Book Review: A new kind of Iron Cage? Constellationism and the organized loss of agency

Bucher EL Schou PK Waldkirch M (2021) Pacifying the algorithm – Anticipatory compliance in the face of algorithmic management in the gig economy. Organization 28(1): 44–67. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508420961531

D’Adderio L Pollock N (2014) Performing modularity: Competing rules, performative struggles and the effect of organizational theories on the organization. Organization Studies 35(12): 1813–1843. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840614538962

Farrell C Morris J (2003) The ‘neo-bureaucratic' state: Professionals, managers and professional managers in schools, general practices and social work. Organization 10(1): 129–156. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508403010001380

Jagd S (2011) Pragmatic sociology and competing orders of worth in organizations. European Journal of Social Theory 14(3): 343–359. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431011412349

Lindebaum D Vesa M Den Hond F (2020) Insights from “The Machine Stops” to better understand rational assumptions in algorithmic decision making and its implications for organizations. Academy of Management Review 45(1): 247–263. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2018.0181

Lopdrup-Hjorth T du Gay P (2020) Speaking truth to power? Anti-bureaucratic romanticism from critical organizational theorizing to the White House. Organization 27(3): 441–453. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508419830622

Newlands G (2021) Algorithmic surveillance in the gig economy: The organization of work through Lefebvrian conceived space. Organization Studies 42(5): 719–737. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840620937900

Pignot E (2023) Who is pulling the strings in the platform economy? Accounting for the dark and unexpected sides of algorithmic control. Organization 30(1): 140–167. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508420974523

Schmitz H (2005) Situationen und Konstellationen: Wider die Ideologie totaler Vernetzung. Karl Alber Verlag.

Weber M (2004 [1905]) Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus. C.H. Beck.