Working Papers
Papers currently in preparation or under review.
Saatçi, B., Ivory, C., Land, C., Toraldo, M. L. & Warhurst, C.
From Future Skills to Skills Emergence: Response-ability in Responsible Management-as-Practice under Industry 5.0
In preparation
Shifts the analytical focus from future skills that can be anticipated and mapped to skills that emerge through situated engagement with technologies, materials, and organisational routines. Drawing on ethnographic case studies of ten European manufacturing and artisanal firms from the Up-Skill project, the paper traces three dynamics of skills emergence (experimentation and technological breakdown, infrastructures of visibility, and hybrid role formation) and reconceptualises responsibility as response-ability: the situated capacity to respond to, and care for, emerging capabilities.
Saatçi, B., Ivory, C., Toraldo, M. L. & Warhurst, C.
Stewarding Skills in Technological Change: Organising Responsibility as Situated Moral Practice
In preparation; abstract published in Academy of Management Proceedings, 2026
Develops a practice-based account of how responsibility is organised during technological change and introduces the concept of skill stewardship: the moral and relational work through which responsibility for skills is realised within socio-technical arrangements. Drawing on virtue ethics, care ethics, and stewardship theory, and on three ethnographic vignettes from European manufacturing and craft firms undergoing digital transformation, the paper shows responsibility emerging not as formal governance or managerial control but as a situated accomplishment, and reframes responsible leadership as a distributed form of moral work. Nominated for the 2026 Responsible Research Award of the Academy of Management OMT Division.
Saatçi, B., Toraldo, M. L. & Della Torre, E.
Crafted Futures: Imagined Roles of Technology and Sustainable Organizing in Italian Craft
Revise and resubmit, European Management Journal
Explores how Italian craft organizations imagine the role of digital technologies and automation in their futures, and what these imaginaries mean for sustainable ways of organizing.
Saatçi, B. & Addolorato, S.
Stratified Lifestyle Entrepreneurship in Group Fitness: Precarity, Passion and Platform-Governed Positions
Revise and resubmit, Organization Management Journal
Examines passion-driven self-employment among group-fitness instructors, showing how brand licensing and platform governance stratify positions and produce precarity within a lifestyle occupation.
Skills, Craft, and Technological Change
This line of research explores how skills emerge, evolve, and are valued in contexts of digital transformation and Industry 5.0, with particular attention to craft and informal learning.
Saatçi, B., Ivory, C. & Toraldo, M. L.
Spot New Tech Skills Emerging From the Workforce
MIT Sloan Management Review, 2026
Shows how new skills emerge from the workforce as organizations adopt technologies, often unnoticed by formal planning, and introduces the SPOT framework to help managers recognize and build on them.
Marcolin, A., Saatçi, B., Toraldo, M. L. & Land, C.
Leisure, Hustle and Career: Informal Skills Acquisition in Accordion Repairing
Management Learning, 2025
Examines how informal and passion-driven activities evolve into recognized expertise, challenging linear and formalized models of professional skill development.
Saatçi, B., Marcolin, A. & Toraldo, M. L.
Future Skills Training Content (Deliverable D4.4)
Up-Skill: Up-skilling for Industry 5.0 Roll-Out, Horizon Europe, 2025
Develops a research-based training framework examining how skills emerge and become organized within technologically transforming firms. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork and organizational analysis, the report advances a co-creative methodology for identifying context-specific skill formation processes and contributes to debates on Industry 5.0 and responsible management.
Hybrid Work and Collaboration Technologies
This stream of research investigates how people collaborate across physical and digital environments, with a focus on hybrid meetings and sociomaterial design.
Saatçi, B., Akyüz, K., Rintel, S. & Klokmose, C. N.
(Re)Configuring Hybrid Meetings: Moving from User-Centered Design to Meeting-Centered Design
Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2020
Introduces the concept of meeting-centered design, shifting attention from individual users to collective coordination dynamics in hybrid settings.
Recipient of the 2021 David B. Martin Best Paper Award.
Grønbæk, J. E., Saatçi, B., Griggio, C. F. & Klokmose, C. N.
MirrorBlender: Supporting Hybrid Meetings with a Malleable Video-Conferencing System
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021
Presents a reconfigurable video-conferencing system designed to support fluid transitions between co-located and remote collaboration.
Saatçi, B., Rädle, R., Rintel, S., O’Hara, K. & Klokmose, C. N.
Hybrid Meetings in the Modern Workplace: Stories of Success and Failure
Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing, 2019
Draws on fieldwork to analyze breakdowns, power dynamics, and coordination challenges in distributed workplace meetings.
Neumayr, T., Saatçi, B., Augstein, M., Jetter, H. C., Klokmose, C. N., Anderst-Kotsis, G. & Rintel, S.
Hybrid Collaboration: Moving Beyond Purely Co-Located or Remote Collaboration
European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Workshops, 2019
Conceptualizes hybrid collaboration as a distinct organizational form rather than a simple mix of remote and in-person work.
Neumayr, T., Saatçi, B., Rintel, S., Klokmose, C. N. & Augstein, M.
What Was Hybrid? A Systematic Review of Hybrid Collaboration and Meetings Research
arXiv Preprint, 2021
Provides a systematic review of hybrid collaboration and meetings research, mapping key concepts, technological configurations, and methodological approaches across the field. Establishes a conceptual baseline for understanding hybrid work prior to and during early post-pandemic transformations.
Earlier Work in Sociology and Discourse Studies
Saatçi, B. & Karakuş, E.
The Banalization and Legitimization of Hetero-Patriarchal Violence on Page 3: A Discourse Analysis of Online Turkish Newspapers
In Sexuality, Oppression and Human Rights, Brill, 2015
Examines how online media narratives normalize gendered violence and reproduce broader power structures.
