Research
Entities in constant redefinition
For OCE researchers, organizations are entities in constant redefinition and must therefore be questioned continuously, particularly to nurture the consciousness and reflexivity of those who can influence their destinies.
Our research focuses on questioning dominant representations, investigating power mechanisms, and understanding individual and ordinary experiences. These works aim to develop a critical analysis of contemporary productive ethos focused on systematic profit, evaluation and measurement.
One of OCE’s orientations is to analyze the impact of organizational transformations on both individual and collective experiences.
Another perspective is to explore alternatives to contemporary management, promoting development and emancipation, and thereby allowing a greater number of interests to be taken into account.
OCE Papers – Publications (sélection):
Objectal resistance: The political role of personal objects in workers’ resistance to spatial change
Taskin, L., Courpasson, D., & Donis, C. (2023). Objectal resistance: The political role of personal objects in workers’ resistance to spatial change. Human Relations, 76(5), 715-745. Flexwork, that is, the combination of shared offices and telework, is one...
Bloody suffering and durability: How chefs forge embodied identities in elite kitchens
Burrow, R., Scott, R., & Courpasson, D. (2024). Bloody suffering and durability: How chefs forge embodied identities in elite kitchens. Human Relations, 77(1), 111-139. In this article, we elaborate on the significance of suffering in processes of embodied...
TPE en faillite et placement en redressement. La performance de l’entrepreneurialité et ses effets sur la décision judiciaire
Virginie Blum (2024), « TPE en faillite et placement en redressement. La performance de l’entrepreneurialité et ses effets sur la décision judiciaire », Sociologies Pratiques, n°49, p.77-88 Si créer une entreprise est une chose, être confronté·e à sa...
The reproduction of structural inequalities in online job search strategies and outcomes
2025 De Marco, S., Dumont, G., & Elsper, E. The reproduction of structural inequalities in online job search strategies and outcomes. New Media & Society. Online first. Does digital stratification foster inequalities in access to work and employment? We...
Legal affordance and criminal organizations: The case of the narcopisos
Academy of Management Discovery. In press2025 Dumont, G., & Clua-Garcia How can criminal organizations grow and thrive in legal environments purposively designed to eradicate them? We explore this question ethnographically by drawing on three years of fieldwork...
Do Google Reviews matter for doctors? Unpacking online emotional accountability on a digital platform
Morinière, A., Georgescu, I., & Bez, S. M. (2025). Do Google Reviews matter for doctors? Unpacking online emotional accountability on a digital platform. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 101, 102768. The emergence of publicly available online feedback has...
Offre de bourse doctorale
emlyon business school offre une bourse doctorale pour financer un projet de recherche en sciences sociales, orienté travail et organisation. En mobilisant de préférence des méthodes ethnographiques, le projet visera à comprendre les transformations du travail...
Experiencing vulnerability between frontstage and backstage identities: the vulnerable ‘I’s in creative writing workshops
Vignaud, M. (2024). Experiencing vulnerability between frontstage and backstage identities: the vulnerable ‘I’s in creative writing workshops. Culture and Organization, 1–17 In the context of creative writing groups, this paper explores how the affective experience of...
Dance Your Ph.D.
Hernandez Castro, G.Z., Kervyn, N., Mandalaki, E., Pérezts, M., Gomez Zuñiga, R.A., Rojas Pérez, S.G. (2024)“Dance Your Ph.D.” in VideoConfeDance: Developing a Blended-Method Dance Workshop for the Popularization of Science Through Choreography This teaching practice...
Breathe and let breathe: Breathing as a political model of organizing
Pérezts, M., Fotaki, M., Shymko, Y., & Islam, G. (2024) Take a deep breath. Although nothing is more natural or essential to human bodies than breathing, this simple yet vital act is the critical result of complex organizational, material, and political processes....
Clavijo C., Perray-Redslob, L. (2024). “We don’t want to be accused of being feminists”: A gender equality measure for leadership positions and the perpetuation of patriarchal arrangements. Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Volume 100, December 2024, 102754
Clavijo C., Perray-Redslob, L. (2024). This article seeks to understand the effects produced by a gender equality measure founded on a career-advancement approach to equality, by scrutinising a managerial control process introduced by the women’s network of a large...
Arnhold, V. (2024). «L’indépendance» en question. La construction d’une autonomie relative des organisations nucléaires face au politique en France (1986-2006). Entreprises et histoire, 114(1), 21-47.
Arnhold, Valérie (2024). Cet article étudie l’évolution de l’organisation du contrôle public de la filière nucléaire, de la création des premières structures supervisant l’exploitation des installations nucléaires jusqu’à l’adoption de la loi sur la transparence...
Dumont, Guillaume. Evaluating the Credibility of Entrepreneurs’ Impact Promises in Early-Stage Impact Investing. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 0(0)
Dumont, Guillaume. (2024). This article investigates ethnographically how early-stage impact investors evaluate the credibility of the impact promises made by social entrepreneurs. Uncovering how investors carry out this task beyond observable characteristics and...
Pénurie de logements pour les étudiants : et si la France s’inspirait du modèle coopératif ?
Buchter, Lisa (2024). https://theconversation.com/penurie-de-logements-pour-les-etudiants-et-si-la-france-sinspirait-du-modele-cooperatif-222662
Dance Your Ph.D.
Hernández Castro, G. Z., Kervyn, N., Mandalaki, E., Pérezts, M., Gómez Zúñiga, R. A. et Rojas Pérez, S. G. (2024). “Dance Your Ph.D.” in VideoConfeDance: Developing a Blended-Method Dance Workshop for the Popularization of Science Through Choreography. Revue...
Fulfilling the process promise in new venture creation research: The ethnography/accelerator approach
Collecting fine-grained, longitudinal data to study new venture creation (NVC) is critical but empirically challenging given the partly invisible, collective, and highly discursive nature of NVC. This article offers the ethnography/accelerator approach as one powerful...
Dumont, G. (2023) “Under threat”: The role of threat in ethnographic fieldwork. Qualitative Research. (Online first).
I make two points about the role of threats for ethnographic fieldwork in contexts suffused by interpersonal violence. First, the experience of implicit and explicit threats operates as a powerful cultural agent that significantly transforms fieldworkers’ relationship...
De Marco Stefano, Dumont Guillaume, Helsper Ellen, Díaz-Guerra Alejandro, Antino Mirko, Rodríguez-Muñoz Alfredo and Martínez-Cantos José-Luis (2023) Jobless and burnt out: digital inequality and online access to the labor market. Social Inclusion, 11 (4). 184 – 197.
We look at how inequalities in digital skills shape the outcomes of online job‐seeking processes. Building on a representative survey of Spanish job seekers, we show that people with high digital skill levels have a greater probability of securing a job online,...
Buchter, Lisa (2023)“Addressing Racism and Islamophobia under the Rules of Colorblindness: When Social Movements Engage in Category Work to Reform the Meanings of Regulatory Categories.” Strategic Organization, 21 (1): 149-185.
Research at the intersection of social movements and categories has stressed how movements initiate and transform categories that influence the emergence, downfall, and restructuring of markets and industries. Yet, this literature tends to underestimate how social...
Buchter, Lisa (2023). Militer de l’intérieur: Les stratégies des réseaux professionnels LGBT. Travail, genre et sociétés, 49(1), 65–81.
En dépit de l’essor des politiques diversité en France depuis les années 2000, peu d’entreprises et d’administrations se sont saisies des questions de lutte contre l’homophobie et la transphobie. Fondé sur une analyse textuelle et longitudinale d’archives complétée...
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