Where ‘The Rules Don’t Apply’: Organizational Isolation and Misbehaviour in Elite Kitchens
基于对47位精英厨师的访谈，研究提出厨房的地理结构内嵌了不当行为的可能性，并用规范性共同体理论解释不当行为作为反结构生活方式的一部分。
Abstract In this article we elaborate on the connection between organizational isolation and misbehaviour. Drawing on 47 interviews with elite chefs we make a twofold contribution to the misbehaviour literature. First, we conceptualize misbehaviour amongst chefs as a potentiality engrained into the geography of the kitchens they work in. Drawing on Smith (1987), we call this a geography of deviance . Through this concept we show that misbehaviour can be inscribed into a place, through structures that create feelings of invisibility, alienation and detachment. Second, we make sense of chefs’ misbehaviour by using Turner’s theory of normative communitas . Via this framing misbehaviour is cast as a ritualized component of an anti‐structural way of being, where the kitchen is simultaneously apprehended as an instrument of social withdrawal and a symbol of deviance around which the community pivots. Through these contributions we help to crystalise the relationship between organizational isolation and misbehaviour, particularly in the context of chefs and kitchens.