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- Del Fa, Sophie, et al.
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UNCRITICAL CONSTITUTION : CCO, Critique and Neoliberal Capitalism
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Routledge Handbook of the Communicative Constitution of Organization. - New York : Routledge. - 9780367480707 - 9781000582789 ; , s. 165-179
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter is an attempt to rectify one of the main shortfalls of the constitutive approach of communication (CCO): the absence of neoliberal capitalism in its conception of both communication and organizations. Any theory of the social must at least consider the current social order at hand, which we refer to as neoliberal capitalism. Building on the theoretical premise that communication is a relational practice by which various beings relate to each other through other beings, we will question the character of this relation by stating that, fundamentally, this relation is formed and informed by capitalism. This chapter aims at theorizing a critical approach to CCO in several ways: first by showing that CCO scholars’ interpretation of pragmatism occludes a critical dimension in their analyses; second, by engaging with critical theorizing and its connection points to CCO; and, third, to show how the lack of a critical understanding of neoliberal capitalism is hampering the critical potentialities of CCO.
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- Kärreman, Dan, et al.
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Identity, Image and Brand
- 2020
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Ingår i: The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations. - 9780198827115
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter highlights how organizational images and efforts to manage those images through branding influence the identities of individuals within organizations. The authors discuss the ways in which individuals’ identity projects are regulated, challenged, or supported by images and brands. They argue that identity is a particularly important concept for understanding organizing in today’s ‘brand society’, with individuals’ identities intertwined with corporate efforts of branding. Managing distinct and attractive images at both the collective and individual levels means that less prestigious, even stigmatized images may be important identity threats that impact individuals’ processes of identity work. The authors examine how previous literature has theorized the interplay between individual identity, image, and branding, arguing that the implications of branding for individuals’ construction of identity in organizations must be assessed critically.
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- Rennstam, Jens, et al.
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Understanding control in communities of practice-Constructive disobedience in a high-tech firm
- 2020
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Ingår i: Human Relations. - : SAGE Publications. - 0018-7267 .- 1741-282X. ; 73:6, s. 864-890
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Communities of practice (CoPs) represent a broad range of work situations characterized by shared knowledge and situated knowledge use. Although CoPs have been studied rather extensively, discussions of control in CoPs are rarer. This is peculiar because CoPs are characterized by a common tension in contemporary work: on the one hand, CoPs are expected to autonomously “think together,” but on the other they are expected to be responsive to various managerial control attempts. We interrogate this tension in an ethnographic study of engineering work, where we found that in response to management control the engineering communities engaged in constructive disobedience – that is, subversion and displacement of rules and orders to construct a dynamic of control where work can be executed autonomously. By associating constructive disobedience with control in CoPs, our study contributes with insight into and theorization of how management control is dealt with and how control operates in work characterized by CoPs. The study also provides deepened insight into the limits of management control and how professionalism may be maintained despite increased management. These insights may support development of a more knowledgeable and nuanced approach to attempts at managing communities of practice.
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- Sveningsson, Stefan, et al.
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Mats Alvesson: A Passion for Critical Reflexivity and Rational Change
- 2021. - 2nd
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Ingår i: The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 9783030383237 - 9783030383244 ; , s. 17-35
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- By employing a critical perspective toward a broad range of organizational subjects, Mats Alvesson has managed to challenge much of the conventional understanding of modern organizations and, subsequently, produce a series of alternative insights that has substantially developed organizational research and potentially enabled both organizational and societal change. While this has included the establishing of a critical approach to management studies and several novel methodological ideas, it has also involved unpacking a variety of popular concepts such as culture, control, brand, identity, power, leadership, gender, method, and organizational change as such. Mostly based on in-depth empirical studies Alvesson has repeatedly shown the value of critically acknowledging the process by which these phenomenon are understood and acted upon in real-life complex and ambiguous organizations, an approach that have enabled not only a variety of alternative understandings of organizational life but also a sense of optimism about accomplishing progressive change. Consequently, Alvesson acknowledges the value of seeing the construction of knowledge as a combination of a technical, interpretative, and critical approaches.
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