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The paper analyzes how two major crises—especially the collapse of the USSR and the Global Financial Crisis—reshape organizational knowing and learning. 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I shall demonstrate that macro-events frame the development of forms of organizational knowing and knowledge, learning and capabilities. Using an ideal typical approach, in which certain aspects of reality are artificially accentuated for analytical reasons, the implications of two major relatively recent crises will be examined: the collapse of the USSR and the Global Financial Crisis. Very different lessons flow from understanding these crises. After presenting brief histories of the present I shall turn to discussion of the relations between social and system integration and the new social media, before drawing some conclusions with implications for thinking about circuits of power/knowledge.\nKey words: power, social integration, system integration,\nPower\nPower is not a thing: it is relational. There are two types of relations in which power is constituted. The crudest form of power is either one of direct violence, or one of violence deferred, which is coercion. Permanent relations of domination require something more sophisticated than this: they require a systemic set of relations that can be become routinized. There has to be a set of rules of the game which all are familiar with. Furthermore, actors have to embody certain predispositions, presupposing a shared system of social knowledge. Hence, as Foucault termed it, we should always consider power/knowledge relations. The essence of modern power/knowledge relations resides in their condensation and differentiation through many organs and capillaries, which constitute and channel the rules of the game, defining the constitution of social, knowing subjects.\nI am going to focus on the difference between societal power/knowledge relations that are skewed towards social integration and societal power/knowledge relations that are skewed towards system integration. Social integration occurs largely through the medium of knowledge, of ideas; system integration occurs principally through the medium of practices of discipline and production.\nThe model of circuits of power defines the normal workings of power, in relatively stable systems. However, in situations of shock to the system the circuits may, if I can use the metaphor, “short-circuit”. In some instance this may entail a reversion to more primitive power, that of coercion and violence. Alternatively, short-circuiting may question the rules of the game and the identities of the players. In what follows I shall focus on two relatively recent historical cases, one of which saw a crisis largely in the circuit of social integration, the other largely in the circuit of system integration. The former is an instance in which there is a reversion to primitive power (violence and coercion) and in the latter, a knowledge crisis. Having discussed the nature of these crises I shall draw out the theoretical implications for management as a practice constructed through circuits of power/knowledge.\nCircuits of social integration: Back in the USSR\nA classic example of surprising institutional fragility and apparent institutional strength is provided by events in the postwar history of eastern Europe. For much of the twentieth century the eastern part of Europe was constructed as a series of state socialist societies institutionally centred on the Communist Party, which framed everyday practices in a seemingly tight hold.\nThese institutions were subject to the domination of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. On a number of occasions, such as in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Party forcibly intervened to repress resistance to the domination of its institutions. The military of the Soviet Union sought to ‘normalize’ the social construction of the institutions being challenged. Resistance demonstrated these existing institutions had failed in guiding, inf","cbCaikkNof4ZmI00","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikkNof4ZmI00","docx",58114,20,"English","# Abstract\n# Power and power/knowledge relations\n## Power as relational\n## Social vs system integration\n# Circuits under shock: short-circuiting\n## Reversion to coercion\n## Knowledge crisis\n# Circuits of social integration: Back in the USSR","[{\"question\":\"What does the paper mean by “circuits of power/knowledge”?\",\"answer\":\"Power and knowledge move through interconnected systems that frame how organizations learn, develop capabilities, and maintain or disrupt “rules of the game.” Macro-events can reshape these circuits and the forms of organizational knowing they enable.\"},{\"question\":\"How does social integration differ from system integration in power/knowledge relations?\",\"answer\":\"Social integration operates largely through knowledge and ideas, while system integration operates through practices of discipline and production. This distinction guides how power/knowledge relations form in different societal settings.\"},{\"question\":\"What happens to circuits of power/knowledge during major shocks like historical crises?\",\"answer\":\"In destabilized contexts, circuits can “short-circuit,” leading either to a reversion toward coercion and violence or to questioning of existing rules and identities. The paper treats the USSR collapse as an example tied to social-integration crisis and the Global Financial Crisis as more aligned with system-integration crisis.\"}]","Circuits of power/knowledge - Power and organizational learning in social vs system integration - Keynote paper | DOCX",1788295468,7]