Royal Holloway University of London, England

Grow where you are re-planted: Recovering meaning when callings are displaced

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Abstract

We extend the intersection of callings and prosociality as an inherently spatial interface for studying work as meaning in post-pandemic organizing by introducing the concept of displaced callings. Combining netnography, diary studies, and repeated semi-structured interviews, we followed seventeen social entrepreneurs over a ten-month period (February to November 2020). We used a practice-tracing approach to induce the mechanisms by which social entrepreneurs repeatedly revise and reclaim the meaning of their displaced callings through different types of spatial constraints and choices. 

Biography

Emilio Costales is a PhD researcher at the School of Business and Management at Royal Holloway University of London and a member of the Centre for Research into Sustainability and Digital Organisation and Society Research Centers. Emilio’s research focuses on the spatial dimension of social entrepreneurship and the ways in which space influences social change. Emilio’s research combines systems theory, design thinking and the sociomateriality of space in a climate-change world. His PhD thesis focuses on the role of social entrepreneurship in developing human-centric smart cities.