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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.

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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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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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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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Is Actor Network Theory Critique

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Andrea Whittle1, André Spicer2•
Cardiff University1, University of Warwick2
01 Apr 2008-Organization Studies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that Actor Network Theory (ANT) lacks a naturalizing ontology, an un-reflexive epistemology and a performative politics.
Abstract: In this essai we debate the extent to which Actor Network Theory (ANT) provides a meaningful contribution to the body of critical theories of organization. Critical approaches are commonly associated with a denaturalizing ontology, a reflexive epistemology and an anti-performative politics. In contrast, we suggest that ANT relies on a naturalizing ontology, an un-reflexive epistemology and a performative politics. This does not completely dismiss ANT as a useful approach to studying organizations. It does however question the contribution of ANT to developing a critical theory of organization.

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THE ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY OF CONVENTIONS: Habit, Custom, Practice, and Routine in Market Order

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Nicole Woolsey Biggart1, Thomas D. Beamish2•
Saint Petersburg State University1, University of California, Davis2
28 Nov 2003-Review of Sociology
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe theories of market order, show how convention theory and related approaches represent a novel alternative, and suggest how convention theories can supplement network theory and institutional approaches to understand market order.
Abstract: ▪ Abstract Economic sociology and economics have tried to explain the organization and stability of market capitalism mostly by arguing for the effects of social structure on the patterning of relations, or for the role of the price system in balancing the demands of individual economic actors. In North America, the primary alternative to structural and individualist theories of market order has been network theory, a meso-level attempt to bridge over- and undersocialized views of actors. In Europe, the primary attempt to develop more realistic economics has centered on the role of conventions in shaping economic activity. We describe theories of market order, show how convention theory and related approaches represent a novel alternative, and suggest how convention theory can supplement network theory and institutional approaches to understanding market order.

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  • ...Depuis les premières références du potentiel de cette approche (Biggart & Beamish, 2003 ; Denis, Langley, & Rouleau, 2007 ; Thornton & Ocasio, 2008), l’intérêt de la communauté des études organisationnelles pour celle-ci a entraîné une production croissante de travaux utilisant la SP, pour la…...

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Rethinking comparative cultural sociology: Forms of valuing nature: arguments and modes of justification in French and American environmental disputes

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Laurent Thévenot, Michael Moody, Claudette Lafaye
01 Dec 2000

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A Stupidity‐Based Theory of Organizations

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Mats Alvesson1, André Spicer•
Lund University1
01 Nov 2012-Journal of Management Studies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that severe restrictions on these capacities in the form of what they call functional stupidity are an equally important if under-recognized part of organizational life, which refers to an absence of reflexivity, a refusal to use intellectual capacities in other than myopic ways, and avoidance of justifications.
Abstract: In this paper we question the one-sided thesis that contemporary organizations rely on the mobilization of cognitive capacities. We suggest that severe restrictions on these capacities in the form of what we call functional stupidity are an equally important if under-recognized part of organizational life. Functional stupidity refers to an absence of reflexivity, a refusal to use intellectual capacities in other than myopic ways, and avoidance of justifications. We argue that functional stupidity is prevalent in contexts dominated by economy in persuasion which emphasizes image and symbolic manipulation. This gives rise to forms of stupidity management that repress or marginalize doubt and block communicative action. In turn, this structures individuals' internal conversations in ways that emphasize positive and coherent narratives and marginalize more negative or ambiguous ones. This can have productive outcomes such as providing a degree of certainty for individuals and organizations. But it can have corrosive consequences such as creating a sense of dissonance among individuals and the organization as a whole. The positive consequences can give rise to self-reinforcing stupidity. The negative consequences can spark dialogue, which may undermine functional stupidity.

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Actor-Network Theory, organizations and critique: towards a politics of organizing

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Rafael Alcadipani, John Hassard
04 May 2010-Organization
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) literature offers the potential to develop a political critique of the ANT approach in management and organization studies (MOS), and they argue that ANT and After can offer insights relevant to the development of a critical perspective on MOS.
Abstract: In recent years the approach to social theory known as Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has been adopted within a range of social science fields. Despite its popularity, ANT is considered a controversial approach in that it appears to promote a sociological perspective that lacks substantive political critique. This is argued to be particularly true in ANT’s ‘translations’ in management and organization studies (MOS). In this article, we argue that the ‘ANT and After’ literature offers the potential to develop such a political critique. In particular we suggest it presents the opportunity to develop an approach that de-naturalizes organization(s), has the ability to deliver critical performativity, and at the same time offer a reflexive approach to management and organizational knowledge. Using organizational examples, we argue that ANT and After can offer insights relevant to the development of a critical perspective on MOS, notably through its advocacy of a ‘political ontology’ of organizing.

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  • ...L’apport de nouvelles théories issues des sciences humaines et sociales pour la communauté des chercheurs en CMS a déjà été démontré, notamment pour ce qui concerne l’ANT (Alcadipani & Hassard, 2010)....

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  • ...…et Grey (2000) et la notion de performativité critique (Spicer, Alvesson, & Kärreman, 2009 ; Alvesson & Spicer, 2012) avec ses prolongements (Alcadipani & Hassard, 2010) pour circonscrire les caractéristiques des CMS. Une fois les éléments constitutifs du caractère critique des analyses en…...

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  • ...Au contraire de cette recherche, la SP apporte une forme de performativité critique plus positive (Alcadipani & Hassard, 2010) puisqu’elle ne dénie pas les facultés critiques propres aux individus dans son intervention subversive dans les discours managériaux....

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