Control and Surveillance in Work Practices: Cultivating Paradox in 'New' Modes of Organizing
| Autor: | De Vaujany, François-Xavier, Leclercq-Vandelannoitte, Aurélie, Munro, Iain, Nama, Yesh, Holt, Robin |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Dauphine Recherches en Management (DRM), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lille économie management - UMR 9221 (LEM), Université d'Artois (UA)-Université catholique de Lille (UCL)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Newcastle Business School, RMIT University, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen] (CBS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J8 - Labor Standards: National and International/J.J8.J81 - Working Conditions
organizational control new ways of working J - Labor and Demographic Economics::J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor::J24 - Human Capital Skills Occupational Choice Labor Productivity JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor/J.J2.J24 - Human Capital • Skills • Occupational Choice • Labor Productivity surveillance capitalism remote work JEL: M - Business Administration and Business Economics • Marketing • Accounting • Personnel Economics/M.M5 - Personnel Economics/M.M5.M54 - Labor Management [SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration control systems |
| Zdroj: | Organization Studies Organization Studies, 2021, 42 (5) |
| Popis: | The new world of work is being characterized by the emergence of what are, apparently, increasingly autonomous ways of working and living. Mobile work, coworking, flex office, platform-based entrepreneurship, virtual collaborations, Do It Yourself (DIT), remote work, digital nomads, among other trends, epitomize ways of organizing work practice that purportedly align productivity with freedom. But most ethnographical research already reveals many paradoxical experiences associated with these new practices and processes. Indeed, it appears that with autonomy comes surveillance and control, to a point where, as Foucault observed way back, subjectivity and subject become synonyms, and the current pandemic both strengthens and makes visible this situation. In this introduction to the special issue we make a foray into this situation, using four open and related themes developed in the five papers we selected: managerial control and technology; surveillance and platform capitalism; time and space; and new organizational forms and autonomy. Paradoxical movements are identified for each of them, before we conclude by reflecting on a grounding paradox which appears at the centre of this special issue and the themes it covers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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