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A thousand CEOs

Relational thought, processual space, and Deleuzian ontology in human geography and strategic management

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ID11950277
AuthorsK Macfarlane (0000-0001-7710-1975, University of Washington, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume41
Issue3
Pages299-320
Publication date2016-05-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0309132516644514
OpenAlexW2347051564
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited131

The last 20 years have witnessed a deepening of the imbrication between capital and the university. This paper seeks to map one point at which this binding occurs: in critical theory. Recently scholars in strategic management have turned to processual and relational ontologies in an attempt to reimagine the logics of profit, value, and growth. These same ontologies have appealed to critical geographers as a means of reconceiving space as unfixed. Drawing on a case study of Deleuze’s appropriation in management literature, I show how such ontologies presuppose a vitalism that necessarily reproduces and obscures the structures of exploitation

Appropriation · Archaeology · Capital (architecture · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Linguistics · Neoclassical economics · Ontology · Profit (economics · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Vitalism · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Higher Education Governance and Development · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy

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