Violence and Organization Studies
探讨暴力在组织研究中既缺席又存在的奇怪现象，指出暴力在组织中“完全熟悉却几乎未被察觉”，并分析韦伯和福柯两大传统如何分别将暴力处理为“缺席的存在”和“在场的缺席”，最终提出对暴力的敏感性有助于识别组织生活中的“血与伤”。
In this paper we argue that violence is curiously both absent and present within organization studies. By violence we mean actual or potential physical harm and, building on an insight from Norbert Elias, we suggest that such violence is both ‘totally familiar yet hardly perceived’ in organizations. We examine how in two major traditions of organization studies, one deriving from Weber and the other from Foucault, violence figures as, respectively, an ‘absent-presence’ and a ‘present-absence’. We then propose that a sensibility towards violence enables the recognition of ‘the blood and bruises’ of organizational life: something present close to home as well as faraway; here and now rather than long ago; and featuring in ‘normal’ organizations as well as in abnormal or exceptional circumstances.