Unpacking complexities of managerial subjectivity: An analytic fixation on constitutive dynamics

Mie Plotnikof

Unpacking complexities of managerial subjectivity: An analytic fixation on constitutive dynamics

Mie Plotnikof

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Abstract

In this paper an analytic scope is elaborated in order to unpack the complexities of constitutive dynamics coproducing managerial subjects in discursive practices of public management work (my empirical field). Such framing is proposed in order to grasp the dynamic complexity of multi-modal, power-infused processes of subject formations, that is, the significant discursive practices through which different enacting forces constitute selves, actions, procedures and/or materials as managerial matters with specific normative effects.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Organizational Discourse: Processes, Practices and Performances
Antal sider	2
Udgivelsessted	London
Forlag	Organizational Discourse: Processes, Practices and Performances
Publikationsdato	jul. 2012
Sider	131-133
ISBN (Trykt)	978-1-900089-10-4
Status	Udgivet - jul. 2012

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public management
organisationsteori
discourse analysis
subjectivity

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