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Across several countries, ever-growing societal alarm about the threat of online child sexual exploitation has provoked a controversial civic response: volunteer pedophile hunting teams that expose predators in livestreamed confrontations. Their practices have generated strong criticisms froma police force unsure how to engage them because they lack an empathic understanding of hunters' lived experience. Through a three-year phenomenological ethnography of a U.K. hunting team, we advance efforts across organization research to theorize the role of lived experience in social action. Specifically, we deploy the phenomenological concept "way-of-being" to explain hunters' use of extreme practices. Our interpretive account shows how the multiple ways-of-being that characterize the team's lifeworld suffuse their practices with a complex layered affectivity that is constitutive of the commitment necessary for their persistence. This offers a phenomenological alternative to social psychological models of motivations for vigilantism while also advancing emotions research in organizational institutionalismand practice theory. Practically, our study contributes to the policing challenge of mitigating hunting's harmful effects by facilitatingmore constructivemutual engagement. This offers a possible pathway for addressing the broader challenge posed by epistemically closed, social media-enabled communities that act out their concerns inways that disregard our common humanity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on real-time video, an audio journal, interviews, and field notes from the first-ever attempt to scull the navigable Amazon, we explore the promise of carnal sociology to enrich our understanding of embodied organizational sensemaking. We investigate the body's role in sensemaking from two vantage points: "of the body" and "from the body." Using methodological and conceptual anchors provided in carnal sociology, we contrast what each approach tells us about the nature and process of sensemaking. Doing so helps us outline a complementary approach to embodied sensemaking that attends to (1) how a "new way of seeing" the body as sentient, sedimented, situated, and capable of suffering enables a more holistic understanding of the role of embodiment in sensemaking; (2) the importance this then places on the "who" of sensemaking; and (3) carnal sociology's broader methodological implications for organizational sensemaking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The causal explanations of specific events are evaluated and the criteria to assess them are introduced. The various explanations provided for the successful entry of the automaker Honda into the U.S. motorcycle market are analyzed to illustrate the criteria.