| 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: 0803975473 ISBN-13: 9780803975477 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $80.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1998 Annotation: Foucault, Management, and Organization Theory draws together critical assessments of the contribution of Michel Foucault to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organization. By applying Foucauldion concepts such as discipline, surveillance, and power/knowledge, the authors shed new light on the genesis of the modern organization and raise fresh questions for organization theory. The bureaucratic career is, for example, analyzed as a disciplinary device that superseded corporal forms of control, mechanisms that sought to alter rational choices rather than constrain bodies. In turn, historical investigation raises questions about Foucault?'s identification of the birth of the modern organization with the enlightenment. Other contributions review the impact of totalizing managerial discourses and the limits and possibilities of resistance. Here empirical research questions the profound pessimism of Foucault whose projects rely exclusively on, for instance, the designers of prisons and completely neglect the forgotten voices of inmates. Foucault, Management, and Organization Theory will provide students and lecturers with a valuable summary of Foucault?'s contribution to organization theory while challenging some of the convention of traditional organizational analysis. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Organizational Behavior |
| Dewey: 302.35 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.04" W x 9.08" (0.95 lbs) 256 pages |
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| 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 |