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Repositioning Organization

In: Repositioning Organization Theory

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  • Steffen Böhm

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In the previous two chapters I engaged in some detail with a range of organization theory literatures. I discussed two main discourses: the positioning and the depositioning projects of organization. While the politics of positioning mainly serves the established hegemony of capital and management knowledge, the depositioning project resists positioning discourses by emphasizing the precariousness, plurality and locality of processes of organizing. On one hand, these resistances have been theoretically and politically important because they point to the contingent and undecidable nature of all positions of organization. On the other hand, however, these depositioning discourses can be seen to have certain depoliticizing effects, because they seem ill-prepared to effectively engage with those positioning discourses, such as capital, that always already emplace and ‘corner’ social organization.

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  • Steffen Böhm, 2006. "Repositioning Organization," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Repositioning Organization Theory, chapter 7, pages 138-176, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-50141-6_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230501416_7
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