Fifteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

Organisations have long been sites of everyday congregation entrenched in society, but corporations in South Africa are more often sites of colonization than spaces of lived value. In this paper, I explore value creation as framed in corporate literature, and critically contextualize for whom and for what purpose of the pursuit for value maximisation as a manifestation, appropriation, and reproduction of managerial dominance. As a hopeful departure from the managerialist epistemology, I search for practices and narratives of value creation in non-corporate organisations in South Africa that could shape a more democratic, reciprocal, and less disastrous creation of meaning, identity, and experience of organisational value.