The Illusion of Management Control

1. An introduction to understanding technology as illusions
Niels Thygesen, Kaspar Villadsen, No Kampmann

Part I. Managing the employee

2. Cash, codes and complexity
Betina Wolfgang Rennison

3. Information and other bodily functions
Anders Cour

Part II. Managing the citizen

4. Hybrid inclusion
Holger Højlund

5. Citizens’ contracts as a tricky steering medium
Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen

Part III. Managing the organization

6. Structural couplings between organizations and function systems
Morten Knudsen

7. The polyphonic effects of technological changes in public sector organizations
Niels Thygesen, Niels Åkerstrøm Andersenˡ

Part IV. Managing the market

8. Market as a political future
Christian Frankel

9. ‘Watching the market’
Urs Stäheli

10. The time of money
Elena Esposito

Keywords: Business and Management, Management, Organization, Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Industrial Organization