Abstract
Why a tentative section (that could become a new full section of this journal?) called ‘Counterpoint from the Field’? Banerjee’s paper gave me the occasion to get back to the statement that we published four years ago (Courpasson et al., 2008). A point we made in this short piece was to question how to be listened to by diverse audiences, how to keep firmly with the necessity and ‘philosophy’ that Organization Studies has always respected to provide deep empirical insights from the ‘fields’, where people live, talk and play out their destinies and the destiny of our world, while still strengthening the scientific rigor of ‘our’ papers so as to ‘play’ the publishing game. This section is a possible answer.
After a thorough reviewing process of this paper, I agreed with the reviewers that, although unusual in what we often call an ‘academic journal’, this type of piece is indeed stimulating and needs to be welcomed in its attempts to [re] connect planetary stakes and the micro-interactions that will eventually shape [or not] some crucial decisions of our times in these strange fora that are organized from time to time. The topic of climate change seems to deserve this type of counterpoint. Let’s simply listen to the actors so that the actors will somehow listen to us.
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