Management as a (self) confidence trick: Management ideas, education and identity work

Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 841-860

  Sturdy, Andrew ^a   Brocklehurst, Michael ^b   Winstanley, Diana ^c   Littlejohns, Margaret ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Self confidence'; Identity; Knowledge; Management; MBA; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750079017     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508406068501     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. Albrow, M. (1997) Do Organizations Have Feelings? London: Routledge.
2. Alvesson, M. (2004) Knowledge Work and Knowledge-Intensive Firms. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. (2002) 'Identity Regulation as Organizational Control - Producing the Appropriate Individual', Journal of Management Studies 39 (5). 619-644.
4. Appelbaum, E. and Batt, R. (1994) The New American Workplace. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press.
5. Austin, J. L. (1962) How To Do Things With Words. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
6. Bandura, A. (1977) 'Self Efficacy: Towards a Unifying Theory of Behavioural Change' Psychological Review 84 (2). 191-215.
7. Becker, G. S. (2001) 'Talking Human Capital with Gary S. Becker', Learning in the New Economy, Spring at www.linezine.com
8. cited in CIPD (2002) How Do People Learn? Research Report. London: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
9. Blanchard, K. and Johnson, S. (1993) The One Minute Manager. London: Fontana.
10. Bloomfield, B. and Best, A. (1992) 'Management Consultants: Systems Development, Power and the Translation of Problems', Sociological Review 40 (3). 533-560.
11. Bourdieu, P. (1986) Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. London: Routledge.
12. Braverman, H. (1974) Labor and Monopoly Capitalism. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press.
13. Bruner, J. (2004) Making Stories: Law, Literature and Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard.
14. Buckley, R. and Caple, J. (1995) The Theory and Practice of Training, 3rd edn. London: Kogan Page.
15. Burkitt, I. (1997) 'Social Relationships and Emotions', Sociology 31 (1). 37-55.
16. Butler, J. (1997) Excitable Speech: A Politics of The Performative. London: Routledge.
17. Cameron, S. (1997) The MBA Handbook: Study Skills for Managers, 3rd edn. London: Pitman Publishing.
18. Chia, R. (2003) 'From Knowledge Creation to the Perfecting of Action - Tao, Basho and Pure Experience as the Ultimate Ground of Knowing', Human Relations 56 (8). 953-981.
19. Constable, J. and McCormick, R. (1987) The Making of British Managers. London: BIM/CBI.
20. Contu, A. and Willmott, H. (2003) 'Re-Embedding Situatedness: The Importance of Power Relations in Learning Theory', Organization Science 14 (3). 283-296
21. Contu, A., Grey, C. and Ortenblad, A. (2003) 'Against Learning', Human Relations 56 (8). 931-952.
22. Czarniawska, B. and Joerges, B. (1996) 'Travels of Ideas', in B. Czarniawska and G. Sevon (eds) Translating Organizational Change. Berlin: De Gruyter.
23. Deetz, S. (1995) Transforming Communication, Transforming Business: Building Responsive and Responsible Workplaces. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
24. du Gay, P. and Salaman, G. (1992) 'The Cult(ure) of the Customer', Journal of Management Studies 29 (5). 615-633.
25. Fairclough, N. (1995) Critical Discourse Analysis. Harlow: Longman.
26. Fineman, S., ed. (2000) Emotion in Organizations, 2nd edn. London: Sage.
27. Gabriel, Y. (1995) 'The Unmanaged Organisation', Organisation Studies 16 (3). 477-501.
28. Garsten, C. and Grey, C. (1997) 'How to Become Oneself: Discourses of Subjectivity in Post-bureaucratic Organizations', Organization 4 (2). 211-228.
29. Giddens, A. (1991) Modernity and Self-Identity. Oxford: Polity Press.
30. Gill, J. and Whittle, S. (1992) 'Management by Panacea: Accounting for Transience', Journal of Management Studies 30 (2). 281-295.
31. Goffman, E. (1969) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. London: Penguin.
32. Grey, C. (1999) 'We Are All Managers Now?', Journal of Management Studies 36 (5). 561-586.
33. Grint, K. (1997) 'TQM, BPR, JIT, BSCs and TLAs: Managerial Waves or Drownings', Management Decision 35 (10). 731-738.
34. Gronn, P. C. (1983) 'Talk as the Work - The Accomplishment of School Administration', Administrative Science Quarterly 28: 1-21.
35. Guillen, M. F. (1994) Models of Management: Work, Authority and Organization in a Comparative Perspective. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
36. Hales, C. (1993) Management Through Organisation. London: Routledge.
37. Handy, C. (1987) The Making of Managers. London: MSC/NEDO/BIM.
38. Heery, E. and Salmon, J., ed. (2000) The Insecure Workforce. London: Routledge.
39. Jackall, R. (1988) Moral Mazes - The World of Corporate Managers. Oxford: OUP.
40. Jackson, B. (2001) Management Gurus and Management Fashions. London: Routledge.
41. Kostova, T. and Roth, K. (2002) 'Adoption of an Organizational Practice by Subsidiaries of MNCs: Institutional and Relational Effects', Academy of Management Journal 45 (1). 215-233.
42. Lash, S. (2001) 'Introduction' in U. Beck and Gernsheim, E. Beck (eds) Individualization: Institutionalised Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences. London: Sage.
43. Lave, J. and Wenger, E. (1991) Situated Learning - Legitimate Peripheral Participation. New York: Cambridge University Press.
44. Lillrank, P. (1995) 'The Transfer of Management Innovations from Japan', Organization Studies 16 (6). 971-989.
45. Littler, C. R. (1982) The Development of the Labour Process in Capitalist Societies. London: Heinemann.
46. Locke, R. L. (1989) Management Education and Higher Education Since 1940 - The Influence of America on West Germany, Great Britain and France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
47. Management Learning (1997) 'Special Issue - Emotion and Learning in Organisations', 28: 1-1.
48. Mangham, I. and Silver, M. (1986) Management in the UK. London: ESRC/DTI.
49. McAdams, D. P. (1993) The Stories We Live by: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self. New York, NY: Guilford.
50. Meyer, J. W. and Rowan, B. (1977) 'Institutionalized Organizations - Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony', American Journal of Sociology 83 (2). 340-363.
51. Mirchandani, K. (2003) 'Challenging Racial Silences in Studies of Emotion Work: Contributions from Anti-racist Feminist Theory, Organization Studies 24 (5). 721-742.
52. Nohria, N., Joyce, W. and Roberson, B. (2003) 'What Really Works', Harvard Business Review 81 (7). 42-55.
53. Parker, M. (1995) 'Working Together, Working Apart: Management Culture in a Manufacturing Firm', Sociological Review 43 (3). 518-547.
54. Parker, M. (2003) Against Management. Cambridge: Polity.
55. Rogers, E. M. (1995) Diffusion of Innovations, 4th edn. New York, NY: Free Press.
56. Sennett, R. (1998) The Corrosion of Character. London: Norton and Co.
57. Staw, B. M. and Epstein, L. D. (2000) 'What Bandwagons Bring - Effects of Popular Management Techniques on Corporate Performance, Reputation and CEO Pay', Administrative Science Quarterly 45 (3). 523-556.
58. Sturdy, A. J. (1997) 'The Consultancy Process - An Insecure Business?', Journal of Management Studies 34 (3). 389-413.
59. Study, A. J. and Fleming, P. (2003) 'Talk as Technique - A Critique of the Words and Deeds Distinction in the Diffusion of Customer Service Cultures', Journal of Management Studies 40 (5). 753-773.
60. Sturdy, A. J. and Gabriel, Y. (2000) 'Missionaries, Mercenaries or Car Salesmen? - MBA Teaching in Malaysia', Journal of Management Studies 37 (7). 979-1002.
61. Sturdy, A. J. (2004) 'The Adoption of Management Ideas and Practices - Theoretical Perspectives and Possibilities', Management Learning 35 (2). 155-179.
62. Sveningsson, S. and Alvesson, M. (2003) 'Managing Managerial Identities: Organizational Fragmentation, Discourse and Identity Struggle', Human Relations 56 (10). 1163-1194.
63. Watson, T. J. (1986) Management, Organisation and Employment Strategy. London: Routledge.
64. Watson, T. J. (1994) In Search of Management: Culture Chaos and Control in Managerial Work. London: Routledge.
65. Webb, J. (2004) 'Organizations, Self-Identities and the New Economy', Sociology 38 (4). 719-738.
66. Weick, K. E. (1987) 'Substitutes for Strategy' in D. J. Teece (ed.) The Competitive Challenge. New York, NY: Ballinger.
67. Weick, K. E. (1995) Sensemaking in Organizations. London: Sage
68. Whittington, R. (1992) 'Putting Giddens into Action: Social Systems and Managerial Agency', Journal of Management Studies 29 (4). 693-712.
69. Williams, S. J. and Bendelow, G. A. (1996) 'Emotions and "Sociological Imperialism" - A Rejoinder to Craib', Sociology 30 (1). 145-153.
70. Willmott, H. (1997) 'Rethinking Management and Managerial Work - Capitalism, Control and Subjectivity', Human Relations 50 (11). 1329-1359.