Beyond bureaucracy and entrepreneurialism: Examining the multiple discursive codes informing the work, careers and subjectivities of management graduates. Issue 5 (20th October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Loacker, Bernadette; Śliwa, Martyna
• Is Part Of: Culture and organization. Volume 24:Issue 5(2018)
• Page Start: 426
• Page End: 450
• Publication Date: 2018-10-20
• Subjects: bureaucracy -- discursive codes -- entrepreneurialism -- management graduates -- polyvalence -- subjectivity -- work and career organization; Culture -- Periodicals; Organizational sociology -- Periodicals; 302.305
• DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2016.1167691
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1475-9551

Abstract

Abstract : This paper examines how discursive codes and demands associated with 'bureaucratic and entrepreneurial regimes' of work and career organization shape the work, careers and subjectivities of management graduates. The study is based on an analysis of 30 narratives of management professionals who graduated from an Austrian business school in the early 1970s or 2000s. Its insights suggest that variegated discursive codes manifest in the graduates' articulated professional practices and subjectivities, thereby challenging established assumptions regarding the organization of work and careers. While the practices and subjectivities of the 1970s graduates are often informed by codes and demands ascribed to 'entrepreneurialism', those of the 2000s graduates are infused with several codes commonly portrayed as 'bureaucratic'.