Faculty Fellow
Boukje Cnossen is Professor of Business Administration, in particular Entrepreneurship, Organisation, and Culture at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Her research interests include 'organising practices' in the cultural and creative industries, in particular the influence of space on creative practices. With reference to the communication-constitutes-organisation (CCO) approach and actor-network theory, her interdisciplinary approach focuses on phenomena such as coworking spaces, creative hubs and artist collectives. She is an active member of the CCO community and the Entrepreneurship-as-Practice (EaP) community. She is an art critic and cultural journalist for several national newspapers and international art journals, a commitment that feeds into her current teaching and research. She publishes in Organisation Studies, Human Relations, Creativity and Innovation Management and Journal of Organizational Ethnography, among others.
Abstract
Immaterialisations of Occupational Practices?
This pilot study starts from an investigation of the intersection of organization and the everyday. Empirically, it will focus on the changing configurations of practices, care, leisure and consumption. Using a variety of methods including ethnographic approaches, the aim is to gain insights into the ways in which work and organisation materialise in time and space. The investigation is based on the hypothesis that with the often assumed "immaterialisation" of work in the context of digitalisation, including phenomena such as hybrid work, the material and affective interfaces between work, care, and leisure are often lost from view. To examine this hypothesis, a first project will include research on the historical transformation of material work environments, especially information work in the context of public administration. This research is located within work on organisational studies and critically engages with the ongoing spatial turn in organisational studies.
Education
2018: PhD an der Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM), Tilburg University.
2011: MRes (Master of Research) in Humanities & Cultural Studies. The London Consortium (Birkbeck College, the Tate, the Science Museum, the Architectural Association, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts), United Kingdom.
2009: BA Religious Studies. Honour’s Certificate in Art & Research, University of Amsterdam.
Academic Position
Professor for Business Administration, in particular Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Culture
Latest Publications
with Bencherki, N. ‘Artful Legitimacy: The Role of Materiality in Practices of Legitimation’. Organization Studies, 44, no.6 (2022), 919 – 939.
with Beyes, T., Ashcraft, K., & Bencherki, N. ‘Who’s afraid of the senses? Organization, management and the return of the sensorium’. Management Learning 53, no. 4 (2022), 625-639.
with de Vaujany, F.-X., & Haefliger, S. (2021). The Street and Organization Studies. Organization Studies, 42, no. 8 (2021), 1337-1349.