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Hugh Willmott
Researcher at Cardiff University
Publications - 312
Citations - 28057
Hugh Willmott is an academic researcher from Cardiff University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corporate governance & Shareholder. The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 310 publications receiving 26758 citations. Previous affiliations of Hugh Willmott include University of East London & University of Manchester.
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Identity regulation as organizational control: Producing the appropriate individual
Mats Alvesson,Hugh Willmott +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take the regulation of identity as a focus for examining organizational control and consider how employees are enjoined to develop self-images and work orientations that are deemed congruent with managerially defined objectives.
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Strength is Ignorance - Slavery is Freedom: Managing Culture in Modern Organizations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors expose the dark side of the corporate culture project by drawing attention to the subjugating and totalitarian implications of its excellence/quality prescriptions, drawing parallels with the philosophy of control favoured by the Party in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Re-Embedding Situatedness: The Importance of Power Relations in Learning Theory
Alessia Contu,Hugh Willmott +1 more
TL;DR: A revitalization of situated learning theory is commend in which learning practices are understood to be enabled and constrained by their embeddedness in relations of power; and, more specifically, by the unstable institutionalization of power relations within capitalist work organizations.
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On the Idea of Emancipation in Management and Organization Studies
Mats Alvesson,Hugh Willmott +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the meaning of emancipation in management and organization studies is reconceptualized and an approach that takes into account recent criticism of its “totalizing” tendencies raised by post structuralists is developed.