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Somebody is watching me: framing surveillance as rent-seeking behavior

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  • Albena Dzhurova
  • Arthur Sementelli
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Purpose - This paper examines how contemporary workplace surveillance can simultaneously incentivize and commodify workforce behavior. Specifically, workplace surveillance is reconceptualized as rent-seeking, which offers a framework for analyzing novel employer-employee relationships stemming from alternate views of risk and reward. Design/methodology/approach - The case of workplace microchipping is studied qualitatively as a backdrop for theorizing emergent labor relations in the context of surveillance capitalism and biopolitics. Findings - Reconsidering surveillance within the context of personal risk and entrepreneurial lure offers much to 21st century discourse on labor and supervision. It is imperative that the public sector engages in appropriate regulatory protocols to manage emergent behavior in organizations. Originality/value - This study departs from the popular conceptualization of human microchipping as an intersection of legal and ethical considerations of surveillance. Instead, the authors examine a different aspect of the microchipping phenomenon, taking into account employee creative reactions to employer surveillance in the context of risk and return. Peer review - The peer review history for this article is available at:https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-01-2022-0009

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  • Albena Dzhurova & Arthur Sementelli, 2022. "Somebody is watching me: framing surveillance as rent-seeking behavior," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 50(1), pages 58-72, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:ijsepp:ijse-01-2022-0009
    DOI: 10.1108/IJSE-01-2022-0009
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