and everyday practices collude to produce affective mechanisms of control, and discuss their contradictory impacts …, discursive reading of exuberant promises around a <<hierarchy-less flatland>>.The analysis illustrates how excessive claims evoke …

collectively as the issue of physician agency. The chapter is organized around an increasingly complex view of the demand … such as insurance, price regulation, managed care networks and noncontractible elements of quality of care are incorporated …

Companies typically control various aspects of their workers’ behaviors. In this paper, we investigate whether the … hierarchical distance of the superior who imposes such control measures matters for the workers’ ensuing reaction. In particular …, we test, in a laboratory experiment, whether potential negative behavioral reactions to imposed control are larger when …