Bueaucracy, the Holocaust and Techniques of Power at Work

Clegg, SR

Bueaucracy, the Holocaust and Techniques of Power at Work

Clegg, SR

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Publisher:: Rainer Hampp Verlag
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Management Revue, 2009, 20 (4), pp. 326 - 347
Issue Date:: 2009-01

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dc.contributor.author	Clegg, SR https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6083-4283	en_US
dc.date.issued	2009-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Management Revue, 2009, 20 (4), pp. 326 - 347	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0935-9915	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	The generational properties of organization theory are an increasing topic for analysis, usually in terms of what is addressed and how it is addressed. Some writers have alerted us to the importance of those social issues that are not addressed. Combining the idea of generational scholarship with the idea of those non-issues that remain unaddressed, this paper highlights how some of the events of the Second World War, which authorities agree was a generational defining and demarcating experience, have been neglected in organization theory. Nowhere is this more clearly demonstrated than in the Holocaust. Strangely, this practical experiment in organizational design and practice seems to have elided almost all interest by organization theorists, whether functionalist or critical. The paper addresses this elision and draws on the work of Goffman, Foucault and Bauman to address the very material conditions of organizational power and raise some ethical issues about the commitments of organization scholars.	en_US
dc.publisher	Rainer Hampp Verlag	en_US
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dc.title	Bueaucracy, the Holocaust and Techniques of Power at Work	en_US
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Abstract:

The generational properties of organization theory are an increasing topic for analysis, usually in terms of what is addressed and how it is addressed. Some writers have alerted us to the importance of those social issues that are not addressed. Combining the idea of generational scholarship with the idea of those non-issues that remain unaddressed, this paper highlights how some of the events of the Second World War, which authorities agree was a generational defining and demarcating experience, have been neglected in organization theory. Nowhere is this more clearly demonstrated than in the Holocaust. Strangely, this practical experiment in organizational design and practice seems to have elided almost all interest by organization theorists, whether functionalist or critical. The paper addresses this elision and draws on the work of Goffman, Foucault and Bauman to address the very material conditions of organizational power and raise some ethical issues about the commitments of organization scholars.

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