Prelims
Justification, Evaluation and Critique in the Study of Organizations
ISBN: 978-1-78714-380-7, eISBN: 978-1-78714-379-1
ISSN: 0733-558X
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(2017), "Prelims", Justification, Evaluation and Critique in the Study of Organizations (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 52), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20170000052012
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JUSTIFICATION, EVALUATION AND CRITIQUE IN THE STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONS: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM FRENCH PRAGMATIST SOCIOLOGY
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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS
Series Editor: Michael Lounsbury
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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS VOLUME 52
JUSTIFICATION, EVALUATION AND CRITIQUE IN THE STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONS: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM FRENCH PRAGMATIST SOCIOLOGY
EDITED BY
CHARLOTTE CLOUTIER
HEC Montréal, Montreal, Canada
JEAN-PASCAL GOND
Cass Business School, London, UK
BERNARD LECA
ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, France
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List of Contributors
| Thierry Amslem | Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| Marcia Annisette | Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada |
| Diane-Laure Arjaliès | Ivey Business School, Western University, London, Canada |
| Thomas D. Beamish | University of California, Davis, CA, USA |
| Nicole Woolsey Biggart | University of California, Davis, CA, USA |
| Charlotte Cloutier | HEC Montréal, Montreal, Canada |
| Thibault Daudigeos | Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France |
| Roger Friedland | University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
| Jean-Pascal Gond | Cass Business School, City, University of London, London, UK |
| Stéphane Jaumier | Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France; Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL Research University, Paris, France |
| Vassili Joannidès de Lautour | Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France; Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia |
| Jacqueline Kirk | University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK |
| Claudette Lafaye | Université de Paris 8, Paris, France |
| Ann Langley | HEC Montréal, Montreal, Canada |
| Bernard Leca | ESSEC, Cergy-Pontoise, France |
| Marc Lenglet | European Business School, Paris, France |
| Chantale Mailhot | HEC Montréal, Montreal, Canada |
| Daniel Nyberg | University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia |
| Juliane Reinecke | Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK |
| Andre Spicer | Cass Business School, City, University of London, London, UK |
| David Stark | Columbia University, NY, USA |
| Simon Susen | City, University of London, London, UK |
| Benjamin Taupin | Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Paris, France |
| Laurent Thévenot | École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France |
| Koen van Bommel | VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Gillian Vesty | RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia |
| Christopher Wright | University of Sydney Business School, Australia |
Editorial Advisory Board
SERIES EDITOR
Michael Lounsbury
Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, University of Alberta School of Business, Alberta, Canada
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Howard E. Aldrich
University of North Carolina, USA
Christine Beckman
University of Maryland, USA
Jeannette Colyvas
Northwestern University, USA
Barbara Czarniawska
Göteborg University, Sweden
Gerald F. Davis
University of Michigan, USA
Marie-Laure Djelic
ESSEC Business School, France
Frank R. Dobbin
Harvard University, USA
Royston Greenwood
University of Alberta, Canada
Mauro Guillen
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Paul M. Hirsch
Northwestern University, USA
Candace Jones
University of Edinburgh, UK
Brayden King
Northwestern University, USA
Ann Langley
HEC Montréal, Canada
Renate Meyer
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria
Mark Mizruchi
University of Michigan, USA
Nelson Phillips
Imperial College London, UK
Walter W. Powell
Stanford University, USA
Marc Schneiberg
Reed College, USA
W. Richard Scott
Stanford University, USA
Sarah Soule
Stanford University, USA
Haridimos Tsoukas
ALBA, Greece
Eero Vaara
Aalto, Finland
- Prelims
- Section I Introduction
- Justification, Evaluation and Critique in the Study of Organizations: An Introduction to the Volume
- Section II Managing Organizational Pluralism: How Individuals Navigate Moral Contradictions and Compromise
- When Orders of Worth Clash: Negotiating Legitimacy in Situations of Moral Multiplexity
- Co-Operatives, Compromises, and Critiques: What Do French Co-Operators Tell Us about Individual Responses to Pluralism?
- Section III Looking at Organizations Critically: Rhetoric, Justification and Criticism-as-Practice
- ‘Public’ Versus ‘Natural’ Grammars: Complex Domination in the Financial Intermediation Industry
- Re-Producing a Neoliberal Political Regime: Competing Justifications and Dominance in Disputing Fracking
- Capital and Carbon: The Shifting Common Good Justification of Energy Regimes
- Section IV Reconsidering Valuation and Evaluation in Organizations
- Accounting Values, Controversies, and Compromises in Tests of Worth
- Commercializing Academic Knowledge in a Business School: Orders of Worth and Value Assemblages
- Section V Pushing the Boundaries of Pragmatic Sociology’s Theoretical Agenda
- An Ecological Justification? Conflicts in the Development of Nature
- The Passion of Luc Boltanski: The Destiny of Love, Violence, and Institution
- Remarks on the Nature of Justification: A Socio-Pragmatic Perspective
- For What It’s Worth
- Index