PP cluster facilitator and professor Niels Åkerstrøm publishes new book

About the book

What does it mean to organize when the only established premise is that everything is transient? How is it possible for an organization to manage expectations based on the expectation of the unexpected?

In this thought-provoking book Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen uses a unique combination of deconstruction, systems theory and discourse theory to critically discuss topics such as the management of feelings, partnerships as second order promises, and work-life balance as an immune defense against over-socialized employees. He assesses the parallels between layoffs in intimate organizations and modern professional divorce discourses, and explores the dichotomy of double-bounded management commanding both 'do as I say' and 'be autonomous'. In so doing, Professor Andersen encourages the reader to look at relationships in the workplace in new ways.

This unique book will prove invaluable for academics and students of human resource management, organizational behavior and critical management studies.

Find the book here

In September 2013, the CBS Public-Private Platform will host a book launch, more information will follow soon.

Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen is professor in political management at Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS. He is the research director of the politics group at MPP. His field is public administration and welfare management in a very broad sense, which he approaches through Luhmann’s systems theory, Laclau’s discourse theory and Derrida’s deconstruction. He has been working on topics such as the “Hetrophonic welfare organizations”, “polycentricism and the supervisions state”, ‘intimization of management’, “contractualization of citizenship”, “management of feelings and interpenetration”, “partnerships as second order promises”, “games as technologies of potentiality”, “towards a playful form of hyper-responsibility”, “hybrid governance”.