Benjamin Taupin

Les effets négatifs de la stratégie politique des organisations sur leur légitimité. Le cas des majors de l’industrie du disque

Cet article se fonde sur le concept de legitimite pour une comprehension des effets de la conduite de strategies politiques des entreprises. L’analyse de la mise en œuvre de la strategie de lobbying par les majors de l’industrie du disque francaise, dans le cadre du vote de la loi DAD VSI, donne a voir la maniere dont ce succes politique a coincide avec une perte effective d’audience et de credibilite pour ces entreprises. La strategie politique menee a engendre une situation paradoxale dans laquelle le succes politique de ces entreprises a finalement laisse place a une perte d’influence a moyen terme, conduisant a appeler a une meilleure comprehension de la gestion de la legitimite dans les strategies politiques.

L'APPORT DE LA SOCIOLOGIE PRAGMATIQUE FRANÇAISE AUX ÉTUDES CRITIQUES EN MANAGEMENT

French pragmatic sociology (PS), inspired by the work of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot, is being increasingly used by organizational management studies. However, the critical dimension of this approach has not yet been integrated for the benefit of knowledge in management and organizations (MOK). In this article, we elaborate on the contribution that PS can represent for critical management studies (CMS). As a ‘science of the players’ science’ [science de la science des acteurs], we suggest that PS is fertile for the development of a critical performativity. In particular, we demonstrate that the approach allows shedding light on the new and more complex forms of domination exerted in contemporary organizations. Using empirical studies of organizations employing PS, we demonstrate how the concepts of compromise and test developed by this approach offer tools that allow renewing the critique of organizations for the benefit of MOK.

‘Public’ Versus ‘Natural’ Grammars: Complex Domination in the Financial Intermediation Industry

Abstract In this article, we make the point that managerial domination as described by pragmatic sociology is an appropriate notion to make sense of complex forms of domination in contemporary organizations. Based on Lemieux’s work on ‘grammars’, we complement approaches of complex domination put forward by pragmatic sociologists such as Boltanski and Thevenot. We illustrate these ideas by means of an ethnographic study of the financial intermediation industry. Our analysis sketches out an alternative conceptualization of power in such environments, and by so doing, helps us delineate the features that characterize complex financial domination. We conclude by arguing that this type of domination is the result of specific contradictions inherent to the grammars of financial intermediation.

Contribuição da sociologia pragmática francesa para os estudos críticos em Administração

French pragmatic sociology (PS), inspired by the work of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot, is being increasingly used by organizational management studies. However, the critical dimension of this approach has not yet been integrated for the benefit of knowledge in management and organizations (MOK). In this article, we elaborate on the contribution that PS can represent for critical management studies (CMS). As a ‘science of the players’ science’ [science de la science des acteurs], we suggest that PS is fertile for the development of a critical performativity. In particular, we demonstrate that the approach allows shedding light on the new and more complex forms of domination exerted in contemporary organizations. Using empirical studies of organizations employing PS, we demonstrate how the concepts of compromise and test developed by this approach offer tools that allow renewing the critique of organizations for the benefit of MOK.

The contribution of French pragmatic sociology to critical Management studies

French pragmatic sociology (PS), inspired by the work of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot, is being increasingly used by organizational management studies. However, the critical dimension of this approach has not yet been integrated for the benefit of knowledge in management and organizations (MOK). In this article, we elaborate on the contribution that PS can represent for critical management studies (CMS). As a ‘science of the players’ science’ [science de la science des acteurs], we suggest that PS is fertile for the development of a critical performativity. In particular, we demonstrate that the approach allows shedding light on the new and more complex forms of domination exerted in contemporary organizations. Using empirical studies of organizations employing PS, we demonstrate how the concepts of compromise and test developed by this approach offer tools that allow renewing the critique of organizations for the benefit of MOK.