L'apport de la sociologie pragmatique française aux études critiques en management

Challenging anglo-saxon dominance in management and organizational knowledge

Abstract: Forum Presentation on challenges relating to Anglo-Saxon hegemony in knowledge about organizations.

Towards dialogic administration: a proposal from Gadamer’s thinking

Abstract: Traditional administration, the normative-cut and exacerbated-control one, is still in force in theoretical-type proposals as much as it is in business practices, which is due to the resistance to give up instrumental rationality within organizational management. This phenomenon has permeated all the dimensions experienced in an organization; even the most human acts, such as dialogue and communication, have been prey to instrumentation. The purpose of this paper is to set forth the need for dialogic administration capable of overcoming the fundamental pillars of traditional instrumental management. To accomplish this task, a qualitative-documentary type of methodology and a hermeneutic method were used by studying, firstly, the theoretical foundations of traditional administration and, secondly, by interpreting the constituent elements of the “dialogue” category in Gadamer’s thinking so as to create a discussion about how Gadamerian postulates may serve as the basis to build a dialogic administration proposal, where dialogue is rescued from instrumentation, and given its place as the most humane in men within an organization and then become an integral part of the organizational culture, because it provides recognition to each person’s uniqueness and promotes learning processes.

The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism

Abstract: Introduction - Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Kerstin Sahlin and Roy Suddaby PART ONE: FOUNDATIONAL THEMES Legitimacy in Organizational Institutionalism - David L Deephouse and Marc Suchman Isomorphism, Diffusion and Decoupling - Eva Boxenbaum and Stefan Jonsson Institutional Logics - Patricia H Thornton and William Ocasio Organizational Fields - Melissa Wooten and Andrew J Hoffman Past, Present and Future PART TWO: INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS The Work of Meanings in Institutional Processes and Thinking - Tammar B Zilber Power, Institutions and Organizations - Thomas B Lawrence Institutional Entrepreneurship - Cynthia Hardy and Steve Maguire Circulating Ideas - Kerstin Sahlin and Linda Wedlin Imitation, Translation and Editing Organizational Implications of Institutional Pluralism - Matthew S Kraatz and Emily S. Block Microfoundations of Institutional Theory - Walter W Powell and Jeannette A. Colyvas Institutions and Transnationalization - Marie-Laure Djelic and Sigrid Quack PART THREE: APPLICATIONS Traditions as Institutionalized Practice - M Tina Dacin and Peter A Dacin Implications for de-institutionalization New Forms as Settlements - Hayagreeva Rao and Martin Kenney Social Movements and Failed Institutionalization - Gerald F Davis and Peter J J Anderson Corporate, (Non)Response to the AIDS Epidemic Institutions and Corporate Governance - Peer C Fiss PART FOUR: INTERFACES Beyond Constraint - Mary Ann Glynn How Institutions Enable Identities Institutionalism and the Professions - Kevin T Leicht and Mary L Fennell Institutionalism and Globalization Studies - Gili S Drori Organizational Institutionalism and Sociology - C R Hinings and Pamela S Tolbert A Reflection Coalface Institutionalism - Stephen R Barley New Sociology of Knowledge - Renate E Meyer Historical Legacy and Contributions Systems Theory, Societal Contexts and Organizational Heterogeneity - Raimund Hasse and Georg Kr cken Charting Progress at the Nexus of Institutional Theory and Economics - Peter W Roberts Ecologists and Institutionalists - Heather A Haveman and Robert J David Friends or Foes? Networks and Institutions - Jason Owen-Smith and Walter W Powell Institutional-Level Learning - Pamela Haunschild and David Chandler Learning as a Source of Institutional Change Social Movements and Institutional Analysis - Marc Schneiberg and Michael Lounsbury Examining 'Institutionalization' - David J Cooper, Mahmoud Ezzamel and Hugh Willmott A Critical Theoretic Perspective Taking Social Construction Seriously - Nelson Phillips and Namrata Malhotra Extending the Discursive Approach in Institutional Theory Institutional Leadership - Marvin Washington, Kimberly B Boal and John N Davis Past, Present and Future PART FIVE: REFLECTIONS Is the New Institutionalism a Theory? - Donald Palmer, Nicole Biggart and Brian Dick How to Misuse Institutions and Get Away with It - Barbara Czarniawska Some Reflections on Institutional Theory(ies) Been There, Done That, Moving on - Paul Hirsch Reflections on Institutional Theory's Continuing Evolution Reflections on Institutional Theories of Organizations - John W Meyer

Radical Developments in Accounting Thought

Abstract: Mainstream accounting is grounded in a common set of philosophical assumptions about knowledge, the empirical world, and the relationship between theory and practice. This particular world-view, with its emphasis on hypothetico-deductivism and technical control, possesses certain strengths but has restricted the range of problems studied and the use of research methods. By changing this set of assumptions, fundamentally different and potentially rich research insights are obtained. Two alternative world-views and their underlying assumptions are elucidated-the interpretive and the critical. The consequences of conducting research within these philosophical traditions are discussed via a comparison between accounting research that is conducted on the "same" problem but from two different perspectives. In addition, some of the difficulties associated with these alternative perspectives are briefly dealt with. The history of thought and culture is, as Hegel showed with great brilliance, a changing pattern of great liberating ideas which inevitably turn into suffocating straightjackets, and so stimulate their own destruction by new emancipatory, and at the same time, enslaving conceptions. The first step to understanding of men is the bringing to consciousness of the model or models that dominate and penetrate their thought and action. Like all attempts to make men aware of the categories in which they think, it is a difficult and sometimes painful activity, likely to produce deeply disquieting results. The second task is to analyse the model itself, and this commits the analyst to accepting or modifying or rejecting it and in the last case, to providing a more adequate one in its stead. [Berlin, 1962, p. 191 SINCE the late 1970s there have been signs of unease among academics about the state and development of accounting research. In 1977 the American Accounting Association's (AAA) Statement on Accounting Theory and Theory Acceptance concluded that there was no generally accepted theory of external reporting. Instead, there was a proliferation of paradigms that offered only limited guidance to policy makers. In addition, the Committee was pessimistic that a dominant consensus could The author would like to acknowledge the continual support of Tony Lowe and the helpful comments of Ray Chambers, David Cooper, Anthony Hopwood, Richard Laughlin, Ken Peasnell, Tony Tinker, Murray Wells, David Williams, participants at a Sydney University Research Seminar, and the anonymous reviewers of this journal. Wai Fong Chua is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Manuscript received September 1984. Revisions received August 1985 and February 1986. Accepted March 1986.

Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme

Abstract: Le capitalisme prospere ; la societe se degrade. Le profit croit, comme l'exclusion. La veritable crise n'est pas celle du capitalisme, mais celle de la critique du capitalisme. Trop souvent attachee a d'anciens schemas d'analyse, la critique conduit nombre de protestataires a se replier sur des modalites de defense efficaces dans le passe mais desormais largement inadaptees aux nouvelles formes du capitalisme redeploye. Cette crise, Eve Chiapello et Luc Boltanski, sociologues, l'analysent a la racine. Ils tracent les contours du nouvel esprit du capitalisme a partir d'une analyse inedite des textes de management qui ont nourri la pensee du patronat, irrigue les nouveaux modes d'organisation des entreprises : a partir du milieu des annees 70, le capitalisme renonce au principe fordiste de l'organisation hierarchique du travail pour developper une nouvelle organisation en reseau, fondee sur l'initiative des acteurs et l'autonomie relative de leur travail, mais au prix de leur securite materielle et psychologique. Ce nouvel esprit du capitalisme a triomphe grâce a la formidable recuperation de la " critique artiste ", celle qui, apres Mai 68, n'avait eu de cesse de denoncer l'alienation de la vie quotidienne par l'alliance du Capital et de la bureaucratie. Une recuperation qui a tue la " critique artiste ". Dans le meme temps la " critique sociale " manquait le tournant du neocapitalisme et demeurait rivee aux vieux schemas de la production hierarchisee ; on la trouva donc fort demunie lorsque l'hiver de la crise fut venu. C'est a une relance conjointe des deux critiques complementaires du capitalisme qu'invite cet ouvrage sans equivalent.