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

Benjamin Taupin
01 Feb 2015-Rae-revista De Administracao De Empresas (Fundação Getulio Vargas)-Vol. 55, Iss: 2, pp 162-174
TL;DR: In this paper, a sociologie pragmatique francaise (SP), inspired by des travaux de Luc Boltanski et Laurent Thevenot, is proposed as an approche de performativite critique.
Abstract: La sociologie pragmatique francaise (SP), inspiree des travaux de Luc Boltanski et Laurent Thevenot, est de plus en plus utilisee par les etudes organisationnelles en management. Pourtant, la dimension critique de cette approche n'a pas encore ete integree au profit de la connaissance en management et organisations (MOK). Dans cet article, nous explicitons l'apport que cette sociologie peut representer pour les etudes critiques en management (CMS). En tant que science de la science des acteurs, nous suggerons que la SP est fertile pour developper une approche de performativite critique. En particulier, nous demontrons que l'approche permet de mettre en lumiere les nouvelles formes de domination plus complexes s'exercant dans les organisations contemporaines. En utilisant des etudes empiriques d'organisations mobilisant la SP, nous montrons comment les concepts de compromis et d'epreuve developpes par cette approche presentent un outillage permettant de renouveler la critique des organisations au profit de la MOK.

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Challenging anglo-saxon dominance in management and organizational knowledge

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Ernesto R. Gantman1, Hèla Yousfi2, Rafael Alcadipani3•
University of Buenos Aires1, Paris Dauphine University2, Fundação Getúlio Vargas3
01 Mar 2015-Rae-revista De Administracao De Empresas
TL;DR: Forum Presentation on challenges relating to Anglo-Saxon hegemony in knowledge about organizations as mentioned in this paper, presented at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. USA. 2017
Abstract: Forum Presentation on challenges relating to Anglo-Saxon hegemony in knowledge about organizations.

39 citations

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  • ...Finally, in his paper “L’apport de la sociologie pragmatique francaise aux etudes critiques en management”, the French scholar Taupin (2015) argues for the importance of French pragmatic sociology, mainly from Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot, to the critique of domination in organizations....

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Towards dialogic administration: a proposal from Gadamer’s thinking

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Carlos Alberto Vargas González, Juan Alejandro Cortes
14 Mar 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative-documentary type of methodology and a hermeneutic method were used by studying, firstly, the theoretical foundations of traditional administration and, secondly, 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.
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.

8 citations

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  • ...This supposes, on the part of directives, the capacity to recognize that knowledge in the organization cannot exclusively proceed from top management, but that it is rather a process that emerges from successful conversations, formal and informal, in all directions of possible relationships within of the entity (Bedard and Chanlat, 1997; Taupin, 2015)....

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  • ...…del Valle (Cruz, 1998, 2002, Cruz, Aktouf and Carvajal, 2003, Rojas, 2003), have yielded research in the CMS field, gathering from interdisciplinarity so urgent to understand administrative practices, especially from French sociology, which has contributed notoriously in this field (Taupin, 2015)....

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  • ...field, gathering from interdisciplinarity so urgent to understand administrative practices, especially from French sociology, which has contributed notoriously in this field (Taupin, 2015)....

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  • ...…to recognize that knowledge in the organization cannot exclusively proceed from top management, but that it is rather a process that emerges from successful conversations, formal and informal, in all directions of possible relationships within of the entity (Bedard and Chanlat, 1997; Taupin, 2015)....

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Analyzing, accounting for and unmasking domination: on our role as scholars of practice, practitioners of social science and public intellectuals - Introduction to the Special Issue

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Damon Golsorkhi, Bernard Leca, Michael Lounsbury, Carlos Ramirez
01 Jan 2009-Research Papers in Economics

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La passion « bête et méchante »: La passion de l’entrepreneur pour son produit à l’épreuve de la logique comptable, ou les frontières du compromis

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Sébastien Rocher
17 Mar 2021

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What Lies Beneath: Organisational Responses to Powerful Stakeholders

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Fabiola Alvarez Lorenzo, Dimitrinka Stoyanova Russell, Barbara Townley
11 Aug 2022-Sociology
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors take recourse to a particular branch of French Pragmatic Sociology, namely, Boltanski and Thévenot's "orders of worth" paradigm, as a lens through which to both explore the misalignment between espoused values and retrospective discourses and illustrate the underlying motivations behind decision making in an organisation within the creative industries sector.
Abstract: This article takes recourse to a particular branch of French Pragmatic Sociology, namely, Boltanski and Thévenot’s ‘orders of worth’ paradigm, as a lens through which to both explore the misalignment between espoused values and retrospective discourses and illustrate the underlying motivations behind decision making in an organisation within the creative industries sector. By virtue of its contributions at the organisational, social and sectorial levels, our study contributes to extant debates pertaining to individual agency versus structural constraints as well as demonstrating the heterogeneity of modes of formal compliance to wider institutionalised legitimacy. In so doing, it builds upon recent work that seeks to broaden the notion of value in the creative industries, while, simultaneously, calling for greater heterogeneity in policy making in the sector through an ongoing process of ‘creative conflict’.

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Perspectives on Labor Process Theory

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Paul M. Thompson1, Damian P. OʼDoherty2•
University of Strathclyde1, University of Manchester2
06 Jan 2011

15 citations

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How should human resources be managed? From comparing models of staff development in a German and Russian professional service firm: a conventionalist approach

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Katharina Pernkopf-Konhaeusner1, Julia Brandl1•
Vienna University of Economics and Business1
21 Dec 2010-European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the importance and the alignment of HRM models as well as their appreciation among organisational members in two professional service firms in Germany and Russia and find that the German firm is characterised by the predominance of the industrial model, a high degree of compromises and similar priorities of managers and employees.
Abstract: This paper seeks to advance research on how ideals of human resource management (HRM) differ cross-nationally by examining the typical plurality of HRM models within organisations. Drawing on French convention theory, we argue that HRM incorporates a compromise between market, industrial and domestic models of managing and that the way in which they are invoked within organisations differs across settings. Examining stories of experiences with staff development in two professional service firms in Germany and Russia, we investigate the importance and the alignment of HRM models as well as their appreciation among organisational members. Findings reveal that the German firm is characterised by the predominance of the industrial model, a high degree of compromises and similar priorities of managers and employees. In contrast, the Russian firm shows lack of a dominant model, a low degree of compromises and different priorities between managers and employees. By comparing the typical plurality of HRM models, we gain a deeper understanding of the tensions associated with HRM within organisations and the different sources of agreements across settings.

11 citations

"L'apport de la sociologie pragmatiq..." refers background in this paper

  • ...…de travaux utilisant la SP, pour la compréhension de phénomènes dans des domaines aussi divers que la comptabilité (Annisette & Richardson, 2011), les ressources humaines (Pernkopf-Konhaeuser & Brandl, 2010), la création d’un marché pour les dérivés climatiques (Huault & Rainelli-Weiss, 2011)....

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Book Review: Luc Boltanski, De la critique. Précis de sociologie de l'émancipation, Paris Gallimard, 2009, 298 p., 19,90 euros, ISBN 978-2070126569 (pbk):

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JL Fabiani
08 Aug 2011-European Journal of Social Theory

11 citations

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  • ...Il a toutefois été reproché à Boltanski l’aspect exclusivement théorique et général de son ambition (Fabiani, 2011, p. 405)....

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  • ...Le cadre de la SP permet de mettre à jour une forme de domination qui repose sur une augmentation de la complexité des formes de coordination (Fabiani, 2011) par l’étude du processus de catégorisation au cours duquel les équivalences sont opérées par les acteurs....

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Spirited away: When political economy becomes culturalized...

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Hugh Willmott
01 Jan 2012

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"L'apport de la sociologie pragmatiq..." refers background in this paper

  • ...…L’apport de la sociologie pragmatique française aux études critiques en management © RAE | São Paulo | V. 55 | n. 2| mar-abr 2015 | 162-174 de sociologie pragmatique critique des nouvelles formes du capitalisme financier et des nouvelles formes de domination complexe qu’il génère (Willmott, 2013)....

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Dialogue sur deux systèmes de sociologie

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Bruno Latour
01 Jan 2009

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"L'apport de la sociologie pragmatiq..." refers background in this paper

  • ...Néanmoins les deux approches divergent dans leur démarche de recherche (Latour, 2009, Karsenti, 2012)....

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