Bent Meier Sørensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1236705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bent Meier Sørensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bent Meier |
| FAMILY NAME | Sørensen |
| SIGNATURE | SØRENSEN B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1019-1288 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Against boundarylessness: The liminal career of the flexible employee
This article extends the critique of the boundaryless career concept by focusing on how organizational members may experience boundaries as ambiguous within contemporary career development in organizations. As an alternative to the concept of the boundaryless career, we introduce that of the liminal career. We consider a liminal career as occurring when the normal career path within an organization becomes a state of ‘betwixt and between’, wherei…
Penis-whirling and pie-throwing: Norm-defying and norm-setting drama in the creative industries
This article explores the drama performed around a self-proclaimed ‘anti-establishment’ executive at a Danish film company, Zentropa. The company prides itself on being against the existing ‘elitist’ and commercialized Danish film industry. Inspired by the thesis that modern capitalism develops by incorporating the critiques directed against it, the article analyses how Zentropa’s Chief Executive Officer invests a ‘progressive’, counter-cultural …
The naked manager: The ethical practice of an anti-establishment boss
This article explores how an allegedly ‘non-hierarchical’ and aestheticized managerial practice reconfigures power relations within a creative industry. The key problematic is ‘governmental’ in the sense suggested by Michel Foucault, in as much as the manager’s ethical self-practice—which involves expressive and ‘liberated’ bodily comportment—is used tactically to shape the space of conduct of others in the company. The study foregrounds the mana…
It's capitalism on coke!’: From temporary to permanent liminality in organization studies
In recent years, organization studies have become increasingly aware of the concept of liminality. In our review and critique of this reception of liminality in organization studies, we emphasize that liminality involves a fundamental suspension of ordinary social structures. Although the prevailing use of the concept in anthropology as well as in organization studies has conceptualized liminality as a temporary state, we focus on permanent limin…
Profaning the sacred in leadership studies: A reading of Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase
The leadership literature is full of stories of heroic self-sacrifice. Sacrificial leadership behaviour, some scholars conclude, is to be recommended. In this article we follow Keith Grint’s conceptualization of leadership as necessarily pertaining to the sacred, but—drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s notion of profanation—we highlight the need for organization scholars to profane the sacralizations embedded in leadership thinking. One example of this,…
Play at work: Continuation, intervention and usurpation
The interest in organizational play is growing, both in popular business discourse and organization studies. As the presumption that play is dysfunctional for organizations is increasingly discarded, the existing positions may be divided into two camps; one proposes ‘serious play’ as an engine for business and the other insists that work and play are largely indistinguishable in the postindustrial organization. Our field study of a design and com…
Theology and organization
This Introduction argues for the importance of theology for the study of organization. It also draws the contours of a possible 'theology of organization'. Theology of organization, as we use it here, does not refer to a study of organization that is rooted in faith, nor does it refer to a study of religious practices in organizations. Instead, theology of organization recognizes that the way we think about and act in organizations is profoundly …
Deleuze and the Social
The first book to focus on the implications of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's thinking on the social sciences and organisationThis book is concerned with the most basic notions of 'the social'. It seeks both to comprehend the 'multiplicity' of the social - in Deleuzian terms, the 'becoming' of the social itself; and it seeks to develop a new social analytical practice. Each of the newly commissioned chapters aims to show the strength of as w…
Deleuze and the Social
'Deleuze and the Social' is concerned with the most basic notions of 'the social'. It seeks both to comprehend the 'multiplicity' of the social - in Deleuzian terms, the 'becoming' of the social itself, and it seeks to develop a new social analytical practice
Immaculate Defecation: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Organization Theory
This chapter opens by situating the reception of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in organization theory, but does so by conceiving this reception as a instance of ‘abstract machines’ that territorialize ‘reception’ as a function that defines and confines a field of study to a territory, here a limited number of universities in the English-speaking world. The chapter further expresses the (anti-)method of Deleuze and Guattari by trying to deploy…
It's capitalism on coke!’: From temporary to permanent liminality in organization studies
In recent years, organization studies have become increasingly aware of the concept of liminality. In our review and critique of this reception of liminality in organization studies, we emphasize that liminality involves a fundamental suspension of ordinary social structures. Although the prevailing use of the concept in anthropology as well as in organization studies has conceptualized liminality as a temporary state, we focus on permanent limin…
Theology and organization
This Introduction argues for the importance of theology for the study of organization. It also draws the contours of a possible 'theology of organization'. Theology of organization, as we use it here, does not refer to a study of organization that is rooted in faith, nor does it refer to a study of religious practices in organizations. Instead, theology of organization recognizes that the way we think about and act in organizations is profoundly …
Immaculate Defecation: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Organization Theory
This chapter opens by situating the reception of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in organization theory, but does so by conceiving this reception as a instance of ‘abstract machines’ that territorialize ‘reception’ as a function that defines and confines a field of study to a territory, here a limited number of universities in the English-speaking world. The chapter further expresses the (anti-)method of Deleuze and Guattari by trying to deploy…
Penis-whirling and pie-throwing: Norm-defying and norm-setting drama in the creative industries
This article explores the drama performed around a self-proclaimed ‘anti-establishment’ executive at a Danish film company, Zentropa. The company prides itself on being against the existing ‘elitist’ and commercialized Danish film industry. Inspired by the thesis that modern capitalism develops by incorporating the critiques directed against it, the article analyses how Zentropa’s Chief Executive Officer invests a ‘progressive’, counter-cultural …
Immaculate Defecation: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Organization Theory
This chapter opens by situating the reception of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in organization theory, but does so by conceiving this reception as a instance of ‘abstract machines’ that territorialize ‘reception’ as a function that defines and confines a field of study to a territory, here a limited number of universities in the English-speaking world. The chapter further expresses the (anti-)method of Deleuze and Guattari by trying to deploy…
Deleuze and the Social
The first book to focus on the implications of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's thinking on the social sciences and organisationThis book is concerned with the most basic notions of 'the social'. It seeks both to comprehend the 'multiplicity' of the social - in Deleuzian terms, the 'becoming' of the social itself; and it seeks to develop a new social analytical practice. Each of the newly commissioned chapters aims to show the strength of as w…
Deleuze and the Social
'Deleuze and the Social' is concerned with the most basic notions of 'the social'. It seeks both to comprehend the 'multiplicity' of the social - in Deleuzian terms, the 'becoming' of the social itself, and it seeks to develop a new social analytical practice
Play at work: Continuation, intervention and usurpation
The interest in organizational play is growing, both in popular business discourse and organization studies. As the presumption that play is dysfunctional for organizations is increasingly discarded, the existing positions may be divided into two camps; one proposes ‘serious play’ as an engine for business and the other insists that work and play are largely indistinguishable in the postindustrial organization. Our field study of a design and com…
Theology and organization
This Introduction argues for the importance of theology for the study of organization. It also draws the contours of a possible 'theology of organization'. Theology of organization, as we use it here, does not refer to a study of organization that is rooted in faith, nor does it refer to a study of religious practices in organizations. Instead, theology of organization recognizes that the way we think about and act in organizations is profoundly …
Profaning the sacred in leadership studies: A reading of Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase
The leadership literature is full of stories of heroic self-sacrifice. Sacrificial leadership behaviour, some scholars conclude, is to be recommended. In this article we follow Keith Grint’s conceptualization of leadership as necessarily pertaining to the sacred, but—drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s notion of profanation—we highlight the need for organization scholars to profane the sacralizations embedded in leadership thinking. One example of this,…
It's capitalism on coke!’: From temporary to permanent liminality in organization studies
In recent years, organization studies have become increasingly aware of the concept of liminality. In our review and critique of this reception of liminality in organization studies, we emphasize that liminality involves a fundamental suspension of ordinary social structures. Although the prevailing use of the concept in anthropology as well as in organization studies has conceptualized liminality as a temporary state, we focus on permanent limin…
The naked manager: The ethical practice of an anti-establishment boss
This article explores how an allegedly ‘non-hierarchical’ and aestheticized managerial practice reconfigures power relations within a creative industry. The key problematic is ‘governmental’ in the sense suggested by Michel Foucault, in as much as the manager’s ethical self-practice—which involves expressive and ‘liberated’ bodily comportment—is used tactically to shape the space of conduct of others in the company. The study foregrounds the mana…
Penis-whirling and pie-throwing: Norm-defying and norm-setting drama in the creative industries
This article explores the drama performed around a self-proclaimed ‘anti-establishment’ executive at a Danish film company, Zentropa. The company prides itself on being against the existing ‘elitist’ and commercialized Danish film industry. Inspired by the thesis that modern capitalism develops by incorporating the critiques directed against it, the article analyses how Zentropa’s Chief Executive Officer invests a ‘progressive’, counter-cultural …
Against boundarylessness: The liminal career of the flexible employee
This article extends the critique of the boundaryless career concept by focusing on how organizational members may experience boundaries as ambiguous within contemporary career development in organizations. As an alternative to the concept of the boundaryless career, we introduce that of the liminal career. We consider a liminal career as occurring when the normal career path within an organization becomes a state of ‘betwixt and between’, wherei…
Sociology (9 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Economics (2 works)