ABSTRACT
The focus of this chapter is on the ways in which the officers of bureaucratic corporations – the managers of organisations – initiate changes in how work is carried out as they strive to exert control over task performance in order to assist the survival of the enterprise that employs them. This striving to achieve a level of ‘productive co-operation’ (see p. 115) which enables corporate entities to survive takes place in a context of competition and power struggle, at every level, across the world.
