ORCID Profile
0000-0003-0154-6331
Current Organisation
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-01-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-07-2020
Abstract: We examine the increasing popularity of collaborative work to understand the consequences of these practices for organizational control. Applying a Lacanian framework, we pay attention to how this (re-)emerging trend of collaborative work is underpinned by affect-laden fantasies of community-driven co-creation. Based on a multi-source study design to explore collaborative work, we identified three interrelated fantasies that arouse passionate attachments to collaborative community involvement: a spiritual fantasy of ‘purpose’, an entrepreneurial fantasy of ‘growth’ and a tribal fantasy of ‘belonging’. To preserve the relevance of Lacan’s thought for the inquiry of distributed, post-heroic and post-hierarchical work practice, we propose the notion of ‘communal Other’. This notion provides insights into the unfolding of control through the fantasmatic desire for wholeness by working in collaborative communities. Conceptually, we theorize how tensions between the paradoxical enjoyment of pleasure and pain – what Lacan called ‘jouissance’ – highlight the central importance of affective control in collaborative work.
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 08-08-2023
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-01-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-01-2020
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 17-06-2016
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-01-2018
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