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'Seeing to be seen': The manager's political economy of visibility in new ways of working
- Source :
- European Management Journal, European Management Journal, 2020, 39 (5), pp.605-616. ⟨10.1016/j.emj.2020.11.005⟩, European Management Journal, Elsevier, In press, ⟨10.1016/j.emj.2020.11.005⟩, European Management Journal, Elsevier, 2020, ⟨10.1016/j.emj.2020.11.005⟩, European Management Journal, Elsevier, 2020, 39 (5), pp.605-616. ⟨10.1016/j.emj.2020.11.005⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2020.
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Abstract
- International audience; Recent changes in the world of work have modified the conditions of the exercise of management in ways that challenge managers’ traditional authority and identity, both symbolically and physically. In this context, we analyse the “visibilizing process” of managers, through which they attempt to make themselves more visible, in ways that reaffirm their authority and restore their identity as managers. To that end, we develop a Foucauldian framework on power and visibility, which sheds light on the “political economy of visibility” of the manager. We apply this framework to a case study that encouraged a re-spatialization of remote work in coworking spaces. The findings show how the manager in our case study staged his own visibility, by enhancing managerial control, to manage his invisibility and shape his intertwined identities. Through the visibilizing process, the manager legitimated his role, materialized his function, and restored his authority.
- Subjects :
- Invisibility
Strategy and Management
media_common.quotation_subject
Control (management)
Identity (social science)
Context (language use)
Traditional authority
Michel Foucault
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
Power (social and political)
Manager's identity
Exploratory case study
0502 economics and business
Control
New ways of working
Sociology
Manager’s identity
AuthorityControl
Coworking space
Remote work
Michel foucault
Visibility vs invisibility
Political economy of visibility
Function (engineering)
media_common
Authority
05 social sciences
Visibility (geometry)
Visibility vs Invisibility
Political economy
[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration
050211 marketing
050203 business & management
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02632373
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Management Journal, European Management Journal, 2020, 39 (5), pp.605-616. ⟨10.1016/j.emj.2020.11.005⟩, European Management Journal, Elsevier, In press, ⟨10.1016/j.emj.2020.11.005⟩, European Management Journal, Elsevier, 2020, ⟨10.1016/j.emj.2020.11.005⟩, European Management Journal, Elsevier, 2020, 39 (5), pp.605-616. ⟨10.1016/j.emj.2020.11.005⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8ac458d9ab0fa15b9e4cc948c204edbb