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From Life in Cages to Life in Projects: Metaphors for Moderns

In: Understanding Organizations in Complex, Emergent and Uncertain Environments

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  • Stewart Clegg
  • Carmen Baumeler

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Summary Historically, the metaphor of the iron cage, as a key component of Weber’s (1978) sociological imagination has played a central role in organization studies. It did so both in its initial role in the sociology of bureaucracy and in its reinterpretation in institutional terms by subsequent theorists such as DiMaggio and Powell (1983). More recently, iron bars have given way to transparent liquidity as a dominant metaphor. The implications of this shift for the analysis of organization are the subjects of this chapter. We argue that a key technology of the liquidly modern organizational self is that of emotional intelligence and that, while this subject has been much written about, it has not been addressed in terms of its organizational effects on subjects. Technologies of the self are increasingly being developed that represent the possibility of a fusion of effective computing and emotional intelligence that generate new issues for research.

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  • Stewart Clegg & Carmen Baumeler, 2012. "From Life in Cages to Life in Projects: Metaphors for Moderns," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Anabella Davila & Marta M. Elvira & Jacobo Ramirez & Laura Zapata-Cantu (ed.), Understanding Organizations in Complex, Emergent and Uncertain Environments, chapter 11, pages 185-206, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-02608-8_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137026088_11
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