Where 'The Rules Don’t Apply': Organizational Isolation and Misbehaviour in Elite Kitchens

Robin Burrow, Rebecca Scott and David Courpasson ()
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Robin Burrow: Cardiff Business School - Cardiff University
Rebecca Scott: Cardiff Business School - Cardiff University
David Courpasson: EM - EMLyon Business School, Cardiff University

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Abstract: In this article we elaborate on the connection between organizational isolation and misbehaviour. Drawing on 47 interviews with elite chefs we make a twofold contribution to the misbehaviour literature. First, we conceptualize misbehaviour amongst chefs as a potentiality engrained into the geography of the kitchens they work in. Drawing on Smith (1987), we call this a geography of deviance. Through this concept we show that misbehaviour can be inscribed into a place, through structures that create feelings of invisibility, alienation and detachment. Second, we make sense of chefs' misbehaviour by using Turner's theory of normative communitas. Via this framing misbehaviour is cast as a ritualized component of an anti-structural way of being, where the kitchen is simultaneously apprehended as an instrument of social withdrawal and a symbol of deviance around which the community pivots. Through these contributions we help to crystalise the relationship between organizational isolation and misbehaviour, particularly in the context of chefs and kitchens.

Keywords: misbehaviour; isolation; space; communitas; normative communitas; chefs; kitchens (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-07-01
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Published in Journal of Management Studies, 2022, 59 (5), 1103-1131 p. ⟨10.1111/joms.12759⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/joms.12759

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