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    The fox and the hedgehog go to work - A natural history of workplace collusion

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    Sewell, G
    Date
    2008-02-01
    Source Title
    Management Communication Quarterly
    Publisher
    SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Sewell, Graham
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    Management and Marketing
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    Sewell, G. (2008). The fox and the hedgehog go to work - A natural history of workplace collusion. MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY, 21 (3), pp.344-363. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318907310944.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/29617
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    10.1177/0893318907310944
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    <jats:p> The author argues that an ironic approach to collusion can help shift the focus of resistance away from the relatively rare events surrounding implacable opposition or total unanimity to the quotidian aspects of workplace politics. Collusion is characterized as an outcome of organizational politics conducted between the traditionally opposed parties of radical industrial sociology (i.e., managers and workers) under the guidance of an ironic mode of cognition. Irony is depicted as a foxlike way of gaining “a perspective on perspectives,” which provides a means of understanding stalemate, accommodation, and collusion by showing how opposing ideological positions are indebted. It also illuminates the moments when collusion breaks down and resisting parties become implacably opposed hedgehogs (one position prevails over the other), leading to overt conflict and resistance. </jats:p>
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    Business and Management

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