Benjamin Taupin

Bio: Benjamin Taupin is an academic researcher from Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. The author has contributed to research in topics: Credit rating & Performative utterance. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 17 publications receiving 99 citations.

Une analyse bibliométrique de la recherche en gestion: La RFG de 2002 à 2017

Abstract: Cet article se fonde sur la cartographie et l’analyse bibliometrique de la production en sciences de gestion publiee par la Revue francaise de gestion (RFG) entre 2002 et 2017. Les auteurs mettent en lumiere les references theoriques utilisees comme inspiration par les auteurs de ces articles et les thematiques principales traitees au fil des mandatures des differents redacteurs en chef de la revue. Leurs analyses rendent compte de la diversite du champ francophone des sciences de gestion tout en soulignant les evolutions constatees pendant la periode etudiee.

How to undo things with words? On counter-performative effects in the financial industry

Abstract: This article discusses the notion of counter-performativity as defined by MacKenzie and Spears (2014), drawing on an analysis of how performative processes unfold in the financial industry. To make...

Les effets négatifs de la stratégie politique des organisations sur leur légitimité. Le cas des majors de l’industrie du disque

Abstract: Our article uses the notion of legitimacy to contribute to the knowledge of the impact of corporate political activity. The analysis of the implementation of majors' lobbying strategy in the music industry at the time of the DADVSI law shed light on the process involving simultaneously both a political success and a decrease of firms' audibility. The political activity conducted by the firms entailed a paradoxical situation where the short-term political success was followed by a mid-term loss of influence. Our article then calls for a better understanding of the management of legitimacy in firms' political activity.

Les fondements moraux d’une logique institutionnelle. Contestation, controverses et stabilité.

Abstract: Nous examinons dans ce papier les micro-fondements moraux d’une logique institutionnelle. Nous nous focalisons plus precisement sur la perpetuation d’une institution paradoxalement permise par la controverse visant a la remettre en cause. Ce propos est etaye par l’etude du debat autour de l’industrie de la notation de credit lors de la crise des subprimes de 2008. La controverse, au cours de laquelle differentes conceptions de la regulation de la notation de credit se sont opposees, a finalement mene a la reaffirmation de l’ordre existant, c’est-a-dire le maintien de l’auto-regulation de l’industrie. Le recours au cadre des Economies de la grandeur developpe par Boltanski et Thevenot (1991) nous permet de distinguer la logique institutionnelle de ses fondements moraux que les acteurs manipulent en pratique. En etudiant le lien que ces deux elements entretiennent, nous parvenons alors a mettre en exergue la construction concrete du processus institutionnel dans cette industrie. Dans un premier temps, ce travail corrobore la possibilite d’existence d’une institution comme un element embrassant les contradictions. Ce cadre theorique permet egalement l’observation de l’engagement situe des acteurs dans les phenomenes institutionnels. Ce travail nous conduit enfin a remettre en cause la dichotomie entre maintien et changement institutionnels car, comme le revele l’etude de cas, l’institution dans sa stabilite est indissociable de sa contestation. Ainsi en mettant en exergue les ressorts du maintien, cette recherche parvient a poser un regard nouveau sur la stabilite des institutions.La methodologie mise en œuvre repose sur l’analyse qualitative des commentaires des parties prenantes de la notation de credit lors des consultations publiques de 2008 et 2009 menees par la Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) americaine dans le but de reexaminer l’encadrement de l’activite de notation. Une etude qualitative de 300 commentaires a ete realisee a l’aide d’un codage assiste par le logiciel NVivo. Nous focalisons notre attention sur deux debats centraux de la regulation de la notation de credit : la dependance de la regulation aux notations des agences d’une part et l’accusation de conflit d’interets adressee aux agences d’autre part. Pour les deux debats etudies, la repetition du compromis entre le monde marchand, le monde industriel et le monde de l’opinion permet la perpetuation de l’ordre auto-regule. La reaffirmation des fondements de la legitimite de la regulation de la notation de credit trouve egalement sa source dans l’incapacite des acteurs a clore la controverse impliquant ces trois mondes.

Perpetuating the Regulatory Order in the Credit Rating Industry

Abstract: The subprime crisis put the spotlight on the debate over the credit rating agencies (CRAs) system. Questions had already emerged following the cumulative effects of the role played by CRAs in a number of crises involving credit ratings: the Mexican crisis (1994–5), the Asian crisis (1997–8), the default by Argentina (2002) and the corporate bankruptcies of the early 2000s (Enron, Worldcom, Parmalat). But since 2006, rating agencies have been more widely criticized for their role in the subprime financial crisis, particularly for assigning top ratings to mortgage-backed securities and other financial instruments which later turned out to be toxic assets, or for failing to take the measure of the threats hanging over A-rated firms (AIG, Lehman Brothers) shortly before their collapse.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

Abstract: How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)

Abstract: What makes organizations so similar? We contend that the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions. Once a set of organizations emerges as a field, a paradox arises: rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them. We describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative—leading to this outcome. We then specify hypotheses about the impact of resource centralization and dependency, goal ambiguity and technical uncertainty, and professionalization and structuration on isomorphic change. Finally, we suggest implications for theories of organizations and social change.

Institutional Work: Current Research, New Directions and Overlooked Issues

Abstract: The study of institutional work has emerged as a dynamic research domain within organization studies. In this essay, we situate the papers published in the Special Issue. We first review the evolution of institutional work as a scholarly conversation within organization studies. We then introduce the papers in the Special Issue, focusing in particular on where they fit into the current scholarly conversation and how they move us in important new directions. Finally, we discuss a set of neglected issues that deserve further attention.

The New Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness

Abstract: The New Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness. By Timothy J. Sinclair. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 208p. $29.95. In his book, Timothy J. Sinclair makes a strong theoretical and empirical contribution to the growing political economy literature on the increasing influence of nonstate actors. More specifically, he draws upon a cogent interweaving of rationalist and constructivist approaches to reveal the various forms of power exercised by American bond raters, such as Moody's and Standard & Poor's. Moreover, by means of detailed case studies on the rating of corporations, municipalities, and national governments, he demonstrates the broad political implications of rating agency power in terms of both geopolitical and distributive questions. In both cases, Sinclair's central argument is that “rating agencies help to construct the context in which corporations, municipalities, and governments make decisions. Rating agencies are not, as often supposed, ‘neutral’ institutions. Their impact on policy is political first, in terms of the processes involved, and second, in terms of the consequences of competing social interests” (p. 149).