Foucault, Management and Organization Theory

`This book is likely to be of great interest to Foucault scholars concerned with organisations and also of interest to organization experts with some familiarity with Foucault′ - Sociology`In these days of overwhelming ′labour flexibility′, this book is timely and offers new critical understandings. The majority of the 14 authors are based in Management Schools across the UK, USA, Australia and Canada. They all display in-depth scholarly understanding of Foucault′s intellectual enterprise.... The strength of this collection - apart from filling an obvious gap - derives from a two-directional approach: from Foucault to managment organisation theory and vice versa.′ - Modern and Contemporary France

• Managing Foucault - Alan McKinlay and Ken StarkeyFoucault, Management and Organization TheoryPART ONE: FOUCAULT AND ORGANIZATION THEORYModernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis - Gibson BurrellThe Contribution of Michel FoucaultFoucault, Power and Organizations - Stewart CleggLabour as Dressage - Norman Jackson and Pippa CarterPART TWO: CONSTRUCTING THE MODERN ORGANIZATIONDiscipline, Surveillance and the `Career′ - Mike SavageEmployment on the Great Western Railway 1833-1914Examining Accounts and Accounting for Management - Keith HoskinInverting Understandings of `the Economic′The `Velvet Grip′ - Alan McKinlay and Ken StarkeyManaging Managers in the Modern CorporationManagement Accounting Numbers - Trevor Hopper and Norman McIntoshFreedom or Prison - Geneen vs FoucaultPART THREE: (RE)CONSTRUCTING THE MODERN ORGANIZATIONDiscursive Formations, Strategized Subordination and Self-Surveillance - Stanley DeetzThrough the Looking Glass - Alan McKinlay and Phil TaylorFoucault and the Politics of ProductionBeyond Good and Evil - Barbara TownleyDepth and Division in the Management of Human ResourcesRe-Framing Foucault - Patricia Findlay and Tim NewtonThe Case of Performance AppraisalAfterword - Ken Starkey and Alan McKinlayDeconstructing Organization - Discipline and Desire