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Foucault, management and organization theory [electronic resource] : from panopticon to technologies of self / edited by Alan McKinlay and Ken Starkey

Published
London : SAGE, 1998.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 246 pages)
Additional Creators
McKinlay, Alan, 1957- and Starkey, Ken, 1948-
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Managing Foucault: Foucault, Management and Organization Theory / Alan McKinlay / Ken Starkey -- Pt. 1 Foucault and Organization Theory -- 2.Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis: The Contribution of Michel Foucault / Gibson Burrell -- 3.Foucault, Power and Organizations / Stewart Clegg -- 4.Labour as Dressage / Pippa Carter / Norman Jackson -- Pt. 2 Constructing the Modern Organization -- 5.Discipline, Surveillance and the 'Career': Employment on the Great Western Railway 1833-1914 / Mike Savage -- 6.Examining Accounts and Accounting for Management: Inverting Understandings of 'the Economic' / Keith Hoskin -- 7.The 'Velvety Grip': Managing Managers in the Modern Corporation / Alan McKinlay / Ken Starkey -- 8.Management Accounting Numbers: Freedom or Prison - Geneen versus Foucault / Trevor Hopper / Norman Macintosh -- Pt. 3 (Re)Constructing the Modern Organization -- 9.Discursive Formations, Strategized Subordination and Self-surveillance / Stanley Deetz -- 10.Through the Looking Glass: Foucault and the Politics of Production / Phil Taylor / Alan McKinlay -- 11.Beyond Good and Evil: Depth and Division in the Management of Human Resources / Barbara Townley -- 12.Re-framing Foucault: The Case of Performance Appraisal / Patricia Findlay / Tim Newton -- 13.Afterword: Deconstructing Organization - Discipline and Desire / Ken Starkey / Alan McKinlay.
Summary
'Foucault, Management and Organization Theory' provides a valuable summary of Foucault's contribution to organization theory while challenging some of the conventions of traditional organizational analysis.
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ISBN
9781446221686 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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