OCE Research Center
OCE Research Centre
emlyon business school OCE Research Centre gathers a community of researchers including both permanent professors and PhD & doctoral students of emlyon business school, all moved by values of conviviality and engagement. We share the idea that doing good research in a very productivity- and competition-driven academic environment, supposes the maintenance of strong collectives.
People’s everyday experience at work
OCE was born in 2004, with the initial conviction that research interested in organizations, work and management, would benefit from critical and political perspectives, encouraging the understanding of organizational and institutional dynamics from the capture of people’s everyday experience at work.
Today, our scientific endeavor is strongly influenced by the unprecedented rapid transformation of the organizational and corporate world. We strive to grasp how people invent and maintain creative ways of “staying alive”, to transform their lives, as well as the contexts in which they live, in the contemporary ruthless neo-liberal context. This goes beyond investigating corporate workplaces: social transformation also happens in other contexts, such as communities, cities, social media, etc.
Activities
These are complex stories to tell and analyze, that require intensive fieldwork: micro-sociological dynamics in turbulent workplaces, collective mobilization, the fate of communities in liquid societies, the future of work and workers… are examples of these stories we strive to tell. Our current topics of interest cover a wide range of issues that can only be tackled through thick descriptions permitted by qualitative and ethnographic forms of investigation.
News
« Travailler comme un chien » : de la ménagerie au management (The Conversation) – David Courpasson
"Lorsque les philosophes se penchent sur la question de savoir ce qui distingue l’homme de l’animal, certains soulignent le rôle cardinal de la main et de son pouce opposable, d’autres comme Aristote présentent le rire comme le symbole distinctif du genre humain. Dans...
Confinement : les livreurs de repas à domicile toujours plus déshumanisés (The Conversation) – Claire Le Breton
Claire Le Breton « J’ai l’impression d’être un robot. Quand j’amène la nourriture j’ai l’impression qu’ils les [clients] ne pourraient pas dire qui les a livrés, ils ne regardent même pas. Pour eux, je ne suis qu’un moyen d’avoir un repas ». Comme le souligne Maxime...
Confinement : quand la vie de famille s’impose à l’entreprise (The Conversation) – Dima Younes & Ludivine Perray
Dima Younes & Ludivine Perray "Dans son allocution du jeudi 12 mars 2020 au sujet de la pandémie de coronavirus, le Président de la République française, Emmanuel Macron, a annoncé la fermeture des écoles, crèches et établissements d’enseignement supérieur. En...
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Contact Us
David Sanson
sanson@em-lyon.com