Post Bureaucracy and the Politics - 7341 Words

Post bureaucracy and the politics of forgetting The management of change at the BBC, 1991-2002 Martin Harris University of Essex, Colchester, UK, and Victoria Wegg-Prosser Bournemouth University, Dorset, UK Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the imputed â€Å"fall† and subsequent â€Å"reinvention† of the BBC during the 1990s, relating a managerialist â€Å"politics of forgetting† to the broader ideological narratives of â€Å"the post bureaucratic turn†. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, combining case study analysis with long-term historical perspectives on organisational change. Findings – The paper shows the ways in which public sector professionals†¦show more content†¦Some scholars working in the Foucauldian tradition of organisational analysis have argued that market-oriented policies and managerial discourses may act to â€Å"capture† and fix the ways in which the world is seen by public sector professionals (for a full review see Trowler, 2001; Doolin, 2002). But there is now a very substantial body of work which shows the ways in which these discourses have been contested and â€Å"displaced† by public sector professionals (Kirkpatrick and Lucio, 1995; Kitchener, 2000; Trowler, 2001; Doolin, 2002; Farrell and Morris, 2003; Kirkpatrick et al., 2005). 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