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Organization as Time: Technology, Power and Politics
No full textInternational audienceThe bulk of Management and Organization Studies deals with time as organization. Time is performed, organized, enacted, and as such is a locus of power. In this edited book, we stress the importance of organization as time. Time is an organizing force. The happening and becoming of collective activity, its technologies, its images, keep empowering, dominating or (more rarely) emancipating the fragile and ephemeral subjectivities of our world. The turn to digitality in all aspects of contemporary life has made the organizing power of time more pervasive than ever. How to describe organization as time? How to explore the relationship between becoming, duration, images, events, non-events or historicity and their relationships with power and emancipation? These are the rich and varied challenges seized by this book by a team of leading scholars interested in time and temporality in the context of management and organization
The role of communities in vegetarian and vegan identity construction
No full textInternational audienceThe recognition of the necessity to reduce meat consumption in affluent nations is now widely acknowledged. A large body of literature examines the personal factors that lead to meat reduction or avoidance, including the motivations and profiles of individuals. While excluding meat consumption from ones’ diet alone could be challenging, surprisingly, literature has sparsely examined the role of communities supporting this process, which includes both practices and convictions. This research seeks to make up for that and aims to investigate the impact of communities (both imagined and real) on the construction of vegetarian and vegan identities. To this end, nineteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with non-meat eaters, ten of whom underwent follow-up interviews. The analyses conducted focused on their practices, convictions, and interactions within communities. The findings revealed two major points: firstly, practices and convictions develop simultaneously and in relation to various types of communities; secondly, identity is constructed through both affiliation and differentiation processes. These findings offer strong theoretical and practical implications by contributing to the understanding of the impact of community-driven value-based identity built on conviction-based consumption practices. For brands, retailers and public policy makers, this research provides practical recommendations for promoting meat-free diets, not only through making information available but also by using the co-evolution of practice and convictions as leverage, and by empowering communities in the process
Végétariens et véganes, tous les mêmes ? Une étude des différences perçues au regard de l’engagement dans la pratique et dans la cause
No full textInternational audienceIn the literature, practices consisting of excluding meat or animal products are grouped under the term veg*nism. However, being vegan can be considered much more than being a vegetarian. Giving a general label (veg*ns) to a group of people who may turn out to be heterogeneous thus, seems questionable both from a theoretical and managerial point of view. Semi-structured interviews conducted in two waves (wave 1 in 2018 and wave 2 in 2022) on a total of 19 individuals highlight the inadequacy of a definition based on practices/motivation/beliefs alone and, underline the major role of engagement in the practice and in the cause to understand what differentiates/gathers these individuals both at the level of their group of belonging (within vegetarians or within vegans) and of the dissociative group (between vegetarians and vegans). Managerial and societal implications are proposed following this analysis.Dans la littérature, les pratiques consistant à exclure la viande ou les produits d’origine animale sont regroupées sous le terme de veg*nisme. Pour autant, être végane peut être considéré comme allant beaucoup plus loin qu’être végétarien. Donner une étiquette générale (les veg*nes) à un ensemble de personnes qui peut s’avérer être hétérogène semble ainsi questionnable tant du point de vue théorique que managérial. Des entretiens semi-directifs conduits en deux vagues (vague 1 en 2018 et vague 2 en 2022) sur un total de 19 individus mettent en avant l’insuffisance d’une définition fondée sur les seules pratiques/motivations/ convictions et soulignent le rôle majeur de l’engagement dans la pratique et dans la cause pour comprendre ce qui différencie/rassemble ces individus tant au niveau de leur groupe d’appartenance (au sein des végétariens ou au sein des véganes) que du groupe dissociatif (entre végétariens et véganes). Des implications managériales et sociétales sont proposées suite à cette analyse
Dynamics of Vibrio aestuarianus in cockles in wild beds of Hauts-de-France
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty - L'expérience au coeur du management et des organisations
No full textInternational audiencePour les sciences de gestion, la pensée de Merleau-Ponty ouvre de multiples voies dans le même mouvement des courants actuels remettant la matérialité et le corps au coeur des organisations, afin d’explorer les questions de corporéité, de gestes, de communautés, de processus, d’espace organisationnel, de temporalité, d’histoire des organisations, d’émotions, d’affects, de sens, de perception et de responsabilité. Notre proposition est de réincarner le management à l’aide d’une voie expérientielle redonnant toute sa place à la corporéité, à l’activité et à un espacetemps émergent
Better Sorry than Safe : Emotional Discourses and Neo-normative Control in a Workplace Safety Council
No full textInternational audienceRecent organizational theorizing has noted the emergence of a new spirit of normative control; implicit, informal, and internalized, “neonormative” control emphasizes a positive affective disposition toward work, a happy, fun, and inclusive workplace where employees are encouraged to “be themselves”. This emphasis on positivity, however, is often accompanied by diffuse and persistent anxiety, fear, and other forms of subjective suffering often noted in studies of neo-normative control. The relation between purportedly positive neo-normative discourses of engagement and the persistent resurgence of subjective suffering remains under-theorized and holds wider implications for understanding the control regime represented by neo-normative control and its possible modes of contestation. Through a qualitative case study of a changing organizational safety program at a university facilities service, we examine how engagement and fear discourses worked together at different phases of the program to create both ambient anxiety and self-engagement solutions to manage that anxiety. Rather than conceptualizing suffering as the unintended consequence or ignored remainder of neo-normative “positive” messages, we describe how fear appeals explicitly invoke suffering to enrol employees into a self-shifting mode that leads them to be proactive. In our discussion, we theorize the co-constitutive aspects of positive and negative emotional discourses within a control-capturing process, developing the implications of this dual-affective orientation for understanding neo-normative control and its self-fulfilling properties at work in the neoliberal workplace.<br /
Affordance Theory for Information Systems project implementation: a process and organizational outlook
No full textInternational audienceThis paper explores the Information Systems project implementations in organizations. It focuses on the actualization of the affordances that result from the intertwining of the Information Technology (IT) artefact and the organization and we answer to the following research question "How do organizations actualize affordances?" With a qualitative multiple case study on the different local entities of an international leading retailer, this research identifies that previous research omitted the top management sponsorship as one of the main influences for the actualization process. Moreover, constrains perception is observed in the collected data and its role is assessed. This paper contributes the development of the affordance theory by providing an updated process-based integrative theoretical framework for affordances at the organizational level, aimed to support further research on Information Systems
Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers' Boundary Work
No full textInternational audienceLiterature around middle management has highlighted the importance of intra‐organizational boundaries, focusing on the in‐betweenness and fluidity of middle‐managerial roles and practices. Yet, this literature has largely focused on the crossing of largely stable, monolithic boundaries, placing less emphasis on the plurality of emerging boundaries and the ways in which they are constructed. Focusing on boundaries as the outcomes of, rather than only as constraints upon, everyday practices, we conduct an ethnographic study across multiple sites of a Brazilian audit firm, examining middle managers' construction, maintenance and adjustment of boundaries. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldnotes and 155 formal interviews, our study reveals how middle managers fluidly manipulate boundaries' visibility and permeability to achieve specific purposes, and how different configurations of these elements generate various boundary work practices, which we describe as barricade, façade, taboo and phantom boundary work. Moreover, we show the dual orientation of middle managers' boundary work – both obstructing and facilitating boundary‐crossing – demonstrating that, in contrast to prior research, both orientations can be enacted by the same actor according to his or her purposes. By doing so, we contribute to scholarship exploring agency and plasticity as the key issues linking the existing literature on middle management with that on boundary work
Le Télétravail au Maroc : entre vide juridique et pratique managériale des entreprises
No full textInternational audienceTelework is an increasingly common practice in companies, but it raises important legal and managerial issues. However, even if telework presents a significant risk for the private life of teleworkers, it contributes in any case to shape new work organizations and inspires social innovations that can improve the productivity of companies and establish a new dynamic in the work relationship. The main issue for legislators is to find a balance for both employers and employees in the context of telework so that everyone can find their own way. In Morocco, it has become necessary and even urgent to establish a legal regime adapted to telework, in order to guarantee employees' rights, to clarify employers' obligations and facilitate the implementation of this practice by small and medium-sized companies.Le télétravail est une pratique de plus en plus courante dans les entreprises, mais qui soulève des enjeux juridiques et managériaux importants. Cependant, même si le télétravail présente un risque important pour la vie privé des télétravailleurs, il contribue quoi qu’il en soit, à façonner de nouvelles organisations du travail et inspire des innovations sociales qui peuvent améliorer la productivité des entreprises et instaurer une nouvelle dynamique dans la relation de travail. L’enjeu principal pour les législateurs est de trouver un équilibre à la fois pour les employeurs et les employés dans le cadre de télétravail pour que chacun y trouver son compte. Au Maroc, il est devenu nécessaire et même urgent de mettre en place un régime juridique adapté au télétravail, afin de garantir les droits des salariés, de clarifier les obligations des employeurs et de faciliter la mise en place de cette pratique par les petits et moyens entreprise