Corporate Disenfranchisement

Like iceberg-like corporate amnesia, there is something else happening in the wake of the actively encouraged flexible labor market, with potentially more serious consequences. With the relationship between knowledge and power intimately linked, the corporate body has, quite deliberately and entirely unwittingly, allowed its command to be displaced (Kransdorff, 2006). No longer are individuals an aggregate part of an established institution. Individuals are the institution for as long as they remain in situ. Then, when the face changes, as it is doing on average every 4 or 5 years in most developed economies, the institution changes, or more accurately, tries to change, bereft of its continuity and at the mercy of ...

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