| Foucault, Management and Organization Theory: From Panopticon to Technologies of Self Contributor(s): McKinlay, Alan (Editor), Starkey, Ken P. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0803975465 ISBN-13: 9780803975460 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $222.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Organizational Behavior |
| Dewey: 302.35 |
| LCCN: 97061884 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.19 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |