Speaking out: How organizations value and how value organizes

Harvie, David; Milburn, Keir

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“…Thus, similar to Graeber’s (2005) argument, the meaning of ‘value’ is by no means limited to the kind that can be monetized. Rather, there are multiple meanings and orders of value, which are socially and politically constructed (see also Harvie and Milburn, 2010; Karababa and Kjeldgaard, 2013; Small, 2013; Willmott, 2010).…”

Section: Branding and Worlds Of Valuationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The destructive side of branding: A heuristic model for analyzing the value of branding practice

Bertilsson

Rennstam

2017

Organization

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Scholarship on branding has made important contributions in terms of the value-creating function of branding. However, previous literature has overemphasized the creation of value for organizations at the expense of an understanding of the destructive side of branding for organizations and society. Drawing on the work of Boltanski and Thevénot, we theorize value as different in separate ‘worlds of worth’ and offer a competing approach, arguing that the organizational practice of branding simultaneously and inevitably involves value-destructive aspects. In addition, to enable analysis of these value-destructive aspects, we argue that new understandings of what branding is are needed, and therefore, we introduce two new metaphors: branding as discursive closure and branding as hypocrisy. Based on these conceptual developments, the article offers a heuristic model for analyzing how, and what types of, value may be destroyed in organizational branding practice. We thereby contribute with a critical understanding of organizational branding that acknowledges the conflictual relationship between value regimes and enables a balanced analysis of the social consequences of branding.

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Section: Branding and Worlds Of Valuationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The destructive side of branding: A heuristic model for analyzing the value of branding practice

Bertilsson

Rennstam

2017

Organization

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“…At a relatively high level of dialectical abstraction it is plausible to suggest that capitalist organisations employ techniques of measurement in each activity they engage with so that they establish financial indicators in relation to external market value measures. But these then react act back on organisations as an abstract and anonymous external competitive pressure (Harvie and Milburn ). This “primary” generative contradiction is reproduced in new ways in particular historical phases of capitalism.…”

Section: Abstracting Social Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Realism, Dialectics, and Qualitative Research Methods

Roberts

2014

J Theory Soc Behav

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Critical realism has been an important advance in social science methodology because it develops a qualitative theory of causality which avoids some of the pitfalls of empiricist theories of causality. But while there has been ample work exploring the relationship between critical realism and qualitative research methods there has been noticeably less work exploring the relationship between dialectical critical realism and qualitative research methods. This seems strange especially since the founder of the philosophy of critical realism, Roy Bhaskar, employs and develops a range of dialectical concepts in his later work in order to extend the main tenets of critical realism. The aim of this paper is to draw on Bhaskar's later work, as well as Marxism, to reorient a critical realist methodology towards a dialectical approach for qualitative research. In particular, the paper demonstrates how dialectical critical realism can begin to provide answers to three common criticisms made against original critical realist methodology: that the qualitative theory of causal powers and structures developed by critical realists is problematic; that critical realist methodology contains values which prove damaging to empirical research; and that critical realists often have difficulties in researching everyday qualitative dilemmas that people face in their daily lives.

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“…Without real libidinal investments, and the ethical surplus thereby produced, there would be no surplus value. The second implication is that the production of value remains essentially a problematic of organization, or rather re‐organization (Harvie and Milburn, 2010). As the reference to actor‐network theory suggests, the key concern for the entrepreneur is the production of specific forms of social organization.…”

Section: Organization As Value: Community and The Ethical Surplusmentioning

confidence: 99%

The New ‘Hidden Abode’: Reflections on Value and Labour in the New Economy

Böhm

Land

2012

The Sociological Review

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In a pivotal section of Capital, volume 1, Marx (1976: 279) notes that, in order to understand the capitalist production of value, we must descend into the ‘hidden abode of production’: the site of the labour process conducted within an employment relationship. In this paper we argue that by remaining wedded to an analysis of labour that is confined to the employment relationship, Labour Process Theory (LPT) has missed a fundamental shift in the location of value production in contemporary capitalism. We examine this shift through the work of Autonomist Marxists like Hardt and Negri, Lazaratto and Arvidsson, who offer theoretical leverage to prize open a new ‘hidden abode’ outside employment, for example in the ‘production of organization’ and in consumption. Although they can open up this new ‘hidden abode’, without LPT's fine‐grained analysis of control/resistance, indeterminacy and structured antagonism, these theorists risk succumbing to empirically naive claims about the ‘new economy’. Through developing an expanded conception of a ‘new hidden abode’ of production, the paper demarcates an analytical space in which both LPT and Autonomist Marxism can expand and develop their understanding of labour and value production in today's economy.

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Speaking out: How organizations value and how value organizes

Cited by 28 publications

References 5 publications

The destructive side of branding: A heuristic model for analyzing the value of branding practice

The destructive side of branding: A heuristic model for analyzing the value of branding practice

Critical Realism, Dialectics, and Qualitative Research Methods

The New ‘Hidden Abode’: Reflections on Value and Labour in the New Economy

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