ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the interaction of interpretations of economic and organizational systems gives rise to enterprise worldviews. It presents an alternative explanation of how the 'space between promise and performance' is governed. In any case, in the Theory of Communicative Action it is suggested that the employment relationship is governed by both the money and power media. The systemic output factor of wages involves the money medium, while the input factor of labour involves the power medium. For Jurgen Habermas, the role of employee is one of the social roles that, from the perspective of the lifeworld, 'crystallize' around the 'interchange relations' between the economic and political-administrative systems and the lifeworld. The legitimate community worldview is comparable to the discourse conception of politics because it too assumes the primacy of discourse. It represents the closest possible assimilation of corporate action to legitimate social action.
