TY  - CHAP
AB  - Power and domination once occupied center stage in organizational sociology. But as the field developed, the concept of power was marginalized and its overall significance for the drama of organization life neglected. Normative critiques of domination were recast as puzzles of obedience to authority, while scholars wishing to study the concrete workings of power regimes found themselves groping in the shadows. In this introduction, we advocate putting power and domination back on the agenda. Following the lead of classical theorists of power, we argue that organizations should be seen as scenes of struggles and as political projects to be constantly achieved and reconstructed. We critique structural and abstract perspectives that neglect the constant engagement of people in the negotiation of rules, meanings, and destinies. And we survey novel ideas that can help us to see power not as an abstract entity but as a pattern of interactions and social relationships that is instantiated in specific projects of domination and resistance. It is through this lens that power studies can be reinvigorated.
VL  - 34
SN  - 978-1-78052-665-2, 978-1-78052-664-5/0733-558X
DO  - 10.1108/S0733-558X(2012)0000034003
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2012)0000034003
AU  - Courpasson David
AU  - Golsorkhi Damon
AU  - Sallaz Jeffrey J.
ED  - David Courpasson
ED  - Damon Golsorkhi
ED  - Jeffrey J. Sallaz
PY  - 2012
Y1  - 2012/01/01
TI  - Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets: Classical Perspectives, Current Research, and the Future Agenda
T2  - Rethinking Power in Organizations, Institutions, and Markets
T3  - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 1
EP  - 20
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -