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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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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...Ainsi, avec les classements, nous assistons à une transformation des contours de la réalité sous forme d’une orthodoxie de la norme : le format d’épreuve établit un mode de gouvernance instrumental gestionnaire qui favorise les experts (Friedlender, 2010, p. 16)....
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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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TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop a theory of accounts as a way to understand a mechanism by which institutional entrepreneurs seek to shape fields and influence the institutions that govern them, by producing and distributing justified accounts, and attempting to persuade powerful actors in the field to adopt them as conventions.
Abstract: Despite the centrality of fields as a concept in organizational research, the processes by which fields form and change have not been studied in great depth. By situating action in time and space, field-configuring events (FCEs) offer valuable settings for researchers seeking insight into such processes. This paper develops a theory of accounts as a way to understand a mechanism by which institutional entrepreneurs seek to shape fields and influence the institutions that govern them. Actors produce and distribute justified accounts – narratives that describe the way work in the field ought to be done – and attempt to persuade powerful actors in the field to adopt them as conventions. FCEs can thus be understood as loci for conventionalizing accounts. The theory of accounts and field-level change is illustrated with a case study of a turning point FCE during which competing institutional entrepreneurs in the field of ‘non-profit technology assistance providers’ present alternative accounts. Successful institutional entrepreneurship comes from recognizing political opportunities to align one's account with the dominant orders of worth in the field, thereby convincing powerful actors to accept one's account as convention.
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...Ce dernier souligne la référence de McInerney aux Cités dans son travail ethnographique (McInerney, 2008) ainsi que le lien historique entre Stark et la SP (Stark, 2000 ; Stark, 2009)....
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TL;DR: In this article, a genealogical analysis of Israel's productivity models is presented to show empirically how earlier colonial practices preceded and set the stage for later processes of Americanization, and stress the similar logic that both processes tend to follow.
Abstract: Drawing on postcolonial studies, this article seeks to add a layer to the literature concerning the Americanization of productivity models and management in general. Based on a genealogical analysis of Israel’s productivity models, we juxtapose two processes by which productivity models were disseminated: first, by the British colonial authorities, and then as part of American technical assistance to Israel. Thus, we draw attention to the close ties between Americanization and colonialism. Our objective is to show empirically how earlier colonial practices preceded and set the stage for later processes of Americanization, and to stress the similar logic that both processes tend to follow.
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...…les CMS ont-elles expliqué la domination masculine au travail (Martin, 1990), l’utilisation du langage comme facteur de reproduction du pouvoir (Alvesson & Willmott, 2003), la perpétuation de la domination occidentale à travers l’impérialisme de la diffusion du management (Frenkel & Shenhav, 2003)....
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TL;DR: Au tournant des XIXe et XXe siecles, on observe tour a tour le developpement du roman policier, dont le cœur est l'enquete, and du raman d'espionnage, who a pour sujet le complot ; l'invention, par la psychiatrie, de la paranoia, and the tendency to entreprendre des enquetes prolongees jusqu'au delire ; the creation par la sociologie de formes specif
Abstract: Au tournant des XIXe et XXe siecles, on observe tour a tour le developpement du roman policier, dont le cœur est l'enquete, et du roman d'espionnage, qui a pour sujet le complot ; l'invention, par la psychiatrie, de la paranoia, dont l'un des symptomes est la tendance a entreprendre des enquetes prolongees jusqu'au delire ; la creation par la sociologie de formes specifiques de causalite – dites sociales –, pour determiner les entites, individuelles ou collectives, auxquelles peuvent etre attribues les evenements qui ponctuent la vie des personnes, celle des groupes, ou encore le cours de l'histoire ; enfin, l'orientation nouvelle de la science politique qui, se saisissant de la problematique de la paranoia, la deplace du plan psychique au plan social et prend pour objet l'explication des evenements historiques par les « theories du complot ».
Dans chacun de ces cas, la realite sociale est mise en doute. C'est a l'Etat-nation, tel qu'il se developpe a la fin du XIXe siecle, que l'on doit le projet d'organiser et d'unifier cette realite pour une population et sur un territoire. Mais ce projet, proprement demiurgiques, se heurte a une pluralite d'obstacles parmi lesquels les developpements du capitalisme, qui se joue des frontieres nationales, occupe une place centrale.
Ainsi, la figure du complot focalise des soupcons qui concernent l'exercice du pouvoir : ou se trouve reellement le pouvoir et qui le detient, en realite ? Les autorites etatiques, qui sont censees en assumer la charge, ou d'autres instances, agissant dans l'ombre – banquiers, anarchistes, societes secretes, classe dominante, etc. ? Ainsi s'echafaudent des ontologies politiques qui tablent sur une realite doublement distribuee : a une realite officielle, mais de surface et sans doute illusoire, s'oppose une realite profonde, cachee, menacante, officieuse, mais bien plus reelle. Roman policier et roman d'espionnage, paranoia et sociologie – inventions a peu pres concomitantes – sont solidaires d'une facon nouvelle de problematiser la realite et de travailler les contradictions qui l'habitent. Les aventures du conflit entre ces deux realites – realite de surface contre realite reelle – constituent le fil directeur de l'ouvrage.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory is devoted to the socology of critical capacity, a research program that is now increasingly gaining attention and popularity, as well as meeting critique beyond its original academic context, France.
Abstract: This special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory engages with a research programme – the ‘sociology of critical capacity’ or, in short, ‘pragmatic sociology’ – that is now increasingly gaining attention and popularity, as well as meeting critique, beyond its original academic context, France. One of the main aims of this approach is to reintroduce a moral-political dimension into sociological research. As argued by one of its main proponents, Luc Boltanski,
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...Elle permet de mettre l’accent sur la créativité et sur l’inventivité des acteurs et de rendre sensible l’intelligence du social dont ils font preuve – quels qu’ils soient (Blokker, 2011)....
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