Contesting the Corporation

Review of the hardback: 'Contesting the Corporation offers a window on the corporate world that is too rarely viewed. Behind those many facades of contemporary corporate life stand real people, sometimes feeling trapped by their roles and the necessities of life, sometimes playing - ironically, cynically, creatively - with the demands that are made, or sometimes just exercising the right to be men and women and voice that which makes them different. In exploring these worlds, the reality of life contained and constrained by the corporation is dissected by the authors in terms of corporate and contested strategies of power, resistance and struggle.' Stewart Clegg, Professor of Organisational and Work Culture, University of Aston Business School
Review of the hardback: 'This book takes a refreshing new look at power and resistance in organizations. It provides the reader with an understanding of the ways in which diverse struggles pervade organizations, while reminding us that there is still hope for those who engage in them.' Cynthia Hardy, Professor of Management, University of Melbourne and Co-Director of the International Centre for Research in Organisational Discourse and Strategic Change (ICRODSC)
Review of the hardback: 'Struggle, according to the authors of this engagingly readable book, is a defining feature of the employment relation, the nexus linking power and resistance. Within a clearly articulated theoretical frame, they offer vividly described evidence of this claim across a wide range of contemporary workplaces.' Steven Lukes, Professor of Sociology, New York University