Biographical experiences of post-socialist transformation in corporate business: doing the neoliberal path
Biographical experiences of post-socialist transformation in corporate business: doing the neoliberal path
The neoliberal order, introduced in Poland in the course of post-socialist transformation, constituted a context of action, as well as a repertoire of rules and practices people becoming corporate managers had to learn to cope with. As some took it for granted as 'the only' way of joining the economies of the idealised 'West', and through their daily practices of efficiency and profit-maximisation, they were actually doing the neoliberalism; others, maintaining the distance towards the new world of 'freedom and opportunity' managed to develop a more critical stand. These were not actively doing neoliberalism, but merely making do with it, taking it strategically or even instrumentally. In the paper, the role of biographical work and biographical knowledge is analysed in the process of distancing, which enables monitoring and negotiations of the relations between the acting self and the neoliberal context of action.
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Domecka, Markieta
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May 2016
Domecka, Markieta
b04b1c5d-2342-46d3-8239-d8c01aba763c
Domecka, Markieta
(2016)
Biographical experiences of post-socialist transformation in corporate business: doing the neoliberal path.
Przeglad Socjologii Jakosciowej, 12 (2), .
Abstract
The neoliberal order, introduced in Poland in the course of post-socialist transformation, constituted a context of action, as well as a repertoire of rules and practices people becoming corporate managers had to learn to cope with. As some took it for granted as 'the only' way of joining the economies of the idealised 'West', and through their daily practices of efficiency and profit-maximisation, they were actually doing the neoliberalism; others, maintaining the distance towards the new world of 'freedom and opportunity' managed to develop a more critical stand. These were not actively doing neoliberalism, but merely making do with it, taking it strategically or even instrumentally. In the paper, the role of biographical work and biographical knowledge is analysed in the process of distancing, which enables monitoring and negotiations of the relations between the acting self and the neoliberal context of action.
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Published date: May 2016
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ISSN: 1733-8069
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