talent status, figurations, authenticity, organization, power, control
Becoming and staying talented: A figurational analysis of organization, power and control
Introduction
Although organizations have long traditions of management and leadership development (Cappelli and Keller, 2017), it is only in the past 25 years that they have become attracted to the specific idea of ‘talent’, to talent’s presumed impact on organizational performance, and to the best ways of finding and deploying talent (Swailes, 2016).
