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Authority and Autonomy

Paradoxes in Modern Knowledge Work

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  • © 2012

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Authors:
  1. Susanne Ekman

    1. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Lund University, Sweden

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Desire, Discovery, and Disillusionment in Modern Working Life

    • Susanne Ekman
    Pages 1-6

  3. Affective Labor and Post-Bureaucracy

    • Susanne Ekman
    Pages 7-42

  4. Setting the Scene — Analytics of Compassion

    • Susanne Ekman
    Pages 43-62

  5. Methods — The Solidarity of Detachment

    • Susanne Ekman
    Pages 63-81

  6. Contractuality and Authenticity — The Dual Discourses about Work

    • Susanne Ekman
    Pages 82-113

  7. Captain or Comrade — What Employees Expect from their Managers

    • Susanne Ekman
    Pages 114-157

  8. Predictable or Pioneering — What Managers Expect of Employees

    • Susanne Ekman
    Pages 158-200

  9. Coping with Contradictions — Tensions, Double Binds, and Hybrids

    • Susanne Ekman
    Pages 201-225

  10. Conclusion: Shaking Analytical Habits — An Empirical Quest for Compassion

    • Susanne Ekman
    Pages 226-230

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 231-253
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Offers a detailed and entertaining analysis of the daily interactions between managers and employees in creative knowledge intensive organizations. Based on vivid examples, the book shows how both managers and employees entertain contradictory understandings of their mutual commitment.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Lund University, Sweden

    Susanne Ekman

About the author

SUSANNE EKMAN is Assistant Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She holds an MA in Anthropology and a PhD in Management. She is primarily interested in the complex relationship between freedom and ethics and has recently pursued this issue ethnographically in the context of contemporary knowledge work.

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