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- Bloom, Peter, et al.
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"The sky's the limit": fantasy in the age of market rationality
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Ingår i: Journal of Organizational Change Management. - : Emerald. - 0953-4814. ; 22:2, s. 159-180
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose - This paper has three purposes. The first is to introduce the concept of fantasy, based on Lacanian pyschoanlysis, in order to link theoretically the role of narrative and affect in organizational strategies of control. The second is to use this concept to illuminate the fantasmatic as well as ideological character of so-called "market rationality." The third is to reveal three dominant fantasies organizations draw on in an age of market rationality. Design/methodology/approach This paper is primarily a conceptual investigation into the ways Lacanian psychoanalytic theories can help link the phenomena of narrative and affect within strategies of organizational control and second, how this relates to current trends of market rationalism. Findings - Drawing on a psychoanalytic register, the paper argues that organizational control strategies revolve around the presence of a fantasy which is comprised of a symbiotic stable fantasy promising psychological wholeness and an unstable fantasy threatening to prevent this achievement. Further, it reflects on how emergent notions of market rationality, analogous to themes of a "boundaryless" or "protean" career, draw on a particular anti-organizational fantasies to affectively grip subjects within their values and practices. "Three fantasies employed by organizations in an age of marker rationalism were then identified. Research limitations/implications - In broader terms future research cats turn to the concept of fantasy to better explain organizational control and ideological interpellation of employees; particularly in regard to concepts of narrative and emotion for this process. Specifically, this paper offers an innovative way to understand and investigate market rationality and changing cultures of organizations within the globalizing economy. Originality/value - This paper offers the category of Lacanian fantasy for linking narrative and affect in managerial ideologies. Additionally it draws on Lacanian theory to provide a more coherent and theoretically sophisticated account of market rationality and organizational strategies countering this trend.
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- Case, Peter, et al.
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Roundtable : health at work
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Ingår i: Ephemera. - 2052-1499 .- 1473-2866. ; 11:3, s. 308-318
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- Cederström, Carl, et al.
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Desiring Agency
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper we explore the relation between agency and the (pathological) inclinations that lurk beneath the agent’s acts. We draw on the work of Jacques Lacan to argue that an adequate understanding of agency demands attentiveness to desires, the unconscious and the intimate relation between the subject and the Other. Based on some of the key features of the Lacanian subject we suggest agency to be (1) symbolic, (2) imaginary, or (3) ethical. This typology of agency, we argue, has far-reaching implications for social analysis in which we include the project of critical management studies.
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- Cederström, Carl
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Lacan Goes Business
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Ingår i: Annual Review of Critical Psychology. - 1746-739X. ; 7, s. 16-32
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- Cederström, Carl, et al.
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On Bandit Organizations and Their (IL)Legitimacy : Concept Development and Illustration
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Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 37:11, s. 1575-1594
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Outlaw organizations are neglected in organization studies. This is understandable given the presumption of illegitimacy they attract. Our article challenges the presumption by positing the concept of bandit organizations', demonstrating how some can build impressive levels of legitimacy among their audience. The case of Christopher Dudas' Coke, a philanthropic Jamaican drug cartel leader, and his Shower Posse' gang, is used to investigate how contemporary bandit organizations foster legitimacy. By placing shadow economy' organizations like this in the spotlight, we seek to extend scholarship on organizational legitimacy, while avoiding any undue romanticization of criminal organizations.
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