HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jan 24, 2019
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
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Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and d... more Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author.
In recent years, scholars of organizations and management have embraced the “material turn” in th... more In recent years, scholars of organizations and management have embraced the “material turn” in the social sciences (Boxenbaum et al. 2018; Leonardi et al. 2012; Carlile et al. 2013a, b; de Vaujany and Mitev 2013; Robichaud and Cooren 2013). The material turn seeks to investigate and theorize the unique roles that materiality, including bodies, artifacts and technologies, plays in social and organizational dynamics, such as their enabling and constraining influences on a variety of organizational phenomena. The attention to materiality is adding a novel and exciting layer of analysis to scholarship in organization and management theory, which—like the social science more broadly—has been dominated by cognitive and verbal perspectives for several decades (Barad 2003; De Vaujany and Mitev 2015). The integration of materiality is helping to shed light on many organizational and managerial phenomena that were previously neglected because our theories and methods were ill-equipped to capt...
Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and d... more Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author.
Copies of this article can be made free of charge and without securing permission, for purposes o... more Copies of this article can be made free of charge and without securing permission, for purposes of teaching, research, or library reserve. Consent to other kinds of copying, such as that for creating new works, or for resale, must be obtained from both the journal editor(s) and the author(s). M@n@gement is a double-blind refereed journal where articles are published in their original language as soon as they have been accepted. For a free subscription to M@n@gement, and more information: http://www.management-aims.com
Although worker cooperatives offer an organizational model that critical management scholars coul... more Although worker cooperatives offer an organizational model that critical management scholars could adopt to demonstrate the utility of their normative ideals, little is known about how academia can contribute to the creation of worker cooperatives. Building on the concept of performativity and the case of the Technological Incubators for Popular Cooperatives in Brazil, we provide an account of constructing incubators for worker cooperatives across multiple universities. Our study uncovers the challenges that scholars face in performing the model of worker cooperatives by cognitively embedding actors within both economic and cooperative principles through teaching. Our results clarify the role of feedback loops, knowledge circulation, and the building of ‘chains of translation’ in the concrete manufacturing of worker cooperatives, and we show how universities can help develop a multilevel, flexible, and complex support network that enhances the performativity of the worker cooperativ...
In a recent contribution to this journal, Arjaliès (J Bus Ethics 92:57-78, 2010) suggests that th... more In a recent contribution to this journal, Arjaliès (J Bus Ethics 92:57-78, 2010) suggests that the emergence of socially responsible investment (SRI) in France can be best described as a social movement with a collective identity that aimed to challenge the dominant logic of the financial market. Such an account is at odds with a body of empirical studies that approaches SRI in the French context as a process of market creation led by loosely coordinated actors with contradictory and conflicting interests and values, who have mainly complied with-rather than opposed-the existing dominant financial logic of the asset-management field. In this comment, we build on this prior research to contest Arjaliès' perspective on both theoretical and empirical grounds, with the aim of highlighting the shortcomings of conflating social movements and other forms of collective actions in understanding the building of new markets in organization theory and SRI studies. We contend that in mistaking for social movement forms of collective actions that underpin the emergence of markets, scholars of organization theory may confuse distinct mechanisms in their explanation of SRI emergence across countries, overlook the complex dynamics and interactions of markets and social movements, and, most importantly, fail to evaluate the real political significance of SRI as an empirical phenomenon. We propose that future research on SRI distinguishes carefully ''socialmovement research as a theoretical framework'' from ''social movement as an empirical phenomenon'' in order to avoid such drawbacks while benefiting from recent advances in social-movement research. Keywords Socially responsible investment Á Institutionalization Á Financial markets Á Comparative studies Á Social-movement research as a theoretical framework Abbreviations CFIE Centre Français d'Information sur les Entreprises CIES Comité Intersyndical de l'épargne salariale CSN Confédération des syndicats nationaux CSR Corporate social responsibility
Votre CV Vos publications académiques Vos autres publications. Translating CSR: A comparative stu... more Votre CV Vos publications académiques Vos autres publications. Translating CSR: A comparative study in the emerging activity of corporate social evaluation in France. Base de publications de recherche de l'université Paris-Dauphine. ...
Votre CV Vos publications académiques Vos autres publications. Measuring to make a market ? The r... more Votre CV Vos publications académiques Vos autres publications. Measuring to make a market ? The role of ARESE in the development of the socially responsible investment. Base de publications de recherche de l'université Paris-Dauphine. ...
This paper analyzes the reasons why some institutional entrepreneurship strategies failed to tran... more This paper analyzes the reasons why some institutional entrepreneurship strategies failed to translate an institution while other succeeded, by paying a specific attention to the interaction between material and discursive dimensions in the translation process. A theoretical framework integrating both dimensions of translation is first proposed in order to study strategies of competing entrepreneurs. Then a comparative study of three entrepreneurs translating practices of corporate social evaluation in the French context is used to investigate the processes through which competing translators achieved their objective more or less successfully.
Leca, Dejean, Huault and Gond investigate how actors engage in institutional work through artefac... more Leca, Dejean, Huault and Gond investigate how actors engage in institutional work through artefacts and how those artefacts contribute to the institutionalization of new practices. Building on an analysis of the early stages of the institutionalization of socially responsible investment (SRI) in France, they highlight three effects of artefacts as enabling, constraining and entangling practices. They also use the case study as an opportunity to sketch out an integrative approach to artefacts consistent with the tenets of institutional theory. It further sheds light on the relations between artefacts, discourse and practices in institutional processes.
Dans ce chapitre, nous rendons compte du ‘tournant materiel’ qui s’amorce actuellement au sein de... more Dans ce chapitre, nous rendons compte du ‘tournant materiel’ qui s’amorce actuellement au sein de l’analyse institutionnelle, comme dans de nombreux autres domaines de la recherche en organisation (Jarzabkowski et Pinch, 2013). Pour cela, nous nous appuyons sur les acquis des Science and Technology Studies (STS) qui inspirent la theorie des organisations de maniere generale. Nous mettons en evidence quelques elements structurants de la theorie neoinstitutionnaliste (TNI) et des STS, pour en souligner les differences et les ecarts paradigmatiques. Nous notons ensuite l’irruption de la dimension materielle au sein du neoinstitutionnalisme et rendons compte de quelques recherches recentes s’inscrivant dans cette perspective. Finalement, nous formulons quelques pistes de recherche prometteuses pour tirer le meilleur parti de la fertilisation croisee entre la TNI et les STS.
This Special Issue's aim is to take stock of the existing research in marketing that refers to in... more This Special Issue's aim is to take stock of the existing research in marketing that refers to institutional theory and provide insights on how extending dialogue can further enrich marketing research as well as provide new insights for institutional theory. Reviewing the existing literature and the published articles in this Special Issue allows to isolate limitations and to point to four directions for future research.
The translation in 2006 of Boltanski and Thevenot’s book On Justification: Economies of Worth has... more The translation in 2006 of Boltanski and Thevenot’s book On Justification: Economies of Worth has generated growing interest among organizational and management scholars and is increasingly used to...
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jan 24, 2019
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2009
Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and d... more Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author.
In recent years, scholars of organizations and management have embraced the “material turn” in th... more In recent years, scholars of organizations and management have embraced the “material turn” in the social sciences (Boxenbaum et al. 2018; Leonardi et al. 2012; Carlile et al. 2013a, b; de Vaujany and Mitev 2013; Robichaud and Cooren 2013). The material turn seeks to investigate and theorize the unique roles that materiality, including bodies, artifacts and technologies, plays in social and organizational dynamics, such as their enabling and constraining influences on a variety of organizational phenomena. The attention to materiality is adding a novel and exciting layer of analysis to scholarship in organization and management theory, which—like the social science more broadly—has been dominated by cognitive and verbal perspectives for several decades (Barad 2003; De Vaujany and Mitev 2015). The integration of materiality is helping to shed light on many organizational and managerial phenomena that were previously neglected because our theories and methods were ill-equipped to capt...
Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and d... more Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author.
Copies of this article can be made free of charge and without securing permission, for purposes o... more Copies of this article can be made free of charge and without securing permission, for purposes of teaching, research, or library reserve. Consent to other kinds of copying, such as that for creating new works, or for resale, must be obtained from both the journal editor(s) and the author(s). M@n@gement is a double-blind refereed journal where articles are published in their original language as soon as they have been accepted. For a free subscription to M@n@gement, and more information: http://www.management-aims.com
Although worker cooperatives offer an organizational model that critical management scholars coul... more Although worker cooperatives offer an organizational model that critical management scholars could adopt to demonstrate the utility of their normative ideals, little is known about how academia can contribute to the creation of worker cooperatives. Building on the concept of performativity and the case of the Technological Incubators for Popular Cooperatives in Brazil, we provide an account of constructing incubators for worker cooperatives across multiple universities. Our study uncovers the challenges that scholars face in performing the model of worker cooperatives by cognitively embedding actors within both economic and cooperative principles through teaching. Our results clarify the role of feedback loops, knowledge circulation, and the building of ‘chains of translation’ in the concrete manufacturing of worker cooperatives, and we show how universities can help develop a multilevel, flexible, and complex support network that enhances the performativity of the worker cooperativ...
In a recent contribution to this journal, Arjaliès (J Bus Ethics 92:57-78, 2010) suggests that th... more In a recent contribution to this journal, Arjaliès (J Bus Ethics 92:57-78, 2010) suggests that the emergence of socially responsible investment (SRI) in France can be best described as a social movement with a collective identity that aimed to challenge the dominant logic of the financial market. Such an account is at odds with a body of empirical studies that approaches SRI in the French context as a process of market creation led by loosely coordinated actors with contradictory and conflicting interests and values, who have mainly complied with-rather than opposed-the existing dominant financial logic of the asset-management field. In this comment, we build on this prior research to contest Arjaliès' perspective on both theoretical and empirical grounds, with the aim of highlighting the shortcomings of conflating social movements and other forms of collective actions in understanding the building of new markets in organization theory and SRI studies. We contend that in mistaking for social movement forms of collective actions that underpin the emergence of markets, scholars of organization theory may confuse distinct mechanisms in their explanation of SRI emergence across countries, overlook the complex dynamics and interactions of markets and social movements, and, most importantly, fail to evaluate the real political significance of SRI as an empirical phenomenon. We propose that future research on SRI distinguishes carefully ''socialmovement research as a theoretical framework'' from ''social movement as an empirical phenomenon'' in order to avoid such drawbacks while benefiting from recent advances in social-movement research. Keywords Socially responsible investment Á Institutionalization Á Financial markets Á Comparative studies Á Social-movement research as a theoretical framework Abbreviations CFIE Centre Français d'Information sur les Entreprises CIES Comité Intersyndical de l'épargne salariale CSN Confédération des syndicats nationaux CSR Corporate social responsibility
Votre CV Vos publications académiques Vos autres publications. Translating CSR: A comparative stu... more Votre CV Vos publications académiques Vos autres publications. Translating CSR: A comparative study in the emerging activity of corporate social evaluation in France. Base de publications de recherche de l'université Paris-Dauphine. ...
Votre CV Vos publications académiques Vos autres publications. Measuring to make a market ? The r... more Votre CV Vos publications académiques Vos autres publications. Measuring to make a market ? The role of ARESE in the development of the socially responsible investment. Base de publications de recherche de l'université Paris-Dauphine. ...
This paper analyzes the reasons why some institutional entrepreneurship strategies failed to tran... more This paper analyzes the reasons why some institutional entrepreneurship strategies failed to translate an institution while other succeeded, by paying a specific attention to the interaction between material and discursive dimensions in the translation process. A theoretical framework integrating both dimensions of translation is first proposed in order to study strategies of competing entrepreneurs. Then a comparative study of three entrepreneurs translating practices of corporate social evaluation in the French context is used to investigate the processes through which competing translators achieved their objective more or less successfully.
Leca, Dejean, Huault and Gond investigate how actors engage in institutional work through artefac... more Leca, Dejean, Huault and Gond investigate how actors engage in institutional work through artefacts and how those artefacts contribute to the institutionalization of new practices. Building on an analysis of the early stages of the institutionalization of socially responsible investment (SRI) in France, they highlight three effects of artefacts as enabling, constraining and entangling practices. They also use the case study as an opportunity to sketch out an integrative approach to artefacts consistent with the tenets of institutional theory. It further sheds light on the relations between artefacts, discourse and practices in institutional processes.
Dans ce chapitre, nous rendons compte du ‘tournant materiel’ qui s’amorce actuellement au sein de... more Dans ce chapitre, nous rendons compte du ‘tournant materiel’ qui s’amorce actuellement au sein de l’analyse institutionnelle, comme dans de nombreux autres domaines de la recherche en organisation (Jarzabkowski et Pinch, 2013). Pour cela, nous nous appuyons sur les acquis des Science and Technology Studies (STS) qui inspirent la theorie des organisations de maniere generale. Nous mettons en evidence quelques elements structurants de la theorie neoinstitutionnaliste (TNI) et des STS, pour en souligner les differences et les ecarts paradigmatiques. Nous notons ensuite l’irruption de la dimension materielle au sein du neoinstitutionnalisme et rendons compte de quelques recherches recentes s’inscrivant dans cette perspective. Finalement, nous formulons quelques pistes de recherche prometteuses pour tirer le meilleur parti de la fertilisation croisee entre la TNI et les STS.
This Special Issue's aim is to take stock of the existing research in marketing that refers to in... more This Special Issue's aim is to take stock of the existing research in marketing that refers to institutional theory and provide insights on how extending dialogue can further enrich marketing research as well as provide new insights for institutional theory. Reviewing the existing literature and the published articles in this Special Issue allows to isolate limitations and to point to four directions for future research.
The translation in 2006 of Boltanski and Thevenot’s book On Justification: Economies of Worth has... more The translation in 2006 of Boltanski and Thevenot’s book On Justification: Economies of Worth has generated growing interest among organizational and management scholars and is increasingly used to...
The 'institutional' approach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of social... more The 'institutional' approach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of social life - such as marriage and bureaucracy - act as mechanisms of social control. Such approaches have traditionally focused attention on the relationships between organizations and the fields in which they operate, providing strong accounts of the processes through which institutions govern action. In contrast, the study of institutional work reorients these traditional concerns, shifting the focus to understanding how action affects institutions. This book sets a research agenda within the field of institutional work by analyzing the ways in which individuals, groups, and organizations work to create, maintain, and disrupt the institutions that structure their lives. Through a series of essays and case studies, it explores the conceptual core of institutional work, identifies institutional work strategies, provides exemplars for future empirical research, and embeds the concept within broader sociological debates and ideas.
Les analyses critiques sont l’objet d’une activité croissante dans le domaine de la recherche en ... more Les analyses critiques sont l’objet d’une activité croissante dans le domaine de la recherche en management en Scandinavie et dans les pays anglophones, ce qui a conduit progressivement à la constitution d’une véritable communauté dans ce domaine. De manière intrigante, malgré quelques contributions francophones, les études critiques en management restent encore confidentielles dans le contexte hexagonal, alors qu’elles sont pourtant nourries de théorie française.
L’objet de cet ouvrage n’est pas tant d’expliquer ce paradoxe que de souligner le caractère fécond des études critiques pour le champ du management. Fruit de la collaboration de nombreux experts en sociologie et en management, cette œuvre invite à se familiariser avec les approches critiques, à en définir la nature et les contours, à en souligner la diversité et à en saisir les principales problématiques. Elle vise ainsi à mieux faire connaître les études critiques à un public francophone.
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L’objet de cet ouvrage n’est pas tant d’expliquer ce paradoxe que de souligner le caractère fécond des études critiques pour le champ du management. Fruit de la collaboration de nombreux experts en sociologie et en management, cette œuvre invite à se familiariser avec les approches critiques, à en définir la nature et les contours, à en souligner la diversité et à en saisir les principales problématiques. Elle vise ainsi à mieux faire connaître les études critiques à un public francophone.