Sketches of Spain: The Politics of Fashion

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an understanding of what personnel professionals consume when they “adopt” black‐box management initiatives (Scarbrough, 1995; Wilson, 1992). Second, we explore the way in which professional associations and, hence, institutional actors pursue their own professional projects (Abbott, 1988) within a context of political legitimacies and illegitimacies. Thus, in a double move, we seek to explore the linkages between managerial methods used by institutions to increase their jurisdiction or their “authority to speak” (Foucault, 1972) and the processes of isomorphism.

Citation

Carter, C., Clegg, S., Kornberger, M., Mueller, F. and Contardo, I. (2006), "Sketches of Spain: The Politics of Fashion", Management Research, Vol. 4 No. 3, pp. 205-212. https://doi.org/10.2753/JMR1536-5433040306