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Welcome into the podcast Revise and Resubmit 🎙️✨.
Today we dive into Kafka and Organization Studies by Nora Lohmeyer and Elke Schuessler, published online on July 20, 2025 in the prestigious Organization Studies journal from SAGE Publications 📚.
Here is the headline that matters first: Organization Studies is an FT50 journal, a benchmark list that signals elite standards and wide impact in management research 🏆.
That prestige sets the stage for a piece that revisits Kafka not only as the patron saint of bureaucracy’s night terrors but as a surprising guide to resilience, reform, and the strange clarity inside modern systems 🏢🧭.
The essay spotlights Kafka’s often overlooked “office writings” from his day job as an accident insurance lawyer, inviting organization scholars to see the file, the form, and the memo as instruments that can protect as much as they constrain 📄🛠️.
From there it stretches into today’s world, where uncertainty is constant and organizing is both futile and necessary, both a maze and a map 🌪️🗺️.
It lingers where algorithms hum and platforms sprawl, studying enigmatic, inescapable organizations that feel increasingly digital and deeply human at once 🤖🔍.
Along the way it uncovers acts of resistance and repair, using bureaucratic institutions to push against injustice and to channel fairness through the very pipes that often clog 🚦✊.
Nora Lohmeyer and Elke Schuessler craft an argument that is crisp, careful, and timely, reconnecting Kafka’s life and literature to the most urgent debates in organizing and democracy today 🧩📖.
Their essay belongs in Organization Studies, published by SAGE, where conversations about organizations meet the public stakes of our digital age 📈🌍.
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Many thanks to the authors Nora Lohmeyer and Elke Schuessler, and to the publisher SAGE Publications, for bringing this work into one of the world’s FT50 venues 🙏🏅.
So here is the question to carry into the week: when an organization feels Kafkaesque, what small practice could turn the same machinery that confuses into a machinery that clarifies 🤔🌀?
Reference
Lohmeyer, N., & Schuessler, E. (2025). Kafka and Organization Studies. Organization Studies, 0(ja). https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406251362926
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