Essers, Juup and Böhm, Steffen and Contu, Alessia (2009) Corporate Robespierres, ideologies of management and change. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 22 (2). pp. 129-140. DOI https://doi.org/10.1108/09534810910947172
Essers, Juup and Böhm, Steffen and Contu, Alessia (2009) Corporate Robespierres, ideologies of management and change. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 22 (2). pp. 129-140. DOI https://doi.org/10.1108/09534810910947172
Essers, Juup and Böhm, Steffen and Contu, Alessia (2009) Corporate Robespierres, ideologies of management and change. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 22 (2). pp. 129-140. DOI https://doi.org/10.1108/09534810910947172
Abstract
<jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Purpose</jats:title><jats:p>The purpose of this paper is to provide an introductory overview of this special issue highlighting some of the distinctive features of Žižek's Lacan‐inspired thought relevant to the role of ideologies in organizational change management.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title><jats:p>The approach used aims to show how ideological and ethical ramifications of Žižek's recent analysis of a “Jacobin” change paradigm can affect thought on everyday change practices in business and management.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Findings</jats:title><jats:p>Some parallels are drawn between current change practices and narrative tactics employed by Robespierre during the Jacobin reign of terror to “extort” the commitment of participants in the change process.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Practical implications</jats:title><jats:p>This paper/special issue invites reconsideration of our late capitalist intellectual/practical “reflexes” in change management, i.e. to reassess their ideological mechanism.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Originality/value</jats:title><jats:p>Žižekian/Lacanian approaches to organizations and change are especially suitable for this purpose but have only recently begun to emerge.</jats:p></jats:sec>
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Change management, ethics, organizational change |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School > Organisation Studies and Human Resources Management |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2014 10:31 |
Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2022 11:24 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7297 |