It's time for Acting Up!. (January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Prichard, Craig; Benschop, Yvonne
• Is Part Of: Organization. Volume 25:Number 1(2018:Jan.)
• Page Start: 98
• Page End: 105
• Publication Date: 2018-01
• Subjects: Academic writing -- Acting Up -- activism; Organizational sociology -- Periodicals; Organization -- Periodicals; 302.35
• DOI: 10.1177/1350508417741501
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1350-5084

Abstract

All ranking journals, including critical ones such as Organization, regard a contribution to theory as the Holy Grail of academic writing. But it is a long way to a better world through theory alone. In this article, we discuss the challenges of making action and activism a feature of academic work and we introduce a new space in Organization, entitled Acting Up, for short papers that take up such a challenge.