Corporate Colonization of Couples' Work-Life Negotiations: Rationalization, Emotion Management and Silencing Conflict

Denker, Katherine J.; Dougherty, Debbie S.

doi:10.1080/15267431.2013.796946

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“…O’Donovan (2007), also concerned with the health sector, highlights how even social movement organizations (connected to health organizations) can be colonized (see King, 2004, on the corporatization of breast cancer activism). Another productive line of inquiry has looked at the structuring of family life around the demands and logics of work organization (see Dempsey & Sanders, 2010; Denker & Dougherty, 2013; Medved & Kirby, 2005), pondering over the ways in which corporate values and ideologies are reinforcing gendered stereotyping. Finally, somehow closer to Deetz’s original argument, and in particular its connection to the theme of democracy, Dahlberg (2005) argues that critical communication is being undermined by a corporate colonization of cyberspace, with digital spaces losing their potential to develop a strong democratic culture.…”

Section: Corporate Colonization and The Creative And Cultural Sectorsmentioning

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‘Culture for Sale’: The Effects of Corporate Colonization on the UK Museum Sector

Aroles

Hassard

Hyde³

2021

Organization Studies

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For the United Kingdom, the 2008 financial crisis coupled with the subsequent economic austerity programme forced many public institutions to engage in various cost-cutting and fundraising ventures. In parallel, corporate ideologies came to dominate how academics, officials and professionals debated public activities, in turn profoundly affecting the provision of communal services. This paper explores how ‘corporate colonization’ ( sensu Deetz, 1992), fuelled by austerity, claims public institutions for commercial interests. Drawing on in-depth interviews with senior staff, this paper demonstrates how retrenchment of external support in the UK museum sector has been an uneven process, resulting in the manifestation of three experiential states of corporate colonization: organizational perennity, organizational perseverance and organizational precarity. We thus investigate the differential and uneven ways in which corporate colonization affects organizations pertaining to the UK cultural sector. Overall, we argue that the austerity culture in the UK affects museums in largely negative ways by forcing them to respond to the progressive need to satisfy short-term financial interests.

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Section: Corporate Colonization and The Creative And Cultural Sectorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Culture for Sale’: The Effects of Corporate Colonization on the UK Museum Sector

Aroles

Hassard

Hyde³

2021

Organization Studies

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“…O'Donovan (2007), also concerned with the health sector, highlights how even social movement organisations (connected to health organisations) can be colonized (see King (2004) on the corporatization of breast cancer activism). Another productive line of inquiry has looked at the structuring of family life around the demands and logics of work organization (see Dempsey & Sanders, 2010;Denker & Dougherty, 2013;Medved & Kirby, 2005), pondering over the ways in which corporate values and ideologies are reinforcing gendered stereotyping. Finally, somehow closer to Deetz' original argument, and in particular its connection to the theme of democracy, Dahlberg (2005) argues that critical communication is being undermined by a corporate colonization of cyberspace, with digital spaces losing their potential to develop a strong democratic culture.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The current paper is concerned with exploring manifestations and experiences of corporate colonization (sensu Deetz, 1992), which broadly refers to the process through which the logic of corporations takes prevalence over all spheres of life (Deetz, 1992). This concept, which has been mobilized in different contexts, including the healthcare sector and the private sphere (see for example Denker & Dougherty, 2013;Hyde, Burns, Hassard & Killett, 2014), provides an insightful lens through which to unpack the situation of the UK museum sector.…”

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‘Culture for Sale’: The Effects of Corporate Colonization on the UK Museum Sector

Aroles

Hyde²,

Hassard³

2019

Proceedings

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For the UK, the 2008 financial crisis coupled with the subsequent economic austerity programme forced many public institutions to engage in various cost-cutting and fundraising activities. In parallel, corporate ideologies came to dominate how academics, officials and professionals debated public activities, in turn profoundly affecting the provision of communal services. This paper explores how 'corporate colonization' (sensu Deetz, 1992), fuelled by austerity, claims public institutions for commercial interests. Drawing on in-depth interviews with senior staff, this paper demonstrates how retrenchment of external support in the UK museum sector has been an uneven process, resulting in the manifestation of three experiential states of corporate colonization: organizational perennity, organizational perseverance, organizational precarity. We thus investigate the differential and uneven ways in which corporate colonization affects organizations pertaining to the UK cultural sector.Overall, we argue that the austerity culture in the UK affects museums in largely negative ways by forcing them to respond to the progressive need to satisfy short-term financial interests.

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“…She argued that this type of emotional control allowed the organization to commercialize feeling and reframe employee emotions in a way that benefits the organization. From a managerialist perspective, the control of emotional displays allows the organization to harness emotion towards a profit-oriented, rational end (Denker & Dougherty, 2013).…”

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“…Deetz (1992) argued that corporate colonization is the extension of workplace values and behaviors into the private sphere; colonization occurs as organizational members bring home organizational expectations that structure their private lives. As Denker and Dougherty (2013) wrote, "Corporate expectations are incorporated into individuals' lives and these values then transition to the home since family members are not immune to discourse they hear everywhere" (p.…”

Section: Workplace Behaviors Attitudes and Private Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Don't show any sign of a chip in your armor : the communicative co-construction of mental health in correctional work

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This study examined the communicative construction of mental health in correctional work. Using narrative interviews with 25 current and former correctional officers, I explore how macro, meso, and micro D/discourses both enable and constrain communication and action around mental health for correctional employees. The findings suggest that larger cultural Discourses related to masculinity, bounded rationality, and personal responsibility, meso discourses related to organizational expectations, and daily micro-talk about mental health and resources such as the Employee Assistance Program, primarily create and sustain communication barriers that limit correctional workers from communicating about or seeking help for mental health challenges. From a critical perspective, D/discourses related to power and control privileged the rational experiences of workers and marginalized the emotional/physical experiences, a practice I argue has significant implications for the health and well-being of workers.

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Corporate Colonization of Couples' Work-Life Negotiations: Rationalization, Emotion Management and Silencing Conflict

Cited by 20 publications

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‘Culture for Sale’: The Effects of Corporate Colonization on the UK Museum Sector

‘Culture for Sale’: The Effects of Corporate Colonization on the UK Museum Sector

‘Culture for Sale’: The Effects of Corporate Colonization on the UK Museum Sector

Don't show any sign of a chip in your armor : the communicative co-construction of mental health in correctional work

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