Uncanny organization and the immanence of crisis: the public sector, neoliberalism, and Covid-19

IF 4.9 1区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Organization Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-23 DOI:10.1177/01708406231185959

K. Orr

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Abstract

This paper uses the psychoanalytic concept of the uncanny to develop a new perspective on crisis, one that challenges its association with turning points and opportunities. It highlights the immanence of crisis in organizational life. Crises under consideration include the historic Covid-19 global pandemic, and examples of crisis in public sector organizations shaped by neoliberalism. Engaging with the work of Julia Kristeva, the uncanny is explored as an integral part of our subjectivities, one which disrupts our social stabilities and patterns of organizing. A montage of autoethnographic vignettes is assembled to illustrate the eruption of the uncanny unconscious, a dynamic that unsettles our routine impositions of order and control. Examining crisis through the lens of the uncanny brings to the fore the elusive and affective aspects of socio-political and organizational life. This perspective draws us away from an understanding of crisis as a passing phenomenon or as an opening that can be instrumentalized for cunning managerial purposes. Instead, it suggests the more radical insight that crisis is a condition of organizing.

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不稳定的组织和危机的内在性：公共部门、新自由主义和新冠肺炎

本文运用神秘的精神分析概念，发展了一种新的危机视角，挑战了危机与转折点和机遇的联系。它突出了组织生活中危机的内在性。正在考虑的危机包括历史性的新冠肺炎全球大流行，以及新自由主义塑造的公共部门组织危机的例子。在Julia Kristeva的工作中，神秘感被探索为我们主观能动性的一个组成部分，这种主观能动性破坏了我们的社会稳定和组织模式。一组民族志小插曲的蒙太奇被组装起来，以说明神秘无意识的爆发，这种动态扰乱了我们对秩序和控制的日常强加。通过神秘的视角审视危机，凸显了社会政治和组织生活中难以捉摸的情感方面。这种观点使我们不再将危机理解为一种短暂的现象或一种可以用于狡猾管理目的的机会。相反，它表明了更激进的观点，即危机是组织的一个条件。

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Organization Studies MANAGEMENT-

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11.50

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16.70%

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