 Organizational Resistance: Contestation and Co-production 
This paper proposes to explore the intellectual and theoretical ramifications of the concept of resistance from three analytical themes : resistance as a standard management problem, resistance as an antidote to alienation in organizations, and resistance as a contextualized and productive response. These representations of resistance are explored within the broader context of technologies of government and political economy that frame the expression of organizational resistance. The assumption behind the paper lies in the idea of an impossible project of resistance in the absence of an agreement to co-produce what constrains and transforms public or collective action. In this regard, the concept of resistance reveals the inescapable compromise that is made in order to live and survive in a world of organizations.