Frameworks of Power

Clegg, Stewart

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“…Although there is asymmetry in allocation of power based on resources, this paper examines the responses of organisations to demands for evaluations and explores how those receiving funds can also exert power in the form of resistance to controls proposed by others (Clegg, 1989). Evaluation practices can be used to actively shape the organisational environment and challenge authorities (Asdal, 2011).…”

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Social Impact Measurement and Non-profit Organisations: Compliance, Resistance, and Promotion

2013

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Non-profit organisations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their social impact. This paper examines the experience and behaviour of non-profit organisations in the UK in relation to a demand for impact evaluations. It shows that organisations both accept and resist control, and use evaluations for promotional purposes. External resource providers request organisations to present evidence on how resources are used and what organisations have achieved. However, non-profit organisations can also proactively use social impact measurement as a way of exerting control over their environment through using their discretion in deciding what to measure, how to measure and what to report. The analysis uses a combination of the concepts acceptance, rejection, compliance and strategic decoupling to distinguish different organisational responses to external demands for impact evaluation.

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Social Impact Measurement and Non-profit Organisations: Compliance, Resistance, and Promotion

2013

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“…The analysis using Clegg's (1989) circuit of power indicated that IFIs have significant influence over the process. These institutions are using both direct withholding and direct usage strategies in Frooman's terms.…”

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“…The circuit of power does not cover equally the aspects identified by Calvano (2007), but it nevertheless allows a better understanding of the power dimensions such as prevalence of one stakeholder over another, the construction of barriers by stakeholders, and the influence and shape of the consciousness of stakeholders about the existence of inequalities (Clegg, 1989). For each stakeholder, power is described at a particular level only if it is effectively present.…”

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Privatisation, stakeholder power, and weak institutions: the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Nkongolo-Bakenda

Kazadi

Anderson

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Privatisation is often suggested as means to improve efficiency of state-owned companies and to increase involvement of developing countries in globalisation. This paper examines the economic and social impact of the privatisation of large resource companies in the context of weak institutional environments. The key stakeholders involved in the process of privatisation are identified: national and international governments; private corporations; civil society; and local communities. The complexities of interplay and power relationships among them are described. The main outcome is improved production and increased government revenues. But the marginalisation of the local community during the process and the negative impact on the well-being of its members calls for changes in the process. Privatisation in response to globalisation did not improve stakeholder circumstances. Overall, this development model does not seem sustainable. Suggestions are made for its improvement for a long-term and shared prosperity.

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“…Following Foucault, they rejected polarizations of subject and object, and drew out the significance of the 'production of subjects' for the reproduction of the capital-labour relation (Knights & Willmott, 1989: 543). In so doing, Knights and Willmott sought to shift attention away from structuralist and Marxist debates in organizational sociology (see also Clegg, 1989). In a similar move, Sewell and Wilkinson used Foucault to show that just-in-time and total quality control (TQM) regimes both create and demand systems of surveillance to instil discipline (Sewell & Wilkinson, 1992: 271; see also the works by Knights & McCabe on TQM, e.g.…”

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Michel Foucault and the Administering of Lives

Mennicken

Miller

2014

The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies

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and KeywordsThis chapter suggests that Michel Foucault is a nuisance for scholars of organizations, albeit a productive one. Foucault disavowed the study of organizations, yet his work was fundamentally concerned with the administering of lives, a central concern of scholars of organizations. The chapter explores this tension by examining four displacements that Foucault sought to effect: first, a move from asking 'why' type questions to 'how' type questions; second, a concern with subjectivity that discards the ethical polarization of subject and object in favour of an analysis of the historically varying ways in which the capacities and attributes of subjects are constituted; third, a focus on practices rather than organizations, and a concern to analyse sets or assemblages of practices in terms of how they emerge and how they are stabilized over time; fourth, a focus on rationalities in the plural. It then examines the 'Foucault effect' in organization studies.

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Frameworks of Power

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Social Impact Measurement and Non-profit Organisations: Compliance, Resistance, and Promotion

Social Impact Measurement and Non-profit Organisations: Compliance, Resistance, and Promotion

Privatisation, stakeholder power, and weak institutions: the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Michel Foucault and the Administering of Lives

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