%0 Journal Article
%T Power and Control in Knowledge-Intensive Firms: Post-Bureaucratic Firms and Enterprise Culture
%A Samuel Osei-Nimo
%A Imani Silver Kyaruzi
%J Open Access Library Journal
%V 2
%N 10
%P 1-11
%@ 2333-9721
%D 2015
%I Open Access Library
%R 10.4236/oalib.1101952
%X This paper discusses the notions of ¡°entrepreneurialism¡± and enterprising
culture. In particular, it examines the significance of such discourses on the
contemporary workplace and consequent impact on the individual worker¡¯s
identity and behaviour. Previous studies on Knowledge-Intensive Firms suggest
that organisations are not entirely synonymous with post bureaucratic organisations,
but mainly overlap it. It is revealed that majority of firms rely on ¡°cultural
or professional forms of control¡±. These forms of control are regarded to have
dependence on an ideology of entrepreneurialism and enterprising culture. Thus,
the issues of power relations and discourses in Knowledge-Intensive firms are
primarily investigated in this study to expose and understand how the drive by organisations for the ¡°enterprising¡±
individual produces a worker who is self-regulating and
self-disciplined. The paper includes an assessment of discourses from various
organisational actors to shed light on the roles played by ¡°an enterprise¡± as a
principle of control or government in creating autonomous and productive subjects
in the workplace and wider society.
%K Post-Bureaucratic Firms
%K Entrepreneurial Culture
%K Post-Structuralism
%K Power-Relations
%K Discourses
%U http://www.oalib.com/paper/3150647