Purpose – The premise of the paper is that Foucault's concept of governmentality has important but unacknowledged implications for understanding strategy. Highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the governmentality approach, the paper seeks to suggest how governmentality can be used to...

Numerous critical studies argue that control of individuals is obtained through domination. In this article, we focus on the design and on the development of a panoptic organization and not on its implementation. By taking this point of view, we demonstrate the possibility of going beyond the...