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| Tekijä: | Ahonen, P. Tienari, J. |
| Otsikko: | United in diversity? Disciplinary normalization in an EU project |
| Lehti: | Organization
2009 : SEP, VOL. 16:5, p. 655-679 |
| Asiasana: | European Union projects organizations management diversity power co-operation |
| Vapaa asiasana: | transnational discourse |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | In organizations operating in the global economy, managing diversity has emerged as a timely issue. By exploring ways in which diversity is discursively (re)constructed in a European Union (EU) Framework Programme (FP) project, this paper contributes to the critical literature on diversity and its management in transnational organizations. It is drawn on Michel Foucault's insights on the specificity of the relations and mechanics of power, and the connections btw. disciplinary (herein as: dscpl.) power, normalization and knowledge. The EU FP system is conceptualized as a dscpl. apparatus (dispositif)-a network of time-, place- and field-specific disciplining discursive practices - and approach diversity in an EU project as a technology of normalization. Thus, managing diversity becomes understood both as an enabling and a limiting exercise of dscpl. power. |
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