In pursuit of (post-)bureaucratic promises: Analyzing the logics of career self-management discourse at a privatized company

IF 2 4区 管理学 Q3 MANAGEMENT
M.S. Gustavo Sánchez , Francisco Valenzuela , Matías Sanfuentes
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As a component of post-bureaucratic governance, career self-management provides the hegemonic meanings that make professional advancement intelligible. However, several studies have shown that neither post-bureaucracy nor career self-management are coherent discursive formations. We tackle such tension by qualitatively mapping career management discourse at a privatized utilities company in Chile. Drawing on Glynos and Howarth’s Logics of Critical Explanation framework, we explain how the discourse of career self-management gains traction through the prompting of rationalities, and more decisively, affects, against but also in reliance of the traditional bureaucratic meanings. By highlighting the role played by ideology and fantasy in the (re)production of the post-bureaucratic discourse, we provide insight into the symbolic and affective dimensions that help realize, but also make hollow, post-bureaucratic professional ideals at the contemporary workplace.

追求(后)官僚承诺:分析一家私有化公司的职业自我管理话语逻辑
作为后官僚制治理的一个组成部分,职业生涯自我管理提供了霸权意义,使职业发展具有可理解性。然而,多项研究表明,后官僚制和职业自我管理都不是连贯的话语形式。我们通过对智利一家私有化公用事业公司的职业管理话语进行定性分析,来解决这种紧张关系。借鉴 Glynos 和 Howarth 的 "批判性解释逻辑 "框架,我们解释了职业生涯自我管理话语是如何通过合理性的推动,以及更具决定性的影响来获得牵引力的。通过强调意识形态和幻想在后官僚制话语的(再)生产中所扮演的角色,我们深入探讨了在当代工作场所帮助实现后官僚制职业理想的象征性和情感性维度,同时也使这些理想变得空洞。
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自引率
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36
审稿时长
71 days
期刊介绍: The Scandinavian Journal of Management (SJM) provides an international forum for innovative and carefully crafted research on different aspects of management. We promote dialogue and new thinking around theory and practice, based on conceptual creativity, reasoned reflexivity and contextual awareness. We have a passion for empirical inquiry. We promote constructive dialogue among researchers as well as between researchers and practitioners. We encourage new approaches to the study of management and we aim to foster new thinking around management theory and practice. We publish original empirical and theoretical material, which contributes to understanding management in private and public organizations. Full-length articles and book reviews form the core of the journal, but focused discussion-type texts (around 3.000-5.000 words), empirically or theoretically oriented, can also be considered for publication. The Scandinavian Journal of Management is open to different research approaches in terms of methodology and epistemology. We are open to different fields of management application, but narrow technical discussions relevant only to specific sub-fields will not be given priority.
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