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Seduction in Nylons

In: Managing Identity

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  • Alison Pullen

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In Gowler and Legge’s model, achievement and being able to demonstrate achievement, was one of the defining qualities of “management” in the rhetoric of managers. We could suggest that in some ways we would not expect it ever to disappear entirely. But the problem arises of how achievement may be defined and evaluated in a world “which has speeded up so as to make, as the saying has it “twenty-four hours a very long time” (Harvey 1990: 285). Indeed, so complex is this world that the most successful and talented can be made long-term ill by conditions such as “yuppie flu” or myalgic encephalitis (ME), the Epstein-Barre virus, and similar forms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Why should this happen, and why do managers seem nevertheless so willing to engage in practices which sustain it, even whilst expressing sentiments like Kreitzman’s (1999: 134) respondent “Mike Dollar’s children will not go into the same business as him. At least, not if he can help it”.

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  • Alison Pullen, 2006. "Seduction in Nylons," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Managing Identity, chapter 6, pages 112-146, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-51164-4_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230511644_6
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