Gerard Hanlon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 261811 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gerard Hanlon |
| NOMBRES | Gerard |
| APELLIDO | Hanlon |
| FIRMA | HANLON G |
| AFILIACIONES | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0888-611X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 186 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Branding and capitalist social relations of production – property rights, monopoly capitalism, and consuming subjectivities
‘The military dream of society’
This paper argues the military are a central force in creating industrial-capitalist organisational order. It suggests that in the interests of preparedness for organised violence, the military come to see work organisation as a problem and so develop an ‘organising logic’ built on surveillance, control, and hierarchy. Using Foucault on discipline, security and population, and Marxist understandings of modes of production, it demonstrates how the…
Organizing force
Beyond rentiership
We examine corporate rentiership in the contemporary economy and suggest that the idea we are in a moment of step-change within capitalism may be premature. Implicit in arguments for a step-change is the claim that the present-day economy emphasises unproductive or rentier forms rather than the more productive and entrepreneurial forms of the past. In contrast, we argue that to understand our current situation we need to focus on the division of …
Standardisation, disequilibrium, and crisis
How does financialisation interact with the wider division of labour? One could be excused for thinking the connection was tangential as most articles connect it to shareholder value strategies, growth of finance, changing nature of states and so on. In contrast, this article centralises the relationship. It argues that financialisation is not new and that it is a tendency within capitalism supported or hindered by social re-composition connected…
Global value chains as entrepreneurial capture
Management theory offers a unique perspective on the political nature of production epitomized in global value chains (GVCs). Through our reading of management, we challenge several assumptions underpinning much GVC thinking to provide a counter-narrative to the idea that GVCs equate to development. We focus on three ideas within management theory – the entrepreneurial function, the management of knowledge, and standardization. Together, these sh…
The First Neo-Liberal Science
There has been much recent scholarship on the nature of neo-liberalism. What follows develops these connections by examining early neo-liberal and management thought. The article explores the foundations of neo-liberal and management theory to argue they share fundamental features - namely active intervention, prioritising competition and the necessity of elite leadership. The purpose of all three is to reshape subjectivity and social relations. …
Digging deeper towards capricious management
What follows examines the shifting nature of work to argue that we need to look beyond the employment relationship and the work organization to understand labour. It suggests one tendency in capitalism is to generate ‘all labour as productive of value’ (Harvie, 2005: 161), so that we subsume life to work. The article also suggests that, rather than being new, this development is an intensification of the past. Indeed, by returning to early manage…
Updating the Critical Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility
This paper argues that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a key element of the new neo‐liberalism as it searches for both legitimacy and new sources of innovation. Rather than simply being a fraud or a drain on resources as CSR is often portrayed, we argue that it is one of a suite of practices that corporations are deploying as they seek to shift the nature of social regulation away from collective to more individual solutions. While the c…
Knowledge, technology and nursing
NHS Direct is a relatively new, nurse-based, 24-hour health advice line run as part of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The service delivers health advice remotely via the telephone. A central aspect of the service is the attempt to provide a standard level of health advice regardless of time, space or the background of the nurse. At the heart of this attempt is an innovative health software called CLINICAL ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (CAS). Using a…
Abel
Does NHS Direct empower patients
Telephone triage, expert systems and clinical expertise
This paper reports on a qualitative study of the use of an expert system developed for the British telephone triage service NHS Direct. This system, known as CAS, is designed to standardise and control the interaction between NHS Direct nurses and callers. The paper shows, however, that in practice the nurses use CAS in a range of ways and, in so doing, privilege their own expertise and deliver an individualised service. The paper concludes by ar…
Institutional Forms and Organizational Structures
This paper examines how professional service firms have used a combination of clan and bureaucratic control techniques to manage change over a 100-year period. Both sets of controls have been present throughout, but the mix between the two has altered to reflect changes in the broader institutional environment. These shifts create new contradictions that eventually undermine their very success. However, in the midst of these changes and shifts, t…
Risk and the Responsible Health Consumer
NHS Direct, the 24-hour telephone helpline, uses modern communications technology to offer easier and faster access to advice about health, illness and the NHS so that people are better able to care for themselves and their families. In-depth interviews with callers to the service show that they bring with them discourses of the ‘deserving’ and ‘ undeserving’ familiar in the provision of other welfare services. The figure of the ‘time-waster’ is …
Male Callers to NHS Direct
It has been suggested in the light of mortality and morbidity rates, and men's reluctance to seek medical help and advice, that there is a crisis in men's health. Little is known about men's experiences of using health care services, despite an emergent UK men's health movement. NHS Direct, the new telephone advice line, was designed to be more accessible, convenient and responsive to the public's needs for health care. In-depth interviews with m…
Sacking the New Jerusalem? - The New Right, Social Democracy and Professional Identities
The New Right have had an important if somewhat imprecise impact upon Anglo-American capitalism over the past twenty years. Much has been written about them by a variety of disciplines over a wide subject terrain. This paper will further contribute to this analysis by discussing an area which has been somewhat neglected to date - namely, the way in which the New Rightís attempt to reconstruct society has affected professional work, the identities…
International Professional Labour Markets and the Narratives of Accountants
The changing nature of professionalism and the fracturing of the service class
(1999). The changing nature of professionalism and the fracturing of the service class. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 9, The Future for Professions: Current Analytical Challenges, pp. 87-99
Professionalism as Enterprise
This paper suggests that the struggle to redefine professionalism, which is currently being waged in a host of institutions from the National Health Service to accountancy practices, is actually a struggle to legitimise different types of cultural capital and that, as such, it will potentially split the service class. This cleavage reflects the decreasing levels of trust placed in social service professionalism and its adherents by powerful actor…
A Profession in Transition? — Lawyers, The Market and Significant Others
The Emigration of Irish Accountants
This paper examines emigration patterns among Irish accountants in the context of the growth of an international labour market in highly skilled, professional work. It uses documentary sources and interviews with a sample of young Irish accountants to illustrate how changes in the international nature of accountancy has affected the profession in Ireland and have given rise to a particular kind of career-oriented emigration among accountants. The…
Professionalism as Enterprise
This paper suggests that the struggle to redefine professionalism, which is currently being waged in a host of institutions from the National Health Service to accountancy practices, is actually a struggle to legitimise different types of cultural capital and that, as such, it will potentially split the service class. This cleavage reflects the decreasing levels of trust placed in social service professionalism and its adherents by powerful actor…
Telephone triage, expert systems and clinical expertise
This paper reports on a qualitative study of the use of an expert system developed for the British telephone triage service NHS Direct. This system, known as CAS, is designed to standardise and control the interaction between NHS Direct nurses and callers. The paper shows, however, that in practice the nurses use CAS in a range of ways and, in so doing, privilege their own expertise and deliver an individualised service. The paper concludes by ar…
Knowledge, technology and nursing
NHS Direct is a relatively new, nurse-based, 24-hour health advice line run as part of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The service delivers health advice remotely via the telephone. A central aspect of the service is the attempt to provide a standard level of health advice regardless of time, space or the background of the nurse. At the heart of this attempt is an innovative health software called CLINICAL ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (CAS). Using a…
Beyond rentiership
We examine corporate rentiership in the contemporary economy and suggest that the idea we are in a moment of step-change within capitalism may be premature. Implicit in arguments for a step-change is the claim that the present-day economy emphasises unproductive or rentier forms rather than the more productive and entrepreneurial forms of the past. In contrast, we argue that to understand our current situation we need to focus on the division of …
Global value chains as entrepreneurial capture
Management theory offers a unique perspective on the political nature of production epitomized in global value chains (GVCs). Through our reading of management, we challenge several assumptions underpinning much GVC thinking to provide a counter-narrative to the idea that GVCs equate to development. We focus on three ideas within management theory – the entrepreneurial function, the management of knowledge, and standardization. Together, these sh…
Does NHS Direct empower patients
Risk and the Responsible Health Consumer
NHS Direct, the 24-hour telephone helpline, uses modern communications technology to offer easier and faster access to advice about health, illness and the NHS so that people are better able to care for themselves and their families. In-depth interviews with callers to the service show that they bring with them discourses of the ‘deserving’ and ‘ undeserving’ familiar in the provision of other welfare services. The figure of the ‘time-waster’ is …
Updating the Critical Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility
This paper argues that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a key element of the new neo‐liberalism as it searches for both legitimacy and new sources of innovation. Rather than simply being a fraud or a drain on resources as CSR is often portrayed, we argue that it is one of a suite of practices that corporations are deploying as they seek to shift the nature of social regulation away from collective to more individual solutions. While the c…
A Profession in Transition? — Lawyers, The Market and Significant Others
The First Neo-Liberal Science
There has been much recent scholarship on the nature of neo-liberalism. What follows develops these connections by examining early neo-liberal and management thought. The article explores the foundations of neo-liberal and management theory to argue they share fundamental features - namely active intervention, prioritising competition and the necessity of elite leadership. The purpose of all three is to reshape subjectivity and social relations. …
Sacking the New Jerusalem? - The New Right, Social Democracy and Professional Identities
The New Right have had an important if somewhat imprecise impact upon Anglo-American capitalism over the past twenty years. Much has been written about them by a variety of disciplines over a wide subject terrain. This paper will further contribute to this analysis by discussing an area which has been somewhat neglected to date - namely, the way in which the New Rightís attempt to reconstruct society has affected professional work, the identities…
The changing nature of professionalism and the fracturing of the service class
(1999). The changing nature of professionalism and the fracturing of the service class. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 9, The Future for Professions: Current Analytical Challenges, pp. 87-99
Organizing force
Standardisation, disequilibrium, and crisis
How does financialisation interact with the wider division of labour? One could be excused for thinking the connection was tangential as most articles connect it to shareholder value strategies, growth of finance, changing nature of states and so on. In contrast, this article centralises the relationship. It argues that financialisation is not new and that it is a tendency within capitalism supported or hindered by social re-composition connected…
Digging deeper towards capricious management
What follows examines the shifting nature of work to argue that we need to look beyond the employment relationship and the work organization to understand labour. It suggests one tendency in capitalism is to generate ‘all labour as productive of value’ (Harvie, 2005: 161), so that we subsume life to work. The article also suggests that, rather than being new, this development is an intensification of the past. Indeed, by returning to early manage…
The Emigration of Irish Accountants
This paper examines emigration patterns among Irish accountants in the context of the growth of an international labour market in highly skilled, professional work. It uses documentary sources and interviews with a sample of young Irish accountants to illustrate how changes in the international nature of accountancy has affected the profession in Ireland and have given rise to a particular kind of career-oriented emigration among accountants. The…
A Profession in Transition? — Lawyers, The Market and Significant Others
Professionalism as Enterprise
This paper suggests that the struggle to redefine professionalism, which is currently being waged in a host of institutions from the National Health Service to accountancy practices, is actually a struggle to legitimise different types of cultural capital and that, as such, it will potentially split the service class. This cleavage reflects the decreasing levels of trust placed in social service professionalism and its adherents by powerful actor…
International Professional Labour Markets and the Narratives of Accountants
The changing nature of professionalism and the fracturing of the service class
(1999). The changing nature of professionalism and the fracturing of the service class. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 9, The Future for Professions: Current Analytical Challenges, pp. 87-99
Sacking the New Jerusalem? - The New Right, Social Democracy and Professional Identities
The New Right have had an important if somewhat imprecise impact upon Anglo-American capitalism over the past twenty years. Much has been written about them by a variety of disciplines over a wide subject terrain. This paper will further contribute to this analysis by discussing an area which has been somewhat neglected to date - namely, the way in which the New Rightís attempt to reconstruct society has affected professional work, the identities…
Institutional Forms and Organizational Structures
This paper examines how professional service firms have used a combination of clan and bureaucratic control techniques to manage change over a 100-year period. Both sets of controls have been present throughout, but the mix between the two has altered to reflect changes in the broader institutional environment. These shifts create new contradictions that eventually undermine their very success. However, in the midst of these changes and shifts, t…
Risk and the Responsible Health Consumer
NHS Direct, the 24-hour telephone helpline, uses modern communications technology to offer easier and faster access to advice about health, illness and the NHS so that people are better able to care for themselves and their families. In-depth interviews with callers to the service show that they bring with them discourses of the ‘deserving’ and ‘ undeserving’ familiar in the provision of other welfare services. The figure of the ‘time-waster’ is …
Male Callers to NHS Direct
It has been suggested in the light of mortality and morbidity rates, and men's reluctance to seek medical help and advice, that there is a crisis in men's health. Little is known about men's experiences of using health care services, despite an emergent UK men's health movement. NHS Direct, the new telephone advice line, was designed to be more accessible, convenient and responsive to the public's needs for health care. In-depth interviews with m…
Knowledge, technology and nursing
NHS Direct is a relatively new, nurse-based, 24-hour health advice line run as part of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The service delivers health advice remotely via the telephone. A central aspect of the service is the attempt to provide a standard level of health advice regardless of time, space or the background of the nurse. At the heart of this attempt is an innovative health software called CLINICAL ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (CAS). Using a…
Abel
Does NHS Direct empower patients
Telephone triage, expert systems and clinical expertise
This paper reports on a qualitative study of the use of an expert system developed for the British telephone triage service NHS Direct. This system, known as CAS, is designed to standardise and control the interaction between NHS Direct nurses and callers. The paper shows, however, that in practice the nurses use CAS in a range of ways and, in so doing, privilege their own expertise and deliver an individualised service. The paper concludes by ar…
Updating the Critical Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility
This paper argues that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a key element of the new neo‐liberalism as it searches for both legitimacy and new sources of innovation. Rather than simply being a fraud or a drain on resources as CSR is often portrayed, we argue that it is one of a suite of practices that corporations are deploying as they seek to shift the nature of social regulation away from collective to more individual solutions. While the c…
Digging deeper towards capricious management
What follows examines the shifting nature of work to argue that we need to look beyond the employment relationship and the work organization to understand labour. It suggests one tendency in capitalism is to generate ‘all labour as productive of value’ (Harvie, 2005: 161), so that we subsume life to work. The article also suggests that, rather than being new, this development is an intensification of the past. Indeed, by returning to early manage…
The First Neo-Liberal Science
There has been much recent scholarship on the nature of neo-liberalism. What follows develops these connections by examining early neo-liberal and management thought. The article explores the foundations of neo-liberal and management theory to argue they share fundamental features - namely active intervention, prioritising competition and the necessity of elite leadership. The purpose of all three is to reshape subjectivity and social relations. …
Global value chains as entrepreneurial capture
Management theory offers a unique perspective on the political nature of production epitomized in global value chains (GVCs). Through our reading of management, we challenge several assumptions underpinning much GVC thinking to provide a counter-narrative to the idea that GVCs equate to development. We focus on three ideas within management theory – the entrepreneurial function, the management of knowledge, and standardization. Together, these sh…
Standardisation, disequilibrium, and crisis
How does financialisation interact with the wider division of labour? One could be excused for thinking the connection was tangential as most articles connect it to shareholder value strategies, growth of finance, changing nature of states and so on. In contrast, this article centralises the relationship. It argues that financialisation is not new and that it is a tendency within capitalism supported or hindered by social re-composition connected…
Beyond rentiership
We examine corporate rentiership in the contemporary economy and suggest that the idea we are in a moment of step-change within capitalism may be premature. Implicit in arguments for a step-change is the claim that the present-day economy emphasises unproductive or rentier forms rather than the more productive and entrepreneurial forms of the past. In contrast, we argue that to understand our current situation we need to focus on the division of …
Organizing force
Branding and capitalist social relations of production – property rights, monopoly capitalism, and consuming subjectivities
‘The military dream of society’
This paper argues the military are a central force in creating industrial-capitalist organisational order. It suggests that in the interests of preparedness for organised violence, the military come to see work organisation as a problem and so develop an ‘organising logic’ built on surveillance, control, and hierarchy. Using Foucault on discipline, security and population, and Marxist understandings of modes of production, it demonstrates how the…
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