Lars Thøger Christensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 164545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lars Thøger Christensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lars Thøger |
| FAMILY NAME | Christensen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTENSEN L T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4586-5430 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The dialogic performativity of secrecy and transparency
How does the pursuit of transparency and insight have a tendency to produce secrecy? And vice versa? In popular and political discourse, secrecy and transparency are usually depicted as mutually exclusive practices. At the same time, we know from extant research that the two are closely related, that they each have performative effects, and tend to encroach on each other. The inseparability and performative dynamics between the two, however, rema…
The Nature of Strategic Communication
In this article, we address and challenge Nothhaft’s (2016) recent attempt to revive the field of strategic communication through an application of approaches and principles from the studies of the human mind. Instead of an indiscriminate import of a natural science perspective, we argue that the shortcomings of the field are dealt with more adequately by recognizing and embracing the immense complexity at play in all dimensions of strategic comm…
Peering into Transparency
The current emphasis on organizational transparency signifies a growing demand for insight, clarity, accountability, and participation. Holding the promise of improved access to valid and trustworthy knowledge about organizations, the transparency pursuit has great potential for enhanced organizational effectiveness and widened democratic practice. Yet, with its most common operationalization, as information, transparency reinstalls a “purified” …
Organizational transparency as myth and metaphor
Transparency has achieved a mythical status in society. Myths are not false accounts or understandings, but deep-seated and definitive descriptions of the world that ontologically ground the ways in which we frame and see the world around us. We explore the mythical nature of transparency from this perspective, explain its social-historical underpinnings and discuss its influence on contemporary organizations. In doing so, we also theorize in a m…
Introduction
This special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory investigates the phenomenon of transparency, including the spectacle that accompanies transparency projects launched by contemporary organizations and institutions, be they public, private or inbetweens. The title ‘Logics of transparency in late modernity: paradoxes, mediation and governance’ alludes to the historicity of the transparency ideal, its paradoxes, forms of mediation and gove…
CSR as aspirational talk
Most writings on corporate social responsibility (CSR) treat lack of consistency between organizational CSR talk and action as a serious problem that needs to be eliminated. In this article, we argue that differences between words and action are not necessarily a bad thing and that such discrepancies have the potential to stimulate CSR improvements. We draw on a research tradition that regards communication as performative to challenge the conven…
Being Montana - et signalement af vor tids virksomhedskommunikation
I 2003 udsendte møbelfabrikken Montana en firefarvet og firesproget brochure, »Being Montana«, - en 136 siders sag, trykt på tykt papir og med omslag af kraftig karton. En utraditionel brochure, som ikke blot præsenterer virksomhedens produkt – en funktionel reolserie med næsten uendelige kombinationsmuligheder – men som med avanceret billedsprog og tvetydig symbolik vil kommunikere en særlig identitet og position. Med brochuren vil virksomheden …
Det forførende medie - om autokommunikation i markedsføringen
Artiklen præsenterer forskellige aspekter af markedskommunikation set som autokommunikation – det vil sige kommunikation om og til af- sender selv. Moderne marketing er grundlagt på ideen om, at virksom- heder kun overlever i længden, hvis de er opmærksomme på marke- dets ønsker og behov, og branchen arbejder ud fra en ideel forståelse om responsivitet og dialog med kunder og omverden. Artiklen påpeger imidlertid, at den moderne forbruger – eller…
Marketing and communication technology
Marketing as auto-communication
In contemporary culture, marketing has defined itself as the beneficial institution par excellence, concerned primarily with the needs of society and its members. Through elaborate systems of communication, the marketing institution claims to link organizations with markets and publics and, thus, to foster openness and sensitivity to different voices. Against this image, this paper demonstrates that although marketing‐oriented organizations are h…
Articulating Identity in an Organizational Age
Peering into Transparency
The current emphasis on organizational transparency signifies a growing demand for insight, clarity, accountability, and participation. Holding the promise of improved access to valid and trustworthy knowledge about organizations, the transparency pursuit has great potential for enhanced organizational effectiveness and widened democratic practice. Yet, with its most common operationalization, as information, transparency reinstalls a “purified” …
Introduction
This special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory investigates the phenomenon of transparency, including the spectacle that accompanies transparency projects launched by contemporary organizations and institutions, be they public, private or inbetweens. The title ‘Logics of transparency in late modernity: paradoxes, mediation and governance’ alludes to the historicity of the transparency ideal, its paradoxes, forms of mediation and gove…
The Nature of Strategic Communication
In this article, we address and challenge Nothhaft’s (2016) recent attempt to revive the field of strategic communication through an application of approaches and principles from the studies of the human mind. Instead of an indiscriminate import of a natural science perspective, we argue that the shortcomings of the field are dealt with more adequately by recognizing and embracing the immense complexity at play in all dimensions of strategic comm…
Organizational transparency as myth and metaphor
Transparency has achieved a mythical status in society. Myths are not false accounts or understandings, but deep-seated and definitive descriptions of the world that ontologically ground the ways in which we frame and see the world around us. We explore the mythical nature of transparency from this perspective, explain its social-historical underpinnings and discuss its influence on contemporary organizations. In doing so, we also theorize in a m…
Marketing as auto-communication
In contemporary culture, marketing has defined itself as the beneficial institution par excellence, concerned primarily with the needs of society and its members. Through elaborate systems of communication, the marketing institution claims to link organizations with markets and publics and, thus, to foster openness and sensitivity to different voices. Against this image, this paper demonstrates that although marketing‐oriented organizations are h…
Articulating Identity in an Organizational Age
Articulating Identity in an Organizational Age
Marketing as auto-communication
In contemporary culture, marketing has defined itself as the beneficial institution par excellence, concerned primarily with the needs of society and its members. Through elaborate systems of communication, the marketing institution claims to link organizations with markets and publics and, thus, to foster openness and sensitivity to different voices. Against this image, this paper demonstrates that although marketing‐oriented organizations are h…
Marketing and communication technology
Det forførende medie - om autokommunikation i markedsføringen
Artiklen præsenterer forskellige aspekter af markedskommunikation set som autokommunikation – det vil sige kommunikation om og til af- sender selv. Moderne marketing er grundlagt på ideen om, at virksom- heder kun overlever i længden, hvis de er opmærksomme på marke- dets ønsker og behov, og branchen arbejder ud fra en ideel forståelse om responsivitet og dialog med kunder og omverden. Artiklen påpeger imidlertid, at den moderne forbruger – eller…
Being Montana - et signalement af vor tids virksomhedskommunikation
I 2003 udsendte møbelfabrikken Montana en firefarvet og firesproget brochure, »Being Montana«, - en 136 siders sag, trykt på tykt papir og med omslag af kraftig karton. En utraditionel brochure, som ikke blot præsenterer virksomhedens produkt – en funktionel reolserie med næsten uendelige kombinationsmuligheder – men som med avanceret billedsprog og tvetydig symbolik vil kommunikere en særlig identitet og position. Med brochuren vil virksomheden …
CSR as aspirational talk
Most writings on corporate social responsibility (CSR) treat lack of consistency between organizational CSR talk and action as a serious problem that needs to be eliminated. In this article, we argue that differences between words and action are not necessarily a bad thing and that such discrepancies have the potential to stimulate CSR improvements. We draw on a research tradition that regards communication as performative to challenge the conven…
Peering into Transparency
The current emphasis on organizational transparency signifies a growing demand for insight, clarity, accountability, and participation. Holding the promise of improved access to valid and trustworthy knowledge about organizations, the transparency pursuit has great potential for enhanced organizational effectiveness and widened democratic practice. Yet, with its most common operationalization, as information, transparency reinstalls a “purified” …
Organizational transparency as myth and metaphor
Transparency has achieved a mythical status in society. Myths are not false accounts or understandings, but deep-seated and definitive descriptions of the world that ontologically ground the ways in which we frame and see the world around us. We explore the mythical nature of transparency from this perspective, explain its social-historical underpinnings and discuss its influence on contemporary organizations. In doing so, we also theorize in a m…
Introduction
This special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory investigates the phenomenon of transparency, including the spectacle that accompanies transparency projects launched by contemporary organizations and institutions, be they public, private or inbetweens. The title ‘Logics of transparency in late modernity: paradoxes, mediation and governance’ alludes to the historicity of the transparency ideal, its paradoxes, forms of mediation and gove…
The Nature of Strategic Communication
In this article, we address and challenge Nothhaft’s (2016) recent attempt to revive the field of strategic communication through an application of approaches and principles from the studies of the human mind. Instead of an indiscriminate import of a natural science perspective, we argue that the shortcomings of the field are dealt with more adequately by recognizing and embracing the immense complexity at play in all dimensions of strategic comm…
The dialogic performativity of secrecy and transparency
How does the pursuit of transparency and insight have a tendency to produce secrecy? And vice versa? In popular and political discourse, secrecy and transparency are usually depicted as mutually exclusive practices. At the same time, we know from extant research that the two are closely related, that they each have performative effects, and tend to encroach on each other. The inseparability and performative dynamics between the two, however, rema…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Corporate Identity and Reputation (3 works) · E-Government and Public Services (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)