John Hassard
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 138243 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Hassard |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Hassard |
| ASSINATURA | HASSARD J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0468-4609 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1244 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Why we needed (and still need) new histories of management and organization
Won't Get Fooled Again? Theorizing Discursive Constructions of Novelty in the 'New' World of Work
This article outlines how notions of novelty define today's work practices and debates what the discursive construction of work as 'new' means. On the one hand, we highlight a misplaced emphasis on change and novelty that can lead to unnecessary dichotomization in the characterization and discursive construction of work practices and organizational phenomena. On the other, we specify substantive continuities in a range of strategic, organizationa…
The language of business and the business of language
Austerity measures and neoliberal policies have deeply affected the UK cultural sector. In particular they have been central to cementing the idea that contemporary cultural institutions should henceforth be regarded as commercial operations. As the language of business and management (B&M language) increasingly frames how organisations of the cultural sector are described, this paper defines the main discursive practices motivating this performa…
Organizational responses to political sanctions
What can an organization do to survive when its existence is a problem for political institutions? Drawing information from China’s futures market, we address this question through analysing forms of corporate political activity (CPA) among the nation’s ‘red capitalists’, notably using CPA concepts to decode power dynamics between Chinese financial organizations and the state. Deploying a multi-method, longitudinal and reflexive case approach, we…
‘Culture for Sale’
For the United Kingdom, the 2008 financial crisis coupled with the subsequent economic austerity programme forced many public institutions to engage in various cost-cutting and fundraising ventures. In parallel, corporate ideologies came to dominate how academics, officials and professionals debated public activities, in turn profoundly affecting the provision of communal services. This paper explores how ‘corporate colonization’ ( sensu Deetz, 1…
The extensification of managerial work in the digital age
How has the experience of managerial work changed in the digital age? This two-phase (2002–2006, 2015–2019) study addresses this question by examining how middle managers perceive the spatio-temporal boundaries of their work to have shifted. Typically, such managers report change occurring in two directions: (i) the contractual employment boundary becoming stretched as hours completed inside the workplace increase; and (ii) this boundary becoming…
On the character of the new entrepreneurial National Health Service in England
Recent health care reforms in England, combined with financial austerity, have accelerated both corporatization and commercialization in the English National Health Service (NHS) and this has encouraged greater public sector entrepreneurialism (PSE). We advance this argument by examining the meaning and experience of corporatization in this sector, illustrating our argument with qualitative data from a specialist hospital at the forefront of this…
Rethinking history and memory in organization studies
The historic turn in organization studies has led to greater appreciation of the potential contribution from historical research. However, there is increasing emphasis on integrating history into organization studies, rather than on recognizing how accommodating history might require a reorientation. As a result, key conceptual and methodological insights from historiography have been overlooked or at times misrepresented. We identify four modes …
Hybrid managers, career narratives and identity work
While hybrid managers are increasingly important in contemporary organizations (especially in the public sector), we know little about why or how they become hybrid managers, or how this is shaped by the interplay of professional experience and organizational circumstances. In pursuit of a more variegated, contextualized and dynamic understanding of hybrid management, this article focuses on how individuals transition into managerial hybrids, emp…
The changing nature of managerial work
This article analyses contemporary issues relevant to understanding the changing nature of management and managerial work. The argument is developed in four parts. First, to provide context, we offer an overview of the literature on the organization and control of managerial work, tracing contributions mainly from the early 1950s onwards. Second, we discuss the first of two related concerns relevant to understanding the contemporary nature of man…
Multiple Dimensions of Work Intensity
Working life in public sector professions is undergoing significant change and becoming increasingly demanding. This article explores work intensity in NHS ambulance services in England, describing four distinct but interrelated dimensions of intensity: temporal; physical; emotional; and organizational. We use the concept of edgework to explore the complexities involved in how emergency workers attempt to negotiate the rewards and risks associate…
Contrived Competition and Manufactured Uncertainty
The article addresses the debate over insecurity and precarity in managerial work. It notes while some commentators suggest advanced economies are characterized by managerial job insecurity, others argue the same economies possess stable managerial tenure rates. To make sense of this conundrum, qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with managers working in large corporations in liberal-market (USA, UK) and coordinated-market (Japan) so…
Inside the Compassionate Organization
The literature on management and organization studies suggests the time is right for a focus on ‘care and compassion’. The aim of this book is to answer this call by examining the cultural changes found within a particular ‘compassionate organization’—an English hospice—from its altruistic beginnings to the more professionalized culture of today. The study seeks to understand how its members identify or fail to identify with an organization where…
A New History of Management
Existing narratives about how we should organize are built upon, and reinforce, a concept of 'good management' derived from what is assumed to be a fundamental need to increase efficiency. But this assumption is based on a presentist, monocultural, and generally limited view of management's past. A New History of Management disputes these foundations. By reassessing conventional perspectives on past management theories and providing a new critica…
Introducing the Study
The chapter explains how the main aim of this book is to examine the culture of a ‘compassionate organization’—an English hospice—through the eyes of its members. The investigation is related to its social and historical context and, from these data, some conclusions are suggested about the relationship between organizational culture, identity, and image. Many previous studies have examined these fundamental elements within formal (frequently pri…
Time and industrial sociology
This chapter examines how time and temporality have been portrayed in industrial sociology. It outlines the main theories of time available to sociologists, and suggests that these, when applied in formal research investigations, can yield rich and diverse insights into work behaviour. The chapter discusses below work not only from the linear-quantitative tradition but also from the cyclic-qualitative one. It suggests nevertheless that for indust…
Time, Work and Organization
Deconstructing the Welfare State
Sociology of Time
Leadership talk
The economic downturn that began in 2008 led to massive cuts in spending targeted at managerial activities in the UK National Health Service (NHS). Although the appellation “manager” once conferred status in the NHS, managers have borne the brunt of reform and the term itself is in danger of falling into disrepute. Drawing upon perspectives on leadership that emphasize its constitutive nature, we examine the growing alternative emergent culture o…
Casting the lean spell
Lean thinking has recently re-emerged as a fashionable management philosophy, especially in public services. A prescriptive or mainstream literature suggests that lean is rapidly diffusing into public sector environments, providing a much-needed rethink of traditional ways of working and stimulating performance improvements. Our study of the introduction of lean in a large UK public sector hospital challenges this argument. Based on a three-year …
Research Strategies for Organizational History
If history matters for organization theory, then we need greater reflexivity regarding the epistemological problem of representing the past; otherwise, history might be seen as merely a repository of ready-made data. To facilitate this reflexivity, we set out three epistemological dualisms derived from historical theory to explain the relationship between history and organization theory: (1) in the dualism of explanation, historians are preoccupi…
Historical neo-institutionalism or neo-institutionalist history? Historical research in management and organization studies
We propose a distinction between historical neo-institutionalism – the use of historical research to advance neo-institutionalist theory, and neo-institutionalist history – the use of neo-institutionalist theory to illuminate historiography. In the first part of the article we compare recognized exemplars for historical neo-institutionalism with the few examples that we could find of research resembling neo-institutionalist history. We demonstrat…
Rethinking the Hawthorne Studies
In primary accounts of the Hawthorne Studies (1924–32), the host organization, Western Electric, is treated as a largely anonymous actor. Through case-based historical research we find such treatment masks the distinctive profile of the company in the years preceding and encompassing the Hawthorne investigations. Besides its significant industrial standing, when Western’s reputation for welfare capitalism is considered alongside a tragedy that ga…
How come the critters came to be teaching in business schools? Contradictions in the institutionalization of critical management studies
How is it that a collection of working class drifters, sociology graduates, and ex-leftist politicos have ended up teaching in UK business schools? Understanding the predicament of these ‘critters’ helps to explain the ironic contingencies that provide the conditions of possibility for institutionalizing critical management studies (CMS), in particular the historic ‘defeat of the Left’ and the lack of more practical activities for radical managem…
Actor network theory and after
Postmodernism and organizations
The Invention of Corporate Culture
The concept of culture promised to make organization studies more historical. This promise has not been fulfilled. Possible reasons for the failure to integrate business history and organization studies are explored and a synthesis developed, using the historical concept of invented tradition in conjunction with the social cognition biases identified by organizational culture. The major part of the article then demonstrates how Cadbury, a British…
Actor-Network Theory, organizations and critique
In recent years the approach to social theory known as Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has been adopted within a range of social science fields. Despite its popularity, ANT is considered a controversial approach in that it appears to promote a sociological perspective that lacks substantive political critique. This is argued to be particularly true in ANT's 'translations' in management and organization studies (MOS). In this article, we argue that the…
Rethinking history and memory in organization studies
The historic turn in organization studies has led to greater appreciation of the potential contribution from historical research. However, there is increasing emphasis on integrating history into organization studies, rather than on recognizing how accommodating history might require a reorientation. As a result, key conceptual and methodological insights from historiography have been overlooked or at times misrepresented. We identify four modes …
Rethinking the Hawthorne Studies
In primary accounts of the Hawthorne Studies (1924–32), the host organization, Western Electric, is treated as a largely anonymous actor. Through case-based historical research we find such treatment masks the distinctive profile of the company in the years preceding and encompassing the Hawthorne investigations. Besides its significant industrial standing, when Western’s reputation for welfare capitalism is considered alongside a tragedy that ga…
Historical neo-institutionalism or neo-institutionalist history? Historical research in management and organization studies
We propose a distinction between historical neo-institutionalism – the use of historical research to advance neo-institutionalist theory, and neo-institutionalist history – the use of neo-institutionalist theory to illuminate historiography. In the first part of the article we compare recognized exemplars for historical neo-institutionalism with the few examples that we could find of research resembling neo-institutionalist history. We demonstrat…
Contrived Competition and Manufactured Uncertainty
The article addresses the debate over insecurity and precarity in managerial work. It notes while some commentators suggest advanced economies are characterized by managerial job insecurity, others argue the same economies possess stable managerial tenure rates. To make sense of this conundrum, qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with managers working in large corporations in liberal-market (USA, UK) and coordinated-market (Japan) so…
Aspects of Time in Organization
The paper examines temporal aspects of organization. It argues that a major element of human socialization is the structuring of time-sense within formal organizations. Notable here is the process whereby family, school, and workplace teach us rigid time disciplines. These institutions segment activities into precise temporal units and condition us to an "organized" time-consciousness. This conditioning sees us subscribe to times which are extern…
Hybrid managers, career narratives and identity work
While hybrid managers are increasingly important in contemporary organizations (especially in the public sector), we know little about why or how they become hybrid managers, or how this is shaped by the interplay of professional experience and organizational circumstances. In pursuit of a more variegated, contextualized and dynamic understanding of hybrid management, this article focuses on how individuals transition into managerial hybrids, emp…
Multiple Dimensions of Work Intensity
Working life in public sector professions is undergoing significant change and becoming increasingly demanding. This article explores work intensity in NHS ambulance services in England, describing four distinct but interrelated dimensions of intensity: temporal; physical; emotional; and organizational. We use the concept of edgework to explore the complexities involved in how emergency workers attempt to negotiate the rewards and risks associate…
Flexibility, Politics & Strategy
This paper offers a defence of Atkinson's model of the flexible firm. It takes issue with two arguments against it: that the model needs to be understood at a political level, as part of a wider `post-industrial' vision; and that the observed increase in flexibility offers the model no support because of its `non-strategic' nature. On the first of these it is argued that flexibility operates on a different level from flexible specialisation and o…
The extensification of managerial work in the digital age
How has the experience of managerial work changed in the digital age? This two-phase (2002–2006, 2015–2019) study addresses this question by examining how middle managers perceive the spatio-temporal boundaries of their work to have shifted. Typically, such managers report change occurring in two directions: (i) the contractual employment boundary becoming stretched as hours completed inside the workplace increase; and (ii) this boundary becoming…
Casting the lean spell
Lean thinking has recently re-emerged as a fashionable management philosophy, especially in public services. A prescriptive or mainstream literature suggests that lean is rapidly diffusing into public sector environments, providing a much-needed rethink of traditional ways of working and stimulating performance improvements. Our study of the introduction of lean in a large UK public sector hospital challenges this argument. Based on a three-year …
Overcoming Hermeticism in Organization Theory
The paper discusses a major logical problem in recent organizational analysis the assumption that while paradigms are incommensurable, movement between them is nonproblematic, i.e., writers suggest paradigms are exclusive yet advocate interparadigm research (Ritzer, 1975; Burrell and Morgan, 1979; Pondy and Boje, 1981; Morgan, 1986). To make sense of this, and to establish an argument for paradigm mediation, we return to the origins of the debate…
On the character of the new entrepreneurial National Health Service in England
Recent health care reforms in England, combined with financial austerity, have accelerated both corporatization and commercialization in the English National Health Service (NHS) and this has encouraged greater public sector entrepreneurialism (PSE). We advance this argument by examining the meaning and experience of corporatization in this sector, illustrating our argument with qualitative data from a specialist hospital at the forefront of this…
At the sharp end of new organizational ideologies Ethnography and the study of multinationals
The discipline of international management has favoured predominantly functional and structural approaches to data collection and analysis, and its concepts are usually based on rather unitarist, ethnocentric interpretations of `global business' that sideline local features and exaggerate the impact of change. On the other hand, the `varieties of capitalism' approach, while sensitive to national differences in institutions and `national business …
The changing nature of managerial work
This article analyses contemporary issues relevant to understanding the changing nature of management and managerial work. The argument is developed in four parts. First, to provide context, we offer an overview of the literature on the organization and control of managerial work, tracing contributions mainly from the early 1950s onwards. Second, we discuss the first of two related concerns relevant to understanding the contemporary nature of man…
Privatization, Chinese‐style
This article reviews ‘corporatization’ and ‘marketization’, shorthands for privatization, in the Chinese economy. In particular it concentrates upon the most recent round of state‐owned enterprise reforms, the Modern Enterprise System and Group Company System, aimed at transforming China’s largest state‐owned enterprises into internationally competitive corporations. This represents a partial privatization, given that the state will retain majori…
Actor Network Theory and After
1. After ANT: Complexity, Naming and Topology: John Law (Lancaster University). 2. On Recalling ANT: Bruno Latour (Ecole des Mines de Paris). 3. Perpetuum Mobile: Substance, Force and the Sociology of Translation: Steven D. Brown (Keele University) and Rose Capdevila (Nene University College). 4. From Blindness to blindness: Museums, Heterogeneity and the Subject: Kevin Hetherington (Brunel University). 5. Ontological Politics: A Word and Some Qu…
Economics, Politics, and Labour Process Theory
In focusing on the relationship between labour process theory and Marxist economics the authors highlight as problematic labour process theorists' abandonment of the labour theory of value and acceptance of managerialism in a way which conflates labour process theory with organisation theory. The similarity in the political rhetoric of the deskilling thesis and the law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall is brought out, and it is argued…
From Labor Process Theory to Critical Management Studies
Critical management studies scholars occupy a tenuous pos/tlOn in business schools. Their location and intellectual trajectory needs to be understood in the political context of the historical defeat of the Left since its highpoint in 1968. One of the tributaries of critical management studies is labor process theory, which derives from Braverman’s (1974) classic critique of the degradation of labor in capitalist work organization. Whereas Braver…
Leadership talk
The economic downturn that began in 2008 led to massive cuts in spending targeted at managerial activities in the UK National Health Service (NHS). Although the appellation “manager” once conferred status in the NHS, managers have borne the brunt of reform and the term itself is in danger of falling into disrepute. Drawing upon perspectives on leadership that emphasize its constitutive nature, we examine the growing alternative emergent culture o…
Chinese state-enterprise reform
This paper explains rising labour unrest among China's state-owned enterprise employees through an examination of the tensions between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and urban industrial workers. In so doing, it assesses the way the CCP has responded to labour pressure for better industrial and political representation since the late-1980s, and how it has shown concern over workers' attempts to form independent labour organisations, seeking in…
The resilience of `institutionalized capitalism
This article identifies two, nation-wide, forms of governance or organizing capital,`shareholder' capitalism and `managerial' capitalism, epitomized by the USA and Japan respectively. Furthermore, it identifies the implications for managers in these systems. The article argues that both varieties of capitalism have been forced to modify, due to pressures from globalization. Shareholder capitalism in the USA has been intensified with an even great…
Overcoming Hermeticism in Organization Theory
The paper discusses a major logical problem in recent organizational analysis the assumption that while paradigms are incommensurable, movement between them is nonproblematic, i.e., writers suggest paradigms are exclusive yet advocate interparadigm research (Ritzer, 1975; Burrell and Morgan, 1979; Pondy and Boje, 1981; Morgan, 1986). To make sense of this, and to establish an argument for paradigm mediation, we return to the origins of the debate…
The Sociology of Time
List of Tables - Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction: The Sociological Study of Time J.Hassard - PART 1: THE CONCEPT OF TIME - The Enigma of Time E.Jaques - The Problem of Time G.Gurvitch - PART 2: SOCIAL TIME - Time, Technics and Society R.Mukerjee - Social Time: A Methodological and Functional Analysis P.Sorokin & R.Merton - Varieties of Social Time G.Gurvitch - The Structures and Meanings of Social Time J.Lewis & A.Weigart - PART 3: CAPI…
Time, Work, and Organization
Aspects of Time in Organization
The paper examines temporal aspects of organization. It argues that a major element of human socialization is the structuring of time-sense within formal organizations. Notable here is the process whereby family, school, and workplace teach us rigid time disciplines. These institutions segment activities into precise temporal units and condition us to an "organized" time-consciousness. This conditioning sees us subscribe to times which are extern…
Sociology and Organization Theory
It has been claimed that organisation theory is in a state of 'crisis'. This book traces the history of the orthodox systems theory paradigm in organisation studies from its foundations in positivist sociology, through its theoretical and empirical development under structural-functionalism, to its recent deconstruction by postmodernists. The analysis offers general support for the 'sociology-in-crisis' thesis, but takes issue with one of its mai…
Postmodernism and organizations
Sociology and organization theory
The Invention of Corporate Culture
The concept of culture promised to make organization studies more historical. This promise has not been fulfilled. Possible reasons for the failure to integrate business history and organization studies are explored and a synthesis developed, using the historical concept of invented tradition in conjunction with the social cognition biases identified by organizational culture. The major part of the article then demonstrates how Cadbury, a British…
Inconclusive Synthesis
Economics, Politics, and Labour Process Theory
In focusing on the relationship between labour process theory and Marxist economics the authors highlight as problematic labour process theorists' abandonment of the labour theory of value and acceptance of managerialism in a way which conflates labour process theory with organisation theory. The similarity in the political rhetoric of the deskilling thesis and the law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall is brought out, and it is argued…
Flexibility, Politics & Strategy
This paper offers a defence of Atkinson's model of the flexible firm. It takes issue with two arguments against it: that the model needs to be understood at a political level, as part of a wider `post-industrial' vision; and that the observed increase in flexibility offers the model no support because of its `non-strategic' nature. On the first of these it is argued that flexibility operates on a different level from flexible specialisation and o…
Postmodernism and Organizations
Introduction - Martin Parker and John Hassard Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis - John Hassard An Overview PART ONE: TOWARDS POSTMODERNISM From Interpretation to Representation - Paul Jeffcutt Deconstruction in the Study of Organizations - Steve Linstead Eco and the Bunnymen - Gibson Burrell PART TWO: DEBATES WITH POSTMODERNISM Modernism, Postmodernism and Motivation, Or Why Expectancy Theory Failed to Come Up to Expectation - Pippa Carte…
Organization–Representation
Clarifying the complex social relationship between organisation and its representation, contributors enhance our understanding of work and organisation and question basic, traditionally accepted distinctions between 'fiction' and 'reality'
Businesses, boundaries and belonging
Reviews literature on industrial choice, ethnography and flexible specialization. Investigates flexible specialization in more depth, claiming that before ethnographic description can be achieved, abstract simplifications and the choices facing businesses in the local community have to be overcome. Proposes two models for economic recovery – flexible specialization and multinational Keynesianism – and discusses the boundaries that both models imp…
Actor network theory and after
Organization Unbound
We develop two related Actor-Network Theory (ANT) arguments for organizational analysis. The first concerns research strategy and draws upon Latour's (1999) notion of definitional `sliding' to describe how ANT overcomes its analytical limitations by removing conditions that exclude the `other'. Through this discussion, we argue that, research-wise, ANT appears to be ontologically relativist, in permitting the world to be organized differentially,…
Body and Organization
This text enlivens the study of the organization by shifting the emphasis to examine how social practices are embodied. The contributors offer an alternative framework for understanding the interplay between individuals, institutions and work
From Labor Process Theory to Critical Management Studies
Critical management studies scholars occupy a tenuous pos/tlOn in business schools. Their location and intellectual trajectory needs to be understood in the political context of the historical defeat of the Left since its highpoint in 1968. One of the tributaries of critical management studies is labor process theory, which derives from Braverman’s (1974) classic critique of the degradation of labor in capitalist work organization. Whereas Braver…
Actor Network Theory and After
1. After ANT: Complexity, Naming and Topology: John Law (Lancaster University). 2. On Recalling ANT: Bruno Latour (Ecole des Mines de Paris). 3. Perpetuum Mobile: Substance, Force and the Sociology of Translation: Steven D. Brown (Keele University) and Rose Capdevila (Nene University College). 4. From Blindness to blindness: Museums, Heterogeneity and the Subject: Kevin Hetherington (Brunel University). 5. Ontological Politics: A Word and Some Qu…
Production and Consumption in Organizational Knowledge
Recent debates on the production of knowledge in organizational analysis are interpreted from a largely postmodernist, `sociology of consumption' perspective. Drawing upon the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Michel de Certeau and Stanley Deetz in particular, the analysis rejects both positivist and conventionalist theses on knowledge production in favour of a deconstructionist approach that embraces acts of production and consumption in a reflexiv…
Researching Foucault's Research
In Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault describes how: `From the seventeenth century to the introduction, at the beginning of the nineteenth, of the Lancaster method, the complex clockwork of the mutual improvement school was built up cog by cog' (emphasis added). Foucault's genealogical explanation of how the mutual improvement school became a `machine for learning' is one of the main examples upon which his thesis of `disciplinary power' is bu…
Privatization, Chinese‐style
This article reviews ‘corporatization’ and ‘marketization’, shorthands for privatization, in the Chinese economy. In particular it concentrates upon the most recent round of state‐owned enterprise reforms, the Modern Enterprise System and Group Company System, aimed at transforming China’s largest state‐owned enterprises into internationally competitive corporations. This represents a partial privatization, given that the state will retain majori…
Contested Bodies
Symmetrical Absence/Symmetrical Absurdity
An enduring concern within management and organization studies (MOS) is how to conduct research from perspectives deemed ‘alternatives’ to those of functionalism and positivism. Our aim is to address this concern with regard to an approach employed by Karen Legge in research on knowledge workers, namely that of actor‐network theory (ANT) (or the ‘sociology of translation’). Following an introduction to ANT, the views of some its key proponents, a…
Introduction
Sociology (40 obras) · Political science (35 obras) · Law (26 obras) · Management and Organizational Studies (25 obras) · Epistemology (24 obras) · Economics (19 obras) · Philosophy (19 obras) · Public relations (17 obras) · Law (16 obras) · Politics (16 obras)