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McKinlay, Alan; Starkey, Ken Managing Foucault: Foucault, management and organization theory 1998 Book Chapter Foucault, On Foucault, Organisation and Management Studies, Critical Management Studies Foucault, Management, Organisational Theory, Critical Management Theory, Modernism, Nietzsche, Discipline
Citation McKinlay, Alan; Starkey, Ken 1998 Book Chapter Foucault Management Organisational Theory Critical Management Theory Modernism Nietzsche Discipline Foucault On Foucault Organisation and Management Studies Critical Management Studies

"Managing Foucault: Foucault, management and organization theory"

by McKinlay, Alan; Starkey, Ken (1998)

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… identified by Foucault . For Foucault , labour is both productive and symbolic but he also adds the less familiar term, dressage, which refers to work which is exclusively to confirm the docility, obedience and control of the governed …

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Foucault, Management, Organisational Theory, Critical Management Theory, Modernism, Nietzsche, Discipline

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Foucault, On Foucault, Organisation and Management Studies, Critical Management Studies

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