ISBN:
0521860865
,
9780521860864
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 227 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Contesting the Corporation : Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations
DDC:
302.3/5
Keywords:
Organizational behavior
;
Corporations Sociological aspects
;
Corporate power
Abstract:
An analysis of the different ways in which power operates within modern corporations
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Prisons, playgrounds and parliaments; Struggle for the corporation; The structure of the book; Part 1 Theoretical framework; 1 Faces of power in organizations; Power as coercion; Power as manipulation; Power as domination; Power as subjectification; Conclusion; 2 Faces of resistance at work; Conceptualizing resistance; Resistance as refusal; Resistance as voice; Resistance as escape; Resistance as creation; Conclusion; 3 Struggle in organizations; The power-resistance dynamicIn recognizing the intertwined nature
Description / Table of Contents:
The concept of struggleRethinking power and resistance as struggle; Coercion and refusal; Manipulation and voice; Domination and escape; Subjectification and creation; Dynamic cycles of struggle; Destructive struggle; Resentful struggle; Loving struggle; Conclusion; Part 2 Forms of resentful struggle; 4 Dis-identification and resentment: the case of cynicism; The ideology of cynical escape; Turning the 'resistant subject' on its head; Power: from identification to dis-identification; Subjectivity: from internalization to the objectivity of belief; Resurrecting Diogenes' cheeky snigger
Description / Table of Contents:
Believing too muchExternalizing the pathology of work; Conclusion; 5 Desexualizing work and the struggle for desire; Sexuality, power and resistance in organizations; Organizations as desexualized spheres; Re-eroticization as control; Managing and resisting sex at Sunray; Sexuality at Sunray; Negotiating sexuality at Sunray; Sexualized resistance or resisting sexuality?; Conclusion; 6 Displacement and struggle: space, life and labour; Spatial boundaries at work; Industrial boundaries; Post-industrial boundaries and culture management; Sunray and the politicization of place: a reprise
Description / Table of Contents:
Boundary control at SunrayFrom outside to inside; From inside to outside; Cynical reason and the struggle for place; Condescension; Inauthenticity; The 'geographical imaginary' of struggle; Conclusion; Part 3 Overt, organized and collective struggle; 7 Discursive struggle: the case of globalization in the public sector; Discourses of globalization, discourses of dissent; From nation to market at the ABC; The new media environment; Contestation at the ABC; Appropriating dominant discourses; Surfacing shared discourses; Reviving traditional discourses; The spoils of resistance
Description / Table of Contents:
Struggles with globalizationConclusion; 8 Struggles for justice: wharfies, queers and capitalists; Theorizing justice; Struggles for justice; Wharfies; Queers; Capitalists; Conclusion; 9 Struggles for common ground in organizations; Arendt, justice and the polis; Universalizing organizational concerns; Against the postmodern grain; The practice of universalizing workplace (in)justice; The empty universal of organizational justice; Struggles in common?; Conclusion; Conclusion; Struggle beyond the 'cult of the subject'; The place of organizational struggle; An end to struggle in organizations?
Description / Table of Contents:
Notes
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511628047
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