Bogdan Costea
Biographic Data
| ID | 642857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bogdan Costea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bogdan |
| FAMILY NAME | Costea |
| SIGNATURE | COSTEA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3657-6293 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reappraising Charles Webb’s The Graduate (1963): Exploring cultural and historical elements of a character in the contemporary economy
This article seeks to examine, in a cultural–historical perspective, how the ‘graduate’ has developed as a character central to a significant segment of the contemporary labour market. The argument begins by showing how the rise of the ‘new’ or ‘knowledge economy’ (throughout the 1990s and 2000s) became a new source of pressure on generations entering the world of work. Higher education has been, and continues to be, presented by political, corpo…
Ernst Jünger, total mobilisation and the work of war
This review article explores three interconnected texts written in the 1920s and 1930s by the German intellectual Ernst Jünger: Copse 125, Total Mobilisation and The Worker. Dominion and Form. They contain his original analyses of the relationship between war, destruction, organisation and technology. Jünger argued that entering the realm of total organisation, that is, organisation which claims its ground to be scientific, calculated, planned, r…
What Killed Moritz Erhardt? Internships and the Cultural Dangers of “Positive” Ideas
Moritz Erhardt’s tragic death as an intern at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in August 2013 provides an illustration of the cultural intensity and complexity that has come to imbue internships in higher education degree schemes. We offer an analysis of internships as part of a wider process of dissemination and proliferation of managerial vocabularies and images that underpin certain hyper-performative practices that permeate the powerful cultures…
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)
Martin Heidegger was a revered German philosopher and teacher, but also a controversial figure due to his political affiliations with the Nazi movement. He was associated with phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics as well as process philosophy. This chapter examines the relevance of Heidegger’s work to process philosophy in organization studies, by discussing his views on the movement of history and the movement of nihilism. It consider…
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…
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: An illustration
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 ”: A Commentary on the “ Therapeutic Habitus ”, “ Derecognition of Finitude ” and the Modern Sense of Self
(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,…
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 ”: A Commentary on the “ Therapeutic Habitus ”, “ Derecognition of Finitude ” and the Modern Sense of Self
(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…
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: An illustration
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 ”: A Commentary on the “ Therapeutic Habitus ”, “ Derecognition of Finitude ” and the Modern Sense of Self
(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 …
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…
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)
Martin Heidegger was a revered German philosopher and teacher, but also a controversial figure due to his political affiliations with the Nazi movement. He was associated with phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics as well as process philosophy. This chapter examines the relevance of Heidegger’s work to process philosophy in organization studies, by discussing his views on the movement of history and the movement of nihilism. It consider…
What Killed Moritz Erhardt? Internships and the Cultural Dangers of “Positive” Ideas
Moritz Erhardt’s tragic death as an intern at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in August 2013 provides an illustration of the cultural intensity and complexity that has come to imbue internships in higher education degree schemes. We offer an analysis of internships as part of a wider process of dissemination and proliferation of managerial vocabularies and images that underpin certain hyper-performative practices that permeate the powerful cultures…
Ernst Jünger, total mobilisation and the work of war
This review article explores three interconnected texts written in the 1920s and 1930s by the German intellectual Ernst Jünger: Copse 125, Total Mobilisation and The Worker. Dominion and Form. They contain his original analyses of the relationship between war, destruction, organisation and technology. Jünger argued that entering the realm of total organisation, that is, organisation which claims its ground to be scientific, calculated, planned, r…
Reappraising Charles Webb’s The Graduate (1963): Exploring cultural and historical elements of a character in the contemporary economy
This article seeks to examine, in a cultural–historical perspective, how the ‘graduate’ has developed as a character central to a significant segment of the contemporary labour market. The argument begins by showing how the rise of the ‘new’ or ‘knowledge economy’ (throughout the 1990s and 2000s) became a new source of pressure on generations entering the world of work. Higher education has been, and continues to be, presented by political, corpo…
Management and Organizational Studies (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Management Theory and Practice (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)