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TY - CHAP
T1 - Resistance, Misbehavior, and Dissent
AU - Collinson, David L.
AU - Ackroyd, Stephen
PY - 2009/9/2
Y1 - 2009/9/2
N2 - The title of this article implies a continuum of oppositional workplace practices ranging from, through misbehavior, to dissent. This article gives a review of the disciplines that initially revealed this subject area. Not including the early consultancy studies, it is within the last fifty years that this subject area was even noticed, and it was well after this that it began to be seen as a field of study. There is no claim here that resistance, misbehavior, and dissent had entirely escaped attention before 1950, but, rather, there was little recognition of the range of related behavior that might be studied. Furthermore, this article gives a review of the main perspectives on this field of study today. It distinguishes four distinct perspectives: managerialist organizational behavior, labor process, post-structuralism, and feminism. Finally, it looks at resistance and misbehavior in different kinds of contemporary organizations.
AB - The title of this article implies a continuum of oppositional workplace practices ranging from, through misbehavior, to dissent. This article gives a review of the disciplines that initially revealed this subject area. Not including the early consultancy studies, it is within the last fifty years that this subject area was even noticed, and it was well after this that it began to be seen as a field of study. There is no claim here that resistance, misbehavior, and dissent had entirely escaped attention before 1950, but, rather, there was little recognition of the range of related behavior that might be studied. Furthermore, this article gives a review of the main perspectives on this field of study today. It distinguishes four distinct perspectives: managerialist organizational behavior, labor process, post-structuralism, and feminism. Finally, it looks at resistance and misbehavior in different kinds of contemporary organizations.
KW - Dissent
KW - Feminism
KW - Labor process
KW - Managerialist organizational behavior
KW - Misbehavior
KW - Post-structuralism
KW - Resistance
U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199299249.003.0016
DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199299249.003.0016
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84923845312
SN - 0199299242
SN - 9780199299249
BT - The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization
PB - Oxford University Press
ER -