Where ‘The Rules Don’t Apply’: Organizational Isolation and Misbehaviour in Elite Kitchens

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...