Risk, reward and discipline at work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2159357 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louise Amoore (0000-0001-6728-8553) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 174-196 |
| Publication date | 2004-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03085140410001677111 |
| OpenAlex | W1966973092 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
This paper argues that the manufacture of specific kinds of uncertainty and risk has become central to programmes of work flexibilization. The construction of a riskuncertainty relation has underpinned a raft of managerial doctrines on the worker as entrepreneur. I outline the dominant representation of risk as an unavoidable symptom of globalization. I then explore the relationship between human capital risk management, as defined by management consultants, and the working practices restructured in their name. In contrast to the rhetoric of worker-entrepreneurs, the making of contingency and uncertainty at work is revealed to be riven by tensions. I conclude by considering how we might begin to expose the myths of individual entrepreneurship, revealing the ordinary and everyday practices that make the displacement and reallocation of risk possible
Business · Contingency · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Epistemology · Globalization · Management · Market economy · Political science · Public relations · Relation (database · Rhetoric · Risk management · Risk society · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
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| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2020 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |