TY - JOUR

T1 - Licence to kill?

T2 - on the organization of destruction in the 21st century

AU - Bloomfield, Brian Peter

AU - Burrell, Gibson

AU - Vurdubakis, Theodore

PY - 2017/7/1

Y1 - 2017/7/1

N2 - War, the organized destruction of human beings, of human lifeworlds and modes of livelihood, has long been regarded as outside the usual preoccupations of organization studies. And yet, as the various on-going “asymmetric wars” increasingly become the taken for granted background noise of contemporary life, this aloofness becomes difficult to maintain. This special issue then is an initial contribution to a long overdue conversation. By way of introduction to the articles that comprise the special issue we seek to highlight some of the key connections between organization theory, forms of organized destruction and their ongoing mutations in the still young, but already quite bloody, 21st century.

AB - War, the organized destruction of human beings, of human lifeworlds and modes of livelihood, has long been regarded as outside the usual preoccupations of organization studies. And yet, as the various on-going “asymmetric wars” increasingly become the taken for granted background noise of contemporary life, this aloofness becomes difficult to maintain. This special issue then is an initial contribution to a long overdue conversation. By way of introduction to the articles that comprise the special issue we seek to highlight some of the key connections between organization theory, forms of organized destruction and their ongoing mutations in the still young, but already quite bloody, 21st century.

KW - Organized destruction

KW - organization

KW - warfare

KW - the military

U2 - 10.1177/1350508417700404

DO - 10.1177/1350508417700404

M3 - Editorial

VL - 24

SP - 441

EP - 455

JO - Organization

JF - Organization

SN - 1350-5084

IS - 4

ER -