Philip Hancock
Biographic Data
| ID | 3976117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Hancock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Hancock |
| SIGNATURE | HANCOCK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK, |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Organizing Christmas
Organizing Christmas is an exploration of the organizational character of Christmas. Taking as its starting point the view that Christmas initially achieved popularity due to its potential to promote social cohesion and political stability, this book both charts and scrutinizes its global emergence as the year's preeminent economic and organizational event. Combining historical narrative, original interviews, and social scientific research and th…
Recognition and the moral taint of sexuality: Threat, masculinity and Santa Claus
This article explores the ways in which a desire for recognition characterizes the work of a particular category of service worker, the semi-professional Santa Claus performer. Employing a series of observations and in-depth, semi-structured interviews, it considers ways in which such work is underpinned by a struggle for recognition based on an exchange of love and social esteem that is immanent to the perceived reality of the performance of the…
Networks of aestheticization: The Architecture, Artefacts and Embodiment of Hairdressing Salons
The aesthetic dimension of interactive service work is increasingly significant. This is reflected in the attention paid to it within both industrial sociology and organization studies. Such research has however tended to focus either on the aesthetic aspects of the labour process of service workers or, alternatively, on the material environments within which such labour takes place. This article draws on data derived from a case study investigat…
Fear and (Self) Loathing in Coleridge Close: Management in Crisis in the 1970s Sitcom
In this paper my ambition is to contribute to the study of images of organizing in popular culture in two ways. Drawing in particular on the work of the German philosopher and critical theorist Ernst Bloch, I firstly argue for the utility of a dialectical approach to the interrogation of cultural artefacts, one that recognizes the co-existence of both ideological and critical content as integral to the artefact itself. I then illustrate this appr…
Embodied Generosity and an Ethics of Organization
In this essai I address the subject of organization and ethics. In contrast to both the Kantian legislative tradition, and the idea of organizational virtue, both of which are predominant within contemporary accounts of business ethics, I argue for an ethics of organization based on the principles of recognition. Such an ethics would be both intersubjective and embodied, sensitive to what Diprose (2002) has described as corporeal generosity. In d…
Beyond the Confines: Management, Colonization and the Everyday
Drawing on critical social theory, this article argues that critical management studies (CMS) should extend its analytical gaze beyond the work organization and consider the ways in which management increasingly appears to colonize the subjectivity-constituting experiences and practices of everyday life. This argument is developed with reference to a discussion of various illustrations of the cultural ubiquity of management. The article concludes…
Critical Management Studies: An Introduction
For many academics who might identify themselves with the aims and objectives of a journal such as Critical Sociology, the idea of a critical management studies (CMS), espe
Gibson Burrell: Diabolical Architect
MOT Your Life’: Critical Management Studies and the Management of Everyday Life
This article attempts to reflect critically on the extent to which the discourses, techniques and imperatives associated with the management of work organizations are increasingly colonizing the everyday sphere of human communication and sense-making. Drawing on critical social theory and particularly Habermas’s account of ‘the rational organization of everyday life’, as well as what has come to be known as critical management studies (CMS), the …
Managing Subjectivity and the Dialectic of Self-Consciousness: Hegel and Organization Theory
This article presents the work and ideas of the German philosopher G. WF Hegel as a means of addressing recent debates concerning the management of employee subjectivity within contemporary work organizations. Drawing primarily upon his writings on the phenomenological development of `self-consciousness' and the concept of `ethical life' as a state of realized subjectivity, the authors argue that they provide a meta-theoretical framework within w…
MOT Your Life’: Critical Management Studies and the Management of Everyday Life
This article attempts to reflect critically on the extent to which the discourses, techniques and imperatives associated with the management of work organizations are increasingly colonizing the everyday sphere of human communication and sense-making. Drawing on critical social theory and particularly Habermas’s account of ‘the rational organization of everyday life’, as well as what has come to be known as critical management studies (CMS), the …
Embodied Generosity and an Ethics of Organization
In this essai I address the subject of organization and ethics. In contrast to both the Kantian legislative tradition, and the idea of organizational virtue, both of which are predominant within contemporary accounts of business ethics, I argue for an ethics of organization based on the principles of recognition. Such an ethics would be both intersubjective and embodied, sensitive to what Diprose (2002) has described as corporeal generosity. In d…
Networks of aestheticization: The Architecture, Artefacts and Embodiment of Hairdressing Salons
The aesthetic dimension of interactive service work is increasingly significant. This is reflected in the attention paid to it within both industrial sociology and organization studies. Such research has however tended to focus either on the aesthetic aspects of the labour process of service workers or, alternatively, on the material environments within which such labour takes place. This article draws on data derived from a case study investigat…
Recognition and the moral taint of sexuality: Threat, masculinity and Santa Claus
This article explores the ways in which a desire for recognition characterizes the work of a particular category of service worker, the semi-professional Santa Claus performer. Employing a series of observations and in-depth, semi-structured interviews, it considers ways in which such work is underpinned by a struggle for recognition based on an exchange of love and social esteem that is immanent to the perceived reality of the performance of the…
Beyond the Confines: Management, Colonization and the Everyday
Drawing on critical social theory, this article argues that critical management studies (CMS) should extend its analytical gaze beyond the work organization and consider the ways in which management increasingly appears to colonize the subjectivity-constituting experiences and practices of everyday life. This argument is developed with reference to a discussion of various illustrations of the cultural ubiquity of management. The article concludes…
Critical Management Studies: An Introduction
For many academics who might identify themselves with the aims and objectives of a journal such as Critical Sociology, the idea of a critical management studies (CMS), espe
Gibson Burrell: Diabolical Architect
Managing Subjectivity and the Dialectic of Self-Consciousness: Hegel and Organization Theory
This article presents the work and ideas of the German philosopher G. WF Hegel as a means of addressing recent debates concerning the management of employee subjectivity within contemporary work organizations. Drawing primarily upon his writings on the phenomenological development of `self-consciousness' and the concept of `ethical life' as a state of realized subjectivity, the authors argue that they provide a meta-theoretical framework within w…
MOT Your Life’: Critical Management Studies and the Management of Everyday Life
This article attempts to reflect critically on the extent to which the discourses, techniques and imperatives associated with the management of work organizations are increasingly colonizing the everyday sphere of human communication and sense-making. Drawing on critical social theory and particularly Habermas’s account of ‘the rational organization of everyday life’, as well as what has come to be known as critical management studies (CMS), the …
Gibson Burrell: Diabolical Architect
Fear and (Self) Loathing in Coleridge Close: Management in Crisis in the 1970s Sitcom
In this paper my ambition is to contribute to the study of images of organizing in popular culture in two ways. Drawing in particular on the work of the German philosopher and critical theorist Ernst Bloch, I firstly argue for the utility of a dialectical approach to the interrogation of cultural artefacts, one that recognizes the co-existence of both ideological and critical content as integral to the artefact itself. I then illustrate this appr…
Embodied Generosity and an Ethics of Organization
In this essai I address the subject of organization and ethics. In contrast to both the Kantian legislative tradition, and the idea of organizational virtue, both of which are predominant within contemporary accounts of business ethics, I argue for an ethics of organization based on the principles of recognition. Such an ethics would be both intersubjective and embodied, sensitive to what Diprose (2002) has described as corporeal generosity. In d…
Beyond the Confines: Management, Colonization and the Everyday
Drawing on critical social theory, this article argues that critical management studies (CMS) should extend its analytical gaze beyond the work organization and consider the ways in which management increasingly appears to colonize the subjectivity-constituting experiences and practices of everyday life. This argument is developed with reference to a discussion of various illustrations of the cultural ubiquity of management. The article concludes…
Critical Management Studies: An Introduction
For many academics who might identify themselves with the aims and objectives of a journal such as Critical Sociology, the idea of a critical management studies (CMS), espe
Networks of aestheticization: The Architecture, Artefacts and Embodiment of Hairdressing Salons
The aesthetic dimension of interactive service work is increasingly significant. This is reflected in the attention paid to it within both industrial sociology and organization studies. Such research has however tended to focus either on the aesthetic aspects of the labour process of service workers or, alternatively, on the material environments within which such labour takes place. This article draws on data derived from a case study investigat…
Recognition and the moral taint of sexuality: Threat, masculinity and Santa Claus
This article explores the ways in which a desire for recognition characterizes the work of a particular category of service worker, the semi-professional Santa Claus performer. Employing a series of observations and in-depth, semi-structured interviews, it considers ways in which such work is underpinned by a struggle for recognition based on an exchange of love and social esteem that is immanent to the perceived reality of the performance of the…
Organizing Christmas
Organizing Christmas is an exploration of the organizational character of Christmas. Taking as its starting point the view that Christmas initially achieved popularity due to its potential to promote social cohesion and political stability, this book both charts and scrutinizes its global emergence as the year's preeminent economic and organizational event. Combining historical narrative, original interviews, and social scientific research and th…
Sociology (8 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Critical management studies (4 works) · Critical theory (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works)