Purpose – The premise of the paper is that Foucault's concept of governmentality has important but unacknowledged implications for understanding strategy. Highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the governmentality approach, the paper seeks to suggest how governmentality can be used to...

About the contributors -- Introduction -- Governmentality : the career of a concept / Alan McKinlay and Eric Pezet -- Locating governmentality -- Getting to the surface of things : foucault as theorist and historian of management and accounting / Keith Hoskin -- A dialogue with Foucault on power...