Loacker, B and Sliwa, M (2018) Beyond bureaucracy and entrepreneurialism: Examining the multiple discursive codes informing the work, careers and subjectivities of management graduates. Culture and Organization, 24 (5). pp. 426-450. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2016.1167691
Loacker, B and Sliwa, M (2018) Beyond bureaucracy and entrepreneurialism: Examining the multiple discursive codes informing the work, careers and subjectivities of management graduates. Culture and Organization, 24 (5). pp. 426-450. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2016.1167691
Loacker, B and Sliwa, M (2018) Beyond bureaucracy and entrepreneurialism: Examining the multiple discursive codes informing the work, careers and subjectivities of management graduates. Culture and Organization, 24 (5). pp. 426-450. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2016.1167691
Abstract
This paper examines how discursive codes and demands associated with ‘bureaucratic and entrepreneurial regimes’ of work and career organization shape the work, careers and subjectivities of management graduates. The study is based on an analysis of 30 narratives of management professionals who graduated from an Austrian business school in the early 1970s or 2000s. Its insights suggest that variegated discursive codes manifest in the graduates’ articulated professional practices and subjectivities, thereby challenging established assumptions regarding the organization of work and careers. While the practices and subjectivities of the 1970s graduates are often informed by codes and demands ascribed to ‘entrepreneurialism’, those of the 2000s graduates are infused with several codes commonly portrayed as ‘bureaucratic’.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | bureaucracy; discursive codes; entrepreneurialism; management graduates; polyvalence; subjectivity; work and career organization |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD58.7 Organizational behavior, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2016 15:21 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 18:19 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/17099 |