distinctions between talk and action ( Marshak, 1998 ) – the CTF stance instead directs attention to the character of attachments that arise when authoritative texts highlight a firm’s putatively ethical commitments. 2 Instead of asserting that an analyst can know the ‘true’ intentions behind action (which would violate the ontological multiplicity of purpose guiding the CTF while inserting a dodgy anthropomorphism), the move here is to interrogate the bindings that unfold when the firm wants to be implicated in positive social change. A question like that is not
, trend Future generations Space formation Globalization Cartesian space Detachment Local, proximal anchoring Presence Communication network Planet ecosystem The conceptual connections with the CTF’s vision of firms as authority machines is perhaps obvious. Boltanski and Thévenot’s work comprises a theory of value, and the promises of value written into the authoritative text necessarily reference some guiding logic(s) for such promises to have purchase; their work thus provides a vocabulary for understanding those logics. And the case is
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attachments that are both the source of claims to property and the potential for those claims’ re-fashioning. Any compelling claim to property is thus an accomplishment of an assemblage , not merely the discursive practice of a solitary actor. The question that should crop up, then, is about the key resource deployed in making claims to property – as well as promises of value. To address that issue, I turn to the notion of the authoritative text. Authoritative texts Authority is thus the product of promises of value and claims to property. But this tells us
claims about value production that become built into the service encounter. It is in the communicative performance of the service encounter that customer affect is generated and captured, but the authority that guides and directs those service encounters is distanced in space and time (usually situated in the strategic management function). The authoritative text is the conceptual device necessary to grasp both the influence of strategizers and the local re-imaginings of the service encounter, as this chapter will show. Regardless of the contents of any given
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