Identity regulation as organizational control: Producing the appropriate individual
- M. Alvesson, H. Willmott
- Business
- 1 July 2002
This paper takes the regulation of identity as a focus for examining organizational control. It considers how employees are enjoined to develop self-images and work orientations that are deemed…
STRENGTH IS IGNORANCE; SLAVERY IS FREEDOM: MANAGING CULTURE IN MODERN ORGANIZATIONS*
- H. Willmott
- Business
- 1 July 1993
The article subjects the assumptions and prescriptions of the ‘Corporate Culture’literature to critical scrutiny. the body of the article is devoted to teasing out the distinctive basis of its appeal…
Re-Embedding Situatedness: The Importance of Power Relations in Learning Theory
- A. Contu, H. Willmott
- BusinessOrgan. Sci.
- 15 May 2003
A revitalization of situated learning theory is commend in which learning practices are understood to be enabled and constrained by their embeddedness in relations of power; and, more specifically, by the unstable institutionalization of power relations within capitalist work organizations.
On the Idea of Emancipation in Management and Organization Studies
- M. Alvesson, H. Willmott
- Business
- 1 July 1992
The article reconceptualizes the meaning of emancipation in management and organization studies and develops an approach that (a) takes into account recent criticism of its “totalizing” tendencies…
Managing the Academics: Commodification and Control in the Development of University Education in the U.K.
- H. Willmott
- Education, Economics
- 1 September 1995
The paper analyzes a number of major developments in higher education in the U.K during the past decade or so. It explores the connection between changes in the organization and control of academic…
Journal list fetishism and the perversion of scholarship: reactivity and the ABS list
- H. Willmott
- Psychology
- 2 February 2011
The case for using academic journals lists is critically scrutinised. An effect of their use, it argued, is to stifle diversity and constrict scholarly innovation. A monoculture is fostered in which…
Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction
- M. Alvesson, H. Willmott
- Business
- 18 December 1997
The first edition of Making Sense of Management set out to provide a fresh perspective on management that was both broad and critical, exploring how the disruptive and constructive potential of…
Organising the profession: A theoretical and historical examination of the development of the major accountancy bodies in the U.K.☆
- H. Willmott
- Economics
- 1986
Power and Subjectivity at Work: From Degradation to Subjugation in Social Relations
- D. Knights, H. Willmott
- Economics
- 1 November 1989
The paper presents a critical exploration of the treatment of subjectivity and power in sociology through an examination of recent developments in labour process theory. This is introduced through a…
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