The Conundrum of Power: Sintering Structural and Relational Perspectives in Business and Arts Organizations

The title of our chapter points to a conundrum of power in organizations, which we disentangle via the opportunities afforded by theoretical cross-fertilization between business and the arts. In approaching power as structural (power manifested in structurally enabled individual action over others)...

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Published inArts and Business pp. 189 - 201
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 2017
Subjects
Modern Business
Arts Management Literature
Beatles
Gradual Dismantlement
Bureaucratic Accounts
German Sociologist Georg Simmel
Unstable
Theoretical Cross-fertilization
Structural Frictions
Creative Genius
Structural Sources
Bureaucratic Sources
Unavoidable Dialectics
Disembodied Forms
Iron Cage
Charismatic Authority
Vienna Philharmonic
Death And Transfiguration
Simultaneous Competition
Leviathan
Held
Frictions
Personal Human Relations
Free Artist
Baroque
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Summary:The title of our chapter points to a conundrum of power in organizations, which we disentangle via the opportunities afforded by theoretical cross-fertilization between business and the arts. In approaching power as structural (power manifested in structurally enabled individual action over others) and relational (power manifested in the circulation of actions), we emphasize the dynamic nature of this social phenomenon and its unavoidable dialectics that result in an inescapable conundrum-a story of power in organizations is simultaneously a story of disempowerment and the responsibility of taming, impeding or softening the destructive impulses of certain structures and individual tyranny.
ISBN:1138887447
9781138887442
DOI:10.4324/9781315714110-24