At FORCE we study the following topics, among others:

• How do new technologies modify organizing processes and challenge the specificities and roles of human actors within these? For instance, how on-going and future changes are already modifying the way the human body, heart and mind interact together and with technology within new forms of organizations and work environments?
• How do organizations care for humans in a more-than-human (or post-human) organization? For instance, given that some of these changes generate tensions and anxiety, how can organizations construct spaces and develop reflexive processes that allow the expression of emotions and vulnerability, and help employees imagine new organizational designs as well as routines and practices for the future?

Current on-going projects from FORCE members, among others:

• The emancipatory potentials of performance measurement systems and accounting indicators for low status & gendered occupations (Contact: Claire Dambrin for further details).
• Performance expectations constrain or enable people’s bodies at work, in the context of an ever-accelerating society (Contact: Claire Dambrin for further details)
• The power of intuition and imagination in organizations: e.g., how people make sense of, and with, their intuition? (Contact: Nora Meziani for further details)
• Corporeality, sensoriality, voice, ghosts, and their role in organizations (Contact: Nora Meziani for further details)

FORCE team members explore, among others, the following questions:

• How are sustainability measurement and reporting being automated and transformed, and with what consequences on human stakeholders of organizations’ value chains?
• How can performance measurement systems emancipate vulnerable collectives and sustain ethical working conditions in organizations?
• How are ecosystems of living beings incorporated into the performance measurement practices of supply chain systems and industries (interorganizational and physical spaces)? How does such incorporation affect the living modalities of such beings?
• What are the new ways of making AI accountable, through its measurement of performance, to foster climate-sustainable and ethical AI (e.g., the energy needs of computing, the issue of socially discriminating algorithms)?
• What are the possibilities and potentials for de-quantification in organizations and society?

On-going projects from FORCE members, among others:

• The interactions between ecosystems of living beings and performance measurement systems with a specific focus on bees. Specifically, how bees and beekeepers interact with new technologies such as measurement systems that provide beekeepers with instant information on the conditions of their bees. The main objective is to understand how such technologies support human effort in directing non-human living beings towards activities, like pollination, that are deemed crucial for sustaining our future as well as the food industry and agriculture. (Contact Claire Dambrin or Zsuzsanna Vargha for further details)
• The evolution of the State relationships with some of its stakeholders (citizens, companies) through the angle of evaluation practices relating to call for tenders and corporate tax audit. (Contact Claire Dambrin for further details)
• The Personalized Economy: Conversation and Data in the Era of Algorithms (Contact Zsuzsanna Vargha for further details)
• The analysis of surveillance in new work modes, such as remote work. Specifically, the role of employee monitoring systems in balancing employees’ demands for autonomy and flexibility with management’s desire for control and their effects on employees’ experience of surveillance. (Contact Leona Wiegmann for forther details)

On-going projects from FORCE members, among others:

• Future-making practices in organizational contexts and decision-making practices under uncertainty / with AI (Contact: Laure Cabantous for further details)
• How data gathering and analysis from major Space programs help managers capture complex predictions and make better-informed decisions to address future major economic, environmental and social needs (Contact: Fabrizio Grana for further details)
• The role of predictive analytics in financial forecasting. Specifically, the role of predictive analytics in the interplay with human judgment in imagining and quantifying uncertain futures, and the effects of such data-driven forecasts for corporate control (Contact: Leona Wiegmann for further details)
• How entrepreneurs behave under uncertainty (Contact Yi Dragon Jiang for further details).