Business planning as pedagogy: Language and control in a changing institutional field

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Oakes, LS; Townley, B; Cooper, DJ
• 署名单位: University of New Mexico; University of Alberta
• 刊物名称: ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-8392
• DOI: 10.2307/2393853
• 发表日期: 1998
• 页码: 257-292
• 关键词: transformation; ORGANIZATION; BOURDIEU; GOVERNMENT; Managers; games; work; LIFE; ART; LAW

摘要

Language and power are central to an understanding of control. This paper uses the work of Pierre Bourdieu to argue that an enriched view of power, in the form of symbolic violence, is central. We examine the pedagogical function business plans played in the provincial museums and cultural heritage sites of Alberta, Canada. The struggle to name and legitimate practices occurs in the business planning process, excluding some knowledges and practices and teaching and utilizing other knowledges and ways of viewing the organization. We show that control involves both redirecting work and changing the identity of producers, in particular, how they understand their work through the construction of markets, consumers, and products. This process works by changing the capital, in its multiple forms-symbolic, cultural, political and economic-in an organizational and institutional field.