Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 22 Issue 2

Corporate Robespierres, ideologies of management and change

Juup Essers, Steffen Böhm, Alessia Contu

The purpose of this paper is to provide an introductory overview of this special issue highlighting some of the distinctive features of Žižek's Lacan‐inspired thought relevant to…

Maintaining the illusion of a free health care in post‐socialism: A Lacanian analysis of transition from planned to market economy

Marianna Fotaki

This paper aims to employ the concept of subjectivity taken from Lacanian psychoanalysis and Slavoj Žižek's idea of the law, enabled via its “inherent transgression”, to critique…

“The sky's the limit”: fantasy in the age of market rationality

Peter Bloom, Carl Cederstrom

This paper has three purposes. The first is to introduce the concept of fantasy, based on Lacanian pyschoanlysis, in order to link theoretically the role of narrative and affect…

Traversing the empty promise: management, subjectivity and the Other's desire

Casper Hoedemaekers

This paper seeks to explore the notion of desire in relation to subjectivity at work by drawing on the work of Jacques Lacan. It aims particularly to consider the possible ways in…

The frantic gesture of interpassivity: Maintaining the separation between the corporate and authentic self

Rasmus Johnsen, Sara Louise Muhr, Michael Pedersen

With the help of Slavoj Žižek's concept of interpassivity, this paper seeks to illustrate the frantic activities performed by employees to maintain a separation between the idea…

Heeding the stains: Lacan and organizational change

Kate Kenny

The purpose of this paper is to add to current discussions on the use of Lacanian psychoanalysis in organizational change. Specifically, It argues that critiques of Lacan's work…