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Prof Katy Mason's Outputs (45)

Cyborg Methodologies: Rewriting the Role of Digital, Social and Mobile Media Technologies in the Production of Knowledge (2025)
Journal Article

The ubiquitous entanglement of digital, social and mobile media – and increasingly generative artificial intelligence – in everyday life is reconstituting us (and our methodologies) as cyborg. This paper sets out to explore how cyborg methodologies c... Read More about Cyborg Methodologies: Rewriting the Role of Digital, Social and Mobile Media Technologies in the Production of Knowledge.

The Camera Is an Engine: Ways of Seeing Perspective, Context and Reflexivity to Make and Shape Markets through Innovative Research Practice (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the performative power of research methods, and specifically the power of audio-visual technologies – the video camera - in capturing and re-presenting data concerning markets, their innovation and transformation. Our claim is t... Read More about The Camera Is an Engine: Ways of Seeing Perspective, Context and Reflexivity to Make and Shape Markets through Innovative Research Practice.

Should the wheel be reinvented? Market-referencing in the electric vehicle market charging infrastructure (2024)
Journal Article

Market-referencing helps market actors learn from what has gone before – saving them from reinventing the wheel. While extant studies show that market-referencing is essential for stabilising and legitimising new markets, little is known about how ma... Read More about Should the wheel be reinvented? Market-referencing in the electric vehicle market charging infrastructure.

“That's bang out of order, mate!”: Gendered and racialized micro‐practices of disadvantage and privilege in UK business schools (2022)
Journal Article

The existence of gendered and racialized inequalities in academia has been well documented. To date, research has primarily addressed the intersectional disadvantages faced by members of minority groups with much less attention paid to the privileges... Read More about “That's bang out of order, mate!”: Gendered and racialized micro‐practices of disadvantage and privilege in UK business schools.

Learning from Each Other: Why and How Business Schools Need to Create a “Paradox Box” for Academic–Policy Impact (2022)
Journal Article

As the “impact agenda” continues to gain prominence internationally, a key challenge is enabling academics and policymakers to interact so that they can learn effectively from and with each other. There is an ethical position that, if we could contri... Read More about Learning from Each Other: Why and How Business Schools Need to Create a “Paradox Box” for Academic–Policy Impact.

Infrastructuring [Im]perfect markets: Putting a ‘very rural’ 5G digital infrastructure in place (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper breaks new ground by revealing and conceptualising the infrastructuring of moral markets as a process that aggregates and integrates experimental sociomaterial practices through the construction and use of local and global knowledge archit... Read More about Infrastructuring [Im]perfect markets: Putting a ‘very rural’ 5G digital infrastructure in place.

The institutional work of a social enterprise operating in a subsistence marketplace: Using the business model as a market‐shaping tool (2020)
Journal Article

The void between formal and informal institutionalized practices that coexist in subsistence marketplaces can render them inaccessible to subsistence consumer-merchants. We conducted an in-depth auto-ethnographic study of Novo Dia Developments, a soc... Read More about The institutional work of a social enterprise operating in a subsistence marketplace: Using the business model as a market‐shaping tool.

Who Can Start a Stock Exchange? Silent Legitimacy, Mundane Materiality, and the Genesis of Markets (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study presents an account of the genesis and development of two stock markets established in London in 1995. It draws on elite interviews and documentary sources to explore how the founders of these markets sought to legitimize them as stable an... Read More about Who Can Start a Stock Exchange? Silent Legitimacy, Mundane Materiality, and the Genesis of Markets.

Implementing Marketization in Public Healthcare Systems: Performing Reform in the English National Health Service (2020)
Journal Article

To implement marketization in public healthcare systems, policymakers need to situate abstract models of prescriptive practice in complex user settings. Using a performativity lens, we show how policy processes attempt to bring about the changes they... Read More about Implementing Marketization in Public Healthcare Systems: Performing Reform in the English National Health Service.