Julien Barrier

Protester contre le marché : du geste individuel à l'action collective. Le cas du mouvement anti-publicitaire

La contestation sociale contre les formes de domination associees au marche prend de multiples formes aujourd’hui dans le monde : le boycott, les achats responsables, les gestes ecologistes, le detournement publicitaire, les petitions envoyes aux elus. L’article analyse le cas de la protestation anti-publicitaire en France. Celle-ci propose un repertoire d’actions tres heterogene, allant du geste individuel et quotidien a l’action de groupe, tout en construisant des formats d’action standardises. Elle peut ainsi recruter des militants dans des reseaux larges de la contestation sociale, attires par son repertoire d’action specifique. L’action anti-publicitaire fournit une grille de lecture de la contestation sociale contre le marche qui s’articule a la fois sur des collectifs associatifs fournissant des cadres collectifs, mais egalement sur des reseaux militants tres labiles en quete d’actions plus concretes.

Draw me a university : organizational design processes in university mergers

Facing intense global competition and pressure from public authorities, several universities in Europe have engaged in merger and concentration processes. Drawing on two in-depth case studies, this paper considers university mergers as an opportunity to explore the processes involved in the creation of a new organizational structure. In line with recent scholarly calls to revisit the notion of organizational design, we combine insights from three different research streams to address the functional, political, and institutional dynamics that shaped the organizational architecture of the merged universities. Two main results are presented and discussed. First, although these mergers were initiated largely in response to the diffusion of new global institutional scripts, these scripts had little influence on organizational design: deeply institutionalized local scripts prevailed over global mimetic pressures. Second, while these institutional scripts provided many of the basic building blocks of the new universities, in both cases their design was also heavily shaped by time pressures and power games. While a few powerful actors used the merger as an opportunity to promote their own reform agenda, some of the key features of the two merged universities stemmed from choices by exclusion, whose primary aim was the avoidance of conflicts.