Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208757 
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Year of Publication: 
2010
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PhD Series No. 22.2010
Publisher: 
Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Frederiksberg
Abstract: 
The thesis is a thorough empirical study of discourses, fantasies, and patterns of interaction in highinvolvement knowledge work. My interest in the issue was sparked by a fascination with the intensity and contradictory nature of working life for many high-skilled workers. I was curious about the ambiguities and paradoxes existing within the same dynamic, and I was puzzled by the fact that such tension-ridden and precarious machinery could keep functioning despite its constant episodes of breakdown – be they emotional or organizational. My intention was to find a gaze and a language which could capture these ambiguities and tensions, rather than insisting on classical dualisms such as profit versus meaning, instrumentality versus authenticity, power versus freedom, and influence versus vulnerability......
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ISBN: 
8759384350
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Document Type: 
Doctoral Thesis

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