Justification, Evaluation and Critique in the Study of Organizations

Contributions from French Pragmatist Sociology

Charlotte Cloutier|Jean-Pascal Gond|Bernard Leca
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The papers included in the volume explore how mobilizing Boltanski and Thévenot’s EW framework helps address questions regarding the premises and dynamics of agreement and disagreement in coordinated action, both within and across organizations, and by so doing, help advance our understanding of organizational processes more generally. The book is organized into four sections, each with contributions that address one of the four core theoretical objectives around which the volume is structured (1) to clarify how individuals manage the contradictions and compromises inherent to organizational pluralism; (2) to look at organizations critically by unpacking the roles of rhetoric and justification in the practice of critique; (3) to reconsider valuation and evaluation in organizations; and (4) to push the boundaries of the EW framework. These four objectives provide a scaffolding that helps further embed the framework in our contemporary thinking about organizations.

Justification, evaluation and critique in the study of organizations: An introduction to the volume; Charlotte Cloutier, Jean-Pascal Gond, Bernard Leca  Section 2 - MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL PLURALISM: HOW INDIVIDUALS NAVIGATE MORAL CONTRADICTIONS AND COMPROMISE: When orders of worth clash: Negotiating legitimacy in situations of moral multiplexity; Juliane Reinecke, Koen Van Bommel and Andre Spicer Co-operatives, compromises and critiques: What do French co-operators tell us about individual responses to pluralism?; Stéphane Jaumier, Thibault Daudigeos and Vassili Joannidès   Section 3 - LOOKING AT ORGANIZATIONS CRITICALLY: RHETORIC, JUSTIFICATION AND CRITICISM-AS-PRACTICE: 'Public' vs. 'natural' grammars: Complex domination in the financial intermediation industry; Benjamin Taupin and Marc Lenglet Reproducing a neoliberal political regime: Competing justifications and dominance in disputing fracking; Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright and Jacqueline Kirk Capital and carbon: The shifting common good justifications for energy regimes; Thomas Beamish and Nicole Woolsey Biggart  Section 4 - RECONSIDERING VALUATION AND EVALUATION IN ORGANIZATIONS: Accounting Values, Controversies and Compromises in Tests of Worth; Marcia Annisette, Gillian Vesty and Thierry  Amslem Commercializing academic knowledge in a business school: Orders of worth and trajectories of evaluation; Chantal Mailhot and Ann Langley   Section 5 - PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF PRAGMATIC SOCIOLOGY’S THEORETICAL AGENDA: An ecological justification? Conflicts in the development of nature; Claudette Lafaye and Laurent Thévenot The passion of Luc Boltanski: The destiny of value, violence and love in institutional theory; Roger Friedland and Diane-Laure Arjaliès  Remarks on the nature of justification: A socio-pragmatic perspective; Simon Susen  For what it’s worth; David Stark

    Scholars of business report on recent research and current thinking on the analysis of justification, evaluation, and critique in organizations as inspired by the foundational ideas of French Pragmatist Sociology's economics of worth framework. They cover managing organizational pluralism: how individuals navigate moral contradictions and compromise; looking at organizations critically: rhetoric, justification, and criticism-as-practice; reconsidering valuation and evaluation in organizations; and pushing the boundaries of pragmatic sociology's theoretical agenda.

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    “A significant achievement in delivering work that celebrates and broadens the horizons of critical analysis” – Journal of Classical Sociology

    Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta, Canada
    Charlotte Cloutier, Cass Business School, UK
    Jean-Pascal Gond, Cass Business School, UK 
    Bernard Leca, Essec Business School, France