Foucault, Management and Organization Theory: From Panopticon to Technologies of Self
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This volume draws together critical assessments of Michel Foucault′s contribution to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organization.
The volume provides a valuable summary of Foucault′s contribution to organization theory, which also challenges the conventions of traditional organizational analysis. By applying Foucauldian concepts such as discipline, surveillance and power//knowledge, the authors shed new light on the genesis of the modern organization and raise fresh questions about organization theory. The bureaucratic career is, for example, analyzed as a disciplinary device, a mechanism that seeks to alter rational choice rather than constrain bodies. This raises questions about Foucault′s link
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803975473
ISBN13:9780803975477
Release Date:February 1998
Publisher:Sage Publications UK
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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