Foucault, Management and Organization Theory: From Panopticon to Technologies of Self (Organization Studies)
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- Synopsis
- This volume draws together critical assessments of Michel Foucault's contribution to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organization. The volume provides a valuable summary of Foucault's contribution to organization theory, which also challenges the conventions of traditional organizational analysis. By applying Foucauldian concepts such as discipline, surveillance and power/knowledge, the authors shed new light on the genesis of the modern organization and raise fresh questions about organization theory. The bureaucratic career is, for example, analyzed as a disciplinary device, a mechanism that seeks to alter rational choice rather than constrain bodies. This raises questions about Foucault's linking of the modern organization's birth with the enlightenment. Other contributions review the impact of totalizing managerial discourses and the limits and possiblities of resistance, and question the profound pessimism of Foucault. The volume concludes by examining the implications of Foucault's later work in which he suggests that people are much freer than they feel.
- Copyright:
- 1998
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 257 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781446232521
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780857022868, 9780803975460, 9780803975477
- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
- Date of Addition:
- 04/18/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Alan McKinlay, Ken Starkey, Gibson Burrell, Stewart Clegg, Norman Jackson, Pippa Carter, Mike Savage, Keith Hoskin, Trevor Hopper, Norman Mcintosh, Stanley Deetz, Alan McKinlay, Phil Taylor, Barbara Townley, Patricia Findlay, Tim Newton
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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