Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

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Deborah Gervasi
Guglielmo Faldetta
Davide Bizjak
Luigi Maria Sicca
Unveiling the Scapegoat: A Girardian Reading of Disability and Organizational Discrimination

This study introduces a critical lens to explore discriminatory dynamics towards people with disabilities in organizational contexts, using René Girard’s scapegoating framework. Despite the wide range of labels that attempt to define disability, the literature would benefit from a more nuanced approach and dynamic model. This model could explain how an ableist organizational environment can give rise to various forms of violence towards people with disability. By broadening the spectrum of social sciences beyond managerial and organizational studies and overlapping the identification processes in an ableist organization with René Girard’s scapegoating framework, this study tries to obtain a more nuanced and dynamic perspective. Indeed, the scapegoating framework allows us to better understand the collective and social dimensions and processes of discriminatory behaviors, capturing relevant elements that characterize the phenomenon. This informs ongoing research into new evaluative tools and sketches new theoretical and empirical approaches.

Unveiling the Scapegoat: A Girardian Reading of Disability and Organizational Discrimination

Tamara is a journal committed to the writing differently epistemology. It is an approach to researching, writing, as well as to academic communityship, prioritizing quality over quantity and knowledge understood as a common good over science regarded as production (Pullen, 2018; Rhodes, 2019; Boncori, 2023; Kociatkiewicz, & Kostera, 2024; Bristow, Robinson, & Ratle, 2025). Following Sarah Gilmore, Nancy Harding, Jenny Helin, and Alison Pullen (2019, p. 3), the journal is committed to academic writing and knowing “concerned with
broadening, widening and deepening knowledge and understanding by giving our ideas space in which they can flourish, create new meanings, help us learn and become human.” We wish to counteract the currently dominant trend favouring linearity of writing and understanding, which not only diminishes the communication process, but also distorts knowledge by ignoring its social underpinnings (Kociatkiewicz, & Kostera, 2024).
We are also committed to doing academia differently (Bristow, Robinson, & Ratle, 2025), purposefully intending to challenge the ruling neoliberal ruling relations concerned with competition of the market of “world class” universities (Lund, & Tienari, 2019). The current pressure to publish in the “right journals” detracts from genuine engagement with the pursuit of knowledge and distracts academics from serving society. Yet academics engage in writing books and texts “that do not count” demonstrating “unconditional love” for the sense and meaning of their work (p. 110).
Resonating with Heather Höpfl’s (2000) call, we recognize and embrace the social, the organizational, and the political as our personal engagement in social sciences. The return to meaning in academic writing and thinking (Alvesson, Gabriel, & Paulsen, 2017) is vital for academics as well as for societies whom we serve. Tamara is a collective engagement in this movement toward a return to mission and meaning, presenting a real and existing alternative which we: editors, the editorial board, reviewers, authors, and readers, share the responsibility for.
What follows is a collaborative editorial composed of reflections from members of Tamara’s community, offered as an invitation to academic conversation. These reflections differ in tone, emphasis, and style of writing: some begin from anecdote, some from theory, some from editorial practice, some from moral or political concern. We have kept the contributors’ texts in their original form so that each piece can retain its own voice and vision. The short editorial notes in italics are to connect these reflections. We have kept those differences visible because a journal committed to plurality should not present itself in a single flattened voice.

Davide Bizjak, Jean-François Chanlat, Gosia Ciesielska, Daniel Ericsson, Anna Maria Górska, Monika Kostera, Michał Krzykawski, Hugo Letiche, JF Jotaefe Matamoros Sanin, Domenico Napolitano, Martin Parker, Alison Pullen, Carl Rhodes, Annette Risberg, Silvio Ripetta, Luigi Maria Sicca, & Martyna Sliwa (2026). Tamara: Invitation to the Academic Conversation. 1.

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Tamara: Invitation to the Academic Conversation

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Book edited by our Editors and their Mentor: Anna Maria Górska, Barbara Czarniawska and Monika Kostera

Authors: David Andreas Bell, Marko Valenta, Henriett Primecz, Anna Laura Hidegh, Almina Bešić, Barbara Czarniawska, Viktor Denisenko, Kiryl Kascian, Waldemar Rapior, Lisa M. Wiśniewski, Alicja Dudek, Ewa Lisowska, Aleksandra Kubecka, Beáta Nagy, Joanna Żukowska, Bradley Koch, Pamela Tremain Koch, Tiit Elenurm, Sara Csillag, Carmen Svastics, Zsuzsanna Gyori, Anna Laura Hidegh, Anna Knapińska, Leyla Safta-Zecheria, Loredana Marcela Trancă, Marcjanna Sprogis, Ilona Hunek
Coda by Alison Pullen
The book
- Provides a deep perspective on DEI-related issues in Central and Eastern Europe
- Offers a multidisciplinary approach that integrates perspectives from various disciplines
- Explores both theoretical contributions and practical implications that can guide policy-making and workplace practices

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Central and Eastern Europe This book sheds light onto the complexities of diversity, equity, and inclusion within Central and Eastern Europe

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🌍 „Tamara” z międzynarodowym wyróżnieniem w Scopus

Czasopismo „Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry ”, wydawnictwa naszej uczelni, zostało przyjęte do Scopus, jednej z najważniejszych baz danych publikacji naukowych na świecie.

Jako międzynarodowa platforma interdyscyplinarnej refleksji nad organizacjami, zarządzaniem i społeczeństwem, „Tamara” łączy badania z filozofią, teorią i podejściami interpretatywnymi, tworząc przestrzeń dyskusji nad praktykami zarządczymi, strukturami władzy i wpływem organizacji na życie społeczne.

Sukces w Scopus jest wynikiem pracy całej społeczności czasopisma, w tym redakcji, rady naukowej, recenzentek i recenzentów oraz autorek i autorów. Indeksowanie wzmacnia globalną widoczność publikowanych badań, potwierdza wysokie standardy czasopisma oraz umacnia obecność Akademii w międzynarodowym środowisku naukowym.

Gratulujemy zespołowi redakcyjnemu i dziękujemy za konsekwentne budowanie jakości, rozwijanie międzynarodowej współpracy oraz realizowanie wyrazistej misji intelektualnej.

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🌍 Tamara receives international recognition in Scopus

„Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry”, published by our university press, has been accepted into Scopus, one of the world’s leading databases of scientific publications.

As an international platform for interdisciplinary reflection on organizations, management, and society, Tamara combines research with philosophy, theory, and interpretative approaches, creating a space for discussion on managerial practices, power structures, and the impact of organizations on social life.

Inclusion in Scopus is the result of the dedication of the journal’s entire community, including the editorial team, editorial board, reviewers, and authors. This recognition enhances the global visibility of published research, confirms the journal’s high-quality standards, and strengthens our university’s presence in the international academic environment.

We congratulate the editorial team and thank them for consistently building quality, fostering international collaboration, and pursuing a clear intellectual mission.

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Tamara has been accepted for Scopus. 💙💜

Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) has reviewed our application and approved it for coverage.

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Dear Tamara Community,

As the year 2025 comes to a close, we extend our warmest wishes to all of you celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the winter solstice, or simply enjoying the time off. This is also a time for reflecting on the year ending.

We also want to say a sincere thank you for another year of supporting Tamara. For your readership, submissions, reviews, and conversations have helped the journal grow.

It has been an important year for Tamara: we have closed another issue with contributions from (alphabetically) Amir Elmi Keshtiban, David Harvie, David M. Boje, Jamie Callahan, Ronald Hartz, Richard Longman, Simon Lilley, and Sara Zaeemdar.

As we look forward to 2026, we wish you a New Year filled with health, peace, happiness and inspiration.

With warm wishes,
Anna and Monika