“…Based on the important observation that 'Foucault's philosophy often presents itself as an analysis of concrete dispositives', Deleuze was possibly the first to emphasize the crucial importance of this, defining it as 'a tangle [écheveau], a multi-linear ensemble', which is 'composed of lines, each having a different nature', each of them 'broken and subject to changes in direction, bifurcating and forked, and subject to derivation' (Deleuze, *1989(Deleuze, * : 185/1992. At the same time, however, it is also the achievement of Deleuze's pioneering and influential reception of the dispositive (cf., for example, Abadía, 2003;David-Ménard, 2008;Muller, 2008;O'Connor, 1997;Villadsen, 2008), to have associated Foucault's 'philosophy of dispositives' (Deleuze, *1989(Deleuze, * : 188/1992 with his own famous proposition concerning the coming into being of 'Control Societies' (Deleuze, *1990(Deleuze, * /1995, which have had a considerable reception within critical organization studies (Fleming and Spicer, 2004;Martinez, 2010;Munro, 2000;Weiskopf and Loacker, 2006). In this context, Deleuze (*1989) claimed that while it 'is sometimes thought that Foucault painted the picture of modern societies in terms of disciplinary dispositives in opposition to the older dispositives of sovereignty', this should not be the case, as 'the disciplines Foucault described are the history of what we gradually cease to be, whereas our actuality is taking shape in dispositions of open and continuous control ' (p. 191, 162).…”