Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management

Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management

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  • Author: Sarah Robinson
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000457540
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226

There is increasing academic interest in how Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology can be applied to management and organization studies (MOS). In a context of increasing complexity faced by organizations and those who work in them due to globalization, neoliberalism, austerity, financial crisis, ecological issues, populism and developing technologies, there is untapped potential to use Bourdieu’s theoretical inventions to arrive at greater understandings of how change, transition and crisis shape work, organizational life as well as relations between different organizational and sectorial fields. This book aims to take a specific focus on the relational nature of Bourdieu’s work and its relevance for contemporary organizations. It provides empirically-grounded examples that showcase the explanatory strength of Bourdieu ́s intellectual concepts, such as field, habitus, capital, hexis, hysteresis, symbolic power, symbolic violence, doxa, illusio as applied to the current challenges within MOS. Such challenges include issues resulting from globalization, neoliberalism, financial crisis, ecological crisis, populism and developing technologies, to name but a few; and added to those, a global pandemic. The twelve chapters presented in this book study a great variety and range of organizational phenomena that are organized into three thematic sections: ‘Neoliberalism, fields and hysteresis’, ‘Global and national movements as sites for competition and symbolic domination’ and the ‘The emergence and transformation of professional fields’. The chapters show a concern with the challenges and opportunities such developments offer to MOS scholars and to managers and employees in public and private sector organizations. It will be of interest to researchers, academics and students in the fields of organizational studies, critical management studies, human resource management and sociology.


Pierre Bourdieu, Organization, and Management

Pierre Bourdieu, Organization, and Management

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  • Author: Ahu Tatli
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317815815
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 236

Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist, philosopher, and anthropologist, has been widely studied and analyzed in academic circles, particularly in sociology, where his ideas about power relations in social life helped to define the contemporary field. While many other sociological theories and figures have been extensively discussed and analyzed within the contexts of organization studies and management, Bourdieu’s ideas have, until recently, been largely ignored. Offering an authoritative evaluation of Bourdieu’s work, this book provides readers with conceptual frameworks, empirical examples, and methodological considerations for advancing theory and research in management and organization studies. This book presents an in-depth review of the relevance of Bourdieu’s social theory for organization and management studies, outlining the key aspects of Bourdieu’s approach and situating his work in its historical and intellectual context of the time. An outline of the treatment of Bourdieuan theory by management and organization scholars and a critique of the selective reception of his work are offered. The first edited collection to explore the benefits of Bourdieuan sociology for a management audience, this book is relevant for theory, research, and practice, and will appeal to an international scholarly audience of academics and research students.


Pierre Bourdieu, Organisation, and Management

Pierre Bourdieu, Organisation, and Management

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  • Author: Ahu Tatli
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780415737265
  • Category : Industrial sociology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist, philosopher, and anthropologist, has been widely studied and analyzed in academic circles, particularly in sociology, where his ideas helped to define the contemporary field.Offering an authoritative evaluation of Bourdieu's work, this book provides readers with conceptual frameworks, empirical examples, and methodological considerations for advancing theory and research in management and organization studies. The first edited collection to explore the benefits of Bourdieuan sociology for a management audience will appeal to an international scholarly audience of academics and research students.


The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies

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  • Author: Paul S. Adler
  • Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
  • ISBN: 0199671087
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 817

This title examines how contemporary currents in sociology and social theory have influenced the field of organisation studies. It aims to combat the tendency towards myopia in the organisation studies field, which encourages reliance on resources and references drawn from within the field and discourages scholars from going beyond these boundaries to find inspiration and ideas. The contributing authors show how sociologists and sociological concepts from the US and Europe have provided new insights into the functioning of organisations.


A Research Agenda for Organisational Continuity and Change

A Research Agenda for Organisational Continuity and Change

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  • Author: Tor Hernes
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
  • ISBN: 1802200169
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 273

Research has overlooked the need for modern organisations to enact continuity during periods of change. This Research Agenda addresses this by considering continuity and change as engaging in various forms of mutual interplay. The underlying theme of this book is that change needs continuity just as continuity needs change.


Bourdieu's Theory of Economic Practice and Organisational Modelling

Bourdieu's Theory of Economic Practice and Organisational Modelling

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  • Author: John Tredinnick-Rowe
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1527501795
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 133

This book is unique because it is the first single-author monograph which applies Bourdieu’s theory to management studies. It takes a theory-driven approach to develop models to describe service innovation. This will give the reader a full understanding of the variety of different theoretical concepts that Bourdieu created and used and how they can be applied to the study of management and innovation. Moreover, it is also the only book that links Bourdieu’s theory to his methodological approach, providing the reader with a toolkit of methods to perform business ethnographies according to Bourdieu’s approach. The book acts as a primer for anyone wanting to learn how to model an organisational system from a Bourdieusian perspective. It contains all the information someone might need to begin to go out in the field and collect data. Consequently, the people that might want to read this publication include post-graduate students looking to learn business anthropology, as well as post-doctoral and other early career researchers.


Management, Organizations and Contemporary Social Theory

Management, Organizations and Contemporary Social Theory

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  • Author: Stewart Clegg
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780367233778
  • Category : Management
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Social theorists speculate about large-scale social questions, asking of any phenomenon, how is it possible? This book addresses how social theories contribute key insights into the nature of organizations and management. Chapters include objectives, reflective questions and a glossary.


Organization Development and Society

Organization Development and Society

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  • Author: Baruch Shimoni
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351264826
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 211

Organization Development and Society: Theory and Practice of Organization Development Consulting offers a new approach for the practice of organization development (OD). The new approach, a habitus oriented OD (HOOD), sees consultees' thinking and behavior a result of habitus, a cognitive structure developed historically in endless interactions between human behavior and social structures. HOOD has two goals: The first goal is to redefine the objectives of individually oriented OD. The focus on habitus and social structure allows individually oriented OD scholars and practitioners to keep their subjective approach, which searches for consultees' inner world. However, this subjectivity searches not only for consultees' psychological but their social dispositions. It views the individual level, the habitus, as a site of social dispositions that from within the individual consultees generate thoughts and behaviors in a way that closely corresponds with the organization's social structure; with power relations and social positions and with accepted metaphors and common language. The HOOD links the concept of habitus to the field of OD and in so doing provides an alternative way to incorporate the individual and the social in OD. HOOD's second goal is to re/position OD between organizations and society and thus to produce a consulting practice that is both pragmatic and human. It is pragmatic since incorporation of habitus enables the consultant to liberate consultees' perspectives and behavior from the organization's social and structural hoops and to use these perspectives in processes of change and development. Considering the habitus as central to consulting projects is human since it enables consultants (and consultees) to identify the responsibility for organizational problems (and other phenomena) not only at the level of the individual but also at the level of the organization and the environment outside the organization.


Research in Organizational Change and Development

Research in Organizational Change and Development

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  • Author: Abraham B. (Rami) Shani
  • Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
  • ISBN: 180262175X
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 214

Volume 29 of Research in Organizational Change and Development includes ten contributions from colleagues around the globe with powerful insights and potentially relevant impact for researching and practicing organization change and development during and post the pandemic.


Founders and Organizational Development

Founders and Organizational Development

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  • Author: Stephen R. Block
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 100039946X
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 188

Founders and Organizational Development: The Etiology and Theory of Founder’s Syndrome is designed to help today’s researchers, faculty, students and practitioners become familiar with the etiology and dynamics of Founder’s Syndrome as an organizational condition challenging nonprofit/nongovernmental, social enterprise, and for-profit and publicly traded organizations. The book uses applied social and psychological theories and concepts to peel away the layers of an organizational enigma, revealing three causes of Founder’s Syndrome and insight into the power and privileges assumed by founders who engage in undesirable and self-destructive behaviors leading to their termination; going from hero status to antihero. Researchers, instructors, students, and practitioners will find thought-provoking case studies from the real world of organization development practice. Segments from interviews during interventions reveal the type of emotional turmoil experienced in organizations where founder’s syndrome is present. Insight is provided into accounts of well-known founders who were terminated or forced to resign. The unique features of this book include: integrating theory into practice, describing a new theory about the psychological reaction of founder’s syndrome victims, prevention ideas when designing new organizations, strategies for intervention, using content based on research and organization development consultation experiences, and, integrating feedback from students who have launched organizations.