The politics of imagined stability: A psychodynamic understanding of change at Hyder plc

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 (10) ◽  
pp. 1189-1208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russ Vince
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Psychodynamic Theory ◽  
Management Of Change ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Psychodynamic Understanding ◽  
Strategic Politics

The aim of this article is to show how psychodynamic theory and its application can inform the management of change in organizations. The article outlines a psychodynamic framework for the management of change, emphasizing the interrelation between individual and collective emotional experience and power relations. The phrase a politics of imagined stability is used to describe the role that social and strategic politics play in the perpetuation of emotions and fantasies that have an impact on organizing. The framework involves understanding how the organization is imagined, experienced and maintained through the influence of social and strategic politics, as well as the resulting emotional and political relations within which attempts at change have to be managed. The conceptual framework is illustrated and developed through a case example from Hyder plc, formerly the largest private company in Wales, UK. The discussion and conclusion outline the articles contribution to knowledge concerning psychodynamic thinking and the management of change.

Power and emotion in organizational learning

2001 ◽  
Vol 54 (10) ◽  
pp. 1325-1351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russ Vince
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Multinational Company ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Psychodynamic Theory ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Level Of Analysis

This article explores the difference between learning in an organization and organizational learning. I construct a conceptual framework for understanding organizational learning at an organizational level of analysis. This framework is based on the proposition that organizational learning is visible in the organizational dynamics created from the interaction between politics (power relations) and emotion within an organization. Using a combination of psychodynamic theory and reflections on the politics of organizing I develop the idea that organizations are learning when the 'establishment' that is being created through the very process of organizing can be identified and critically reflected upon. I use a case example of a change initiative within Hyder PLC, a multinational company, to identify organizational dynamics that limit organizational learning. In the final part of the article, I discuss the conclusions that emerged from the case example and the implications of these conclusions for the theory and practice of organizational learning.

scholarly journals Structural Foundations of Social Resilience

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-552
Author(s):  
Hulya Dagdeviren ◽  
Luis Capucha ◽  
Alexandre Calado ◽  
Matthew Donoghue ◽  
Pedro Estêvão
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
Distinct Role

This article aims to contribute to the theoretical development of the social resilience approach. Recognising the interface between resilience and poverty studies, it proposes a distinct role for resilience research from a critical perspective to understand the dynamics of hardship in exceptional times, such as times of socio-economic crises, rather than explaining the long-term trajectories of poverty. It then provides a conceptual framework on the structural foundations of social resilience, highlighting three components: rules, resources and power relations. The article uses the 2008 crisis and the ensuing period of austerity as a microcosm to place the discussion within a contemporary context.

scholarly journals Transversality in Diversity: Experiencing Networks of Confusion and Convergence in the World Social Forum

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
S A Hamed Hosseini
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Analytical Model ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
World Social Forum ◽  
The World ◽  
Structural Uncertainties

Drawing on the World Social Forum as an exemplary case study, this article shows how an emerging mode of cosmopolitanist vision (‘transversalism’) can be explained in terms of activists’ experiences of both complexity and contradiction in their networks. The paper questions the idea that the transnationalization of networks of solidarity and interconnection can uncomplicatedly encourage the growth of cosmopolitanism among global justice activists. Activists’ experiences of dissonances between their ideals, the complexity of power relations and the structural uncertainties in their global justice networks can provide them with a base for self-reflexive ideation and deliberation, and thereby encourage agendas for accommodating differences. Underpinning the accommodating measures which arise for dealing with such a cognitive-practical dissonance is a new mode of cosmopolitanism, coined here as ‘transversalism’. The article proposes a new conceptual framework and an analytical model to investigate the complexity of this process more inclusively and systematically.

scholarly journals Accessibility and Inclusive Tourism Development: Current State and Future Agenda

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brielle Gillovic ◽  
Alison McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Current State ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Participation In Decision Making

Accessibility constitutes one important consideration in the field of scholarship relating to inclusive tourism development because it is fundamentally about the inclusion of people with disabilities in tourism and in society. This conceptual paper maps how accessible tourism is currently positioned against an established framework of inclusive tourism development and gives examples of relevant accessible tourism studies to recommend a future agenda for more inclusive outcomes that move towards sustainability. The seven elements of Scheyvens and Biddulph’s (2018) conceptual framework for inclusive tourism development form an appropriate and useful tool upon which to examine the current state of accessible tourism. The application of this framework reveals that we still have some way to go. We conclude this paper with a future agenda that posits attention to all seven elements of the inclusive tourism framework for accessible tourism, notably, to increase the involvement of people with disabilities as tourism producers and consumers; increase their self-representation and participation in decision-making; transform power relations; reimagine tourism places and people; and break down social barriers. We especially urge researchers to examine the dominant ableist discourse, to consider how our inquiry can be more participatory and inclusive, and to seek to bridge inquiry, industry and community.

No Big Brother Here: Heterarchy, Shona Political Succession and the Relationship between Great Zimbabwe and Khami, Southern Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shadreck Chirikure ◽  
Tawanda Mukwende ◽  
Abigail J. Moffett ◽  
Robert T. Nyamushosho ◽  
Foreman Bandama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Big Brother ◽  
Great Zimbabwe ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Entire Sequence ◽  
Political Succession ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

In southern Africa, there has been a long-standing but unsubstantiated assumption that the site of Khami evolved out of Great Zimbabwe's demise around ad 1450. The study of local ceramics from the two sites indicate that the respective ceramic traditions are clearly different across the entire sequence, pointing towards different cultural affiliations in their origins. Furthermore, there are tangible typological differences between and within their related dry-stone architecture. Finally, absolute and relative chronologies of the two sites suggest that Khami flourished as a major centre from the late fourteenth/early fifteenth century, long before Great Zimbabwe's decline. Great Zimbabwe also continued to be occupied into the late seventeenth and perhaps eighteenth centuries, after the decline of Khami. Consequently, the combined significance of these observations contradicts the parent-offspring relationship implied in traditional frameworks. Instead, as chronologically overlapping entities, the relationship between Khami and Great Zimbabwe, was heterarchical. However, within the individual polities, malleable hierarchies of control and situational heterarchies were a common feature. This is in tune with historically documented political relations in related pre-colonial southern Zambezian states, and motivates for contextual approaches to imagining power relations in pre-colonial African contexts.

Facetten der Macht

1991 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Koller
Keyword(s):  
Complex Networks ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Elementary Concept

AbstractSocial power has many facets. This paper aims to illuminate some of these. First of all, it considers the general conceptual framework in which the concept of power is embedded. The author then elaborates on an analysis of the elementary concept of social power resulting in a proposal how to define power. Furthermore, the article deals with complex networks of power relations, namely constellations and structures of power. Another section focuses on some special aspects of the dynamics of power structures. Finally, the author discusses the problem of legitimation of power.

scholarly journals Beyond Neutrality: Conceptualizing Platform Values

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blake Hallinan ◽  
Rebecca Scharlach ◽  
Limor Shifman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Abstract Social media platforms are prominent sites where values are expressed, contested, and diffused. In this article, we present a conceptual framework for studying the communication of values on and through social media composed of two dimensions: scale (from individual users to global infrastructures) and explicitness (from the most explicit to the invisible). Utilizing the model, we compare the communication of two values—engagement and authenticity—in user-generated content and policy documents on Twitter and Instagram. We find a split between how users and platforms frame these concepts and discuss the strategic role of ambiguity in value discourse, where idealistic meanings invoked by users positively charge the instrumental applications stressed by platforms. We also show how implicit and explicit articulations of the same value can contradict each other. Finally, we reflect upon tensions within the model, as well as the power relations between the personal, cultural, and infrastructural levels of platform values.

scholarly journals Postcolonial theory and false dichotomies

HISTOREIN ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Monika Bobako
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
The One ◽  
Epistemological Perspectives

The very conceptual framework that structures Chris Lorenz’s argumentation in his book Bordercrossing is based on the contraposition of the two epistemological perspectives, named as “objectivism” and “relativism”, that are both supposed to be overcome in Lorenz’s own analysis. However, this framework is responsible for a number of interpretative inadequacies in Lorenz’s book – mainly because it is unable to grasp the ways in which power relations influence knowledge production processes and to account for the situatedness of any knowledge, including the one produced in a discipline of history.<br />

L'analyse politique de la décentralisation

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Lemieux
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Superior Level

AbstractThere are many works on decentralization, but few of them have studied in a systematic way the power relations that are associated with the transfer of attributions from a superior level to an inferior level of government. In order to compensate for these shortcomings a conceptual framework and two research proposals are formulated about the different components of decentralization and the power relations pertaining to them. The model is then applied to various decentralization policies which were adopted since the 1980s in different countries. Two main conclusions can be drawn from this study. First, in the power relations between the actors of the different levels of government, those of the superior level are maintaining their domination by controlling the more important resources in the new relationships created by the decentralization policies. Second, the actors of the superior level of government are seeking to present their domination as plausible with reference to some values generally associated with centralization or decentralization.

Stylistic Processes of Meaning-Making: An Analysis of Selected Newspaper Headlines of 20 May 2017 Celebration in Cameroon

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
SEINO Evangeline Agwa Fomukong
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Functional Significance ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Coherent System ◽  
Shared Culture ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Relationship

Stylisticians analyse the style of language by looking systematically at the formal features of a text, and determining their functional significance for the interpretation of the text in question. Texts can be classified as either literary or non-literary. In looking at texts, this study has examined the power headlines wield in the discourse of the 20 May 2017 representation in three newspapers in Cameroon. It has presented a coherent system of meanings, historically located, supporting institutions, reproducing power relations and having ideological effects, portraying the relationship between the context and interpretation to make meaning. For the headlines to raise interest and arouse the reader, they must draw power from the common ground which is the shared culture and political context. The study uses as conceptual framework Fairclough’s analytical elements in the process of meaning-making, which are production of the text, the text itself and the reception of the text, bringing out the ideologies of contrast, negativity and positivity. The analysis concludes that news makers tilt their use of linguistic choice towards the ideas they want to implant on their audience, and at times manifest exaggeration and therefore misrepresentation in reporting an event. 

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