Remaining neutral while conveying ‘the right picture’ of Sweden: governing agents navigating a neoliberally influenced social contract

IF 1.2 4区管理学 Q4 MANAGEMENT

Culture and Organization Pub Date : 2022-10-15 DOI:10.1080/14759551.2022.2135004

Nanna Gillberg

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article studies how governing agents at a civic orientation course site, through collaborative boundary work, manage tensions that arise from simultaneously representing the governing state and the governed subjects taking part in the courses. The findings illustrate how individual agency—in policy and practice—is expected of immigrants enrolled in civic orientation courses, but not necessarily facilitated by the governing system providing the context for this agency. Through three types of collaborative boundary work, the governing agents produce and enact an understanding of professionalism as continuous shifting between different positions related to their two reference points—the governing state and the governed subjects. By engaging in collaborative boundary work, the governing agents manage perceived ambiguities and tensions between rhetoric and ‘reality’ and between policies they are set to represent and practices related to these policies that they do not personally believe in and/or challenge.

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保持中立，同时传达瑞典的“正确图景”:治理机构驾驭新自由主义影响的社会契约

摘要本文研究了公民定向课程现场的管理人员如何通过合作边界工作，管理因同时代表参与课程的管理国家和被管理主体而产生的紧张关系。研究结果表明，在政策和实践中，对参加公民定向课程的移民的期望是如何的，但不一定是由为该机构提供背景的管理系统所推动的。通过三种类型的合作边界工作，治理主体产生并实现了对专业性的理解，即在与其两个参考点——治理国家和被治理主体——相关的不同立场之间不断转换。通过参与合作边界工作，管理机构管理言论与“现实”之间以及他们将代表的政策与他们个人不相信和/或不质疑的与这些政策相关的实践之间的模糊性和紧张关系。

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Culture and Organization MANAGEMENT-

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3.20

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： Culture and Organization was founded in 1995 as Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies . It represents the intersection of academic disciplines that have developed distinct qualitative, empirical and theoretical vocabularies to research organization, culture and related social phenomena. Culture and Organization features refereed articles that offer innovative insights and provoke discussion. It particularly offers papers which employ ethnographic, critical and interpretive approaches, as practised in such disciplines as organizational, communication, media and cultural studies, which go beyond description and use data to advance theoretical reflection. The Journal also presents papers which advance our conceptual understanding of organizational phenomena. Culture and Organization features refereed articles that offer innovative insights and provoke discussion. It particularly offers papers which employ ethnographic, critical and interpretive approaches, as practised in such disciplines as communication, media and cultural studies, which go beyond description and use data to advance theoretical reflection. The journal also presents papers which advance our conceptual understand-ing of organizational phenomena.