Foucault, Management and Organization Theory - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803975473 ISBN 13: 9780803975477

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

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 linking of the modern organization′s birth with the enlightenment. Other contributions review the impact of totalizing managerial discourses and the limits and possiblities of resistance, and question the profound pessimism of Foucault. The volume concludes by examining the implications of Foucault′s later work in which he suggests that people are much freer than they feel.

About this title

About the Author

Alan McKinlay is Professor of Management at St Andrews University. Ken Starkey is Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Nottingham. In addition books published individually, both have also co-authored Organizational Innovation (1989) and Strategy and the Human Resource (1993)

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Pippa Carter University of Hull

Stewart Clegg University of Technology Sydney

Trevor Hopper University of Manchester

Keith Hoskin UMIST

Norman Jackson University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Mike Savage Manchester University

Philip Taylor University of Stirling

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803975473
• ISBN 13: 9780803975477
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: McKinlay Alan, Starkey Ken P