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| Author: | Oakes, L. S. Townley, B. Cooper, D. J. |
| Title: | Business planning as pedagogy: Language and control in a changing institutional field |
| Journal: | Administrative Science Quarterly
1998 : JUN, VOL. 43:2, p. 257-292 |
| Index terms: | CORPORATE PLANNING LANGUAGES POWER ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROL BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE |
| Freeterms: | PEDAGOGY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study uses the work of Pierre Bourdieu to argue that an enriched view of power in the form of symbolic violence is central. Language and power are central to an understanding of control. The pedagogical funcion that business plans play is examined. The struggle to name and legitimate practices occurs in the business planning processes, excluding some knowledges and practices and teaching and utilizing other knowledges and ways of viewing the organization. The control involves both redirecting work and changing the identity of producers. The process works by changing the capital - symbolic, cultural, political, economic - in an organizational and institutional field. |
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