Organizational rhetoric, materiality, and the shape of organizational democracy

• Bean, Hamilton ^[1] ; Lemon, Laura ^[1] ; O'Connell, Amy ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Colorado Denver

     University of Colorado Denver

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 78, nº 3, 2013, págs. 256-273
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The concept of organizational democracy continues to interest U.S. and international government officials, business executives, commentators, and scholars. This essay analyzes the rhetoric of the WorldBlu consultancy's international campaign for “freedom at work” in the interest of advancing scholarship related to both organizational democracy and the materiality of organizational communication. Specifically, using the case of WorldBlu, the analysis pinpoints how capitalism's “real abstractions” shape conceptualizations of organizational democracy that underwrite pseudo-democratic forms of workplace organization.