Moving Management: Theorizing Struggles against the Hegemony of Management

Spicer, André; Böhm, Steffen

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“…This entails various groups who step outside of the political dynamics of the organization to find support in their efforts to create change within an organization, industries and sectors (Spicer and Böhm, 2007). This often occurs when organizational members participate in social movements to access wider networkers of supporters, resources, ideologies and identities, which in turn allow them to influence the focal organization.…”

Section: Power 'Against' Organizationsmentioning

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Power in Management and Organization Science

Fleming

Spicer

2014

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent AbstractThis paper reviews and evaluates the concept of power in management and organization science. In order to organize the extant literature on this topic, we develop a framework that identifies four faces of power (i.e., coercion, manipulation, domination and subjectification) and four sites of power (i.e., power enacted 'in', 'through', 'over' and 'against' organizations). This allows us to evaluate assumptions both shared and contested in the field. Building on the review, the paper then points to potentially novel areas of research that may extend our understandings of organizational power in management and organization science.

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Section: Power 'Against' Organizationsmentioning

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Power in Management and Organization Science

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2014

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“…Notably, this over-emphasis on language has involved a pessimistic and partial view of organizations in which dis-identiication mainly appears as symbolic misbehaviours which are either mediated through "talks" -such as humour, (Ezzamel, Willmott & Worthington, 2001), scepticism (Fleming & Spicer, 2002), cynicism (Fleming & Spicer, 2003) -or through "texts" -such as ofice grafiti (Bell & Forbes, 1994) or other signs of disapproval such as wearing a "McShit" tee-shirt for McDonalds' employees or ridiculing the corporate brand by ixing hundreds of company stickers to one car (Spicer & Bohm, 2007). Of course, we would not want to neglect the symbolic power of such forms of dis-identiication (Fleming & Spicer, 2007); nevertheless, we may regret that post-structural scholars do not give more accounts of the material forms of dis-identiication…”

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Exploring identity construction from a critical management perspective: a research agenda

Bardon¹,

Clegg²,

Josserand

2012

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Available online on the publisher's website: http://www.management-aims.com/PapersMgmt/154Bardon.pdfInternational audienceIn contemporary western society, questions of identity concerning "who am I?" and "how should I act?" (Alvesson, 2000: 1105) are now a central concern in people's lives. Indeed, the western, liquidly modern context (Bauman 2000; 2001; 2003; 2005; Bauman & Haugaard 2008; Bauman & Tester 2001) is characterized, precisely, by absences: the loss of traditional sources of authority, such as family, union, or religion, foundations that used to provide individuals with a collective sense of belonging around commonly taken-for-granted bases of identification (Collinson, 2003). The absent spaces are now occupied by a multitude of ephemeral bases of identification that blur old dualisms such as capital and labour, man and woman, married or single. Culturally tribal fashionable codes of speaking, dressing, playing, and so forth, mostly grounded in consumption rather than production, increasingly provide experiences of belonging. In such a fragmented context, constructing a distinctive identity becomes a constantly shifting project (Knights & Willmott, 1989; Giddens, 1991; McAdams, 1996). Consequently, individuals tend now to problematize identity through projects of the self more likely undertaken at an individual or group level rather than as a part of an organized collective process that is automatically reproduced. Slowly, management research has been coming to terms with liquid modernity (Clegg and Baumeler, 2010). Critical post-structuralist perspectives are among the several approaches that are engaged in this process, and provide insight into the question of identity. The goal of this Unplugged is thus to provide our views about the past, present and future of studies about identity from a critical post-structuralist perspective

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“…Civil society actors often exploit floating signifiers in transnational governance regimes in order to create a richer language to articulate their political demands, attracting potential allies and mobilizing broader support, often in order to resist existing hegemonic formations. In MOS, this resistance by civil society actors has been debated at some length (for an overview see Spicer & Böhm, 2007). However, it is important to recognize that not all civil society actors are constantly resisting hegemonies, as sometimes implied in MOS literature.…”

Section: The Neo-gramscian Approach: Struggling For Hegemony In the Tmentioning

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A Transnational Agri-Food System for Whom? The Struggle for Hegemony at Rio+20

2016

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Food has been one of the most debated and contested discourses in recent global environmental governance without this fact being reflected, however, in management and organizational studies (MOS). In this paper, we analyze the different positions taken in relation to the transnational agri-food system by the state sector, the private sector and civil society actors and we map key differences and similarities in the discourses of these groups at the influential 2012 Rio+20 Conference. Using neo-Gramscian discourse theory, we uncover the different politico-economic interests that exist and show how these different actors deal with the agri-food system. We demonstrate that international NGOs and grassroots social movements are very diverse in how they approach the question of food security, which in turn is reflected in how they vary in their approach to doing politics. This analysis contributes to our understanding of how hegemony is organized, highlighting the important role of different civil society actors in either maintaining or resisting hegemonic approaches to the transnational agri-food system. KEYWORDS | Agri-food system, neo-Gramscian discourse approach, civil society, Rio+20, sustainable development. RESUMO RAE-Revista de Administração de Empresas | FGV/EAESP

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Moving Management: Theorizing Struggles against the Hegemony of Management

Cited by 196 publications

References 93 publications

Power in Management and Organization Science

Power in Management and Organization Science

Exploring identity construction from a critical management perspective: a research agenda

A Transnational Agri-Food System for Whom? The Struggle for Hegemony at Rio+20

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