EXPRESS: Conceptualizing business logistics as an ‘apparatus of security’ and its implications for management and organizational inquiry

Fleming, P; Godfrey, R; Lilley, S

EXPRESS: Conceptualizing business logistics as an ‘apparatus of security’ and its implications for management and organizational inquiry

Fleming, P

Godfrey, R Lilley, S

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Publisher:: SAGE Publications
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Human Relations, 2022, pp. 001872672211104
Issue Date:: 2022-06-19

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dc.contributor.author	Fleming, P https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6838-7190
dc.contributor.author	Godfrey, R
dc.contributor.author	Lilley, S
dc.date.accessioned	2022-06-27T14:41:54Z
dc.date.available	2022-06-27T14:41:54Z
dc.date.issued	2022-06-19
dc.identifier.citation	Human Relations, 2022, pp. 001872672211104
dc.identifier.issn	0018-7267
dc.identifier.issn	1741-282X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/158410
dc.description.abstract	<jats:p> Global commodity capitalism necessitates the fast and efficient movement of all manner of entities across the globe. Importantly, this commercial flow needs to be secured against the undocumented and unregulated flow of illegitimate people, finance and information, counterfeits, drugs, terror, and other undesirables. The organizational practices of business logistics are central for achieving this objective. Yet they have received little attention in management and organization studies to date. We suggest a fruitful avenue is via Foucault’s notion of ‘biopower’ – particularly his less discussed concept (in management studies, at least) of an apparatus of security. This is useful for understanding the emergent organizational/management practices of security in the border spaces in which business logistics operate. If ‘Society Must Be Defended’, as Foucault ironically notes in his famous lecture series that introduces biopower, then so too must contemporary organizations and their net-like activities within the global economy. </jats:p>
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	SAGE Publications
dc.relation.ispartof	Human Relations
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/00187267221110458
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	Fleming P, Godfrey R, Lilley S. EXPRESS: Conceptualizing business logistics as an ‘apparatus of security’ and its implications for management and organizational inquiry. Human Relations. June 2022. Copyright ©2022. DOI: 10.1177/00187267221110458
dc.subject	1503 Business and Management, 1608 Sociology, 1701 Psychology
dc.subject.classification	Business & Management
dc.title	EXPRESS: Conceptualizing business logistics as an ‘apparatus of security’ and its implications for management and organizational inquiry
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.for	1503 Business and Management
utslib.for	1608 Sociology
utslib.for	1701 Psychology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
dc.date.updated	2022-06-27T14:41:53Z
pubs.publication-status	Published online

Abstract:

Global commodity capitalism necessitates the fast and efficient movement of all manner of entities across the globe. Importantly, this commercial flow needs to be secured against the undocumented and unregulated flow of illegitimate people, finance and information, counterfeits, drugs, terror, and other undesirables. The organizational practices of business logistics are central for achieving this objective. Yet they have received little attention in management and organization studies to date. We suggest a fruitful avenue is via Foucault’s notion of ‘biopower’ – particularly his less discussed concept (in management studies, at least) of an apparatus of security. This is useful for understanding the emergent organizational/management practices of security in the border spaces in which business logistics operate. If ‘Society Must Be Defended’, as Foucault ironically notes in his famous lecture series that introduces biopower, then so too must contemporary organizations and their net-like activities within the global economy.

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