Orálněhistorické sondy do polistopadové firemní kultury
Oral History Probes into Post-socialist Corporate Culture

Summary/Abstract: Lenka Krátká based her book "Letos musíme být spokojenější než loni! Proměny české firemní kultury po roce 1989" [This Year We Must Be Happier Than Last Year! Transformations of Czech Corporate Culture After 1989] on her analysis of oral history interviews with thirty respondents who were employed in the management of Czech and Czechoslovak branches of Western companies in the 1990s, mostly in the financial sector and information technology. Krátká’s intention is to use Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality to uncover the constitution of neoliberal subjectivity in Czech post-socialist society and to explore the degree of discipline associated with the new power relations in the corporate environment. The reviewers find her conclusion of the practical emptiness of corporate proclamations of loyalty, efficiency and performance by management and employees, who were generally cynical about them, remarkable. The historicization of the subjective experience of an emerging segment of the labour market during the 1990s is, according to the reviewers, the greatest contribution of the publication, while the changes incorporate culture remain rather under-interpreted by the author.

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