The Entrepreneurial Rationalities of Governing and the Construction of the Enterprising Nurse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4621726 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Terri Gibson (0000-0001-9472-818X, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 93-104 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049732312467233 |
| PMID | 23166154 |
| OpenAlex | W2119896212 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 45 |
Drawing from a wider study exploring the role of registered nurses (RNs) in managing hospital care of older people, I present an analysis of some discursive mechanisms through which an enterprising nursing subjectivity was cultivated in RNs working in an Australian hospital. Data comprised information from the hospital Web site, policy documents, job descriptions, and interviews with 26 RNs. The analysis highlighted how texts such as nursing vision statements and job descriptions were not neutral or innocuous, but mechanisms that individually and collectively specified norms of enterprising conduct for RNs working in that hospital. Although the findings detailed how entrepreneurial rationalities and discourses governing health care actively transformed the meaning and practice of nursing, they also illustrated how factors such as role location and ward culture diluted the take up of enterprise discourses, suggesting that it was not possible to guarantee RNs as particular kinds of enterprising subjects
Epistemology · Health care · Nursing practice · Organizational culture · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Emotional Labor in Professions · Management and Organizational Studies · Medicine · Nursing · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology
Narrating the Organization
Examining Accounts and Accounting for Management
Beyond Caring
Enterprise Discourse, Professional Identity and the Organizational Control of Hospital Clinicians
Discipline and Punish
Foucault and Political Reason
Technologies of the Self
Caring holistically within new managerialism
Against ‘Enterprise’ (but not against ‘enterprise’, for that would make no sense)
Consumption and Identity at Work
Foucault And Political Reason
Powers of Freedom
Michel Foucault
Managing Managerial Identities
Discipline and Punish
Identities and Insecurities
Corporate Strategy, Organizations, and Subjectivity
Educated Caring
Governing economic life
Production, identity, and democracy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |