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- Bloom, Peter, et al.
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"The sky's the limit": fantasy in the age of market rationality
- 2009
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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
- 2012
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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
- 2007
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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
- 2009
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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
- 2016
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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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- Cederström, Carl, et al.
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The Masochistic Reflexive Turn
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 8:1
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- Cederström, Carl
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The Other Side of Technology: Lacan and the Desire for the Purity of Non-Being
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Against the deeply ingrained belief that technology is instrumental and neutral, this thesis argues that our relation to technology is inextricably bound up with fantasies. But what is the nature of these fantasies and where do we find them? Are they strictly reserved to the domain of Science Fiction, or can we also find them in more mundane contexts, like the business organization? These are some of the central questions of the present study. Combining the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan with dominant perspectives within information systems research, this thesis offers an alternative perspective on technology in which fantasy, and not least a fantasy of non-being, plays a central role. With support from an empirical case study these points are further contextualized and conceptually developed. The arguments that follow from this investigation have far-reaching consequences for studying information technology (IT), suggesting a turn towards more affective components involved in IT implementation and use.
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- Cederström, Carl
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Two tales about resistance Management vs. philosophy
- 2016
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Ingår i: Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge. - 9780203795248 - 9780415702867 ; , s. 533-541
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- Critchley, Simon, et al.
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How to Stop Living and Start Worrying: Conversations with Carl Cederström
- 2010
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- The question of how to lead a happy and meaningful life has been at the heart of philosophical debate since time immemorial. Today, however, these questions seem to be addressed not by philosophers but self-help gurus, who frantically champion the individual's quest for self-expression and self-realization; the desire to become authentic. Against these new age sophistries, How to Stop Living and Start Worrying tackles the question of 'how to live' by forcing us to explore our troubling relationship with death. For Critchley, philosophy begins with the question of finitude and with his understanding of a key classical theme - that to philosophize is to learn how to die. Learning how to accept both our own and others' mortality as a part of life also raises the question of how to love. Critchley argues that the act of love requires us to give up something of ourselves, to lose control so as to be open to the demands of love. We will never be equal to this demand and so we are brought face to face with our own limitations - one form of which is what Critchley calls our 'originary inauthenticity'. By scrutinizing the very nature of humour, Critchley explores what we need to laugh at ourselves and presents the need to confront the inescapable ridiculousness of life. Reflecting on the work of over 20 years, this book provides a unique, witty and erudite introduction to the thought of Simon Critchley. It includes a revealing biographical conversation with Critchley and a fascinating debate with the critically acclaimed novelist Tom McCarthy about the nature of authenticity. Taken together the conversations give an intimate portrait of one of the most lucid, provocative and engaging philosophers writing today.
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- Dallyn, Sam, et al.
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The Academic as Public Intellectual : Examining Public Engagement in the Professionalised Academy
- 2015
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Ingår i: Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0038-0385 .- 1469-8684. ; 49:6, s. 1031-1046
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we critically consider the widely held conception that the public intellectual is in decline. We present a more sanguine fate of this figure, arguing that today we observe a flourishing of intellectuals. One such figure is the academic intellectual who has often been looked at with suspicion as a technical specialist. This conception suggests that university intellectuals are diluted versions of the historical conception of the 'true' public intellectual - that is, an 'independent spirit' that fearlessly challenges unjust power. In this article, we contest this view, arguing that this historical conception, idealised as it may be, nevertheless can inform scholastic activities. By resituating the public intellectual as a kind of temperament rather than a title, we examine its pressing - but at the same time uneasy - relevance to contemporary academic life. Counterposing this with contemporary instrumental conceptions of research impact, we suggest that where possible the intellectual academic should aspire to go beyond academic institutional norms and requirements. Hence, the academic public intellectual refers to a temperament, which is in but not of the academic profession.
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- Ehnhage, Anna Felicia, 1986-
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Paradoxical consumer enjoyment : A cultural perspective on cigarette consumption
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In a time when health is seen as an important personal achievement, it is difficult to understand why people consume cigarettes. The explanations for cigarette consumption tend to be one-sided and the most common explanation are addiction and compulsive personality. Consumer culture theory (CCT) has similarly ended up in a one-sided portrayal when studying consumption seen as destructive or marginalising. This thesis argues that this one-sided view is a result of how dominant discourses within CCT views pleasure. The strive to attain pleasurable experiences is often described as a motivation for consumption in CCT, however, pleasure lacks nuance and is mainly portrayed as constructive and socially accepted. That is, consumption of the seemingly irrational, destructive, or repulsive products in today's marketplace cannot be understood as motivated by pleasure as defined in CCT, as a result, much of the consumption that occurs in the marketplace is excluded from the literature.The thesis argues that the one-sided view on pleasure in CCT is the result of a lack of frameworks encompassing ambiguous experiences. To this end, the present thesis builds a framework based on psychoanalytically informed discourse theories’ view of jouissance, a form of paradoxical enjoyment, and apply it on the study of cigarette consumption. This thesis suggests to move away from pleasures when studying destructive and marginalising consumption and instead suggests paradoxical enjoyment as an alternative.This thesis concludes that paradoxical enjoyment, in the case of smoking, further breaks with the assumptions of rationality and constructiveness often present in CCT. Smokers, on the other hand, experience enjoyment because of the regulations and social stigma that surrounds smoking. The thesis moreover shows how enjoyment of smoking is expressed as a disruption of pain experienced in crisis caused by e.g., separation or death, because the pain from crisis is out screamed with the pain felt from smoking. In addition, enjoyment of smoking is felt through the moving back-and-forth between self-imposed limits and limitlessness. Lastly, the thesis found that smoking is an isolated enjoyment, preferred away from non-smokers as well as from other smokers, because of the repulsion smokers sense towards their own consumption.
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- Oljemark, Markus, 1991-
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Lonely in Company : A qualitative study of loneliness, belonging, and the passion for recognition at work
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Loneliness is a common experience in the workplace. Although one in two office workers reporting loneliness, the phenomenon has received little qualitative attention within management and organization theory. Previous research has sought to measure, predict, and control workplace loneliness, but how people experience and cope with loneliness at work is still relatively unexplored. While other emotional phenomena such as anger and stress have been scrutinized within qualitative workplace emotion literature, this body of research has yet to address loneliness specifically. Therefore, this thesis aims to generate new knowledge by investigating lived experiences of workplace loneliness. To this end, interview and survey materials have been collected from 45 Swedish knowledge workers who have personal experience of loneliness at work. A netnographic study of how people talk about workplace loneliness online complements the primary material. To understand how people experience and cope with workplace loneliness, I analyze the empirical material both narratively and thematically. This study suggests that workplace loneliness emerges as a paradoxical phenomenon with bilateral experiences and coping practices, which seem to derive from a tension between desired community and individuality at work. In particular, the empirical material indicates that workplace loneliness can manifest as both proximity-seeking behavior and social withdrawal. By drawing on recognition theories, this thesis seeks to advance a new perspective on workplace loneliness that makes sense of this tension. The proposed model suggests that workplace loneliness is not about being alone or feeling alone but about feeling unseen, unheard, and insignificant (i.e., unrecognized). Consequently, this thesis conceptualizes loneliness as a “passion for recognition” where “passion” is understood as a “strong desire” related to an individual’s self-esteem. Next, I discuss the potential role of loneliness in the workplace and theorize that loneliness may facilitate both social order and social conflict in organizations via people’s pursuit of recognition. This raises questions concerning the management and potential exploitation of loneliness in the workplace. However, more research is needed. Moreover, the findings of this thesis have implications for a set of current debates within workplace emotion literature. First, by approaching loneliness as an “abstract emotional phenomenon” (i.e., non-bodily expressed), this thesis contributes to the ongoing discussion on the interplay between expressed and experienced emotions at work. Second, the dichotomy between “positive” and “negative” workplace emotions is challenged by capturing loneliness as a nuanced and complex phenomenon. Third, the ethical dimension of belonging is brought to light by integrating workplace loneliness and workplace belonging research. Fourth, this thesis echoes and extends previously raised concerns about the consequences of unrealistic expectations in the workplace and how this may lead to feelings of meaninglessness, powerlessness, and loneliness in workers. Finally, this thesis aims to open new avenues for studying painful workplace experiences qualitatively, approaches that are not only helpful for advancing the academic debate but also relevant to the individual who lives through the experience.
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- Wandery, Oscar, 1990-
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The Ecstasy of Tragedy : An Ethnography of Hospice
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Culture is a double-edged sword in organizational research. Certain researchers consider culture the key to understanding organizations while others see it as a pseudo-scientific and faddish term. Similarly in the private sector, some argue that it is an essential part of their company’s success while others treat it as a high-scoring word in corporate-speak-bingo. This dissertation lies somewhere in between these positions. This dissertation explores the organizational culture of hospice care based on three years of volunteering (bi-weekly), two months of non-participant observations, and 30 interviews (17 semi-structured and 13 unstructured). It makes the case that while some organizations are not subject to distinct or persistent cultures in an anthropological sense, other organizations display cultural continuity in ways that resemble clans, tribes, or communes. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the cultural reproduction of such an organization – hospice. Building on work within affective theory and new-wave organization culture, this dissertation discusses the role that ecstasy plays in the persistence of communal bonds in hospice, and it explores different social- and psychological processes within hospice that leads to the maintenance of its norms, symbols, and values.
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