Speaking truth to power? Anti-bureaucratic romanticism from critical organizational theorizing to the White House
研究发现批判组织学者与右翼民粹主义者使用的反官僚词汇高度相似，这种词汇可服务于截然对立的目标，呼吁学者反思官僚制与国家的价值以及如何在民粹时代进行批判。
In spite of their distinctive normative and political differences, critical organizational scholars use a vocabulary which in several respects resembles that adopted by right-wing populists. This vocabulary, we argue, consists of components that can be deployed in the pursuit of radically conflicting goals. At its heart lies a profoundly antithetical stance toward bureaucracy and the state. In this article, we explore the components of this vocabulary as well as the role they play in both populist- and critical organizational theory-variants. In doing so, we further discuss the lack of critical potential this vocabulary has in the present. For critical organization scholars, we argue, this should perhaps lead to a renewed consideration and reflexivity concerning not only the merits of bureaucracy and the state, but also of how to conduct critique in populist times.