Norman Crump
Biographic Data
| ID | 102746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman Crump |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman |
| FAMILY NAME | Crump |
| SIGNATURE | CRUMP N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8547-3250 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1925 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The projection of time in management education
This speculative essay offers an interpretation of the ways in which a particular world-historical narrative underlies the content of mainstream management and business curricula. Through a dialogue with the Carnegie Report of 2011, we argue that management education contains a strong programme regarding the “time ahead” despite the common-place accusation of being ahistorical, detached from the broader social and political themes and crises of o…
Analysing change in an Accident and Emergency Department
Bringing together insights from Organisation Studies and Science and Technology Studies this paper provides a multilevel analysis of a planned change initiative. Focusing on different layers of this change the emergent ambiguities, multiplicities and tensions are explored serving to highlight the ‘back stage complexities’ often hidden by the ‘front stage slickness’ (Moser and Law) of organisational routines
Managerialism, the therapeutic habitus and the self in contemporary organizing
Over the last two decades, managerialism (Enteman, 1993) has become consolidated on multiple fronts. As a formula of governance, it has elaborated various vocabularies: the `audit society' (Power, 1997, 2007) has become entrenched in all types of organizations; surveillance methods (Lyon, 2001) have become increasingly dispersed and insidious; and - alongside -`new' concepts of subjectivity and the`self' are used to frame more intense regimes of …
A historical-cultural approach to the study of business ethics using the modern novel
The aim of this paper is to explore the fundamental relationship between ethics and business in their tragic historical unfolding as formulated in one of H.G.Wells’s lesser novels, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914). Wells directly and explicitly addresses themes concerning modern business corporations, business people, management, social responsibility and domestic life at the turn of the twentieth century.We emphasize the centrality and import…
Managerialism and “ Infinite Human Resourcefulness ”
(2007). Managerialism and "Infinite Human Resourcefulness": a Commentary on the "Therapeutic Habitus", "Derecognition of Finitude" and the Modern Sense of Self. Journal for Cultural Research: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 245-264
Conceptual history and the interpretation of managerial ideologies
This article introduces key elements of 'conceptual history' from the work of Reinhart Koselleck (1985, 2002).We argue that his combination of an existential conception of historicity with the notion of 'concept' as a mediator of existence and culture opens up unexplored avenues for interpreting management ideologies.We illustrate conceptual history with the example of 'play' in recent managerial literature. On the one hand, if we situate the ana…
Dionysus at work? The ethos of play and the ethos of management
This paper discusses the way in which play is used in contemporary managerial ideologies, relating it to the cultural imperative of 'wellness'. Three central questions underpin this commentary. Firstly, has management entered into a kind of 'Dionysian' mode, a spirit of playful transgression and destruction of boundaries marking a new bond between economic grammars of production and consumption, and cultural grammars of the modern self? Secondly,…
Organizing Processes in Complex Activity Networks
This paper analyses practice as activity and develops a frame-work for analysing organizations as networks of activity systems. The approach is applied in a study of a high technology company. Key tensions in the organization are outlined and a comparative study of three strategy development teams is described. Activity theory provides the means to analyse organizations as distributed, decentred and emergent knowledge systems. It is suggested tha…
Managing Experts and Competing through Innovation
An activity theoretical analysis is presented of an organization that is operating in a rapidly changing sector and whose competitiveness depends significantly upon the design skills of its engineers. The company designs high-technology make-to-order products. Like other organizations that compete through knowledge and innovation, the prosperity of this company depends upon its organizational learning, that is, upon the effectiveness with which i…
The ABC of the Foreign Exchanges
Finance and Reconstruction
Journal Article Finance and Reconstruction Get access Norman Crump Norman Crump Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 1944, Pages 43–53, https://doi.org/10.2307/3016448 Published: 01 January 1944
Electrical Power and National Progress
The A B C of the Foreign Exchanges
Managerialism, the therapeutic habitus and the self in contemporary organizing
Over the last two decades, managerialism (Enteman, 1993) has become consolidated on multiple fronts. As a formula of governance, it has elaborated various vocabularies: the `audit society' (Power, 1997, 2007) has become entrenched in all types of organizations; surveillance methods (Lyon, 2001) have become increasingly dispersed and insidious; and - alongside -`new' concepts of subjectivity and the`self' are used to frame more intense regimes of …
Dionysus at work? The ethos of play and the ethos of management
This paper discusses the way in which play is used in contemporary managerial ideologies, relating it to the cultural imperative of 'wellness'. Three central questions underpin this commentary. Firstly, has management entered into a kind of 'Dionysian' mode, a spirit of playful transgression and destruction of boundaries marking a new bond between economic grammars of production and consumption, and cultural grammars of the modern self? Secondly,…
Conceptual history and the interpretation of managerial ideologies
This article introduces key elements of 'conceptual history' from the work of Reinhart Koselleck (1985, 2002).We argue that his combination of an existential conception of historicity with the notion of 'concept' as a mediator of existence and culture opens up unexplored avenues for interpreting management ideologies.We illustrate conceptual history with the example of 'play' in recent managerial literature. On the one hand, if we situate the ana…
Managerialism and “ Infinite Human Resourcefulness ”
(2007). Managerialism and "Infinite Human Resourcefulness": a Commentary on the "Therapeutic Habitus", "Derecognition of Finitude" and the Modern Sense of Self. Journal for Cultural Research: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 245-264
The projection of time in management education
This speculative essay offers an interpretation of the ways in which a particular world-historical narrative underlies the content of mainstream management and business curricula. Through a dialogue with the Carnegie Report of 2011, we argue that management education contains a strong programme regarding the “time ahead” despite the common-place accusation of being ahistorical, detached from the broader social and political themes and crises of o…
Analysing change in an Accident and Emergency Department
Bringing together insights from Organisation Studies and Science and Technology Studies this paper provides a multilevel analysis of a planned change initiative. Focusing on different layers of this change the emergent ambiguities, multiplicities and tensions are explored serving to highlight the ‘back stage complexities’ often hidden by the ‘front stage slickness’ (Moser and Law) of organisational routines
The A B C of the Foreign Exchanges
Electrical Power and National Progress
Finance and Reconstruction
Journal Article Finance and Reconstruction Get access Norman Crump Norman Crump Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 1944, Pages 43–53, https://doi.org/10.2307/3016448 Published: 01 January 1944
The ABC of the Foreign Exchanges
Managing Experts and Competing through Innovation
An activity theoretical analysis is presented of an organization that is operating in a rapidly changing sector and whose competitiveness depends significantly upon the design skills of its engineers. The company designs high-technology make-to-order products. Like other organizations that compete through knowledge and innovation, the prosperity of this company depends upon its organizational learning, that is, upon the effectiveness with which i…
Organizing Processes in Complex Activity Networks
This paper analyses practice as activity and develops a frame-work for analysing organizations as networks of activity systems. The approach is applied in a study of a high technology company. Key tensions in the organization are outlined and a comparative study of three strategy development teams is described. Activity theory provides the means to analyse organizations as distributed, decentred and emergent knowledge systems. It is suggested tha…
Dionysus at work? The ethos of play and the ethos of management
This paper discusses the way in which play is used in contemporary managerial ideologies, relating it to the cultural imperative of 'wellness'. Three central questions underpin this commentary. Firstly, has management entered into a kind of 'Dionysian' mode, a spirit of playful transgression and destruction of boundaries marking a new bond between economic grammars of production and consumption, and cultural grammars of the modern self? Secondly,…
Conceptual history and the interpretation of managerial ideologies
This article introduces key elements of 'conceptual history' from the work of Reinhart Koselleck (1985, 2002).We argue that his combination of an existential conception of historicity with the notion of 'concept' as a mediator of existence and culture opens up unexplored avenues for interpreting management ideologies.We illustrate conceptual history with the example of 'play' in recent managerial literature. On the one hand, if we situate the ana…
A historical-cultural approach to the study of business ethics using the modern novel
The aim of this paper is to explore the fundamental relationship between ethics and business in their tragic historical unfolding as formulated in one of H.G.Wells’s lesser novels, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914). Wells directly and explicitly addresses themes concerning modern business corporations, business people, management, social responsibility and domestic life at the turn of the twentieth century.We emphasize the centrality and import…
Managerialism and “ Infinite Human Resourcefulness ”
(2007). Managerialism and "Infinite Human Resourcefulness": a Commentary on the "Therapeutic Habitus", "Derecognition of Finitude" and the Modern Sense of Self. Journal for Cultural Research: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 245-264
Managerialism, the therapeutic habitus and the self in contemporary organizing
Over the last two decades, managerialism (Enteman, 1993) has become consolidated on multiple fronts. As a formula of governance, it has elaborated various vocabularies: the `audit society' (Power, 1997, 2007) has become entrenched in all types of organizations; surveillance methods (Lyon, 2001) have become increasingly dispersed and insidious; and - alongside -`new' concepts of subjectivity and the`self' are used to frame more intense regimes of …
Analysing change in an Accident and Emergency Department
Bringing together insights from Organisation Studies and Science and Technology Studies this paper provides a multilevel analysis of a planned change initiative. Focusing on different layers of this change the emergent ambiguities, multiplicities and tensions are explored serving to highlight the ‘back stage complexities’ often hidden by the ‘front stage slickness’ (Moser and Law) of organisational routines
The projection of time in management education
This speculative essay offers an interpretation of the ways in which a particular world-historical narrative underlies the content of mainstream management and business curricula. Through a dialogue with the Carnegie Report of 2011, we argue that management education contains a strong programme regarding the “time ahead” despite the common-place accusation of being ahistorical, detached from the broader social and political themes and crises of o…
Management and Organizational Studies (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Management Theory and Practice (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Information Systems Theories and Implementation (3 works)