Showing papers by "Eve Chiapello published in 2009"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the structure and governance of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), and the process leading to the transplantation of its norms into EU law, and argue that the reasons behind such relinquishment of public authority lie primarily within the EU itself.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the influence of ideological and political factors on the spread of management innovations, methods and rhetorics in France, focusing on the role of government and social reformers in the evolution of management practices.
Abstract: This article is a contribution to the study of the spread of management innovations, methods and rhetorics. It particularly concerns the influence of ideological and political factors, which have so far mostly escaped in-depth study. In particular, we seek to understand to what extent a critique of society developed by social reformers can be a source of inspiration for managers, leading them to change their practices and experiment with new devices. Relying on the framework of historical change in management practices developed by Boltanski and Chiapello [Boltanski, L., & Chiapello, E. (2005). The new spirit of capitalism. London: Verso (Translation of Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme, Paris: Gallimard, 1999)], we study the specific development of budgetary control in France, examined in the light of the general political and economic history of the 20th century. This framework simultaneously encompasses the dissemination of a new accounting practice, the transformation of capitalist institutions and mo des of regulation in a given period and country, and the programmatic discourses [Miller, P., & Rose, N. (1990). Governing economic life. Economy and Society, 19(1), 1-31] associated with the historical move. More exactly, what interests us is a double enrolment process. The business world promoters of budgetary control use the rhetorics of social reformers to present budgetary control as a solution to the economic and social problems of their time; conversely, social reformers promote budgetary control as a realistic, efficient tool that can change the world. Ultimately, a degree of alliance is possible around this management tool, although the extent to which the meanings each group attributes to its action are shared may remain unclear. Based on an analysis of the writings of budgetary control promoters of the 1930s and the 1950s, we show the close links between their discourse and the reforming ideas of their time, and how we can trace through this corpus the evolution of this kind of political rationalities [Miller, P., & Rose, N. (1990). Governing economic life. Economy and Society, 19(1), 1-31] associated with governing and managing corporations we call the spirit of capitalism [Boltanski, L., & Chiapello, E. (2005). The new spirit of capitalism. London: Verso (Translation of Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme, Paris: Gallimard, 1999)].
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TL;DR: In this article, a critical review of the available literature that links management tools and workplace violence is presented, and the lessons learned are shown in particular that if management tools are often vectors of violence, they can also been seen as regulators or pacifiers.
Abstract: Because it represents a threat not only for health but also for productivity, psychological violence at work is the subject of increasing attention. Meanwhile, management is seen as a practice that is more and more instrumented and consequently dehumanized. To what extent do management tools participate in psychological violence at work? Is it possible to attribute them directly to some forms of violence? Or should we rather see violence as only the result of deviant practices? Seeking to clarify these issues, this paper presents a critical review of the available literature that links management tools and workplace violence, and then discusses the lessons learned. It shows in particular that if management tools are often vectors of violence, they can also been seen as regulators or pacifiers.
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01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a fonction paradoxale au sein des entreprises, i.e., the responsables and directeurs developpement durable ont une fonctions paradoxale, in which they percoivent un salaire of ces organisations for leur montrer leurs impacts negatifs sur le plan social et environnemental y compris lorsque la prise en compte de ces impacts apparait peu compatibles avec l’optimisation de leurs
Abstract: Resume Les responsables et directeurs developpement durable ont une fonction paradoxale au sein des entreprises : ils percoivent un salaire de ces organisations pour leur montrer leurs impacts negatifs sur le plan social et environnemental y compris lorsque la prise en compte de ces impacts apparait peu compatibles avec l’optimisation de leurs resultats economiques et financiers. L’etude presentee dans cet article s’est interessee aux personnes qui exercent cette fonction, a leurs parcours, a leurs conceptions, et aux formes de leur engagement. Elle est fondee sur une enquete en deux etapes (11 entretiens en profondeur, suivis d’un envoi de questionnaires- 34 reponses).
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TL;DR: This paper present a histoire des relations entre le capitalisme et ses critiques and tente a partir de cette histoire de comprendre la periode actuelle and le debat d'idee actuel sur la reforme du capitalisme.
Abstract: L’engouement des entreprises pour la RSE comme le conflit d’idees qui l’accompagne montre que cette evolution ne se fait pas sans mal et sans resistance. Il s’agit selon nous d’un signe parmi d’autres de l’entree du capitalisme dans un nouveau cycle de recuperation de sa critique qui prend au serieux la critique ecologique. Nous assistons en fait depuis le debut des annees 2000 a la reconstitution d’une nebuleuse reformatrice telle que le capitalisme a pu en connaitre a la fin du XIX siecle, dans les annees 1930 et 1970. A chaque fois, il est sorti de ces moments d’intense reflexion reformatrice des changements notables du regime capitaliste. Cet article presente une histoire des relations entre le capitalisme et ses critiques et tente a partir de cette histoire de comprendre la periode actuelle et le debat d’idee actuel sur la reforme du capitalisme
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25 Jun 2009
TL;DR: This article present a histoire des relations entre le capitalisme et ses critiques and tente a partir de cette histoire de comprendre la periode actuelle and le debat d'idee actuel sur la reforme du capitalisme.
Abstract: L’engouement des entreprises pour la RSE comme le conflit d’idees qui l’accompagne montre que cette evolution ne se fait pas sans mal et sans resistance. Il s’agit selon nous d’un signe parmi d’autres de l’entree du capitalisme dans un nouveau cycle de recuperation de sa critique qui prend au serieux la critique ecologique. Nous assistons en fait depuis le debut des annees 2000 a la reconstitution d’une nebuleuse reformatrice telle que le capitalisme a pu en connaitre a la fin du XIX siecle, dans les annees 1930 et 1970. A chaque fois, il est sorti de ces moments d’intense reflexion reformatrice des changements notables du regime capitaliste. Cet article presente une histoire des relations entre le capitalisme et ses critiques et tente a partir de cette histoire de comprendre la periode actuelle et le debat d’idee actuel sur la reforme du capitalisme