Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations takes a comparative and
international view on the appropriate use of strategic management models that are affecting …

Elite professionals opportunistically employ threats to their work identities to author preferred
selves. Predicated on understandings that identities are subjectively available to people as …

This paper analyses how the preferred self-conceptions of men in an elite military unit—the
British Parachute Regiment—were disciplined by the organizationally based discursive …

What are the power/identity implications of the increasing Englishization of non-Anglophone
workplaces around the world? We address this question using an analytical framework that …

This paper engages with debates on enterprise culture and one of its key subjects—the
entrepreneur. Enlisting the work of Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek, we attempt to explain …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to question the taken for granted assumptions that
underpin a liberal or lay view of consumer empowerment implicit to this special edition. In …

This paper analyses how people's subjectively construed identities are disciplined by, and
appropriated from, their talk about organizational routines. Identity work, we argue, is not just …

The well‐known metaphor of 'panopticon', derived from Bentham's project and popularized
by Foucault, has long informed scholarly conversations in management and organization …

This article explores and explains escalating contradictions between two modes of clinical
risk management which resisted hybridisation. Drawing on a Foucauldian perspective, these …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of graduate recruitment in the
professional socialisation and subjectification of Big Four professionals …