Macht und Gegenmacht

The paper starts with a social discourse on innovation and organizational learning, which seems to be unrelated to the dimension of power. Following Bourdieu, the paper then develops a practice-theoretical perspective of organizational power and countervailing power. Power dynamics in organizational fields and symbolic orders are discussed and described as ??bureaucracy??, ??clan?? and ??market??. The paper finally concludes with an outlook on habitus (and field-) reflexive organizational consultancy.