Call for Papers for a special themed section on: Beyond the Gap: Discovering the impact and importance of studying Emotions & Institutions

摘要

The relationship between emotions and institutions is an emerging area of inquiry beginning to attract significant interest. Extant work in institutional theory has a cognitive and rational bias that masks both the emotional impact that institutions have on individuals' lives (Creed, Dejordy & Lok, 2010; Creed, Hudson, Olkhuysen & Smith-Crowe, 2014), and the motivational force that emotions have for stimulating institutional work (Voronov & Vince, 2012; Toubiana, Zietsma & Bradshaw, 2013). As Friedland (2013: 44) described: "institutional life...demands myriad moments of located passion". Related areas have also explored the effects of emotions on social outcomes and processes, identifying how anger can be used to mobilize social movement members to action (Goodwin & Jasper, 2006; Jasper 2011), how emotions can be "managed" in the service of organizational outcomes (Hochschild, 1983; Rafaeli & Sutton, 1987), and how emotions can be amplified in social settings (Collins, 2004; Hallett, 2003).