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Author: | Whittle, A. |
Title: | From flexibility to work-life balance: Exploring the changing discourses of management consultants |
Journal: | Organization
2008 : JUL, VOL. 15:4, p. 513-534 |
Index terms: | United Kingdom management consultants |
Freeterms: | work-life balance discourse |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | This paper deals with the role of management consultants (henceforth as: consts.) in the diffusion of fashionable ideas by drawing on an ethnographic study of management consts. in the U.K. It was explored how the consts. made sense of a newly emerging discourse of work-life balance. Using the metaphor of a 'bandwagon', shifting interpretations of the work-life balance discourse are revealed. Highlights are the similarities btw. fashion-setters and their audiences in the reflexive and strategic ways etc. |
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