From life in cages to life in projects: Metaphors for Moderns

Clegg, S; Baumeler, C

From life in cages to life in projects: Metaphors for Moderns

Clegg, S

Baumeler, C

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Citation:: Understanding Organizations in Complex, Emergent and Uncertain Environments, 2012, pp. 185 - 206
Issue Date:: 2012-06-07

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dc.contributor.author	Clegg, S https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6083-4283	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Baumeler, C	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-06-07	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Understanding Organizations in Complex, Emergent and Uncertain Environments, 2012, pp. 185 - 206	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9780230290020	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/23277
dc.description.abstract	© Anabella Davila, Marta M. Elvira, Jacobo Ramirez and Laura Zapata-Cantu 2012. All rights reserved. Historically, the metaphor of the iron cage, as a key component of Weber's (1978) sociological imagination has played a central role in organization studies. It did so both in its initial role in the sociology of bureaucracy and in its reinterpretation in institutional terms by subsequent theorists such as DiMaggio and Powell (1983). More recently, iron bars have given way to transparent liquidity as a dominant metaphor. The implications of this shift for the analysis of organization are the subjects of this chapter. We argue that a key technology of the liquidly modern organizational self is that of emotional intelligence and that, while this subject has been much written about, it has not been addressed in terms of its organizational effects on subjects. Technologies of the self are increasingly being developed that represent the possibility of a fusion of effective computing and emotional intelligence that generate new issues for research.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Understanding Organizations in Complex, Emergent and Uncertain Environments	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1057/9781137026088	en_US
dc.title	From life in cages to life in projects: Metaphors for Moderns	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.for	1503 Business and Management	en_US
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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
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Abstract:

© Anabella Davila, Marta M. Elvira, Jacobo Ramirez and Laura Zapata-Cantu 2012. All rights reserved. Historically, the metaphor of the iron cage, as a key component of Weber's (1978) sociological imagination has played a central role in organization studies. It did so both in its initial role in the sociology of bureaucracy and in its reinterpretation in institutional terms by subsequent theorists such as DiMaggio and Powell (1983). More recently, iron bars have given way to transparent liquidity as a dominant metaphor. The implications of this shift for the analysis of organization are the subjects of this chapter. We argue that a key technology of the liquidly modern organizational self is that of emotional intelligence and that, while this subject has been much written about, it has not been addressed in terms of its organizational effects on subjects. Technologies of the self are increasingly being developed that represent the possibility of a fusion of effective computing and emotional intelligence that generate new issues for research.

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