The central focus of this paper is an analysis of the enterprise discourse and how it is articulated by individuals working in small business environments, to construct and reconstruct material practices and psychological identities. The core argument is that, even if people do not take the enterprise culture seriously, even if they feel unaffected by its values and claims, they are inevitably reproducing it through their involvement with the daily practices which are imbued with the notion of enterprise (du Gay and Salaman, 1992). As such, the paper takes a social constructionist perspective which seeks to illustrate how individuals are constituted by the discourse of enterprise, and to provide some empirical evidence of the processes and practices which both reflect and construct that experience.

Advances in Communication and Information Technologies, changing managerial strategies and changing cultural expectations about the location of (paid) work, have meant that paid work is increasingly conducted from home. Home then becomes the place where the discourse of industrial production meets with the discourse of household production. We analyse the relationship between these two traditionally separate discourses, which through the disintegration of the time/space compression, increasingly come to bear on each other. We report on the experiences of homeworkers and their families coping with the co-presence of the sometimes conflicting and sometimes competing demands and values embedded in such discourses. In doing so, we contribute to current understandings of the complexities inherent in emergent forms of organization, as the relationship between work and home is recast. Theoretically and methodologically, this empirical study is located within a discursive framework, and we emphasise the usefulness of such approaches to studying organizational realities.

Promoting participation is an accepted and expected component of managerial activity, reflecting current management ideology and practice. This paper explores how one particular group of supervisors, within the same UK manufacturing organization, experience and make sense of participation practices and the role of identity in that process. Our findings show that whilst supervisors may utilize the managerial discourse in formal settings they also draw upon three alternative responses. Thus contrary to much of the literature they do not represent a homogenous or univocal grouping. Our study highlights the importance of the competing bases of identity formation that supervisors draw from, and the complexity and contradiction inherent in both the managerial discourse and in supervisors' responses to it. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2006.

Home-based telework is one of the flexible working options available today and is unique in its ability to physically and emotionally blur the boundaries between work and home. This paper explores how men experience working from home, how they construct their identities as workers and as parents in this ambiguous location, and how, as fathers, they manage the emotional work of reconciling family and career in this context. Our findings suggest that in order to manage the emotional aspects of telework men will, at times, focus on either the professional or parental part of their identity in their narratives, and at times attempt to 'have it all'. We conclude that telework can provide a space where men can adopt emotional discourses and practices traditionally associated with women, and particularly working mothers.Keywords: fatherhood, emotion, telework, identity, masculinity Introduction Our aim in this paper is to explore the ways in which emotions 'play a central role in contributing to our sense of self' (Lupton, 1998, p5-6) looking specifically at the emotions involved in the expression and experience of fatherhood and career by men working from home. We identify a gap in the literature regarding men and the management of emotion at work more generally, and the emotional management of the dualist demands of fatherhood and working life specifically: a gap that is in direct contrast to the wealth of literature which focuses on the 'dual' roles of women in work and family life. Through adopting a social constructionist perspective we explore here how 7 men (a sub-set of a larger study) construct their identities as workers and as parents within the indeterminate context of home working, and how as fathers, they manage the emotional work of reconciling family and career in this environment. We do this through the presentation of 3 case studies.We begin the paper by discussing the context of home-based telework, examining how this might be a useful location in which to explore how men construct their identities. We see emotion as key to our understanding of identities because we view the discourses of emotion as one of the major routes through which identity is produced. Furthermore, these emotional discourses are often gender orientated, leading us to discuss how masculinity and emotion have traditionally been theorised and ask: Is there emotional work involved in men working from home, and if so, what form does it take, and how do men manage it? We explore this question and describe the research methods we employed, before presenting our interpretations of our findings. We conclude by exploring the significance of these findings in the final sections.