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| Author: | Kärreman, D. Alvesson, M. |
| Title: | Cages in tandem: management control, social identity, and identification in a knowledge-intensive firm |
| Journal: | Organization
2004 : JAN, VOL. 11:1, p. 149-175 |
| Index terms: | Information technology Knowledge Management control Organizational control |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Developments in organization studies downplay the role of bureaucracy in favour of more flexible arrangements and forms of organizational control, including socio-ideological control. Corporate culture and regulated social identities are assumed to provide means for the integration and orchestration of work. Knowledge-intensive companies, which typically draw heavily upon socio-ideological modes of control, are often singled out as organizational forms that use social identity and the corporatization of the self as a mode for managerial control. This article explores and discusses social identity and identification in a large IT/management consultancy company with a strong presence of socio-ideological or normative control, but also with strong bureaucratic features. |
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