Why Reinvent the Wheel? Materializing multiplicity to resist reification in alternative organizations

• Published in: Organization studies Vol. 45; no. 6; pp. 855 - 879
• Main Authors: Shanahan, Genevieve, Jaumier, Stéphane, Daudigeos, Thibault, Ouahab, Alban
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.06.2024; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Alternatives; Business administration; Case studies; Constraints; Disparaging; Humanities and Social Sciences; Organization studies; Organizations; Reification; Social order; Social systems; alternative organizations; open-source software; open organizing; materialization; concretization; critical theory of technology; sociomateriality; revisability; reification; relational ontology

Often we unconsciously take for granted that there is not really an alternative to how we currently organize society – we tend to reify existing social order, misperceiving the way things are now as the way things must be. Such reification constrains our agency by discouraging the thought that we co...