Foucault, Management and Organization Theory
：From Panopticon to Technologies of Self
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Publication subTitle ：From Panopticon to Technologies of Self
Publication series ：1
Author： McKinlay Alan;Starkey Ken P
Publisher： Sage Publications Ltd
Publication year： 1997
E-ISBN: 9780857022868
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780803975460
Subject： F2 Economic Planning and Management
Keyword： 经济计划与管理
Language： ENG
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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