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- Abildgaard, Anne, et al.
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Enacting the entrepreneurial self : Public-private innovation as an actualization of a neoliberal market dispositive
- 2021
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Management. - : Elsevier. - 0956-5221 .- 1873-3387. ; 37:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on Foucault’s writings on power, neoliberalism, and the dispositive, this article analyses the identity politics that is immanent in a new collaborative practice between the public and private sector called public-private innovation (PPI). We argue that PPI is an element in actualizing a neoliberal market dispositive through inclining subjects to work on themselves in order to actualize their entrepreneurial self, thereby disconnecting them from their public service identity. The construction of two narratives supports the constitution of the political space of PPI: the fiery soul narrative and the need narrative. An important part of this identity politics is the construction of the narrative of the individual entrepreneur. Rather than expressing new public governance in the public sector, PPI actualizes a dispositive that marketizes public services as part of a neoliberal agenda. The narrative of PPI distracts from the marketization of public sector and leaves no other space for public-sector employees than to constitute themselves within contradictory feelings of enthusiasm and anxiety, determination and self-blame, responsibility and inadequacy, and bustle and confusion.
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Debating Leaderless Management : Can Employees Do Without Leaders
- 2022
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- The dream of workers prospering without bosses has long intrigued academics, practitioners, and politicians, particularly on the political left. Anarchists have always believed that it’s not just the state but all forms of authority that are coercive and pernicious, and that a libertarian alterna- tive would free workers and create a fundamentally better form of society. Although we can trace the origins of such leaderless forms of existence back to both ancient Chinese and Greek philosophers, they are more usually related to the works of William Godwin, Max Stirner, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Makhno, and the like. In terms of practice, their presence is less obvious, but they were important influencers on the 1871 Paris Commune, the mutiny at Kronstadt in 1921, and of course, in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). But our understanding of how we could organize work without managers is rather less colored by such events and often colored by other forms of romantic nostalgia.So, while the theoretical attempt to distance organizational forms from the moral and ethical dilemmas of conventional hierarchies have continued over time, there are few substantive and scholarly accounts of what these forms might be—or why they might not prove viable. This collection is an attempt to address this lacuna and to establish whether peer-based alternatives to leader–follower hierarchies can work—the first part of the collection; or why they might or might not—the second part; or why they won’t work—the third part. A final chapter considers looking beyond all these debates.
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- Hertel, Frederik, et al.
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Introducing the Debate on Leaderless Management
- 2022
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Ingår i: Debating Leaderless Management. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783031045950 - 9783031045936 ; , s. 1-16
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The dream of workers prospering without bosses has long intrigued academics, practitioners, and politicians, particularly on the political left. Anarchists have always believed that it’s not just the state but all forms of authority that are coercive and pernicious, and that a libertarian alterna- tive would free workers and create a fundamentally better form of society. Although we can trace the origins of such leaderless forms of existence back to both ancient Chinese and Greek philosophers, they are more usually related to the works of William Godwin, Max Stirner, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Makhno, and the like. In terms of practice, their presence is less obvious, but they were important influencers on the 1871 Paris Commune, the mutiny at Kronstadt in 1921, and of course, in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). But our understanding of how we could organize work without managers is rather less colored by such events and often colored by other forms of romantic nostalgia.So, while the theoretical attempt to distance organizational forms from the moral and ethical dilemmas of conventional hierarchies have continued over time, there are few substantive and scholarly accounts of what these forms might be—or why they might not prove viable. This collection is an attempt to address this lacuna and to establish whether peer-based alternatives to leader–follower hierarchies can work—the first part of the collection; or why they might or might not—the second part; or why they won’t work—the third part. A final chapter considers looking beyond all these debates.
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- Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg, 1969-
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Facing Gaia in Education : A Storytelling Framework for Teaching Sustainability in Management
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Ingår i: Managing Social Responsibility in Universities. - London : Palgrave Pivot. - 9783030700126 - 9783030700133 ; , s. 95-116
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter is inspired by Latour’s suggestion that Gaia has taken centre stage in politics. Universities are therefore submitted to a climatic regime which demands responsibility. Inspired by Arendt, this chapter suggests a storytelling framework for teaching sustainability in management education. Storytelling is seen as a means for ‘emplacing’ people in the terrestrial conditions of Gaia. Seven storytelling principles of a terrestrial management education are discussed: Self-formation addresses the need of management becoming a matter of ethical development of the self; problem-oriented learning emphasizes that learning is to be organized around practical problems; multispecies storytelling implies organizing management education with an explicit focus on the biosphere goals; gaiagraphy implies using methods to map relations between nature, society, and organizations; governance implies organizing management as an intersectional practice across different professions; truth-telling is to train management students to appear and speak with frankness and honesty; finally, storytelling requires deep reflexive practices.
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- Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg, 1969-, et al.
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Keep the Machine Running : Entrepreneurship as a Practice of Control in the Neoliberal Economy
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Ingår i: Against Entrepreneurship. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030479367 - 9783030479374 ; , s. 57-76
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The argument here against entrepreneurship discourse is that it is used for transforming environmental and social problems into new market opportunities and to deregulate and cut back on support for people in precarious positions. We argue that these transformations destroy or promote unjust modes of entrepreneurship. Furthermore, entrepreneurship is an important weapon for capitalism to outsource and deny responsibility for the consequences of its actions. We show how this tendency operates through two stories about entrepreneurship. The first story is from a discourse concerning plastic pollution. In this story, entrepreneurship is presented as the solution to the problem concerning plastic pollution. The second story is about immigrants where exposed citizens are expected to find their entrepreneurial spirit and become self-sufficient within a hostile institutional system.
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- Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg, 1969-, et al.
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Storytelling Sustainability in Problem-Based Learning
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: Populism and Higher Education Curriculum Development. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030473754 - 9783030473761 ; , s. 369-391
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter argues for a storytelling framework for sustainable problem-based learning (PBL). An important aspect of PBL is to learn how to be responsible and answerable. Such competences can only be learnt if students interact with the world. This ethical purpose is, however, often forgotten in PBL rhetoric. We propose to address this. The 17 UN development goals are seen as a political materialization of the highest principle of all being, which is identified as the eternal recurrence and hence natality. This ethical principle is radical and implies multi-species storytelling, that is, a politics of the earth instead of the human all-to-human dominance that has caused the Sixth Extinction event that we are currently living through. The challenge of PBL in regard to sustainability is to work out new institutional, economic and material practices in which the UN goals can be enacted. We propose a terra-political framework, which implies regrouping and prioritizing the UN development goals. Terra-politics is a multi-species storytelling, which can be organized as concrete problems of the earth, which are always inherent and entangled with the problems that students identify through self-directed collaborative learning processes. A terra-politics is in this sense at the heart of almost any problem that students are dealing with. We suggest that a model of true storytelling can be extended to a multi-species storytelling that we describe in four phases and seven principles. True storytelling becomes a model that can bridge strategies, communities, spaces, geographies, nature and people. Stories are seen as collective, relational and material and require the community of a Terrapolis in which being-togetherness in time-space is a guiding principle for shaping a sustainable future.
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- Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg, 1969-
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The storytelling and storyselling of neoliberal academic work
- 2023
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Ingår i: Affective Capitalism in Academia. - Bristol : Policy Press. - 9781447357841 - 9781447357865 ; , s. 95-109
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The tensions between academic capitalism and ethical subjectivation in universities are discussed in Chapter 5 through the contrast of two different types of stories about the university. The first is the university as a ‘moral concentration camp’, where research and education are part of biopolitical neoliberalism and its valuations of worthy/unworthy, beneficial/non-beneficial etc. The second is the university as ‘a public library’ where knowledge is shared and passed on for free to future generations. These stories express very different ideas of the ‘university’. The first uses what we call storyselling. It expresses the corporatisation of the self in the neoliberal academy and works through affective subjectivation. The second uses storytelling as an element in ethical self-formation. We argue that these two contradictory forces are simultaneously present in the work of the self on the self by which academics manage and organise their professional work lives. Resistance to academic capitalism is associated with storytelling. The problem as we see it is that storytelling resistance increasingly relies on the work of the self on the self while effective resistance requires the creation of more collective spaces where people can come together.
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- Mølbjerg Jørgensen, Kenneth, 1969-, et al.
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A Dispositive of Business Storytelling : The Politics of Entrepreneurship in the Bioeconomy
- 2023
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Ingår i: A World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Storytelling. - : World Scientific. - 9789811279904 - 9789811279928 ; , s. 31-48
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter explores the politics of entrepreneurship in the bioeconomy. It explains how storytelling is used politically to promote certain kinds of entrepreneurship. The chapter questions the idea of the lone entrepreneur, who, armed with creativity, action, and risk-taking creates something new in spite of public bureaucratic structures. Instead, it shows how the bioeconomy is a step in governments’ attempts to encourage and conduct in a subtle way the transformation from an economy based on fossil fuels toward an economy based on sustainable energy sources — in this case, biogas. The chapter also discloses how farmers position themselves and enact their agendas when becoming entrepreneurs in this area. We discuss this case of business storytelling as an example of the relationship between power and entrepreneurship. The reason why biogas is particularly interesting is because of the powerful business interests in farming. Entrepreneurship is in this case used as a tool to revitalize existing power relations and their material interests rather than to create new beginnings.
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