Patrizia Hoyer
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Affective control in new collaborative work: Communal fantasies of purpose, growth and belonging

2020-07-25 , Resch, Bernhard , Hoyer, Patrizia , Steyaert, Chris

We examine the increasing popularity of collaborative work practices to understand its consequences 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.

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After Herzog: Blurring fact and fiction in visual organizational ethnography

2016-09-30 , Walz, Markus , Hoyer, Patrizia , Statler, Matt

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Global careers, local belonging: How cosmopolitan ideals are enacted in everyday practices

2018-05-26 , Hoyer, Patrizia

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Modifying the discourse of elitism: How egalitarianism can reduce status anxiety

2017-08-07 , Hoyer, Patrizia

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A Practical Ethics of Care: Tinkering with Different 'Goods' in Residential Nursing Homes

2019-01-05 , Molterer, Katharina , Hoyer, Patrizia , Steyaert, Chris

In this paper, we argue that ‘good care’ in residential nursing homes is enacted through different care practices that are either inspired by a ‘professional logic of care’ that aims for justice and non-maleficence in the professional treatment of residents, or by a ‘relational logic of care’, which attends to the relational quality and the meaning of interpersonal connectedness in people’s lives. Rather than favoring one care logic over the other, this paper indicates how important aspects of care are constantly negotiated between different care practices. Based on the intricate everyday negotiations observed during an ethnographic field study at an elderly nursing home in Germany, the paper puts forth the argument that care is always a matter of tinkering with different, sometimes competing ‘goods’. This tinkering process, which unfolds through ‘intuitive deliberation’, ‘situated assessment’ and ‘affective juggling’ is then theorized along the conceptualization of a ‘practical ethics of care’: an ethics which makes no a priori judgments of what may be considered as good or bad care, but instead calls for momentary judgments that are pliable across changing situations.

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Narrative identity construction in times of career change: Taking note of unconscious desires

2015-12-01 , Hoyer, Patrizia , Steyaert, Chris

Working at the intersection of narrative and psychoanalytic theory, we present in this article an affective conceptualization of identity dynamics during times of career change, incorporating the notion of unconscious desires. We propose that frictions in career change narratives, such as the paradoxical co-existence of coherence and ambiguity, allude to unconscious subtexts that can become ‘readable' in the narrative when applying a psychoanalytic framework. We point to the analysis of 30 life story interviews with former management consultants who report upon a past and/or anticipated career change for illustration. By linking three empirically derived narrative strategies for combining coherence and ambiguity (ignoring the change, admitting the ambiguity and depicting a wishful future) with three conceptually informed psychoanalytic ego-defenses (denial, rationalization and sublimation), we provide an analytic framework that helps to explain why workers in transition may try to preserve both coherence and ambiguity when constructing a sense of self through narrative. The analysis of unconscious subtexts reveals that, in times of career change, people's identity constructions are driven by conflicting unconscious desires for self-continuity on one hand and openness on the other.

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A practical ethics of care: Tinkering with different ‘goods’ in residential nursing homes

2018-08-13 , Molterer, Katharina , Hoyer, Patrizia , Steyaert, Chris

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Making space for ambiguity: Rethinking organizational identification from a career perspective

2016-09 , Hoyer, Patrizia

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Part-time work practicing resistance: The power of counter-arguments

2013-12 , Nentwich, Julia C. , Hoyer, Patrizia

Contributing to a Foucauldian perspective on ‘discursive resistance', this paper theorizes how part-time workers struggle to construct a valid position in the rhetorical interplay between norm-strengthening arguments and norm-contesting counterarguments. It is thereby suggested that both the reproductive and the subversive forces of resistance may very well coexist within the everyday manoeuvres of world-making. The analysis of these rhetorical interplays in 21 interviews shows how arguments and counter-arguments produce full-time work as the dominant discourse versus part-time work as a legitimate alternative to it. Analysing in detail the effects of four rhetorical interplays, this study shows that, while two of them leave unchallenged the basic assumptions of the dominant full-time discourse and hence tend instead to reify the dominant discourse, two other interplays succeed in contesting the dominant discourse and establishing part-time work as a valid alternative. The authors argue that the two competing dynamics of challenging and reifying the dominant are not mutually exclusive, but do in fact coexist.

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Global career mobility: Turning perpetual liminality into a source of stability

2017-08-07 , Hoyer, Patrizia

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