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| Tekijä: | Ahrens, T. Mollona, M. |
| Otsikko: | Organisational control as cultural practice - A shop floor ethnography of a Sheffield steel mill |
| Lehti: | Accounting, Organizations and Society
2007 : MAY/JUL, VOL. 32:4-5, p. 305-331 |
| Asiasana: | organizational control culture steel industry United Kingdom |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | This study identifies three strands of practice research on organisational control (hereafter as: o-ctrl.), that is, actor network theory, accountability, and governmentality, proposing further: cultural practice. The study of control as cultural practice is grounded in observation because it conceives of cultural knowledge as practical and largely extra linguistic. O-ctrl. is conceptualized as an effect of the actions and ideas of organizational members beyond the ranks of management etc. This study's ethnography of a steel mill in Sheffield is based on 11 months of participant observation on the shop floors of the hot and cold departments. Subcultures of different shop floors are argued to be constituted in practices of control which enabled organizational members to pursue diverse objectives related to their various wider cultural aspirations. Considerable diversity is found btw. subcultures. In addition, individual subcultures with the tensions and contradictions within them are found to exhibit much continuity. |
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