L'apport de la sociologie pragmatique française aux études critiques en management
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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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.
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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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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.
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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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17 Mar 2021
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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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TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal analysis of the case of related diversification, specifically a Canadian chartered bank's acquisition of two brokerage subsidiaries (1987, 1994), is presented, in order to characterize the content of collective representations specific to each of the organizations undergoing integration.
Abstract: The diversification phase observed in the American economy since 1975 (Leontiades, 1980) has led to significant questioning about the dimensions constituting related diversification. During the 1980s, the disappointing performances of businesses that had implemented related diversifications pushed researchers to take a closer look at the challenges involved in integration to discover commonalities in progressing from potential synergy to synergy achieved. As a result, many recent research endeavors have attempted to describe the management and integration process best suited to the context (Haspelagh & Jemison, 1991; Marks & Mirvis, 1998; Pablo, 1994; Shrivastava, 1986). Obviously, their attention focused primarily on initiatives targeting integration on the functional, structural, and operational levels, without really taking into account the historical, cognitive, and cultural baggage that each business carries around with it.
This research is intended to provide a better understanding of the factors that contribute to creating synergies between companies undertaking an integration process involving related diversification. Based on the cognitive approach, it is premised on the notion that creating synergy primarily depends on reconciling the collective representations of the companies involved rather than on simply implementing measures designed to achieve technical and operational integration.
This study places particular emphasis on the concept of collective representations, which recognizes that organizational players come to adopt a relatively homogeneous view of the world. It proposes an analysis framework and research method enabling it to go beyond the limits of attempts that, up until now, have strived to quantify and substantiate the mental schemata of organizations involved in merger acquisition. Moreover, these attempts have been criticized as being too vague (Cote, Langley & Pasquero, 1999; Grant, 1988; Lampel & Shamsie, 2000).
In order to characterize the content of collective representations specific to each of the organizations undergoing integration, we propose applying a new approach in the sociology of organizations called the theory of conventions (Boltanski & Thevenot, 1991, 1994). The convention theory posits that organizational players share representation systems that help forge interaction rules. Collective, concerted action is made possible by mobilizing common frameworks, that is, conventions. These conventions are characterized by higher principles specific to each city. The outcome can be agreement or conflict, depending on whether player justifications are rooted in the same city or not.
Through the longitudinal analysis of the case of related diversification, specifically a Canadian chartered bank’s acquisition of two brokerage subsidiaries (1987, 1994), this study examines the evolution of the integration initiatives and collective representations of the businesses involved. We made two significant observations in examining the various integration initiatives undertaken by the bank during the period under study. First, the integration initiatives could be described as falling into the technical, structural, and operational categories. Second, their outcomes, both qualitatively and quantitatively, were far from conclusive.
Concurrent analysis of justificatory fragments of the three organizations, during the period under studied, revealed divergence between the justification modes that each of the businesses opted for. This divergence of dominant collective representations enabled us to interpret the issues encountered during these initiatives and posit a new explanation for their qualified success.
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...Jagd mentionne également le recours à ce cadre par le groupe de travail de Joanne Roch (Roch, 2005 ; Boivin & Roch, 2006) sur les relations inter-organisations et les fusions-acquisitions....
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TL;DR: Bruno Latour's last book An Inquiry into Modes of Existence as discussed by the authors gives us a retrospective look at the whole of the sociological and anthropological work of the author and makes it possible to present it as a philosophy of attention, sharpened by focusing on all these modes, their ontological differences and the turns they introduce in the field of experience.
Abstract: "Bruno Latour's philosophy can be understood in his last book as An Inquiry into Modes of Existence. Reading it gives us a retrospective look at the whole of the sociological and anthropological work of the author and makes it possible to present it as a philosophy of attention. That attention is sharpened by focusing on all these modes, their ontological differences and the turns they introduce in the field of experience. The main question-what kind of world do we want?-while gradually specifying as a cosmological and ethical one, inflects the practice of social sciences towards a philosophy that would fit the requests of the condition of ""the Moderns."""
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...La réflexion épistémologique, qui fait de la SP « une science de la science implicite des acteurs » (Karsenti, 2012, p. 570), mène cette approche au plus près de leurs pratiques afin d’y identifier des potentiels d’émancipation (posture affirmative)....
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...Néanmoins les deux approches divergent dans leur démarche de recherche (Latour, 2009, Karsenti, 2012)....
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...(Karsenti, 2012, p. 570)....
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...L’opération critique de l’ANT a également été stigmatisée pour sa difficile opérationnalisation (Karsenti, 2012, p. 571)....
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24 Jul 2012
TL;DR: On Critique as discussed by the authors offers a quasi-biographical account of a prominent tradition of French critical social theory, undergirded by the biographical significance of the events of May 1968 upon that tradition's leading contemporary proponent.
Abstract: May 1968 continues to cast a long shadow over radical social movements. Then was a time, those who say they were there persistently lament, during which the radical imagination held optimistic sway, where the impossible could still be demanded, when the beach beneath the streets wasn’t posited and pursued by Pied Pipers alone. Those days of hope are now long gone, dentured mouths lament, giving way to the pessimism of Generation X, the pragmatism of Generation Y, and the cynicism of what might eventually come to be known as Generation JJB. Emancipatory critique can no longer emerge, it seems, given what reality has gradually but irreversibly become. All that is left for us to do now, it seems, is to have a pint and a whinge and be done with the whole lot. A nice new pair of Nikes probably wouldn’t go amiss while we’re at it though. Luc Boltanski knows only all too well how that once great populist spirit of social critique became progressively and eventually defanged. His co-authored New Spirit of Capitalism demonstrated in exhaustatively depressing detail how the impassioned pursuit of alternatives to capital became the very basis for capitalist re-constitution, post-1968. Whereas that book took the evolution in business and management thinking and practice as the basis for a predominantly empirical narration of how critique has been co-opted by the representatives of capital, his most recently translated offering challenges critique’s co-optation by capital along undoubtedly polemical lines. The book seeks to provoke action on the part of its audience—social theorists—to renew their links with the inherently critical nature of their vocation, on the one hand, and to renew the links of their vocation to broader social movements, on the other. Its argument carries weight beyond sociology, of course: herein exists an argument which critical management studies (CMS), as well management and organization studies more generally, cannot afford to ignore. Summarily, On Critique offers a quasi-biographical account of a prominent tradition of French critical social theory, undergirded by the biographical significance of the events of May 1968 upon that tradition’s leading contemporary proponent. Against the romanticizing nostalgia which serves to make frustrated epigones out of us all, and against the poisoned chalice of fatalism offered to us by The New Spirit, this is a book which re-affirms the possibility of critique as well as underlining the renewed need for it. Contextually, the book is based upon a series of lectures Boltanski gave at Humboldt University (on the invitation of the Centre Marc Bloch) and the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research (on the invitation of Axel Honneth) towards the end of 2008. Politically, the backdrops of thesis 11 and critical theory are entirely reliable scene setters since, over the six incrementally related chapters collected here, Boltanski demonstrates how he and his colleagues continue to 430571ORG19410.1177/1350508411430571Book ReviewOrganization 2012
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...Plusieurs voix ont ainsi récemment appelé (Dunne, 2012 ; Cloutier & Langley, 2013, p. 17) au développement d’un agenda de recherche visant au rapprochement entre la SP et les l’analyse des mécanismes d’oppression au profit des études organisationnelles....
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...L’outillage conceptuel que nous avons présenté permet une problématisation politique plus nette des caractéristiques des dispositifs gestionnaires (Friedlender, 2010, p. 16 ; Dunne, 2012)....
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...…ne réussissent pas à saisir les conditions contemporaines de domination complexe fondées sur la pratique, comme, par exemple lorsque la classe dominante est la classe qui se place dans une position, inaccessible à la majorité, de double relation vis-à-vis des règles qui s’imposent (Dunne, 2012)....
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...La transposition d’un tel agenda au profit des CMS apparaît comme prometteuse (Dunne, 2012)....
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...La domination complexe met en scène des acteurs à la poursuite constante de nouvelles réalités (Dunne, 2012)....
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16 Nov 2012
TL;DR: Boltanski et al. as mentioned in this paper pointed out that ces three genres of enquêtes reposent sur l'extension du doute sur le monde ordinaire, car elles décèlent dans la réalité des anomalies troublantes.
Abstract: Énigmes et Complots a pour point de départ, et pour fil rouge, le constat d’un fait étrange : la simultanéité, à la fin du XIXe siècle, de la naissance de trois genres d’enquêtes, le roman policier, la sociologie et la paranoïa. Ces trois genres d’enquêtes reposent sur l’extension du doute sur le monde ordinaire, car elles décèlent dans la réalité des anomalies troublantes. Et elles mettent en relation ces énigmes avec des phénomènes de l’ordre du crime ou de la malfaisance d’individus poursuivant des intérêts reliés ou organisés. La thèse avancée par Luc Boltanski est que ces trois formes de scepticisme, de déconstruction des cadres de la réalité, au delà de la coïncidence singulière de leur apparition, sont parallèles à l’avènement des États-Nations européens. En effet, elles vont de pair avec les deux phénomènes conjugués par lesquels l’auteur définit l’émergence, vers la fin du XIXe siècle, de cette « grande synthèse utopique entre l’État et la Nation » : la sécurisation des relations interindividuelles (à travers l’émergence notamment du droit social), et la mise en place d’un ordre social stable (du fait de la cristallisation des classes sociales et de la rareté relative des destins de mobilité). C’est donc cet écart que Luc Boltanski se met en devoir d’interroger, ce hiatus entre une réalité qui se stabilise et la démocratisation du soupçon portant sur cette même réalité, que l’on imagine rongée secrètement de l’intérieur. Le dédoublement constitue ainsi le mode sous laquelle existe notre monde, celui-ci prenant dans l’ouvrage des apparences et des extensions variées : le décalage entre nos expériences de pensée (imaginées) et nos vies réelles (agies) ; la « structure d’altérité sérielle » (p. 106), ambivalence propre à la modernité, où chez les personnages les plus respectables on déterre des comportements abjects; l’incertitude permanente, aussi appelée « contradiction herméneutique », sur les porte-parole, à la fois représentants de l’institution et interprètes d’intérêts dissimulés – incertitude qui apparaît épisodiquement sous la forme de « fissures » (p. 142) ; la dénonciation publique, enfin, de la présence de traîtres ou de taupes , voire le dévoilement de « l’État comme complot » (p. 231-239).
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...(Auray, 2012, p. 5)....
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...Il s’agit ici d’une petite rupture par rapport au programme initial de la SP, puisque « le sociologue ne se contente plus de ‘suivre les acteurs’ dans la désingularisation de leurs plaintes et le ‘montage’ de leurs affaires » (Auray, 2012, p. 2)....
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