience' are crucial to humanity's ability to create its own existence. Technics make possible the technologies underpinning contemporary Anthropocentric existence. While entropy poses the cosmological threat of death to life, technics supports negentropy or the collecting and marshalling of energy opposed to entropy. Education is a crucial means of social negentropy, however all human agency is characterized by the pharmakon of more entropy or increased negentropy. The tension is inevitable in the pharmakon between on the one side, care and cure; and on the other, poison and death. In this article, we ask: 'Given his suicide, what sort of pharmakon was Stiegler for himself and for us?'(1) The authorial "I," 'Bernard Stiegler' is no longer a living critic of social entropy or of proletarization and 'technoscience'; what do we now make of his oeuvre for education? We will point to his inversions and purposeful mis-interpretations of Heidegger and Derrida as crucial to his oeuvre. Stiegler's phenomenal being has ended; what technics have been strengthened and specifically: 'What now of education?'

Organizations continue to create digital interfaces and infrastructure that are designed to heighten consumers' online visibility and encourage them to part with their data. The way these digital systems operate and the rules they are governed by are often opaque, leaving consumers to deploy their own strategies for managing their online information sharing with organizations. In this study, we draw upon Erving Goffman's metaphor of expression games and three forms of concealment or cover moves to explore how consumers, who have been well socialized as digital natives, engage in dynamic and game-like interactions with organizations in an attempt to manage their level of online visibility and information sharing in relation, inter alia, to the 'convenience' and 'benefits' that are afforded to them. Our research is based on in-depth interviews in combination with photo-elicitation with 20 participants. Based on the insight generated, we offer a new framework, 'Propensity to Game' (P2G), which present the processual dynamics that characterize these consumers' evolving and game-like engagements with organizations. These are Game Awareness, Rule Familiarization, Player Commitment and Game Play. Our work contributes with new insight into how these consumers actively engage in the orchestration of their online visibility by surfacing the nuanced and multifaceted decision-making and thought processes that they engage in when they, situation-by-situation, decide on the tactics and methods to use in their efforts to manage the data and information they share with organizations.

This paper reconceptualises public value for the era of the Anthropocene and suggests that the best site for organizing for the creation of public value is the City. Existing understandings of public value are human-centric and only consider economic values. If public value is to be fit for the world of the Anthropocene and the climate crisis, local ecologies and other non-human actors need to be included as beneficiaries of public value creation. Including these new, non-human, actors facilitates a new understanding of what is value to focus on sustainability and resilience in the local natural ecosystem. The paper argues that City leadership and governance are best placed to both understand the needs of the local ecology and to produce the networks to create value for it.

This article presents an analysis of personal diaries kept by health-care staff within a specialist NHS Trust in England during the initial 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It adopts a moral sensemaking perspective to explore how NHS employees mobilised and reframed ideas of right and wrong in order to make sense of unprecedented uncertainty and displacement. By focussing on how the macro and micro politics of the pandemic were played out in the organisation, the study finds that polarised moral judgements were invoked in order to justify and rationalise a broad array of associated emergent emotions, intuitions, behaviours and practices. This polarisation of moral responses could be seen as a desire to bring order out of chaos and put matters back into place following displacement. This is inevitably an ongoing, complex and variegated enterprise whose results can be as often discomforting as they can be reassuring. Indeed, while moral sensemaking was partly beneficial for staff in that it promoted a greater sense of camaraderie and support for others, it also appeared to have darker consequences in terms of staff wellbeing and the development of more impermeable social boundaries across the organisation through processes of moral 'othering'.

Cancer will affect 1 in 2 of us during our lifetime. Never has the time to focus upon the cancer workforce been more critical. The importance of developing the cancer workforce has been emphasised globally, within Europe and the United Kingdom (UK). However, within the UK, there is no nationally defined career pathway or agreed overarching competency framework for cancer nurses and the allied health professionals across the spectrum of the cancer workforce. A multi partnership collaboration within the UK, including Health Education England (HEE), Macmillan Cancer Support, UK Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), has developed the Aspirant Cancer Career and Education Development programme (ACCEnD). ACCEnD provides guidance regarding the knowledge and capabilities required by the nursing and allied health professional workforce to care for people affected by cancer. An overarching career pathway and education framework for nursing and the allied health professions has been developed. To support the implementation of the framework, four workstreams, ranging in focus from pre-registration to strategic leadership, provide guidance on the learning, development and educational needs and resources required to support the workforce throughout their cancer career. Finally, ACCEnD includes the development of a digital portfolio incorporating the framework to record practitioners' development throughout their career pathway. The ACCEnD programme seeks to address and provide solutions to key issues that challenge the cancer workforce both now and into the future promoting both recruitment and retention. We welcome the opportunity to present the programme to the European Oncology Nursing Society audience.

Business model (BM) literature has developed considerably; however, most research takes place in large for-profit organisations in western settings, rather than small-medium enterprises with social goals. This is surprising given the drive for social innovation (SI) and alternative modes of organizing. Models for managing innovation are typically agnostic about sources of social, ecological and cultural values; yet our in-depth qualitative research demonstrates that, for SMEs practicing SI in Vietnam, these values are as inherent as economic value. As a result, a new social BM emerged and was evaluated. This paper: (i) defines a Business model for SI for sustaining the long-term growth of SI; (ii) provides a Strategic framework for SI for SMEs, to ensure that the strategy of SMEs takes into consideration the positive impact SIs can have on society; and (iii) defines mechanisms to create and capture economic, social, cultural and ecological values.

In an editorial for this journal a decade ago, then-Editor-in-Chief Fred Phillips asserted that social change was proceeding at hyper-speed and, moreover, that it had consequently come to outpace technological change. This paper submits these claims to empirical assay. In so doing, we address the myriad problems attendant upon determining and interpreting the sort of data that might support us in our cause. Notwithstanding the innumerable caveats that this necessarily entails, and restricting ourselves to considering US data, we conclude that a wide range of indicators suggest that millennial Americans are not living in a time of particularly rapid social change, at least not when compared to the period 1900-1950. Furthermore, our analysis suggests that the data that we have considered does not easily support a contention that significant variation in social change occurs in long wave-like cycles. The evidence is more supportive of a punctuated equilibrium model of change.

We have entered the Anthropocene: a new geological epoch in which human activities, led by business interests, have inexorably compromised the Earth System. The current failure to provide a comprehensive and systematic response to this transition does not result from a lack of reason, but is instead the manifestation of a generalized crisis in communication. Drawing fromthework of Michel Serres, we analyze howthe roots of this crisis lie with "parasite logic," which has prevented reasoned responses to the Anthropocene. To work through this crisis, it is necessary to adopt different forms of reasoning and imagination to reshape the rational basis of management education. We propose to do this through an engagement with pataphysics, a science that subjects dominant modes of rationality to a divergent thinking of the absurd and proposing playful forms of reasoning. Pataphysics provides a mechanism for developing "imaginary solutions" to the current situation, which can disrupt anthropocentric forms of reason and reasoning, and further serve to slow down the endless cycles of inclusion and exclusion that arise from parasite logic. Finally, we propose slow design as an example of an "imaginary solution" that comes from this process of conceptual and practical deacceleration.

The social turn in finance has brought with it a raft of innovations in finance and investment. For some this is a positive development that positions finance as a means for achieving positive social change. However, the notion that such innovation offers a softer or more benign finance is debated. In this paper we examine one recent innovation, social impact bonds (SIBs), and through a case study, we evaluate policy documents, press releases, interim reports and interviews with 4 key stakeholders in a recent UK SIB. In doing so, we contend that the case SIB embedded modalities of neoliberal governance further into contemporary social care and social relations. We argue that social investment is thus based around a model of inclusive neoliberalism and that the apparent innovations in social investment further embed finance and extractive logic deeper into social life. We conclude by suggesting that the practise of social investment will do nothing to resolve the social problems that they are designed to tackle. (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

If, as Arthur Clark states, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” then we must recognize that there are many actions performed by technology that we do not control. This is obviously the case in some areas of finance, for example hedge fund trading. This chapter begins by describing and presenting testimonies of traders confronted with contested and confused causalities and the mysterious, uncontrollable and multilayered functioning of algorithms. The authors ask how can the impression of mastery continue if most traders were to become aware of their limitations? A parallel is drawn with Priest’s novel The Prestige. The chapter then discusses similarities with Jessie Allen’s comparison of ‘proximal cause‘ with the reality of ‘indeterminacy’, and Michael Taussig’s thematization of revelation and concealment. The performance of traders with respect to algorithms and technology is compared to the performance of the most experienced magicians, both of which, requiring a great deal of expertise and preparation.

This article pries open the black box of the social impact bond (SIB), the novel financial instrument at the heart of social investment. We discover that concrete information is currently limited and our method is thus more speculative. We address the obfuscation of the nomenclature of the instrument and explore the mechanics of SIBs to suggest that they are not simple bonds but rather also bear properties akin to those associated with derivative contracts. We speculate on possible developments of the market in these bonds by considering the history of some previous financial innovations, namely, collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) underpinned by microfinance loans and the short-lived policy analysis market. Our discussion leads us to reevaluate Goodhart's law and the ways in which it operates in relation to SIBs. We conclude by suggesting that SIBs' inherent indifference to the underlying state of the world renders them ultimately unlikely to delivery improvements in public services.

In this article, we attempt to better understand war's preponderance by exploring its relation to something we commonly see as ever present: the economy and the institutions of finance through which it is enacted. We delineate histories of warfare and finance, rendering our present as one of war amongst the people', in Rupert Smith's words, in which finance is exemplified by the logic of the derivative. Through detailed examination of an infamous comment by Donald Rumsfeld, the then US Secretary of Defense, and the US Defense Department's short-lived Policy Analysis Market, we explore the management of knowledge enabled by the derivative as emblematic of our times in both military and financial circles and draw upon the work of Randy Martin to suggest that this logic is increasingly imperial in its reach and ubiquitous in its effects, becoming in the process the key organisational technology of our times. At the core of the functioning of the derivative, we contend, in all of the domains in which we witness it at work, is an essential indifference to the underlying circumstances from which it purportedly derives, leaving us in a world in which we endlessly manage risks to our future security but at the cost of the loss of genuinely open futures worthy of our interest.

Cet article traite de performativité. En premier lieu, de la performativité des notations des articles et des classements des universités dans le cas du Royaume-Uni, de la littérature de protestation et d’accusation qu’ils ont engendrée. En deuxième lieu, sont examinées les conditions sociales ou politiques qui ont produit ces classements et notations, notamment le « capitalisme académique » et la prolétarisation pensés par Bernard Stiegler. Mais, en fin de compte, les auteurs montrent que les classements et les notations ont surtout un impact sur les affects des chercheurs. Classements et notations sont des textes performatifs : ils créent une mentalité, un sentiment d’identité, voire un environnement de vie.