Abstract
Purpose
The three authors of this paper are intrigued by ideas and how they are created. The purpose of this paper is to explore idea creation and work by means of remote collaborative autoethnography.
Design/methodology/approach
During the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, the authors sent texts to each other, followed up on each other's thoughts and discussed them in online meetings. They shared, analyzed and eventually theorized their lived experiences in order to understand creating ideas as social and cultural experience.
Findings
The authors develop the notions of “shelter” and “crutch” to make sense of the complexity of creating ideas together; theorize how emotions and identities are entangled in idea work; and discuss how time, space and power relations condition it.
Originality/value
The authors contribute to understanding idea work in a remote collaborative autoethnography by highlighting its emotional, identity-related and power-laden nature.
The three authors of this paper are intrigued by ideas and how they are created. The purpose of this paper is to explore idea creation and work by means of remote collaborative autoethnography.
Design/methodology/approach
During the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, the authors sent texts to each other, followed up on each other's thoughts and discussed them in online meetings. They shared, analyzed and eventually theorized their lived experiences in order to understand creating ideas as social and cultural experience.
Findings
The authors develop the notions of “shelter” and “crutch” to make sense of the complexity of creating ideas together; theorize how emotions and identities are entangled in idea work; and discuss how time, space and power relations condition it.
Originality/value
The authors contribute to understanding idea work in a remote collaborative autoethnography by highlighting its emotional, identity-related and power-laden nature.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Peer-reviewed scientific journal | Journal of Organizational Ethnography |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 303-316 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISSN | 2046-6749 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 08.09.2021 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article - refereed |
Keywords
- 512 Business and Management
- emotion
- identity
- power relations
- collaborative autoethnography
- idea work
Areas of Strength and Areas of High Potential (AoS and AoHP)
- AoS: Responsible organising