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TY - JOUR
T1 - Power, authority and legitimacy.
AU - Höpfl, H. M.
PY - 1999/9
Y1 - 1999/9
N2 - Management, human resources, organization, control, leadership, etc., all seem to be just so many euphemisms for power, and this suggests a discourse of management and organization that calls things by their proper name. This paper on the contrary stresses the need to resolve the concept of 'power' itself into more differentiated notions, and proposes that clarification may be derived from distinctions once explicit in the vocabulary of Classical antiquity, but lost in modern European languages. It argues that nothing but confusion in thinking about organizations, management and legitimation can result from the failure to recognize that the phenomena this vocabulary identifies and distinguishes are irreducibly different.
AB - Management, human resources, organization, control, leadership, etc., all seem to be just so many euphemisms for power, and this suggests a discourse of management and organization that calls things by their proper name. This paper on the contrary stresses the need to resolve the concept of 'power' itself into more differentiated notions, and proposes that clarification may be derived from distinctions once explicit in the vocabulary of Classical antiquity, but lost in modern European languages. It argues that nothing but confusion in thinking about organizations, management and legitimation can result from the failure to recognize that the phenomena this vocabulary identifies and distinguishes are irreducibly different.
KW - moral authority
KW - power
KW - office
KW - rights
KW - resources
KW - control
KW - coercion
KW - institutions
KW - founding
KW - tradition
KW - legitimation
KW - organization
KW - leadership
KW - management
KW - monarchy
KW - aristocracy
KW - democracy
U2 - 10.1080/13678869900000024
DO - 10.1080/13678869900000024
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2
SP - 217
EP - 234
JO - Human Resource Development International
JF - Human Resource Development International
SN - 1367-8868
IS - 3
ER -