Ideology, Democracy, and the Chain of Command
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- Thomas Klikauer
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- 2025
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- en
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Ever since the invention of management and what became known as scientific management , the fact that management, companies, and corporations are some of the most anti-democratic institutions needs to be cloaked. This secures the common belief that we live in a democracy even though many people spend eight hours or more in fundamentally undemocratic if not anti-democratic business organisation. The chapter also shows how, at a conceptual level, management ideas like the infamous chain of command and the all-time favourite leadership exist in fundamental opposition to democracy. Yet, the ideology of managerialism provides a legitimating ideology capable of camouflaging this very obvious contradiction. Particularly, the ideology of corporate citizenship has become a highly useful theme that, while also deprived of any hint of democracy, it legitimises deeply undemocratic corporate structures. Finally, the chapter shows that even the ideological birthplace of managerialism – business school – is deprived of democracy. These have become instrumental in, for example, assuring that the jargon-like language of managerialism has almost completely eliminated ideas like industrial democracy from the human vocabulary. In the end, the chapter shows how democracy has been eliminated from companies while simultaneously people believe to live in a democracy.
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- 10.4324/9781003502678-7
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- Routledge
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- Routledge
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- 2025-05-16
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Thomas Klikauer. Ideology, Democracy, and the Chain of Command. 2025. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003502678-7
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