Fear and Loathing in Harrogate, or a Study of a Conference
通过一次管理会议的反思性民族志研究，发现会议通过恐惧、幼稚化、贬低和诱惑等过程实现对新参会者的支配与服从，进而控制学术、管理和专业员工。
There have been no studies in organization research of conferences as part of the world of work. This paper describes a reflexive ethnographic study of one management conference. It finds that upon arrival at the places and spaces of the conference processes of self-making as conference attendee are set in train. Self-making subsequently takes place within processes of domination and subordination, achieved through fear, infantilization, disparagement and seduction. Reading this through the lens of Freudian-informed interpretations of the Hegelian master/slave dialectic, the paper argues that conferences are one of the means of control over academic, managerial and professional employees. Control is achieved through dialectical interactions between conference and employee.