Poor Survival: Disciplining Organizational Behavior

Jan Achterbergh () and Dirk Vriens ()
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Jan Achterbergh: Radboud University Nijmegen Fac. Management Sciences
Dirk Vriens: Radboud University Nijmegen Fac. Management Sciences

Chapter Chapter 9 in Organizations, 2009, pp 285-309 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, we want to discuss poor survival. Because there are many possible instances of poor survival, we selected an especially vivid example, i.e., an example that illustrates everything that is possibly worrying about it. We take this example from Foucault’s book Surveiller et Punir (1975, 1977). In this book, Foucault discusses the emergence in the eighteenth century of what he calls the “disciplines.” According to Foucault, the disciplines constituted a new way of subjecting human behavior. It was the aim of the disciplines to make human behavior both “productive” and “controllable” and to do this in a scientific, deliberate, and methodical way. As such, the disciplines were applied in all kinds of societal domains and in all kind of institutions such as factories, schools, asylums, hospitals, barracks, or prisons.

Keywords: Eighteenth Century; Basic Operation; Organizational Member; Modern Organization; Adaptation Cycle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00110-9_9

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