… In Weber's (1978: 987-988) words, the individual organizational actor in a modem
bureaucracy "cannot squinn out of the apparatus into which he has been harnessed." …

… For a detailed account of how I gathered and analyzed my data, see Barker (1993b). For
a complete "confessional tale" (Van Maanen, 1988) of my experience at ISE, see Barker (1993a) …

This study examines the characteristics of worker identification with two targets at the same
time: the workers' self‐managing team and the larger organization that created the teams. We …

We identify two “discursive formations” of organizational surveillance (two coherent but
competing systems of representation) that figure prominently in organization and management …

<p>In this paper we articulate how Michel Foucault's perspective on “discipline” applies to
the modern organization. Primarily, we explicate Foucault's view of discipline and …

We examine how call-center employees draw on opposed discourses to understand the
purpose and consequences of performance measurement as workplace surveillance. …

This article presents an empirical analysis of the communicative constitution of organization
(CCO) literature to demonstrate how, and to what extent, CCO scholarship is becoming …

In 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 survived a catastrophic in-flight engine explosion because
of, in part, the crew’s ability to communicate while under crisis conditions. Drawing on the …

The apparent status of having a “celebrity CEO” heading a large organization creates a strong
impression that the organization will be successful and forms an almost irresistible force …

We address the co-evolution of language and material practices during institutionalization
by proposing a tropological model of institutionalization that integrates linguistic and practice-…