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Papers by Emil A Røyrvik

Organisational Anthropology

Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era, 2018

Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022

Focaal, 2022

Drawing on ethnographic material from Gitanos of Spain and current EU Roma integration policies, ... more Drawing on ethnographic material from Gitanos of Spain and current EU Roma integration policies, we explore the contemporary construction of the Roma ethnic group category as a specific type of “stranger” in the context of the European neoliberal culture complex. Our argument is that this classificatory reconstruction can be seen to work as a cultural prerequisite for the socio-political shaping and management of the Roma as a neoliberal “stable stranger.” This new stranger is based on constructing Roma as a potential unused labor pool and as recent immigrants, in contrast to the Gitanos’ own ideology and locally grounded identity of self-employment and anti-proletarianism. The paradoxical consequence of the integration policies, therefore, is the potential pushing of the Gitanos further away from Spanish mainstream society.

Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning, 2020

Artikkelen analyserer etableringen av Politiets fellestjenester (PFT), som er et av de sentrale r... more Artikkelen analyserer etableringen av Politiets fellestjenester (PFT), som er et av de sentrale reformtiltakene i den pågående politireformen. Basert på dokumentanalyse, en enkel spørreundersøkelse og kvalitative intervjuer med sentrale aktører i politiet viser artikkelen hvordan etableringen av PFT er et eksempel på hvordan offentlige organisasjoner søker legitimitet i omgivelsene ved relativt ukritisk å adoptere populaere organisatoriske myter og «oppskrifter» som anbefales av konsulentselskapene. Artikkelen viser videre at sentraliseringen av støttetjenester, som etableringen av PFT handler om, skaper utilsiktede effekter i form av vekst i det vi kaller «profesjonell nyadministrasjon». Nyadministrasjonen er både fordyrende og trekker ressurser ut fra politiets kjernevirksomhet-stikk i strid med reformens hensikter. Vi foreslår at dette kan forklares ved hjelp av en strukturell mekanisme vi har kalt for «administrativ egenvekt-ekspansjon». Støttetjenestene fjernes fra kjernevirksomheten gjennom sentralisering og profesjonalisering og får en større organisatorisk tyngde som skaper administrativ vekst både sentralt og i politidistriktene. Denne dynamikken kan føre til bedre kvalitet i fellestjenestene, mens den operative virksomhet svekkes.

Journal of Business Anthropology, 2013

This article describes the substantial efforts put into creating and managing a comprehensive ‘va... more This article describes the substantial efforts put into creating and managing a comprehensive ‘value-based’ corporate culture and identity-building program, and reflects on how both the making and the reception of the programme can be understood in light of the three main ways of talking about value/s (economic, moral, meaning). Through the program’s use of technologies of production and enchantment, including the magic of advertising, the argument unfolds the program’s processes of valuation through both making visible and creating social relations. The article explores valuation as social practices involved in representation and signification. It argues that the preoccupation with making value visible in an industrial production company is symptomatic of the contemporary ‘economy of signs’, and that resistance towards these efforts shows that valuation in this context is considered more as accurate representation than as signification.

Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift, 2019

Emil André Røyrvik er utdannet sosialantropolog og professor i arbeids-og organisasjonssosiologi ... more Emil André Røyrvik er utdannet sosialantropolog og professor i arbeids-og organisasjonssosiologi ved Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap, NTNU. Han har saerlig arbeidet med tema knyttet til samtidens former for kapitalisme (finansialisering), kunnskapsarbeid, organisasjon og ledelse. Blant hans siste publikasjoner er Trangen til å telle. Objektivering, måling og standardisering som samfunnspraksis (med Tord Larsen, 2017). Takk til to anonyme fagfeller for konstruktive tilbakemeldinger. SAMMENDRAG Artikkelen plasserer seg i den intense debatten om det antropologiske kulturbegrepet som oppstod i forbindelse med «representasjonskrisen» i faget fra 1980-tallet. Artikkelen argumenterer for at den pragmatiske løsningen på problemene som hefter ved kulturbegrepet, som mange antropologer i ettertid har benyttet seg av-altså det å slutte å skrive om kultur i entall og som substantiv, men heller skrive om «det kulturelle» som adjektiv-ikke er en epistemologisk (eller politisk) tilfredsstillende håndtering av problemet. Artikkelen diskuterer muligheten for å forme et fruktbart kulturbegrep som kan overskride begrepets mange sentrale dilemma og problemer, ved å forankre det i teorier om klassifikasjon, kunnskap og kognisjon.

Two dominant and converging social developments of the post-World War II area have reached its cl... more Two dominant and converging social developments of the post-World War II area have reached its climax of crisis in the contemporary. Although seemingly radically different in nature and origin they are isomorphic in relation and might significantly be described with the common concept of “securitization”; economic-financial securitization on the one hand, and political-military securitization on the other. Both developments and their entanglement have been led by the United States but have engulfed the world on a global scale. Together these major social developments constitute the securitization of the field of global political economy. The global movement, convergence and social implications of the two major trends of securitization are here conceptually coined as a process of “securitization of the social” that in turn produces “a sociality of securitization”. The paper concludes that the two concurrent processes of political-military and economic-financial securitization not only undermine their own explicitly stated social goals of risk reduction, economic growth and social stability, but actively creates the opposite. Rather than encouraging trust, confidence and growth, the sociality of securitization generates social distrust and distancing, cultures of fear, militarism, and deep patterns of global inequality – a “socialism for the wealthy” – and thus evidently undermines sociality itself.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2001

This paper presents a skills management system in a medium-sized software consulting company, and... more This paper presents a skills management system in a medium-sized software consulting company, and how it is used. We found four different types of usage: Searching for competence to solve problems, allocating resources, finding areas for new projects, and to develop competence. Most people in the company seem to regard this tool as useful, both for themselves, and for the company as a whole.

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 2009

Team organizing is a major way of assisting collaboration in knowledge intensive work such as sof... more Team organizing is a major way of assisting collaboration in knowledge intensive work such as software development, and is especially favored in agile approaches. Motivated by the challenge of transforming an organization from traditional command-and-control management to collaborative self-managed teams, we present an instrument that we argue addresses key concerns and characteristics of teamwork, and presents them along five dimensions that must be addressed when improving teamwork in agile software development. The dimensions are shared leadership, team orientation, redundancy, learning and autonomy. The instrument gives a radar plot of the status of the teamwork. We present empirical examples from using this instrument with three teams and briefly outline potential uses of the instrument.

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2013

Departing from a discussion of transformations in the premises of managerial rationality and “man... more Departing from a discussion of transformations in the premises of managerial rationality and “managementality” as a pacemaker of the (post)modern social order, as it is steeped in economic crisis, the paper critiques and extends Baudrillard’s constructs of “simulation” and “hyperreality” to illuminate significant developments in the global culture complex of neoliberalization. With empirical illustrations of superfinancialization, transparency and surveillance, the paper explores converging patterns of how models of “neo-management” are created by and constructs new post-political and simulated social worlds. The paper concludes that a key feature of the contemporary “managementalities” that orchestrate and give rise to major models of the neoliberal culture complex, is their capacity for constructing new simulated, yet ontologically distinct, spaces that lie beyond the power of representation. We conceptualize this ontological space as “real virtuality”. The templates of neo-manage...

25th International Conference on Software Engineering, Proceedings, 2003

Numerous studies have been conducted on design and architecture of knowledge repositories. This p... more Numerous studies have been conducted on design and architecture of knowledge repositories. This paper addresses the need for looking at practices where knowledge repositories are actually used in concrete work situations. This insight should be used when developing knowledge repositories in the future. Through methods inspired by ethnography this paper investigates how an unstructured knowledge repository is used for different purposes by software developers and managers in a medium-sized software consulting company. The repository is a part of the company's knowledge management tool suite on the Intranet. We found five distinct ways of using the tool, from solving specific technical problems to getting an overview of competence in the company. We highlight the importance of informal organization and the social integration of the tool in the daily work practices of the company.

Journal of Intellectual Capital, 2004

Performance measurement and management in firms where knowledge is the central strategic resource... more Performance measurement and management in firms where knowledge is the central strategic resource provide composite challenges. Not only are the knowledge resources tacit, collective, complex, deeply rooted in culture and hard to imitate and transfer, but the processes of value creation and their outputs are also of a more or less intangible nature. This paper is an attempt to give an alternative activity‐based entrance to the field of intellectual capital and performance management. On the basis of three case studies the paper illustrates the development and utilisation of a new method for linking intellectual capital and value creation based on the three phases of modelling, measuring, and action. In parallel the concepts of resolution, elevation and conveyance are developed and explored as notions giving guidance and evaluation in the process of developing and using a measurement system for intellectual capital management.